Helping runners move faster and injury free is the mission of Nathan Helming. A former Ironman qualifier, Nathan Helming runs programming for San Francisco Crossfit with a focus on helping runners and triathletes become better rounded athletes. He's taking this passion into a startup called The Run Experience which guides athletes through strength, conditioning and problem solving to reach their goals through online webinars. Frustration with chronic injury spurred by a too narrow focus on conditioning caused Helming to seek out SF crossfit with its philosophy of a more balanced approach. He is now adapting his experience to propel athletes past their limitations. Lessons: 1. Be process focused: set aside fear of the outcome and engage in the task at hand. 2. Understand that you have a choice at every moment. 3. Don't be afraid to ask for help.

The founder of Charity Water, Scott Harrison was a successful nightclub promoter living a life of decadence many might envy. He found himself hobnobbing with the beautiful people on a daily basis, but he had an epiphany on the beaches of Uruguay. Though he didn't lack materially he was morally, spiritually and emotionally bereft. He sold everything, took up residence in a friend's closet and volunteered in war torn Liberia, paying for the privilege. While there he found his mission: He would use his influence to help remediate the lack of clean water that often leads to disease for the 660 million people in third world nations who are affected. Lessons: 1. To change your life, and the life of others, it may be necessary to step into a new story of your life and scrap the old one. 2. The best way to motivate change is through the promise of positive action with tangible results and not through shame or guilt. 3. Do not compromise your values and morality; maintain your tenacity and you will find a way through the challenge.

With a military career spanning 26 years, retired Col. Fellinger has become a model of resilience and fitness. He asks that you bring him the hardest problems you have because he lives to overcome them. As he explains, it's a process and one that can be practiced but not necessarily mastered. After all, if you're not at least a little off balance, how are you challenging yourself and growing stronger? Joe and he discuss the most vital element to fitness--building mental strength through motivation, risk taking, mental agility and mental resilience. Lessons: 1. Remember the French Paratrooper's Prayer (to paraphrase): Give me Lord what others don't want, uncertainty, doubt, torment and battle, but also the courage, the energy and spirit to face them. 2. To stay motivated take the first step and you will soon create irreversible momentum, inertia that will take on a life of it's own. 3. Build mental resilience through facing challenges you didn't anticipate and generalizing the resultant confidence throughout your life.

The "man whisperer" Mammarella-D'Cruz runs men's groups that set them on a course to fulfillment. Clients, even billionaires, find they need help understanding how to achieve happiness. His ability was honed by the dire circumstances of his own childhood. After his family was placed on the death list in Uganda, Mammarella-D'Cruz spent a significant portion of his formative years on the run. This summoned his survival instincts, which were vital at the time, but when the threat eased were not helping him live the life he had dreamed. After a string of successful endeavours that left him wanting, he learned to live life to it's fullest and is helping others do the same. Lessons: 1. Find how your life's "script" impedes you, to move on. 2. It's more efficient to learn from other's mistakes than to make them yourself. 3. If your life is entirely run by your internal protector you are surviving and not living.

Adaptive athlete Amy Winters, is so resilient she was chosen to help struggling athletes complete the brutal 60+ hour Spartan endurance event Agoge. If you ask her, she won't credit rugged individualism for her perseverance. She relies on the strength of others to buoy her up as she does the same for them. It may be that the wellspring of grit that her loss summoned helped her to recognize and rouse that same potential in others. Lessons: 1. When you see something different about a person, smile with them. 2. Working as a team, as a community, you bring to the fore each other's strengths and lift each other towards completing the improbable. 3. To connect with people, disconnect from the screen. LINKS: One Step Ahead Foundation https://onestepaheadfoundation.wordpress.com/ One Step Ahead Foundation on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/OneStepAheadFoundation/

Coach of the highly successful wrestling program at Cornell, Rob Koll wasn't an overnight success. His virtuosity was years in the making, working hard and surrounding himself with the kind of motivating people that would eventually transform the program into a powerhouse. When asked, Koll denies that his methods involve any mystique. He simply doles out his nose to the grindstone, meat and potatoes work ethic with devastating consistency. Those who don't have the discipline to endure it fall by the wayside. Those who do, find themselves competing with the best and winning often. Lessons: 1. It's not how much you want to win that day; it's how much you want to win on all the days leading up to that day. 2. Even a mildly active wrestler is going to go through more pain, hardship and sacrifice than the average person on the street. 3. A supportive upbringing that instills good values is crucial.

