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The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

A Navy Seal’s Solution - Let go, lock-in, and win | Jason Kuhn

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7870 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jason believes that adversity is what builds opportunities to create trust. Whatever you are facing in life, let go of the past, lock-in to the mission in front of you and win the day!
Navy Seals go through some of the toughest training on the planet. Mental, physical and emotional limits are tested beyond what we can imagine. What key lessons are learned in these life or death experiences that can help you conquer the challenges in your life?

LESSONS
Trust helps you win the day
Shift focus away from anxiety to what you can affect
Attack the challenges in front of you
Never sacrifice character for talent
Learn to serve as a team
Lead with conviction and purpose
Think about what you want to produce
Be thankful you are where you are
Let go, lock in & win the fight in front of you

LINKS
https://www.swimwithamission.org/
https://www.stonewall-solutions.com/

TIME STAMPS
0:00 Intro to episode with the Colonel, Joe and guest host Josh Crosby
1:25 Interview begins at the Swim With A Mission Foundation event
2:30 Training that helps win the day as Navy Seal
4:30 Shifting focus away from anxiety to what you can effect
6:25 Purpose behind training as a team
8:15 Serve the team out of a motivation greater than yourself
9:15 Leaving a legacy
10:40 Trust and courage in combat
11:50 Surrounding yourself with the right people
14:00 Trust the process
15:50 Free yourself of the outcome
18:00 Training for worst conditions than you compete in
19:30 Letting go, locking in and attacking the mission in front of you
20:35 Joe, the Colonel and guest host Josh Crosby discuss lessons learned

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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena, Tim Nye & Guest Josh Crosby. Co-hosts Sefra Alexandra and “Dr.” Johnny Waite are off seeking adventures and stories of resilience this week.
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra | Seed Huntress
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty

© 2019 Spartan

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0:00.0

All right. Welcome to Spartan Up. We are here at West Point. We're in a undisclosed warehouse. You're not going to be able to find this. I got myself Joe D. I've got Colonel Nye made it all the way to Colonel Special Operations.

0:11.0

Old everybody. This guy is unbelievable and we got a new one that is replacing for a little while,

0:16.6

Sefra, Dr. Johnny and Dr. L. Josh Crosby, Olympic Rower.

0:21.2

Can I say Olympic Rower?

0:22.2

You can. World Champion Rower didn Can I say Olympic Rower? You can.

0:23.0

World Champion Rower didn't make the Olympics.

0:26.0

I make him say that over and over.

0:28.0

Anyway, we've got this guy Jason Kuhn, who I had the fortune of getting to know Navy SEAL. I'm sitting at this

0:35.8

charitable event in New Hampshire and it's a it's with Swim with a Mission and I'm

0:42.0

listening to this guy up on stage talk and he's just he's

0:45.1

unbelievable he's captivating everybody's leaning in and I grabbed him as

0:49.5

soon as he came off stage and said hey would you mind doing a podcast, impromptu?

0:52.5

He's got his kids running around.

0:53.5

It was a little hectic, so it's not perfect audio.

0:56.8

But he really nailed some points.

0:58.6

And I got to tell you, it really had an impact on me.

1:02.0

I ran home, I started sharing the stories with my kids and so I think you're going to love this

1:06.5

interview and stay for it because at the end myself the new guy and Colonel Nye are going to recap what we saw.

1:14.0

We are here at the Swim with the Mission Foundation.

1:20.0

It's somewhere in New Hampshire, location paintballs going on there's about I don't know a couple of hundred former retired

1:28.0

Active Navy SEALs that are here running around and I'm with Jason Kuhn who is teaching me a lot. I thought I knew everything about leadership and teamwork.

1:36.5

This guy blew me away, gave an unbelievable speech for 20 minutes up there, and I think we all could learn a lesson so I want to dive into

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