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“The most important investment you can make is in yourself. It's not just about dollars—it's about building a life that reflects your best self.”Real talk: growth doesn't come from sipping lattes in a comfy chair. It's forged in the messiest, hardest moments when life punches you in the gut. This episode dives into the grit required to turn suffering into strength and pain into purpose. It's not about avoiding hardship; it's about learning to dance with it—and maybe even throw a few punches back. Packed with stories that'll make you think, laugh, and maybe cringe, this conversation is your blueprint for thriving when the going gets tough.Meet Rob Dubois, a guy who knows a thing or two about grit. From surviving a rough childhood to earning his stripes as a Navy SEAL, Rob's journey is a masterclass in resilience. He doesn't just talk the talk—he's walked the hardest paths and come out stronger. In this episode, Rob spills his secrets on how embracing discomfort can transform you into a person you actually want to be. Spoiler alert: it's not easy, but it's worth it.Rob Dubois is a former Navy SEAL, leadership coach, and founder of Impact Actual. He's spent decades mastering the art of thriving in chaos and now helps others unlock their potential with a mix of wisdom, humor, and a no-nonsense approach to life. If you're ready to stop running from pain and start growing from it, this episode's for you.Expert action steps:1. Commit Fully to Growth: Make an “all-in” commitment as the first step to overcoming adversity and achieving transformation.2. Trust the Process: The importance of surrendering to a structured process, even when it feels counterintuitive or challenging, is highlighted as a cornerstone of personal development.3. Cultivate Self-Discipline: Stopping destructive behaviors like addiction and committing to habits aligned with integrity and health is presented as a critical action for long-term success.Learn more about Rob at the Impact Actual Website: https://impactactual.com.Visit eCircleAcademy.com and book a success call with Nicky to take your practice to the next level.

How do you know if you're moving in the right direction or just following someone else's path? Why is it so easy to lose sight of what really matters along the way? In this episode Rob, a retired Navy SEAL, digs into why modern manhood isn't just about strength but purpose, alignment, and serving with integrity. From nerdy thug to ‘better man' coach, he's on a mission to help you find your true design without breaking under pressure.To Rob, real masculinity means sacrifice without self-abandonment and embracing complex relationship dynamics. For him, success isn't about numbers; it's about health, happiness, and showing up fully for your family. When he coaches, he asks the big question: 'Why do you want more?'Rob Dubois is a retired US Navy SEAL, the founder of Impact Actual, speaker, coach, and trainer for Total Self Mastery. Connect with Rob on LinkedIn, visit his website at https://impactactual.com/, and listen to his podcast Beyond Your Limits on all players.https://www.linkedin.com/in/robdubois/You're invited to come to a Sovereign Circle meeting to experience it for yourself. To learn more, go to https://www.sovereignman.ca/. While you're there, check out the Battle Ready program and check out the store for Sovereign Man t-shirts, hats, and books.

Marcques Henderson is a renowned public speaker and retired Marine Corps officer who completed multiple combat deployments during his 23-year career. During his service, he traversed 4 continents, working with and learning from various multinational militaries. An active practitioner of jiu-jitsu, kajunkenbo and kali, he has over 21 years of experience instructing martial arts. He also has seven years of experience working in the nightclub industry. The Temple University student-athlete has a bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a concentration in International Business and Legal Studies. He is certified by the National Organization for Victim Assistance as a Level I Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Victim Advocate. He is further certified as a High-Intensity Tactical Training Instructor, Non-Lethal Weapons Instructor, and Trainer in Tony Blauer's SPEAR: Personal Defense Readiness system. Marcques HENDERSON Part 1 Podcast Show Notes – | www.AzariahMay.org | - “Fear rarely works to our advantage.” It usually leads to poor decisions and inferior outcomes. | - I saw things as a child that no young person should have to experience. I have always been concerned about protecting the defenseless. |- I started boxing as a young teen, and have been active in the fighting styles for my whole life. I was one of the first Marines into the USMC's “MCMAP” hand-to-hand combatives program. | - I became an advocate in our UVA program for Marines who have suffered sexual violence. These include many more men than some people would assume. Some of the men have been targeted by civilians in the community, including gangs, who want to make an example of a military guy. | - The Azariah May Academy, named after my kids, is a full-spectrum personal protection school, encompassing economic, psychological, and other focus areas in addition to basic “self-defense” techniques. | - We say Personal Protection rather than “self-defense,” because the former conveys the sense that keeping yourself and others safe is a proactive, comprehensive lifestyle. It's better to prevent violence than to have to react to it. | - At Azariah May, we don't just teach fighting techniques. We can't capitalize on someone else's pain. We want to help people understand how they've contributed to their past violent experiences and prevent them in the future. | - Violence has become mainstream. It used to be limited to untrained “bad guys” using it against innocent victims, and trained protectors using it to stop bad guys, but with the explosion of “mixed martial arts” schools anyone – including bad guys – can become trained to high levels. | - Teen dating violence has become a huge problem. Boys today don't all know how to behave. | - Social media makes many people feel more brave and disrespectful than they really should be.

SHOW NOTES: Gina Worful PC Notes | - GinaWorful.com | - Started as dietician, but kept seeing clients didn't succeed at weight or "bad" habits by calories alone | - It's much more than calories in - calories out | - We have to discover WHY we RESIST a healthy diet | - Gina had to walk through a sense of personal failure to better understand theirs | - Learned to dig into the root of behaviors (i.e. smoking - REAL goal is "a moment of peace") | - Program is called "Mastering Mindfulness" | - Emotions compel decisions | - We tend to assume we "lack willpower" | - Mindfulness creates Self-Trust

Cee McDermott, Epigenetic Coach and Functional Nutritionist, is at the forefront of precision lifestyle coaching for optimized wellness and longevity. In-depth genetic assessments, personalized guidance, and cellular-level support remove the ambiguity of a “one-size-fits-all” approach to health and replaces it with action steps specified to the bio-individual needs of each client for enhanced living. Cee is a Kundalini yoga teacher, herbalist, holistic health practitioner, and author of the book Your DNA, Your Life. Cee can be found at www.ceemcdermott.com Highlights: 99% of your health and wellness is in your hands There are real genetic "predispositions" for such common things as preferred bedtime, athleticism, and appropriate nutrition Alcoholism and other addiction can be tracked through the genes Cee's new book is "Your DNA, Your Life"

Justin Legg is a retired Navy SEAL Officer. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2000 with a B.S. in Systems Engineering. He was a member of Basic Underwater Demolition / SEAL Training (BUD/S) Class 234 and became a plank owner (founding member) of SEAL Team SEVEN. While with SEAL Team SEVEN he deployed to the Middle East twice and participated in combat operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. After returning from Iraq, he transferred to Special Boat Team TWENTY-TWO in Mississippi, where he served as a Task Unit Commander and the Team Training Officer. In early 2006 Justin was diagnosed with a severe form of Leukemia. Over the next 10 years Justin endured over 75 treatments of chemotherapy and radiation, a bone marrow stem cell transplant, an immune disorder respiratory failure, a double-lung transplant. | While he was going through his medical adventures, LCDR Legg fought to stay on active duty performing various duties at Naval Special Warfare Group TWO and FOUR, SEAL Team TWO, and even rehabilitated himself well enough to become an operational SEAL Platoon Commander at SEAL Team EIGHT for a short while in between the transplants. Justin medically retired from the Navy in 2012. Justin became the first, and still the only, double lung-transplantee in the world to climb Denali in Alaska. Justin completed his master's degree in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington D.C. H presently works as a Renewable Energy consultant for the Navy's Resilient Energy Program. 3:44 Putting aside you know, the real world factors of Well, the thing will be rotten before I ever get anywhere near close to it. But if you could do it, without the elephant rotting away, you got to do it one bite at a time. It's gonna take you a long time. You don't worry about the size of the elephant or how long it's going to take you to eat it. You just start eating, some parts are going to be good. 6:06 Well, I actually I'm still here. So I think I have pretty good luck. And then I've had the good luck of getting through this, because this prepared me for the next thing. And I've had the good luck of getting through that because it prepared me for the next thing. 14:33 Trying to keep humor in the situation really helps. You know, there's been plenty of studies that talk about levity actually helping your health. Yes. So yes, laughter actually does produce your measurable health benefits. Not only physical health but mental health. I think having mental health oftentimes When you're in dire straits, where your physical health is failing, your mental health will pull you through the day. 21:28 in this story of the Zen Master, this teaches you to look at the future for the possibilities that may come regardless of what you do. But it also teaches you to try your best to influence the possibilities of what may come and not judge what the future may hold, based off of today's predictions. 37:50 I think the biggest thing is don't ever let somebody else tell you that your goal is wrong or unimportant. Your goal is your goal that that's all that matters to you.

