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Thanks for checking out the Nik Hawks Show, where my general mandate is to follow the pursuit of excellence. 

My background is in business, adventure, the military, athletic challenges, and working with world class athletes.

Those are all starting points for my guests, though not always.  I've talked to cryptographers, sleep scientists, authors, reporters, climbers, and adventurers.

All of them have useful insight for YOU, which is the reason I make the show public.  

Whether we're talking about cryptocurrency or rowing a boat across the Atlantic, my idea was to share the conversations I was having with radical people.  Lately I've been adding in my own thoughts in separate Nik-i-sodes.

HISTORY

I started this podcast in 2014, but it wasn't called The Nik Hawks Show. My wife Lee and I own the company Paleo Treats, so I called the show the Paleo Treats Podcast.

Over the course of 50+ episodes it became apparent that the podcast didn’t really have anything to do with Paleo. Sometime around episode 58, based on feedback from listeners and iTunes reviews, I decided to change the name to reflect what I was actually talking about.

That should catch you up to speed for now.  

To read more, find the latest episodes and news along with a way to support this show, please visit my site nikhawks.com

Thanks for listening!

Nik Hawks

Jun 4, 2015


One of my favorite guests, Roz Savage combines the fierce heart of an adventurer with the ability to describe beautifully the wildest & loneliest places on the planet.

As a Guinness World Record holder (first woman to row solo across 3 oceans), Roz is a shining example of someone following her dream. 

She started out as a money hungry young professional, saying “I was laboring under the illusion that money was going to make me happy.”  Working in London alongside the rest of the sharks (and whales) cured her of that drive; she realized it was an illusion, and in a famous story wrote down two obituaries.  First, the one she was headed for, and second, the one she wanted.

Staring her in the face was her whole future, and it wasn’t one she wanted.  “I realized to my great embarrassment and shame that the dream that I’d been chasing for 11 years was not the right dream.”

She was ““…actually quite terrified of the implications of realizing I was living the wrong dream.  I had to self-sabotage because I didn’t have the courage to change.”

So, cutting ties with job, relationships, and material possessions, she set out to row across the Atlantic and began to live the path she actually wanted.

Along the way she learned when to use the word fail (or really, what to replace it with) as well as what the right questions to ask were.  Having lost her self confidence in her 20s as a management consultant she regained it out in the middle of the ocean.

Listen in to Roz as she describe her most harrowing experience as well as her most beautiful, and revel in the accomplishments of another human in pursuit of excellence.

If you’d like to learn more about Roz, please check out her book “Rowing the Atlantic” or “Stop Drifting, Start Rowing”  or www.rozsavage.com or if you’d like to learn more about her coaching check out rozsavagecoaching.com

Enjoy!
NFH