How to Find a Life Worth Living / Ryan “Birdman” Parrott & Joe De Sena

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Feel a lack of motivation? Find a problem that needs to be solved. Ryan joins Spartan Race founder and CEO Joe De Sena to talk about it. He enlisted in the Navy after watching the Twin Towers fall on 9/11, and Parrott served eight years as a U.S. Navy SEAL completing three combat tours to Iraq before being assigned to Advanced Training Command as an Instructor.

He saw the need for better burn care, he started Sons of the Flag. Today he sees a need for better physical education and he's starting the The Human Performance Project to dissect and share essentials of human physiology.

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CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion.com

Host: Joe De Sena

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0:00.0	you know kind of at a point in my life for a transition out of the military and I was really looking for meaning and purpose again.
0:05.6	I think when you stop doing something that you were so passionate about you have to immediately jump into something else that has passion or you're going to start doing kind of crazy things.
0:14.4	And for me, I was doing those crazy things.
0:17.2	So I had an army meeting with an army ranger in 2011.
0:21.7	He had major disfigurement to his body, his face.
0:25.0	He was an Army Ranger, served on his first deployment in Afghanistan, blown up by an IED
0:29.0	improvised explosive device. talking about overcoming obstacles.
0:44.6	The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, we will teach you here
0:48.7	on the Spartan Up Podcast to get over obstacles in your mind. Get fully personalized health care based on your DNA biometrics and
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1:15.0	only 200 milligrams of clean caffeine.
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1:18.0	no aspartame, and no compromises.
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1:27.0	Joe DeSenna here, CEO and founder of Spartan and the Spartan Up podcast, got a special one for you today got a Navy SEAL veteran who started this unbelievable organization
1:39.5	Brian Birdman Parrot what do you call this organization Sons of the Flag?
1:44.0	Sons of the Flag for us it was you know kind of at a point in my life where I
1:47.5	transitioned out of the military and I was really looking for meaning and purpose
1:50.9	again. I think when you stop doing something that you
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