#296: Using FEAR to Fuel Your Success with Akshay Nanavati
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Akshay Nanavati is a U.S. Marine veteran, speaker, entrepreneur, author and ultra runner.
He has overcome many of life’s most difficult challenges by discovering that adversity is one of our greatest gifts and a necessary access point to reach the next stage of our personal evolution.
He developed FEARVANA to teach people to find bliss through engaging in fear and pursuing their “worthy struggles”. He also wrote the amazing book, “FEARVANA: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear Into Health, Wealth and Happiness.”
If fear and adversity are keeping you from having and being what you want in life, take the first step to overcome it and listen as we discuss:
- His journey to “FEARVANA” and path to finding beauty in adversity. [3:48]
- How was he able to turn his guilt into an ally? [17:15]
- Steps you can take to let go of your fear. [21:14]
- When was the ultra-running seed planted in him? [24:31]
- How running has become “fuel for service”. [26:06]
- Why committing to recovery has transformed his running: His nutrition, recovery methods, shoes used & MORE. [28:31]
- The value in embracing stillness. [37:04]
- His vision for the FEARVANA movement: Why you MUST follow your “worthy struggle”. [41:03]
- The importance of playing the long game and building relationships. [42:37]
- What does his morning routine consist of? [47:28]
- Why you must ENJOY the process, rather than focus on the end result. [49:58]
- The fundamental habits all humans should have. [52:40]
- What adventures does he have planned? [55:53]
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| 0:17.0 | What's up my friends? This is another episode of Renegade Radio. I am Jay Farugia. My guest today is Akshe Nautavati, really interesting guy, fascinating guy. |
| 0:23.1 | He ran over here, he ran from here in Santa Monica over to West Hollywood, ran over all over |
| 0:28.6 | LA today. |
| 0:30.7 | The guys are running machine and around a really interesting guy has a fascinating background. |
| 0:35.1 | What he does. |
| 0:36.1 | He's all about helping you find your worthy struggle, living your worthy struggle, falling |
| 0:39.8 | in love with every moment of the journey, you overcome fear deal with fear in a |
| 0:44.8 | positive way I think you're gonna find this episode really helpful really interesting |
| 0:50.9 | and I just want to shout out everybody who's left iTunes five star ratings recently written |
| 0:56.6 | reviews. |
| 0:57.6 | I can't tell you how much I appreciate that. |
| 0:58.9 | I thank you guys so much for that. |
| 1:00.8 | In a future episode we'll give away some stuff to people who have left reviews. So if you have for that would be |
| 1:03.0 | the people who have left reviews. |
| 1:04.6 | So if you haven't done one yet, that would be amazing. |
| 1:07.2 | I would appreciate it. |
| 1:08.8 | Also supporting our sponsors. |
| 1:10.4 | We are sponsored today by Organify. You can go to Organify.com slash Renegade that's |
| 1:16.5 | OR G A N I F I dot com slash renegade and if you want to combat inflammation if you want to sleep |
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| 1:29.1 | organify turmeric both of them are awesome like I said both of them are awesome. |
| 1:33.0 | Like I said, both of them reduce inflammation |
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