Playing the Hand You're Dealt / Joe De Sena & John Henry
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
“Someone took the hand you’re complaining about and won with it” said John Henry. A Dominican-American entrepreneur and investor. Henry has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30, Inc 30 Under 30, Adweek Creative 100, The Root 100, and Ebony Power 100 lists. John Henry, Cofounder and Co-CEO of Loop, and Joe De Sena, founder and CEO of Spartan, talk about what makes a win. The hand? The player? The game? All three?
John Henry on Twitter https://twitter.com/JohnHenryStyle
John Henry on Discord discord.gg/loop
Loop https://www.ridewithloop.com/
Joe De Sena’s Parenting book “10 Rules for Mental Toughness for Families”
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| 0:00.0 | you know the kids that you were looking up to that you thought had everything |
| 0:04.1 | when you actually looked at Mary said wait a minute I got the edge here |
| 0:07.4 | exactly dude I thought like I so I tweeted this the other day I said someone |
| 0:12.2 | take the same hand you're complaining about and one with it. |
| 0:16.2 | Because for a moment, I thought I had the shit of your hand. |
| 0:19.4 | You're exactly right. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome to the Spartan Up Podcast with Joe Desena, founder and CEO of Spartan Race. |
| 0:29.0 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. |
| 0:34.0 | The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, we will teach you here on the |
| 0:38.3 | Spartan Up podcast to get over obstacles in your mind. |
| 0:43.4 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by 511 and FITA 511, the official plate |
| 0:48.8 | carrier sponsor of the 2021 U.S Spartan events. |
| 0:52.1 | Find out more at 511 tactical.com. |
| 0:55.0 | Race Dirty, recover clean with |
| 0:56.8 | fitaid sports recovery drink. |
| 0:58.4 | Visit LifeAid Bevco.com |
| 1:01.0 | and enter the code Spartan 30 at |
| 1:03.0 | check out to get exclusive early access to |
| 1:05.9 | fit AIDS Black Friday 30% off sale. |
| 1:08.4 | Joe DeS center here, see on founder of Spartan and the Spartan Up podcast. |
| 1:14.7 | And I got the infamous John Henry in the house. |
| 1:18.6 | This guy, are you an influencer or an entrepreneur or both? What's your story? I'm definitely a businessman first. |
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