Extreme Explorer Mike Horn on Pushing the Limits

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🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Today on the show I have a dear friend and arguably the foremost living Explorer on the planet: Mike Horn. I have had the incredible fortune of traveling to some really amazing places with Mike such as the South China sea around South Africa and the Amazon off the coast of Brazil. Some of my most inspiring and best moments of my life have been tagging along with Mike on his adventures.

Mike is also one of the hardest working, stubborn bad-ass is that I know. He’s explored the Peruvian Andes with a raft and a paraglide, crossed South America solo over 6-months, swam down the Amazon River in a hydrospeed, circumnavigated the Earth along the equator for more than 40,000 kilometers unmotorized by boat, bike, and on foot. He’s faced extreme temperatures crossing the North pole during winter and climbed many of the world’s highest peaks such as Gasherbrum I and II, Broad Peak, Makalu; all without oxygen. Among his many adventures, Mike also works to share his knowledge, passion and experience with others through his youth mentorship programs, coaching, and media.

In this episode we get into:

how to inspire and motivate yourself
how to dream big and the one thing we need to achieve big things in the midst of hardship
how to persevere through what others might think is impossible
the changes Mike has seen in our planet as he’s circumnavigated it almost 30 times
and so much more

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Sometimes in life, we all feel like explorers. We're going into uncharted territory, doing things we've never done before for the first time. We're doing things that we've done a number of times, but we're trying to do them better. And so this idea of moving through life of trying to change and upgrade and
0:22.1	transform is very much like the life of an explorer. And to that end, I am excited to bring to the
0:30.4	show today, a dear, dear friend, arguably the foremost living explorer on the planet. And his name is
0:37.1	Mike Horn. Now, if you're not
0:39.2	familiar with Mike and his travels, just a little background, a little bio, I'll start by saying
0:45.0	that we are dear friends and I have had the incredible fortune of traveling some really
0:51.8	amazing places with Mike, the South China Sea, you know, around South Africa, down near the Amazon in off the coast of Brazil.
1:02.5	Some of my most, you know, inspiring and literally the best moments of my life have been with Mike because he is an explorer.
1:10.7	He's also a guide. He's a living explorer. He's also a guide.
1:12.1	He's a living legend.
1:14.7	He is also one of the hardest working, stubborn, badasses that I know.
1:21.4	So with a little, that personal endorsement, some of his achievements, which again are virtually unfathomable for me, started out as a special forces soldier at the age of 18 in South Africa, developed an entrepreneurial spirit, which allowed him to leave his home and pursue the unknown.
1:40.9	Some of the expeditions that he's taken early on, swimming 5,000 miles down the
1:47.4	Amazon River, eating crocodiles, like literally hunting them with his bare hands,
1:53.1	bugs, being bitten by snakes that almost kill them. He's circumnavigated the earth
2:00.6	at the equator without a motor that is setting sailing
2:04.2	records across both the oceans, riding his bike across South Africa.
2:09.2	I mean, again, no motor set a world record for circumnavigating the globe at the equator.
2:14.4	He's also now done pole to pole, which is he crossed the Arctic
2:18.9	and soloed Antarctic in record fashion, the longest path across Antarctica to list more of
2:28.2	his achievements besides like climbing 8,000 meter peaks in the Himalaya. It just starts to get
2:33.6	absurd. But you know the character
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