Glorious Professionals
60 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago -In this podcast we explore leadership, service, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. Glorious Professionals is hosted by former Green Beret Jason McCarthy and presented by GORUCK Media. Jason is joined by his wife Emily - a former CIA case officer, and Richard Rice - 30 year Veteran of Army Special Forces.
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059 - Michael Easter - Best-Selling Author of The Comfort Crisis & Scarcity Brain
November 30, 2023 20:30 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBMichael Easter recently visited GORUCK HQ for a book signing and Heavy Rucking Mile party. Before the big ruck, Jason and Emily talked with Michael about the search for happiness and his new book, Scarcity Brain. Michael is an author and journalist who wrote The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain. Writing books takes him around the world to wild places to learn about physical and mental health and how we can live better. He lives on the edge of the desert in Las Vegas and rucks often with h...
058 - Pete Blaber - Author & Former Delta Force Commander
December 07, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 83.3 MBJason and Rich discuss risk and leadership with Pete Blaber, former Delta Force Commander and author of the books The Mission, The Men and Me and The Common Sense Way. Pete Blaber commanded at every level of one of the most elite counter-terrorist organizations in the world during most of recent history’s most significant military and political events (Panama, Colombia, Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq). In 2006 he retired from the military and transitioned from leading elite combat ...
057 - William Ostan - Wounded Warrior Advocate & Founder of Arc of Justice
May 31, 2022 05:01 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBFor this Memorial Day episode of Glorious Professionals, Jason & Emily are joined by Will Ostan to discuss his work as a wounded warrior advocate, the problem with the term “disabled veteran,” and how you can get involved to help better the current veteran benefits system. William J. Ostan is a medically retired U.S. Army Major and combat veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the Founder and President of Arc of Justice, a nonprofit organization that advocates for wounded warri...
056 - The GORUCK Games with Cadre DS & Mocha Mike
April 29, 2022 03:02 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBJason and Emily are joined by Cadre DS and Mocha Mike to discuss the first-annual GORUCK Games that took place at the recent Sandlot JAX Fitness Festival. The GORUCK Games are a competition of grit worth $50K in prize money. Special Forces training tests athletes across a broad array of activities to ensure well-rounded strength, agility, and endurance. GORUCK harkens back to those roots in a 2-Day competition of grit that features an obstacle course, rucking, weighted challenges, running,...
055 - Sandlot JAX Fitness Festival
March 29, 2022 04:43 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBJason and Emily are joined by Cadre DS and Mocha Mike to discuss the first-annual GORUCK Games that took place at the recent Sandlot JAX Fitness Festival. The GORUCK Games are a competition of grit worth $50K in prize money. Special Forces training tests athletes across a broad array of activities to ensure well-rounded strength, agility, and endurance. GORUCK harkens back to those roots in a 2-Day competition of grit that features an obstacle course, rucking, weighted challenges, running,...
054 - Dr. Mike Roussell, PhD - Nutritionist and Author
January 12, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 106 MB“My advice is to always find a way to take a good step forward.” To kick off 2022, Dr. Mike Roussell joins Jason for Episode 054 focusing on nutrition. Dr. Mike consults on health, nutrition, and performance for a range of clientele from professional athletes, to celebrities, to Fortune 500 executives. “With a passion for nutrition rooted in sport,” he is a speaker, podcaster and author who breaks down complicated nutrition ideas and principles to easily digestible, immediately actionable ...
053 - GORUCK Cadre Dan Plants on 10 years of Challenges
November 11, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 100 MB“The lessons you learn at GORUCK events, they’re applicable to everything in life.” Cadre Dan Plants returns to the podcast for episode 053 to talk with Jason about 10 years of building better Americans through GORUCK Events. Dan uses his experience as an Army Sergeant Major and multiple deployments as a Green Beret to teach servant leadership, teamwork and the mindset of pushing through adversity during his events. “I always, always, always put people first. Always.” Starting with his i...
