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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Aug 25min
Richard Baker and Adam Weitsman on Capital, Discipline, and What Separates Entrepreneurs Who Survive
Richard Baker raised $700 million in February 2021 and burned through it in three years. Adam Weitsman served time in federal prison, lost his ego, and rebuilt his business with a level of discipline ...
18 Aug 26min
Joe McConaughy on the PCT Speed Record, Hallucinating at the Finish, and Why 50–90% of Every Race Is a Grind
Joe McConaughy was a college miler who had never raced anything longer than a mile when he Googled "run the Pacific Crest Trail" at 22 years old. 53 days and 2,600 miles later, he held the speed rec...
11 Aug 27min
Mike Sarraille on Leaving Delta Force, Scaling a Company to 500, and Why Entrepreneurship Is the Real Fight
Mike Sarraille served 20 years in special operations as a Recon Marine, scout sniper, Navy SEAL, and troop commander in Delta Force. He graduated number one out of three hundred in Marine boot camp, f...
4 Aug 22min
John Kelly on the Barkley Marathons, Quitting From the Lead, and Training for Real Adversity
Only twenty people have finished the Barkley Marathons in forty years. John Kelly has finished it twice. But between those two finishes, he quit from first place after two loops because he already kne...
28 Jul 24min
Suicide Prevention, Toxic Environments, and the Phone Call That Saved a Marine: Lee Stuckey
A Marine officer, professional MMA fighter, and jiu-jitsu practitioner came home from his third combat deployment in Mosul and sat down at a table with a loaded Glock. His mother called his phone at t...
21 Jul 23min
