Colin O’Brady & Jenna Besaw On Possible Mindsets, K2 Perils & 12-Hours Walks

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Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 203 minutes

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Summary

World-record setting adventure athlete and New York Times bestselling author Colin O’Brady returns for his fifth appearance on the podcast (RRP 207, 235, 439 & 519), this time alongside wife and partner in all things Jenna Besaw —the powerful engine behind everything they have accomplished together. Today we discuss what global exploration has taught Colin & Jenna about mindset. We talk about the transformative power of an all-day walk, the subject of Colin's new book, 'The 12-Hour Walk'. Packed with actionable takeaways ad incredible stories, this is a long one, but I implore you to stick around for the final hour— a harrowing first-person account of the trauma and tragedy of death on K2. Watch: YouTube. Read: Show notes Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:00.0	Yeah, I wake up to her just screaming and her head is in the upside-mount where the debris and the avalanche plummeting her tent.
0:07.6	And so her head is like pinned under the edge of this tent and she's like just screaming and I sit up and I'm like,
0:13.3	oh my god, it's an avalanche and I pull her head basically.
0:15.9	It's kind of like wedge.
0:16.9	I feel like that pushes the tent fabric off of me.
0:18.7	It pushes all the snow and whatever was on the outside, pulls me out and I am like shaking like a leaf.
0:24.9	Like, I have no idea really what's happened and Collins has been an avalanche and I'm just terrified.
0:30.4	I mean, frankly, the worst feeling you could possibly imagine.
0:33.2	I mean, when the tent was covering my face, I was like, oh, this is it.
0:37.7	This is the thing that I didn't want to have happened.
0:40.1	It gets buried alive.
0:41.3	Yeah, it was a bad scene.
0:43.1	I mean, it wasn't good.
0:44.1	The Rich Roll Podcast.
0:54.1	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the podcast.
0:59.1	My guest today, returning for his fifth appearance on the podcast, if you can believe it,
1:06.1	is Adventure Athlete Colin O'Brady, along with his wife and partner and all things.
1:12.1	Jenna Passau joining for her first appearance on the show.
1:17.4	Long time listeners are well acquainted with Collins long list of accomplishments as a
1:23.1	10 time world record breaking explorer and expert on mindset, high performance and empowering
1:30.5	others to reimagine the limits of human possibility.
1:34.4	Collins feats include the world's first solo unsupported and fully human powered crossing
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