October 24, 2020 • 15 mins
John Beede, a 7 summits climber, motivational speaker, author and avid adventurer, teaches us from lessons that can truly only be learned by experience. His unique perspective of swimming with hammerhead sharks, competing in wind surfing and summiting Mt. Everest are few things we learn from in this episode.
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Narrator (00:06):
Hello, and welcome to the Arista Advice Podcast,
focusing on your wealth.
So you can focus on your dreams.
We'll navigate through the noiseso that you can organize your
life and financial health.
Let's get started with yourhost, Paul Moffat.
Paul (00:24):
Hello, welcome to Arista Advice Podcast.
We're excited this week to bringto you a very special person.
We're thrilled to get hisinsight and to have him share
with us some experiences that hehas been through in this life.
John Beede has traveled to 67countries.
(00:44):
His three favorite are SouthAfrica, Thailand, and Spain.
He has also climbed the highestmountain on the planet, Mount
Everest.
We're excited to hear from himtoday.
John, welcome to Arista AdvicePodcast.
John (01:00):
Paul, thank you so much for having me.
I'm super excited to be herewith you.
Paul (01:04):
Great.
John also calls Henderson,Nevada home, and he also bikes
up in the Red Rock loop and isan enthusiast and lives every
day to the fullest.
And we're very, very excited.
J ohn, tell us about yourbackground and what you do to
live a fulfilling life.
John (01:21):
Sure.
So I grew up here, as youmentioned in Las Vegas, and I
would look up at these mountainsand I'd say, that looks really
cool up there," while I wasbored in school and kind of look
at like what the socialinteractions were like.
And I said,"I just want to beout adventuring." So I've built
a life around it.
And all my businesses that I'vecreated have been with the
(01:41):
intent of being able to stepaway from the business so that I
can plan expeditions, travel theworld.
And that's what my life isabout.
It's about giving keynotespeeches, writing books,
building internet companies, sothat I can choose when I go
adventure, and be able to freelygo to wherever I choose to.
Paul (02:01):
Well, that's wonderful.
You've climbed the world'stallest mountains, kite surfed,
double overhead waves, swam withsharks and experienced tribal
warfares.
What of these events havechanged you the most?
John (02:15):
So those are all the cool highlight reels, right?
And everybody's like,"Oh, tellthe story about this.
What was it like with greatwhite sharks or double overhead
waves.
Are you kidding?" And I'm acompetitive kite surfers.
So I'm launching 40, 50 feetinto the air.
But to me, it's none of those feats of bravado that make me who
(02:38):
I am today.
Instead.
It's what I've taken from thosemoments or from those
accomplishments for who I canshow up as right now with you in
this moment, if you go to themountains and you're a jerk,
you're going to come back abigger jerk.
But if you go to the mountains,seeking humility and learning
how to be a teammate and how towork with others, well find Your
(03:00):
inner spirit.
You're going to get more ofthat.
So u nless I can bring that backto you here right now with us in
this conversation, it doesn'tmatter what the cool highlight
reel is.
Like, nobody likes thecelebrity.
Who's a jerk.
You know what I mean?
You're like,"Oh yeah, I've heardabout them.
What?
They're like off-screen." Well,I'm not a celebrity, but people
tell us like, Oh yeah, he's doneall these cool stuff.
(03:22):
But if I show up and I'm like,arrogant, nobody wants to be
with that guy.
They've been humbling in thatway.
Paul (03:27):
I love what you said that the outdoors really amplifies
your current state of mind.
John (03:32):
It does.
We've found that in cycling,right?
Paul (03:35):
I've never put those words together until today that the
outdoors really amplifies yourstate of mind.
John (03:41):
It's a magnifying glass.
Paul (03:43):
Yeah.
John (03:44):
It makes you more of what you bring to it.
Paul (03:46):
That's great.
So tell us when you got thehammerhead sharks coming at you,
what did you do, John?
I mean, come on man.
I mean, tell us a story.
John (03:55):
The water got a lot warmer.
So I was in the Caribbean.
There's like this bicycle thatwas planted for scuba divers.
