Known on the team as "The Mule," Dan is a particularly skilled bushwacker, navigator, and analyst. He was drawn to adventure racing after being a student in Jason's high school class. His favorite part of racing is the power of having a team with a common sense of purpose; and therefore, being able to move with a speed that each teammate could never maintain individually. When not racing, Dan can be found creating digital spaces solutions as a software architect.
Read MoreHeather Gustafson of Team Regulators in World’s Toughest Race joins the episode today. They are a team of four athletes and a support person from Redding and all of them were newbies in the Eco Challenge. Her team has survived 12 grueling days and completed some of the toughest challenges in the world.
Read MoreFor this episode, we’re going to talk about adventures, roles, and behind the scenes of an Eco-Challenge. Our guest is Kevin Hodder which is a race director, will give us more information on how he got into that role and how they manage all of the things for the Eco-Challenge.
Read MoreOut of a whopping 66 teams who competed in the Eco Challenge, particularly notable was Team Onyx with Team Captain Clifton Lyles, whose goal is to put together a barrier breaking team for the show. Clifton Lyles two decades of adventure racing began when he watched Eco Challenge on TV in 1999.
Read MoreDr. Anne Lord Bailey participated quite possibly in the biggest physical and mental challenge of her life. She is a member of Team Unbroken in the World’s Toughest Race and is also a pharmacist provider for the VA and works in Healthcare Innovation.
Read MoreIn this episode, we have Travis Macy, the team captain of Team Endure in the World’s Toughest Race. Travis is the son of the esteemed adventure racing personality, Mark Macy, who also joined the race on the same team. Just like his father, Travis is also an accomplished Adventure Racer.
Read MoreJoshua once overcame depression with exercise and then began saying yes to challenges he feared most. After executing a self-guided expedition up Denali, among other incredible achievements, he geared up to be the team captain, a navigator, and a workhorse in Eco-Challenge Fiji.
Read MoreBecca is one of the strongest, brightest women I know and is here to tell tales of both triumph and near defeat from Eco-Challenge.
She is an impressive young woman, having finished the race when she was just 18 years old! As a lover of cycling and university student studying astrophysics, with a father who’s a navigation expert, Becca was made for greatness. Though, greatness doesn’t come easily.
Read MoreIf you’re familiar with the Spartan world, you’d certainly recognize Kevin as the Spartan Pro, who's been on the podium in his age group last year in 30 separate Spartan events. Kevin is also the voice of Spartan on ESPN.
Read MoreToday, I am overjoyed to bring you the amazing Sylvia Greer who raced on Team Sundance Kids in the World's Toughest Race EcoChallenge: Fiji.
Not Sylvia nor anyone on Team Sundance Kids had ever competed in an adventure race prior to Fiji. She’s an ultra runner and does very long-distance trail runs (think about 100 and 200-mile races) – but she has never experienced a race of this magnitude!
Read MoreMindy Zemrak is the competitive relations director for World's Toughest Race Eco-Challenge: Fiji. In other words, she’s the master communicator. Her team oversaw everything related to all of the competitors for the race – from newsletters to patches to moving gearboxes, and to our panic attacks – you name it!
Today, I have Jeff Bates, the team captain for Team Nika on the World's Toughest Race.
Jeff takes us on this beautiful journey from love to loss. He shows us how it should look like when things go right, and also when things go horribly wrong.
He is a true testament to owning your experiences – and, well, just making lemonade out of lemons!
Today’s guest was the biggest positive light for me during my breakdown moment when I was really struggling to go on with the race. She gave me a soul-level pep talk that I'll never forget in my life!
Heather Bond is the founder of Bond Fitness & Adventures and author of her memoir, Athena Rising. Heather is a Certified Personal Trainer, an international adventure guide, motivational speaker, and former firefighter and stuntwoman.
Jason is the team captain for Team Bend Racing, who just happens to be one of our top American adventure racing teams.
Jason is a father and a modern-day Renaissance athlete. He excels in a ton of different sports from ultra-endurance racing, circus partner acrobatics, and yoga, to highlining, rock climbing, and whitewater paddling. He even does some swing dancing and bowling with over 50 expedition races under his belt.
Read MoreSeptember is Suicide Awareness Month. As someone who's experienced suicidal ideation and mental health challenges through the years, I feel this is the best time to have some bold conversations around complex mental health issues.
Read MoreToughness comes in so many forms. In this episode, Chris Ellison gives us a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the World's Toughest Race: Eco Challenge – not as a racer, but as one of the 13 embedded camera operators of the show.
Read MoreSo you might wonder what the heck is this mom of a teenage daughter doing in Ironman and The World’s Toughest Challenge?
Nope! I’m not a superhero.
Really, I’m just a mom who’s passionate about building on my skills and experiences. And joining these amazing marathons, triathlons, and adventure races are what lights up my fire!
Being able to do something that you love with the people you love is such an amazing privilege. And for Jeff & Hunter Leininger, adventure racing is something that has made their father-and-son bond even more special and stronger.
I'm stoked to have Courtney Home on the show today. She’s one of my fellow racers on the World's Toughest Race, and we dive into her journey as well as some of the untold stories she had on the race.
Read MoreWhat if you could hang out with adventurous endurance athletes who've participated in the World's Toughest Race and also dealt with tough stuff in their own lives; ask them about how they got back up when they were down on their knees; their challenges, successes, and failures; their worldviews and habits; then take an insight or two to inspire your own growth?
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