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The Adventure Stache

Nik Hawks: veteran, entrepreneur, athlete

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

Outdoors, Interviews, Society & Culture, Current Events, Culture, Photography, Adventure, Mountain Biking, Celebrities, Inspirational, Basketball, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneur, Cycling, Athletes, Sports

4.9727 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Nik Hawks is an entrepreneur, athlete, and veteran (Navy SEAL). Among his many pursuits, he is a paraglider, writer, podcaster, Red Bull athletic performance consultant, and founder of a paleo dessert company. In this conversation, Nik talks to Payson about why it took him three tries to complete the Leadville 100 ultramarathon, choosing between health and athletic performance in regards to diet, what it’s like working within the individually-minded world of elite athletes as opposed to the t...

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0:00.0

People in the military are just people. They're not these special super humans. You know, even the most highly trained people are still, still put their pants on one leg at a time. They're still, most of them sit down and take a shit, some squat, but it's just like, just humans, just regular people. And I think there's this whole, you know, storytelling piece about the

0:22.1

black box, like, oh, the seal lifted this guy off, and then he threw this school bus over the,

0:26.2

you know, wall, and then this happened. And then he, you know, grabbed an F-15 and flung it. It's like,

0:30.3

it's a lot of bullshit. You know, there's nothing really superhuman about it.

0:35.3

It's showtime, everybody.

0:38.1

Showtime!

0:42.5

You've been living in the dream world, Neil.

0:46.9

This is the world as it exists today.

0:50.4

Life moves pretty fast.

0:53.0

You don't stop and look around once in a while.

0:54.5

You could miss it.

0:59.0

Listen, we're talking about practice.

1:03.0

Repeat on the dude's room. Donnie, you're out of your element.

1:06.0

I see. You think this has nothing to do with you.

1:10.0

Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.

1:15.4

This is the Adventure Stash with Payson McAlvin.

1:17.6

Howdy, welcome back to the show.

1:20.9

This episode is brought to you by 99 plus CBD.

1:26.5

99 plus is an athlete founded and really performance-driven company,

1:28.2

which is one of the things that attracted me to them. But even though, obviously, I'm very focused on performance and athletic performance in

1:33.7

my career these days, one thing I've realized is how helpful CBD is for all of the stuff

1:39.7

outside of athletics, too. The fact of the matter is a lot of people, I think, assume that being a

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