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The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

183: Why do three wounded Veterans want everyone on the move?

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8874 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Just move! That's the bottom line for these three members of Oscar Mike and Operation Enduring Warrior, both organizations designed to get wounded veterans on the move! "Oscar Mike" means "on the move" in military parlance. These three adaptive Spartans, Jonathan Lopez, Noah Currier, and Earl Granville, have sought out the race as a way of eradicating any perception that they are victims. They are, instead, comrades in the human wide struggle to help one another excel at life. According to one of the athletes the greatest thing he witnessed during the race was not the elite athletes crushing the course or even adaptive athletes and veterans doing the improbable; it was seeing someone fall down face first and be picked up by his teammates, showing that Spartans fall, bleed and find the strength to go on, "just like us."

Lessons:
1. Seek out the obstacle, the struggle, for the valuable lessons it can teach you.

2. More or less visibly, we're all adapting to and trying to overcome something.

3. Accomplishment and happiness can be dependent on finding a strong community. 


Links:
Oscar Mike https://www.oscarmike.org/
Operation Enduring Warrior OEW https://www.enduringwarrior.org/


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CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye.

Synopsis – Matt Baatz

© 2018 Spartan

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This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Four Sigma-C.

0:05.0

Join the mushroom coffee revolution at four-Sigmatic.com

0:08.0

forward slash Spartan.

0:10.0

Hi, welcome everybody. We're a little different location here today. We're in Boston

0:16.1

right downtown near Spartan headquarters and as always I've got sufferers with me today

0:22.3

the seed hunters. Oh yeah thank you very I've got Sephiros with me today. The Seed Hunters.

0:24.3

Oh yeah, thank you very.

0:25.3

See hunters.

0:26.3

Obviously, we've got Johnny Wade over here on my right.

0:28.6

Keep us straight.

0:29.6

We've got our producer Marion.

0:30.8

We're missing today, or right now, we're missing today or right now we're missing Joe where is he so

0:34.8

this is interesting Joe DeSena was to be here with us but we got a call he had to go

0:39.7

in from an emergency root canal well so so truly, Joe would rather get a root canal

0:46.0

to the podcast with this.

0:47.3

If you're ever wondering if it's fun to the podcast.

0:49.8

But hey, something that is fun is this episode we've got coming up.

0:53.0

Really special.

0:54.0

Three for one.

0:55.0

Three incredible guys, Oscar Mike.

0:56.2

Tell us a little bit about these guys.

0:57.3

Tim.

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