254: Bruce Babashan | Life Lessons from the Boxing Ring
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Bruce lives where fighting and business converge. With a background as an executive level headhunter and a youth spent in the boxing gym, he’s translated those tactics into building champions. The renowned boxing coach sits in the podcast ring this week with Joe De Sena and discusses the keys to coaching to glory, rebuilding them after loses, and the importance of vulnerability. What it comes down to is the Law of Outcomes: “ the amount of pain, suffering and sacrifice you make must be equal to the goal you wish to achieve.” Bruce is the guy you want in your corner!
LESSONS
Work hard, pay attention & listen
Be an active observer
Keep notes!
Follow your passions
The key to coaching is connection
Humility and empathy are worthy traits
“Deserves” got nothing to do with it
Be vulnerable in life
“Law of outcomes: the amount of pain, suffering and sacrifice you make must be equal to the goal you wish to achieve”
Have a vision for yourself- success is an exclusionary process
There is no easy path- be willing to suffer for your dream
LINKS
https://www.yourcornerman.com
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TIME STAMPS
1:20 Interview begins with Joe & Bruce
1:50 A passion for boxing & fighting
3:30 A history of coaching
4:30 The warrior spirit
6:30 Working hard & paying attention
7:30 An informal apprenticeship
9:00 Balancing the office & the gym
10:00 Becoming a warrior in business & the ring
11:00 Keeping notes on what you learn
12:00 Boxing as a tool in coaching
13:00 Importance of connection in coaching
14:20 How to keep humility
15:40 Shady Rays Sunglasses break with Zach Even - Esh of the Spartan Way
17:25 Interview continues with tears & temper
19:00 The repercussions of “losing”
22:20 Rebuilding an athlete
25:45 “Deserves” got nothing to do with it
26:55 Going through the grieving process- can you bring an athlete back from the brink?
28:00 Dealing with being in the public arena
31:10 Being vulnerable in life
32:00 Law of Sacrifice
33:00 The exclusionary process of success
34:30 Doing the thing that is “true” to you
36:10 The panel discusses the great Babashanisms
43:45 Shady Rays Sunglasses close
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena, Sefra Alexandra, Col. Nye, Johnny Waite & guest host Isaiah Vidal
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra | Seed Huntress
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty
© 2019 Spartan
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome Spartans, Welcome to Spartan Up. Today we got a great interview for you. |
| 0:04.3 | Joe sat down with Bruce Babisham. |
| 0:07.0 | All right, for those of you who don't know Bruce yet, he left the corporate |
| 0:10.8 | executive world executive leadership consulting after 15 |
| 0:14.7 | years highly successful guy he left it for his true love which was to coach |
| 0:19.3 | boxing right but this interview is more than just about coaching boxing and so it's life |
| 0:24.2 | lessons we can learn from that coaching. They got to be willing to fall flat on their |
| 0:28.6 | face which is hard in fighting because you know you when you lose in every way in fighting you lose in every way a person can lose. |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah it's incredible so a joke at the interview but here we've got a panel we've got a special panel |
| 0:42.8 | today we got retired Colonel Tim Nye right here got Johnny we got |
| 0:46.8 | Seth with a seat huntress we've got Isaiah Vidal |
| 0:49.2 | Isaiah is not a stranger to Spartan some of you will know him we've actually done |
| 0:52.4 | the podcast with Isaiah but now he's on this side of the table to share his unique |
| 0:55.8 | perspective and a TV star oh yeah he's a TV star we'll talk a little bit more |
| 0:59.0 | about that yeah so I mean what we do here is you know we just try to give you your daily dose or |
| 1:03.4 | weekly dose of grit and resilience just try to get you out there and get you gritty |
| 1:07.8 | be sure to stay to the end of the show because after the interview with Bruce |
| 1:11.0 | Babishan's separate Johnny Colonelye, and our special guest, |
| 1:14.4 | Spartan Pro Racer, Isaiah Vidal, will all be back, and they're going to talk about what they learn |
| 1:18.1 | from Bruce Babishan and how you can integrate it into your life. We are here for Spartan Up Podcast. |
| 1:27.0 | I am with Bruce Babishan. |
| 1:29.0 | Got that name right? |
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