Building Mental Toughness for Families w/ Joe De Sena
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Joe De Sena. Joe was one of my first guests when I first started this episode 6 years ago. If you are a Spartan Racer, you might know Joe. He is the CEO of Spartan Race. The basis of his company is the foundation that we as humans cannot reach our potential until we have gone through a struggle or a test. It's what he calls, purposeful suffering.
Coming from a childhood where he had nowhere to learn, only his own, and had to figure out how to make it. Joe believes his success came from his purposeful suffering philosophy. This is one of my favorite episodes, no doubt.
Joe shares about "Mental Toughness for Families - 10 Rules for Resilience", his new book and we talk about some of those rules on this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men, we are warriors, we are dads, dads with a purpose, dads with an edge. |
| 0:10.6 | We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.8 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.6 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:28.1 | Hey, what's up guys? Welcome to the dad edge podcast. I'm Larry Hagner. I am your host. |
| 0:33.3 | I am your founder of this podcast and movement. Hope you guys are having a kick ass start |
| 0:38.5 | to your 2022. I think it's safe to say we have all felt the effects of a lot of uncertainty |
| 0:45.8 | in the world. This podcast is dedicated to helping you dads and me, if I'm being really |
| 0:51.3 | honest, be the best version of ourselves. We want to go out. |
| 0:56.6 | We want to create extraordinary marriages. We want to improve and elevate connection |
| 1:01.5 | and intimacy with our wives. We want to connect with our kids. We want to have memories |
| 1:06.4 | and experiences. The men who listen to this show are hungry to get out of what I call |
| 1:13.0 | the drift. The drift is the wash rinse repeat. Get up, have my coffee, go to the bathroom, |
| 1:18.8 | go to work, kiss my kids goodbye, give my wife a kiss goodbye, you know, do my job. |
| 1:23.6 | Maybe I like my job. Most of the time, maybe I don't. I come home. I've been stretched |
| 1:28.8 | then all day long. I'm trying to show up the best I can for my kids. My marriage is decent, |
| 1:34.5 | but I want more and I just am trying to find out ways to get it. Listen, if that's you, |
| 1:41.6 | you're not alone. And a lot of guys are like, well, shouldn't I be doing this better and |
| 1:45.0 | shouldn't I know how to do this? Listen, there's no training ground for this stuff. There's, |
| 1:50.1 | a lot of us listening to this show have four year undergrad degrees, right? Some of us have |
| 1:55.9 | masters degrees. Some of us have PhDs. Some of us have two year trade school. Regardless, |
| 2:01.5 | we have had training in areas of our lives where we excel in. And last time I checked the majority |
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