Today’s guest is is a keynote speaker, social entrepreneur, endurance athlete, and the only person to solo row across the ocean with no prior experience, introducing Tez Steinberg, Keynote Speaker at Tez Talk and Chief Engine Officer at United World Challenge. Tez sits down with Gregory McDonough and shares the challenges he faced while rowing across the ocean and how he overcame them. Tez discusses the importance of normalizing the feelings you feel. If someone says, ‘This is hard’, make them feel heard and validate their feelings. Listen to the amazing advice Tez gives about how to pick a goal that scares you.

Takeaways:

• Having an endurance mindset has impacted Tez's life in many ways. Tez discovered endurance sports while going through depression. It was what helped him get through it.
• When starting with endurance racing, added optimism in his life and made him feel like he had room to grow. He set goals to help achieve his journey.
• Tez rode across the ocean as an inexperienced rower. He only had three days of training before he started. This has impacted his endurance mindset and showed him that he CAN do these things. 
• Tez recommends picking a goal that scares you. Specifically, a goal that you have no knowledge about. With this goal, you will learn how to trust yourself in order to achieve these new challenges.
• During the three days Tez was on the ocean, he ran into some unexpected challenges that caused him to doubt himself. He reminded himself that it is okay to quit but, he was determined to finish his challenge for his father.
• Tez expresses the importance of creating a culture where people can speak up and normalize their feelings. If someone's saying this is hard, make them feel heard first before offering advice on how to change things.
• When Tez was alone on the ocean, he didn’t feel alone. Tez says that he felt like he was one with himself by being able to spend time with himself and being in his own company. This impacted him positively by learning to invest in quality time with himself.

Quote of the Show:

• “I think the endurance mindset is something that's relevant to people from all walks of life. You don’t have to be an endurance athlete.” - Tez Steinberg

Links:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/tezsteinberg 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tezsteinberg/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tezsteinberg/ 
• Website: https://teztalk.com/ and https://unitedworldchallenge.org/ 
• Article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-i-learned-from-running-marathon-5-months-after-my-tez-steinberg-1c/ 

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