Obstacle Running: Recent Episodes
RJ DeLong
This podcast begins with an audiobook by the same name and continues with the same theme in mind. Obstacle Running is a guide to accomplishing your next breakthrough on the quest to become the best version of yourself. It will provide a recipe for maximizing BELIEF, WILLPOWER, and ENERGY in order to achieve SUCCESS.
Topics covered include: uncovering your burning desire, developing the winning mindset, conquering fear, pushing to failure, finding the right mentors, forming key habits, attaining peak fitness, the best productivity apps, and the power of conviction.
RJ DeLong recounts stories and lessons learned in his career as a top sales rep for Cutco, selling investments, studying and passing Level II of the CFA Program, starting a solar development company, a crypto hedge fund, and becoming an author and podcaster.
There are 9 basic fears that cause people to take the safe routes in life instead of the effective “difference maker” routes. Like the speech, this book will help you develop the mindset that our fears are in fact nothing more than:
FALSE EXPECTATIONS APPEARING REAL
A mathematical example is given to show how one must keep in mind both the stakes of winning as well as the probability of winning when deciding if an idea or investment is a good one.
For a large portion of my life I believed there were people that were born more gifted or talented, and that those were the people that became professional athletes, superstar singers, actors, top salespeople, ivy leaguers, etc...
This true story serves to dispel that myth.
Obstacle Running is about achieving your next breakthrough on your quest to become the best version of yourself. These are the most important lessons, habits, agreements, and experiences that I've learned as a salesman and entrepreneur. I cover the table of contents of the book, my career path and history a bit, and how the podcast will continue after reading the chapters of the book.