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The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

The Most Challenging Year of My Life with Mike Amine / COMBAT

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8874 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Mike Amine is the CEO and president of Wealth Strategies Financial Group. He was an NCAA runner-up in 1988 and competed for a spot on the US greco team in 1992. In this conversation, we focus on a 12-month period that was, as Mike called it, the toughest 12 months of his life.  

 

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It was a very, very difficult time just because again, I can deal with, you know, not making the Olympic team. I could deal with struggling, you know, with my job because I was devoting a lot of time to training and wrestling and trying to balance

0:19.0

you know my marriage and everything else but you know it was a rough patch.

0:25.2

Spartans welcome back to the Spartan combat series here on the Spartan

0:29.2

podcast this is your host Ryan Warner by guest guest today is Mike Amin, who is the CEO of Well Strategies

0:35.7

Group.

0:36.7

He's also a former NCA runner-up from Michigan.

0:40.1

He was a runner-up at the 1988 NCAA championships.

0:43.7

My favorite part of this conversation,

0:45.6

and what we focus on is a 12-month period

0:48.5

where Mike went through some extreme,

0:51.0

I don't want to say extreme,

0:51.9

but he went through some challenges both professionally with wrestling, trying to make the 1992 Olympic team, as well as with his mother who ended up passing away during this time.

1:02.0

I really think he'll take something away from that and it's, you know, the times where we're pushed to our limits are often where we learn the most and I think you'll pick that up from this conversation.

1:13.2

If you want to learn more please go to Spartan combat on Instagram or Spartan combat

1:18.0

dot com. We'll see you again soon Spartans. This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by True Form runner.

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1:38.8

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1:40.4

dot com slash Spartan. And knowing you're a businessman, I did want to spend you

1:46.3

some time talking about that. So now you're the CEO and founding partner of

1:54.8

Hit me with the names, well strategies, well strategies,

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