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Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

#012: How to Cultivate Toughness | Amelia Boone on Impact Theory

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

Impact Theory

Education, News, News Commentary, Philosophy, Technology, Society & Culture, Business, Self-improvement

4.75.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Amelia Boone, corporate attorney at global powerhouse Apple by day and obstacle course-racing machine by night lets nothing hold her back. Three-time winner of the grueling, 24-hour World's Toughest Mudder challenge, sponsored athlete, and sport commentator shares why she embraces fear like a close friend in this tell-all episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu. SHOW NOTES Amelia talks about what she learned from being at rock bottom. [2:28] Amelia describes how she leveraged fear to embrace opportunities. [5:43] Amelia explains how she uses fear as a guiding light. [8:00] Tom and Amelia discuss compartmentalizing small tasks making friends with pain. [13:02] Amelia focuses on cultivating mental toughness and training in undesirable conditions. [15:38] Amelia expounds on the game of training and discovering purpose through failure. [22:39] Tom and Amelia talk about incorporating meditation and the power of routine. [26:19] Amelia elaborates on the never-ending merry-go-round of self-flagellation. [29:18] Amelia discusses power to outlast and keeping an underdog mentality. [32:28] Tom and Amelia uncover the misconceptions associated with a certain four-letter word. [37:29] Amelia reveals how she built confidence by celebrating small wins. [45:23] Amelia highlights the importance of shifting from hypersensitivity to normalizing gender biases. [48:19] Amelia defines the impact that she wants to have on the world. [52:49] MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Amelia’s blog - http://bit.ly/2mfNUFw [2:16] Documentary Rise of the Sufferfests - http://bit.ly/2mgQhI9 [14:39] Grit by Angela Duckworth - http://amzn.to/2bfMIu1 [19:54] Amelia’s blog about self-flagellation - http://bit.ly/1ZCOhnT [29:17] Former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics Steven Hawking - http://bit.ly/1wgZPkp [46:20] Res Ipsa Loquitur - http://bit.ly/2mws9BV [54:14] BONUS VIDEOS Amelia talks about the electric eel: http://bit.ly/2n9Crop World’s Toughest Mudder 2012 (Amelia starts at [5:57]) - http://bit.ly/2lRN7a6 FOLLOW AMELIA TWITTER: http://bit.ly/2mgR4sh INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/2mR7r0q FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/2lRK7dP WEBSITE: http://bit.ly/2mgRgI1 Tom Bilyeu is the co-founder of 2014 Inc. 500 company Quest Nutrition — a unicorn startup valued at over $1 billion — and the co-founder and host of Impact Theory. Impact Theory is a first-of-its-kind company designed to facilitate global change through the incubation of mission-based businesses and the cultivation of empowering content. Every piece of content Impact Theory creates is meant to underscore the company mission to free people from The Matrix and help them unlock their true potential. Impact Theory exists to inspire the next generation of game-changing companies and creators that will make a true and lasting impact on the world. FOLLOW TOM BILYEU TWITTER: http://bit.ly/2iyjY5P INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/2j7vqX8 FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/2hPStWo FOLLOW IMPACT THEORY TWITTER: http://bit.ly/2iC5lN3 INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/2hPSGJa FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/2iystOf

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Impact Theory Podcast, your source of empowering ideas and actionable techniques from the world's highest achievers.

0:08.0

Join host Tom Billio, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the Billion Dollar Brand Quest Nutrition, on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success.

0:19.0

Welcome to Impact Theory.

0:22.0

Everybody, welcome to Impact Theory. You're here, my friends, because you believe that human potential is nearly limitless, but you know, as I do, that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it.

0:36.0

So our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that are going to help you actually execute on your dreams.

0:44.0

Alright, today's guest is a super-level badass. Not only is she a full-time corporate attorney at Global Powerhouse Apple, she is undeniably one of the toughest humans alive.

0:55.0

It wasn't enough for her just to be a standout attorney, so at 28, she dove headlong into the impossibly grueling sport of obstacle course racing.

1:04.0

A sport where people actually die, and since beginning, she has racked up what is arguably the most impressive resume of any female in the sport, and her accomplishments prove that whatever men can do, women can do just as well.

1:17.0

In her career, she's had 30 victories and more than 50 podiums. She's won the 24-hour world's toughest mudder three times, one of those victories coming just eight weeks, eight weeks after knee surgery.

1:31.0

She was also the Spartan Race World Champion in 2013. She's been the Spartan Race Points Series Champion twice, and she has three times finished the death race.

1:40.0

A race that is literally designed to break you and has this slogan, you may live.

1:45.0

Having now also survived 2016, which she dubbed her year of healing after fracturing her femur from all of the racing and training, she has begun to discover yet another talent, sports commentating.

1:57.0

Even though she could make a living as a sponsored athlete and commentator, she maintains her intense day job at Apple to ensure that she's challenged both body and mind.

2:06.0

Please help me in welcoming the Pop Tart and Ketchup Craving Race Ninja, who has been called the Michael Jordan of obstacle course racing, Amelia Boon.

2:17.0

Thank you so much for coming on the tour.

2:21.0

It is an absolute pleasure.

2:24.0

Yeah, I hope I can do that intro justice.

2:26.0

You've already done that intro justice. It's really, really crazy what you've accomplished, but I'll be honest, the thing that I'm most interested in obviously 2016 is a brutal year for you, but reading your blogs about what you've been going through.

2:39.0

I think is the thing that's going to be most valuable to people.

2:42.0

You talk a lot about doing the hard things, but tell us what have you learned from rock bottom?

2:47.0

Yeah, 2016 has been an interesting year. For me, it was a fracture in the femur where I had an entire year plan and then just everything was wiped from that.

2:59.0

And so for me, what I found is actually that hitting rock bottom, that's the time where you are forced to then really look inwards and discover who you are.

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