So you could like get on thebike and pretending that you're
on a bicycle underwater and,"haha look at my funny photo." So
I'm on this thing, trying to getthe picture and my buddy's lying
down on the, on the floor of theocean, snapping the shots.
(04:18):
And then I just see he's nottaking his pictures anymore and
I'm just there like,"yeah, lookat, come on.
Like, where's the camera?" Andthen I see the spread open, like
head of the shark swim straightabove me.
It was about 10 feet away, maybeat most.
And I just sit there totallyfrozen on this bike, like a
(04:38):
doofus at the bottom of theocean watching this like 12, 13
foot long shark, just the shadowovertake me.
I was totally petrified.
And just clung to that bike intotal fear.
Paul (04:51):
Gosh, I'm grateful that you live to tell the story and
it was you not me.
John (04:56):
Me too.
Paul (04:57):
There's no way.
And then walk us through yourexperience of climbing Mount
Everest.
The year, the preparation andwhat your takeaway from climbing
the world's tallest mountain.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, so I had climbed just over a hundred
mountains total before I choseto climb Everest.
I wanted to make sure thatwhatever the biggest mountain in
the world threw at me that Iwould be able to handle.
So it was a very dedicated anddecisive moment.
It was also a financial decisionof am I solvent enough to be
able to afford this expedition?
(05:30):
You know, you hear about somepeople paying up to a hundred
grand in order to go climbEverest.
Well that's, if you have liketwo Western guides who are there
with you, I went kind of a midgrade route, but still 50 grand.
That's like a house downpayment, right?
Paul (05:42):
Yup.
John (05:42):
So it was 2013.
I said, I'm going to do this.
This is the year for me.
And it's a two month expeditionand you can only get to the
summit on a very small window oftime.
And most of the climb you'respending, preparing to be ready
for when that weather windowopens up because the Southeast
Asian monsoon pressure pushesthe jet stream off of Everest,
(06:06):
which then makes the air still.
And then you have sometimes fivedays, sometimes 10 days,
sometimes two weeks of timebefore the jet stream moves back
onto Everest.
So that's all there is to climband you're just spending the
entire time getting ready.
And so we spent 10 days gettingto base camp and then we moved
progressively up to each camp.
But once you get to each camp,you have to really do ladders.
(06:29):
You get to camp one, you go backdown to base camp because your
body will not heal.
It won't recover unless you getback down to that lower
altitude, which is at 17,500feet Everest base camp.
So you go up to 22,000 feetcamp, two, your body won't heal.
So you get these cracks in yourfingers and it just represents
what's going on on the inside.
(06:51):
Like your muscles, aren't goingto heal.
So you drop off your gear, dropoff your food for the next week,
go back down to base camp andyou do laps like this all the
way up until you're finallyready with your blood, having
enough ability to climatize orit's already climatized and the
weather, all that stuff meets.
And then you're ready to shootfor the summit.
If you've lasted that long intothe expedition.
Paul (07:14):
In 2013, when you did that from first arriving there at the
first base camp, up and back upand back up and back, How many
days was that in total?
John (07:24):
Six weeks.
Paul (07:24):
Six weeks.
John (07:26):
Yeah.
Paul (07:26):
Gosh, that's amazing.
It's the biggest feat someonecan say, when it comes to
physical exercises, they'veclimbed Mount Everest.
And when you hit the summit,what did you do?
John (07:37):
I was on my reserve tank of oxygen.
It was so cold that the littlerubber valve or the washer had
cracked and it was causing myoxygen to leak.
And so I was effectivelyclimbing without oxygen for
many, many hours before we couldswitch to the reserve tank.
But now the reserve tank wasalso leaking.
(07:58):
My guide said, we got to turnaround.
You can't get up to the top.
And as I'm heartbroken, crying,after the six weeks of thinking,
"I'm going to make it." And thenbeing told a few hundred feet
from the top that I have to turnaround miraculously, a guide
named Justin Murley out ofSeattle Washington shows up at
the top of the Hillary step.
(08:19):
So we got like 28,000 feet abovesea level.
