How to Reinvent Yourself With Coss Marte and Lawrence O'Donnell

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

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Tech News, News, How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.6 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Want to totally change your life? Coss Marte tells us how he went from drug kingpin to fitness entrepreneur using a regimen he developed in prison, and gives us your new gym playlist for becoming a total beast. We go to Scary Corner with newsman Lawrence O'Donnell to learn about why people are so effing scared of socialism, and Lawrence joins us for Upgrade of the Week, where Melissa recommends a life-changing bike accessory and Alice announces a new fitness plan of her own. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.
0:17.7	I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker.
0:20.4	And I'm Alice Bradley,
0:21.5	LifeHacker's deputy editor. And today we're talking about how to reinvent yourself. A little
0:27.1	later, we'll be conducting the Lifehacker interview with Cosmarte, the creator of Khan Body.
0:32.7	I want to escape poverty in any way possible. And First Avenue, I think, was through the world of drugs.
0:38.7	But first, Alice.
0:40.1	Yes, Melissa.
0:42.0	How have you reinvented yourself?
0:43.8	As you know, I was born in the dirt.
0:46.2	Sure.
0:46.8	And I've really pulled myself up on my old bootstraps.
0:49.6	Yeah, you're unrecognizable from your days in the dirt.
0:52.0	From just a couple of years ago, really.
0:53.7	I'm different all the
0:54.4	time yeah I know you changed something oh man what do you know about you had a nickname I did have a
1:03.2	nickname and I also had a speech impediment oh that wasn't what I was going to say. But, yes, it's true.
1:11.3	Up until seventh grade, I had a nickname, and that nickname was Missy.
1:18.1	And saying it now, it feels like it belongs to somebody else.
1:21.8	So I guess I did reinvent myself.
1:23.6	But yeah, and if I think about the person who has all the same pushable buttons and insecurities that I had when I was a child, that person is named Missy.
1:33.8	Yeah, I've told you about the nickname I tried to invent for myself.
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