Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger.

As always, I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo.

On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's

most brilliant and interesting people, and turn their wisdom into practical advice that

you can use to impact your own life and those around you.

We want to help you see the matrix when it comes to how these amazing people think and

behave and help you become a better thinker.

If you're new to the show, we've got episodes with spies and CEOs, athletes and authors,

thinkers and performers, as well as toolboxes for negotiation, public speaking, and body language,

persuasion, etc.

So if you're smart and you like to learn and improve, then you'll be right at home here

with us.

Today on the show, Akshay Nanavati.

After overcoming drug addiction, PTSD from fighting in the war in Iraq with the Marines,

where one of his jobs was to walk in front of our vehicles and find explosives, he dealt

with depression and alcoholism that pushed him to the brink of suicide.

Akshay Nanavati has since built a global business, run some ultra-marathons, explored some

of the most hostile environments on the planet, mountains, caves, polar ice caps.

He's been a friend of mine for a while, and I just don't know too many people who like

to put themselves through the ringer like Akshay does.

He's lived in pitch black darkness and total isolation for a week at a time.

He's run hundreds of miles across Africa, he just loves to punish himself.

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