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You're listening to the Spartan combat series on Spartan Up Podcast with James Lawrence, the Iron

Cowboy.

If you're not succeeding in life and progressing every single day,

stand up nice and tall and look in a mirror and say right now my success is my fault and also my failures

and inability to progress is also my thoughts.

Welcome to the show ladies and gentlemen this is your host Ryan Warner you're

listening to the Spartan Combat series on the Spartan Up podcast.

We're still your grit and resiliency partner, but on this show, you'll be hearing from individuals who have

been battle tested in the most rigorous of environments, hand-to-hand combat.

So you'll be hearing from elite, wrestlers,

MMA fighters, Jiu-Jitsu practitioners, all with the end goal of ripping you off the couch and getting your life going again.

My guest today is James Lawrence the Iron Cowboy who was well known for completing the 50-50-50,

which means he did 50- Man District races and 50 states and 50 days.

Netflix did a documentary about it, also called The Iron Cowboy, and it's an incredible feat of

human endurance.

One of my favorite moments of this interview is when James talks about the rebirth moment.

For him it happened on day 30 of his challenge and he had reached what he thought was his physical limit.

He was laying there on the side of the road, crying, he was depressed,

and experiencing the worst of human emotions.

And it was during this period of self-reflection that he realized that he could only control his thoughts.

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