052 - Sara Wilkinson and CHAD 1000x - Founder of the Step Up Project and Gold Star wife of Navy SEAL Chad Wilkinson
October 06, 2021 18:00 - 53 minutes - 74.2 MB“Everyone wants someone to care about them right? And that is what we are trying to do.” Sara Wilkinson is back with Jason and Emily for Episode 052 to focus on her work raising awareness of the struggles which lead to veteran suicide and the CHAD 1000x workout and events. In Episode 047, Sara told her and Chad’s story of love and life and the events leading up to his death by suicide on October 29, 2018 after 21 years of service as a Navy SEAL including numerous deployments and TBIs, blas...
051 - Malaika Underwood - USA National Team Baseball Player and Senior VP of Licensing at OneTeam Partners
September 23, 2021 18:30 - 1 hour - 108 MB“Every time I thought this might be the end, it showed up again.” Malaika Underwood joins Jason and Emily for a very friendly Episode 051 to talk about her athletic career and the future she hopes to see in youth and professional sports. Born and raised in San Diego, playing freely with a gaggle of neighborhood kids, Malaika says baseball -- not softball -- found her and became a lifelong love. She dreamed of being a professional player, “the first,” as opportunities for girls and women in...
050 - Jaala Shaw - teacher, trainer, and humanitarian, formally an English Language Fellow in Afghanistan
September 01, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 83.8 MB“I want my Afghan friends to know you’re not forgotten and you never were.” Episode 050 is a conversation Jason and Emily had with Jaala Shaw about Afghanistan, recorded on Friday August 20th (important context given recent events). Jaala lived outside the green zone as a State Department Fellow and Specialist teaching at Kabul Education University and working with teachers and students in the public school system in Kabul from 2010-2012. Her role was to develop relationships with an under...
050 - Jaala Shaw - Teacher, Trainer, and Humanitarian, English Language Fellow in Afghanistan
September 01, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 83.8 MB“I want my Afghan friends to know you’re not forgotten and you never were.” Episode 050 is a conversation Jason and Emily had with Jaala Shaw about Afghanistan, recorded on Friday August 20th (important context given recent events). Jaala lived outside the green zone as a State Department Fellow and Specialist teaching at Kabul Education University and working with teachers and students in the public school system in Kabul from 2010-2012. Her role was to develop relationships with an under...
049 - Matthew “Griff” Griffin and Blayne Smith, Veterans on Afghanistan
August 27, 2021 18:30 - 47 minutes - 65.9 MBEpisode 049 begins with a piece written by Matthew “Griff” Griffin through the voice of the Taliban watching the withdrawal of US forces in Afghanistan. This conversation was recorded August 19, 2021 -- important context given more recent events. Jason and Rich are joined by fellow veterans Griff and Blayne Smith to share their perspectives and recommendations for action for those who have served as well as civilians. It is a “license to feel” through surreal, confusing, frustrating events, ...
048 - Aaron Hand - Ranger Battalion Sniper turned Green Beret, veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom and Task Force Dagger
August 24, 2021 18:30 - 48 minutes - 67.5 MB“As for me, after seeing what I’ve seen, I’m always gonna bet on freedom to win out in the end.” Episode 048 is the first in a series of episodes on Afghanistan. Former Green Beret and Ranger Battalion Sniper Aaron Hand joins Jason and Rich to talk about his late night FB post on his current feelings and outlook -- which Jason reads to start the podcast -- as well as his time in country, the current situation of withdrawal, historical parallels, the taste of freedom and reasons to have hop...
047 - Sara Wilkinson - Gold Star wife of Navy SEAL Chad Wilkinson, inspiration for Chad1000x
August 11, 2021 22:53 - 2 hours - 166 MB“I don’t think anyone can live this life and not be affected.” Sara Wilkinson, gold star wife of Navy SEAL Chad Wilkinson, joins Emily and Jason in Jacksonville for Episode 047 in hard, honest conversation about growing up in a military family, her and Chad’s love story, the life of deployments as a military spouse, being a mom to Kinsley and Hudson, and Chad’s death by suicide in 2018 and the birth of Chad 1000x. SCPO Chad Wilkinson was born into the Navy. Both his uncle and father were...
