Today we sit down with the indomitable Jeramiah Solven. Jeramiah is an Army Ranger Veteran, Amazon #1 Best Selling Author, MMA Fighter, Entrepreneur and Coach. He wrote “The Whole Man Project: Military Athlete Performance Manual”, founded Conquer Academy, and created Suffering Saturdays. Our conversation follows Jeramiah’s journey from shy country boy to Ranger Officer and Entrepreneur.

Highlights from our conversation include:

- Suffering Saturdays. - The true path to growth is through pain. - Attack what you hate. - Play scared, don’t live safe. - Asking hard questions about life. - The calling must be greater than the comfort. - Rollercoasters of self-doubt. - Pay it forward. - Ultra-marathons. - Get ahead of your negative dialog. - Engineering your ecosystem - MMA & Entrepreneurship - Growth Mindset

To learn more about Jeramiah check out his Instagram @jeramiahsolven.

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09;16;25;13 - 09;16;24;15

Jon

I want to shoot a bow.

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Jeramiah

I can't say.

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Jeramiah

It is like he.

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Jeramiah

May or may not follow me on Instagram, too.

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Jeramiah

All right.

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Jeramiah

So so I'm looking at his stuff and I'm like, I'm like, I think I want to do something like this. So I go on Google and I look and I find out, you know, I look at the race schedule.

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Jeramiah

I'm like, Is there anything around me anytime soon? And there's a race? And it's it's the following Saturday. And so I'm like.

09;15;58;21 - 09;15;56;27

Jeramiah

Again, you don't want to do this.

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Jeramiah

Like this makes me nervous, OK, I'm clicking it. I'm signing up.

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Jeramiah

Yeah.

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Jeramiah

So I click, I sign up and then I'm immediate, like, fuck what I get myself into. Yeah. So I call a friend of mine who I knew had ran a few hundred miles before, and I'm like, Hey, just reality check man.

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Jeramiah

Like, Am I going to die out here and this thing? And not only is it 100 mile race, but it's it's in Silver Hills, Colorado.

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Jeramiah

Oh, good. So elevation.

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Jeramiah

Yeah, so it's 11,000 feet average.

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Jeramiah

Oh no.

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Jeramiah

We go from nine to 13,000 feet the whole race. Mm hmm. And it's a 36 hour race, first one I've ever even thought of doing, and I'm signing up for right. This is blessed, I guess. But so I call my buddy, I'm like, Is this suicide?

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Jeramiah

Yeah. And he's like, He's like, What's your running mileage been at? You know, what's longest run you've done? He's, you know, you're going back and forth and he's like, Here's my honest opinion. He's like, he's like, I think you can do it, but it's not going to be pretty.

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Jeramiah

Yeah.

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Jeramiah

And he's like, I think you'll get through it just just based off of mental toughness. Yeah. And I was like, I it's all I need. And so I committed to it and I drove. It was Saturday morning RC see me Friday.

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Jeramiah

My wife had business, so I took a fuckin Uber to almost two hour drive from my house with a grocery bag full of shit.

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Jeramiah

Like an extra pair of.

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Jeramiah

Shoes and some snacks. Like, I had no idea what to pack or bring, right? And I had figured out I'd done a little bit of research prior to the event. Not super detailed stuff, but I asked my my buddy like, what's the most?

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Jeramiah

If you had any piece of advice? What's the piece of advice you give me to complete this thing? Great question. He said. He said, Hey, just prepare for miles 70. And I said, Why seven? He said, Well, because if you if you think about mile 70, he's like, You're going to pace yourself a little differently, you're going

09;14;20;02 - 09;14;09;01

Jeramiah

to eat differently and you're going to be past the hardest part. And I said, OK, so I put I built my whole plan around at mile 70. How I had my my bag set up on the course is a complete disaster.

09;14;08;04 - 09;13;56;05

Jeramiah

And I ended up driving from my house that I Uber. I showed up Friday night. I woke up at 2:00 in the morning. 4:00 was start time and we start taking off. And I mean, it was a nasty.

09;13;56;00 - 09;13;50;05

Jeramiah

It was a nasty hundred miler. Uh, not pretty. And they almost had to pull me off of the mountain at like mile 20.

