Rethink Impossible with Colin O'Brady
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2020
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Colin O’Brady is a world record holding explorer and one of the world’s top endurance athletes. Fresh out of college, Colin had a vast world of possibility in front of him when a tragic accident left him hospitalized. Unsure if he’d ever walk again, his injuries covered nearly 25% of his body, primarily damaging his legs and feet. Despite the odds, his mother encouraged him to dream big and he dared to set a seemingly impossible goal that set him on a path to rethink what’s possible.
Fast forward to today, and Colin’s list of achievements is staggering. In this episode, we get into many of his harrowing adventures, including his solo, unsupported, unassisted crossing of Antartica. Even if you’re not a professional athlete or have any ambition to break world records, his story will resonate. We all need courage, a strong mindset, and pure grit to overcome obstacles, pursue big dreams, and do the seemingly impossible.
A few highlights from our conversation:
- 1000 NOs paves the way to YES. How failure is only helping us forge and prepare us for the thing we are reaching for.
- The longest journey is 6 inches between your ears. Colin shares how he discovered mindset was critical to success, and how he continues to sharpen his own mindset
- How to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. That’s where the magic happens.
- And much more …
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | You've heard me say how important it is to not keep your dreams inside, but to share them with people who you know and people who you don't know, people who you want to get to know, people in your community. |
| 0:18.7 | And I prescribe that for a reason. I'm going to tell you a quick story about my podcast guest in your community. And I prescribe that for a reason. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm going to tell you a quick story about my podcast guest in this coming episode. |
| 0:26.4 | His name is Colin O'Brien. |
| 0:28.3 | Colin is one of the foremost living adventurers on the planet. |
| 0:32.9 | He's done more in his 34-year-old life than most people will do in 10 lifetimes, including climbing all of the |
| 0:42.4 | seven summits and doing so at a world record pace faster than anyone had ever done him. |
| 0:47.9 | I'll leave the myriad of additional world records and first ever's that he's accomplished |
| 0:53.8 | for a little bit later in the conversation, |
| 0:55.8 | but I love a story that Colin told in this episode of the podcast. It goes like this. I was so busy |
| 1:03.0 | telling everybody and doing whatever it took to help people understand my dream, just so they |
| 1:08.8 | might be able to help or point me in in a direction. And he |
| 1:11.5 | decided to say yes to going to a spin class one day to meet someone who, um, who might be able |
| 1:19.2 | to help. And he met this person and did this spin class. And at the end of the spin classes, |
| 1:23.9 | this person said, oh, by the way, I want you to, you know, tell this, tell your story |
| 1:29.6 | to this other person here. And the process is telling the story, the person said, wow, that's a |
| 1:33.6 | fascinating story. So you want to, you know, do all these amazing adventures and, you know, sponsorship? |
| 1:38.7 | Are you looking for sponsors? Because I work for a company that might be able to help you and he said wow yeah let me you know told him all about this and I said okay here's my card you know maybe we can have a follow |
| 1:48.3 | conversation that card was from the CEO of Nike met him at a spin class helped him pursue the |
| 1:56.8 | first of many of his dreams and if this idea of creating a vision for yourself and helping put it out |
| 2:07.0 | or putting it out in the world so that you might be able to recruit some help, |
| 2:11.2 | if you've ever doubted community, this is a podcast that you have to listen to. |
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