We're at, I have a 10,000 footdrop on one side, 8,000 foot
drop on the other side of me.
And he says,"congratulations." Igo,"I can't keep climbing.
My oxygen is leaking." He says,"I got you covered." And he
takes the regulator off of theoxygen bottle.
He dips it into his tea and I'mgoing,"this guy's lost his mind.
(08:39):
Like the Altitude's got to him.
He's wasting my time." Now hetakes that regulator out, all
wet, screws it back in.
And he says,"what does water dowhen it freezes?
It expands." And that's when itclicked to me,"Oh my gosh, this
expanding liquid is going toseal that leak." He says,"you're
on borrowed time.
Get to the top, take your photosand get back down fast." So I
(09:04):
like lock it in.
I'm doing everything I can toconserve my oxygen.
Just controlling my breath.
After maybe half an hour, I getback up to the summit area.
And I just keep taking thesestep after step telling myself
the words of sir Edmund Hillary,"conquer yourself." It's not the
mountain we conquer, butourselves.
And I finally arrived thererealizing that there's no more
(09:25):
mountain to climb.
I take four photographs, spent11 minutes at the summit,
sobbing in elation, a crying,and the tears are freezing as
they're going down my cheekscelebrating, but also scared for
my life.
And we begin back down afterjust those 11 minutes.
So it was incrediblyshort-lived, but it was emotion
(09:47):
packed.
Paul (09:48):
Wow.
He saved your life and thenallowed you to have the greatest
exhilaration of that six weeksbeing paid off and having a
payday to get up there.
What a blessing that was andwhat an experience.
What are three things that youlearned during this climbing
Mount Everest experience thathave made you become resilient?
John (10:10):
First thing I learned is that there's always more
strength and I think that that'smore appropriate now than ever
before that each of us has theability when we think we're
knocked out and down for thecount and sorry, you're done,
you don't have any more to giveyou have more ability to dig
deep and find what you're madeof.
Each of us has that.
(10:30):
And that's not unique to justsome dude who climbed Mount
Everest.
That's the first thing.
There's always more strength.
The second thing that I learnedis that rest is taking action.
It's a part of it.
It's a component of actiontaking and by allowing yourself
to recover, to heal, to let yourbody do what it needs to do to
(10:53):
make you ready for the next dayof climbing is just as much a
part of the action taking asclimbing itself.
So take time to rest, take timeto recover in what you're doing
in your life.
And the third component is thatthere is no such thing as a
person who climbs a mountain ontheir own.
Even people who show up onEverest and say, I'm going to do
(11:15):
this whole thing with unassistedand without any support
whatsoever, they're stillwalking on the trails that other
people have built.
They're still using thefacilities that other people
have constructed.
They're still following the mapsthat cartographers before them
have laid out.
And the intelligence from thewhole climbing community and
world, nobody is in a bubble.
Nobody can accomplish anythingon their own.
(11:37):
There's no such thing as a selfmade man or a self-made woman,
everyone has had help.
And unless you recognize it,you're a jerk.
Paul (11:45):
Yeah.
So more strength.
Rest is taking action and no oneclimbs alone, and we all have
depend on other people.
John (11:54):
and be grateful for those people.
Paul (11:56):
Yes.
And then John, tell us aboutyour new book.
It's called The WarriorChallenge, 8 Quests for Boys to
Grow Up with Kindness, Courageand Grit.
Tell us the backstory of thatand the main purpose behind your
wonderful book.
John (12:11):
Yeah, absolutely.
And thank you for that.
So The Warrior Challenge wascreated as a rite of passage for
young men, specifically ages 10to 16, about how to be a good
human being in today's world.
One of the most common questionsI get about it is how come it's
not also for girls.
And that's a great question.
And the answer is that there's adifferent set of cultural
(12:34):
messages that guys get, that endup having created the need for
the#metoo movement and all theissues that are coming about
now, because the guys have thesemessages that we've gotta be so
tough that we grit through anyamount of pain.