09;13;49;21 - 09;13;49;05

Jeramiah

Oh no.

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Jeramiah

So it was it was gross. I can go into detail but.

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Jeramiah

Didn't finish it.

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Jeramiah

So I did finish it. So, yeah.

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Jon

Let's have some fun. Like, we're like Waterman. We're going to go where it makes sense to go right with the flow. So you're you sign up a week prior. Yeah, yeah. I think you can do it based off mental toughness, and you have the basic conditioning to say you probably won't die.

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Jon

Yeah, so you go you're preparing from all 70. Doesn't sound like you have race support.

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Jeramiah

Yeah, you just have a bag. No, no team. When everybody.

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Jeramiah

Has a team, when you get there and I know.

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Jeramiah

So solo uber Typekit. Everybody like.

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Jeramiah

You know what a drop bag was?

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Jeramiah

Yeah, somebody said.

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Jeramiah

What's your major drop bag? I said, What the fuck is that?

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Jeramiah

Yeah, like, you're going to die. I got a grocery.

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Jeramiah

Bag full of snacks.

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Jeramiah

I put.

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Jeramiah

It into smaller bags and.

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Jeramiah

You're going to die. Yeah. seven Mile 22.

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Jon

Why did they almost pull you off? And then what happened? Because didn't finish it. I'm assuming you did.

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Jeramiah

Yeah. So I think I did finish the race. So what happened? I'm wearing a pair of, uh, like 50 dollar pair under armor shoes. Yeah, OK. I brought a second pair of shoes to transition into after the first night iteration.

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Jeramiah

So I show up and we start racing. You know, it's 4:00 in the morning and I have no idea what I'm doing. So I. Run next to someone more experienced guys, and I basically start learning how to complete a 100 mile race, 100 mile race.

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Jeramiah

I'm asking them questions like, Hey, what do you guys eat when you do these things right?

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Jeramiah

Like, how.

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Jeramiah

Often do you eat those type of things?

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Jon

And they're like, Dude, we're running. Yeah.

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Jeramiah

We're like already going uphill. And so we're. And these guys are experienced. Yep, come to find out. one of the guys I was running with was the only person who is the only person in history that's ran 100 consecutive 100 miles.

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Jeramiah

Oh no.

09;12;10;13 - 09;12;09;04

Aaron

You got lucky picking him like.

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Jeramiah

I didn't know this.

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Jon

Active by what.

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Jeramiah

Weekends you want. Every weekend for 100 weeks, he ran 100 miles. Any person in history has ever done that. And I didn't know anything about this guy right next to him, and I'm like trotting next to him for the first ten miles.

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Jeramiah

That's a problem.

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Jeramiah

Yeah, that's going to kill you. Yeah, I'm running too fast.

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Jeramiah

Like, I should not be. So I'm like asking him questions and he's telling me how he eats. I'm like, What about sleep? Do you guys not sleep out here? Is that cool or how you do it? Never forget, he said.

09;11;43;06 - 09;11;40;29

Jeramiah

You'd be surprised. five minutes can buy you an hour.

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Jeramiah

Hmm.

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Jeramiah

And what he was saying is that if you need to take a knee for five minutes, do it because you're going to get a whole hour of energy after that. Hmm. So I would use that technique throughout the night and stuff.

09;11;31;07 - 09;11;22;26

Jeramiah

But anyways, I'm running with these guys and I blow up because I'm running away too fast. We're going uphill. And probably there's some, you know, there's some hypocrisy in there, probably as well, because I'm running.

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Jeramiah

A little hubris. Yeah, exactly.

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Jeramiah

So I get nauseous is in the first five miles. I don't have the nutrition stuff on me like I need. I know this all sounds like this guy's an idiot, right? I guess that's what people are thinking. But I just made some simple mistakes, actually a little quick, and I'm learning as I go and I'm adjusting on

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Jeramiah

the fly when I get to mile like 15, it's still straight up. This is for, you know, 1020 miles uphill the whole time.

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Jeramiah

Hmm.

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Jeramiah

And I'm at mile 20 and my stomach is turned upside down and I have the worst headache I've ever had in my life. I'm sick. I'm like dizzy, half sunburnt, and I'm like, There's no fucking way I can finish 100 miles.

