Lessons in Greatness: One Woman’s Journey From Heart Condition to Climbing Mt. Everest
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When Alison Levine was a child, she used to tell her family that “it feels like there is an elephant on my chest.” But they always told her, “toughen up.”
Yeah, she came from a “tough love” sort of family.
At age 16 she passed out during soccer practice.While at the hospital they learned that she suffered from a rare heart condition.
Three surgeries later, she climbed to the peaks of the highest mountains on every continent and skied the North and South Pole.
This week on the , we have an amazing athlete, adventurer, professor of leadership and New York Times Bestselling author on the show.Please welcome the inspiring Alison Levine.
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In This Episode, You Will Learn:
- About The Adventure Grand Slam: The Seven Summits – Tallest Mountains on Seven Continents and The North and South Pole – Skiing to the Ends of the Earth
- The amazing story of how health problems inspired her greatness
- How to overcome heart surgery like a champion
- Why Mike Krzyzewski seeks out big ego players for the USA Olympic Basketball team
- How to identify and build teams around Performance Ego and Team Ego
- Conversations about failure with Pete Dawkins
- Differentiating those willing to fail from those who simply under perform
- How the acclimatization process of scaling Mt. Everest is a metaphor for succeeding at anything
- Why Alison sees power in practicing sleep deprivation (Sleep defender? )
- How to simulate extreme conditions to prepare for uncanny adventure
- Lessons learned from Kilimanjaro
- Wolf Parkinson White Syndrome and recovering from 3 heart surgeries
- Unbelievable stories of near death experiences
- About the importance of team dynamics in physically demanding environments
- What she realized at the top of Mt. Everest
- Plus much more…
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When Alison Levine was a child, she used to tell her family that “it feels like there is an elephant on my chest.” But they always told her, “toughen up.”
Yeah, she came from a “tough love” sort of family.
At age 16 she passed out during soccer practice.While at the hospital they learned that she suffered from a rare heart condition.
