Colin O'Brady

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1,791 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 3 Jul

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

In the spirit of what I know you're about, I love this podcast, man, and I love just the entrepreneurial spirit that really shines through and the innovation.

Jenna and I dreamed this up with nothing.

We dreamed this up on a whiteboard.

I had been racing triathlon professionally.

We had gotten engaged.

I mean, what do we want to do with our life?

What do we care about?

And we had this moment where we literally rode on a whiteboard in our one-bedroom apartment.

What if we could set this world record but build a media campaign around it that has a lot of impact?

And it sounded like this great idea, but like, wait, I haven't really climbed mountains.

We've never started a nonprofit.

I have like 200 Instagram followers.

We don't have a platform.

We know nothing about media.

We know nothing about PR.

We're literally Googling on day one.

Google, what's the difference between marketing and PR?

But in the end, it was a year of no, no, no, everyone saying no, like no support, but just built it day by day, kept showing up.

And ultimately a year and a half later, I'm on this project, she built it into something that had 500 million earned media impressions.

We had a nonprofit, we had a partnership with a nonprofit where there was millions of kids following along,

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