Joe’s original “GRIT” mentor Mo Monaghan

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Born in the fields of Ireland, Mo was a guide, teammate and mentor when Joe began adventure racing 20+ years ago. Her ethos are deeply steeped in the foundation and inspiration for Joe to build Spartan Race. Have you heard him say “if your not cold, your wearing too much. If you're tired, your sleeping too much. If you're not hungry, your eating too much.”? That and other great lines like “ Quit moanin & get goin!” originated with Mo. This is a great conversation, where we learn were many of Joe’s battle cries of grit hail from!

LESSONS
Visualize the things you want to happen
Have a point in the distance to go towards
Quit your moanin & get goin!
Learn & practice patience
Try things - don’t get stuck!
Use fear as fuel
Be cold, tired & hungry
Soak up life - don’t wait for another
Help those around you

LINKS

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TIME STAMPS
0:00 Joe De Sena introduces Maureen’s interview
0:55 Shadyrays.com intro “Built for Adventure”
1:20 The women who inspired Spartan Race’s foundation
2:30 Growing up rugged in Ireland
4:00 Mountain biking to work and starting adventure racing
5:00 Don’t tell me not to do it- cause I’ll do it!
6:00 Joe’s adventure race “babysitters”
7:00 learning terrain of the World & every aspect of yourself
8:45 Joe visualizing the farm before it existed
9:45 Working with foster kids- surviving & adapting
12:00 Quit your moanin & get goin!
13:30 Shadyrays.com break “Built for Adventure”
15:00 Children are our future- dealing with “broken” children
17:00 Can you push kids too hard?
19:30 Joe’s Wall Street buddies joining races
21:00 Fear of entering the art world
22:50 Soaking up life
24:05 Joe reminisces about racing with Mau, that quitting is forever & being wired differently

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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host: Joe De Sena
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra | Seed Huntress
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast. I am Joe DeSena, the founder and CEO of Spartan and we are your resiliency partner.
0:06.5	That means we want to rip you up the couch, want to get you motivated, we want to get the juices flowing and get you out of your comfort zone,
0:12.1	doing things you really want to do, but something's holding you back.
0:15.8	Today we're talking to Mo Monaghan. She is a mentor of mine.
0:20.9	20 years ago, 20 plus years ago, I raced with her around the world.
0:24.4	We did crazy races, the Iditarod, Raid the North, the Yucatek, you name it.
0:31.8	Anything crazy, anything dangerous we were doing together she's full
0:35.0	of piss and vinegar she's from Ireland she's got an accent she's tough to decipher
0:39.0	but but a lot of what she believes in a lot of her upbringing seeped into me, which seeped into Spartan.
0:45.8	So I learned a lot from her.
0:47.8	I think you're going to learn a lot from her.
0:49.2	Stay till the end.
0:50.3	You're going to apply some of that piss and vinegar to your own life and who knows where it'll lead.
0:55.0	This episode of the Spartan Up podcast is brought to you by Shady Ra's sunglasses built for adventure.
1:01.0	Go to ShadyRays.com and use the code Spartan to get 50% off when you order two pairs of sunglasses from shady rays. We are here for Spartan up podcast with a blast from the past Mo Monaghan who basically if you don't know it
1:26.3	She was my inspiration for doing Spartan for doing all this stuff now how could that be we were teammates she was kind enough to let me on her team, God in the 90s, in the 90s, to race alongside
1:39.0	her. She was like a super athlete coming from the mountain bike discipline.
1:43.1	And you notice I used the word was.
1:45.9	And I just, I'm sorry, I just like messing with her.
1:49.0	But she's tough as now.
1:50.7	She's barbed wire for breakfast and she gave me an ethos, a methodology that helped create
1:59.6	Spartan. So where did that come? Like me a background where were you born?
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