Akshay Nanavati has overcome drug addiction, PTSD from fighting in Iraq with the Marines (where one of his jobs was to walk in front of vehicles looking for bombs), depression and alcoholism that pushed him to the brink of suicide. Since then he has built a global business, run ultramarathons, including a 24 hour run and a 50 mile run around a cul-de-sac, spent 10 days in darkness and isolation, climbed mountains in the Himalayas, skied 350 miles across the world’s 2nd largest icecap, and become 1 of only 26 people to ski up a remote glacier in Antarctica where he then got frostbite and lost one of his fingers. He is now a sponsored athlete despite 4 biological defects including a blood disorder that 2 doctors told him would kill him in boot camp. Combining his life experience with years of research in science and spirituality, he wrote the book “Fearvana," about which the Dalai Lama said “Fearvana inspires us to look beyond our own agonizing experiences and find the positive side of our lives.” All the profits from the book are going toward charity. Akshay is now on a mission to help our human family fall in love with fear, stress, anxiety, pain and suffering in order to create a life of greater meaning, joy and fulfillment. He is also currently training for a solo, 110 day, 1700 mile, never-before accomplished crossing of Antarctica.
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