#110 Ned Phillips – Overcoming Mental & Physical Limits

Ned Phillips is the Founder, and Chief Executive Officer of Bambu. Before founding Bambu in 2016, Ned was one of the first online brokers and was promoted to Managing Director at E*TRADE. Ned is an ultra-marathon athlete and his next challenge is the backyard ultra-marathon event in Singapore. ⏺️ Voics: https://www.voics.co/🎙️ Podcast University: https://bit.ly/3Dqip2S🎤 Podcast Accelerator: https://bit.ly/3f1ir81📞 Schedule Free Call: https://bit.ly/3GsNyTU (00:00) Introduction(02:14) Why do you do what you do?  (05:57) The history of ultra-marathon events (07:55) The mindset of ultra-marathons  (13:40) Pain cave & physical limitations (15:50) How to prepare mentally for endurance (18:50) Confidence and being self-conscious  (22:05) Similarities between startups & endurance (26:50) How do you set goals & targets? (29:49) The background of backyard ultra-marathons  (36:50) The world championships of backyard ultras  (39:50) Sacrifices required to be a top athlete (44:05) Failure & quitting in ultra endurance  (46:45) What is your perspective on the world? (50:35) Lessons learned from poker   (51:50) Human psychology and poker   (56:00) Trading In The Zone by Mark Douglas(01:02:11) How do you delay gratification?  (01:05:51) Stress & nutrition as a founder(01:09:30) How do you design your environment?  (01:14:16) Nutrition requirement as an ultra athlete  Please leave a review:- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/36RrL9Y- Apple: https://apple.co/3uCwViFServices:- Career mentoring: https://bit.ly/3FCS3JA- Podcast consulting: https://bit.ly/3aYzm5w- Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3JqSocials:- YouTube: https://bit.ly/3HleVy2- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3EE3FuG- Apple: https://apple.co/32ArW7D- LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3FCS3JA- TikTok: https://bit.ly/314Support the showSupport the show