Justin Legg is a retired Navy SEAL Officer. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2000 with a B.S. in Systems Engineering. He was a member of Basic Underwater Demolition / SEAL Training (BUD/S) Class 234 and became a plank owner (founding member) of SEAL Team SEVEN. While with SEAL Team SEVEN he deployed to the Middle East twice and participated in combat operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. After returning from Iraq, he transferred to Special Boat Team TWENTY-TWO in Mississippi, where he served as a Task Unit Commander and the Team Training Officer. In early 2006 Justin was diagnosed with a severe form of Leukemia. Over the next 10 years Justin endured over 75 treatments of chemotherapy and radiation, a bone marrow stem cell transplant, an immune disorder respiratory failure, a double-lung transplant. While he was going through his medical adventures, LCDR Legg fought to stay on active duty performing various duties at Naval Special Warfare Group TWO and FOUR, SEAL Team TWO, and even rehabilitated himself well enough to become an operational SEAL Platoon Commander at SEAL Team EIGHT for a short while in between the transplants. Justin medically retired from the Navy in 2012. Justin became the first, and still the only, double lung-transplantee in the world to climb Denali in Alaska. Justin completed his master's degree in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington D.C. He presently works as a Renewable Energy consultant for the Navy's Resilient Energy Program. 1:43 So we distinguish ourselves at impact with impact coaching, we talk about rather than personal development, we talked about whole person development, the whole person, body, mind, heart and soul. And that fifth power, the done zone, healthy boundaries. 6:59 I did have connections to some members of the royal family and they are a family. That's that's who they are. At the end of the day. And with all of the problems that our family has, with all of the complications and the infighting and all of that just done on a grand scale in the public eye. And it's very, it's a very strange existence to contemplate. 17:24 It's that whole ability to have conversations is a lost art, I think ability to have healthy debate ability to actually enter into conversations with someone with a different opinion or someone who doesn't fit the box.19:06 I do think that the pace that we live is one of the most damaging things for us right now. We live so fast, and we're trying to get to the next conversational, we're listening, just so the person can stop talking. So we can say what we're trying to say. And therefore there's this kind of like, we're not really listening. We just want to get our voice heard. 23:00 And the irony for me is like, all of my work is based on complex systems evolution. And yet to market that, technically speaking, I should like reduce, reduce that into the reductionist philosophy of how to do an Instagram post or a reel or a meme or anything that's like 10 seconds worth of content. And it doesn't work.

https://victoriafenton.net/ - Many people don't even know they have a life's mission. - We see growing as "aging"...but it's always a chance to be growing. - This is related to the two ways of seeing the world: Growth or Fixed mindsets. - The human life is a complete systems and somatics provide a way to understand our inner life. - Somatics describes any practice that uses the mind-body connection to help you survey your internal self and listen to signals your body sends about areas of pain, discomfort, or imbalance. - Trauma teaches us to "control" for safety, but that excessive control harms us. - Victoria's coaching provides a safe place to "be everything messy." 1:43 So we distinguish ourselves at impact with impact coaching, we talk about rather than personal development, we talked about whole person development, the whole person, body, mind, heart and soul. And that fifth power, the done zone, healthy boundaries. 6:59 I did have connections to some members of the royal family and they are a family. That's that's who they are. At the end of the day. And with all of the problems that our family has, with all of the complications and the infighting and all of that just done on a grand scale in the public eye. And it's very, it's a very strange existence to contemplate. 17:24 It's that whole ability to have conversations is a lost art, I think ability to have healthy debate ability to actually enter into conversations with someone with a different opinion or someone who doesn't fit the box. 19:06 I do think that the pace that we live is one of the most damaging things for us right now. We live so fast, and we're trying to get to the next conversational, we're listening, just so the person can stop talking. So we can say what we're trying to say. And therefore there's this kind of like, we're not really listening. We just want to get our voice heard. 23:00 And the irony for me is like, all of my work is based on complex systems evolution. And yet to market that, technically speaking, I should like reduce, reduce that into the reductionist philosophy of how to do an Instagram post or a reel or a meme or anything that's like 10 seconds worth of content. And it doesn't work.

Jeffrey Carr has been an internationally-known cybersecurity adviser, author, and researcher since 2006. He invented REDACT, the world's first global R&D database and search engine to assist companies in identifying which intellectual property is of value to foreign governments. He is the founder and organizer of Suits & Spooks (now Safe House Global), a “collision” event to discuss hard challenges in the national security space. | Jeffrey has contracted with the CIA's Open Source Center's Eurasia Desk as a Russia SME (2010), and has provided cyber intelligence briefings to the DIA, the FBI, and the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Study Group. He has been a frequent lecturer at the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology and the U.S. Army War College, and was a technical peer reviewer for Tallinn 2.0, the second edition of the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable To Cyber Operations. - The first S&S gathering, ten years ago, was based on the concern that social media was becoming a dangerous tool for disinformation...how right that was | - With September's event we're focusing on Ukraine's defense against the Russian invasion | - Gazprom, the Russian oil company, has had at least three unexplained explosions in recent months...this is a perfect example of "multi-modal warfare" | - Adversaries no longer require physical access to damage the enemy's resources | - "Robot surgery" has caused many more injuries and deaths than the medical industry is talking about...what if these basic malfunctions could be weaponized? 00:34 We have an interesting balancing, you know, there's checks and balances baked into the system of liberty, freedom, freedom of capitalism or freedom or controls in a capitalized a capitalistic controlled system like you're describing, the Soviets discovered that central control is extremely cumbersome, but effective control. And in the end, you know, they collapse from the weight of trying to control everything. 4:07 The US doesn't have a choice anymore, and hasn't had a choice for a number of years, where it must go outside of his borders, to hire talent. 5:04 We have not emphasized science and math, in our educational system here, and other countries have. So we're relying on those individuals with those skills from outside of the US. Same with getting the necessary components, right to supply our, our products, or having even having products made overseas, that for whatever reason, you know, we can't afford the labor or we can't afford some other aspect of it. 10:26 There are costs to that distrust, massive costs downstream, we're going to find we're finding already, no man is an island. This is fundamentally the same as interpersonal relationships. 19:41 Your news feed should have a mix of points of view. So that it gets you to think well, how can two things be true? Well, probably it cannot. So how do you discern what's real and what isn't? And because in that happens when you have a variety of points To view, on the other hand, social media does not do that it does the exact opposite. 25:06 I think it has to come down to individuals making informed choices about what they do and why they do it. And what the repercussions are if they don't do it. And then hopefully they'll, you know, make the right choice.

On this week's Unveil Podcast, Victoria Fenton chats to Rob DuBois. Rob DuBois is a multilingual retired U.S. Navy SEAL, intelligence professional, and career Red Team security leader. He has worked in more than 30 countries over more than 30 years. From 1996 to 2006, Rob served as a special reconnaissance SEAL at SDV Team ONE and as a Red Team operator based in Washington, DC. He has trained foreign forces in a dozen nations and has planned mock terrorist attacks against American interests worldwide. On 9/11 Rob was teaching Arab commandos at a remote Persian Gulf base. American and Arab SEALs together watched the Towers collapse, and both nations went to war against al Qaeda. Such complex experiences led to his book on cross-cultural conflict, “Powerful Peace: A Navy SEAL's Lessons on Peace from a Lifetime at War.” World-renowned peak performance expert Tony Robbins called Powerful Peace "A must-read for those who wish to influence others." Rob has spoken extensively on radio, on television, and in talks across the United States on “unchaining” human potential and leading diverse teams. He is the founder and lead "Impact Coach" of the whole-person development firm, Impact Actual. During this conversation, Rob and Victoria discuss: What led him to becoming a Navy SEAL, and what drove that passion even with a successful career in the NSA having been established SEAL training, BUDS, Hell Week - and dispelling the myths of the ‘brutality' and ‘inhumanity' around this notorious training regimen The psychological warfare of training to be a SEAL, including the enormous sacrifice made on behalf of those who are trained to “Red Team” - and what Red Teaming is Rob's personal journey of evolving from a childhood of trauma, into a career of hypervigilance, and now into a life where he channels appropriate vigilance into his security consulting work (as a Red Team professional himself), whilst also being in the continued work of modifying that vigilance to adapt back to civilian life The losses and tragedies faced by Rob's friends and brothers in the SEAL teams - and the weight of the reality of survivor's remorse and hindsight about decision making The training of decision making in the military, and the necessity of the methods utilized at BUDS This is a powerful, moving, deeply impactful conversation - as you would expect from someone who spearheads a Total Human Mastery approach at his company, Impact Actual. Discover Impact Actual here. Purchase Rob's book here. Listen to Rob's Beyond Your Limits Podcast (soon to feature Victoria herself) here. For a full transcript of this episode, click here. And, as always, if you've enjoyed this episode - please like, share, subscribe and send to a friend.

