Could You Go from 0 to Olympic Gold? Lindsay Shoop & Joe De Sena
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Imagine: You're not in the shape you should be. You've of lost your direction. You've hit a low. That was Lindsay Dare Shoop. Eight years later, she was taking home gold at the Olympics on the US Rowing Team.
Today she tells Joe De Sena, founder & Ceo of Spartan, how she made that transformation and all the things she learned in the process that make up her book, "Better Great Than Never."
“I didn't think I was good enough to play a sport after high school. So I quit sports and spent about two and a half years, kind of wandering aimlessly without them. Gaining weight, grades dropping, kind of socially withdrawing, and then through a random kind of chance moment bumped into the head rowing coach when I was in college, and in that day on that moment, the timing was right. And it was like this. The opportunity arose right when I needed it.”
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LINKS:
About Lindsay Shoop https://www.lindsaydareshoop.com/
“Better Great Than Never” https://bettergreatthanneverbook.com/
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host: Joe De Sena
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| 0:00.0 | We lost our first world championships really badly in kind of a demoralizing way where we were |
| 0:06.6 | winning the first seven-eighths of the race. |
| 0:09.9 | You know, here the race is six minutes long, it's 2,000 meters for the first more than a mile of it you're |
| 0:15.3 | winning and then in the last 45 seconds three countries pass you and you end up |
| 0:21.1 | missing second place by it can even fit it in the window a matter of feet. pass you can't |
| 0:23.0 | and fit it in the window a matter of feet. |
| 0:25.2 | Well, we turned around the very next year |
| 0:27.3 | and our coach sat us down and these were two pieces |
| 0:31.2 | of pivotal advice that changed everything and they are the two most important things that I tell you and he said the first thing we did was we watched the previous Olympic race where this country Romania had won this particular event |
| 0:45.6 | that we were competing in for three straight Olympic Games and almost with the same people |
| 0:49.8 | so decades of experience. |
| 0:52.6 | And we just watched it. |
| 0:54.2 | He told us to watch it in silence. |
| 0:56.3 | Just think. |
| 0:57.0 | Just watch, don't speak. |
| 0:58.9 | And after it, he said, you know, when it comes to the Olympics, |
| 1:01.2 | you have to be good enough to win, to come away with a medal at all. |
| 1:04.0 | Welcome to the Spartan Up podcast with Joe Descenta, founder and CEO of Spartan Race. |
| 1:11.0 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. |
| 1:15.0 | The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, |
| 1:21.0 | we will teach you here on a Spartan Up podcast to get over |
| 1:24.6 | obstacles in your mind. Imagine you're feeling kind of out of sorts and you don't know |
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