Andy Petranek, Whole Life Challenge Co-Founder
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2019
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Andy Petranek, the co-founder of the Whole Life Challenge.
Andy is also a Marine Gulf War veteran and was the oldest participant, at 43, to qualify for the 2009 CrossFit Games.
He’s participated in dozens of adventure races that have varied in length from three hours to seven days, and became known for his ability to navigate in the wilderness, carry heavy loads, get through obstacles quickly, and persevere in even the worst conditions.
He created the Whole Life Challenge to help people manage real-life challenges; commitments to work and family, time constraints, sleep issues, and stress.
The Challenge is a gamified and community-based initiative to help people stay committed to make better choices each day, outside of the gym, where it really matters.
It grew from 150 players in 2011 to over 22,000 worldwide in 2017.
Now a small, successful start-up company, it has been responsible for changing the fitness, health, confidence, and lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
Andy loves to work on developing and improving himself — physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I think you’ll find it interesting to learn exactly why that drives him.
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| 0:00.0 | I mean I think the big thing that I've taken over the course of my life is the smaller the |
| 0:05.2 | the smaller the steps and the longer I can make them last in my daily practice, |
| 0:11.7 | the more impact they'll have on my life. I don't have to take big |
| 0:17.7 | bold audacious jumps and leaps into oblivion and think in fact most of the time when I do that those don't work at all. All right. |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. |
| 0:38.9 | I'm Michael Jervay by Trade and Training, |
| 0:41.8 | a Sport and Performance Psychologist, |
| 0:43.0 | and the co-founder of Compete to Create. |
| 0:46.0 | And the whole idea behind these conversations |
| 0:48.0 | is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery. |
| 0:51.0 | To understand how the extraordinarys think and do, how they organize their inner world, |
| 0:56.2 | how they organize their external life to be able to manage the stress that |
| 1:00.3 | they're running toward. |
| 1:01.3 | And so we also want to dig to understand the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm really excited to announce that this year, Finding Mastery is releasing our first ever holiday gift guide. |
| 1:15.0 | Yes. |
| 1:16.0 | Having spent decades working with and around some of the most driven people on the planet, |
| 1:21.0 | I know the high-performer types in your life can be a little tricky to buy for. |
| 1:25.6 | Their standards tend to be really high, they rarely settle. We all know the drill here. |
| 1:30.8 | And that's why we put together a list of some of our favorite products that have been utilized by many of the leaders and athletes and creatives that we've worked with on the path for them to be able to reach their potential. The products that are on this list are all products that I use. |
| 1:46.8 | You can check it out at finding mastery.com slash gift guide. |
| 1:51.2 | That's finding mastery.com slash gift guide. That's Finding Mastery.com |
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