257: Jesse Itzler - Living With The Monks • Only Fruit Until Noon • Flip Your Relationship With Time
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Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Jesse Itzler (IG: @jesseitzler) is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Living with a Seal. He cofounded Marquis Jet, the world's largest private jet card company which he and his partner sold to Berkshire Hathaway/NetJets. Jesse then partnered with Zico coconut water, which he and his partner sold to The Coca-Cola Company.
When he's not running ultra-marathons, eating vegan food or being a dad to his four kids, Jesse can be found at the NBA's Atlanta Hawks games, where he's an owner of the team. He's married to Spanx founder Sara Blakely.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What made Jesse take 15 days away from his family to live with monks
- What Jesse packed in his suitcase to live at the monastery
- The book that inspired Jesse's diet
- The benefits of eating only fruit until noon
- Living at the monastery
- Being disconnected from the outside world
- What Jesse didn't miss while he was away
- Take time for the things you love
- Spending time alone
- The 3-hour rule
- Flip your relationship with time
- Remember tomorrow
- Operate from gratitude
- Weave spirituality into your day-to-day life
- You don't have to respond immediately
- Get it out of your head and onto paper
- Be where your feet are
- Figure out what works best for you
- Do it now!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I was just getting bombarded with technology, social media, requests, appointments, and I just felt |
| 0:07.3 | like if you want to lose weight, you go on a diet, and I felt like I just needed a complete |
| 0:12.2 | reboot. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello and welcome to The Ultimate Health Podcast episode 257. |
| 0:21.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marty Wasserman, and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:26.4 | This week our featured guest is Jesse Itzler. |
| 0:28.8 | He's the author of the New York Times Best Seller Living with the Seal. |
| 0:32.0 | He co-founded Marquis Jet, the world's largest private jet |
| 0:35.0 | card company, which he and his partner sold to Berkshire Hathaway, Net Jets. |
| 0:39.4 | Jesse then partnered with Saiko Coconut Water, which he and his partner sold to the Coca-Cola Company. |
| 0:44.4 | When he's not running ultra-marathons, eating vegan food, or being a dad to his four kids, |
| 0:48.9 | Jesse can be found at the NBA's Atlanta Hawks games, where he's an owner of the team. |
| 0:53.2 | He's Mary Despanks founder Sarah Blakely. |
| 0:55.8 | It's actually fascinating sharing this episode while we are in Bally. |
| 0:59.3 | We are still here on our honeymoon and it's very interesting because Jesse had this experience with the monks |
| 1:04.8 | that was ultimately very life-changing for him and Jesse and I are having this experience in |
| 1:09.8 | Bally where we're immersed in a culture that's so different than our culture at home. |
| 1:14.0 | We are surrounded by people who are practicing Hinduism, |
| 1:17.0 | and there is so much symbolism and so many beautiful practices here, |
| 1:20.0 | including offerings, lots of gratitude. It's so amazing and Jesse and |
| 1:24.7 | I are definitely going to take so much of this back home to our lives and it's forever |
| 1:28.2 | going to change us. So you guys are going to hear so much about Jesse's experience |
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