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Jeramiah

Yeah.

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Jeramiah

And and so I'm like, Just get to the aid station, recoup and then and then decide whether or not you're going to pay for it. And so I get out there and I hit that aid station and I kind of like a wounded animal.

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Jeramiah

I basically like, hide out, right? I'm like, I go to find a shady spot. I take off my shoes and I just got collapse and I'm like, Dude, I'm so fucked up and have to pull me off of this mountain.

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Jeramiah

With that, like with a litter.

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Jeramiah

Is what I'm thinking. Or a helicopter or something. I can't get out of it, you know, scars screaming.

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Jeramiah

Yeah, yeah.

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Jeramiah

And so I'm sitting there and I'm like, in pain. I'm like, Why are you doing this? Or You can't complete this thing? You still have 80 miles to go. And I'm laying there. And one of the things I did before the race was, I got it clear why, right?

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Jeramiah

I'm like, Why are you doing this? Why are you going to do on my race? And I said that I have these goals that I'm working on. I have business goals, family goals, real estate goals. And like, if you're really, truly committed to these things long term, prove it by sacrificing and committing to this 100 mile race

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Jeramiah

. So that was my way of proving, proving that I'm I'm invested in my goals, real world with action, right? And so I'm laying there and my wife is coming back up and I'm like, I'm like, If you're serious about these goals, you don't quit, right?

09;09;32;16 - 09;09;20;10

Jeramiah

You do not quit. That's what you're proven right now. And if there's ever a moment like God spoke to me, it was in this moment where at that 20 mile marker, I got hit with this energy and it was like game time.

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Jeramiah

I mean, I do not fucking quit. They're not pulling me off this mountain and those voices started again. So scar on one side, cymbal on the other, and I was over. There are some battling Scar like, you're going to get up and we're going to move forward or I'm going to drag your.

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Jeramiah

Course for the next 80 fucking right.

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Jon

It's not like you're close.

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Jeramiah

Bro. It was that it was one of.

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Jeramiah

The most, darkest experiences I've ever.

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Jeramiah

Been.

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Jeramiah

I've had in my life where I'm just in this and for the next, like 20 miles, OK, I'm in this. It was almost like this cloud was around me.

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Jeramiah

Yeah, it was dark.

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Jeramiah

I'm by myself. Nobody's around and just one foot in the front, the other and climbing up this hill. I get to the top of the 40 mile marker, and when I get to the top of this thing, it's like the cloud, the skies clear and I have this new energy and I'm like.

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Jeramiah

Holy shit.

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Jeramiah

Dude, I think I can finish this thing. And so, like Scar basically goes away. There's Simba, and I start trotting again, and I keep pushing and I push into the night. The night's another dark time. It's basically I'm in ranger panties in a fuckin T-shirt.

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Jeramiah

Up in the a high elevation.

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Jon

It's the time of year.

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Jeramiah

It it's it was like August time frame. So OK.

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Jon

So it's still gets chilly enough.

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Jeramiah

It was it. We got down to 30 degrees. Yeah, it was 30 degrees up there. And not only that, but when you've been in for 24 hours, your body temperature drops, OK? And so I'm I'm in ranger pants and a T-shirt and just trekking through the night like said sleep like ranger school.

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Jeramiah

Sleepy, tired.

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Jon

In real quick to serve ranger panties are essentially like a man thong. You know it is like the bare minimum you can think speedo there.

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Jeramiah

Loose boxer shorts? Pretty much.

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Jon

Yeah, very short.

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Jeramiah

There's a lot of pride and I'm sure there is because you.

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Jeramiah

Earn that, you go to Ranger school and you earn the right to wear Ranger panties later on.

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Jon

So I just want to make sure everyone has that. So they had the visualization of you dying on the side of the mountain.

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Jeramiah

In the dark.

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Jon

In short.

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Jeramiah

Shorts. Yeah, yeah.

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Jeramiah

It's it's like I push and I go through the night and that's a nasty fight. It's just me constantly fighting, falling asleep, waking back up one foot in front of the other, like sleeping while you're walking, you know, like hiking and shit.

