Joe's BEST Podcast Lessons of 2021
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Joe’s Best podcast Lessons of 2021
Joe De Sena discusses 5 lessons from the 2021 Spartan Up season.
- You can ALWAYS come back from failure, friends who stand by you but tell you the hard truth really help.
- Human connection is critical, and shared struggle is the fastest way to build it.
- Save the fun for later, play the LONG game.
- Freedom is complicated. Give some thought to what it means to you.
- Make sure you develop your own personal code of conduct, what is acceptable in your family, in your own life, in your business?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Jo Jocenna, CEO and founder of Spartan and the Spartan Up podcast where we attempt and hopefully do give you a little kick in the button, provide some motivation and some discipline around your life. |
| 0:12.0 | Listen, we're going to recap 2021. |
| 0:14.4 | We had some unbelievable guests here. |
| 0:17.4 | Welcome to the Spartan Up Podcast with Joe Descenta, |
| 0:21.5 | founder and CEO of Spartan Race. |
| 0:25.0 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. |
| 0:30.0 | The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, we will teach you here on the Spartan Up Podcast to get over obstacles in your mind. |
| 0:40.0 | Do you want to be ready for anything? Download Joe's free ebook at Spartan.com |
| 0:44.9 | slash ready for anything. |
| 0:47.1 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by junk the official headband of Spartan |
| 0:51.1 | Prose. Junk produces the best headband, guaranteed to work as hard as you do. |
| 0:56.0 | Visit junk brands.com slash Spartan for 10% off your order. |
| 1:00.0 | Listen, we're going to recap 2021. We had some unbelievable guests here throughout the year. |
| 1:07.0 | One of them that jumps out at me is a buddy of mine, Gordon Kaplan. |
| 1:11.0 | If you remember the varsity blues scandal, a bunch of parents got in trouble, including some |
| 1:15.5 | actors and actresses, they went to jail. |
| 1:19.1 | Gordon's case, my buddy's case, he was chairman of a law firm, top of his game, graduated the right schools, |
| 1:28.0 | you know, he doesn't tell you this, but the amount of money he was making on an annual basis was insane, lost his law firm, lost his practice, |
| 1:36.3 | went to jail, obviously pissed off his family, ended up divorced, can't even imagine |
| 1:42.1 | how his daughter feels. What's amazing, the |
| 1:45.7 | takeaway with Gordon Cabla, a takeaway here, this guy bounced back hard. I mean this was |
| 1:51.7 | a hard fast bounce. He came back he's in the game he's got a |
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