Jeffrey Carr has been an internationally-known cybersecurity adviser, author, and researcher since 2006. He invented REDACT, the world's first global R&D database and search engine to assist companies in identifying which intellectual property is of value to foreign governments. He is the founder and organizer of Suits & Spooks (now Safe House Global), a “collision” event to discuss hard challenges in the national security space. | Jeffrey has contracted with the CIA's Open Source Center's Eurasia Desk as a Russia SME (2010), and has provided cyber intelligence briefings to the DIA, the FBI, and the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Study Group. He has been a frequent lecturer at the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology and the U.S. Army War College, and was a technical peer reviewer for Tallinn 2.0, the second edition of the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable To Cyber Operations. In intelligence we're always questioning our assumptions | - Critical thinking requires an understanding of the at least 60, distinct, "logical fallacies" humans tend to slip into | - Safehouse.Global was originally called "Suits and Spooks" | - Safehouse is a series of convocations designed to bring disparate voices to the table and improve shared understanding for better national security solutions | - It's only through expanding our view that we can recognize real threats to security...for example, the Chinese and American governments are both "experiments" in national structures - but ours is not working as effectively as theirs, in real time. 1:32 We need to be a better people, we as human beings, we as Americans need to be more open minded more according to our ideals, the the idea of diversity, the idea of honoring dissent, discussing with respect debating things effectively. And that's where it's important to bring in different voices and different perspectives. So we'll be talking about an organization, a series of events that were formerly called suits and spooks. 5:29 So, in order to help determine what's true, or what's, you know, objectively provable, you have to invite alternative views. That's the only way that that you'll be able to discover what's hiding behind your particular set of biases. 20:18 So the system that we have in place for determining what is secure and and what is not secure is it's really, it's really never secure. It's only what degree of insecure Are you willing to accept? 26:27 That's the price we paid. When we adopted the internet. And we adopted moving everything to the cloud, right? The benefit, the benefits are many. Downside, you're more vulnerable now than ever before.

Brian McDermott served 20 years as a Marine aviator retiring in 2016 as a Lieutenant Colonel. He deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom twice (one to Afghanistan, other to the Horn of Africa). Held various billets in safety, operations and maintenance, including as the Marine CH-53E Detachment Commander in the Horn of Africa region. His supporting establishment tours include Faculty Advisor and Naval Expeditionary Operations Course Director at the USMC Expeditionary Warfare School and as the Marine Corps University (MCU) Red Team Director after successful completion of the 9-week Red Team Leaders course at the U.S. Army University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies (UFMCS). | He was also accredited by UFMCS in Jan 2016 as the only non-resident Red Team Instructor/Facilitator to designate Marines the USMC Military Occupational Specialty Red Team Member designation after successful completion of the rigorous UFMCS Red Team course requirements. Since his retirement from the Corps, Mr. McDermott has been employed by as a contractor at: National Geospatial Intelligence-Agency College in VA as a Critical Thinking Senior Instructor, Joint Improvised Threat Defeat Organization in VA as a Tactical Red Team Intelligence Analyst, with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency in VA as the Strategic Red Team Intelligence Analyst Lead, and a senior facilitator at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in MD. | He currently works as a Solutions Architect for MOSAIC Technologies Group, LLC, and as a part-time Adjunct Professor at the MCU College of Distance Education and Training Continuing Education Program for an asynchronous on-line Red Team course he designed. He is also the founder and President of Red Teaming Solutions & Training, LLC. Finally, he is also an Advisory Board member at the Center for Advanced Red Teaming at the University of Albany, State University of New York (SUNY). | He was a contributor to the UFMCS Red Team Handbook v9.0, and interviewed by Bryce Hoffman as a USMC Red Team Subject Matter Expert (SME) for his book Red Teaming: How Your Business Can Conquer The Competition By Challenging Everything. 4:03 This guest is a very close personal friend of mine. And I really admire his incredible ability to not only do the red teaming work that he'll talk about, and how you in in the audience can listen to can find ways to apply this critical thinking, alternative analysis and ways to look at the world through different lenses. 26:22 I try not to overestimate my capabilities, by having respect, and better understanding how that other entity that other organizations, how they, as best I can, how they think, and how they prepare and do actions and stuff like that. 27:26 It's like a QR fo quick reaction force for better thinking, using methods, using analytical techniques to think through a problem set and get better answers is never a bad thing. And empathy, being able to understand to perceive the other person or other organizations, other side's experience of the of the conflict, or another situation is not agreeing with it. 39:04 So I love this quote, I've been capturing your you're taking notes on what you've said. You meant you made a conscious comment about have a better conversation.

A Life of Service and Sacrifice with Navy SEAL Captain Pete "Bullfrog" Wikul, part 2. 3:44 He said, P look, Time Magazine, we got the Nobel Peace Prize. I said, get out of here. 5:05 But sometimes it's nice to know that the end thing of what we're doing is going to bring about peace. So we can go back home and, and drink beer around the campfire and prepare for the next fight. Because you need some peace in between there well, knowing that we live in a tumultuous, violent world, and probably war is not going away for the next 100 years or so. 10:43 He's finger punching. This is really colonel and he's saying Now you listen here. You're a soldier, and I'm a soldier, and I'm not gonna let you kill women and children here today in this village. And I thought, great, you know, and you're almost thinking, Okay, we're gonna die today. You don't think that but it's somewhere way back in your head. And you're trying to think, Okay, we got to solve this problem. 19:13 Peace is part of the continuum of war. I mean, they're intertwined because as soon as you liberate something, even a world war two or any other place, as soon as you live liberate a village, we now have a responsibility to try to bring them back to some sort of normalcy. 22:40 It's not about devastation. It's about establishing security and stability. 25:28 So my first rule was take care of your people, they're your most important assets. 29:46 And even when you don't [win], you're the man in the arena, so always be proud that you are the man or you are the woman in the arena.

A Life of Service and Sacrifice with Navy SEAL Captain Pete "Bullfrog" Wikul, part 1. 2:05 So rites of passage is something we missed today in the Xbox enabled generation kids can believe they're commandos because they can go to Amazon Prime and buy armor and, and get AR fifteens on the corner and go around acting like tough guys. 3:17 There's no one best thing to be in the world as just being truly yourself as the best thing. 10:58 I'm going to do a couple things. I want to be a jazz drummer. But in the meantime, I'm also going to help homeless veterans find a place to live and a job I still wanted to give a little bit back, although, you know, when you do close to 40 years, some people say, Oh, you were giving back. I said, I don't have to get back I already gave. I gave 40 years. 11:23 All of us that have served, we can't get it out of our blood. We can't get it out of our psyche, we can't. 21:54 Now I have this incredible jazz band with Grammy Award winning and critically acclaimed and ageless musicians. And if you ask me why I'm playing with these guys, I can only tell you, it's directed by God, you know, now I can swing them. 23:41 The first part of my destiny was being a Man at Arms was being a Navy SEAL. And, and not everybody gets it really gets a destiny because life gets in the way, as a kid, you know what you want to do, but life gets in the way, and you never get a chance to do it. 33:01 Something, we never talked about it. The mission is the music. You count. And this is the beauty. It's just like going on a mission. You start play, you count down that tune, you play the tune. And if somebody makes a mistake, they don't. But if I make a little mistake, they jump on my grenade and they do something so nobody knows that I may have just made a mistake. Awesome.

Retired U.S. Navy SEAL Senior Chief Michael “Fulli” Fullilove is the Operations Director of DeliverFund, a non-profit dedicated to the elimination of human trafficking. Fulli has 20 years of experience operating as a SEAL across multiple SEAL Teams. He led cross functional teams conducting complex special operations throughout the Middle East. He has worked in a variety of project and program management positions working across cultures to achieve operational goals, and spent five years at a Naval Special Warfare command where he was responsible for combining multi-intelligence disciplines with special operations expertise to defeat hostile networks. | Over the course of his career Mike deployed 3 times to Iraq, twice to Afghanistan, and once to Kosovo, in addition to numerous other locations. He is the recipient of the Bronze Star Medal with Valor, The Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and numerous specific commendation medals. During his deployments, he worked with senior level foreign government leadership and focused on countering violent extremist organizations, human and physical infrastructure development for operational purposes, and personnel recovery. Following retirement, he provided operational consultant services to military, government and faith-based clients. 4:17 I'm going to introduce our topic today of human trafficking with an expert in the field and a current active champion in the field of human trafficking. 6:05 I went back to the teams where I was part of a unit specialized in targeting and operations and Intelligence Fusion. And really what we're doing was focusing on violent extremist networks, and really trying to take a network approach as opposed to playing whack a mole, which, up to that point, you know, the military is very good, you kill one bomb maker, and the next one builds plays. 10:58 Traffickers only look at their victims as commodities, they are not viewed as humans, they are not viewed as viable beings with a life of soul or anything else, they are simply a can of soup. 16:21 And it's something that I think is alarming for a lot of people because you never see it. You never touch it, you never feel it. You never actually see it. And if you see it, you don't know what you're even looking at. 44:06 That's a really really important point that goes to Stephen Covey's circles of influence in circles of concern today most people on social are focused on their in their circle of concern, like Oh, I'm really interested in this topic and they waste their time learning about stuff they literally can have no effect on 46:11 hey, that little piece, right? You make it better. And frankly, that's the that should be the goal, to leave things a little bit better than the way you found it.

