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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

The Power of Observation and Expression | Ultra Runner, Katie Arnold

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Katie Arnold, a longtime journalist and an elite ultra runner.

Katie was the 2018 Leadville Trail 100 Run champion.

For those of you unfamiliar with Leadville, it’s an Ultramarathon held annually on rugged trails and dirt roads near Leadville, Colorado, through the heart of the Rocky Mountains.

The race course climbs and descends 15,600 feet, with elevations ranging from 9,200-12,620 feet – the elevation and terrain makes this an incredibly difficult course.

Katie is also a contributing Editor at Outside Magazine and has written for many well respected publications including: The New York Times, Travel + Leisure, Runner’s World, ESPN: The Magazine, Elle, and many others.

She recently published a new book called: Running Home: A Memoir.

Running is the through line, but her book and this conversation are about more than running – we discuss the power of observation, expression, and mindfulness.

Running is just Katie’s way through those things, but anytime she references running, you could scratch that out and say your thing, and the message is the same.

I, for one, am not a big runner but this conversation hit home for me – it’s about understanding your path and where you’re headed next. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Right from the beginning of running ultras I had that trust. You have to let go because an ultra

0:06.8

it's such a great metaphor for life, but there's so many variables and so many factors you can't predict.

0:12.0

You know in one race it's not like road

0:14.3

running where you know the same distance is the same race you know if you run a

0:18.5

marathon in this city it's the same in that one you know there's terrain

0:21.6

there's elevation there's weather there's you know the

0:24.3

technical trails and so you really have to let go of any preconceived notion

0:30.3

and sort of open to what will be.

0:33.0

Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Master of Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay by

0:47.7

Trade and Training, a Sport and Performance Psychologist, as well as the co-founder of

0:51.8

Compete to Create.

0:53.7

And as this is our first episode of 2020,

0:56.0

just a quick thank you for reconnecting

0:58.6

and, you know, reinvesting back into you being

1:02.3

the best version of you and that's actually why

1:05.5

Coach Carroll, the head coach at the Seattle Sea Oxi and I founded and pulled together

1:10.2

compete to create and it's really the methodologies, the science, the training of your mind so that you can work

1:16.6

towards being your very best.

1:18.1

And certainly finding mastery is part of that mechanism.

1:21.6

And you know, we get to have conversations with some of the most

1:24.2

extraordinary humans on the planet those that are dedicating their life efforts

1:29.2

towards understanding mastery of self and they definitely have mastery of self.

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