Today, Part 3 of the Brave Endurance Wellness Podcast with Brad Cooper (CEO of U.S. Corporate Wellness). Brad is a nationally recognized thought leader in the health and wellness industry and has been featured in multiple publications as the “World’s Fittest CEO” based on events of 2015. He is the author of 4 books, including the latest release from Thompson Publishing titled Employee Wellness: Implementing a High Impact, High ROI Strategy. Brad is a Licensed Physical Therapist, Certified Athletic Trainer and highly sought-after speaker. He has spoken professionally in all 50 states to organizations ranging from the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Society for Human Resource Management to the Olympic Training Center. At age 49, he became the first person ever to complete the “Endurance Trifecta” of qualifying for both the Boston Marathon and the Hawaii Ironman World Championship, as well as winning the 3,000 mile Race Across America (RAAM – 2 person division) in a single year. He is a 9-time Ironman finisher, a 4 time Hawaii Ironman Triathlon World Championship qualifier and top Masters runner. Brad not only talks about health and wellness, he lives it!

Today, Part 2 of the Brave Endurance Wellness Podcast with Brad Cooper (CEO of U.S. Corporate Wellness). Brad is a nationally recognized thought leader in the health and wellness industry and has been featured in multiple publications as the “World’s Fittest CEO” based on events of 2015. He is the author of 4 books, including the latest release from Thompson Publishing titled Employee Wellness: Implementing a High Impact, High ROI Strategy. Brad is a Licensed Physical Therapist, Certified Athletic Trainer and highly sought-after speaker. He has spoken professionally in all 50 states to organizations ranging from the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Society for Human Resource Management to the Olympic Training Center. At age 49, he became the first person ever to complete the “Endurance Trifecta” of qualifying for both the Boston Marathon and the Hawaii Ironman World Championship, as well as winning the 3,000 mile Race Across America (RAAM – 2 person division) in a single year. He is a 9-time Ironman finisher, a 4 time Hawaii Ironman Triathlon World Championship qualifier and top Masters runner. Brad not only talks about health and wellness, he lives it!

Today, Part 1 of the Brave Endurance Wellness Podcast Brad Cooper (CEO of U.S. Corporate Wellness) stops by for a chat. Brad is a nationally recognized thought leader in the health and wellness industry and has been featured in multiple publications as the “World’s Fittest CEO” based on events of 2015. He is the author of 4 books, including the latest release from Thompson Publishing titled Employee Wellness: Implementing a High Impact, High ROI Strategy. Brad is a Licensed Physical Therapist, Certified Athletic Trainer and highly sought-after speaker. He has spoken professionally in all 50 states to organizations ranging from the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Society for Human Resource Management to the Olympic Training Center. At age 49, he became the first person ever to complete the “Endurance Trifecta” of qualifying for both the Boston Marathon and the Hawaii Ironman World Championship, as well as winning the 3,000 mile Race Across America (RAAM – 2 person division) in a single year. He is a 9-time Ironman finisher, a 4 time Hawaii Ironman Triathlon World Championship qualifier and top Masters runner. Brad not only talks about health and wellness, he lives it!

Today on Brave Endurance Wellness podcast part 3 of the Joe Friel interview (and guest host my wife Mary Kelley). This episode has some minor audio snafus, but overall it is full of great content.

Joe Friel has trained endurance athletes since 1980. His clients are elite amateur and professional road cyclists, mountain bikers, triathletes, and duathletes. They come from all corners of the globe and include American and foreign national champions, world championship competitors, and an Olympian.

He is the author of ten books on training for endurance athletes including the popular and best-selling Training Bible book series. He holds a masters degree in exercise science, is a USA Triathlon and USA Cycling certified Elite-level coach, and is a founder and past Chairman of the USA Triathlon National Coaching Commission.

Joe conducts seminars around the world on training and racing for cyclists, multisport athletes, and coaches, and provides consulting services for corporations in the fitness industry.

He has also been active in business as a founder of Training Peaks (www.trainingpeaks.com), a web-based software company, and TrainingBible Coaching (www.trainingbible.com) and a recent book called Fast after 50

Today on Brave Endurance Wellness podcast part 2of the Joe Friel interview (and guest host my wife Mary Kelley). This episode has some minor audio snafus, but overall it is full of great content.

