Your Personal Board of Directors and Disruptors / Joe De Sena, Amelia Boone, Joe Polish, Eric Byrnes, Jared Easley and Anders Varner on the ATP Science Stage
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This special episode features a remarkable panel recorded at Spartan World Media Fest brought to you by ATP Science. Learn to create your own personal board of advisors, how to choose who influences you, AND how to use your own wisdom learned on life's journey to positively impact others. This rockstar episode features Spartan founder Joe De Sena, our buddy Anders Varner from Shrugged Collective, Jared Easley of Podcast Movement, Joe Polish of the Genius Network, Major League Baseball player and Ultrarunner Eric Byrnes, and Spartan legend Amelia Boone. Each of these individuals have a remarkable tale, and when put together this conversation about how to build your personal board of directors is a roadmap for how to traverse the bumps in the road which as Amelia says, “is what makes it fun!” Enjoy.
LESSON
- Build your own personal board of directors
- Disruptors bring awareness- learn from them
- Answer to the higher calling of the organization
- Know your true north, what motivates you and listen to your gut
- Don’t let your secrets make you sick
- Build your culture around your core values
- Put yourself in vulnerable positions and attack life
- Use your story to help others in need
- Don’t get wrapped up in “woundology”
- Focus on the positive impacts your are creating
- “Your winning or your learning”
- Lead from a place of love
- BE NICE
- Don’t take your feelings too personally
- The bumps in life is what makes it fun
LINKS:
Joe Polish
Eric Byrnes
Amelia Boone
Anders Varner
https://shruggedcollective.com
Jared Easley
The Spartan World Media Fest was made possible by ATP Science
TIME STAMPS
0:00 Marion introduces this special episode with an open panel
1:58 Spartan Media Fest Panel intro’s: Joe De Sena, Anders Varner, Eric Byrnes, Jared Easley & Amelia Boone
5:30 Beginning of Amelia Boone’s Spartan journey in the snow at Joe’s
7:00 Joe De Sena on building his personal “board of directors”
11:30 Anders Varner on building a strong team
12:30 Disruptors and their benefit
14:00 Answering the the higher calling of the organization
14:45 Eric Byrnes on baseball and mental capacity in endurance
16:45 Amelia Boone on being your own brand, friends and family
17:45 Knowing your true north, what motivates you & listening to your gut
18:45 Being prudent verse taking a chance
19:15 Joe Polish intro, the Genius Network and helping people in recovery
20:28 Viewing and treating addicts with compassion
21:00 Joe Polish’s breaking point in life & how he got sober
22:45 The Genius Recovery platform & fighting silent battles
23:30 Not letting your secrets make you sick
24:30 Establishing family and business culture with values
26:00 Living your life with a sense of purpose when you have influence
27:35 Positives of being in the spotlight and making beneficial impacts
28:45 Accumulating experience- being in vulnerable positions and attacking life
29:45 Amelia Boone on struggling with an eating disorder & the public’s response
31:00 having courage to speak out - “Disorder and shame thrive in silence and darkness”
32:45 not getting wrapped up in “woundology”
34:00 “Your winning or your learning”
37:00 This awesome panel ends with life lessons and final thoughts
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena, Guest panelists: Anders Varner, Eric Byrnes, Jared Easley, Amelia Boone and moderator Joe Polish
“Dr.” Johnny Waite Col. Nye & Sefra Alexandra were cheering them on in the audience at the Spartan World Media Fest
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra | Seed Huntress
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty
© 2019 Spartan
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spartan Up. |
| 0:03.7 | This week we have a unique episode for you. |
| 0:05.6 | It was recorded at the Spartan World Championships in Tahoe. |
| 0:08.8 | We hosted the Spartan World Media Fest brought to you by ATP Science, where we gathered 150 thought leaders, |
| 0:14.8 | athletes, and podcasters together to amplify our message of resilience for mind and body. |
| 0:19.7 | Today's episode is a conversation between Joe DeSena, the founder and CEO of Spartan Race and of course the host of this podcast. |
| 0:26.0 | Joe Polish, the founder of the Genius Network and Genius Recovery, Eric Burns, who's a former Major League Baseball player and now Ultra Runner, |
| 0:34.0 | Amelia Boone, who was the 2013 Spartan World Champion, and who's been with Spartan since the |
| 0:38.5 | early death race days. |
| 0:40.3 | And Anders Varner, host of the Barbell Shrugged Podcast. |
| 0:43.2 | Moderating the conversation about building your own personal board of directors and disruptors |
| 0:47.4 | is Jarrett Eesley, the co-founder of Podcast Movement, which is the largest |
| 0:50.9 | podcasting conference in the world world and host of his own |
| 0:53.6 | podcast Star of the Doubts. They talk about how you should decide whose advice to |
| 0:57.4 | take and whose you should ignore, how to deal with feedback on the Internet, how |
| 1:01.8 | they see their own role as advice givers, and what you |
| 1:04.6 | should think about as you're giving advice. They share some really powerful |
| 1:08.3 | personal stories to illustrate their points. We know this is a little different |
| 1:12.2 | than our usual Tuesday interview |
| 1:13.7 | episode. So let us know what you think. We'll be sharing several of these |
| 1:17.0 | curated group podcasts over the next few weeks. In fact next week our own host |
| 1:20.8 | Johnny Waite moderates a panel of running legends who talk about the growing adoration of the trail. |
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