046 - Melissa Urban - Whole30 Co-Founder and CEO
July 28, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 126 MB“The more I use my voice, the more powerful I feel.” For Episode 046 Jason and Emily have a deep and far-ranging conversation with Melissa Urban: Whole30 Co-Founder and CEO, recovered addict, New York Times best-selling author, mother, podcast host, nature churchgoer, and rucker. From a “good kid” in New Hampshire through trauma, addiction, recovery and now an entrepreneur with a large platform and living a life of a “healthy person with healthy habits,” Melissa has eschewed perfectionism ...
045 - Normandy Retrospective with Sergeant Major Plants aka Cadre Dan
July 07, 2021 18:00 - 57 minutes - 79.4 MB“It’s the ultimate symbol that freedom and liberty will always prevail. Always.” For episode 045, Jason, Emily, and Rich talked with Sergeant Major Dan Plants about D-Day and the GORUCK events he has led in Normandy to remember and honor the sacrifices of those who fought there. A history lesson combined with the personal remembrances of those who have rucked those storied beaches with some of the veterans who know it best, this is an episode about the spirit of the American soldier and “t...
044 - PFC Jim “Pee Wee” Martin - World War II Paratrooper, 101st Airborne Division, G Company
June 30, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 143 MBJim “Pee Wee” Martin in Ohio, one of the “Toccoa Originals” and few surviving paratroopers of WWII sat down with Jason and Rich, along with a handful of GORUCK Cadre, for Episode 044 in Ohio. On June 6, 2014, the 70th anniversary of D-Day, Martin became the last WWII era American paratrooper to jump over Normandy at the age of 93, landing behind Utah Beach just as he had 70 years earlier. A frank storyteller with strong opinions, Mr. Martin sprinkles his recollections with the greater histor...
043 - Ashley’s War - Remembering Army 1st Lieutenant Ashley White
June 16, 2021 19:30 - 1 hour - 108 MB“If you’re the best, nothing else matters.” Episode 043 remembers and honors 1st Lt Ashley White Stumpf with some of the people who knew her well: Brian Porter, Doug Baker and Molly Donahue. Ashley served as a member of a Cultural Support Team (CST) attached to a Joint Special Operations Task Force in Afghanistan. She was killed during combat operations in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan on October 22, 2011 when the assault force she was supporting triggered an improvised explosive device...
042 - Sebastian Junger - Author and Journalist
June 09, 2021 18:30 - 1 hour - 107 MB“I want to find out what’s true” Sebastian Junger -- war journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author of Tribe, The Perfect Storm, War and most recently Freedom -- joins Jason and Emily for Episode 042 about calculated risks, seeing the world as it is, the service of journalism, and doing hard physical things to feel differently about oneself. Junger grew up in the suburbs of Boston, a childhood that didn’t feel hard or like real life. His father was the survivor of two wars, a “rationa...
041 - Michael Easter - Author, Health Journalist and Professor
June 02, 2021 17:30 - 1 hour - 130 MB“What we were built to do can inform a lot of what we should do today.” Michael Easter joins Jason and Emily for Episode 041 on embracing discomfort through putting ourselves in extreme situations to appreciate what we have and find better health. Michael is known in Heath Journalism as the guy who interviews interesting people doing interesting things. For his new book “The Comfort Crisis” he went on a hunting trip in remote Alaska for 33 days to write about how the most uncomfortable, vu...
040 - Scott Campbell - Tattoo Artist
May 19, 2021 19:44 - 1 hour - 92 MB“The courage to say ‘yes,’ and let it change you.” Jason talks with Scott Campbell and Roger Sparks for Episode 040 about their chance meeting in 2010 in Afghanistan, how those experiences changed both their lives, and the overall power of tattooing. It is a raw and vulnerable conversation about grief, pain, memory and catharsis -- the role reversal of an artist dropping in to help rescue the rescuers. Scott Campbell never imagined he could be an artist, but happened into the hard trade ...
