Green Beret & Olympian (with an asterisk) | Jim Gregory
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This week Joe sits down with Jim Gregory a former Green Beret & Olympian (with an asterisk.) Jim didn’t always reach the ultimate goals he set for himself, but he always persisted with confidence and a positive attitude. The result is a life of incredible accomplishment. How can you grow from disappointment? What can you learn from failure? Does tough training in youth give you the foundation to withstand these trials? All these are questions Joe and Jim discuss. Learn what the asterisk next to Olympian means and the secret to a life without regrets.
LESSONS
Make pain your friend
Find opportunities for growth in disappointment
Take chances & throw yourself out there!
Get uncomfortable
Push as hard as you can
Don’t give up
LINKS
https://f3nation.com
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TIME STAMPS
0:00 Joe, Sefra, Johnny and guest Host Dr. L introduce interview
1:30 DukeCannon.com Sponsor Break
2:00 Interview with Jim Gregory at Westpoint
3:15 Becoming a friend to pain
4:30 Joining the Army
5:45 Inspired by Apache helicopters after Desert Storm
7:15 Entering Ranger School
9:15 The Pentathlon team
12:00 Recycling Ranger School … twice
14:10 DukeCannon.com Sponsor Break
16:00 Entering World Class Athlete Program
18:20 Wins National Championship for modern Pentathlon
19:45 Ranked tenth in the World
21:00 Shaking off disappointment
23:00 Training during 9/11
25:00 Taking chances & putting yourself out there
26:00 Pushing as hard as you can
27:30 Never giving up & taking life as it comes
28:45 F3: Fitness, Fellowship & Faith
31:05 Joe, Sefra, Johnny & guest host Dr. L discuss what they learned from Jim
35:40 DukeCannon.com Sponsor close
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena, Sefra Alexandra, Johnny Waite & guest Dr. Lara Pence
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Spartan Up Podcast. We are here in Tahoe, beautiful sunny Tahoe, but this interview |
| 0:05.6 | was done. Colonel and I was hanging around with me when I interviewed this guy, Jim Gregory at West Point. |
| 0:10.0 | We did a bunch of great interviews at West Point. |
| 0:12.6 | What unique about this guy, what we're going to learn from this guy |
| 0:14.9 | is he fails over and over and over, not once. |
| 0:18.4 | He fails at everything he does. |
| 0:20.0 | But somehow he turns that into a success. |
| 0:22.5 | And I think many of us, maybe not Sefra, |
| 0:25.6 | many of us fail in life and we dig ourselves a hole. |
| 0:29.1 | Well, this guy's going to show us how to dig out. |
| 0:30.8 | And the great thing is he's going to show us |
| 0:32.1 | how to get out this Tuesday. Every Tuesday on Spartan Up |
| 0:34.4 | podcast we have incredible people who achieved success in all different walks of |
| 0:38.2 | life. They're not all athletes, they're not all business people, a lot of |
| 0:41.3 | them are, but we tap into the Spartan |
| 0:43.9 | mindset what is about the way they do things that our listeners and viewers can I can |
| 0:47.6 | tap into and apply to their own lives who is we we is we we're so happy we are so happy the royal are so happy, the Royal We, to have Dr. L on the show this week and Johnny |
| 0:56.8 | Waite, of course, Mr. Joe Descenta, myself, Sepra, Alexandra, our producer Marion and our assistant Andrea and with that you guys should |
| 1:05.0 | listen to a podcast but we're gonna be coming back and then we're gonna give you |
| 1:08.7 | some unbelievable insights to what Jim Gregory says and Tuesday's not the only day we do it. No you will find those insights every Tuesday here and then Wednesdays you'll get me on Spartan mind |
| 1:21.2 | Where I kind of get into your head a little bit, help you with some of maybe |
| 1:24.3 | that negative thinking pattern that might be keeping you stuck. |
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