Latest Goruck Podcast Episodes
059 - Michael Easter - Best-Selling Author of The Comfort Crisis & Scarcity Brain
Glorious Professionals - November 30, 2023 20:30 - 1 hourMichael 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 Bra...
058 - Pete Blaber - Author & Former Delta Force Commander
Glorious Professionals - December 07, 2022 06:00 - 1 hourJason 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 rece...
057 - William Ostan - Wounded Warrior Advocate & Founder of Arc of Justice
Glorious Professionals - May 31, 2022 05:01 - 47 minutesFor 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 ...
056 - The GORUCK Games with Cadre DS & Mocha Mike
Glorious Professionals - April 29, 2022 03:02 - 48 minutesJason 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 activi...
055 - Sandlot JAX Fitness Festival
Glorious Professionals - March 29, 2022 04:43 - 37 minutesJason 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 activi...
054 - Dr. Mike Roussell, PhD - Nutritionist and Author
Glorious Professionals - January 12, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour“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 ex...
053 - GORUCK Cadre Dan Plants on 10 years of Challenges
Glorious Professionals - November 11, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour“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 deplo...
Ep. 10 - Chad Malone - 2021 GORUCK Selection 022
Under The Log - A Podcast about GORUCK Events and People. - October 28, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsFor links, transcripts, and to connect, visit UnderTheLog.com. In this episode of Under The Log we talk with Chad Malone about his experience at the 2021 GORUCK Selection Class 022. If you're interested in checking out Chad's training workouts when they drop, visit RuckWOD.com. If you're feel...
052 - Sara Wilkinson and CHAD 1000x - Founder of the Step Up Project and Gold Star wife of Navy SEAL Chad Wilkinson
Glorious Professionals - October 06, 2021 18:00 - 53 minutes“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...
051 - Malaika Underwood - USA National Team Baseball Player and Senior VP of Licensing at OneTeam Partners
Glorious Professionals - September 23, 2021 18:30 - 1 hour“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 gagg...
050 - Jaala Shaw - teacher, trainer, and humanitarian, formally an English Language Fellow in Afghanistan
Glorious Professionals - September 01, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour“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 Fell...
050 - Jaala Shaw - Teacher, Trainer, and Humanitarian, English Language Fellow in Afghanistan
Glorious Professionals - September 01, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour“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 Fell...
049 - Matthew “Griff” Griffin and Blayne Smith, Veterans on Afghanistan
Glorious Professionals - August 27, 2021 18:30 - 47 minutesEpisode 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 Grif...
048 - Aaron Hand - Ranger Battalion Sniper turned Green Beret, veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom and Task Force Dagger
Glorious Professionals - August 24, 2021 18:30 - 48 minutes“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 f...
047 - Sara Wilkinson - Gold Star wife of Navy SEAL Chad Wilkinson, inspiration for Chad1000x
Glorious Professionals - August 11, 2021 22:53 - 2 hours“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 deployment...
046 - Melissa Urban - Whole30 Co-Founder and CEO
Glorious Professionals - July 28, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour“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 ...
045 - Normandy Retrospective with Sergeant Major Plants aka Cadre Dan
Glorious Professionals - July 07, 2021 18:00 - 57 minutes“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 less...
044 - PFC Jim “Pee Wee” Martin - World War II Paratrooper, 101st Airborne Division, G Company
Glorious Professionals - June 30, 2021 16:00 - 1 hourJim “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 ...
043 - Ashley’s War - Remembering Army 1st Lieutenant Ashley White
Glorious Professionals - June 16, 2021 19:30 - 1 hour“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 ...
042 - Sebastian Junger - Author and Journalist
Glorious Professionals - June 09, 2021 18:30 - 1 hour“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 har...
041 - Michael Easter - Author, Health Journalist and Professor
Glorious Professionals - June 02, 2021 17:30 - 1 hour“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 gu...
040 - Scott Campbell - Tattoo Artist
Glorious Professionals - May 19, 2021 19:44 - 1 hour“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 abo...
039 - Chris Long - Super Bowl-winning NFL Defensive End and Founder of The Chris Long Foundation
Glorious Professionals - May 05, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour“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...
Ep. 09 - Mike Parrent - 2021 GORUCK Trailblazers HZB
Under The Log - A Podcast about GORUCK Events and People. - April 23, 2021 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsFor links, transcripts, and to connect, visit UnderTheLog.com. In this episode of Under The Log we talk with Mike Parrent about his experience at the 2021 GORUCK Trailblazers event. If you're feeling inspired to do a GORUCK event, you can find upcoming events right here. The Under The Log ...
Ep. 08 - Grace Burns - 2021 GORUCK Star Course 12 Miler (Richmond)
Under The Log - A Podcast about GORUCK Events and People. - April 02, 2021 06:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsFor links, transcripts, and to connect, visit UnderTheLog.com. In this episode of Under The Log we talk with Grace Burns about winning the 2021 GORUCK Star Course 12-Miler in Richmond VA. Grace is only 14-years-old and was a lot of fun to talk to. Though, I'm a bit biased... she's also my daugh...
038 - Richard Rice on his piece of Operation Cyclone aka “Charlie Wilson’s War”
Glorious Professionals - March 31, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour110 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...
Ep. 07 - Blake Matthews - 2021 GORUCK Battle of the Bulge Tough (Orlando)
Under The Log - A Podcast about GORUCK Events and People. - March 26, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn this episode of Under The Log we talk with Blake Matthews about completing the 2021 GORUCK Battle of the Bulge Tough in Orlando. This was Blake's first Tough and he shares his thoughts on what it was like to do a Tough after having completed a few GORUCK Lights (now Basic). Be sure to connec...
Ep. 06 - Corey Parsons - GORUCK Tough Battle of the Bulge (Columbus)
Under The Log - A Podcast about GORUCK Events and People. - March 19, 2021 14:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn this episode of Under The Log we talk with Corey Parsons about completing the 2021 GORUCK Battle of the Bulge Tough in Columbus. This was Corey's first GORUCK Tough and he shares his thoughts on what it was like to do a Tough with absolutely no training. Like, none. You can grab one of those...
037 - James Geering - Firefighter, Paramedic and host of “Behind the Shield”
Glorious Professionals - March 17, 2021 18:30 - 1 hour“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 podc...
Ep. 05 - Larry and Larry - 2021 GORUCK Bragg Heavy
Under The Log - A Podcast about GORUCK Events and People. - March 12, 2021 06:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLarry Shaffer Jr. and Larry Shaffer III, aka "The Larrys" join us on this episode of Under the Log to talk about the 2021 GORUCK Bragg Heavy. Yes, this event had the option for a Double Heavy and, yes, if you know the Larrys you would think they'd be all about that. Well, towards the end of the ...
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