039 - Chris Long - Super Bowl-winning NFL Defensive End and Founder of The Chris Long Foundation
May 05, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 85.3 MB“Service doesn’t require a great platform or require you to be the sole author of a solution. It is a humble task. And the only requirement is a love of people.” For Episode 39 of Glorious Professionals, Jason and Emily talk to Chris Long about the power and pressure of professional sports and using his platform in service to others. In an 11-year career in the NFL as a Defensive End, he was the 2019 Walter Payton Man of the Year – considered by many to be one of the top honors in the NFL ...
038 - Richard Rice on his piece of Operation Cyclone aka “Charlie Wilson’s War”
March 31, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 113 MB110 Days, 3 Missions over an 11,000 foot mountain, 45 “Sensitive Items,” and 10 rather small donkeys For Episode 038 Rich and Jason are alone in the SCIF at GORUCK HQ for an oral history of Rich’s experiences in Operation Cyclone, also known as “Charlie Wilson’s War.” Rich picks up his story a bit where Episode 003 left off, just after his two tours in Vietnam, and shares what led -- from the fall of Saigon, to SAS Selection in Wales, to the first enlisted person in financial training in I...
037 - James Geering - Firefighter, Paramedic and host of “Behind the Shield”
March 17, 2021 18:30 - 1 hour - 87.4 MB“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own” — Bruce Lee Born in England on a farm, our guest for Episode 037 James Geering had always dreamed of becoming a Firefighter but was told because of color blindness he was unable to serve. James, now a podcast host, author and firefighter and paramedic of 15 years, joins Jason and Rich after a ruck on the Jacksonville Beach to talk about his winding road from lifeguard, to stuntman in Japan, to naturali...
036 - Dr. Doug Kechijian - Air Force Pararescueman (PJ), Physical Therapist & Performance Coach, Co-founder of Resilient Performance Systems
February 24, 2021 19:30 - 1 hour - 104 MB"These Things We Do, That Others May Live." Dr. Doug Kechijian (Dr. K) is a former Pararescueman, or PJ, in the US Air Force and now a Doctor of Physical Therapy and CEO / co-founder of Resilient Systems; he talks professionalism, procedure, self discipline, human performance and getting the call with Jason and Rich for Episode 036. In his senior year at Brown -- not a typical military feeder school -- the events of 9/11 steered Doug onto a different path in medicine than the one he had...
035 - Roger Sparks - Reconnaissance Marine (Ret.), Air Force Special Warfare Pararescueman (PJ) (Ret.) and GORUCK Tribe Cadre
February 10, 2021 19:30 - 1 hour - 142 MBSilver Star Recipient Roger Sparks joins Jason in Jacksonville for a raw Episode 035 about resolve and intentions. From his wild upbringing and early struggles with his physical limits, through diverse experiences in the tip of the spear of two military branches pushing his body and mind to aid and train others, Roger’s life focus has been to “grow mentally, physically and spiritually as much as possible.” He used early struggles as fuel and with a learned perspective of both being a grun...
034 - Dr. Ellen Glasser - Mayor of Atlantic Beach, FL and Former FBI Special Agent
January 27, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBDr. Ellen Glasser joins Jason and Emily for Episode 034. Dr. Glasser was recently re-elected as Mayor of Atlantic Beach, FL and has a long history of public service. She was sworn in as an FBI Special agent in 1982, one of the first 500 women to do so, and through her 24 years as “Agent Mom” this glass-breaking-badass served with distinction on high-profile cases from bank robberies to the Iran-Contra Investigation. She talks candidly about her drive to live an interesting life — as well as ...
