200: Joe and Courtney De Sena | Life the Spartan Way
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
For 200 episodes Joe and the podcast team have been seeking the secrets to living the Spartan Way. This week Col. Nye turns things around asking Joe what that process has taught him, and then he digs in and asks Joe's wife Courtney if all this stuff is for real. Courtney doesn't make many public appearances, so you won't want to miss this one. Hear what happened when she spotted an eccentric barefoot runner in a wetsuit running in her direction. Clearly, she's a true Spartan!
This week's show takes place at the scene of Spartan Agoge 009 in Pittsfield, VT. Joe, the Col. and special guest Zach Even-Esh talk about some of their favorite takeaways and how they inspired Joe's new book The Spartan Way.
Lessons:
You were born with all the tools you need to get through life. You don't necessarily need any new ones.
Practice adversity.
Be passionate, but have fun.
Links: The Spartan Way | Joe De Sena | Macmillan
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye with special guest this week Zach Even-Esh
Synopsis – Matt Baatz
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Athletic Greens. |
| 0:03.0 | Ensure your body gets the nutrition it needs. |
| 0:06.0 | Athletic Greens has a special offer for our listeners. |
| 0:09.0 | Just go to Athletic Greens. |
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| 0:15.6 | pack with 20 individually wrapped packets. |
| 0:18.4 | That's a free offer just for our listeners. |
| 0:20.6 | We are here on the farm Spartan up podcast with a very special guest |
| 0:25.1 | Zach Evan Ash who the house is Zach Evan Ash. |
| 0:27.7 | Zach is the reason we have 200 podcasts. You remember that first day you nudged me we were launching the book you |
| 0:34.2 | were like you got to do a podcast and I I thought it was a food. Don't give me so |
| 0:38.0 | much credit. Yeah 200 podcasts we did we did two podcast we did a mini documentary and four years ago four |
| 0:46.7 | years maybe more maybe four and a half year yeah time is time is going too fast |
| 0:51.0 | and this is a very unique episode not just because it's the 200th episode but we got to thank some people so |
| 0:57.9 | Yeah, we got well we got to thank Dell who's on the podcast often Colonel Nye |
| 1:02.1 | Dr Johnny Sepfra Marion who who's on the podcast often, Colonel Nye, Dr. Johnny, |
| 1:03.3 | Cephra, Marion, who's always filming relentlessly meticulous |
| 1:08.2 | behind the camera, and somebody else, I don't know who, the audience we don't even have a podcast |
| 1:15.7 | so so and and all the guests I mean we pick up the phone right we want to go to |
| 1:20.7 | to Pentagon we get somehow a meeting at the Pentagon we want meeting with |
| 1:23.9 | meeting with Richard Branson we got a meeting with Richard Branson so I'm |
| 1:26.8 | impressed all thanks to you no no no no now listen this is a unique one |
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