A New Way to Live with Fear | Extreme Skier Kristen Ulmer
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Has fear been a problem in your life? Do you use terms like "overcome" or "suppress" in your relationship with fear? pioneering extreme skier Kristen Ulmer talks with guest host Amelia Boon about learning to love fear. They teach you a new way to relate to your own fear. Embrace it. If you want to live a full life of creativity, vitality, adventure, and success, it's what you must do. Most people don't and fear manifests itself in the forms of anxiety, anger, boredom, and mental exhaustion. What can we do to transcend this suffering and live rich lives? Ulmer achieved great successes but equally potent anguish repressing her fear until she found a better way. Learn her methods in this life-changing, podcast of the new year.Has fear been a problem in your life? Do you use terms like "overcome" or "suppress" in your relationship with fear? pioneering extreme skier Kristen Ulmer talks with guest host Amelia Boon about learning to love fear. They teach you a new way to relate to your own fear. Embrace it. If you want to live a full life of creativity, vitality, adventure and success, it's what you must do. Most people don't and fear manifests itself in the forms of anxiety, anger, boredom, and mental exhaustion. What can we do to transcend this suffering and live rich lives? Ulmer achieved great successes but equally potent anguish repressing her fear until she found a better way. Learn her methods in this life-changing, podcast of the new year.
Lessons: 1. Suffering equals discomfort times resistance.
2. Feel your fearfully without trying to get rid of it.
3. Your relationship with fear is the most important relationship of your life because it's the relationship you have with yourself at your core.
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Kristen Ulmer www.kristenulmer.com
Kristen on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ulmer.kristen/
Kristen on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kristen.ulmer/
"The Art of Fear" http://a.co/0lN5ds9
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena with guest host this week Amelia Boone. Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, Col. Tim Nye.
Synopsis – Matt Baatz
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Spartan Up podcast. This next one is incredible for two reasons, two amazing people. |
| 0:07.0 | First of all, Amelia Boone. Most people who know anything about Spartan |
| 0:11.0 | know Amelia, one of the greatest Spartan racers ever, just an incredible person, big-time lawyer, great human being all round. |
| 0:17.0 | She actually was the guest interviewer and interviewed Kristen Ulmer. |
| 0:22.0 | Kristen Ulmer is the world's greatest female, |
| 0:25.8 | big mountain skier, you know, big risks, big |
| 0:28.4 | surfing, like Laird Hamilton doing his big wave surfing. |
| 0:32.4 | Like she's doing the massive drops into huge shoots and like big |
| 0:37.0 | we've all seen her on film and some you know somewhere when you see those films |
| 0:40.2 | that's her and so she has a book called Fear. I believe the book is just |
| 0:44.5 | called Fear and she talked about Fear. And this is, I'm not going to tell exactly what |
| 0:48.5 | happened. I'm going to tell you the biggest moment for me. Amelia |
| 0:50.9 | interviewing her and I've seen Amelia race and I know Amelia pushes |
| 0:53.4 | through fear like almost no one else and accomplishes big things but the lights just |
| 0:58.5 | went boom for Amelia in the middle of this interview something Kristen said about |
| 1:01.8 | fear and somebody who's dealt with fear her entire life in a fear-filled |
| 1:04.8 | industry, speaking to one of the greatest racers of all time and on the cover of Runners magazine, |
| 1:10.6 | and just watching the lights go off, lights go on, watch the lights go on, |
| 1:15.0 | for Amelia, and it was such a wow aha moment |
| 1:18.0 | and I think it will be for anyone who does big things |
| 1:20.0 | and has to face fear. |
| 1:21.0 | So I just want to leave it at that and have people come watch it. |
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