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Jeramiah

So I push and then the sunrises, actually. Yeah, the sunrises. And one of the guys tells me, Hey, there's your good bro. Like, there's no more gates left on this race, meaning you just have to finish the course.

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Jeramiah

There's no checkpoints that you have to meet. You have to be on time for.

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Jeramiah

OK, OK.

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Jeramiah

So I'm like, since that's a sense of relief, I can go at my own pace. I just got to finish this thing according to what I think makes sense. I don't have to race to the next.

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Jeramiah

Checkpoint.

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Jon

To not get disqualified, essentially.

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Jeramiah

Exactly.

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Jon

So that's how that was there, because I know that for a lot of these races, there's qualifying events. So for this one, you had to meet the checkpoints. Are there for you?

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Jeramiah

Yeah, exactly. So if you're behind a certain time, they pull you from the course.

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Jon

Gotcha. Just as a liability thing.

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Jeramiah

Yeah, and.

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Jeramiah

They can't spend the weekend cleaning up people that are super, super far behind. Yeah, it's just it's a big nightmare. So they draw the line, OK, but the guy comes in and he, you know, I'm at the one of the aid stations and he's like, Hey, bro, you're good.

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Jeramiah

You know, you just have to finish the rest of the. It was basically another twelve hours or something like that. And I'm like, Oh, since relief, I just kind of walk and jog and and walk and jog. And so I'm going, I'm closing in on on mile.

09;06;12;13 - 09;05;58;04

Jeramiah

I think it was 70. If I'm like, I'm in the sixties, right? Mm in the going towards where my buddy told me, you know, to be prepared from mile 70 and I get to the next checkpoint and I run into that guy that I told you about the one that completely.

09;05;58;00 - 09;05;43;22

Jeramiah

It was the game of Honda's 100 consecutive hundred miles. Yeah, I bump into him. He's like, Bro, are you going so slow? And I was like, We're good. This guy told me, there's no checkpoints. He's like, No, you have to be on time for all the checkpoints we have, like 20 minutes before we got to get to

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Jeramiah

the next one and I'm like, Fuck. And we were, how.

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Jon

Did he find you? Was that just circumstantially.

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Jeramiah

Circumstance like I was watching? Yeah, he he had. I think he caught a power nap and he was on like number 40 of these. So he's pretty experienced, just timing himself. Yeah. And so we got a power nap and then he caught up with me.

09;05;26;06 - 09;05;18;02

Jeramiah

And when he saw me, I'm like, taken. I'm like casually walking down the road like no care in the world, right? He's like, We, we're behind schedule. And I'm like, Fuck, so we run.

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Jon

No more.

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Jeramiah

Late.

09;05;16;04 - 09;05;01;21

Jeramiah

We run for miles, you know, 60 towards 70. You know, I don't know, we're somewhere in there, but it was basically almost a full hour of straight sprinting when you're already past mile 60. And it was most painful leg, one of the most painful legs of the journey.

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Jeramiah

And so I get to the next checkpoint and there's one minute to spare and I've crossed the line and they're like, You don't have time. You're not allowed to stay here past the cutoff time, so you're going to grab a drink.

09;04;50;04 - 09;04;46;20

Jeramiah

You have to leave your drop bag your shoes, and you have to get out to get the fuck.

09;04;46;19 - 09;04;43;20

Jon

Out and they'll carry to the next checkpoint. No bag. It's just gone. It's gone.

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Jeramiah

It's gone. I find so my change of shoes, you know, I had a new set that I was going to wear in new socks and all that shit. I didn't get access to any of it.

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Jon

Because I was just why did they make you drop it out, curiosity?

09;04;33;19 - 09;04;19;15

Jeramiah

So they the drop they have, it's basically a resupply bag that they put at mile 70 for everybody, and they stage it there because you're going to go through a night evolution. And that's the place that makes the most logical sense for you to, you know, give me shoes and everything.

09;04;19;15 - 09;04;07;29

Jeramiah

So anyways, I didn't get I didn't get to put mine on and and I saw more of the same 50 dollar pair of under armor shoes. Same socks end up running finish in the last leg of the race and the last five miles.

