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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Face Down What’s Uncomfortable and Find Purpose | Spartan CEO, Joe de Sena

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Joe de Sena, the founder and CEO of Spartan, the world’s leading endurance sports and wellness brand.

Throughout his lifetime, Joe has competed in any extreme sports adventure he could find, testing his mental and physical endurance against nature. 

His racing resume is the stuff of legend – over 50 ultra-events overall and 14 Ironman events in one year alone.

And that led to Spartan – a global experiential sport and wellness brand with a 10 million+ strong community. 

It creates transformational experiences, products, and content to help people, companies and teams tear down boundaries and expand what they believe to be possible. 

I wanted to have this conversation with Joe to better understand what drove him to create Spartan.

We discuss purpose, sacrifice, work/life balance, habits for living healthier and so much more.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You really want to dive in and try to figure out a purpose very hard thing to figure out. I like three questions

0:06.3

You know, what would you do if you had all the money in the world? I like that question

0:10.0

What would you do if today was your last day on earth? I like that question

0:13.2

But my favorite question my third one I would ask yourself. What would you do if you knew you're gonna fail anyway?

0:18.8

I mean I failed at Spartan

0:21.4

For 15 years. I didn't make money was a disaster if I keep doing it anyway, so clearly I love to do this

0:29.2

Yeah, that's that's what I would do and make sure you're healthy as you can be when you're when you're

0:35.4

Analyze that question

0:46.0

Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast on Michael Jervé and by trade and training

0:52.7

I may sport and performance psychologist now the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who are

0:59.2

Committed to both their craft and their inner life

1:03.0

Literally those who are on the path of mastery and the ideas we want to better understand

1:08.4

What they're searching for how they use their mind their psychological framework if you will to make sense of the world around them to make sense of

1:16.2

How they're pursuing their own life and then we also want to use these conversations to understand the mental skills that they use

1:22.7

To build and refine their craft

1:25.0

And if you want to learn more about how you can train your mind is just a quick little reminder to check out our online mindset training course

1:32.1

Where literally I just pull back the curtain and show you how I help more class athletes build essential psychological skills

1:37.9

And the course is built so that you can develop those same very skills to live well in your life

1:42.8

And I mean I mean living well in having a sense of deep well-being as well as

1:48.6

To help you pursue the reaches of your potential and you can find out more at finding mastery.net forward slash course

1:57.8

Finding mastery is brought to you by nuts.com

2:01.2

Here at the finding mastery lab

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