059 - Michael Easter - Best-Selling Author of The Comfort Crisis & Scarcity Brain
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recently visited HQ for a book signing and party. Before the big ruck, Jason and Emily talked with Michael about the search for happiness and his new book, . Michael is an author and journalist who wrote and . Writing books takes him around the world to wild places to learn about physical and mental health and how we can live better. He lives on the edge of the desert in Las Vegas and rucks often with his wife and two dogs. Links: Learn more about
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058 - Pete Blaber - Author & Former Delta Force Commander
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Jason and Rich discuss risk and leadership with , former Delta Force Commander and author of the books and . Pete Blaber commanded at every level of one of the most elite counter-terrorist organizations in the world during most of recent history’s most significant military and political events (Panama, Colombia, Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq). In 2006 he retired from the military and transitioned from leading elite combat teams around the globe, to leading elite corporate teams for one of the world's largest and most innovative Biotechnology Companies. Links: Learn more...
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057 - William Ostan - Wounded Warrior Advocate & Founder of Arc of Justice
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For this Memorial Day episode of Glorious Professionals, Jason & Emily are joined by Will Ostan to discuss his work as a wounded warrior advocate, the problem with the term “disabled veteran,” and how you can get involved to help better the current veteran benefits system. William J. Ostan is a medically retired U.S. Army Major and combat veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the Founder and President of Arc of Justice, a nonprofit organization that advocates for wounded warriors still on active duty. Will is currently spearheading the Wounded Warrior Bill of Rights...
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056 - The GORUCK Games with Cadre DS & Mocha Mike
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Jason and Emily are joined by Cadre DS and Mocha Mike to discuss the first-annual GORUCK Games that took place at the recent Sandlot JAX Fitness Festival. The GORUCK Games are a competition of grit worth $50K in prize money. Special Forces training tests athletes across a broad array of activities to ensure well-rounded strength, agility, and endurance. GORUCK harkens back to those roots in a 2-Day competition of grit that features an obstacle course, rucking, weighted challenges, running, sprinting, jumping, rowing and sandbag work. Links:
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055 - Sandlot JAX Fitness Festival
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Jason and Emily are joined by Cadre DS and Mocha Mike to discuss the first-annual GORUCK Games that took place at the recent Sandlot JAX Fitness Festival. The GORUCK Games are a competition of grit worth $50K in prize money. Special Forces training tests athletes across a broad array of activities to ensure well-rounded strength, agility, and endurance. GORUCK harkens back to those roots in a 2-Day competition of grit that features an obstacle course, rucking, weighted challenges, running, sprinting, jumping, rowing and sandbag work. Links:
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054 - Dr. Mike Roussell, PhD - Nutritionist and Author
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“My advice is to always find a way to take a good step forward.” To kick off 2022, Dr. Mike Roussell joins Jason for Episode 054 focusing on nutrition. Dr. Mike consults on health, nutrition, and performance for a range of clientele from professional athletes, to celebrities, to Fortune 500 executives. “With a passion for nutrition rooted in sport,” he is a speaker, podcaster and author who breaks down complicated nutrition ideas and principles to easily digestible, immediately actionable steps. While he is a “diet agnostic” Dr Mike lays out early his six pillars of...
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053 - GORUCK Cadre Dan Plants on 10 years of Challenges
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“The lessons you learn at GORUCK events, they’re applicable to everything in life.”
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052 - Sara Wilkinson and CHAD 1000x - Founder of the Step Up Project and Gold Star wife of Navy SEAL Chad Wilkinson
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“Everyone wants someone to care about them right? And that is what we are trying to do.”
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051 - Malaika Underwood - USA National Team Baseball Player and Senior VP of Licensing at OneTeam Partners
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Malaika Underwood joins Jason and Emily for a very friendly Episode 051 to talk about her athletic career and the future she hopes to see in youth and professional sports. Born and raised in San Diego, playing freely with neighborhood kids, Malaika says baseball -- not softball -- found her and became a lifelong love. The conversation covers a lot of ground in sports from large personalities to the history of softball, and throughout there is a love of the game and appreciation for the power of team sport.
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050 - Jaala Shaw - Teacher, Trainer, and Humanitarian, English Language Fellow in Afghanistan
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Episode 050 is a conversation Jason and Emily had with Jaala Shaw about Afghanistan, recorded on Friday August 20th. Jaala lived outside the green zone as a State Department Fellow and Specialist teaching at Kabul Education University and working with teachers and students in the public school system in Kabul from 2010-2012. Her role was to develop relationships with an understanding of history and culture and she has maintained strong ties to the region.
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Sebastian Junger -- war journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author of Tribe, The Perfect Storm, War and most recently Freedom -- joins Jason and Emily for Episode 042 about calculated risks, seeing the world as it is, the service of journalism, and doing hard physical things to feel differently about oneself.
Junger grew up in the suburbs of Boston, a childhood that didn’t feel hard or like real life. His father was the survivor of two wars, a “rationalist with deep empathy” and a pacifist who hated fascism enough to encourage his son to sign his selective service card to potentially serve in another WWII. Instead, Sebastian served as a war reporter and saw his role as providing critical information and the truth about atrocities and conflict. He found the role, and risks, intoxicating as well as noble.
In 2007 Sebastian embedded with the Second Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. Army in the Korangal Valley of Afghanistan for Vanity Fair. There he met award-winning photojournalist Tim Hetherington and they created the documentary “Restrepo” which was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Sebastian talks about the bonds created through those experiences, with the soldiers and with Tim, and the parallels between service in the military and journalism.
In 2011 Tim was killed in Libya covering the Libyan civil war -- an assignment Sebastian was also supposed to be on. Sebastian talks through his PTSD, guilt, depression and the spiral of loss through deaths, miscarriage, giving up war reporting, and his divorce which led him to “The Last Patrol” -- a 400mil walk along the railroad tracks between New York and DC -- which helped him “climb out of the hole.” He talks about pain as a motivator for improvement, the potential trap of solutions and being open to knowing when the end has come.
His new book Freedom was born of that “weird marginal existence” and he explores the tension between needing society/community and having freedom -- both evolutionary and today. His new adventure is as father of two daughters -- seeing the magic in that reality -- and navigating the tension between the modern inventions which saved his life last year and the traps of technology.
Links:
- Sebastian Junger and Freedom
- Sebastian Junger Remembers Tim Hetherington
- Restrepo
- “The Last Patrol” on HBO
- Vets Town Halls
- Donate Blood through the Red Cross
- Learn more about GORUCK and Tribe
- Glorious Professionals podcast website