The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Hosted by Joe De Sena · Joe De Sena
4.8from 877 ratings
- 1,232
- Episodes
- 135
- Transcribed
- 877
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
- 30M
- YouTube views
About The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Learn the Spartan mindset. Founder & CEO of Spartan Race and NY Times best-selling author, travels the globe seeking and answers authors, academics, athletes, adventurers, entrepreneurs, CEOs and thought leaders. It will shift your thinking, make you laugh and and give you the tools you need. He's on a mission to find the secrets to success in all aspects of life. Not only does Joe interview epic people, he has brought together an amazing panel to break down and analyze every aspect of these interviews. We give you the ultimate blueprint and action steps to assimilating these powerful conversations into your own life.
- Publisher
- Joe De Sena
- Category
- education · health & fitness
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 17 Dec 2014
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
135 of 1,232 episodes have a transcript.
13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Robert Greene on Finding Your Purpose, The 48 Laws of Power, and Life After a Stroke
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Billy Billingham on Growing Up in Gangs, Surviving SAS Selection, and Why Time Is All You Have
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Jovon Quarles on Growing Up in D.C., Ringing the Bell in Hell Week, and Becoming a Navy SEAL
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Robert Greene on Finding Your Purpose, The 48 Laws of Power, and Life After a Stroke
Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And I just sort of spewed out of the moment this idea about power. Because I worked in Hollywood. And I saw all these really wicked manipulations and mind games. Power gates going on. But nobody ever talks about it. And anybody writes about business or something. It's all like this elevated language. Like we're all cooperating. We're all on the same page. We're trying to do something great. And I just saw this seamy side where people's egos were constant. And there was politics everywhere. And nobody writes about it. And I read a lot of history. And I told him. I have all these stories in my head of things like Louis XIV, Machiavelli, ancient Rome, ancient Greece. […]
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- Robert Greene
- Billy Billingham
- Jovon Quarles
- Rudy Reyes
- Ashley Hunter
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- YouTube views
- 29,791,322
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 830 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 47 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100
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- Quality
- 83
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 97
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Joe De Sena host the show. Published by Joe De Sena.
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