What a man. What a mission.
Jack Faint was 25 when everything changed.
One minute he was cycling through Melbourne on his way to work. The next, he was waking up on the pavement after a seizure, completely disoriented. A hospital scan revealed the last thing anyone expects to hear at that age, a terminal brain tumour. Grade 3 astrocytoma. Seven years to live.
No warning. No lead up. Just a single moment that ripped life in half.
But instead of giving up, Jack started fighting in his own way. He quit drinking. Cleaned up his lifestyle. Went all in on meditation. Breathwork. Nutrition. Psychedelics. He flew to India to go deeper and hasn’t stopped since.
He’s been doing the work most people never even touch. The painful stuff. The unglamorous stuff. And now, he’s training for a brutal endurance challenge by anyone’s standards, let alone someone living with a terminal diagnosis. He plans to run the length of India. Four thousand kilometres. Eighty days. No rest days. A world first.
When you’re told you’re dying, you learn how to live. Properly live. And Jack is on a mission to show what’s possible. To inspire others to take ownership of their health, their choices, their life, whatever cards they’ve been dealt.
This isn’t a conversation about illness. It’s about what happens when you stop numbing out and start tuning in. It’s about taking full ownership of your story, no matter how heavy it gets.
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Key moments include:
✔ The seizure that stopped everything in its tracks.
✔ Being told he had a terminal brain tumour.
✔ The surgeon’s advice that changed his whole mindset.
✔ How he used food, breath, meditation and psychedelics to take back control
✔ His experience at Joe Dispenza’s retreats and why it shifted everything
✔ The reality of facing uncertain scan results
✔ Preparing for the challenge of a lifetime running four thousand kilometres through India
✔ What it really means to reclaim your life when the clock is ticking.
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