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The CLS Experience with Craig Siegel

Breaking The Comfort Crisis With The Running Man: Charlie Engle

The CLS Experience with Craig Siegel

Craig Siegel

Education, Spirituality, Mindset, Personal Development, Self-improvement, Motivation, Transformation, Business, Health & Fitness, Improvement, Coach, Religion & Spirituality, Inspiration, Self Help, Entrepreneurship

4.9754 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In this beautiful episode of The CLS Experience, host Craig Siegel interviews Charlie Engle, a renowned endurance athlete, bestselling author, and inspirational speaker known for his memoir 'Running Man.' Engle shares his transformative journey from battling addiction to becoming an ultra-marathoner who ran across the Sahara Desert. They discuss the power of living authentically, the importance of vulnerability, and the concept of doing hard things intentionally. Engle opens up about his time...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the CLS experience. I'm your host, Craig Siegel. I'm a born and raised New Yorker

0:11.8

who achieved success with multiple businesses, but I crave something deeper. So I dedicated

0:16.8

myself to personal growth and transformation by revamping my mindset.

0:22.4

I went from being unable to run a mile to conquering four marathons the following year.

0:27.2

Now, I want to help others manufacture big breakthroughs of their own.

0:31.8

You know, I mean, it's way easier to be yourself, recognizing that we're all this work in progress to figuring out what being

0:40.2

yourself actually means. And I think the most, so the most important piece that I can actually point at

0:47.0

is that we are all this work in progress. And to assume that we even know ourselves, much less

0:53.5

anybody else, is a big assumption. So whenever I come

0:57.1

to the table with someone like you, and I'm going to have a, you know, a good, robust, dynamic,

1:03.1

all over the place conversation, honesty has to be first. And there's, you know, I'm happy to say,

1:09.5

and if you read my book, you know, it's the truth, nothing is off limits. And I's, you know, I'm happy to say, and if you read my book, you know it's the truth.

1:13.1

Nothing is off limits.

1:14.7

And I think that vulnerability is the key to, you know, to every good conversation,

1:20.6

to every really powerful relationship.

1:23.7

And so, you know, for me, it's about being vulnerable.

1:27.3

On today's episode on the CLS experience with a very exclusive treat, he's a world-class

1:31.6

endurance athlete, best-long author, and a master of turning life's challenges into powerful

1:36.7

stories of resilience, big facts.

1:39.2

Known for his gripping memoir, Running Man, he's an addict who runs a runner who writes

1:43.8

and a living testament to the power of perseverance

1:46.6

just in view.

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