Tom Hodge: A Sensible, Empowering Approach To Endurance Training, Dealing With Childhood Issues, And Rejecting Victim Mentality (With Mark Sisson's Help!)

About this episode

Tom Hodge shares his journey of endurance training and personal transformation, exploring the impact of childhood trauma and the importance of self-reflection.

Get ready listeners for a most unusual and heavy and unique show with my old friend Tom Hodge! Tom is an endurance adventurer living an interesting dream life of enjoyable but extensive endurance exercise every day, traveling the globe for major events, mixing with top athletes and watching them perform, and being on this amazing journey that he's going to tell you about in this episode. You will hear about his recent global odyssey and how it turned into a fantastic exploration of how childhood trauma affects us all our whole lives, how we use distraction, endurance, suffering, and drinking to avoid facing things and also how Tom hit rock bottom and then abruptly turned everything around by staring at a wall. You will hear Mark Sisson’s name brought up often in the story and learn about the special relationship Tom and Mark share and how Mark was the only person who “saw through everything.” I think this show will be really valuable for everyone to reflect on how we carry stuff our whole lives and the benefits of waking up and doing honest self-assessment. As my former podcast guest Bruce Lipton says, our subconscious programming occurs from age 0-7 and then we…

People in this episode

Host: Brad Kearns

Guest: Tom Hodge

Topics covered

• endurance training
• childhood trauma
• self-assessment
• personal growth
• mental health

Keywords

• endurance
• trauma
• self-assessment
• mental health
• personal growth
• athletes
• distraction

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UCLA

Places: Japan

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