Dr. John Owens is a leading health expert, workplace wellness advocate and a true believer that health comes from within. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience back from years of working in California with Olympic gold medalists and professional football, baseball, basketball, hockey and volleyball athletes. He is passionate about giving back to the community by educating from a health and wellness perspective on how to live a healthy lifestyle. He takes this mindset into local businesses and corporations with the same goal in mind. His objective is to revolutionize health care and strengthen the vitality of the Tulsa community. Dr. Owens believes in treating the body as a whole by looking at the cause of dysfunction and not just the symptom. He prides himself on staying current in the latest techniques and healthcare advancements in order to maintain his reputation for excellence. John strives each day to better the lives of his patients; choosing to care for the individual and not just their symptoms allows for a personal and unique experience. He grew up in Tulsa as the youngest of six children. He played college football at DePauw University and later finished his degree at the University of Arkansas. John received three undergraduate degrees (Exercise Physiology/Biomechanics, Anatomy & Physiology, Health & Wellness). After graduation, he attended Chiropractic School at Parker University in Dallas. 2:17 This week, we've managed to bring back a previous guest who went over like a very popular discussion with medical with science with health with cutting edge with holistic understanding about how the body is more than just meat. There's an emotional aspect to our life which affects our physical there's a mental aspect that affects our emotional and our physical. 6:59 So there's five different areas first, the first and foremost is to move. 7:40 It's finding an activity that you enjoy doing. And something that you're passionate about, that actually gets you moving. So it especially breaking up those times, if you a lot of people now working from home. 13:25 Number two is going to be hydration. So we talked about water, the quality of water and different things in our last episode. And so there's a lot, a lot of people don't realize the extent of dehydration, that they have that like the degree of dehydration. 17:50 Number three, that really is just overall self care. So a lot of people we we end up taking care of other people all the time, we're always looking to see you know, what we can do for other people all the time. And we failed to take care of ourselves. 26:59 Diet is a lifestyle, what you eat, day to day is your diet. Not it's not a crash course, and you know, you know, 14 days to lose 10 pounds or, you know, whatever it is, it's, it's about how you how you have a variety in your diet, it's the portion control. 43:09 Lastly, but not leastly is recover. So we kind of touched on this throughout some of these other ones, but really making it a point making it a major thing, because a lot of these overlap, but you know, sleep, in particular, getting the sleep that you need. 48:49 But clearing out the RAM. That way we can function properly, we can be better, we can be faster, we can be smarter, we can make better decisions, because when we have all these things going on all around us all the time, it can be very overwhelming.

Leading Your Team by Developing Yourself, with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross 2:17 The goal is simply put is to understand predict an act to empower clients as they navigate and address emergent challenges rooted in security technology and changing global society. 3:37 Because again, my book was released 10 years ago yesterday, we're doing a big event this month, about the powerful Peacemaker workshop in late July, and I want folks to jump in on that. But also July 5 of 2022 is the date of publication of another work by a guy know, tell us about your new book. 5:17 I think part of what was misunderstood is the way that groups like these engage in organizational learning, there's a lot more that you can't see on the surface. 9:15 You have Marshall McLuhan in the 1960s stated seven years, famously said the media is the message. Really, the medium by which we communicate really determines the message there. He was talking about the move to broadcasting media to television, and now we have the move to social media with much more sloganeering, very rapid communication. It's very easy for you know, lies or half truths, or misrepresentations or simplifications to travel quickly and for ideas to harden around that. 20:14 You know, the internet, like a gun like a hammer, like your car is purely agnostic. It's what people choose to do with it, that creates the result. So the internet can't do anything by itself. It just sits there and waits for people to use it to exploit it for positive or negative activities. 37:46 To me, the wisdom of a 360 is not that you see what people think. And you do what's going to make you more popular. Instead, it's really use the wisdom contained there to understand what am I doing wrong? 42:32 And your job of growth as a leader is never linear.

Kristy Klein has been a part of Impact Actual since the very beginning. She was a client of Rob's many years back, and their conversations planted the seed that led to the concept of the first "Impact Coach" certification. Her full time career is as scientist and program manager as a Government Civilian. The leadership skills she has honed and grown over the 10+ years in her career translate well in to her coaching. Kristy also has a long history as a triathlete and endurance athlete over almost 20 years, in addition to coaching. This experience in racing and training for grueling events has allowed her to hone skills in mental resilience and endurance, along with the physical aspect. These skills have helped her rebound and rebuild after some major health issues reared their ugly heads and brought her personal athletic career as she knew it to a grinding halt. Being a coach and helping others become more well rounded in life and in sports is now her passion. 2:51 Because again, as I as I scanned over there, all of this came from accidents, good fortune intersections, and quick relationships and things leading to things. So let's go back though to talk about you personally, you, you are a scientist, I like to just use that simple term because I don't understand what it is. 4:39 you mentioned doing it like methodically, you said that you liked the way it was done structurally. That actually kind of segues right back to being scientific in the method and so forth following step by step that makes sense that will be appealing to somebody as compared to loosey goosey intuition based only like hey, how you feeling today, let's talk about your feelings. It's saying you You know, we're going to hold accountability, what do you what's next, never stay in the comfort zone too long, basically right step to the next thing, move on to the next thing. And that is a really big part of your story. 8:55 It only happened a couple of years ago, and I've had some peaks and valleys with my conditions ever since it's not like I got diagnosed and got on medication and life was back to hunky dory. You know, there's been little sub peaks and valleys coming through that in the last four years or so since I got diagnosed. So, you know, it's still a work in progress. You know, this is, is a lifetime process. It's not like, you know, when you go through these programs, when I do all this stuff, it's not like I do it, close the book and, and move on. 14:57 I never realized how small my goals were Until I realized how big I am. 20:59 right, I'm not going to tell you life's gonna be rosy and you go through this and you're never going to have a problem again in your life. Now that's not that's life happens and life is full of problems. It's just gives you better skills and coping mechanisms to maybe later on, get through that a lot quicker, a lot easier to get through your problems easier, or, you know, faster or whatever, it gives you better coping skills. 33:55 But until you get it off your chest, you can't move past it. And that's the thing. I mean, like I keep talking about glossy trifold we're not we're not two dimensional images of ourselves in the impact world. We're about being 100% real 360 whole person and saying you can't shock me bring it to me.

"Next-Generation Treatment Options for Combat PTSD," with Amber and Marcus Capone of SEAL Team SIX. When he was medically retired after 13 years. and multiple combat deployments as a U.S. Navy SEAL, Marcus Capone and his wife, Amber, thought that life would return to normal. Instead, their struggle had just begun. Marcus was experiencing an escalating myriad of challenges, including depression, isolation, cognitive impairment, excessive alcohol use, headaches, insomnia, and impulsivity. Marcus was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but, instinctively, Amber felt there was more to be discovered. After learning about the effects of blast waves, concussive, and sub concussive brain injuries, everything started to become clear. Marcus' military career as an explosives expert, combined with his prior years of contact sports, had left him with the invisible wounds of traumatic brain injury (TBI), a condition that has significant overlap with PTSD, and is often not properly diagnosed. 1:11 Another friend of mine who told me he was taking the cocktail, and the VA gives you this massive or the or the military gives you a massive cocktail of antidepressants or stimulants or whatever the the pattern may be of medications and medications alone are often not the solution, often not the solution to PTSD or whatever. There's a mental illness involved. 3:02 After multiple combat deployments, Marcus and Emerson realized that the subsequent years would be wrought with escalating hardships misdiagnosis, a broken veteran healthcare system and desperation to find a meaningful solution before it was too late. 13:20 Helping guys get access to different type of treatment modalities that are really helping full like mind, body and soul. 24:16 But right now, today, if you don't do the proper integration, excuse me preparation before these psychedelic journeys, and then the proper integration afterwards, you know, you can you're it's it could be a recipe for disaster, you want to do these, you know, you want to go into these experiences with all the tools and all the information you need. 29:11 Many of these deep psychedelic journeys, by the way that are not fun, that are like a lot of work and you're, you know, you're in a bed, or resting in some type of palette, because you're, you're on, you're on a heavy, heavy dose of these medicines. When you're on these medicines, they tap into your subconscious and they reach down and they make you deal with some of those traumas that potentially can be causing you to have that addiction. 33:52 I think it's so important to you know, like, we're from a community of very good soldiers, but also very unconventional thinking individuals. And so I think that that goes for both the guys and the spouses is very much the case. 42:43 That's perfect vet solutions.org I want to point everybody to that. Open your minds, you know, dear listener, in your mind.

