S1 E11: The Mark Allen & Pat Di Cerbo Episode

• Mark talks about what it was like when he was competing in Ironman triathlons, the first six of which he was not able to win.

• Mark shares how his family and friends told him that he shouldn't even keep doing the Ironman in Hawaii and how he challenged himself to ask the question, “what is it within me that's keeping me from the results I want?”

• Mark talks about how he increased his training and added 10% on to it, also training during the hottest part of the day to get himself to a point where he could compete as needed the day of the race. He also talks about the mindset changes and how he started thinking differently in order to make that happen.

• Mark shares with us how he sees similarities between the world of business and the world of Ironman competitions.

• Mark and Pat share their mindset on what “take it to completion” means for each of them, and how they able to take the focus away from the results and focus on the input. Lots of good conversation there about how Pat has taken some of the things he's learned from Mark and applied them to the world of business.

• Pat discusses how he helped Mark get better known in the speaking world, within the financial services industry particularly, and how they really formed a great relationship over the last 10 plus years.

• Mark talks about the challenge of what it was like to win his first Ironman, and how the rivalry he had with Dave Scott helped both of them get better and break world records as they were pushing each other to grow. He expresses that he genuinely wanted Dave to have a great race.

• Mark talks about how he realized he never wanted Dave, or someone he was racing against, to have a bad day because he wanted to beat him on his best day. Mark shares about the final Ironman that he won, where he needed to catch up with a 24-year-old , he was 37 at the time. No one had ever won one at age 37, and he told himself he was going to have to have his best race. It is a great conversation between Mark and Pat about this idea of there is no guarantee you're going to get the reward; the only guarantee is the only thing we control is the work we put into it.

• There also is a great discussion about the champion’s mindset and a conversation about how Mark learned to quiet his mind using the spiritual teachings of Shaman Brant Secunda. Together, they wrote “Fit Soul Fit Body” and are hosting a seminar in April in Stockbridge, MA.