And that ends up resulting inguys who are numbing their pain,
trying to tough it out or beingspineless, wimpy, nice guys that
(12:56):
are so anxiety ridden that theycan't stand up for themselves.
And all of those are the wrongpath to take.
So this book lays out.
Here's how to have boundaries.
Here's how to haveself-awareness.
Here's how to set values.
Here's what it means to haveintegrity.
Here's how to have grit andresilience.
Here's how to respect others whoaren't the same as you, whether
it's by their gender, theirsexuality, or their race.
All these concepts are builtinto the book, but it uses
(13:19):
unbelievable heroes who did themost amazing things you can
experience like jumping over thegreat wall of China on a
skateboard or dirt road racingin Mexico, the story of me
climbing Everest is in there.
All these like insane adventurestories that are encapsulating
these lessons are what TheWarrior Challenge is all about.
Paul (13:39):
Well, it's exciting.
It's never easy to write a book.
It takes a lot of focus, a lotof daily regiment and structure.
I'm sure there's potentiallyanother book coming at some
point, but we're excited thatyou've capsulated that, put it
all together, put it in printform and got it out there.
John, how can people stay incontact with you and follow you
(14:02):
and stay connected with you?
John (14:05):
Awesome.
Great question.
My website is johnbeede.com andit's spelled
J-O-H-N-B-E-E-D-E.com.
I've got a free course on gritand resilience there.
If in case you're interested ingiving The Warrior Challenge to
the young man in your life,whether it's your son, your
grandson nephew, or just a bunchof guys that you might know or
(14:26):
students, you have then head tojohnbeede.com, click on The
Warrior Challenge link.
I got some bonuses.
If you order there, otherwisejust go to Amazon and put it
into your shopping cart rightnow while you're thinking about
it, check out, and then gift itto the young man who's in your
life.
Paul (14:41):
John, thank you for joining us today.
And guests and clients continueto understand that we need to
get out there and conquer ourfears and our worries and if
COVID has you down or otherfears or worries, write it down
what they may be and conquerthem and live every day in a
fulfilling enriching life,because life is short.
(15:03):
So let's get out there and dogood.
Have a good one John, we'll talkto you soon, brother.
John (15:07):
Thanks Paul.
Paul (15:08):
Bye.
Bye.
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Hello, and welcome to the Arista Advice Podcast,
focusing on your wealth.
So you can focus on your dreams.
We'll navigate through the noiseso that you can organize your
life and financial health.
Let's get started with yourhost, Paul Moffat.
Paul (00:24):
Hello, welcome to Arista Advice Podcast.
We're excited this week to bringto you a very special person.
We're thrilled to get hisinsight and to have him share
with us some experiences that hehas been through in this life.
John Beede has traveled to 67countries.
(00:44):
His three favorite are SouthAfrica, Thailand, and Spain.
He has also climbed the highestmountain on the planet, Mount
Everest.
We're excited to hear from himtoday.
John, welcome to Arista AdvicePodcast.
John (01:00):
Paul, thank you so much for having me.
I'm super excited to be herewith you.
Paul (01:04):
Great.
John also calls Henderson,Nevada home, and he also bikes
up in the Red Rock loop and isan enthusiast and lives every
day to the fullest.
And we're very, very excited.
J ohn, tell us about yourbackground and what you do to
live a fulfilling life.
John (01:21):
Sure.
So I grew up here, as youmentioned in Las Vegas, and I
would look up at these mountainsand I'd say, that looks really
cool up there," while I wasbored in school and kind of look
at like what the socialinteractions were like.
And I said,"I just want to beout adventuring." So I've built
a life around it.
And all my businesses that I'vecreated have been with the
(01:41):
intent of being able to stepaway from the business so that I
can plan expeditions, travel theworld.
And that's what my life isabout.
It's about giving keynotespeeches, writing books,
building internet companies, sothat I can choose when I go
adventure, and be able to freelygo to wherever I choose to.
Paul (02:01):
Well, that's wonderful.
You've climbed the world'stallest mountains, kite surfed,
double overhead waves, swam withsharks and experienced tribal
warfares.
What of these events havechanged you the most?
