165: Warrior Story Teller | Scott Mann
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Win battles through trust, good stories, and building relationships - this is the surprising and refreshing approach of this paradigm shifting green beret, Scott Mann. He introduced "rooftop leadership" in Afghanistan to a skeptical NATO crowd, but his courage to live it and its subsequent success changed minds. In this episode, Mann shows us his methods and how to work them at in all of our challenges. We need this type of leadership more than ever and it's within our capabilities. Listen and learn how to develop them.
Lessons:
1. Lead from the bottom up, through relationships and human connection.
2. The greatest leaders have a vision they are able to articulate through story.
3. Leave tracks in the world which serve the people that follow you.
Links:
Rooftopleadership.com
MannUpReport.com
Theheroesjourney.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialScottMann/
Twitter: @REALSCOTTMANN
Instagram: @ROOFTOP_LEADER
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CREDITS
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, Col. Tim Nye, & Dr. Delle
Synopsis – Matt Baatz
© 2017 Spartan
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody. We're back in Amy Barn. I am Colonel Tim Nye and I've got on my left Joe D'Senna. |
| 0:06.4 | On my right I've got Sethra Alexandra and Johnny Waite. What we've got here for you today is, is that all right? |
| 0:13.6 | Yeah, it's a great interview with a retired lieutenant colonel, good friend of mine, |
| 0:17.8 | Scott Mann and SF legend. |
| 0:20.2 | This is a guy to kind of change the way we were doing business fighting the war in Afghanistan by taking a look at how we were training the Afghans and he decided it was wrong and we needed to put our trust in the Afghan tribes and he moved out into the |
| 0:35.2 | villages and put his safety and security in their hands. |
| 0:38.9 | So when he went to sleep at night, he was being guarded by local tribes tribesmen really kind of Lawrence of Arabia kind of |
| 0:46.2 | Magnificent Seven if you know those movies so anyway he's a fascinating guy |
| 0:50.3 | I think we should go listen to Joe interview and then we'll come back and see what you |
| 0:54.2 | guys think. |
| 0:55.2 | We are here for Spartan Up Podcast with Scott Mann at Riverside Farm in Vermont |
| 1:01.2 | while the A gogee is taking place. |
| 1:03.0 | Scott, Green Bere? |
| 1:05.0 | Yep. |
| 1:06.0 | How many years? |
| 1:07.0 | Let's see, 23 years in the Army, almost 23, |
| 1:09.0 | and about 18 of that is a Green Berey. |
| 1:11.0 | Wow. |
| 1:12.0 | And you were like, I don't get offended, but like a bad ass. |
| 1:16.4 | You've done some amazing things over there. |
| 1:18.6 | Anybody in the military is bad. |
| 1:20.1 | But you did some incredible things that now have turned into a leadership? |
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