This Teen Takes on Brutal Swim to Prove Struggle Heals
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you trained well, you'll compete well. |
| 0:02.0 | If it was easy everyone would do it and no one would struggle. |
| 0:04.0 | There's nothing in life that you can't walk off. |
| 0:06.0 | I wouldn't be the person I would say if I don't think I had those things. |
| 0:09.0 | And that's one little decision at one time that makes a complete ball effect |
| 0:13.0 | where it all rolls up and gets into one big thing, which is incredible. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to the Hardway podcast with Joe DeSena, founder and CEO of Spartan races. |
| 0:22.6 | We're teaching you how to overcome your obstacles in your life the same way we teach our 10 million plus Spartans to overcome obstacles on the course. |
| 0:30.1 | With insight from the smartest, most accomplished experts from every corner of the world. |
| 0:34.3 | Get ready to elevate your life today. |
| 0:38.1 | Joe Dissena here, CEO and founder of Spartan and host the Hardway podcast. I got a good |
| 0:42.9 | buddy of mine on. Barney or Barnaby, either is fine. Rider. This lunatic is setting swim |
| 0:50.1 | records all over the world. He's about to swim the English channel and he's doing it for mental health for men. Welcome aboard, young man. |
| 0:57.8 | Honour to be here. I've had a look at your guests and, you know, it's incredible to be one of them. So thank you. |
| 1:02.5 | Tell us what you got going on. You're a dolphin, I guess. |
| 1:06.2 | So big English channel window opens on Friday. So if people don't know, you get a 10-day window for the English channel because of weather's and tide and that opens on Friday 34K across the English channel should be about 14 degrees when I'm in so I'm quite early in the season the open water season's June to September so I'm quite quite early, so it will be cold, and you've got |
| 1:29.6 | to think no wetsu, no touching the boat, no assistance feeding from the boats, you can't touch |
| 1:34.7 | anyone, and jellyfish are one of the big problems. So yeah, that's me basically. |
| 1:39.7 | Diane Nyack took three or four attempts. There was a nice documentary about her. I actually filmed |
| 1:45.9 | her for a minute on the podcast, although she got mad at me. I'll tell you that one in a minute. |
| 1:51.4 | Jellyfish was a big problem for her. Hers is much more extreme. The English channel isn't |
| 1:56.5 | that bad. It's really small ones. So it's little, they're like almost like stinging metals. They're not |
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