E040 Type 1 Diabetes, Mountain Endurance Running, and Hedonistic Stoicism with Natalia Roman Lopez

Passionately Wrong Podcast

Passionately Wrong Podcast Episode E040

Interview - Natalia Roman Lopez

Key takeaway: Career and mountain endurance athlete Natalia Roman discusses her approach to hedonistic stoicism, lessons from ultrarunning, and what she learned after being diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes

Topics covered in this video:

• Natalia describes why she came to Switzerland, and what made her want to stay
• Her desire to drive change and have an impact
• What is hedonistic stoicism and how did Natalia come to her philosophy of life?
• What is within our control? What do we choose to do?
• Natalia discusses her approach to risk management when doing risky things
• The role of randomness in performance and life
• Natalia’s taste for endurance activities: how it developed
• Tactics and strategies for taking giant challenges in bite-sizes
• Blisters and feet care
• The importance of nutrition in ultrarunning
• Distinguishing between temporary problems you can push through and real problems
• Natalia’s Type 1 diabetes diagnosis and how she dealt with it
• The large community of people who will help a person with diabetes
• What Natalia means by “living in the 10%” with her business
• Benefits of working as an outside consultant
• The downsides of running your own business
• What the future holds for Natalia

Resources in this video:

www.Permanent-movement.com

www.yourBrandlabs.com

Dr. Bernstein’s book Diabetes Solution

Dr. Bernstein’s YouTube channel

Type 1 Grit (Facebook group)

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