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Brady McDonald

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
498 total appearances

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

When you, it's like, if you don't believe you can run 5k, which a lot of people don't believe, but if you can go and run 1k, which everybody can, you will start to believe that chances are you could run 1.5k. Cause you're like, yeah, I wasn't dead. I wasn't done. You know, I could probably do another half a cake. Right.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

When you, it's like, if you don't believe you can run 5k, which a lot of people don't believe, but if you can go and run 1k, which everybody can, you will start to believe that chances are you could run 1.5k. Cause you're like, yeah, I wasn't dead. I wasn't done. You know, I could probably do another half a cake. Right.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

When you, it's like, if you don't believe you can run 5k, which a lot of people don't believe, but if you can go and run 1k, which everybody can, you will start to believe that chances are you could run 1.5k. Cause you're like, yeah, I wasn't dead. I wasn't done. You know, I could probably do another half a cake. Right.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

So then you go out and do 1.5k and then you're like, yeah, I think I could do two, you know, and you do that over and over again. That's how you create this trust and belief system in yourself. Right. It doesn't happen by you, but you have to do the 1k. Yeah. And that's when you start to do 29029 after that experience. It's like, okay, this is actually not that bad.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

So then you go out and do 1.5k and then you're like, yeah, I think I could do two, you know, and you do that over and over again. That's how you create this trust and belief system in yourself. Right. It doesn't happen by you, but you have to do the 1k. Yeah. And that's when you start to do 29029 after that experience. It's like, okay, this is actually not that bad.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

So then you go out and do 1.5k and then you're like, yeah, I think I could do two, you know, and you do that over and over again. That's how you create this trust and belief system in yourself. Right. It doesn't happen by you, but you have to do the 1k. Yeah. And that's when you start to do 29029 after that experience. It's like, okay, this is actually not that bad.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

Although it's longer, it's more manageable. But hard is... you know, everybody has different heart. And so that's the big thing that people maybe get a little, you know, when, when we start telling these stories, it's like, there's no, I can't even relate to this motherfucker. Right.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

Although it's longer, it's more manageable. But hard is... you know, everybody has different heart. And so that's the big thing that people maybe get a little, you know, when, when we start telling these stories, it's like, there's no, I can't even relate to this motherfucker. Right.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

Although it's longer, it's more manageable. But hard is... you know, everybody has different heart. And so that's the big thing that people maybe get a little, you know, when, when we start telling these stories, it's like, there's no, I can't even relate to this motherfucker. Right.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

But like my wife would never even walk 5k, but you know, not too long ago, she just hiked 20 K or 20 miles, sorry, 20 miles. And she's doing two nine Oh two nine. And it's because it started small. Right. Yeah.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

But like my wife would never even walk 5k, but you know, not too long ago, she just hiked 20 K or 20 miles, sorry, 20 miles. And she's doing two nine Oh two nine. And it's because it started small. Right. Yeah.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

But like my wife would never even walk 5k, but you know, not too long ago, she just hiked 20 K or 20 miles, sorry, 20 miles. And she's doing two nine Oh two nine. And it's because it started small. Right. Yeah.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

and um well and plus the proximity she is to you doing this crazy stuff yeah she's like look she's seeing you what you're worth she's like if this jerk does exactly yeah dude the other day was so cool so we were uh before the clearwater marathon might i have a four-year-old daughter she ran a 5k 14 minute miles she's this big that's awesome yeah and it's just proximity

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

and um well and plus the proximity she is to you doing this crazy stuff yeah she's like look she's seeing you what you're worth she's like if this jerk does exactly yeah dude the other day was so cool so we were uh before the clearwater marathon might i have a four-year-old daughter she ran a 5k 14 minute miles she's this big that's awesome yeah and it's just proximity

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

and um well and plus the proximity she is to you doing this crazy stuff yeah she's like look she's seeing you what you're worth she's like if this jerk does exactly yeah dude the other day was so cool so we were uh before the clearwater marathon might i have a four-year-old daughter she ran a 5k 14 minute miles she's this big that's awesome yeah and it's just proximity

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

Yeah, so the next thing we did was the 100 miler. My coach said, what do you want to do next? I said, well, I think I want to run 100 miles and raise $100,000 for charity. I think you donated a bunch of money for that. I did. Thanks again, John. Mm-hmm.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

Yeah, so the next thing we did was the 100 miler. My coach said, what do you want to do next? I said, well, I think I want to run 100 miles and raise $100,000 for charity. I think you donated a bunch of money for that. I did. Thanks again, John. Mm-hmm.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

Yeah, so the next thing we did was the 100 miler. My coach said, what do you want to do next? I said, well, I think I want to run 100 miles and raise $100,000 for charity. I think you donated a bunch of money for that. I did. Thanks again, John. Mm-hmm.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

um and we were yeah we ended up raising 85 000 for charity for that for for that run so we ran the 100 miles and that was hard dude like like you're in a pain hole like you've never experienced like next to giving birth like if i was to give birth or you know if i knew what that was like this would be like giving birth but for like 18 hours straight but i have a friend of my name tony grappo that was here in town and tony's like tony did this when he was like 65 yeah i think he did 100 miler and i asked him i said bro

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

um and we were yeah we ended up raising 85 000 for charity for that for for that run so we ran the 100 miles and that was hard dude like like you're in a pain hole like you've never experienced like next to giving birth like if i was to give birth or you know if i knew what that was like this would be like giving birth but for like 18 hours straight but i have a friend of my name tony grappo that was here in town and tony's like tony did this when he was like 65 yeah i think he did 100 miler and i asked him i said bro