"A Combat Vet Journey through PTSD," with Steve Rosen. Steve Rosen retired from a 20 year Army career in 2013 at the age of 40. He spent the next 6 years in Arizona blazing all kinds of professional trails as a fitness coach and aspiring professional speaker. In 2019, after fighting off childhood, combat, and violence related PTSD he had to sell his business and retire. He has spent the past three years facing his PTSD head on with the help of mental health professionals. His progress has slowly given him a new and fulfilling life. Steve now works part time as a fitness coach. He recently decided to convert his Ford Escape SUV into a tent on wheels. He enjoys both stealth and traditional camping. He's been married 22 years and they are raising two amazing teenage sons. 2:30 because it is possible if you're dealing with it right now, whether you're military or not military, the thing that I came away with have come away with is that it's not about the military trauma is not about being a combat veteran trauma is about being human being experienced something. 4:32 when I was a kid, I don't know about you, but I was told you can't say anything about this. And so not only was I subconsciously knowing that I was shameful and dark, but I was also told hey, this is shameful and dark to be telling the body there's going to be event you think it's bad now wait to see the consequences of sharing this and looking back, I'm like, Oh my gosh, if I would have just snitched on who was doing whatever they were doing. 8:17 Because as chaotic as the army was it also gave me the structure that I absolutely needed to get me out of the stuff I was doing. 14:07 So wherever combat happens, doesn't make that place bad. It's just where it happens to be. So I rack to me, I look at it as just going through such a dark period. And such, just, you know, it's just so different over there. And you never forget how different it is. 20:49 And slowly, I just started to really become scared to live and decided that life is just too dangerous. And this is all unconscious, of course, you know, but I started slowing down my life. 44:05 know that's I think it's important to share the reason because death has always been part of my trauma. Which is why I'm obsessed and I find myself obsessed with the concept of death. Not wanting it but also seeing it as an eventual way, way way down the road relief, but not now. Hell no, I want to keep going. And I and even though it hurts, and it's scary, and I have panic attacks, and I sweat and I get, you know, scared. I'm alive.

Practicing Your "Just A Minute" Habits, with Willie Mekki. A lot of people dream of winning the Powerball lottery in the U.S; however, around the world there is another type of lottery called a visa or green card lottery which allows one to travel and create a new life in America for one's family and that happened to be the story of this individual. Willie Mekki was born in Athens, Greece after his parents left Sudan to study and live abroad. Once his family came to America the only advice heard was to become a lawyer, doctor, or engineer in order to succeed in today's society. After finishing up with a degree in civil engineering from ODU, Willie accepted his first full time career in construction management and quickly realized that 1 income stream cannot do what 1 income stream did back when his parents were his age. Today Willie has a successful marketing business he runs online and exemplifies the quote of “The greatest charity in the world is eliminating the need for charity by teaching self sufficiency”. In his late 20's he teaches professionals how to to take advantage of the online paradigm shift going on around the world and it starts with mastering yourself and your mind. Tune in to hear this young entrepreneur's journey and the thought process behind how one can change the direction of their life. 2:11 Jam stands for just a minute. And what that means is do just a minute of something you really believe in. 4:40 Now I can play like Pirates of the Caribbean and stuff that I don't even I don't even know how it came to be. But it was because of those small little increments every single day. And just really taking that principle to life. I feel like that So I could really change someone's life from like point A to point B. 12:08 I always love doing things, not because of the thing itself, but because of the people and the memories created while doing whatever thing that it was. 15:48 You know, mistakes are the accelerant to learning. You actually. You had that point seven. My GPA after my first semester was 1.2. And when the staff called me in and asked me, invited me to leave, they said we'd like to give you the chance to excel elsewhere. And I said why? 22:49 If I were to go to any grocery store and buy milk, most people will check the expiration date first. But the issue is people don't do that with their goals. Because me I want to be successful and help my parents yes. But at the path of engineering, I realized, I'll still be able to do that. But maybe not in the timeframe that I'd like to. Because what I found out is just to retire as a millennial USA Today. So it's like 75 to 85 something crazy, because it doesn't account for inflation. It doesn't account for a lot of different things going on in the world today. 28:41 So with the expiration date mentality, it's not just for our goals, it's for ourselves as well. So it made me take life seriously. But that's also sometimes a negative because if you take life too seriously, you tend to overlook and I kind of walked that path as well.

The Doctor on Whole Person Health and Fitness, with John Owens. Dr. John Owens is a leading health expert, workplace wellness advocate and a true believer that health comes from within. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience back from years of working in California with Olympic gold medalists and professional football, baseball, basketball, hockey and volleyball athletes. He is passionate about giving back to the community by educating from a health and wellness perspective on how to live a healthy lifestyle. He takes this mindset into local businesses and corporations with the same goal in mind. His objective is to revolutionize health care and strengthen the vitality of the Tulsa community. Dr. Owens believes in treating the body as a whole by looking at the cause of dysfunction and not just the symptom. He prides himself on staying current in the latest techniques and healthcare advancements in order to maintain his reputation for excellence. John strives each day to better the lives of his patients; choosing to care for the individual and not just their symptoms allows for a personal and unique experience. He grew up in Tulsa as the youngest of six children. He played college football at DePauw University and later finished his degree at the University of Arkansas. John received three undergraduate degrees (Exercise Physiology/Biomechanics, Anatomy & Physiology, Health & Wellness). After graduation, he attended Chiropractic School at Parker University in Dallas. 1:55 So this is a new era and let the presuppositions go away. 3:33 It's not just one thing, not one factor, that's gonna get you feeling better and get you healthy. 7:07 When you do when you take care of all the pillars, everything just comes together and add a you will be healthy, you'll be better across the board, more longevity, you will age, well, your body will feel better, you'll be able to your immune system is going to function significantly better. 10:29 Do everything that you can in order to be positive on the body, to have that positive effect. Be active move, take care of yourself, get some rest. 19:51 Be mindful, use something be thinking about it and that makes you conscious of your choices, and that makes you make better choices. 25:49 Prevention is for young people. Because by the time you're old, you're experiencing the consequences.

Vietnam Veteran to Veterans' Champion, with Lon Hodge. Lon Hodge voluntarily enlisted in the U.S. military in 1973, during the Vietnam War. He later taught at the Academy of Health Sciences, headed for OCS, and became an EOD-trained Ordnance officer. He holds graduate degrees in counselor education and communications and psychology, and an MFA in literature/creative writing. He is a past national Endowment for the Arts fellow in literature. Lon served as a professor of psychology and literature in Japan, China, Macau, and the United States. He has been running Operation Fetch, voluntarily and without pay, for nine years. In that time they have raised over $3 million for other veterans' groups and their initiatives and done hundreds of seminars on PTSD, suicide awareness, and Service Dog issues. He has led hundreds of planned acts of community kindness thanks to the celebrity of Service Dog May and dearly departed Service Dog Gander. He works with homeless veterans around the country, and has traveled to 46 states. They have done over 300 seminars for law enforcement, community groups, national conferences, colleges, medical schools, service organizations, and corporations about veterans, PTSD, suicide awareness, and service dogs. 7:00 "It was then decided to start educating about PTSD, suicide prevention, because Gander saved my life. I literally would not be here if I hadn't had Gander in my life." 12:19 "We've traveled the country, we've done over 300 seminars for law enforcement, medical schools, you know, talking about PTSD, suicide prevention, which I think service dogs are, are an absolute key to suicide prevention, especially among veterans." 20:38 "It's part of that impostor syndrome. And all through my life, you know, I've had great successes and monumental failures, too, but but with the successes have always felt like somebody else should have gotten this, you know, somebody else should be on your podcast besides." 24:22 "I said, you and I need to go outside because I'm gonna kick your ass. And you know, I don't think those words that ever come out of my mouth before the end. And the guy looked at me and his face fell. And he goes, Do you really hate me that much?" 30:00 "It's a huge expression of courage as well to seek that, finally see, oh, yes, to actually ask for help to actually accept it and are walking through the process of healing."

A Teacher on the Crisis of Mass Killings by Teens, with Jaime McMillan. Jaime McMillan - Mom, Teacher, Seeker. 21 year high school English teacher. Lover of mountains and all things outdoors. 2:40 "We have an expert on the subject on the show today, a dear friend of mine who has been teaching for over 20 years in high schools and seeing every iteration for an entire generation of young people coming up through the childhood into teen years where she managed them." 4:17 "There is a need for young adults to understand that they have a place in this world and that there is something they can do themselves to make a difference." 8:11 "I noticed in some of the research about school shootings or young adults who are put into this into these cities, or put themselves into these situations, there have been several school shootings that young adults have planned, but never followed through with because an adult intervened and taught them or in some way that attention that the adult gave the it caused the potential shooter to change his mind." 13:59 "They're searching for belonging, they're searching for community, and when you can't find that, or that gets taken away from you. And I think even when it gets taken away from you, it is as damaging and more damaging than, you know, like when you're a part of something, and then that's gone." 25:55 "They came up with four common characteristics that they all had. The number one thing is that they had either suffered an early childhood trauma, or they had exposure to violence at a young age. This is every single one of them that had this common denominator."

Violent White Nationalism - View from the Inside, with Arno Michaelis, Part 2. Arno Michaelis is a speaker, author of My Life After Hate, co-author of The Gift of Our Wounds, Filmmaker, and Peacebuilding Consultant. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Arno was a leader of hate groups, and frontman of the hate-metal band Centurion before single parenthood, love for his daughter, and the forgiveness shown by people he once hated helped to change his world, bringing love for diversity and gratitude for all life. 1:09 It's so the not even the parable, but the image of the, you know, the frogs in the slowly boiling water. Yeah. Like, oh, this is a little warm. It's kind of nice. So it's okay. Really hot now, but I'm really sweating the next day, you know, and you're done. And, and quite often violent extremism happens in that way. 5:04 a paraphrase of Sun Tzu. He said, If you know yourself, and you know your enemy, you need not fear the result of 100 battles, because you will prevail in all of them. He said, If you don't one or the other, you're gonna win half your battles. If you don't know, either yourself or your enemy, you will not win a single battle. 15:23 So it wasn't like the Pyramids of Giza were built, like as a volunteer community project. 18:22 She worked on Thursday nights and Seinfeld aired, and I had to tape it for her back on those archaic VCR things that always blinked 12. And we couldn't write Seinfeld on the spine of the tape. Because if my guys came by and saw that it had shot I mean, it was the very least it would it would diminish my position in our group, but that the worst I could have been like killed for it. 29:00 And he basically says it's it's easy to feel kinship with people who look like you pray like you eat like you smell like you like that's easy, but what is truly spiritual is to feel that same kinship with people who don't look like you, and don't pray like you and don't eat like you don't smell like you don't speak like you like that that's when you really attained a sense of spirituality.

