This is Jocco podcast number 118 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink. Good evening, echo. Good evening.

I need a mission. We all need a mission. That's what life should be is a mission.

That's what gives your life purpose and focus and drive and ultimately, satisfaction.

Now, that mission can be the job you work at. It can be providing for your family or it can be getting better at Jiu Jitsu or stronger at Olympic lifting or starting a business that you want to grow and build and take over the world.

Sometimes people ask me what to do if they don't know what their mission is or what their mission should be.

I tell them if they're in that situation to go help someone.

Go help someone else make that your mission because that will make you better and it'll make the world better. And eventually from that, you'll see what your mission is.

Now, I was lucky because from a young age, I had a mission. I wanted to be some kind of commando and eventually I ended up hearing about the SEAL teams and decided that that was the best place for me.

And that's where I went. And once I got to the SEAL teams, I had a new mission which was to prepare for war and that's what we did.

And then eventually war came.

And then that was the mission to take the fight to the enemy, to close with and destroy them through close combat. And that's what we did.

But eventually for me and for everyone in the military, it ends.

Maybe because of retirement or maybe because of family obligations or maybe for medical reasons, but for every warrior eventually, the war ends.

And that career ends and that mission ends.

And I've talked a lot on this podcast about how important it is to find a new mission.

Once the war is over for you and you've done your part, you have to find a new mission.

Well, tonight we have a guest on who pursued much the same mission as me for as long as he could and who has now found a new mission that he is on.

So Dan Crenshaw, welcome to the podcast.

Thanks Jack Oates, pleasure to be here with you. Real honor.

Thanks for coming on. And let's just start at the beginning a little bit for people that don't know who you are. Let's talk a little bit about, I guess we'll talk about Katie, Texas and at the same time also include Ecuador and Colombia about your childhood.

Absolutely. Well, like you said, I grew up in Katie, Texas. I'm at six generations of Texan flowing through me, my dad's side of the family, and my dad was in the oil and gas industry our whole lives.

So when you hear the things about Ecuador and Colombia and even Egypt and Scotland, those are all the places we lived over the years because of his career. Everybody, anybody in the oil and gas industry in Texas knows that it's a pretty common theme.

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