Robert Greene on Finding Your Purpose, The 48 Laws of Power, and Life After a Stroke
Robert Greene was 38, living in a one-bedroom apartment in Santa Monica after years of failed screenplays and dead-end jobs. Everyone around him seemed to be moving forward. He wasn't. Then a chance c...
13 Loka 23min
Billy Billingham on Growing Up in Gangs, Surviving SAS Selection, and Why Time Is All You Have
Billy Billingham joined a gang at nine years old. By eleven, he had a criminal record. At thirteen, he was expelled from school. At fifteen, he was stabbed and nearly died in a hospital bed. Two years...
6 Loka 19min
Jovon Quarles on Growing Up in D.C., Ringing the Bell in Hell Week, and Becoming a Navy SEAL
Jovon "Q" Quarles grew up on the northeast side of Washington, D.C., with a drug-addicted mother, no father, and a crack house across the street. His grandparents raised him: his grandfather, an Arm...
29 Syys 27min
Rudy Reyes on Marine Corps Culture, the Special Forces Jungle Season, and What Harsh Conditions Actually Fix
Rudy Reyes is a Recon Marine who grew up in a boys' home, lost brothers to combat and suicide after service, and now leads military selection courses on Fox's Special Forces and the UK's SAS Who Dares...
22 Syys 21min
Ashley Hunter on FitKids, 195 Schools, and Why Kids Need Hard Things Before They Need Anything Else
Ashley Hunter walked away from investment banking to teach kids how to move. Fifteen years later, Fit Kids operates in 195 schools across 13 states and has reached roughly 500,000 children. Joe De ...
15 Syys 22min
Tyler Andrews on Surviving Aplastic Anemia, Running Everest in 9:55, and a Decade of Grinding
Joe De Sena sits down with Tyler Andrews, a cancer survivor turned elite endurance athlete who just set the fastest known time from Everest Base Camp to the summit: 9 hours and 55 minutes, breaking a ...
8 Syys 24min
Mark Allen, Dane Miller, James Lawrence, and Leif Babin on Daily Consistency, the Three Best Lifts, and Extreme Ownership
Joe De Sena opens this Labor Day episode with a direct question: what does it actually look like to show up every day, year after year, with no days off? Six-time Ironman World Champion Mark Allen,...
1 Syys 21min
Andy Stumpf on Getting Shot, Watching Hundreds Quit SEAL Training, and Why Momentum Beats Direction
Andy Stumpf's BUD/S class started with 180 students. 18 graduated. As a BUD/S instructor years later, he got to do something most SEALs never do: sit down with the hundreds who quit and ask them why. ...
25 Elo 25min
