When can you complain? NEVER! says tough as nails Russian grandmother

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Dina Kaytser, "Babushka," survived the holocaust by a twist of fate. Her family was sent to Stalin's camps in Siberia during World War II and it saved her life. How was it, she says not that bad. Today she offers two essential pieces of advice - Never Complain, and believe in LOVE.

She and her granddaughter, Jessie Kanzer, join Joe De Sena, founder, and CEO of Spartan, on the podcast today to talk about Putin, Ukraine, Siberia, and most important - resilience.

Dina Kanzer is the grandmother (Babushka) of author Jessie Kanzer, more about Jessie:

Her website https://jessiekanzer.com/

Her book https://amzn.to/3v7PeOy

Joe De Sena’s Parenting book “10 Rules for Mental Toughness for Families”

https://amzn.to/3JrN6oz

The Tough Bible - the best information from Spartan Up all in one place

Spartan.com/toughbible

Be ready for ANYTHING - download the free book https://www.spartan.com/readyforanything

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CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion.com

Host: Joe De Sena

Transcript

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0:00.0	This sounds like the woman of my dreams.
0:02.6	Growing up in Siberia, tough as nails,
0:05.4	what is your message to young people today
0:09.8	that are complaining when their phones don't work or they don't have
0:13.7	uh... Wi-Fi
0:16.3	never complain
0:19.4	never Welcome to the Spartan Up podcast with Joe DeSenna, founder and CEO of Spartan Race.
0:28.0	We are talking about overcoming obstacles.
0:35.0	The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course,
0:38.0	we will teach you here on a Spartan Up podcast
0:41.0	to get over obstacles in your mind. This episode of Spartan Up podcast to get over obstacles in your mind.
0:43.0	This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by FIDA.
0:46.0	Race Dirty, Recover Clean with FITA Sports Recovery Drink.
0:50.0	Visit LifeAid Bevco.com and enter the code Spartan 15 at checkout to get 15% off
0:54.8	Fid Aid.
0:57.0	Jojicena here, CEO and founder of Spartan and the Spartan Up
1:00.4	podcast. This is probably going to be my favorite
1:03.8	podcast ever here. I've got a special, I've got two special guests.
1:08.4	Babushka from Siberia, I probably didn't say it correctly, and Jesse Kanser.
1:15.2	And Jesse and I met in a previous podcast and she was bragging about grandma,
1:20.4	Babushka, and how she survived the Holocaust lived in Siberia and I started to get
1:25.4	like really hot and bothered and I was like this sounds like the woman of my dreams.
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