Recovery, Resilience, & Ultra-Marathon Running with Tofe Evans
Tofe Evans, author of ‘Everyone has a plan until shit hits the fan’ and mental wellbeing advocate, sits down with JK for a conversation about accepting our shadows, building practical resilience, and endurance sports.
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TRIGGER WARNING: This podcast episode mentions suicide, as well as drug and alcohol abuse. Listener discretion is advised.
Tofe talks candidly about his addictions to drugs, alcohol and external validation, and shares the tools he has developed to build practical resilience and overcome these struggles.
A big part of Tofe’s journey has been with The Man Kind Project, a global program providing wellness coaching for men. JK and Tofe dig into this program and how it uses classical literary archetypes to contextualize emotional expression and foster better mental wellbeing.
Finally, the guys talk about Tofe’s experiences with ultra-long-distance running, from the challenges he faced in a race across Scotland, to the triumph of running the highest foot race in the world on the slopes of Everest.
Watch the full conversation here:
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‘Everyone has a plan until shit hits the fan’ - by Tofe Evans
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine - by Robert L. Moore, Douglas Gillette
Diary of a CEO - Podcast by Steven Bartlett