Who gathers a group of six NON-mountaineers, trains them mentally and physically for a year and then climbs the tallest mountain in the Western Hemisphere with them? For personal and professional growth reasons. Who DOES that?! Leadership Guide, Speaker and Author Stephen McGhee does.

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And he’s my guest in this episode of Tough Talks. And what a treat he is! Stephen and I have spent exactly zero hours of time together in the same physical space but I have studied him and followed his work for years in such a way that I feel like he’s a brother. We have also shared the same amazing coaches so we really are kindred spirits. And that made for a really “spirited” dialog on purpose, passion, commitment, mental toughness, success, meditation and jumping into freezing cold water.

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Here are some of the highlights:

- Mastery doesn’t mean perfection, it means progression.

- Urgency doesn’t mean being in a hurry, it means that since life is so precious, let’s create NOW with what we have.

- Getting “soft” as a Man. - The WHY of the Aconcagua Men’s Project.

- Climbing as the metaphor for intrinsic freedom.

- The necessity of doing something completely “unreasonable.”

- “Suffering is underrated!”

- Who soaks in a goddamn ice bath for 4 minutes every morning?!

- His approach to integrating “bad news”

- The discipline of doing the thing you just don’t feel like doing.

- The Sanskrit origin of the word, “hu-man.”

- His gift to you for listening.

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Links: www.mcgheeleadership.com

http://www.vimeo.com/ondemand/14289 (this is to get a free copy of the documentary of the Aconcagua climb!)

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