57 Alison Levine: Atop Mt. Everest, She Learned the Greatest Lesson

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Entrepreneurship, Fitness, Inspiration, Greatness, Health, Money, Celebrity Interview, Self Care, Celebrity, Success, Mental Health, Relationships, Mindset, Health & Fitness, Education, Alternative Health, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 24 March 2014

⏱️ 68 minutes

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She came from a tough love sort of family. She said, it feels like there is an elephant on my chest. But they always told her, toughen up. At age 16 she passed out during soccer practice. While at the hospital they learned that she suffered from a rare heart condition. Three surgeries later, she climbed to the peaks of the highest mountains on every continent and skied the North and South Pole. This week on the School of Greatness, we have an amazing athlete, adventurer, professor of leadership and New York Times Bestselling author on the show. Please welcome the inspiring Alison Levine.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Louis Howes, a former pro athlete
0:13.2	turned lifestyle entrepreneur. In each week we bring you an inspiring person or message
0:18.9	to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness. Thanks for spending some time with
0:24.2	me today. Now let the class begin.
0:30.0	You want to talk about leadership? Imagine yourself on the highest mountain in the world.
0:39.8	You're at 26,000 feet above sea level, a place known as the death zone, an elevation
0:46.5	at which human beings cannot survive for long. Your brain and your body are oxygen starved.
0:52.7	You have to deal with the physiological effects of extreme altitude, along with the bone
0:58.5	chilling temperatures, battering winds, and a climbing team that's counting on all
1:04.3	its members to make smart decisions. There is simply no room for poor judgment.
1:12.0	Welcome to the School of Greatness, everyone. I'm super pumped for today's guest as
1:16.9	it's Alice on the Veeam and she's the author of the New York Times bestselling book on
1:22.0	the Edge, The Art of High Impact Leadership. I had such an incredible conversation with
1:30.0	Allison. She really goes into some amazing stories about these climbs that she's done.
1:35.7	She's done so many different mountain climbs, the tallest, biggest mountains in the world.
1:40.2	She's climbed them all and done the North Pole and the South Pole. It's really a huge
1:46.0	adventure expeditionist and discover and explore all these different things. She's an incredibly
1:52.0	inspiring woman. She's pretty tiny. She's not like a large woman. She's a tiny petite
1:56.8	woman and climbed these mountains that a lot of people actually end up dying on. It's
2:03.6	inspiring to hear her story and her journey and the lessons she learned on top of these
2:08.4	mountains in terms of leadership, in terms of building a team, in terms of how to connect
2:13.9	with people so that you don't get left behind because sometimes at the top of the mountain
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