Why Do Veterans Struggle After Service? | JC Glick Explains
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful episode, Joe De Sena talks with JC Glick, a veteran of 11 combat tours, about the challenges veterans face after leaving military service.
JC opens up about his struggles with identity, purpose, and mental health, while sharing how his Commit Foundation helps veterans and their families rebuild their lives and find new meaning.
Hear the untold stories of military service, learn about the importance of teamwork, and how we can all play a part in supporting veterans after their service.
Highlights:
00:00 Intro
00:42 Introduction to JC Glick, CEO of Commit
01:03 JC Glick’s journey into the military
03:47 The impact of military service on identity and leadership
04:39 The value of service and teamwork in building gratitude and empathy
07:16 The national service initiatives for young people
09:21 Privileges and challenges of living in the U.S
10:49 Finding a new identity and purpose after leaving the military service
15:09 The significance of military spouses and their unique challenges
16:19 How to support the Commit Foundation and their missione
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We feel better about ourselves when we do for others. |
| 0:04.0 | And when we work as part of a team, we lose a lot of the ego that comes in an entire lifetime of being told how special we are. |
| 0:11.0 | You actually get to see how other people live. I mean I've been to |
| 0:15.2 | parts of the world. We don't understand how lucky we are to have the life that we have in this |
| 0:20.4 | United States. Welcome to the Hardway podcast with Joe de Cenna, founder and CEO of Spartan Races. |
| 0:27.4 | We're teaching you how to overcome your obstacles in your life the same way we teach our 10 million |
| 0:31.7 | plus Spartans to overcome obstacles on the course. |
| 0:34.8 | With insight from the smartest, most accomplished experts from every corner of the world. |
| 0:39.1 | Get ready to elevate your life today. Joe DeSenna here, CEO and founder of Spartan and host the Harway podcast. |
| 0:47.0 | Got my buddy and veteran, J.C. Glick, on the line. |
| 0:51.0 | He is CEO of the Transition Foundation called Commit. |
| 0:55.0 | I mean there's no better no better name for a come maybe Spartan's a better name but |
| 0:59.1 | commit is a damn good name. Welcome aboard sir. |
| 1:02.2 | Thanks for having me. I'm excited to talk to you. We're going to have |
| 1:05.2 | some fun. I'm jealous by the way. I'm jealous that I did not play a role in the military. I feel like I should have been guided there as a young |
| 1:13.6 | person. I'm jealous that you're doing this awesome transition work. You know I |
| 1:18.8 | guess the grass is always greener on the other side. Let's talk about how did you make your way into the military? |
| 1:24.6 | Like, how did that happen? |
| 1:26.4 | I want to say something first. |
| 1:28.0 | Like, he can't leave that hanging and not let me respond to that. |
| 1:30.8 | So, you know, I was just talking to a buddy of mine, his name's Bill Butler, and he's the president of the National Veterans Memorial Museum in Ohio. |
| 1:40.0 | And we were talking about people who haven't served. |
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