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Luke Kayyem Show Summary

Luke’s story is one of how to achieve audacious goals and live life on your own terms. Both an entrepreneur and a fitness coach, Luke overcame moments of personal pain and failure to help create massive positive personal transformation in both his life and the life of those around him. The key to success and finding that extra level of motivation needed to dig deep, whether in climbing a mountain or success in business, is all about finding your purpose. And it’s often when we’re down and in our darkest moments that the “why” becomes clear to us.

Key Quotes from the Luke Kayyem Interview

• 90% of success is just showing up

Highlights from Luke Kayyem’s show:

• Why Luke climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa
• How Luke became an entrepreneur from an early age by learning to hustle
• Why having to tell his basketball coach he was quitting the team haunted him for the best part of 20 years
• How extreme accountability helps us achieve our goals
• How Luke evolved on his path as a lifestyle entrepreneur – building a business around his dream lifestyle rather than the other way round
• How learning to park cars was his first real start as an entrepreneur
• How Luke went from working at the reception of the gym to owning a national fitness franchise
• Why making our goals about other people is critical to finding the motivation to achieve them even in the darkest of times
• How Luke bounced back from his own darkest episodes, including facing near death or jail through a love of drink
• Future goals including climbing Mount Everest
• How growing up without an available father figure meant there were moments in growing up where positive nudges could have kept Luke from quitting
• How “hacking” his life was not only a way to grow personally but also the only option available to Luke in growing up

Luke Kayyem Show Notes and Mentions

• Luke Kayyem website
• Fittest Tribe Alive
• Luke Kayyem on Instagram
• Like Kayyem on Twitter
• Luke Kayyem on Facebook
• World’s Tough Mudder
• Napoleon Hill
• Tony Robbins
• Derek Sivers
• G Adventures Kilimanjaro Trek
• Crossfit Arizona

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