This is Warrior Kid Podcast number 20 Ask Uncle Jake. This podcast is based on

the two way of the Warrior Kid books. The first one is way of the Warrior Kid

wimpy to Warrior the Navy Sealway and the second one is called Mark's Mission.

And the books are about young Mark who faces a lot of the problems that kids

everywhere face but Mark gets help solving those problems from his Uncle Jake

who is a Navy Seal and who stays with Mark in the summertime. And this podcast is

for kids to hear some more lessons from Uncle Jake and also get the chance to

ask Uncle Jake some questions. And here we go first starting off with the

questions. The first one is from Isabella Marie and she asks, what was your

idea to write the books? Was it a certain person? And the answer to that is I

wrote the Warrior Kid books really based on the challenges that my kids had

growing up and also the challenges that I faced growing up. I realized, especially

watching my own kids that being a kid can be tough. It can be pretty tough.

Whether you're learning things at school or whether you're trying new sports or

whether you're trying to make friends or whether you're getting bullied. All the

things that I went through and I watched my own kids go through these all make it

challenging to be a kid. And I wanted to show everyone some of the things that I

learned myself growing up as a kid and also things I learned in the seal

teams that I thought might make it a bit easier for kids to overcome their

challenges. And so it wasn't a certain individual person. It was really me and

my kids and growing up that made me write the books. The next question, this is

actually a group of questions, these are from Braylin who's a nine-year-old

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