From the Brink of Death to the Forefront of Healthcare Innovation | Jacob Peters

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Peters almost died after a COVID-19 vaccine left him hospitalized. Instead of accepting defeat, he was driven to help others avoid similar struggles. His new company Superpower aims to put people in charge of their health data and connect them to innovative care.

This episode follows Jacob's incredible journey—from building Legos into a six-figure business as a teen to founding a major health tech company after a chance meeting on Wall Street. But it was facing his mortality that lit a fire within Jacob. Now, he's building the future of healthcare, one that ensures no one has to fight for their life alone. Get ready to be inspired to reclaim your health and well-being.

Highlights:
00:15 Jacob Peters's journey into health space
05:04 Choosing Entrepreneurship Over Military Career
07:45 From Lego reselling company to Wall Street
09:57 A start-up started by solving Microsoft’s problem
13:28 Lego blocks translated into business building
17:06 Jacob’s health problems after COVID vaccine
26:14 The help of holistic physicians
28:51 Jacob’s current business in health space - Superpower
33:03 Three things everyone should be doing every day

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, I mean you got mom who's sick, you got dad who's in the military, you guys were basically
0:05.4	destined to be entrepreneur. I mean, you clearly are resilient, you got the stomach for it.
0:10.4	We would go around to garage sales and we'd go to Walmart. We buy like secondhand lots of like you know
0:16.2	hundreds of pounds of Legos from kids who had just like discarded them and you know left them for
0:21.2	for for resale and then welcome to the hardway
0:23.8	podcast with Joe the cenna founder and CEO of Spartan races we're teaching you
0:29.6	how to overcome your obstacles in your life the same way we teach our 10 million plus Spartans to overcome
0:34.8	obstacles on the course. With insight from the smartest, most accomplished experts
0:38.9	from every corner of the world. Get ready to elevate your life today.
0:42.4	Joe Descenta here, CEO and world. Get ready to elevate your life today.
0:43.0	Joe Descenta here, CEO and founder of Spartan and hosted a Hardway podcast.
0:48.0	I got my buddy Jacob Peters here.
0:50.0	Jacob, a son to a military lifer dad was in the military.
0:56.1	Dad was in the military.
0:57.8	Yeah, 30 years.
0:58.9	30 years grew up in Maryland.
1:00.4	Absolutely, Annapolis.
1:01.7	I love getting into backstory. So let let's start let's have the listeners learn where you came from you know how you got this mindset before we we get into where you are today.
1:10.5	Yeah, absolutely bit bit of an interesting upbringing. So I had a dad who was in the
1:15.2	army, moved around quite a bit, didn't really have one place that I called home, and then my mom was
1:18.9	chronically sick. So unfortunately, she couldn't really work too much of her life or hold down a job because she was in bed five, six, nights a week and it was a really awful condition that the traditional medical system just is not very good or equipped at solving.
1:35.0	It's called cluster headaches.
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