Climb Your Mountain
Life coach, mountaineer, and ultra runner Sarah Maurer shares her best endurance training strategies to help you climb your mountain or run your race — in any body at any age. Listen and learn how to eat, train, think, and above all live like a mountain athlete. Each week, Sarah will teach you practical strategies to overcome self-doubt, deal with training setbacks, save time, and stay happy and healthy through the long training season. Sarah earned her high altitude mountaineering certificate from Colorado Mountain Club in 2017 at age 41 and has since summited peaks in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, and the USA, including Mount Rainier. She's also completed six (and counting) ultramarathons. She's living, breathing proof that you don't need to be 22 and have 6% body fat to be an endurance athlete. On this podcast, she shares her no-nonsense advice on fitness, (un)diet, motivation, and self belief to help you train for your goal. It's a mix of interviews and solo jam sessions you won't want to miss. So subscribe and get ready to blow your own mind.
Climb Your Mountain
#70 – The Fastest Path to Mastery Is Through the River of Misery
Learning a new skill? A new job? How about a new language?
Did you dive in with enthusiasm — only to find yourself in a world of discomfort?
The hard truth is, growth is a messy process. And there's often an extended "river of misery" you must wade through on your way to mastery.
But the only alternative is to return to the bank you came from — and never see what else you're capable of.
And if you're listening to this podcast, I know you are hungry to stretch and evolve!
In this week's episode, I'll offer six practical tips to sustain you through your River of Misery phase of learning.
Enjoy!
Resources Mentioned:
- My Body Graph (free human design chart)
- Whitney Barbery
- Simone Seol
- Brooke Castillo
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