The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
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The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Learn the Spartan mindset. Founder & CEO of Spartan Race and NY Times best-selling author, travels the globe seeking and answers authors, academics, athletes, adventurers, entrepreneurs, CEOs and thought leaders. It will shift your thinking, make you laugh and and give you the tools you need. He's...
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Suicide Prevention, Toxic Environments, and the Phone Call That Saved a Marine: Lee Stuckey
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Karl Meltzer on Running 100 Hundred-Milers, the DNFs That Haunt Him, and Why Anyone Can Do It
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Tina Seelig on Luck, Gratitude, and Why Your Phone Is Killing Your Opportunities
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Joel Del Rosario on Surviving an IED in Iraq, Losing His Memory, and Owning Every Decision After
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11 Years Pro Soccer: Hugh Roberts on Getting Benched, Training Alone, and Never Quitting
Spartan Race started as an idea written on a napkin during a financial crisis. No business plan. Limited money. No guarantee any of it would work. Bri...
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Spartan Race started as an idea written on a napkin during a financial crisis. No business plan. Limited money. No guarantee any of it would work. Bri...
Down Syndrome, Ironman Triathlons, and Never Quitting: Robert Norris on Doing the Work
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Herb Thompson on Leaving Safety, Owning Your Journey, and Earning the Green Beret
Herb Thompson had already made it. He was Drill Sergeant of the Year, on a clear path to a top enlisted career, and could have stayed where it was saf...
Four Warriors on Combat, Survival, and What It Takes to Keep Going When Everything Breaks
Nine soldiers in a hilltop position. Rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun fire from every direction. Seven killed. One man left on the radio, cal...
From Crack Binges to Service: Matt Grace on Addiction, Enabling, and the Moment Everything Changed
At 29 years old, Matt Grace weighed 129 pounds and walked into his mother's house after a three-day crack and alcohol binge. She told him that if he w...
From Hallucinations to the Paralympics: Dennis Connors on PTSD, Vulnerability, and Disciplined Recovery
A Marine intelligence collector walked through rocket blasts, absorbed traumatic brain injuries he never reported, and came home to hallucinations so...
Patrick Sweeney on Rowing, Building Companies, and Closing the Belief Gap
Starting a company feels like eating glass for breakfast. Every morning. Olympic rowing hopeful turned five-time founder Patrick Sweeney sits down wit...
Zachary Garner on Survival, Service, and High-Stakes Endurance After Near Death
A stiff knee looked like a minor problem. Two days later, it was swelling toward the size of a basketball. Then doctors opened it and found an infe...
Jim Baird on Arctic Survival, Alone, and Owning Bad Decisions
Pinned against Arctic cliffs with no way out, Jim Baird realized the truth too late. One bad decision had put him and his brother in a position where...
Discipline After Amputation: Green Beret Nick Lavery on Ownership and Performance
Machine gun rounds took his right leg in Afghanistan. Nick Lavery decided that wasn't the end. He's an active-duty Green Beret with 5th Special Forces...
Dr. Layne Norton on Intensity, Nutrition, and Why Consistency Wins
Most people in the gym aren't training hard enough. Dr. Layne Norton has competed in bodybuilding and powerlifting for over two decades, holds a PhD i...
Discipline After Combat Injury: Rules for Ownership and Resilience
When everything breaks, excuses disappear and standards are exposed. Joe De Sena sits down with Johnnie Yellock, Air Force Combat Controller, combat...
Discipline at 8,000 Meters: David Göttler on Everest, Ego, and Turning Back
Quitting at the right time takes more discipline than pushing to the top. Elite high-altitude mountaineer David Göttler talks with Joe De Sena about...
Under Fire: Discipline When Everything Breaks
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Standards Over Wins: Discipline, Recovery, and Growth in Competitive Youth Sports
Winning early often creates weak habits later. Veteran coach and founder of Changing the Game Project, John O'Sullivan, joins Joe De Sena to explain h...
