Derek Fitzgerald | Earning the Heart he Was Given

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Recycled man is driven by the need to earn the heart, and second chance, he was granted. A diagnosis of cancer can change everything in your life - learning you need a new heart would cause many to give up. Derek Fitzgerald faced both of these challenges, even flat lining a few times before receiving a heart transplant. Yet he had the inner strength and drive to got from crawling to running to marathons to Ironman. This remarkable interview with our own Col. Time Nye is truly a testament to never giving up and to fighting for a life worth fighting for!

LESSONS
Know when your head hits the pillow, you’ve done everything you can in that 24 hour period
Anything is possible
Keep your head in the game
Take control of your life and be active
Fight for a life worth fighting for
Inspire others
Enjoy life

LINKS
https://www.recycledmanspeaks.com
https://www.recycledman.com

TIME STAMPS
1:30 Interview begins with the Colonel & Derek
3:00 Dealing with a cancer diagnosis
4:30 Learning how to walk again
5:30 7 years of heart failure from Chemo.
7:30 Hoping to stay alive after dying a few times
9:45 Given a second chance at life: a heart transplant
10:30 Starting racing during recovery
11:15 Thanking the donor family for his life
12:30 The training regiment
14:30 After effects of a transplant
16:45 Earning every heartbeat
19:00 Fighting for a life worth living
22:15 The Colonel, Joe and Sefra discuss the interview and lessons learned
27:45 Let us know what’s holding you back from getting uncomfortable?!

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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena, Tim Nye & Sefra Alexandra- “Dr.” Johnny Waite is off seeking adventures and stories of resilience this week.
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra | Seed Huntress
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome Spartans to Spartan Up Podcast, your resiliency partners.
0:04.6	We are dedicated to getting you ripped off the couch and making you the best Spartan you can be.
0:09.2	We really are, Colonel.
0:10.4	We really are.
0:11.2	I am Colonel Tim Nye, retired Army Colonel. To my right has got the
0:14.7	founder and CEO, the legendary Jody Senate. Our current active Seed Huntress,
0:19.2	to my left is the Seed Huntress, Sefra.
0:23.0	And we've got a great episode here today.
0:24.7	We interviewed, I got the honor of interviewing
0:27.1	Derek Fitzgerald a couple of weeks ago back in West Point.
0:30.5	This guy is amazing.
0:31.6	Joe, I don't know if you remember, I'm sure you do,
0:34.0	Heart Transplant Iron Man,
0:36.0	I think 16 Iron Man's in the book
0:38.0	after a heart transplant.
0:40.0	So if you want to talk about grit,
0:41.0	you want to talk about resiliency, this is the guy that's going to get you motivated.
0:45.0	Over time, I was able to get enough muscles to wiggle my body out of bed, fall to the floor, and army crawl across the the floor until I hit a vertical surface,
0:54.1	push my face up a wall, and then stagger. And that's how I started training for iron mill.
0:59.2	That's incredible. So we're going to go off, we're going to hear what he's got to say, we're going to come back, chew it up a little bit, and hopefully
1:07.9	you'll enjoy this episode.
1:08.9	Yeah, it's a really amazing one. Derek Fitzgerald. We're here at West Point, right on the outskirts of West Point, actually in Highland
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