Powerful Lessons From Solo Biking Across America and Running a 100-Miler - Dan Ahn (#18)

Dan Ahn is a former tech salesperson now quarter life coach. He's also solo biked across America and recently completed his first 100 mile ultramarathon. In this conversation, we talk about completing a 100-mile ultramarathon, biking solo across America, growing up in a Korean immigrant family, finding purpose through faith, turning burnout into breakthrough, lessons from sales and life coaching, why solitude might be the key to living life fully. and much more.

Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:00 Completing a 100-mile ultramarathon 3:52 Differences between ultramarathons and marathons 5:54 The hardest parts of an running an ultra 7:19 You don't run 26.2 miles without inclination to suffering 8:07 Why running can change your life 10:07 Advice for someone wanting to get into running 12:02 Growing up into a Korean immigrant family 14:10 Breaking out of the scripts from growing up 15:59 Dan's relationship with God and faith 19:25 Finding Truth in life and beyond 21:56 Deciding to solo bike across America 24:52 The itinerary of the bike ride 27:08 Why Dan decided to travel to South America 29:06 Golden advice on living life to the fullest 31:53 Tim Ferriss's fear setting exercise for risk-taking 34:03 Lessons learned from working with a startup at NYC 36:31 Dan's advice to his younger self 40:49 What Dan learned from being a life coach 41:45 Knowing how to best serve your clients 45:13 Why you should spend more time in solitude 47:01 What should you do if you're burnt out? 49:07 How to deal with feeling misalignment 50:43 Charging what you believe you're worth 52:39 Lessons from a career in sales 54:01 What does success mean to Dan? 56:36 Dan's vision of "Love God, others, and myself." 57:48 Advice to ambitious young people looking to do cool things 59:00 Where can people find Dan? Follow Dan: X: https://twitter.com/DanTAhn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dantahn/ Website: https://www.dantahn.com/ Follow Jeston: X: https://twitter.com/jestonlu Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jestonlu Website: https://www.jestonlu.com Writing: https://jestonlu.substack.com/ Musinary Media: Conversations with visionaries who blend art and business into their life and work. Musinary Media is under the greater Musinary ecosystem ("music" + "visionary"). Musinary's mission is to create musical spaces for artists and entrepreneurs around the world.