John (02:15):
So those are all the cool highlight reels, right?
And everybody's like,"Oh, tellthe story about this.
What was it like with greatwhite sharks or double overhead
waves.
Are you kidding?" And I'm acompetitive kite surfers.
So I'm launching 40, 50 feetinto the air.
But to me, it's none of those feats of bravado that make me who
(02:38):
I am today.
Instead.
It's what I've taken from thosemoments or from those
accomplishments for who I canshow up as right now with you in
this moment, if you go to themountains and you're a jerk,
you're going to come back abigger jerk.
But if you go to the mountains,seeking humility and learning
how to be a teammate and how towork with others, well find Your
(03:00):
inner spirit.
You're going to get more ofthat.
So u nless I can bring that backto you here right now with us in
this conversation, it doesn'tmatter what the cool highlight
reel is.
Like, nobody likes thecelebrity.
Who's a jerk.
You know what I mean?
You're like,"Oh yeah, I've heardabout them.
What?
They're like off-screen." Well,I'm not a celebrity, but people
tell us like, Oh yeah, he's doneall these cool stuff.
(03:22):
But if I show up and I'm like,arrogant, nobody wants to be
with that guy.
They've been humbling in thatway.
Paul (03:27):
I love what you said that the outdoors really amplifies
your current state of mind.
John (03:32):
It does.
We've found that in cycling,right?
Paul (03:35):
I've never put those words together until today that the
outdoors really amplifies yourstate of mind.
John (03:41):
It's a magnifying glass.
Paul (03:43):
Yeah.
John (03:44):
It makes you more of what you bring to it.
Paul (03:46):
That's great.
So tell us when you got thehammerhead sharks coming at you,
what did you do, John?
I mean, come on man.
I mean, tell us a story.
John (03:55):
The water got a lot warmer.
So I was in the Caribbean.
There's like this bicycle thatwas planted for scuba divers.
So you could like get on thebike and pretending that you're
on a bicycle underwater and,"haha look at my funny photo." So
I'm on this thing, trying to getthe picture and my buddy's lying
down on the, on the floor of theocean, snapping the shots.
(04:18):
And then I just see he's nottaking his pictures anymore and
I'm just there like,"yeah, lookat, come on.
Like, where's the camera?" Andthen I see the spread open, like
head of the shark swim straightabove me.
It was about 10 feet away, maybeat most.
And I just sit there totallyfrozen on this bike, like a
(04:38):
doofus at the bottom of theocean watching this like 12, 13
foot long shark, just the shadowovertake me.
I was totally petrified.
And just clung to that bike intotal fear.
Paul (04:51):
Gosh, I'm grateful that you live to tell the story and
it was you not me.
John (04:56):
Me too.
Paul (04:57):
There's no way.
And then walk us through yourexperience of climbing Mount
Everest.
The year, the preparation andwhat your takeaway from climbing
the world's tallest mountain.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, so I had climbed just over a hundred
mountains total before I choseto climb Everest.
I wanted to make sure thatwhatever the biggest mountain in
the world threw at me that Iwould be able to handle.
So it was a very dedicated anddecisive moment.
It was also a financial decisionof am I solvent enough to be
able to afford this expedition?
(05:30):
You know, you hear about somepeople paying up to a hundred
grand in order to go climbEverest.
Well that's, if you have liketwo Western guides who are there
with you, I went kind of a midgrade route, but still 50 grand.
That's like a house downpayment, right?
Paul (05:42):
Yup.
John (05:42):
So it was 2013.
I said, I'm going to do this.
This is the year for me.
And it's a two month expeditionand you can only get to the
summit on a very small window oftime.
And most of the climb you'respending, preparing to be ready
for when that weather windowopens up because the Southeast
Asian monsoon pressure pushesthe jet stream off of Everest,
(06:06):
which then makes the air still.
And then you have sometimes fivedays, sometimes 10 days,
sometimes two weeks of timebefore the jet stream moves back
onto Everest.
So that's all there is to climband you're just spending the
entire time getting ready.
And so we spent 10 days gettingto base camp and then we moved
progressively up to each camp.
