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The Michael Caz Podcast

Cold, Tired, Hungry & "Hallucinating" w/ Joe De Sena - Ep. 53

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Health & Fitness, Business

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Best-selling author, and CEO/ co-founder of The Death Race and the Spartan Race; Joe De Sena is on the show this week. Joe is an amazing story teller and an even better mentor. In this episode, we’ll be getting into his new book “Spartan Fit!”, a 30 day challenge that will help you transform your body and mind. Take my word for it and put this one on your reading list, link below. This episode is about pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone and demanding transformation. You’ll get to hear some of Joe’s personal stories and valuable lessons that we can all take away including how he runs his business, motivating others and giving people the tools to better deal with life.

Links:

Spartan Race

Death Race

Spartan X

Books:

Spartan Fit! – Joe De Sena

Spartan Up! – Joe De Sena

Topics of discussion:

[1:45] The Alaska story

[9:00] Marathon Monks

[13:25] Entrepreneurship & making money

[19:55] “On the edge of death” – where transformation happens

[29:50] Spartan X

[40:38] Business & learning

[49:29] Spartan Fit!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up guys? This is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the Bruce Strength podcast.

0:04.0

This week I interviewed founder of Spartan Race, Joe DeCina.

0:08.0

Joe has also authored two best-selling books Spartan Up and Spartan Fit that just came out a week ago.

0:16.4

The topic of conversation revolves around creating or getting involved in experiences that push you so far outside of your

0:26.3

comfort zone that they transform your life such as a Spartan race death race

0:31.0

etc. Before we get started, if you're interested in all the free content that we're giving out,

0:38.5

podcasts, blog articles, videos, free programs, etc.

0:44.0

go to brute strength training.com, sign up for the newsletter.

0:48.0

Hope you enjoy the show.

0:49.0

All right, what's up everyone?

0:51.0

I'm here with Joe DeCina, CEO of the Spartan Race, multiple time

0:58.2

author, best-selling author. Joe, thanks for taking time out of your extremely busy

1:04.7

schedule to chat with me today, ma'am. No problem. I just was mountain biking and

1:09.3

I knew I had to be on here with you and I'm psyed that somebody wants to talk to me.

1:15.8

I appreciate it man.

1:16.8

So I want to start off as I told you before when I was doing my research of you. I you know I heard about you only from seeing

1:25.0

seeing ads about the Spartan race and some very brief things about that

1:32.0

but as I was listening to some

1:34.0

podcast that you've done or been on I realized very quickly that you are a

1:39.5

phenomenal storyteller and so I wanted to start it off with one that I heard you tell on

1:45.8

another podcast called the Alaska story. Can you tell us about that story?

1:50.3

Yeah, actually it's fitting because you're a hunter yourself, right?

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