Violent White Nationalism - View from the Inside, with Arno Michaelis. Arno Michaelis is a speaker, author of My Life After Hate, co-author of The Gift of Our Wounds, Filmmaker, and Peacebuilding Consultant. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Arno was a leader of hate groups, and frontman of the hate-metal band Centurion before single parenthood, love for his daughter, and the forgiveness shown by people he once hated helped to change his world, bringing love for diversity and gratitude for all life. 4:57 There are unconscious bigotries unconscious bias says and our guest today is a man who is an absolute expert in understanding bias, bigotry and the unconscious hatreds that are actually formed from fears fear and pain. 7:05 Everything was seeing through a racial lens. 8:20 Some people doubt the authenticity of my turnaround, or they're going to come at me with accusations of privilege. And, oh, I'm an oppressor and I'm going to colonizer and all sorts of things that clouded my judgment in this matter, but actually, everything I've learned about race, I've learned from listening to people who don't look like me. 24:39 That's incredibly nuanced and incredibly clear to me as you're describing it, because you're saying that basically, the more we do define people as white and not white. The more we enable the categorization and therefore the radicalization of those who are willing to are susceptible to it among the so called white group 35:29 But I think it's entirely possible to be extremely proud of one's heritage. And I am diverse, you know, all Northwestern European, Celtic, and Viking and such. And, of course, a little bit of French in there because of the name. But but that doesn't mean that mine is better. It just means I'm grateful and appreciative and loving of those from whom I came, and I honor you black or Hispanic or Polynesian, for where you came from, and your deep love and pride in your ancestors, where you came from. There's they're not mutually exclusive.

The Operational Mindset, with Jeff Banman. Jeff is a recognized leader in the area of human performance and human behavior in high-stress environments. With over 30 years of experience across multiple domains including the Fire Service, the US Army Special Operations Command and the Central Intelligence Agency, Jeff now serves as the COO & Chief Human Performance Officer for a Global Fitness Brand. After conducting Counterterrorism operations in over twenty-three countries, two combat zones and multiple high-threat/non-permissive environments, Jeff has the privilege of dissecting human behavior at a micro level in order to enhance individual and team performance in some of the most intense moments imaginable. His study evaluated and developed algorithms for calculating minute shifts in Heart Rate Variability against variable stressors, distinct practices for managing the Central Nervous System while under significant stress and integrative techniques to help high-level operators remain fully present in order to navigate extreme situations. 4:32 We'll rewind kind of go back and Can you unpack this idea you and I were talking offline about the waited the imbalance of the body? 5:51 The foundation of kind of the sandbag workout or kind of broaden it out to the unstable load object, we call it Yulu. Workout is, it's a different dimension, really, it becomes a very visceral expression in fitness in a way. 23:48 It's been very hard for me to change around that scarcity, approaching things from a scarcity mindset and the things that I say to myself, I have to catch. 27:09 The path that I'm now exploring to understand is, how do we move people down a line of, of releasing that originating sensation, right of, of giving that freedom to disperse and reregulate so that you can return to zero, you know, and it's not a, you know, space of stillness. 33:04 If you cannot, for the next however long we're going to be together, take judgment and set it aside. Then do me a favor and just leave because one judgment is the barrier to growth 100%. I firmly believe that we come from worlds that are highly developed to sit in constant judgment.

Gifts of Trauma with Josh Boyer. Josh Boyer is a U.S. Air Force veteran, husband, and proud father of four rambunctious boys. He is host of the hard-hitting podcast, “My Backstory,” where show topics range from business, to philosophy, to personal growth, to much more. The only rule: no filters. Real life. 4:40 You just never know who's listening you know? So you record a podcast and put it out on the end of the world and you just get random messages from people and who knows like a message that you share might touch one live might touch five might touch tight who knows? You know, there's so many people and you never know who's listening. 8:58 Josh's backstory 15:23 You're in charge of your own destiny, you have to own that ship. 20:20 I would like to believe that people innately desire to help people. But I also believe that there are dark forces at play, and I think people have inner demons and until they work with them. 34:50 We are naturally designed to feel negative to perceive negatively 62.5% of the time, how often? five out of eight times if you see a situation that's going to be perceived as more often than not negative, and that goes back to the self actualization.

Natural Response for Effective Self-Defense, with Tony Blauer. Tony Blauer has been in the martial arts, self-defense, defensive tactics and combatives. industry for over four decades. He is one of the only combatives experts who have successfully effective training across all the combat related communities, self-defense, combat sports and the military and law enforcement sector. His research on physiology and mindset as it relates to confrontation management has influenced over three decades of reality based martial artists and enhance the survivability of law enforcement, military and emergency services personnel around the world. He founded Blauer tactical systems BTS in 1985. And it's grown into one of the world's leading consulting companies specializing in the research and development of performance psychology, personal safety and close quarter tactics and scenario based training for law enforcement, military and professional self-defense instructors. 00:28 I once sucker punched a nationally ranked Thai boxer in Muay Thai training session. It was an accidental sucker punch. 08:19 So high gear is a hard to describe it's like a it's like a it's a condom you fight in? It's 99%. It's 99% effective. Now what I did was I designed the world's first impact reduction training suit for Scenario training. 15:35 You're getting unrealistic training. And that's not what we want for our tier one, guys, that are the people that are at the tip of the tip of the spear of any spear law enforcement or any responder. 30:21 SPEAR is an acronym for spontaneous protection, enabling accelerated response against spontaneous protection, enabling accelerated response. 41:55 A slogan we like to use as nobody needs to know how to defend themselves. Until the moment they need to know how to defend themselves. And then it's too late. Like you don't need to know how to put on a tourniquet. You don't need to know how to, you know, save somebody who's choking. You don't need to know how to change a flat tire, you know, like, like, so you don't need to know any of that stuff until you need it.

Train Smarter, with Navy SEAL trainer Stew Smith. Stew Smith is the Owner of StewSmithFitness.com, training Military, Special Ops, Law Enforcement and Firefighter candidates to get TO and TROUGH intense tactical selection programs. 6:05 I just wrote an article today basically called, you know, optimal performance is the mastery of recovery.The mastery of recovery is really the key to longevity, as well as optimal performance 10:22 Your body doesn't delineate doesn't make doesn't differentiate between the types of stress. It's physical stress, emotional stress, your body just looks at that as a straight stress. 15:26 There are peaks and valleys and you know, different elements of fitness that you focus on spread throughout the year where you don't neglect any weaknesses. But at the same time, you're not burning out on one particular element month after month after month, year after year to a point where you're just beat up and injured all the time. 31:30 Phases of tactical fitness 43:09 That leads to a generation of males I was talking to all kids these days are, are being deprived of PE in. I mean, of course they're still sports. They exist. They happen in high schools. But when we think about again, ripple effects, the repercussion, that butterfly effect of telling kids it's not important to train every day. It's not important. You can reach Rob at Rob@impactactual.com Find Stew: Check out the New StewSmith Fitness Club (Members Only Content and Services) - Follow Stew Smith on: Facebook Instagram Twitter TikTok Youtube Stew Smith CSCS www.stewsmithfitness.com Voted Top Ten Military FItness Blog (#1 and #3)

Reawakening Masculinity, with Eric “Coach” Bond. 3:00 Eric Bond is a career college athlete course high school to get to that point, competitive athlete began began coaching other athletes and collegiates after that But that was the first iteration of his life. The first phase today, of course, he's a father, a husband has two great kids, two boys, neither of which, as we'll talk about is named James. 17:00 We are hardwired to assume the negative. And this is where the breakthrough is possible to begin to comprehend this, this this thoughtless thought process, the assumptions that hold us back, and we want to go beyond self limiting beliefs and behaviors. 21:00 the toxic masculinity thing we hear about is largely based on repression of these natural emotions of understanding, you know, grief, and fear and pain and understand being able to express doubt, uncertainty, things like that, that we have to cover up. 30:42 Like we said, on the global stage, we're in a place that we need authenticity, we need truth, we need people to be bold and step forward and say, accept, I'll honor you. And I'll, I'll demand that I'd be honored. 41:00 The main three things that I that I work on with entrepreneurial dads is leadership. And that's and that's not a leadership, like leading a company leadership or leading a family, it's leading you. That's the first step. That's kind of the first pillar. The second pillar is self care. And the third pillar is legacy.