But once you get to each camp,you have to really do ladders.
(06:29):
You get to camp one, you go backdown to base camp because your
body will not heal.
It won't recover unless you getback down to that lower
altitude, which is at 17,500feet Everest base camp.
So you go up to 22,000 feetcamp, two, your body won't heal.
So you get these cracks in yourfingers and it just represents
what's going on on the inside.
(06:51):
Like your muscles, aren't goingto heal.
So you drop off your gear, dropoff your food for the next week,
go back down to base camp andyou do laps like this all the
way up until you're finallyready with your blood, having
enough ability to climatize orit's already climatized and the
weather, all that stuff meets.
And then you're ready to shootfor the summit.
If you've lasted that long intothe expedition.
Paul (07:14):
In 2013, when you did that from first arriving there at the
first base camp, up and back upand back up and back, How many
days was that in total?
John (07:24):
Six weeks.
Paul (07:24):
Six weeks.
John (07:26):
Yeah.
Paul (07:26):
Gosh, that's amazing.
It's the biggest feat someonecan say, when it comes to
physical exercises, they'veclimbed Mount Everest.
And when you hit the summit,what did you do?
John (07:37):
I was on my reserve tank of oxygen.
It was so cold that the littlerubber valve or the washer had
cracked and it was causing myoxygen to leak.
And so I was effectivelyclimbing without oxygen for
many, many hours before we couldswitch to the reserve tank.
But now the reserve tank wasalso leaking.
(07:58):
My guide said, we got to turnaround.
You can't get up to the top.
And as I'm heartbroken, crying,after the six weeks of thinking,
"I'm going to make it." And thenbeing told a few hundred feet
from the top that I have to turnaround miraculously, a guide
named Justin Murley out ofSeattle Washington shows up at
the top of the Hillary step.
(08:19):
So we got like 28,000 feet abovesea level.
We're at, I have a 10,000 footdrop on one side, 8,000 foot
drop on the other side of me.
And he says,"congratulations." Igo,"I can't keep climbing.
My oxygen is leaking." He says,"I got you covered." And he
takes the regulator off of theoxygen bottle.
He dips it into his tea and I'mgoing,"this guy's lost his mind.
(08:39):
Like the Altitude's got to him.
He's wasting my time." Now hetakes that regulator out, all
wet, screws it back in.
And he says,"what does water dowhen it freezes?
It expands." And that's when itclicked to me,"Oh my gosh, this
expanding liquid is going toseal that leak." He says,"you're
on borrowed time.
Get to the top, take your photosand get back down fast." So I
(09:04):
like lock it in.
I'm doing everything I can toconserve my oxygen.
Just controlling my breath.
After maybe half an hour, I getback up to the summit area.
And I just keep taking thesestep after step telling myself
the words of sir Edmund Hillary,"conquer yourself." It's not the
mountain we conquer, butourselves.
And I finally arrived thererealizing that there's no more
(09:25):
mountain to climb.
I take four photographs, spent11 minutes at the summit,
sobbing in elation, a crying,and the tears are freezing as
they're going down my cheekscelebrating, but also scared for
my life.
And we begin back down afterjust those 11 minutes.
So it was incrediblyshort-lived, but it was emotion
(09:47):
packed.
Paul (09:48):
Wow.
He saved your life and thenallowed you to have the greatest
exhilaration of that six weeksbeing paid off and having a
payday to get up there.
What a blessing that was andwhat an experience.
What are three things that youlearned during this climbing
Mount Everest experience thathave made you become resilient?
John (10:10):
First thing I learned is that there's always more
strength and I think that that'smore appropriate now than ever
before that each of us has theability when we think we're
knocked out and down for thecount and sorry, you're done,
you don't have any more to giveyou have more ability to dig
deep and find what you're madeof.
Each of us has that.
(10:30):
And that's not unique to justsome dude who climbed Mount
Everest.
That's the first thing.
There's always more strength.
The second thing that I learnedis that rest is taking action.
It's a part of it.
