Being Ready Doesn't Exist says Joe DeSena
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Joe is the founder and CEO of Spartan Race, the world's leading obstacle racing company. He is also the host of the Spartan Up podcast and New York Times Best Selling author of SPARTAN FIT!
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Little things add up to make a great difference in your life.
2. Push through the pain and do what the average person won't do.
3. Get out of your comfort zone and achieve more.
Joe's website Spartan Race and Spartan Up! Podcast
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hold on to those afterburners Fire Nation JLD here and welcome to episode 1874 of EO Fire |
| 0:11.6 | where I chat with entrepreneurs on fire 7 days a week and if you're ready to accomplish |
| 0:17.4 | that one big goal visit the Freedom Journal.com and you'll accomplish that goal in 100 days. |
| 0:25.2 | Now shout out to today's featured guest Joe Dacena. Joe are you prepared to ignite? |
| 0:31.6 | I think I'm on fire right now. |
| 0:33.7 | Yes. |
| 0:34.7 | Joe is a founder and CEO of Spartan Race, the world's leading obstacle racing company. |
| 0:40.5 | He's also the host of Spartan Up Podcast and the New York Times bestselling author of Spartan |
| 0:47.0 | Fit. |
| 0:48.0 | Joe, take a minute. |
| 0:49.0 | Fill in some gaps from that inshown. Give us a little glimpse of your personal life. |
| 0:53.0 | We have four children. |
| 0:55.0 | Got it super wise and we move around the world each year. |
| 0:59.2 | So last year we lived in Tokyo, year before that Singapore and this year we're in Vancouver |
| 1:05.2 | while making our way back to the States. |
| 1:07.2 | Although who knows, we don't know where next year will be but the funny thing in the |
| 1:12.2 | last month was we were supposed to go somewhere else and I called an audible a week before |
| 1:17.9 | the move and said we're going to Vancouver instead. |
| 1:19.9 | I'd never been here and I'm glad we did because it's awesome. |
| 1:23.1 | Yeah, we were just talking in the pre-interview chat actually. |
| 1:25.1 | My first ever trip to Vancouver was just last week after podcast movement. |
| 1:28.8 | I got to do some cool things there. |
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