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Jeramiah

You know, I came out there to push myself, came out there to see what I had to prove myself to myself, show that I'm committed to to my goals. And the last five miles people are basically kind of, you know, being complacent and they're like, Hey, we're good, we're on time, we're on track and everybody's kind of

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Jeramiah

walking casually towards the finish line, and I catch myself kind of conforming to that.

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Jeramiah

Hmm.

09;03;48;01 - 09;03;38;05

Jeramiah

You know, and I and I'm like walking with them and I'm going on and it's maybe, you know, I got four or three more miles left and I realize, bro, you're taking it easy right now. You're acting like you've arrived already.

09;03;37;10 - 09;03;23;08

Jeramiah

And I'm like, Fuck that. And I saw I came out here to push myself, and so I start sprinting. And that last three miles, what I was basically in tears, like off and on running 400 meters, stopping walking, running 400 yards, stopping walking, like trying to fight back.

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Jeramiah

You know the emotion and I crossed the finish line with that, that pace. And my wife is there and I didn't realize I was going to tear up as I was coming through. But I did. I teared up.

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Jeramiah

I was holding the back because she was filming me good, that I hugged her and got in the car, and within fucking three minutes I fell asleep in the passenger seat, just drooling on myself.

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Jeramiah

Yeah. Do you have any?

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Jon

Well, that's that's awesome. Do you have anything?

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Aaron

Oh my gosh, that's that's an incredible story.

09;02;53;20 - 09;02;53;10

Jeramiah

Yeah.

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Jeramiah

It was. It was tough. But I guess to let you know somebody is listening right now like it's we're sharing my story. I'm nothing special. And what you guys, what I would just, you know, maybe give to the audience is that one of the things that got me through that was connecting while I was doing what what

09;02;36;28 - 09;02;25;08

Jeramiah

I was doing with my action with with future stuff that I was working on, like, I'm doing this for this that helped me out of time. Another thing I did was, you know, I got ahead of the inner dialog in advance.

09;02;25;01 - 09;02;11;21

Jeramiah

OK, so that week before the event anticipated it? Yeah. So I went and I called what I call my power people. So I got about five people in my life, maybe a little more where I know, like your parents, you probably have a parent who's like this, you call them.

09;02;11;21 - 09;01;59;25

Jeramiah

And it doesn't matter what's going on in life. They're like, super encouraging. Oh, it's OK, sweetie, right? Like, they're always no matter what or friends are like this, they always talk good things to you. So I automatically call those people before the event and I said, Hey, man, how you doing?

09;01;59;25 - 09;01;57;19

Jeramiah

I want to catch up almost like a farewell, right?

09;01;57;17 - 09;01;55;08

Jeramiah

Yeah. And how are you doing? And I wake up.

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Jeramiah

And I'm just like, Oh, I just want to see what you're up to.

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Jeramiah

I just.

09;01;52;14 - 09;01;48;29

Jeramiah

Shot the shit and then I'm like, Oh, yeah, and I signed up for 100 miles and they're like.

09;01;48;29 - 09;01;46;05

Jeramiah

Oh man, today. Yeah, yeah, when is it?

09;01;46;05 - 09;01;32;29

Jeramiah

It's in three days. Yeah, well, hey, man, I want you to know that you're going to, you know, you're tough as nails, blah blah blah. All this, they're saying positive things into my years. And so when I was out there, I was thinking about all of them and not like the scar that had been on my shoulder

09;01;32;29 - 09;01;27;08

Jeramiah

at those weak moments. You know, those voices kind of came back and prepared me internally for the route forward.

09;01;27;08 - 09;01;22;17

Aaron

Yeah, yeah, you're kind of creating a bank of encouragement that you get, you know, you're going to rob from.

09;01;22;17 - 09;01;21;20

Jeramiah

Yeah, oh yeah.

09;01;21;20 - 09;01;11;21

Jeramiah

You need that time. And like some power people, you want power people in your life be selective and just and know that they're they serve that purpose in your life, right? Yeah. To feel you feel that inner dialog.

