Want to change your life? Books can, especially GREAT books. If you have the common thought of I’m too busy to read, try this simple rule: Just read 2 pages a day. I prefer reading at night but morning, afternoon or night is up to you. 2 pages takes less than 5 minutes and will calm you before going to sleep.

LESSONS:

• Read daily or almost daily.
• If reading at night, do not read books that cause you to overthink or stress. Choose books that are calming and help you fall asleep easily and more relaxed.
• Set a goal of 2 pages minimum.
• Don’t wait to take action only when you finish the book. Take action the next day if you read at night. If you read in the morning, take action that day.  

LINKS:

Education of a Bodybuilder  http://a.co/ehzOYOw   

Awaken The Giant Within  http://a.co/ey2VbHj

More about Zach https://zacheven-esh.com

Read “The Spartan Way” https://www.spartan.com/en/race/learn-more/race-types-overview?article=the-spartan-way-book

SUBSCRIBE:

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YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT

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FOLLOW SPARTAN UP & Zach:

Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/

Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod

Follow Zach on Instagram https://instagram.com/zevenesh

Follow Zach on Twitter https://twitter.com/zevenesh

CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Host & Show Notes:  Zach Even - Esh

© 2018 Spartan

We all carry around wounds, grievances, and past hurts. Some of these are from decades ago while others may be more recent. If we aren’t paying attention what these are they can weigh us down - impacting our choices, behaviors, and relationships. In this episode, learn how to take a look at what’s in your sandbag, understand and explore the wounds and grievances that may be impacting you the most, and identify ways to attend to them carefully.  

LESSONS:

• Your past wounds and grievances can impact your choices and relationships in the present, especially if you are not paying attention and trying to ignore them.  
• When you pay attention to these wounds and grievances they are less likely to weigh you down.
• A good technique to use to understand what’s in your sandbag is to ask yourself these three questions:
• 1. What wounds am I carrying around with me?
  2. Which wounds might I need to let go of?
  3. Is there someone I need to loop in so that I can begin to heal?

SUBSCRIBE:

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YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT

Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay

FOLLOW SPARTAN UP:

Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/

Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod

CREDITS:

Production Team: Heather Knox, Knox Knox Creative; Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Host: Dr. Lara Pence

Synopsis: Dr. Lara Pence

© 2018 Spartan

7-7-7 World Marathon Challenge: Seven marathons, seven continents in seven days and that’s just the tip of the iceberg for this sixty-six year old! Robert and Johnny talk this week about what it means to build a “win” into each day and when faced with struggles and challenges do you “suck your thumb, or suck it up?!” As a former Special Ops Pararescueman, Owens has lived his life for others and along the way has inspired everyone that the older you get the fitter you can be and the harder challenges you can conquer.

LESSONS:

• You don’t have to age decrepitly
• Who your friends are influences your future
• A strong why keeps you going
• Program a “win” into each day
• Help people and let them help you
• Have “encouragers” in your life
• Everyday we have choices - ask: does it make you or break you?
• Don’t run from the pain, it helps you grow. There is no victory without struggle.
• Do you suck your thumb or suck it up?

This episode of “Spartan Up!”  is sponsored by Athletic Greens.  Get 20 travel packs free when you order at https://athleticgreens.com/spartan

TIME STAMPS:

0:00 Hosts intro

1:20 interview with Robert Owens begins

2:45 deciding to grow stronger as you age

4:00 strength training regimen

5:30 challenge accepted

7:45 the Seven, Seven, Seven

9:30 Antarctica to South Africa: 2 marathons in the same day

11:30 how your friends influence your future

13:00 what are you tired of? What do you want to change?

13:45 programming “wins” into your day

14:12 Athletic Greens break

18:11 who are the encouragers in your life?

19:00 helping people is as great as the win

21:00 the benefits of struggle

26:45 training for Pararescue

28:50 Sefra, Johnny, Col. Nye and Joe De Sena discuss the interview

LINKS:

Robert Owens https://www.roberthamiltonowens.com/

SUBSCRIBE:

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YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT

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FOLLOW SPARTAN UP:

Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/

Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod

CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye.

Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra

© 2018 Spartan

You’ve heard the phrase, You are the average of your 5 closest friends. Well, this isn’t news. It’s been implemented in the business world, the Military and even Presidents have used this “mastermind principle” to make one another better. Here’s how:

LESSONS:

• Surround yourself with people who make you better and vice versa.
• Invest in yourself. This creates “skin in the game” and you are more willing to take action with your new information.
• Do a self audit. Is your environment supporting your goals and helping you achieve more in life?

