How Tough Training Builds Strong Leaders with Ryan P. Crayne
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Joe De Sena explores the powerful lessons of military leadership with Ryan P. Crayne, an experienced Army officer.
Ryan shares how tough training, mental resilience, and leading by example forge exceptional leaders. Learn how the same principles that guide soldiers can help you develop personal discipline, build trust, and tackle challenges head-on in your own life.
Whether you're looking to enhance your leadership skills, improve your physical and mental fitness, or just gain inspiration from military strategies, this episode is packed with actionable tips you can start applying today.
Highlights:
00:41 Major Crane's background in military service and teaching
02:17 The rewards and challenges of military service
03:19 Ranger School experiences and leadership development
05:16 Pushing limits and developing resilience in youth
08:50 Leadership tips: Trust, example, and expertise
12:13 Military recruiting and benefits of military service
16:00 The value of overcoming tough challenges
17:39 Major Crane's future military service plans
18:34 Daily habits inspired by military discipline
21:00 How to connect with Major Crane?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Your team has to trust you based on your competence, based on your shared understanding, |
| 0:06.0 | based on the intent that you give. |
| 0:08.0 | If your team doesn't understand or trust you, if you don't develop that trust, |
| 0:12.0 | you're not going to be able to execute. |
| 0:14.0 | It's part of our nature to follow a leader that is doing the thing that you're asking them to do. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to the Hardway podcast with Joe Ducena, founder and CEO of Spartan Races. |
| 0:25.2 | We're teaching you how to overcome your obstacles in your life the same way we teach our 10 million plus Spartans to overcome obstacles on the course. |
| 0:32.9 | With insight from the smartest, most accomplish experts from every corner of the world. |
| 0:37.3 | Get ready to elevate your life today. |
| 0:41.2 | Joe DeSenter here, CEO and founder of Spartan and host of the Hardway podcast. |
| 0:45.5 | I've got a new friend of mine, Major Crane on, from West Point in uniform, for those of you that |
| 0:50.8 | are listening and not watching, and he is a leadership expert. Is that fair to say? |
| 0:56.6 | Never say expert because you're always learning. But definitely I teach officership here at West Point. |
| 1:01.2 | I'm on my 12th and a half year here in the Army and just trying to impart what I can while learning |
| 1:07.6 | in the process. How difficult, you know, for us civilians out there that are, you know, just peering through |
| 1:13.7 | the glass and taking a look at all the hard stuff you guys do. |
| 1:17.2 | And ladies, how difficult is it? |
| 1:20.6 | Service in the military has so many peaks and troughs when it comes to difficulty. |
| 1:26.4 | I was a lieutenant, you know, in the 80-second airborne, |
| 1:30.3 | and then I served in the Ranger Regiment. I deployed twice to Afghanistan there, commanded, |
| 1:35.0 | deployed to Europe as a commander, and now I teach her at West Point. And I think many would |
| 1:39.5 | probably categorize that as like a pretty tough route, but also I would definitely categorize as a really |
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