285: How to Make Your Dreams a Reality, Remain Persistent in the Face of Adversity & Perspective About Life on Earth from an Astronaut Who Walked in Space with Mike Massimino
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🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Mike Massimino is a former NASA astronaut, professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University and the senior advisor for space programs at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. He received a BS from Columbia University, and MS degrees in mechanical engineering and in technology and policy, as well as a PhD in mechanical engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joins the show to discuss his new book, Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible, in which he details how he overcame challenges and roadblocks both in his pursuit of becoming an astronaut, and throughout his career. We explore concepts that we can all apply to our own lives regardless of our circumstances, including “one in a million is not zero,” embracing adversity, and marveling at the miracle of life. He also shares his perspective about life on earth, having been in space multiple times, and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:02.8 | Welcome to the Blond Files podcast. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm your host Arielle Lori and I'm here to talk all things |
| 0:11.1 | wellness from how to achieve optimal health and well being to the best |
| 0:15.5 | beauty tips and everything in between no topic is off limits. I know there's so much |
| 0:20.2 | information out there so I'm bringing on expert guests and sharing my own |
| 0:24.3 | experiences to help you sift through all the wellness stuff without the BS. |
| 0:28.0 | Enjoy the show. Hi everybody welcome to the show I am really excited about this week's episode |
| 0:37.9 | this is new for me I have never had a former astronaut on the show. I've never talked about space on the show and if |
| 0:46.3 | you're wondering what this has to do with wellness or the topics that we |
| 0:50.4 | normally cover on the show it actually has everything to do with it and I'll explain how and why in a second. |
| 0:58.0 | But my guest today is Mike Masamino. He is a former NASA astronaut, as I said. |
| 1:05.3 | He is a professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia |
| 1:08.6 | and the senior advisor for space programs |
| 1:12.2 | at the Intrepid Air and Space Museum. |
| 1:16.0 | He received a Bachelor of Science from Columbia, |
| 1:19.2 | Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering, |
| 1:21.9 | and in technology and policy, as well as a PhD. in He is very fun. He has incredible stories from both his time in space and his journey in pursuit of being an astronaut which had so many roadblocks and he has a new book out called Moonshot a NASA astronaut's |
| 1:46.1 | guide to achieving the impossible and basically he says we all have our |
| 1:51.0 | personal moonshots. |
| 1:53.0 | So in this book, he distills stories and insights |
| 1:57.4 | from NASA into an actionable guide |
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