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!

I was in Afghanistan in twenty fourteen as a Navy SEAL. We're in the middle of this gunfight and a grenade came over the wall and it detonated. and I'm waiting to either be shot by the enemy or I'm gonna bleed to death. And all that was running through my head was And that's the way I think people should look at their lives. So interesting. Because I've never actually heard someone give that kind of advice before. Mr. Bullen is a former Navy SEAL turn 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.

family were very successful people with Pulitzer Prizes, PhD, and then there's me getting into street fight and about to get expelled. But it's all becoming a colossal failure to realize if you want to fix this, you have to start with saying it's my fault and then do something about it. But then fear becomes the thing keeping people from doing it. And it's the very select number of people in this life. say I'm gonna still do that thing that scares the f out of me and have the best and most fulfilling life. And so I decided to become a Navy SEAL because it was only a really small percent that make it through the grueling mentally torturing training. And what's the similarity that you notice between the people that made it? Two words. It's But then I realized the reality of the job. You kill people. And I had really leaned into being as like alpha as I possibly could be, but there were just some things that I did, and I just I struggled so so bad. I had to face my demons.

What have you learnt about dealing with demons if you begin to have those thoughts. the only way I have found to sort of cope with them. Is I find it incredibly fascinating that when we look at the backend of Spotify and Apple and our audio channels, the majority of people that watch this podcast haven't yet hit the follow button.

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