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#83 My awesome guest this week is Lisa Tamati. This conversation will have your jaw wide open in amazement by the end of it! We dive into the depths of her unshakable mindset on how she overcame some incredible athletic feats, and more recently, her relentless quest to help her mother who suffered a severe brain aneurysm and stroke. The journey with Lisa and her mum will have you in awe of what the human body and spirit is capable of. Enjoy! About Lisa: Lisa Tamati is New Zealand's best known ultramarathon runner. Since the publication of her first book, Running Hot, she has gone on to run ultramarathons in the Gobi Desert, the Sahara Desert and the Himalayas.

Learn more about Lisa Tamati: www.lisatamati.com Learn more about Guy: www.guylawrence.com.au

Guy: Hi, I'm Guy Lawrence and you are listening to the guylawrence podcast. If you're enjoying this content and you want to find out more and join me and come further down the rabbit hole, make sure you head back to the guylawrence.com.au. Awesome guys. Enjoy the show.

Guy: Lisa, welcome to the podcast.

Lisa: Nice to be here Guy. I really, really privileged to be on your show. Thanks for having me.

Guy: Oh, you're so welcome. I have to say, I was, I was looking at all the fits you've done and I was, I had no idea where to start this show to be honest here because there's so many incredible things that you've achieved and I, yeah, I'm excited to be diving into all that. But the one thing I do ask everyone is if a stranger stopped you on the street and asked you what you did for a living, what would you say?

Lisa: Um, I help people reach their potential, um, more about high performance and, uh, helping people be the best version of themselves that they can be. That's what I do now these days.

Guy: Yeah. Which is a pretty cool, cooler to make a living, I reckon.

Lisa: Yeah.

Guy: So, so the, the next question I would ask if I was that stranger, I gotta be honest, I'd be like, well, how do you do that?

Lisa: Yeah, exactly. That's what you want. This is what you want people asking. So, then you can talk about what you do a little bit more, but you don't want to sort of overwhelm them because, um, yeah, I do a lot of stuff and uh, but like yourself, I'm interested in everybody thing under the sun and I'm very interested in the mind and how the mind works. I've got history is, extreme athlete if you like. And so extreme sort of ultra marathons, expeditions, that type of thing. Um, which I've done for near on a quarter of a century. She started saying I'm retired now from that sort of a game and just using the lessons that I've learned, to coach and help others. So via, we have an online one coaching system, for example, we do sort of retreats. We do, mindset courses. Um, and we we're right into epigenetics program and just personalizing your health journey, um, and trying to get the best out of our clients and, and their athletes. So yeah, that's, and I do a lot of speaking and I've written a couple of books. I've got a third one coming out shortly and yeah. Busy, busy.

Guy: Amazing. And do you know what, you know, the next question I would ask you, well, like I'm just going off on a tangent here. If I, if I had, while I'm meeting you, is what was the toughest thing you've ever done?

Lisa: Agh! The toughest, the toughest race I've ever done in regards to the sporting side.

Guy: Yeah.

Lisa: Or there's some big tough ones here. There was a run

Guy: Well they all look bloody tough, mate

Lisa: Varies from