Raul Villacis tells his secret to regaining your EDGE with Joe De Sena
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Being left behind at a young age by parents searching to create a better life might be what drove Raul Villacis to become a real estate millionaire… but with that success came new challenges. When life finally became comfortable, he lost his edge. Raul has covered a lot of ground. For him the solution starts with his unique morning ritual and the decision to live every day like a hunter. Those are the secret oil and sharpening stone that keep his razor-sharp edge.
What about balance? For Raul it's a myth. In this interview, he explains to Spartan founder and CEO Joe De Sena how he integrates everything 100%, how he takes life 100 days at a time and why digging deep into emotional pain is so important! Want to win and bring it to the Next Level? You must be willing to make sacrifices! That's what you'll learn in today's episode of Spartan Up Podcast.
LESSONS
- Create a system for your life
- Build habits
- Be on the hunt- go out there and get it
- Rituals is what creates who you are
- Be willing to sacrifice to win
- Live your life 100 days at a time
- Adapt, adjust & execute
- 100% integration into everything you do
- Find your edge
- Find people that push you & hold you to a higher standard
- Find motivation through the pain
SpartanX Leadership is a one-day event where masters of industry meet to collaborate, connect, and learn resilience skills for optimal team performance. https://www.spartanxleadership.com
LINKS
http://www.nextlevelexperience.com/edge
TIME STAMPS
0:00 Joe introduces this episode with resharpening your edge
2:00 Interview begins with creating a system for your life
3:15 Entrepreneurs as modern day hunters
3:45 How rituals create who you are
5:00 The willingness to sacrifice to win
6:30 The inner drive that lets you know you can do anything
7:45 The morning ritual
9:00 The power of visualizations & letting go
10:00 Compartmentalizing your life into 100-day blocks
11:00 Adapting, adjusting & executing
12:15 The myth of balance vs. integration
13:25 SpartanX Leadership break
14:00 Interview continues with Next Level Experience
16:30 Sharing deep emotions & finding your edge
18:00 Having people that push you & hold you accountable
19:50 Finding motivation through the pain
20:45 Hitting the buttons of emotional pain
21:45 Joe recaps how Raul helps put the edge back into your life
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host: Joe De Sena
The Colonel, Dr. Johnny Waite & Sefra Alexandra are off sharpening their edge
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra | Seed Huntress
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty
© 2020 Spartan
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Joe DeSena here for Spartan Up Podcast, whether you're watching or listening. |
| 0:05.0 | We are your grit and resiliency partner. We rip you out of bed, rip you off the couch, and get you going. |
| 0:11.0 | We come to you at least a couple of times a week, sometimes even every day during |
| 0:15.1 | the week. Anyway, we've got this guy Raoul Velasis in store for you here during this episode. |
| 0:21.9 | How did I meet this guy? A lot of people email me, I'm sure they |
| 0:25.5 | email you, they call you. He went one step further. He drove with his crew up to the farm |
| 0:32.3 | and made my life easier. |
| 0:34.0 | Didn't distract from what I was doing, |
| 0:36.0 | shook my hand, brought his video crew, |
| 0:39.0 | and we had a blast, and I got to learn his system. Here's his thing. Here's what you're going to learn |
| 0:45.6 | with this podcast. There's lots of successful people out there, lots of people, you know, |
| 0:51.1 | burn the candle at both ends, they they get ahead but then they lose their edge |
| 0:55.4 | that's where Raoul comes in he comes in he re-sharpens the edge he's got this whole system system around rituals and look even the sharpest knife gets dulled |
| 1:08.0 | right it's got to be resharp and so no matter who you are no matter how |
| 1:10.8 | successful you are everybody falls down a few notches |
| 1:15.3 | roll comes in and fixes it anyway stay tuned if you like this episode you like |
| 1:20.1 | what we do here you could you could dive in in person you can go to SpartanX leadership |
| 1:26.4 | dot com I'm pretty sure that's how you get there and and come meet people like Raul |
| 1:30.7 | come meet folks like Gabby Reese etc. We bring them on stage. You get to shake their |
| 1:35.2 | hand and not only be passively listening and viewing the podcast but you get to meet |
| 1:41.8 | them face to face and learn some things. |
| 1:43.7 | Anyway, watch this, listen to it, you are going to love it, and it's going to, |
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