Life Lessons from Screen and Stage with today's guest, Iris Almario. Iris Almario has emerged on-screen and beyond as an accomplished Actress, Host, Model, Social Media Influencer and true Animal Advocate. 1:42 So I want to talk today about following your calling because that is what has made me what I am today, whatever that may be. I was driven by this calling and I've had a lot of young men come up to me in recent years, hey, I want to be a seal too. 8:19 Yeah, I would say that nowadays more than ever, the importance of creating your own content getting together with friends like minded people who want to do something and become a little bit more active. 12:23 And and that was kind of like shining a light on the darkness and, and giving people the right to in the power to make content, which is more improve is better for all of us who liked the content. 24:38 Just because I get all these roles, where I have to research things that have nothing to do with me with you know, drugs or you know, the sex traffic's. Just real The weird subjects, but I find it really fascinating. I'm constantly learning. 26:30 I think that's, that's really that's an, that's a wonderful quality to have as an actor is empathy. Because you're not supposed to judge your characters, you're supposed to understand them understand why they think the way they do, why they make the choices that they make.  Rob can be reached at Rob@impactactual.com

Task number 12 is Execute Your Mission. Today's guest is Jason Gardner, Retired SEAL Master Chief with 30 years of combat experience and now working “Echelon Front,” the leadership consulting firm of the famous SEAL Jocko Willink. 4:48 But one of the most amazing things to me about this guy's path is that his execute your mission didn't stop at the team's ending. 5:26 We're going to unpack a lot of these ideas about executing your mission and really knowing what your mission is. That's what the whole concept of the 12 tasks is all about it. Like painting a room when I paint a room in a house 80 to 85% of the work has nothing to do with paint. It's clearing the deck. It's painting, taping the walls, it's scraping the old paint. It's moving the furniture and the plants out of the way the work is done before the final step this extra permission. 6:32 Going through Extreme Ownership helped me actually start to think about leadership, and then also find value in my new role as an Executive leader in the SEAL teams, where, you know, I was going to meetings and, and realizing that, hey, I was the only guy in the meeting that remembered what it was like to be out there doing the job. And so I find a lot of value in being able to represent those folks. 17:29 I'm going to be a little bit vulnerable and fairly honest with you on my observations, like I went through the SEAL teams, because I was insecure. And I was looking to prove myself. 33:10 Because this is why America, people are going like, Oh, we're going to get broken, we are not going to get broken. America has gone through blips like this. Like we're we're in a hard point right now. And but we've experienced much worse situations. And we've always worked our way through them, and come out stronger on the other side. 47:01 it goes back to our training, lifelong learning and a process of rapid turnaround for learning. So it's a two part thing. It's open to changing and correcting and taking the humility, the ego out of it so you can get better at your work. And then doing it faster.

Task 11 is Select Your Path. Today's guest on the show is Melissa Dockum, Executive Administrator for Impact Actual. Melissa is a retired dancer who performed at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. She transitioned into a teacher and then during COVID life, course corrected her path. 08:10As a performer transitioning into teacher transitioning into, you know, well, COVID life, which basically killed the arts for a while, I'm conditioned to select my path multiple times, you know, it's not like I chose my nine to five job and stuck with that for the rest of my life. 13:17What you just said about being brutally honest, that was something that I had to learn to be honest with myself, and realize I'm doing what I should do, or what I've been taught to do. But deep down, I don't really want to do that I don't I don't want to take that path. 15:03 I felt this oppressive weight on my soul, that I was doing the wrong thing. I was on the wrong track. 26:09 To be honest, I journal I think write writing down your pros and cons can kind of help navigate that, but I, I really gravitate towards the what do I want? What do I need to do to get there? How will that make me feel? So that feeling that heart feeling is what I really actually want. And that can then guide my brain towards you know, where I want to go. 34:32I like to laugh at myself, because it's taken me so long to learn the same lessons about honoring I've been teaching honoring your body, mind, heart and soul staying fit across the powers. And we're talking here about the dumb zone, the fifth human power of boundary setting, having a healthy boundary around yourself first, even to the closest person we talked about five powers and five rings. 44:37 It is selecting your path is a process of being responsible, accountable. We talk about accountability all the time.

Task 10 is Orient Your Options. This week's guest is William Barnum, founder and CEO of Naked Warrior Recovery. His is a retired Navy SEAL with 26 years of service. 3:20  After retiring from the military in 18. He retired he was suffering from physical and psychological symptoms that negatively impacted his well being and quality of life, migraines, severe anxiety, chronic pains, difficulty focusing, difficulty sleeping, and falling asleep, and depression are some of the symptoms I struggled with on daily basis. 08:48 So naked is it has many meanings, but the first meeting and you kind of covered it in the beginning, what it's really about, it's taking your ego off, and kind of setting into the corner being exposed being a little bit vulnerable, so you can find some healing. 22:59 Yeah, so CBD is it's legal federally, across the board. It was the passing of the farm bill in 2018. It's like December 20. I think of 2018 made hemp legal CBD comes from Him the difference between hemp and marijuana. It's essentially the same plant, but it's the amount of THC that's in the plant. So if it has point 3% or less THC in the driveway of the plant, it's a hemp plant. Anything above that is called marijuana. 30:26 You know, this is something that I, you know, I've created a couple of courses. And, in one of those is like, it's five secrets of leadership. And, and the third secret it, let me just go over them really quickly. So the first one is, you know, multitask, like a Navy SEAL. And, you know, the bottom line here is there's no such thing as multitasking, when I teach the course I kind of go into like, shoot, move and communicate, you're in a gunfight, you're, you're you've just been ambushed. 42:00 whatever that thing is that you're doing that you're trying to accomplish that you're trying to build, like chop it up into small, bite sized easily consumable pieces. And just do one of those a day, you can do two or seven of those a day, but at least get one and create those small victories. And the more of those small victories that you create in your life, the closer you will get to whatever the end actually is, and you're able to keep going and then never quit.

Task number 9 is Observe Your Arena. Today's guest on the show is Patrick Mullins, who joins Rob's team as the Director of Sales and Marketing. Observing your Arena focuses on using a tool known as the OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) Loop, developed by Colonel Boyd. This task is important to develop as you go through the high impact system to become a balanced and unstoppable. 7:53 Patrick Mullins, Director of Sales and Marketing for Impact Actual, transitioned from an electrical engineering career to flying for the US Air Force and then transforming into a star executive coach 9:50 Everyone - Military, civilian, owner of a company, factory floor worker - uses the OODA loop in their daily life. You may not know you are using it, but everyone does. 11:27 OODA Loop is observe, orient, decide and act. Colonel Boyd developed this theory to determine how best to exploit the enemy's deficiencies. 25:54 The OODA Loop has direct implications for us in life everyday. 42:30 People can get stuck in different phases of this loop that can cost you, your team, your company. 47:48 The OODA Loop helps me be a better planner, a better strategic thinker, because I'm observing and orienting myself to the process. Rob can be reached at Robert@impactactual.com

Get honest - then get honest again - to "Highlight Your Gaps." In this episode, Rob discusses Task 08 and the importance of discovering those blind spots we hide from ourselves. His guest today is Marcus Torgerson, self defense and personal empowerment teacher. Marcus discusses his career as an instructor of Krav Maga, the various reasons people seek his help, and his approach to helping them know not just what to do - but why. Martial Arts are important...but never forget the reason for them: not to harm, but to be ready. Listen in as they teach you to find your gaps. Reach Rob at Robert@impactactual.com

Personal choice leads to almost all of our outcomes: what we experience is caused by our choices, neglect an option, choosing to work out or not work out, for example. Accounting for oneself is the reason that our Impact Actual motto is Impact HARD: Humility, Accountability, Respect and Dignity - the four concepts that will give you your own guiding principles. With accountability being a huge factor in this, the 7th task is Clarify Your Condition. Today's guest is Trisha Drago, the founder and CEO of Banyon Accounting and the Finance and Operations Director for Impact Actual. Trisha and Rob discuss the similarities between systems, measuring your business and financial health as you would measure your own health. Clarifying your true condition by taking a searching and fearless moral inventory. Rob can be reached at Robert@Impactactual.com

This episode centers on Task number 06: Declare Your 'Done.' Where are your healthy boundaries? What will you accept and not accept? Integrity does get turned on and off. It is a simple, consistent condition. You need to find ways to respectfully decline requests from others, or you will never have the time to build the epic leadership role you were made for. Lead yourself first because true leadership is by example. Rob's guest today is Jason Redman, author of The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader and The Trident and Overcome. Jason notes, “When you talk about mistakes and messing up, there is this idea that as a leader, you are perfect, you are impervious to mistakes..it's not ture. Leaders make all kinds of mistakes.” The journey is how you mess up, figure it out and come back from it. We have terrible experiences, which are actually a give to us and we get an opportunity to learn from it. We have to get broken down to experience it. The change starts today. It starts with formulating a plan. Listen in for more details. Rob can be reached at Rob@imactactual.com