LINKS:

Joe Polish Interview https://youtu.be/yDGu8k0XyHk

More about Zach https://zacheven-esh.com

Read “The Spartan Way” https://www.spartan.com/en/race/learn-more/race-types-overview?article=the-spartan-way-book

“Think and Grow Rich” http://a.co/h3XqppW  

SUBSCRIBE:

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YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT

Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay

FOLLOW SPARTAN UP & Zach:

Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/

Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod

Follow Zach on Instagram https://instagram.com/zevenesh

Follow Zach on Twitter https://twitter.com/zevenesh

Zach’s STRONG Life Podcast https://apple.co/2vFaCv1

CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Host & Show Notes:  Zach Even - Esh

2018 Spartan

Failure is part of the human experience. We all fail. When we see failure as negative, we are not only less likely to challenge ourselves but we are also more likely to get weighed down by the experience. If you begin to consider failure as both purposeful and positive, you can gain extraordinary wisdom and growth. In this episode, learn which questions can help you flip failure upside down so that the experience works to refine you rather than define you.
 
LESSONS:
• Failure happens to all of us.  
• When you see failure as purposeful you can learn and grow from it.
• Ask yourself these three questions when you experience failure so that you can gain the most from the experience:
1. What wisdom can I gain from this?
2. What does this failure mean about me that I need to pay attention to?
3. How does this failure refine me?
 
SUBSCRIBE:
 
Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow
YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT
Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay
 
FOLLOW SPARTAN UP:
 
Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/
Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod
 
CREDITS:
 
Production Team: Heather Knox, Knox Knox Creative; Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host: Dr. Lara Pence
Synopsis: Dr. Lara Pence
 
2018 Spartan

Find out why Joe De Sena calls this executive coach, the Human Whisperer. Jason helps people to gain self-awareness, to discover blind spots and identify past traumas that are hindering that leap from being a 1 billion dollar company to a 5 billion dollar company. What simple adjustments can you make in your life and in your corporations to stop living in peaks and valleys? Here are some “recipes and anecdotes to avoid rock bottom,” and realize your true potential.

LESSONS:

Ask others to rate your relationships with them on a scale from 1-10
Note your external vs. internal scoreboard
Listening is as important as being heard
Try talking last in a meeting
Share, open up and interact with people
Trace back to time you didn’t feel “enough,” understand it.
Ask yourself, when your doing anything, why you’re doing it?
Get to “emotional core,” stop hiding, ask questions
The only bad workout is the one you don’t do
Take a leap of faith in your life

This episode of “Spartan Up!” is sponsored by Athletic Greens. Get 20 travel packs free when you order at https://athleticgreens.com/spartan

TIME STAMPS:

0:00 Hosts intro

1:25 Interview begins

3:00 how to go from millions to billions

3:45 what do you do at rock bottom

4:45 how to be vulnerable as a CEO

6:20 phases of being broken as part of life

8:30 sustaining new patterns

9:45 how do you shift a paradigm

10:30 breaking bad eating habit patterns

16:00 recipes and anecdotes to avoid rock bottom

18:00 why Joe does burpees

23:20 Sefra, Johnny, Col. Nye and Joe De Sena

LINKS:

More about Jason https://jasontreu.com/

His Book https://www.amazon.com/Social-Wealth-Extraordinary-Relationships-Transforming-ebook/dp/B00N9CA1QY)

SUBSCRIBE:

Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow

YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT

Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay

FOLLOW SPARTAN UP:

Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/

Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod

CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye.

Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra

© 2018 Spartan

Joe and Zach get together to record the first ever Spartan Way episode while discussing a favorite topic at Spartan, Finding Your True North. Your True North is all about discovering your WHY? Why were you put on this earth? What is the 1 thing you are so passionate and excited about that you can keep doing for the next 25 years?

If you’re unsure what your True North is, don’t worry! Zach & Joe discuss the different ways you can discover your True North. Sometimes you find your True North and other times, it finds you. Enjoy the show!

LESSONS:

1. What are The Questions & Lessons to ask yourself to help find your True North?
2. What is Joe’s “shotgun approach” to finding your True North?
3. Finding your True North requires getting out there and doing work, making mistakes and experimenting.
4. What is the The BIG lesson Zach learned from Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach?
5. Ask yourself the question, What will keep you excited for the next 5, 10 or 25 years?