033 - Kevin Flike - Green Beret (Ret)
January 13, 2021 19:58 - 1 hour - 126 MBMedically Retired Green Beret Kevin Flike joins Jason and Rich for Episode 033. Kevin tells the story of his life of service up to and after his second tour as a combat engineer in Afghanistan in September 2011 when during a 10+ hour firefight he was shot in the stomach. He suffered a fractured hip, damage to his femoral nerve and was paralyzed on his left side. He medically retired and he, along with his wife Kimberlee, have fought ever since to recover and build a life worthy of his teamma...
032 - GORUCK Tribe
January 07, 2021 21:00 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MB“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain Since the first GORUCK Challenge in 2010, GORUCK has been synonymous with the harder path. To push yourself, and to be pushed. To find meaning in the beauty of shared pain, to seek challenges that demand growth, to serve something greater than yourself. T...
031 - Dr. Stuart McGill - Professor, Author and BackFitPro CEO
December 30, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 87.7 MBFor Episode 031, Jason interviews Dr. Stuart McGill, CEO of BackFitPro and *the* expert when it comes to backs and dealing effectively with back injury and pain. Dr. McGill explains in simple, easily understood terms why proper adequate movement is foundational -- and rucking is so helpful -- to having a healthy back and spine. Dr. McGill was the Professor Emeritus of Spine Biomechanics at the University of Waterloo in Canada, where he was a professor for 32 years, the author of "Back Mec...
030 - Foster Huntington - Photographer, Author & Filmmaker
October 26, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 121 MBFoster Huntington is a photographer, filmmaker, and adventurer who talks to Jason and Emily about creating his life off the beaten path on his own terms. The focus is on creativity and overcoming obstacles to intentionally choose your course - along with finding your natural talents - for Episode 030. Foster recounts his struggles with in formal education, beginning with a dyslexia diagnosis in the 4th grade through finding college just not for him. He found release and relief in the freed...
029 - State of GORUCK 2020: Chaos is Opportunity
October 07, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBHistory is happening all around us, and it’s going to be OK. In the spirit of leading with transparency, since 2013 Jason has published a “State of GORUCK” blogpost for the community. He turns 2020’s post into Episode 029. You can read the full post, comment and ask questions HERE. The episode covers GORUCK’s evolution from 2019 to 2020 through COVID to the present with an eye toward the future including: revenue and net income year over year; contraction in Events but growth in communit...
028 - Dave Castro - Former SEAL and BUD/S Instructor, Current Director of the CrossFit Games
October 05, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBDave Castro rarely speaks of his service at the tip of the spear but the imprint of those years of training to excellence is apparent in everything he does -- especially at the CrossFit Games. “The past that I speak so little of is so foundational for who I am.” In Episode 028, with Jason and Rich, Dave discloses a few of the missing pieces of his winding journey starting with “The Rock” and leading to leadership in the Navy as well as CrossFit International. Dave grew up on “The Ran...
027 - Team Roundup with Jason, Emily and Rich
August 27, 2020 15:17 - 58 minutes - 81.2 MBJason, Emily and Rich do a team check-in of sorts for Episode 027. They discuss COVID and learning from history about “unusual times” particularly with regards to schooling; adaptation and sacrifice; the tensions of community and personal responsibility; having self-discipline; and lessons of leadership. The team also gives a peek behind the curtain of the state of GORUCK with an overview of current status and a preview of upcoming rollouts and initiatives with a constant eye on being active...
026 - Kelly Starrett, DPT - Strength and Mobility Coach, Author, and Founder of The Ready State
August 20, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 112 MBDr. Kelly Starrett distills his years of accumulated knowledge to lay out the basics for “playing the long game” of life to build better individuals who build better communities. In a far-ranging Episode 026, Jason and Rich cover a lot of ground with Kelly from his origins in the mountains of Germany to the origins of humans and back. In his new iteration and focus on maintaining a The Ready State for an active, long life, Kelly talks about the “unsexy basics” of optimal health: sleep, mo...