Joe Friel has trained endurance athletes since 1980. His clients are elite amateur and professional road cyclists, mountain bikers, triathletes, and duathletes. They come from all corners of the globe and include American and foreign national champions, world championship competitors, and an Olympian.

He is the author of ten books on training for endurance athletes including the popular and best-selling Training Bible book series. He holds a masters degree in exercise science, is a USA Triathlon and USA Cycling certified Elite-level coach, and is a founder and past Chairman of the USA Triathlon National Coaching Commission.

Joe conducts seminars around the world on training and racing for cyclists, multisport athletes, and coaches, and provides consulting services for corporations in the fitness industry.

He has also been active in business as a founder of Training Peaks (www.trainingpeaks.com), a web-based software company, and TrainingBible Coaching (www.trainingbible.com) and a recent book called Fast after 50

Today on Brave Endurance Wellness podcast part 1 of the Joe Friel interview (and guest host my wife Mary Kelley). This episode has some minor audio snafus, but overall it is full of great content.

Joe Friel has trained endurance athletes since 1980. His clients are elite amateur and professional road cyclists, mountain bikers, triathletes, and duathletes. They come from all corners of the globe and include American and foreign national champions, world championship competitors, and an Olympian.

He is the author of ten books on training for endurance athletes including the popular and best-selling Training Bible book series. He holds a masters degree in exercise science, is a USA Triathlon and USA Cycling certified Elite-level coach, and is a founder and past Chairman of the USA Triathlon National Coaching Commission.

Joe conducts seminars around the world on training and racing for cyclists, multisport athletes, and coaches, and provides consulting services for corporations in the fitness industry.

He has also been active in business as a founder of Training Peaks (www.trainingpeaks.com), a web-based software company, and TrainingBible Coaching (www.trainingbible.com).

Today on Brave Endurance Wellness Podcast is Part 3 of the Joe

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Today on Brave Endurance Wellness Podcast is Part 1 of the Joe DeSena CEO of Spartan Races interview. 

Growing up in Howard Beach, Queens, a territory that was controlled by the infamous Mafia Don, John Gotti. De Sena's mother quickly looked to move him and his sister upstate to Ithaca, NY, just as Joe was building a small business around selling fireworks, Joe's mother practiced progressive health and wellness during the 70's, a time that was certainly foreign to fitness and healthy living. She introduced yoga, farming as well as raw fruits, vegetables and extreme endurance to create a healthy lifestyle.

A few years later, with a return to Howard Beach to live with his father Ralph, Joe adopted his father's entrepreneurial mindset. At around age 13 Joe created a swimming pool and construction company that expanded from the Howard Beach neighborhood all the way through the Boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn. At the age of 25 Joe sold his companies and started a journey in finance on Wall Street.

On Wall Street, De Sena worked as an equities and derivatives trader and engaged various outdoor activities ranging from multiple IronMan races to the Iditarod by foot.  In early 2007, De Sena moved his family to Pittsfield, Vermont to operate a farm, a bed and breakfast, and a general store for hikers. In his spare time, De Sena competes in grueling athletic events like the Ironman and theFurnace Creek 508 Bike Race.

Joe has written numerous books, Spartan Up! and Spartan Fit!

Part 3 of the Andrew Sykes interview.

Andrew founded Habits at Work (formerly Health at Work WellnessActuaries) to help people just like him: those with busy careerswho love life, enjoy their vices, find exercising hard work and whostruggle to make daily healthy choices, despite knowing what theyare. He is confident that if our approach can work for him, it canwork for anyone prone to stress, vices, having too much fun andenjoying sedentary habits. 

Andrew is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of leadership,product innovation, sales and business development experience. Heloves to solve problems by creating products -- and is currentlyobsessed with behavior-linked insurance and financial servicesproducts.

Prior to starting Habits at Work, Andrew was Chief WellnessOfficer at the Vitality Group. Andrew continues to travel for worklike a runaway train. Thanks to the support of his team and theknowledge he's accumulated over his years of working in thewellness industry, he doesn’t “veg-out” in front of hotel TVsanymore and has gotten to know his fair share of hotel gyms (thoughhe still has a weakness for dark chocolate).

You can find out more about Habits at Work here: http://habitsatwork.com/ andthe up and coming event Work Room (http://www.findworkroom.com/)where you put your organizational wellness on strategyhyperdrive.