Spartan Race Founder Joe De Sena On Why It's Important to Do Hard Things and Build Resilience

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Today's guest is Joe De Sena. Joe is a bestselling author and the founder of Spartan Race. His new book called 10 Rules of Resilience: Mental Toughness for Families is out now. He joins Chris Van Vliet to talk about growing up in Queens, New York and working for some of the biggest mob bosses, how fitness changed his life, why it's important to do hard things, why people are scared to get uncomfortable, how he founded Spartan Race and bought their competitor Tough Mudder and much more! Join me for our Spartan Race on January 30 in San Bernardino, CA. Email joe@spartan.com and cvv@chrisvanvliet.com to participate FOR FREE! For more info on Spartan Race visit http://spartan.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. For more information about CVV and INSIGHT go to: https://chrisvanvliet.com Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All systems are going.
0:01.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blea.
0:06.0	What is going on, my friends?
0:10.0	Welcome back to another audio adventure here on Insight.
0:13.0	I'm Chris Van Bleet.
0:14.0	Thank you so much for being with us on this episode and for a lot of you on every single episode.
0:20.0	Although if it does happen to be your first time here, take your coat off.
0:24.1	Stay a while.
0:25.2	Also, make sure to hit subscribe wherever you're listening to this right now.
0:29.3	What a fascinating and inspiring conversation today with Joe DeSena.
0:34.5	He's a best-selling author.
0:35.8	He's also the founder of Spartan race,
0:38.1	those incredible obstacle races that I'm sure you've seen online. And you'll hear during this
0:43.6	interview, he actually talks me into committing to do a Spartan race when they're here in the
0:48.8	Los Angeles area. I've always wanted to do one, and now we're making it happen. I committed,
0:53.7	I said we're doing it. You'll hear more about it during this interview, but he said, I can do the race for free, and you can do the race for free. So come join me. Here's the deal. It is January 30th in San Bernardino, California. Email Joe at Joe at Spartan.com. Email me.
1:12.9	CVV at chrisfanfleet.com.
1:14.3	And you're in for free.
1:15.3	That's it.
1:17.3	I mean, we'll mention it more towards the end of this interview,
1:19.6	but yeah, commit to do it with me.
1:22.6	And this is also a big part of this interview.
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