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A restaurateur with 7 NYC restaurants and a passion for fitness, his restaurants have succeeded in large part due to Chernow's keen sense of emotional intelligence. One of the unique ways he keeps his staff happy is the emphasis he places on fitness in the workplace and the program he started to cultivate this. The interview takes place in Seamore's which specializes in locally caught species that are delectable but often overlooked. Dogfish, for example, is just as tasty as trendier fare. Chernow is working new projects with a voracious diligence Chernow can trace back to his childhood. As a kid he walked dogs and delivering food to transcend his family's modest lifestyle. Lessons 1. Don't underestimate anyone. There's no way of gauging how valuable a relationship will be down the line. 2. Don't "want," "need," or "wish" …. "do." 3. Cultivate a happy, cohesive team and the guests will be made happy as a matter of course.

UFC fighter "The Spaniard" and lifelong wrestler, Charlie grew up in normal circumstances. As he puts it "I'm just like you," he didn't have to overcome a great deprivation or trauma, he just worked hard and went on to great successes. Brenneman dispels the myth that you must follow a Rocky type trajectory to compete with the best. Instead he shares the simple steps he took, including surrounding himself with good mentors and Consistency. He arrived by realizing that in a sport like wrestling in which "heartbreak far outweighs the triumph" the journey is what matters. Lessons: 1. Being in a normal family that provides good core values and a supportive environment is an underestimated advantage. It doesn't take extraordinary circumstances to do extraordinary things. 2. Every opportunity, no matter how small, counts. Things add up. 3. If you don't move the proverbial line in the sand, you're never going to get best.

A former infantry officer Josh Mantz was shot by a sniper in Baghdad. He flatlined, and his life was in the hands of a nineteen year old medic in the heat of battle. Mantz was revived ten minutes after the period that's considered survivable. When asked why, the medic said simply that he never gives up. Mantz moved on to Tesla, pioneers in electric vehicles. The atmosphere there is in some ways as intense as the military. Why? They too are mission driven. Outside of Tesla Mantz has harnessed his healing to help veterans heal from their trauma. Lessons: 1. You can't do it all alone, sometimes even your very life is in the hands of others. 2. Recognizing and absolving yourself of guilt and shame is the first step in overcoming trauma. 3. A solid sense of mission and purpose precedes any great accomplishment. CREDITS Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra, Col. Tim Nye, Delle & David Deluca Synopsis – Matt Baatz © 2016 Spartan

Former Olympic downhill skier Doug Lewis decided at 8 he'd compete on the Wold Cup level. Success came very early, but during his first World Cup race at age 17 he broke his back. Failure, he now says, is critical to building confidence. He went on to win World Cup Bronze and represent the US in 3 Olympic games. The problem with peaking early is the looming question of what to do next - and will anyone care. Lewis chose to pass on the lessons he learned by creating a youth development program called Eliteam. He also chose to stayed close to ski racing and is a Skiing analyst for NBC for World Cup and Olympic games. Lewis is content with his life, but continues every day to look for new adventures and inspire kids to set lofty goals then dig deep to achieve them. Lessons: 1. Good coaches set goals challenging enough to spur growth but not so overwhelming they create despair. 2. Students should set goals they may never reach, they will provide direction and inspiration. 3. Confidence requires failure. 4. In any meaningful life path, ebbs and flows are inevitable.