025 - Flo Groberg - US Army Captain (Ret) and Medal of Honor Recipient
July 22, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 99.1 MBFor Episode 025, Florent “Flo” Groberg shares his very American stories of service, sacrifice, family, and the four men who are forever linked to his life. Flo talks with Jason and Rich about his upbringing in France and family in Algeria, the long line of warriors and patriots he comes from, including his adoptive father Larry Groberg who has his own interesting stories of struggle and international adventures. Flo speaks earnestly about what excited him most about coming to the US, the ...
024 - Jimi Letchford, Former Director CrossFit International
July 10, 2020 06:00 - 44 minutes - 62.1 MBJimi talks about the early days of CrossFit and gives his secrets for building and shepherding communities particularly as part of a growing business. Episode 024 is part two of Jason & Rich’s conversation with Jimi Letchford who wound up at the launch of the rocket ship that became CrossFit International. Episode 023 follows Jimi’s first career in the Marine Corps. This part picks up where they left off, his discovery of CrossFit before separating (the first time), through his continued ...
023 - Jimi Letchford, USMC Infantry Officer (Part 1)
June 30, 2020 19:35 - 59 minutes - 82.5 MBEpisode 023 is Part One of Jimi Letchford’s conversation with Jason and Rich about his life in service. Jimi is the former Director of CrossFit International and a Marine Infantry Officer. This part focuses on Jimi’s early life and then career in the military. He explains how wrestling and a well-placed jet led to a single-minded focus on the Naval Academy, and then injury derailed his dreams of becoming a SEAL and a chance meeting turned his focus to the Marine Corps and becoming a Lieutena...
022 - Chad Malone PhD, Owner of Capital MMA & Elite Fitness Lorton
June 23, 2020 21:45 - 1 hour - 99.3 MBFor Episode 022, Jason and Emily talk with Chad Malone about his experiences as a Black man growing up and living in America, raising his own children in Washington DC, and his perspective on the current race-related uprisings. Chad is open, educated and candid not as the voice for his community but as one who has struggled to find his voice and now uses it to tell his and his family’s stories as a window into broader Black communities and experiences. Chad is a proud graduate of Howard U...
021 - Benjamin Bunn, Owner of Cigar City CrossFit and Former Green Beret
June 17, 2020 14:20 - 1 hour - 112 MBBen Bunn joins Jason and Rich in studio — also known as the champagne room — at GORUCK HQ for Episode 021. Growing up in the Tampa area, Ben was the last person anyone would have pegged as a future Green Beret. He took an unexpected and interesting route to active service in the military and quite literally grew into his future roles in the Army and Special Operations, growing 3 inches and putting on 50 pounds during his first deployment. From High School pranks to thoughtful, strong leaders...
020 - Senator Joni Ernst, US Senator from Iowa
June 11, 2020 17:33 - 27 minutes - 38.6 MBSenator Joni Ernst joins Jason and Emily for a conversation focused on service for Episode 020. Senator Ernst is the first woman to represent Iowa in Congress and the first female combat Veteran elected to the United States Senate, and she shares some of her story and perspective with an emphasis on bridging divides and “serving this great country” and communities in various ways now more than ever. Senator Ernst grew up on a farm in Red Oak, Iowa and enrolled in ROTC while at Iowa State ...
019 - Marjorie K. Eastman, US Army Veteran
June 01, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBMarjorie K. Eastman joins Emily and Jason for Episode 019. Marjorie served as a US Army Intelligence officer and commander, and she wrote “The Frontline Generation: How We Served Post 9/11”. Her ten years of post 9/11 military service include two combat deployments, one in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the other in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Their conversation covers her upbringing in a large family and how that shaped her character early; her choice to en...
018 - Cadre Dan Skidmore (DS), GORUCK’s Director of Training and former Air Force Combat Controller
May 29, 2020 06:00 - 57 minutes - 79 MBCadre DS, aka Dan Skidmore, is back with Jason and Rich in Episode 018 to talk about training. The previous part of the conversation (Episode 017) covered in more detail DS’s history and high level of physical preparedness as an Air Force Combat Controller. In this part, he dives deeper into how he trains, the origins of becoming a coach while on deployment in Afghanistan, his methods of inspiring more people to be active together, and the GORUCK Sandbag & Ruck Training program. Post milit...
