The Daily Stoic · 2026-06-21 · 13 min · 2,396 words

You Need An Ethical Will | Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling

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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. Today is Father's Day. Yesterday we did a deep dive into Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus, what Marcus learns from his stepfather.

That was a sort of how to father episode. And then the second half of that episode was maybe a little bit what not to do about Tom Juneau's complicated relationship with his father when he came on the Daily Stoke podcast. Today I am talking to Lieutenant General Mark Hurtling. He spent almost 40 years in the U.S.

Army, started as a tank platoon leader, became commander of US Army Europe and the Seventh Army. He did combat tours in Desert Storm and Iraq. And then he helped support military transformation across Eastern Europe, spent, you know, many years in uniform, many years deployed, was in combat many times. Thankfully, he came home, but there were many moments, I'm sure, where he didn't know if he would return. And that's he has this great book called

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