Colin O'Brady
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1,791 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 3 Jul
Colin O'Brady’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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in the country, it was 5,000 or 4,000 participants or something like that.
So I sign up for the race, I train at this local gym, asking these random people in spin class, again, how do you change your shoes?
I mean, I know nothing, I know how to train because I'm an athlete, but I'm like, I'm covered with this injury, I don't really know, and I show up at the Chicago Triathlon, and I race the race, and I finish the race, my grandmother,
who's since passed away, she's at the finish line to congratulate me, like, you did it, oh my god, you finished a triathlon, you know, a mile swim, 25 miles bike, 6.2 miles run, it's an Olympic distance triathlon, and we go and we collect my bike, and the way triathlons work is like people start in different staggered waves of 100 or so people, and we come back around after having lunch, she goes, don't you wanna go check how you did in your age group, or see like, you know, how'd you did in the event, and I'm like, sure, why not, let's wander past the scores table, we wander past the scores table, I'm like, hi, trying to figure out what place, man, what's your name,
Colin O'Brady go, we've been calling your name over the loudspeaker, you won the entire race.
So I placed first out of 4,000 some participants in my first race ever, and it was a complete and utter surprise.
Even crossing the finish line because of the staggered start, I had no idea.
I literally had no idea.
finished before i started because they started an hour before because they're in different waves and all this kind of stuff and it was just this incredible moment when i really think about the entire sequence there and i look for you know this was 11 years ago now and this happened of what's happened since then is it was in that moment that i didn't go like oh wow i'm the champion of chicago triathlon i'm so cool i'm so amazing what i thought about was like gratitude like
what would have happened had my mom not come into that hospital room with this positivity, daring me to dream about the future, forcing me to set this tangible goal for the future, where would my life have ended up, right?
And so it's this moment where I look back and then I was like, wait,
I was able to do this, but I don't think of myself as special.
I was like, as humans, I've realized like we all have these reservoirs of this untapped potential inside of us and can achieve these extraordinary things when we're focused, when we shine positivity and light, when we lean into those that we love and uplift
and co-create together.
And so really this journey that I've been on, these world record projects, ultimately I quit my day job as a finance trader and became a professional triathlete the next day, which is not like being an NBA player, MLB player, anything like that.
It's like still sleeping on couches and floors, but I gotta race my bike around the world for several years.
It was an incredible journey to be on, but it really started in that moment of turning this tragedy into a great lesson
for unlocking potential inside of myself and why I love and I'm humbled to be able to share the story and the formats that I get to is in the public speaking I do and podcasts like this or through my art creations and my projects out in the world is that what I want to shine out in the world
is this essence that we have this inside of us, that we really all have this ability inside of us to create and do incredible and extraordinary things with our life.
And that doesn't mean like your name in a newspaper or having a tech exit or whatever, that's one type of high performance.
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