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The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

209: Jason Redman - The Power Of Humility: From A Wounded Navy SEAL

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Ryan Hawk

Business, Careers, Management

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Episode 209: Jason Redman - The Power Of Being Humble: From A Wounded Navy SEAL

  • Sustained Excellence = Humility... Re-learning how to humble yourself.  Arrogance can ruin you
  • The story of Jay being "ripped in to" by a leader after he made a mistake that could have costs lives... And how that impacted him
  • "Great leaders take a step back... To analyze what happened"
  • "There are no bad teams, just bad leaders"
  • "You have to allow the situation around you to develop before making a decision"
  • How Ranger school helped him stop being selfish, humbled him.
    • Forced to lead in adverse situations, and stop thinking about just himself
  • Story: "I am bleeding out. I can feel my life ebbing away as blood seeps from my body into the Iraqi soil..."
  • "I was hit in the face and my left arm..."
  • How the preparation and training saved his life
  • "If facing death, you won't be thinking about material things"
  • The sign Jay hung up outside his hospital room
  • The Key Tenants
    • Lead Always
    • Overcome All
  • "That journey in the hospital taught me... If you are a leader, lead always"
  • Building mental resiliency, must build an overcome mindset
  • "The woman behind The Trident" -- How his wife Erica acted was heroic (and still is)
    • "She never batted an eye"
    • "When they sent me home, I was a mess, and Erica cared for me.  She was never negative, never questioned me for going to war."
  • The greatest natural leader Jay ever met -- Vince Peterson
    • He always led by example, would never ask you to do something he wouldn't do
    • He lost his leg below his knee
    • "Selfless, servant leader, humble" -- Motivated and inspired you to be better
    • Always remained calculated -- Had the ability to drive the team where it needed to go
    • Took ideas from members of the team, dynamic leadership at it's best
  • Listen as Jay describes how Dave Michaels was shot 27 times, fought back... And then said, "Come get me... They're all dead."
  • The Overcome Academy
    • A way for us to give back to veterans
  • www.OvercomeAcademy.org

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0:00.0

That journey in the hospital taught me a very interesting lesson and it taught me the idea behind the lead always principle you can lead from any situation and if you are a leader people are looking to you for leadership and

0:14.8

sometimes we sell ourselves short for the impact of our actions and something as

0:20.3

small as being in a hospital bed and staying positive and engaging the people that

0:25.1

come in is still leadership. So that sign is really an example of leadership and

0:31.5

if anything I tell people you've got to lead yourself. If anything, that sign initially was for me. It was a statement for me, and it was a proclamation that I will not feel sorry for myself. I'm going to drive for it. I'm going to make a recovery.

0:47.0

Hey and welcome to the Learning Leader Show. I am Ryan Hawk. Thank you so much

0:54.8

for being here. It is mindful Monday. Go to Learning Leader.com enter your

1:00.6

email address, receive an email every Monday morning, 9 o'clock Eastern, with

1:04.7

latest trends articles, thoughts, videos on growth, learning.

1:11.0

We can have dialogue back and forth, which is one of my favorite parts about

1:14.4

doing this. So Learning Leader.com enter your email address now on to tonight's

1:18.2

episode with American Hero Jason J Redmond Redmond, a U.S. Navy Seal, founder of the nonprofit organization

1:27.1

titled Wounded Ware, also the author of an unbelievable book, The

1:31.8

Trident, The Forging and Reforging of a Navy Seal

1:35.7

Officer. What an emotional wide-ranging conversation. I absolutely loved it.

1:40.5

A few of the topics, the most important decision you will make in your life that

1:45.7

determines success or failure.

1:49.2

Then how Jay had to relearn to be humble, follow up by the sign that Jay hung outside his hospital door

1:56.7

after being shot in the face and arm. And the impact it had on others going all the way up to the President of the United States.

2:06.0

Also, shout out thank you to my friend Brent Shurz for all of the detailed research to help me prepare for this episode.

2:14.0

It was incredible.

2:15.0

Ladies and gentlemen, you will love this one.

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