It's a component of actiontaking and by allowing yourself
to recover, to heal, to let yourbody do what it needs to do to
(10:53):
make you ready for the next dayof climbing is just as much a
part of the action taking asclimbing itself.
So take time to rest, take timeto recover in what you're doing
in your life.
And the third component is thatthere is no such thing as a
person who climbs a mountain ontheir own.
Even people who show up onEverest and say, I'm going to do
(11:15):
this whole thing with unassistedand without any support
whatsoever, they're stillwalking on the trails that other
people have built.
They're still using thefacilities that other people
have constructed.
They're still following the mapsthat cartographers before them
have laid out.
And the intelligence from thewhole climbing community and
world, nobody is in a bubble.
Nobody can accomplish anythingon their own.
(11:37):
There's no such thing as a selfmade man or a self-made woman,
everyone has had help.
And unless you recognize it,you're a jerk.
Paul (11:45):
Yeah.
So more strength.
Rest is taking action and no oneclimbs alone, and we all have
depend on other people.
John (11:54):
and be grateful for those people.
Paul (11:56):
Yes.
And then John, tell us aboutyour new book.
It's called The WarriorChallenge, 8 Quests for Boys to
Grow Up with Kindness, Courageand Grit.
Tell us the backstory of thatand the main purpose behind your
wonderful book.
John (12:11):
Yeah, absolutely.
And thank you for that.
So The Warrior Challenge wascreated as a rite of passage for
young men, specifically ages 10to 16, about how to be a good
human being in today's world.
One of the most common questionsI get about it is how come it's
not also for girls.
And that's a great question.
And the answer is that there's adifferent set of cultural
(12:34):
messages that guys get, that endup having created the need for
the#metoo movement and all theissues that are coming about
now, because the guys have thesemessages that we've gotta be so
tough that we grit through anyamount of pain.
And that ends up resulting inguys who are numbing their pain,
trying to tough it out or beingspineless, wimpy, nice guys that
(12:56):
are so anxiety ridden that theycan't stand up for themselves.
And all of those are the wrongpath to take.
So this book lays out.
Here's how to have boundaries.
Here's how to haveself-awareness.
Here's how to set values.
Here's what it means to haveintegrity.
Here's how to have grit andresilience.
Here's how to respect others whoaren't the same as you, whether
it's by their gender, theirsexuality, or their race.
All these concepts are builtinto the book, but it uses
(13:19):
unbelievable heroes who did themost amazing things you can
experience like jumping over thegreat wall of China on a
skateboard or dirt road racingin Mexico, the story of me
climbing Everest is in there.
All these like insane adventurestories that are encapsulating
these lessons are what TheWarrior Challenge is all about.
Paul (13:39):
Well, it's exciting.
It's never easy to write a book.
It takes a lot of focus, a lotof daily regiment and structure.
I'm sure there's potentiallyanother book coming at some
point, but we're excited thatyou've capsulated that, put it
all together, put it in printform and got it out there.
John, how can people stay incontact with you and follow you
(14:02):
and stay connected with you?
John (14:05):
Awesome.
Great question.
My website is johnbeede.com andit's spelled
J-O-H-N-B-E-E-D-E.com.
I've got a free course on gritand resilience there.
If in case you're interested ingiving The Warrior Challenge to
the young man in your life,whether it's your son, your
grandson nephew, or just a bunchof guys that you might know or
(14:26):
students, you have then head tojohnbeede.com, click on The
Warrior Challenge link.
I got some bonuses.
If you order there, otherwisejust go to Amazon and put it
into your shopping cart rightnow while you're thinking about
it, check out, and then gift itto the young man who's in your
life.
Paul (14:41):
John, thank you for joining us today.
And guests and clients continueto understand that we need to
get out there and conquer ourfears and our worries and if
COVID has you down or otherfears or worries, write it down
what they may be and conquerthem and live every day in a
fulfilling enriching life,because life is short.
(15:03):
So let's get out there and dogood.
Have a good one John, we'll talkto you soon, brother.
John (15:07):
Thanks Paul.
Paul (15:08):
Bye.
Bye.
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