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Charlie Sarmiento is an endurance athlete and successful entrepreneur. He is the founder of Vertikal Sports, a performance athletic studio located in Guatemala, that focuses on personalized training programs based on results of medical, metabolic, mental, power and strength evaluations carried out by the team of high-performance specialists.

In this episode we discuss Charlie's adventure in moving to America, his escape from the corporate rat race, how he discovered his passion for endurance sports, his deeply spiritual experience during an ultra marathon, and much more.

Chapters

0:00 - Intro

14:15 - Death and uncertainty

29:15 - Processing old emotions like anger and resentment

35:15 - Combating depression through the North Face endurance challenge

44:30 - Healing the mother wound

47:45 - Travels, adventure, and moving to America

54:45 - Escaping the rat race, finding fulfillment in life, and pushback from loved ones

1:03:30 - Pursuing your dream from a place of love

1:06:45 - The runners high

1:13:00 - Integrating insights after ultra marathon in Fiji

1:19:15 - Nasdaq for athletes

1:33:15 - Current cultural and societal shifts around technology and AI

1:41:15 - How to navigate the current shifts if our world

1:53:15 - Overcoming rejection fear

1:57:00 - The one play that ended Joes NFL career, & owning your value

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Instagram | @ultrasarmiento

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Website | https://charliesarmiento.com/

Mentioned Within Podcast

Volcano Summit | https://www.volcanosummit.com/

Vertikal | https://vertikalsportscapital.com/

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