#178: Will Anything Top El Cap? With Alex Honnold

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

What do you do after you accomplish your biggest professional goal at age 33? That’s the question DC asked professional climber Alex Honnold in this exclusive HYPERGROWTH episode of Seeking Wisdom.

Alex was the first, and remains the only, climber to free solo El Cap, a 3,000ft granite face in Yosemite National Park, in 2018. Contrary to popular belief, it wasn’t as easy as he made it look. In this episode, DC and Alex talk about what it was like to train for the climb with an entire film crew by his side, what life’s been like since the release of the Free Solo movie, and what’s next for Alex.

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0:00.0	Boom!
0:07.0	Oh man, we have got an amazing never-before-released episode of Seeking Wisdom here for you today.
0:14.0	And it is with no other than the legend, the man, the myth, the amazing free climber known as Alex Honnold.
0:25.3	So Alex Honnold was the first climber of Free Solo Lcap, and that was featured in the movie Free Solo.
0:32.5	And if you haven't seen that movie, it was directed by Jimmy Chin, and we spoke to him on an earlier episode, but this is amazing.
0:40.3	So I cannot wait for you to watch this exclusive podcast that we did with Alex.
0:45.3	So when I watched that movie, even before the movie was out and I had heard of Alex and the stuff that he does.
0:52.3	And free climbing means that he climbs the sides of cliffs on mountain sides with no ropes.
1:00.0	It is crazy, right?
1:02.0	And so when I first heard of Alex, I knew that I had to figure out a way to interview him,
1:07.0	and I got to do that in 2019 at a hypergrowth Boston so we talk
1:12.5	about everything about freestouling how you train how the film was made why he
1:16.9	lives in Las Vegas of all places and his foundation that he set up called the
1:21.9	Honnold Foundation which a lot of the work that he does goes to the proceeds go
1:27.4	to the Honnold foundations and so many things that he does goes to the proceeds, go to the Honnold Foundations.
1:29.0	And so many things that he does, including his own personal social media habits.
1:34.2	All right, let me know what you thought of this episode.
1:36.7	Alex Honnold, mind-blowing episode.
1:39.8	So fortunate to spend time with him.
1:42.4	Don't forget, six star only rating.
2:02.0	Shout it out to Alex Honnold. Peace. So we're in Boston at the Wang Theater. It feels like a nightclub. It's gothic. There's music blasting, if you don't hear that. And we're getting ready. It's 8 a.m. Yeah, that's the thing that makes it surreal. I've barely had breakfast, and there's, like, club music and tons of people with glow sticks who are very high energy. Do you have breakfast? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I always do. You do? Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Really? Yeah. You subscribe to that? Actually, yeah, it totally depends on where I am, what I'm doing, but I had breakfast today.
2:18.7	But I've been up since 4.30 because I what I'm doing, but I had breakfast today.
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