09;01;11;13 - 09;00;54;03

Jon

So yeah, there's a there's a legion of voices that talk about when you have that goal that you want, but you start pursuing and you really hit a breaking point for yourself. A barrier? Yeah. The question of why am I doing this comes up, you know, if you're not prepared for that question, that's yeah, that's the make

09;00;54;03 - 09;00;43;10

Jon

or break. And it's like, for some reason, all these challenges. I completely really it's what I'm fed fat and happy in a comfy spot and like, Oh, I should do this. I don't want to, or I have to.

09;00;43;00 - 09;00;35;09

Jon

And then it's terrible. And at some point. And here's how I know if it's not hard enough. If you don't get that, why am I doing this point? You're like, OK, I'm not pushing enough.

09;00;35;04 - 09;00;30;15

Jeramiah

I like those fucking burpees. Yeah, I was like, Why am I doing it?

09;00;29;28 - 09;00;18;12

Jon

But that's like one of those great like signals that you're on the right track, right? You're you're on the path. It's like, Yeah, I'll go a little bit further. Said, like a lot of what you're talking about, third Life navigational tools.

09;00;18;12 - 09;00;06;28

Jon

Yes. So it's like, OK, why am I doing this suffering sats? Because it will help keep you on the right path. I will know I anyone who can know if they don't start screaming, get themselves to lie to themselves.

09;00;06;28 - 10;59;50;28

Jon

I don't want to do this hard thing. And if I just conditioned myself repeatedly over time, invest in myself to trust that I'll say yes to do this or things. Yeah, that'll create some momentum. Yep. And if I can think in advance, why and answer that question, then when I don't have anything else, I can at least

10;59;50;28 - 10;59;46;00

Jon

say, I am doing this because it's proving to me, whatever your y is.

10;59;45;22 - 10;59;45;12

Jeramiah

Yes.

10;59;45;02 - 10;59;31;14

Jeramiah

This is where people get jacked up. A lot of people have this false illusion that your y should almost be like planted like your purpose should be given to you, like it should be this gift that comes to you in this enlightened moment, right?

10;59;31;09 - 10;59;25;18

Jeramiah

Mm hmm. And it's not. It's a little it's the whisper. Why am I doing this? The whisper plus choice?

10;59;25;10 - 10;59;23;14

Jeramiah

Mm hmm. It's the it's the decision.

10;59;23;14 - 10;59;18;14

Jeramiah

You're going to command it. This is my fucking this is I don't know if you guys like me, Chris, I would do it the whole time you get.

10;59;18;11 - 10;59;17;21

Jeramiah

I'm sorry for.

10;59;17;21 - 10;59;15;29

Jeramiah

That, but I get I'm getting so.

10;59;15;08 - 10;59;13;13

Jeramiah

Amped is good. Let's go with it. Yeah.

10;59;12;13 - 10;58;59;26

Jeramiah

So, you know, when you make it, when you put Purp, when you decide on what your purpose is or what your why is. It's 50% whisper calling. OK, well, you got this kind of telling you to do and then 50% choice.

10;58;59;11 - 10;58;45;04

Jeramiah

Yeah. This is what I'm going to choose as my purpose. This is what I'm going to choose. And then when you make that decision that, OK, this is why I'm doing it. Then what happens as you're pursuing the goal, you reinforce the why and then you basically build it over and over and it compounds and compounds that

10;58;45;04 - 10;58;40;09

Jeramiah

come stronger and stronger, stronger right until it's conviction. This is why I'm doing it. This is why I'm here. That's good.

10;58;40;08 - 10;58;32;08

Aaron

Yeah, you're kind of you're kind of creating a rut in your mind. Yeah, that that now this is how we react when we make wise in our inner head. Yeah.

10;58;31;11 - 10;58;19;01

Jon

And in an even more so, that's all your internal stuff, right? So it's like, OK, I'm conditioned myself to do the hard things. I'm giving myself a reason to rely on when I'm depleted to help me answer that why?

10;58;19;01 - 10;58;10;05

Jon

But then I stop to prove it. That's the action piece. Yeah, right? I said, OK, I know it now. I have to do it, or I'm going to have this huge existential problem I have to deal with, right?

10;58;10;05 - 10;58;01;20

Jon

So I'm going to do it. And then the third. So those are all like just for navigation. And it's kind of like trying to get from point A to point B. You're just navigating your own mind in the pursuit of these goals.