When Cody Townsend Let Go of His Ego

Outside Podcast

Wilderness, Sports

4.3 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

For an episode of our new podcast, The Daily Rally, the professional skier talks about learning to get out of his own way while on an expedition in Alaska. He was on Denali, struggling mightily to keep up with his extremely fit teammates as they climbed towards the summit. At first, he tried to convince them to slow down. When they ignored him, he was furious. Then he took a moment to look at himself—and realized that what was really making him angry was his own bruised ego. That realization freed him to fully enjoy a remarkable experience. The Daily Rally is a new weekday podcast featuring short stories of resilience in the face of big challenges and unexpected adventures. You can follow The Daily Rally on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you like to listen, and nominate someone to be featured on the show here.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, today we're doing something different.
0:03.6	For more than a year, the team at Outside, working with an amazing crew of freelance producers
0:09.4	has been developing a new podcast.
0:11.7	It's called The Daily Rally, and it's a weekday show featuring short stories from people
0:17.1	who came up against an obstacle in their life and found a way to get past it.
0:21.7	Think of it as an antidote to the awfulness you hear constantly in the news.
0:26.8	One of our favorite parts of The Daily Rally, there's no host.
0:30.4	These are stories told by the people who have lived them.
0:33.5	Today, we're excited to share one of our first episodes here.
0:37.7	It features skier Cody Townsend.
0:40.0	He has spoken with us for the outside podcast before, but not like this.
0:44.9	If you like what you hear, please follow The Daily Rally wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:49.8	And one more thing, we want you to pick who's featured on the show.
0:54.0	Fill out a nomination form at outside online.com slash The Daily Rally to nominate the people
1:00.6	in your life who came up against something and found a way to rally.
1:04.9	And yes, you can nominate yourself.
1:10.4	Some of the best lessons I've learned in my life came from mountains.
1:15.2	The suffering, the horrible heinous conditions, skiing hard back on the steeps and going
1:21.6	really deep into places a few people have ever been before.
1:25.2	These poignant moments where your ego is shoved straight in your face are really, really
1:30.5	clutch to stepping through to that next level of kind of contentment of happiness.
1:43.4	From outside magazine, this is The Daily Rally.
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