017 - Cadre Dan Skidmore (DS), GORUCK’s Director of Training and former Air Force Combat Controller
May 26, 2020 06:00 - 54 minutes - 75.6 MBCadre DS, aka Dan Skidmore, joins Jason and Rich for Part One of their conversation for Episode 017. Part Two will focus on training, while this part focuses on DS’s history: his progression from paintball battles in the fields of Ohio, to attachment to teams in the mountains of Afghanistan as an Air Force Combat Controller, to now GORUCK Director of Training and a fitness entrepreneur in Morocco. In their conversation about mindset and maturity, DS discusses how he used his physical fitn...
016 - Will Hinkson, GORUCK Cadre & Former Reconnaissance Marine
May 20, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBFor Episode 016, Jason and Rich talk to Cadre Will Hinkson about going through transitions, perceptions versus reality, and the importance of finding an individual “why.” Will’s competitive nature - and some good advertising - led him to become a Reconnaissance Marine on the scorching rooftops of Iraq. Later during a security contracting gig in Kabul he started a side-gig which became the first CrossFit affiliate at an embassy. That experience shifted his focus to people-centered business an...
015 - Chris Voss, Negotiations Expert
May 18, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 97.9 MBChris Voss, the former lead international kidnapping negotiator for the FBI, author of the best-selling book “Never Split the Difference,” founder of The Black Swan Group, and currently THE Negotiations expert on MasterClass joins Jason and Emily for Episode 015. From the streets of Kansas City to NYC, the Philippines, Georgetown and quarantine, his stories and life lessons are in the true spirit of Glorious Professionals. “Life is a series of negotiations you should be prepared for: buyi...
014 - Ryan Manion, President of Travis Manion Foundation
May 13, 2020 11:08 - 1 hour - 106 MB“If not me, then who?” - 1stLt Travis Manion, USMC The mission of the Travis Manion Foundation (TMF) is to unite and strengthen communities by training, developing, and highlighting the role models that lead them. Ryan Manion, TMF’s President, joins Emily and Jason on Episode 014 to tell the story of TMF - a non-profit her mother started after the passing of her brother Travis in Iraq on April 29, 2007. Ryan co-wrote “The Knock at the Door” as a personal history as well as a roadmap fo...
013 - Lieutenant General (Ret) Ken Tovo, Former Commanding General USASOC
May 10, 2020 21:53 - 1 hour - 132 MBOn Episode Lucky Number 13 is Lieutenant General (Ret) Kenneth Tovo, a Green Beret who most recently served as Commanding General of the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) before retirement in 2018 after 35 years of military service. General Tovo joins Jason and Rich to dive deep on his hard-won lessons of leadership, particularly through a gripping oral history of a quintessential Green Beret mission: Operation Viking Hammer at the outset of the Iraq war in 2003. In his ...
012 - Ambassador Elisabeth Millard, Former US Ambassador to Tajikistan
May 08, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 99.3 MBFor Episode 012, Jason and Emily are joined by Ambassador Elisabeth Millard, a career diplomat in the Foreign Service who most recently served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. The mission of a U.S. diplomat in the Foreign Service is to promote peace, support prosperity, and protect American citizens while advancing the interests of the U.S. abroad. Ambassador Millard led a full life of travel before and during her storied career and she...
011 - Coco Tang, Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) Instructor & Paramedic in NYC
May 06, 2020 06:00 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MBCoco Tang has traveled the world as a Nationally Registered Paramedic and a DOD-trained Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) instructor, and she is currently on contract working the night shift in New York City treating COVID-19 patients. She joins Jason and Emily for episode 011 to talk about the similarities and differences in her medical mission work from Africa to Afghanistan to here at home. Their conversation covers her ground truth at the epicenter of the current pandemic, her unique ...