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Powerful Lessons From Solo Biking Across America and Running a 100-Miler - Dan Ahn (#18)
Dan Ahn is a former tech salesperson now quarter life coach. He's also solo biked across America and recently completed his first 100 mile ultramarathon.
In this conversation, we talk about completing a 100-mile ultramarathon, biking solo across America, growing up in a Korean immigrant family, finding purpose through faith, turning burnout into breakthrough, lessons from sales and life coaching, why solitude might be the key to living life fully. and much more.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:00 Completing a 100-mile ultramarathon
3:52 Differences between ultramarathons and marathons
5:54 The hardest parts of an running an ultra
7:19 You don't run 26.2 miles without inclination to suffering
8:07 Why running can change your life
10:07 Advice for someone wanting to get into running
12:02 Growing up into a Korean immigrant family
14:10 Breaking out of the scripts from growing up
15:59 Dan's relationship with God and faith
19:25 Finding Truth in life and beyond
21:56 Deciding to solo bike across America
24:52 The itinerary of the bike ride
27:08 Why Dan decided to travel to South America
29:06 Golden advice on living life to the fullest
31:53 Tim Ferriss's fear setting exercise for risk-taking
34:03 Lessons learned from working with a startup at NYC
36:31 Dan's advice to his younger self
40:49 What Dan learned from being a life coach
41:45 Knowing how to best serve your clients
45:13 Why you should spend more time in solitude
47:01 What should you do if you're burnt out?
49:07 How to deal with feeling misalignment
50:43 Charging what you believe you're worth
52:39 Lessons from a career in sales
54:01 What does success mean to Dan?
56:36 Dan's vision of "Love God, others, and myself."
57:48 Advice to ambitious young people looking to do cool things
59:00 Where can people find Dan?
Follow Dan:
X: https://twitter.com/DanTAhn
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dantahn/
Website: https://www.dantahn.com/
Follow Jeston:
X: https://twitter.com/jestonlu
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jestonlu
Website: https://www.jestonlu.com
Writing: https://jestonlu.substack.com/
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By Jeston LuDan Ahn is a former tech salesperson now quarter life coach. He's also solo biked across America and recently completed his first 100 mile ultramarathon.
In this conversation, we talk about completing a 100-mile ultramarathon, biking solo across America, growing up in a Korean immigrant family, finding purpose through faith, turning burnout into breakthrough, lessons from sales and life coaching, why solitude might be the key to living life fully. and much more.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:00 Completing a 100-mile ultramarathon
3:52 Differences between ultramarathons and marathons
5:54 The hardest parts of an running an ultra
7:19 You don't run 26.2 miles without inclination to suffering
8:07 Why running can change your life
10:07 Advice for someone wanting to get into running
12:02 Growing up into a Korean immigrant family
14:10 Breaking out of the scripts from growing up
15:59 Dan's relationship with God and faith
19:25 Finding Truth in life and beyond
21:56 Deciding to solo bike across America
24:52 The itinerary of the bike ride
27:08 Why Dan decided to travel to South America
29:06 Golden advice on living life to the fullest
31:53 Tim Ferriss's fear setting exercise for risk-taking
34:03 Lessons learned from working with a startup at NYC
36:31 Dan's advice to his younger self
40:49 What Dan learned from being a life coach
41:45 Knowing how to best serve your clients
45:13 Why you should spend more time in solitude
47:01 What should you do if you're burnt out?
49:07 How to deal with feeling misalignment
50:43 Charging what you believe you're worth
52:39 Lessons from a career in sales
54:01 What does success mean to Dan?
56:36 Dan's vision of "Love God, others, and myself."
57:48 Advice to ambitious young people looking to do cool things
59:00 Where can people find Dan?
Follow Dan:
X: https://twitter.com/DanTAhn
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dantahn/
Website: https://www.dantahn.com/
Follow Jeston:
X: https://twitter.com/jestonlu
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jestonlu
Website: https://www.jestonlu.com
Writing: https://jestonlu.substack.com/
Musinary Media: Conversations with visionaries who blend art and business into their life and work. Musinary Media is under the greater Musinary ecosystem ("music" + "visionary"). Musinary's mission is to create musical spaces for artists and entrepreneurs around the world.