How To Be Mentally Tough w/ James Lawrence
Be You with BU
Adolfo Rodriguez
5.0 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm with James Lawrence, the Iron Cowboy. |
| 0:02.5 | And, you know, James, if you would, kind of share with everyone where the Iron Cowboy came from. |
| 0:08.7 | Like, what's inspired you to go out and challenge your limits, right? |
| 0:15.6 | I know that you hold a current world record for the most, I guess, consecutive Ironman distance triathlons |
| 0:23.1 | competed within a single calendar year. I was able, you know, you came and spoke at an event |
| 0:28.6 | of ours and I was able to watch your Netflix documentary, which was freaking awesome, |
| 0:33.5 | where you accomplished 50 triathlons and 50 states and 50 days. |
| 0:43.1 | But kind of before we get into that journey, I'm always curious, like, what inspired you to even, |
| 0:44.9 | how did that even enter your brain? |
| 0:47.3 | Or like, what inspired you to even start, right? |
| 0:48.4 | Yeah, it's crazy. |
| 0:55.1 | I mean, every headline or highlight that you see, there's a decade worth of something beforehand. |
| 1:00.2 | And just going all the way back, I grew up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, I grew up as a wrestler, |
| 1:04.0 | just always loved sport and competition. |
| 1:10.4 | I moved to Utah, met my wife, celebrated 20 years of marriage, and got five kids together, |
| 1:11.6 | and so that's super cool. And together my wife and I got into triathlon. |
| 1:15.6 | We got into running and then we did find the multi-sport which was we loved it and we've been doing it for a long time. |
| 1:23.6 | And I mean there's so many facets to this but I I owned a mortgage company and then |
| 1:28.8 | the economy crashes and we all experienced that hardship and I partnered with a charity and |
| 1:34.7 | I wanted to raise money and do some philanthropic work and so I came up with the concept |
| 1:39.6 | to combine my passion with the ability to help others and I broke the world record for the |
| 1:46.0 | most half-ironmans in a single year all official events around the world and with the |
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