Episode 07: You Have to Move Forward | Lance Armstrong

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You probably know who Lance Armstrong is, but this is Lance as you’ve never seen him before — with his kimono wide open.

We are always trying to figure out what we’ve done right, what we’ve done wrong, and how we can move forward. Today, Lance gives a candid take on what he did in the past and how he can move forward in a different way. It’s an incredible redemption story that’s up there with the best of them. 

Lance’s first podcast was called The Forward, a title that unknowingly became a metaphor for his life that he had to learn to live by. He had such a bitterness towards the sport and refused to talk about it, but by embodying this philosophy and moving forward, he created a second podcast, The Move, which jumped to the top of Apple’s podcast charts as soon as it came out.

Lance sees what happened to him — and because of him — as a result of being ruthless and mean. Nobody would have seen him coming back in the way he has, but he had to keep moving forward. There was no plan in place. He just kept taking one more step. He made a lot of mistakes, but he looked inside himself to what was true — his love for the sport, his family, his friends — and began rebuilding his life on top of that foundation. You can’t continue to measure yourself against the past, but you can continue to move forward and create something new — maybe even something better.

We Discuss:

• 10:10 - How Lance got into endurance sports

• 19:39 - The challenges of going from an individual sport to a team sport

• 23:22 - Constantly moving forward in life

• 26:31 - Letting go of bitterness and anger

• 37:44 - Lance’s philosophy for advertising

• 44:05 - Lance’s future business endeavors

• 52:34 - What it feels like to retire

• 58:34 - The life lessons Lance wants to pass on to his kids

• 1:07:08 - Parenting as someone who has reached a high level 

• 1:16:30 - Trying not to measure yourself against your past

Resources:

• The Forward Podcast: wedu.team/the-forward

• The Move Podcast: wedu.team/themove

• Sign up for my weekly newsletter: thegreatunlearn.com/newsletter

• Next Ventures 

• The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life by Boyd Varty

• Ed Ruscha

• AMP Human

• Power Dot

• Jesse Itzler

Connect with Lance Armstrong:

• Website | lancearmstrong.com

• Instagram | instagram.com/lancearmstrong/

• Twitter | twitter.com/lancearmstrong

• Facebook | facebook.com/lancearmstrong

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