Todd Herman | Using Alter Egos

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

If you could be any superhero who would you be? Todd Herman is a mental performance coach that utilizes the strategies inherent with embodying an alter ego to be successful as an athlete on the field or as an executive in the boardroom. Find out what role identity, clothing and mental preparedness can play in your success. Imagination is a powerful tool that can be practiced and honed to overcome perceived limitations and obstacles you never thought that “you” could overcome.

LESSONS
Mastering the self is our greatest challenge
Preparation, routine, planning, relaxation & breathing skills are keys to success
Seek mentors & apprenticeships
Move forward & level up
Alter Ego means a trusted friend or ally
Utilize your imagination to reach your goals
Act with intention

LINKS
More about SpartanX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhvIba0mXsE
More about Todd Herman www.toddherman.me/live2019
Todd on Facebook facebook.com/toddhermanconnect
Todd on Instagram instagram.com/todd_herman
Special Ops Survivors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhvIba0mXsE

TIME STAMPS
0:00 Spartan Up panel with guest Lonnie Mayne discusses SpartanX
1:30 Interview begins with Todd Herma & Joe De Sena
2:30 Coaches role in pushing you to your personal best
3:45 Mastering the self
4:45 Childhood trauma and its effects on his life
5:45 Mental game strategies and alter egos
7:15 Preparation, routine and planning
8:15 Mentorship & apprenticeship
10:00 Getting into flow state & a cold call
11:45 SPECIALOPSSURVIVORS.ORG break
13:30 Interview continues
14:20 Moving forward & leveling up
16:00 creating a “shield” around the athlete before a game
18:00 quickly shifting mental paradigms
19:00 Utilizing “Alter Egos’”
21:00 The power of imagination
23:00 Finding superhero qualities that inspire you
25:50 In-clothed cognition
31:00 What attributes do you take with you in competition?
32:45 The panel Sefra Alexandra, Col. Nye, Johnny Waite & guest Lonnie Mayne discusses how to integrate alter egos into your practice

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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena, Sefra Alexandra, Col. Nye, Johnny Waite & guest Lonnie Mayne
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty

Transcript

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0:15.6	Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast. We're here at City Field, Spartan Stadium Race, our guest today Todd Herman. Todd is an incredible performance coach, mental performance, and he's got a book out called Altar Ego, to Harness a Superpower Within You, I'm paraphrasing there. He's going to talk to us about that. But first of all, who are us? We got Tim Nye.
0:20.0	Right here. Good grammar. We got Sacramento to my right. Cheers. Yeah. We got saver to my right.
0:23.2	Cheers.
0:23.7	Yeah, we got Johnny right, who are us?
0:25.7	Who are we?
0:26.7	And I want to you Salani.
0:28.1	Lonnie's no stranger to people who know Spartan.
0:29.7	You've been around for a while.
0:31.4	Talk about what's going on this week and with Spartan
0:32.8	acts real. Yeah we got the Spartan X leadership series going on on
0:36.3	Fridays so we have a group of leaders and executives coming in to hear from some of the
0:40.0	best speakers really in the world on all kinds of topics related to
0:43.4	leadership and the Spartan principles and some of those things so it's a great
0:46.8	event that we have on Friday. And so whereas we watch this interview you got to
0:50.5	see Todd actually on the stage. I did I I got to see him on stage very interesting.
0:54.0	You know, high energy believes in what he talks about and he's done a lot of great work with
0:58.0	athletes and you name it all around this alter ego concept so it's really interesting.
1:02.0	Hey, so stick around because at the end of the interview we're going to come back we're
1:04.6	going to talk about what we got from it there are different perspectives on it and in the
1:07.2	meantime you're watching you're listening we appreciate that
1:10.0	subscribe get the word out there you can help us help you to get your friends and're like a coach to the stars like a
1:31.7	strategist for the mind what are you yeah so I've been working with
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