Build Mental Strength & Resilience / Dr. Lara Pence & Marion Abrams
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Spartans believe in readiness. Life will throw your curveballs, and you will need to be mentally, physically and emotionally strong, resilient and ready. Our guest, psychologist Dr. Lara Pence, has a passion for teaching us to strengthen our emotional resilience.
In this episode, she talks about the 5 tools you should pack in your mindset readiness kit, and how to develop the tools you don’t yet have.
This episode is guest hosted by our behind the scenes producer Marion Abrams in honor of International Women’s Day.
Today's episode of Spartan up is brought to you by BetterHelp. Spartan Up listeners can save 10% on their first month by going to www.BetterHelp.com/Spartan
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Host: Joe De Sena
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| 0:00.0 | We don't always know what's going to happen. So gosh, I want to be prepared. |
| 0:03.6 | Like I want to have a survival kit in my metaphoric backpack to make sure that if something |
| 0:09.2 | bumpy happens in the future, I'm going to be emotionally resilient and |
| 0:14.0 | mentally resilient and prepared to manage that. |
| 0:17.2 | I want the packing list. |
| 0:18.7 | What needs to be in there? |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome to the Spartan Up Podcast with Joe DeSena, founder and CEO of Spartan Race. |
| 0:27.0 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. |
| 0:32.0 | The same way we teach people coming obstacles. |
| 0:33.7 | The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, we will teach you here on |
| 0:38.0 | the Spartan Up Podcast to get over obstacles in your mind. |
| 0:42.2 | Today we're talking about building mental strength and resilience with Dr. Laura Pence. |
| 0:46.0 | She was the host of our long-running Spartan Mind series, and she's a clinical psychologist who works closely with Spartan. |
| 0:52.0 | To celebrate International Women's Day |
| 0:54.0 | are producer Marion Abrams, that's me, will be guest hosting today's show. |
| 0:57.8 | Today's episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Better Help. |
| 1:02.8 | Spartan Up listeners can save 10% on their first month by going to BetterHelp. |
| 1:06.6 | I am here with Dr. Laura Pence, who if you've been around Spartan for very long you probably know she hosted something like 85 episodes of Spartan Mind which if you haven't listened to them yet you should go back. |
| 1:23.5 | They're amazing. |
| 1:24.9 | Laura is a clinical psychologist. |
| 1:27.3 | So she's got legitimate credentials to tell you about your mind, right? And she has her own podcast, Curious Minds. So, |
| 1:35.0 | Laura, this is going to be fun. Thank you for joining me. You know when you |
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