LINKS:

Dan Sullivan Strategic Coach https://www.strategiccoach.com/

More about Zach https://zacheven-esh.com

Read “The Spartan Way” https://www.spartan.com/en/race/learn-more/race-types-overview?article=the-spartan-way-book

SUBSCRIBE:

Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow

YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT

Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay

FOLLOW SPARTAN UP & Zach:

Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/

Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod

Follow Zach on Instagram https://instagram.com/zevenesh

Follow Zach on Twitter https://twitter.com/zevenesh

CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Host & Show Notes:  Zach Even - Esh

© 2018 Spartan

As much as you may want to, you can’t actually control which emotions arrive at any given time. You can, however, control how you respond to them when you are tuned in and paying attention. Becoming more aware of your emotional state gives you greater agency over your choices, behaviors, and ways of relating. In this episode, learn a simple three-step process that can help you increase your emotional acuity and become more intentional with how you choose to respond.

LESSONS:

• We must be increase our emotional acuity if we want to be intentional with our choices.
• Tuning in to your emotional state is similar to tuning in to your physical state.
• A three step-process can help to increase your emotional awareness:
• 1. Where Am I Feeling? : a full body scan to check-in with the physical sensations of your emotions.
  2. What Am I Feeling? : expand your emotional vocabulary and use more descriptive words to identify which feeling is arriving.
  3. How Do I Want to Respond? : make intentional choices with how to move forward with greater awareness of the emotion that is at play.

SUBSCRIBE:

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YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT

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FOLLOW SPARTAN UP:

Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/

Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod

CREDITS:

Production Team: Heather Knox, Knox Knox Creative; Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Host: Dr. Lara Pence

Synopsis: Dr. Lara Pence

© 2018 Spartan

What does it take to hunt an antelope barefoot in the Kalahari Desert? Run 3,100 miles around the same ½ mile block in Queens, New York for 52 days straight? Or become a Marathon Monk that must complete 1,000 days of consecutive running or be put to death? Find out how this inspired Joe to start Spartan and the persistence and perseverance witnessed through the lens of documentary filmmaker Sanjay Rawal who believes our “first form of prayer was with our feet- when we hunted, we followed animals, we tracked, we foraged…” learn from these cultures of endurance  how inner progress can lead you to transcendence.

LESSONS:

1. Get joy from the pain
2. Humans have a primal connection to the earth through movement- running, hunting, hiking was a part of everyday life- KEEP MOVING !
3. Self transcendence comes through perseverance and persistence
4. Track your inner patterns - choose trajectories to catch what your hunting for  
5. “Happiness is solely dependent on your physicality - if you’re not challenging yourself physically you’re not challenging your mind and heart”

This episode of “Spartan Up!”  is sponsored by Athletic Greens.  Get 20 travel packs free when you order at https://athleticgreens.com/spartan

TIME STAMPS:

3:00 What inspired Joe to start Spartan

5:00 find transcendence through movement

6:45 the San Bushmen of Botswana

8:00 how does man persistence hunt in the desert

9:30 how do you track antelope ?

16:30 what was humans original religion?

18:20 what is the transcendence run ?

LINKS:

3100 Run and Become Film https://3100film.com/

3100 Film on Facebook facebook.com/3100film

SUBSCRIBE:

Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow

YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT

Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay

FOLLOW SPARTAN UP:

Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/

Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod

CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye.

Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra

© 2018 Spartan

Can you change the way you think? This week’s conversation is all about how to change the way you think about what is possible and how to create “the most empowering place on earth.” Joe on his perpetual QUEST to rip people off the couch, talks with Impact Theory’s Tom Bilyeu about creating a media platform that empowers people to leverage their behaviors. The idea is to meet you where you are - with your nutrition and your mind.  In this episode explore the “why” of suffering, the disruptive power of narrative and remind you that “you are what you do habitually.” Find out how Tom plans to make you better.

LESSONS:

1. Dont be less of what you could be- work your way to success
2. Utilize the Growth Mindset: learn, grow, get better and read a lot
3. Impact takes time
4. Intelligence isn’t a static unchangeable thing
5. Build something you are all passionate about
6. Building a community is the best marketing of all time
7. Leverage people’s behavior rather than trying to change it
8. IT’S ALL ABOUT MINDSET
9. What you build your self esteem around really matters
10. You are what you do habitually
11. CRUSH A.N.T.S. (Automatic Negative Thoughts) - Dr. Daniel Amen

This episode of “Spartan Up!”  is sponsored by Athletic Greens.  Get 20 travel packs free when you order at https://athleticgreens.com/spartan

TIME STAMPS:

2:00 if you work hard will your efforts be rewarded ?

4:00 how to change your mindset

6:20 being too stupid to quit

8:00 learning the ways of a startup

9:00 what is success?

13:00 does suffering break people?

17:00 how to meet people where they are at

LINKS:

Impact Theory https://impacttheory.com/

Quest Nutrition https://www.questnutrition.com/

SUBSCRIBE:

Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow

YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT

Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay

FOLLOW SPARTAN UP:

Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/

Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod

CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye.

Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra

© 2018 Spartan