Life's a Fight

With over two decades of coaching basketball behind him, Don Friday was skeptical when he found himself attending yet another educational program arranged by his college athletic department. But this one featured The Spaniard, and Coach Friday quickly came to recognize a kindred spirit. He got The Spaniard with his players to deepen their mental toughness and sharpen their sense of purpose, and he found great benefit for himself as well. Here Coach and Spaniard discuss their shared faith in hard work, preparation, consistency, thoroughness … and how to maintain faith itself during life's darkest moments.

In today's AMX, we talk: teachers and students, looking at yourself from the outside in and a few great athletes.

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In today's AMX, we talk: mindset, idle hands and Going the Extra Mile.

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Talk about touching the big time … or being only one or two degrees away. This episode's guest discusses connections to Citibank, Saks Fifth Avenue, Jon Stewart, Martha Stewart, the New York Jets, Rihanna, Nike, Johnson & Johnson, Apple, Microsoft, Sprint, College Humor, Vimeo, Tumblr, Bleacher Report, Uber, MakerBot and Etsy. Oh, plus Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg himself! This guest will guide our minds from East Coast to West Coast and help us imagine millions of dollars flowing about while going for broke pursuing personal passions. But get this … he was also a junior high classmate of The Spaniard's. And you will hear him (wait for it) SING to the Spaniard. Hit it, Jack Zerby!

In today's AMX, we talk: faith, the source of your limitations and asking for what you want.

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In today's AMX, we talk: Spartan's Joe DeSena, adversity and it's equivalent and the #1 thing holding you back.

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In today's AMX, we talk: great influences, the power of multiple minds and a unique proposal from me

No recording by The Spaniard has included more laughter than this one. His camaraderie with Chris Spealler goes back to their being college wrestling teammates. They ran parallel tracks back then and later, when each followed a continuing hunger for competition. For Chris, this meant throwing down in the very first national CrossFit Games, and eventually six more. He and a partner opened the first CrossFit affiliate in Utah, and later Chris founded Icon Athlete, an online resource for all levels of CrossFit training. He even put on MMA gloves for a few bouts! (Sorta) That didn't go well, but it takes nothing away from his insights on competing, negotiating phases of life and providing an example.

In today's AMX, we talk: picking winners, believing what you say and that old saying about horses and water.

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