Colin O'Brady

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The School of Greatness · 54 Days Alone in Antarctica, Pulling 375 Pounds | Colin O’Brady · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

You know, I had this kind of wanderlust inside of me.

I grew up in Portland, Oregon, and I'm glad that I grew up there because even though we couldn't travel far and wide, you know, my parents would take me hiking and biking in the outdoors and things like that, a place that really embraces that.

But I'd never really been abroad.

I hadn't seen other countries much, anything like that.

And so I'd been painting houses as a kid since I was 15 years old.

And every summer I would save up a thousand bucks in my life savings account.

And so when I graduated from college, I had $10,000.

I felt like I was the richest man in the world.

It was eight summers painting houses and that was the money I also had to pay for books

and day-to-day expenses, carving off this little amount every single year.

But when I graduated, I had $10,000, and I was like, I'm gonna go travel around the whole world as long as I can.

And so I bought a one-way plane ticket, and the first plane ticket was from the West Coast to New Zealand.

But this was back in the day.

You remember a place called STA Travel?

It was like this student travel agency.

This dates the story.

So I graduated college in 2006.

I think we're similar ages.

2005.

Actually, did I read your birthday is March 16th?

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