MrBallen (Former Navy SEAL): I Wasn't Sleeping, I Became A Raging Alcoholic! I Was Disowned By The SEALS! This Will Turn Your Life Around In 2025!
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
FlightStory
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🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 125 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I was in Afghanistan in 2014 as a Navy SEAL. |
| 0:03.0 | We're in the middle of this gunfight, and a grenade came over the wall, and it detonated. |
| 0:07.6 | And I'm waiting to either be shot by the enemy or I'm going to bleed to death. |
| 0:11.8 | And all that was running through my head was, and that's the way I think people should look at their lives. |
| 0:17.3 | So interesting, because I've never actually heard someone give that kind of advice before. |
| 0:21.2 | Mr. Bullen is a former Navy SEAL turned master storyteller and content creator who uses his battlefield experiences and personal failures to inspire, educate and help people overcome challenges to achieve their goals. |
| 0:31.7 | My family were very successful people with Pulitzer, Prizes, PhD, and then there's me getting into street fights. I'm about to |
| 0:38.6 | get expelled. But it took becoming a colossal failure to realize if you want to fix this, you have to start |
| 0:43.5 | with saying it's my fault and then do something about it. But then fear becomes the thing keeping |
| 0:47.2 | people from doing it. And it's the very select number of people in this life say, I'm going to still |
| 0:51.8 | do that thing that scares the f*** out of me that have the best and most fulfilling life. And so I decided to become a Navy SEAL because it was only a really |
| 0:58.1 | small percent that make it through the ruling, mentally torturing training. And what's the similarities |
| 1:02.3 | that you noticed between the people that made it? Two words. It's, but then I realized the reality |
| 1:07.2 | of the job, you kill people. And I had really leaned into being as, like, alpha as it possibly could be. |
| 1:13.3 | But there was just some things that I did. |
| 1:15.1 | And I just, I struggled so, so bad. |
| 1:18.9 | I had to face my demons. |
| 1:21.0 | What have you learned about dealing with demons? |
| 1:23.1 | If you begin to have those thoughts, |
| 1:25.2 | the only way I have found to sort of cope with them is... |
| 1:28.3 | I find it incredibly fascinating that when we look at the back end of Spotify and Apple and our audio channels, the majority of people that watch this podcast haven't yet hit the follow button or the subscribe button wherever you're listening to this |
| 1:44.8 | I would like to make a deal with you if you could do me a huge favor and hit that subscribe button |
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