This week's task is about integrity - how we appreciate the authenticity of others. Jason Rowinski, Director of Training and Development, joins Rob in talking about searching your soul. Finding your authenticity and aligning your lives toward that authenticity is like having your North Star that is your governing center. Power and money corrupt everyone unless you stay in tune with your ultimate center, your higher power.The people that are aligned use their power to lift other people up. We need more integrity because we are potentially going to hurt our selves as a species if we don't start getting back to the fundamentals of respect and dignity and assuring that peoples' voices are heard. Jason states, “ I know I don't do it perfectly, but I call to love all people, whoever you are, wherever you are at, that's how I want to roll.” Rob can be reached at Rob@impactactual.com Jason can be reachec at jason@impactactual.com

Today's Task is Heal Your Heart. Genuine hear is present in the greatest warriors - the ones we would follow to hell and back. Leadership is giving a damn about your family and it's about giving a damn about yourself. This episode's guests, Mark Babbit and Chris Edmonds, are the authors of Good Comes First. The foundation principle of “Leaders must equally value respect and results” says that if you are only focused on results, you are only doing exactly half of your job. If employees of all generations are treated with respect and validation for their ideas, efforts and contributions every day. The great leader understands that it is about pulling the best out of people. Listen in as Rob, Chris and Mark outline the concepts of evolving out of a system that isn't working in today's world. Rob can be reached at Rob@impactactual.com

Task number 3 is Mold Your Mind. Molding your mind is about keeping your mind elastic. It's about curiosity, mindfulness and intellectual capacity. Rob's guest today is Jon Macaskill. Jon graduation from the US Naval Academy. He is a SEAL commander turned mindfulness and meditation teacher. Jon runs a consulting business that brings mindfulness and meditation to high performing teams. Fighting the authentic human experience is exhausting. In order to take the mask off, we need to figure out who we are behind the mask. When looking at what can be done from an education standpoint, the "alpha male" is learning that it is okay to be vulnerable and let people see your shortcomings because that makes us real and more relatable. Practicing mindfulness changes the neuroplasticity which allows your mind to change and develop new neural pathways, learn new things, change the way that you see the world literally and figuratively. Rob can be reached at rob@impactactual.com.

Your Mind and your Heart - those mental and emotional realms - as well as your leadership ability. Everything you do depends on the Body. If your body's not in alignment, it doesn't function well. We teach the Impact concept called SEAT (Sleep, Eat, and Train) to lay the foundation for your whole-person health. The practice of Natural Movement, now including his record-setting practice and research into breath work, is the subject of today's episode with MovNat founder Erwan LeCorre. He explains that we are a system of energy systems - and life is all about how you manage those levels of biological energy. We need balance. If you find that balance in a healthy way, you thrive. If instead you have learned to depend on chemicals and other coping mechanisms, you hurt yourself. We need connection with others, but also to be that biological unit, this unit of life, with autonomy. And the greater autonomy we establish, the better we can serve the community we inhabit. Rob can be reached at robert@impactactual.com

If you know much about Rob DuBois, or the SEAL's in general, you won't be surprised to learn that he busts the idea that some things are impossible. It is through a firm commitment to himself and a belief that he can be better that all things are possible. The very first of 12 tasks is commit to growth. Rob's guest, Michael Ostrolenk, has been exploring the relationship between post conventional living, transformational leadership, optimizing health and regenerative paradigms his whole life. Rob and Michael discuss how we are civilized to death. We medicate ourselves for things that wouldn't have to be treated if we were living in a more natural way. If anyone wants to start dialing in, sleep is the place to start. Michael also discusses environments of excellence and communities of practice as a technique to cement the training we receive. The more people you can get to buy into the changes you are trying to make to support you, the better. Rob can be reached at: Rob@impactactual.com.

Welcome to the very first episode of Beyond Your Limits - the podcast that helps you destroy self-limiting beliefs, unchain your potential and create the meaningful life you were made for. This first episode we provide an overview of what you can look forward to as you subscribe to our podcast. Rob DuBois is a retired Navy SEAL, Author and Founder of Impact Actual. He is passionate about bringing self-mastery to fruition. BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): Rob has taken his military training and perspective and developed a deep dive into creating the High Impact System that "will help powerful people remember how powerful they are." This episode touches on the Fellowship of the Five Rings and the Five Powers. You deserve joy and freedom. Learn how these disciplines can get you there.  Rob can be reached at: Rob@impactactual.com.

Staying up at the Eco Lodge in Sarinbuana, I met many like-minded “Thriving with Nature” souls. Rob Dubois and his partner Cate were two of these beautiful people! Rob starting telling me about how he was building a modern luxury home but implementing permaculture principles! I just had to come and have a look!Rob and Cate’s house is still under construction but you can see every detail has been thought of. It’s an example of how we can still thrive in the modern world and align with Nature. Join me as we hear how Rob implemented the permaculture principles into his build...If you want to find out more you can contact Rob through his business “The Practice” by going to www.thepracticebali.comLearn more: https://thrivingwithnature.com Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thrivingwithn...Join Instagram: https://instagram.com/thrivingwithnature Follow on Facebook: https://facebook.com/thrivingwithnature

Stew Smith http://www.stewsmithfitness.com interviews former Navy SEAL Rob Dubois (http://www.ImpactActual.com) about his journey into the Navy after a year of college and working. His Navy career started out as a linguist / cryptologist and he worked through the lateral transfer process to get to BUDS by age 30! His 9-11 story is explained by a man who realized the moment that changed his job instantly in the SEAL Teams. He continued growth has led him to create training programs that can be found at http://www.impactactual.com - but you should also get his book - Powerful Peace - as it is his detailed account of personal struggle, growth, and learning when the world changed. See https://www.amazon.com/Powerful-Peace-SEALs-Lessons-Lifetime/dp/1614481881 Check out other videos of combat swimmer stroke, workouts, and other spec ops related training. See http://www.stewsmithfitness.com for more information about military, law enforcement, special ops, fire fighting training programs.

My guest today is Rob Dubois. Robert is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL, a career intelligence and national security professional. He is founder of Impact Actual, the elite whole-person personal development firm (http://www.impactactual.com) Through keynote presentations, executive coaching, seminars/retreats and online training, Rob and the Impact team execute on their mission: to train people to destroy self-limiting beliefs and behaviors so they can perform at maximum potential. Rob is also the author of Powerful Peace; a Navy SEAL's Lessons on Peace from a Lifetime at War, which has received enthusiastic praise from leadership icons including Tony Robbins and former Secretary of Defense, James Mattis. Link to his book here: Powerful Peace: A Navy SEAL's Lessons on Peace from a Lifetime at War https://www.amazon.com/dp/1614481881/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_j.czEbCEJDKBV Also he was On the National Geographic show “Mygrations” where he and a group crossed the Serengeti! Check it out on Prime Video. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/veteranspath/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/veteranspath/support

I absolutely loved recording this episode. Rob is a brilliant mind, and we dive deep on a lot of issues. Rob has spent decades as a public servant in various roles, one of them being an elite Navy SEAL. I walked away from the episode enlightened by our conversation and I am sure you will too. We cover everything from terrorism to what it means to be an empowered man. I hope you all enjoy this episode as much as I did 

Rob’s company: Impact ActualInstagram: @robduboisBook: Powerful Peace: A Navy SEAL's Lessons on Peace from a Lifetime at War

Welcome to Episode 22 of the Digital Guardian Podcast! On this episode our hosts Will Gragido and Chris Brook chat with Rob DuBois, ‎a former Navy SEAL and the Founder and CEO of personal development firm ‎Impact Actual. Rob discusses Impact Actual, how his time in the Navy helped him learn about his adversaries and find balance, and how his discipline can help infosec practitioners defend assets.

Episode 15: Today we are talking about a lot of chaos in the White House this week and our continuing conversation about the emotional chaos in the country, on social media and in our relationships. Many Americans have been feeling a lot of anxiety this past year, and chaos certainly doesn't help. My special guest, Rob Dubois shares why he feels, we as Americans are destroying ourselves from the inside. Don't forget to subscribe!

Rob Dubois is former NSA, Navy Seal & founder of Impact Actual. We had a great time talking about his life experiences & shot down a bunch of rabbit holes.

Every once in a while this podcast has a guest who makes us truly feel blessed to be doing this - Rob Dubois is one of those people. If you don't know anything about Rob, go read his website, listen to this podcast and check out his book. He is a real American hero, a fantastic human being, and a true patriot. On behalf of James and I - I want to extend a hearty thank you for the time Rob spent, and wisdom he's imparted. In this episode... Rob Dubois on being a 'badass' the parable of the blind wise men and the elephant be reachable and teachable (be a RAT) the collision of boots, bits, and threats the arrogance of security professionals are a weakness fail early, fail often - learn from it why plans are useless, and planning is essential a George Carlin quote, and a "The Office" reference a brutal lesson from PoW training Guest Rob Dubois ( @RobDubois ) - Rob is currently best-known for his book "Powerful Peace - A Navy SEAL's Lessons on Peace from a Lifetime at War". I can't possibly do Rob justice but to call him a true, powerful, "badass"... check him, his book, and his powerful message out for yourself on his blog SEAL of Peace.