Episode Details

Sachin Latti spent two decades in law enforcement looking, from the outside, like a guy who had it together. On the inside, he was going through a divorce, suicidal, and standing in an empty customs hall at the Vancouver airport when the thought hit him: he didn't want to die without trying more. He'd never run more than a 5K. Five years later, he'd run over 21,000km, raised over $300,000 for veterans and first responders, and became the first South Asian person to run across Canada, 100km a day for 81 days.

Takeaways:

- Discipline transfers. Sachin used the same self-control he'd built in bodybuilding to rebuild his mental health from zero.

- The right mentor doesn't tell you what to do. Sachin's first mentor, a retired special-forces operator, only ever told him what he himself had done.

- Chasing a record and chasing your actual mission can be two different things. Sachin gave up a shot at the fastest crossing of Canada to talk to more people instead.

- 5,000 roadside conversations did more for his mission than the finish line did.

- Ego doesn't disappear when you get healthy. It just stops being in charge.

- The hardest part of an 81-day run wasn't his body. It was five years of training with the pressure of the goal sitting on every single one of them.

- You don't need a "big enough" reason to start. Sachin started with a few 5Ks a week.