The Mat or the Bar
Short | 1 months ago
Two versions of Friday night. In one, Lee Stuckey is on the jiu-jitsu mat with martial artists, grinding, training, building something. In the other, he is at a bar, drinking, partying, going nowhere. He lived both lives. Nearly three decades later, the sco...
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The One-for-One Swap
Podcast | 1 months ago
Look at every person in your inner circle and ask one question: Are they helping you grow, or are they draining you? Lee Stuckey calls it the one-for-one swap. For every toxic, parasitic relationship he identified, he removed them and deliberately replaced ...
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I Don't Have Time to Bury You
Short | 1 months ago
You think taking your life ends the pain. It does not. It transfers it to every person who ever cared about you. Lee Stuckey watched hundreds of people show up to a funeral asking the same question: Why didn't he call me? That Marine was talking to Stuckey ...
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A Phone Call Saved This Marine's Life. Now He's Stopped 600 Suicides | Lee Stuckey
Podcast | 1 months ago
A Marine officer, professional MMA fighter, and jiu-jitsu practitioner came home from his third combat deployment in Mosul and sat down at a table with a loaded Glock. His mother called his phone at the exact second he began to pull the trigger. Joe De Sena...
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The First 10 Minutes Are the Hardest
Podcast | 1 months ago
Karl Meltzer does not care how fast you move. He cares that you move. At 58, he is slower. He knows it. He is not chasing times anymore. But he still gets outside every day because the hardest part is always the same: The first ten minutes. After that, you ...
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11 of 14 Were Mental
Podcast | 1 months ago
Karl Meltzer has 14 DNFs across 94 hundred-mile races. Only three were injuries. The other eleven were mental. He tells the story of quitting Hard Rock: Laying on a cot, telling Mike Wardian to leave him alone, cutting his wristband. Two hours later, the re...
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94 Hundred-Milers at 58 Years Old: Karl Meltzer on Pain, Quitting, and Finishing What You Start
Podcast | 1 months ago
Ninety-four 100-mile races finished. 14 DNFs. A bartending shift that turned into a Red Bull sponsorship. Karl Meltzer, known as the “Speedgoat,” sits down with Joe De Sena to talk about what it actually takes to keep showing up to the start line at 58 year...
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Just Blink
Podcast | 1 months ago
Karl Meltzer has finished 94 hundred-milers. He still wants to quit during them. The car is right there. The hotel is right there. The nap is calling. But he uses one word to keep moving: blink. The idea is simple. You are suffering now. By this time tomorr...
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Caught as a Corporate Spy
Podcast | 1 months ago
Early in her career, Tina Seelig's boss told her to misrepresent herself at a conference. She did it. She got caught. She had no line drawn, so she crossed one without seeing it. That is how the slippery slope works. One small yes to someone else's ask. The...
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Read at His Funeral
Podcast | 1 months ago
Tina Seelig sent a thank-you letter to a professor 20 years after taking his course. She was now teaching at Stanford herself and realized how much his teaching had shaped her. She never heard back. Years later, his granddaughter emailed her. The professor ...
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The Anti-Luck Device
Podcast | 2 months ago
Tina Seelig has been at Stanford for over 27 years. She watches students walk past each other every day with earbuds in and eyes locked on screens. She calls the phone in your pocket an anti-luck device. Every time you walk through a room plugged into techn...
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27 Years at Stanford Revealed the Anti-Luck Device You Carry Every Day
Podcast | 2 months ago
A Stanford professor who has spent 27 years studying how opportunity works says the device in your pocket is destroying your luck. Tina Seelig, PhD in neuroscience, builder of Stanford's entrepreneurship center, and author of What I Wish I Knew About Luck, ...
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