What's your Spartan Story? Joe De Sena wants to know.
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
When you run a Spartan Race, do you look around and wonder about everyone else's story? Why are they racing? What brought them here? Is this their first race our their 2oth? What was their first Spartan like for them? Well Joe De Sena does… and today two amazing women: Lani Woods of the Unrelenting Humans Podcast and Laura Mignot, the CEO of DFLASH tell us about their journey. You can do more than you think you're capable of, embrace your inner child and get out there!
LESSONS
- Follow your passion
- Give back
- Help others in your community
- Don't be afraid to get dirty
- Embrace your inner child
- When you do something- go all in
- Know what you want & what you don't want
- Choose how you react to challenges
- Your stronger than you think you are
This episode is brought to you by Honey Stinger
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LINKS
Lani's Unrelenting Humans Podcast https://pod.link/1511970677
Laura Mignott https://www.lauramignott.com/
Laura's Reset podcast https://pod.link/1451895613
TIME STAMPS
1:30 Joe says do hard things & get to the farm!
2:20 Honey Stinger Intro
2:40 Lani Woods tells the story of her first Obstacle Race
4:45 Lighting the fire of passion for Spartan Race
7:00 Going for a Delta
8:00 Training others in the community
8:30 Embracing your inner child on the course
9:00 Honey Stinger Break
10:00 Laura Mignot tells her story
11:35 Intimidated by new arena
13:00 Community helping each other
15:00 Putting one foot in front of the other
16:00 Choosing your reactions
16:55 Joe wants to hear your stories !
18:10 Honey Stinger close
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena
Sefra Alexandra, Johnny Waite & Colonel Nye send their regards :)
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra | Seed Huntress
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty
© 2020 Spartan
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're in this really unusual and uncertain time in our country and giving |
| 0:06.7 | yourself permission to challenge yourself is really important right now and you |
| 0:12.1 | know you don't have to be fearless all the time but there are things that |
| 0:16.2 | you could do in your everyday life that you know you've been putting on the shelf and he didn't think |
| 0:20.3 | you could do. |
| 0:21.3 | Embrace your inner child you're gonna going to get out there. You're |
| 0:24.0 | going to play in the dirt. You're going to jump on things. You're going to swing off |
| 0:28.4 | things. You're going to fall. And you're going to smile and have a good time while doing it. It's going to build character. It's going to make you feel powerful when you leave. You're going to be very happy that you did it. You're going to feel like you accomplished something and you did. |
| 0:45.0 | Joe DeSena here, CEO and founder of Spartan. I am bringing you Spartan up |
| 0:48.7 | podcast like we do every week. We are your accountability and resiliency partner. |
| 0:54.0 | Standing on the farm right now, we got a lot of shit going on. |
| 0:56.2 | I got give team here. |
| 0:57.6 | I got parents sending me kids all shapes and sizes |
| 1:02.1 | since COVID's going on asking me to kick their kids |
| 1:05.3 | asses turn them into you know Spartans somehow so I'll tell you I thought I was |
| 1:11.4 | going to have a little break this summer it It has been non-stop with kids rolling in and rolling out here. |
| 1:16.0 | Anyway, this week we got a special treat for you. |
| 1:18.0 | These two women stumbled upon Spartan as so many people do, |
| 1:22.0 | and they had an incredible experience. upon Spartan as so many people do, |
| 1:22.8 | and they had an incredible experience. |
| 1:24.6 | And so I just, I wanted to share those experiences |
| 1:27.6 | because, I don't know, we've got like 10 million people |
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