196: Gabby Reece| Athlete, Model, Mother, and Guru
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Star volleyball player Gabby Reece's is one half of a power couple with husband Laird Hamilton. The wisdom she's gained as a public figure, a pro & Olympic athlete, a sports model, a mother, and as partner to an alpha guy like Laird caused our podcast team to nickname her "Yoda." Gabby has an unexpected message of accepting and nurturing people as they are and how they choose to define their objectives. She may have even shifted Joe's paradigm, but we doubt it, yet there's a good chance she'll adjust yours.
Although we would have loved interviewing her husband Laird too, serendipity had him rescuing Hawaiians from floods brought on by torrential rainfall and that meant we received "Yoda's" wisdom uncut.
Lessons:
1. It can be a show of strength to let someone else take the lead.
2. Your kids are not hearing you or listening to you, but you can be certain that they're watching you.
3. Another interpretation of "the meek shall inherit the earth" is that they all had swords, they just didn't unsheath them.
LINKS:
More about Gabby Reece http://www.gabriellereece.com/
XPT Life xptlife.com
Laird Superfood Creamer https://lairdsuperfood.com
Gabby Reece Facebook https://www.facebook.com/OfficialGabbyReece
Gabby Reece Twitter https://twitter.com/gabbyreece
Gabby Reece Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gabbyreece/
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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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| 0:00.0 | Well, welcome to Spartan Up Podcast. We're here today in Los Angeles, Dodger Stadium, |
| 0:04.2 | we've got the stadium sprint going on, it's incredible race. More importantly, we're |
| 0:08.8 | doing the Spartan Up Podcast. We've got Colonel Nye, Johnny Waite, |
| 0:11.7 | Sefra, Joe DeSena, or producer Marion, and this guest is out of this world. |
| 0:17.0 | Originally it was two guests. We were going to have Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reese, Big Wave Surfer, professional volleyball player, world champion. |
| 0:24.4 | Turns out that Laird couldn't be here. |
| 0:27.4 | He was in Kauai saving people after their 100-year flood. |
| 0:32.0 | True Waterman, true hero. |
| 0:34.0 | So Gaddy here is- |
| 0:35.0 | I'm kind of glad that he didn't make it. |
| 0:37.0 | Gabby was incredible. |
| 0:38.2 | Like this interview is so powerful, and I'm glad that we didn't have to share |
| 0:42.4 | her with anybody else right then, but we want to share her with you. Check this out, Gabby Reese, Power Mum, Power Human Being, model, fitness expert, world champion volleyball player player and as you say bit of a yoda. |
| 0:56.0 | She has some incredible... |
| 0:57.0 | She's yoda. Do or do not. |
| 1:01.0 | This is an unbelievable guest we have at Spartan Up Podcast, Dodger Stadium. |
| 1:05.8 | I am sitting next to the one and only, Gabby Reese, volleyball superstar, super mom, married |
| 1:12.3 | to some guy named Laird Hamilton surfing dude. |
| 1:15.9 | He's really the superhero in the family. |
| 1:18.6 | That's right. |
| 1:19.6 | You guys should do a deal with Marvel. |
| 1:20.8 | Yeah, I don't know. |
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