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

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

4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 34 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 [email protected] and [email protected] 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

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0:39.7	Friends, welcome back to another audio adventure here on InSight.
0:58.5	Right now.
0:59.7	What a fascinating and inspiring conversation today with Joe DeSena.
1:04.7	He's a best-selling author.
1:05.9	He's also the founder of Spartan Race.
1:08.4	He's an incredible obstacle race that I'm sure you've seen online.
1:12.4	And you'll hear during this interview.
1:14.7	He actually talks me into committing to do a Spartan race when they're here in the Los
1:19.0	Angeles area.
1:20.0	I've always wanted to do one.
1:22.5	And now we're making it happen.
1:23.5	I committed.
1:24.5	I said we're doing it.
1:25.5	You'll hear more about it during this interview, but he said I can do the race for free, and
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