Life After the Uniform: Chase Chewning on Discipline Without Orders
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Still Competing at 45: Max King on Discipline and Endurance
Most people quit when progress slows. Max King kept going and got better. In this episode, two-time world champion endurance athlete Max King sits dow...
Discipline Before Strength: Brian Alsruhe on Mental Toughness
Pressure reveals the truth. It shows what you trained and what you avoided. In this episode, strength coach, strongman gym owner, mental conditioning...
Life After Service: Discipline When Orders Are Gone
When the mission ends, discipline gets exposed. What happens when the uniform comes off and no one is giving orders anymore? Former Army Airborne Infa...
Training to Finish: Bronco Billy on Distance, Discipline, and Rules
What holds when everything breaks is not motivation, talent, or hype? It's rules built under pressure. In this episode, elite ultra-endurance athlete...
Get Off the X: A Navy SEAL on Pressure, Pain, and Action
Pressure doesn't ask if you're ready. It hits, and most people freeze. Retired Navy SEAL officer and combat leader Jason Redman talks with Joe De Sena...
What Holds Under Pressure: Ray Zahab on Endurance, Cancer, and Discipline
When everything gets hard, discipline decides the outcome. This episode cuts through the noise and shows what holds when the body quits and motivation...
What Holds When the Mind Quits: Zach Bitter on Endurance, Control, and Discipline
Your mind quits before your body does. That's where most people fail. World-record ultra-endurance runner and endurance coach Zach Bitter sits with J...
What Smart People Miss Under Pressure: Chitra Nawbatt on EQ, Pivots, and Unwritten Rules
Being smart won't save you when pressure shows up. Why intelligence fails without discipline, ownership, and the ability to read what isn't written?...
What Holds When Everything Burns: JR Martinez on Combat, Recovery, and Relentless Discipline
Most people fail under pressure because they never trained for it. What holds up under pressure is built long before comfort disappears. Army veteran,...
Michael Wardian: Turning Suffering Into World Records
Mental toughness doesn't come from motivation—it comes from choosing discomfort on purpose. In this episode, endurance legend Michael Wardian, elite...
Navy SEAL Ryan "Birdman" Parrott: The Blast That Changed Everything and How He Rebuilt From Scratch
Ryan "Birdman" Parrott grew up without direction, failed classes, and struggled to connect. One sentence from a Marine teacher flipped a switch and...
The Choice That Built a Bomb‑Suit Warrior Mindset
She grew up with no roadmap, no support, and no clear path forward. One pull-up changed everything, leading her into the Army and a career in explosiv...
How a Navy SEAL Rebuilt Discipline and Control After Service
When the mission ends, the mindset stays. Navy SEAL veteran and leadership coach Kevin Stark talks with Joe about rebuilding identity after service, f...
How Discipline Turns Every Obstacle into Growth
What happens when discipline meets adversity? In a world where comfort wins too easily, true progress begins with facing hard challenges head-on. Joe...
How a Four-Time Cancer Survivor Rebuilt His Life With Spartan Races
How do you rebuild purpose after life knocks you down four times? Nick Klingensmith shares how cancer, addiction, and chronic illness didn't break him...
How Discipline Carries You When Motivation Is Dead
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Daily Discipline: Small, consistent actions compound into recovery and long-term resilience.
Own...
The one tool to turn your Anger into raw Power
Most men train their bodies, few train their minds. From cold plunges to carrying rocks uphill, this episode explores mastering the space between chao...
Pain Built Him. Purpose Keeps Him Going l Ryan Hendrickson On The Hard Way Podcast
He served multiple deployments, faced injury, and returned to duty with discipline and focus. Pain is the best teacher, and failure is where real grow...
Admit You’re Broken. Then Begin Again.
What happens when the toughest person you know completely breaks? The Queen of Pain crashed, hit her head, and lost everything that made her strong: d...