“The real victory isn’t winning—it’s continuing when quitting makes sense.” - Most people quit when it gets uncomfortable. This episode is about the art of not stopping.

In The Great Victory Ep. 21, Isra García and Omar Zabian explore what it really means to surpass your limits—not through motivation, but through persistence, self-challenge, love, and the willingness to keep going when everything inside wants to stop.

"Every challenge I created for myself existed because I was the limitation"

In this powerful episode of The Great Victory, Isra García sits down with Omar Zabian—brother, witness, and companion throughout four years of radical detachment—for one of the most complete reflections on persistence, self-challenge, gratitude, and what it truly means to win at life.

"You are unlimited, so be it."

Omar takes Isra back to the moments that shaped his inner compass: from growing up with scarcity and imagination, to defying limits others imposed, to enduring extreme physical and mental challenges—including triathlons, ultra-endurance feats, and long periods of total darkness.

Together, they explore:

• Why challenging yourself must always come before challenging others

• How persistence (“Go. Carry on.”) became Isra’s life mantra

• What happens when you face your mind in absolute darkness

• How suffering is inevitable—but suffering with pain is optional

• Why gratitude for being alive is the ultimate victory

Isra shares how losing his mind in darkness led him to clarity, peace, and unconditional love—allowing him to see his entire life as a masterpiece, not a mistake.

“The Great Victory is realising that every moment—every hardship, every encounter—is already a victory.” - Isra Garcia

This episode is about surpassing your limits, not to become someone else, but to finally become who you already are.

What You’ll Learn in this Episode:

• How to transform limitation into fuel
• Why imagination is a survival skill
• The difference between pain and suffering
• How gratitude dissolves fear
• What “The Great Victory” truly means in daily life

"The most important moment of my life starts every morning."

About the Guest:

Omar Zabian is the Managing Director of Montraa, a global entertainment and production company based in Montreal. He is a close brother and lifelong supporter of Isra’s journey—one of the few people who walked side by side with him through years of detachment, experimentation, and reinvention.

“Surpass your limits—not to be better than anyone else, but to stop believing you are limited.”

If this episode resonates, leave a review, share it with someone you love, and remember:

Every day you wake up is already a victory.

Podcast show notes:

• ⁠⁠⁠The Legendary 1:1 program with Isra
• ⁠⁠The Darkness, self-mastery, and inner exploration retreat⁠⁠⁠
• The Great Victory -- The Hero's Journey within
• What Darkness Taught Me: My Journey Through 12, 45, and 20 Days of Total Isolation Into the Darkness

“Stillness. This is the way.” - Isra Garcia -- In this intimate episode of The Great Victory, Isra García sits with Natasja Pelgrom in Bali—overlooking rice fields, the ocean, and the mountains—on the last day of their time together.

“You don’t have to show love. You are love.”

Natasja is a Pioneer in Holistic Transformation, an internationally respected visionary, advisor, and thought leader at the intersection of sacred leadership, human flourishing, and transformative entrepreneurship. She embodies key capabilities, and her presence carries three significant qualities: heart, wisdom, and depth. From nervous system to nervous system, breath to breath, she asks Isra three questions that pull the conversation into the rawest territory of his 4-year experimental sabbatical: illusion, love, truth—death in every moment—and the one practice he believes most people truly need right now.

“Die at every moment.”

The 3 questions Natasja asks

1. What have you learned about illusion, truth, and love through The Great Victory?
2. Are you willing to speak about dying many times—and what that “death” really means on the path?
3. From all your experiments and practices: what is the one healing quality people need most today?

“Nothing to fix. Nothing to prove.”

What you’ll take from this episode

• Why Isra sees illusion, love, and truth as inseparable—and impossible to capture in words

• What “dying at every moment” actually means (beyond spiritual romanticism)

• Why stillness is not a technique, but an art—and the fastest path to inner freedom

• How to start practising stillness without making it complicated

• The line that becomes the episode’s mantra: “Stillness. This is the way.”

A conversation for those who want less theory, more reality—and a direct return to what’s essential.

“Stillness is direct realisation.”

Podcast show notes:

• ⁠Mastering the Art of Stillness - the Total Stillness experiment
• What is the Great Victory⁠⁠
• Nothing to Solve - Isra Garcia interview for Trust the Journey
• The Awaken Podcast - by Natasja Pelgrom
• The Darkness, self-mastery, and inner exploration retreat⁠.

• ⁠Holistic High-Performance program

“That moment when I saw it — I knew it. My heart, my mind, everything exploded.” - In this special episode of The Great Victory, Isra García sits down with his longtime friend David Burgman, head of Raptor Marketing UK — a creative strategist, adventurer, and one of the most legendary people in Isra’s life.

David brings two deceptively simple questions:

1. If you could eat only one cuisine for the rest of your life, what would it be?

2. What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever seen — the moment that truly took your breath away?

What follows is a conversation that oscillates between the playful and the profound.

“This is what I’d been searching for all my life — being here, all the time.”
Isra shares his favourite meals with contagious joy — and then delves into a story that changed everything: months of darkness, fasting, and silence, during which he witnessed something beyond comprehension.

“In the stillness, I saw something. I don’t know if I can call it God… but in that instant, I knew — with my entire being.”

That moment shattered every belief and rebuilt a new understanding of life, meaning, and presence.

A reminder that the extraordinary often hides within the ordinary — in food, friendship, and silence.

Key Insights

• How a single moment can redefine your entire existence
• The paradox of depth inside simplicity
• Why presence is the real feast
• The power of surrender and awe in transformation

“I saw something that made me believe in everything.”

Podcast show notes:

• The Darkness, self-mastery, and inner exploration retreat.
• What is the Great Victory
• Holistic High-Performance program