#20: Travis Mills: Recalibrating Your Inner Hero

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Jayson Waller

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🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today on the show Jayson is talking with Travis Mills, a retired United States Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills of the 82nd Airborne is a recalibrated warrior, motivational speaker, actor, author and an advocate for veterans and amputees. Travis, along with his wife Kelsey, founded the Travis Mills Foundation, a nonprofit organization, formed to benefit veterans who have been injured in the line of duty. After losing portions of both his arms and legs from an IED in Afghanistan Travis has made the most of life, starting multiple businesses and a foundation to help people in a similar situation as his, he has thrived after most would give up, or back down. Never give up, never quit, the simple yet impactful words from Travis that he lives by. You can’t let anything hold you back, no matter the circumstances. --- HIGHLIGHTS: The inner battle of "Me vs. My Injury" Peaks and Valleys in both life and business Trials and tribulations heroes go through Recalibrating Travis' life to come out of a dark time in life --- Travis Mill's Social Media Links Website: https://travismillsfoundation.org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ssgtravismills/ --- OWN YOUR POWER HARD-COPY AND SOFT-COPY IS OUT NOW! Immerse yourself with 8 fundamental life-changing principles, worksheets to create your own map, and how to reach another level of your game! It’s all Real Life Stories! It’s You vs You! “It’s a reflection of everything I’ve been through to give guidance and key steps to people in order to live a life with zero excuses” Warning: This Book is unsuitable for pessimists, excuse-makers, and haters! --- SOCIAL MEDIA: Check out Jayson’s website: https://www.jaysonwaller.com/ ‌ Check out the Podcast website: https://letstalkbam.com Follow Business and Money Podcast, Formerly True Underdog; and Jayson Waller on your favorite social media channels and digital podcast platforms: https://linktr.ee/businessandmoneypodcast Business and Money, formerly True Underdog is a Top 3 Entrepreneurship podcast on Apple hosted by Jayson Waller, Former CEO of POWERHOME Solar, one of the fastest-growing private companies in the USA, and his high-profile guests share motivational tips, inspiring stories, and business-building lessons to help each listener grow in their entrepreneurial journey. Reach‌ ‌out‌ ‌to‌ ‌Jayson‌ ‌directly‌ ‌at:‌ ‌ [email protected] --- TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - PRELUDE 00:40 - INTRODUCTION 01:40 - Introducing Travis Mills 01:40 - How did Travis Mills come out of the dark time in his life? 02:30 - “Me vs. My Injury” 03:45 - We are human and we all struggle, so we need to have a support mechanism 05:00 - Recalibrating my life to find out what the new thing in Travis Mills' life was going to be 06:00 - It’s okay to move forward and pivot in life, it’s about growth 09:15 - The part that Travis Mills is building 11:00 - Building on the kid's relationship that shows relentlessness 14:00 - Travis Mills Brewery that he is excited about 16:25 - Building a team is everything for success 17:45 - Get off the sidelines when the opportunity is calling 18:30 - Peaks and Valleys are ALWAYS going to happen in business and in life 20:00 - Take a chance and just go for it 20:30 - Jocko Fuel 22:00 - Starting a clothing business 24:45 - The story of the buffalo and the cow 27:30 - Trials and tribulations 29:45 - “Tough as They Come” and “High on Travis” 32:30 - END --- Don’t forget to subscribe to the BUSINESS AND MONEY, FORMERLY TRUE UNDERDOG PODCAST with over 2 million downloads!! LOVE YOUR HATERS! BAM! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the BAM podcast. That's right BAM business and money instead of
0:06.3	bitching and moaning. This is the 2.0 version of the top three podcasts true
0:12.3	underdog. This will give you an inside look at building a business, overcoming
0:17.0	business and personal issues and most of all not bitching and buying into this
0:22.1	bitch ass cancel culture lifestyle. I'm tired of it. I'm sure you're tired of it.
0:26.3	Take it from me who I built three companies and I've done over a billion in sales
0:30.4	in my time. You're gonna hear from cool ass guests as well on my show. You've
0:35.2	zero time to bitch time to make your move. Let's fucking go BAM! Hey Travis listen
0:43.5	I appreciate everything that you've done in your life but one of the things that
0:48.6	really inspire me the most is you just mentioned what happened most people in
0:54.8	today's world you know I call it the bitching and moaning world. I say it in
0:58.0	the beginning of the podcast you know the BAM podcast. People are making excuses
1:01.6	in life of why they can't do something or they're quitting early or they're
1:05.4	blaming others for their failure or other people's success is their failure and
1:10.4	they hate and they get bitter and you know all of the above this cancel
1:14.4	culture you know victim card world that we live in that I struggle with and I
1:18.8	try to coach my kids and not do that and even my kids they get upset and they
1:22.8	get this thing and I think of people like you people like you who who have to
1:27.2	overcome serious adversity right serious like your arms and legs were taken
1:32.8	from you and I'm sure you were in a very very dark place for a little bit of
1:36.9	time what was that like how dark did it get for you and what did you do to come
1:42.0	out of that well you know I'll be honest I haven't before I'd always have to
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