4.8 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Chad Robichaux is a former Force Recon Marine, MMA champion, author, and founder of two non-profits serving military veterans and refugees.
Chad deployed to Afghanistan 8 times, and in this episode he opens up about his battle with PTSD; how he almost became another veteran suicide statistic; and how that experience inspired him to help other veterans using faith-based programs.
Chad also shares:
-How abuse and a family tragedy shaped his childhood in rural Louisiana
-His views on the 2nd Amendment, firearms training, and school shootings
-What led him to a Marine Corps recruiter at age 17
-America's role as the "world's policeman"
-How his Mighty Oaks Foundation helps veterans overcome combat trauma through faith-based resiliency programs
-How he rescued his longtime friend and interpreter from Afghanistan as the U.S. military withdrew from the country
-Helping thousands of innocent Afghans escape as the country crumbled through Save Our Allies
Chad's charitable cause:
Mighty Oaks Foundation, which "provides peer-to-peer resiliency and recovery programs that serve as the catalyst to assist our Nation’s Warriors dealing with challenges related to the struggles of daily military life, combat deployments and the symptoms of post-traumatic stress (PTS) offered at no cost to our Nation’s Warriors, including travel at beautiful ranches across the US."
Books mentioned in this episode:
Wild at Heart by John Eldredge
Letter to the American Church by Eric Metaxas
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Is Atheism Dead? by Eric Metaxas
Saving Aziz by Chad Robichaux
Unfair Advantage by Chad Robichaux
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0:00.0 | And I believe, like, got a lot of accolades for doing this, a lot of pads on the back, but the truth is, like, I'm not smart enough or capable enough to pull this off. |
0:10.1 | The only way I could attribute to what happened was this is a miraculous orchestrated event by God. |
0:15.4 | Because the things that happened, a series of event that happened, none of us could have pulled that off. |
0:19.5 | I could try to do it a million more times and wouldn't pull it off one time. |
0:25.9 | Welcome to A Better Life with Brandon Turner. That is me, where world-class guests share their |
0:31.0 | wisdom on building a better life. Join me as we explore the habits, the actions, and the beliefs |
0:35.7 | that have guided their journey with the aim of helping you apply those lessons to your own. Chad Robes-Show. |
0:56.8 | Dude, I know you from my research, from reading your book, former Recon Marine. |
1:01.7 | I'm saying that right, Recon Marine, that's the phrase? |
1:03.5 | You are, yep. |
1:04.1 | Okay, Recon Marine, best-selling author, a lot of books, including, like, this one, like, |
1:08.4 | literally one of the best books I've read in a long, long time, loved it. |
1:11.2 | Founder of Mighty Oaks Foundation helped almost half a million, half a million veterans with PTSD. |
1:18.1 | So like that's who you're known for, huge Instagram following. |
1:21.1 | But taking back before that, who was Chad Robeshow? |
1:25.8 | Yeah, well, I'm from Southern Louisiana, some kind of Cajunajun boy at heart, like very southern Louisiana, mud between my toes. |
1:31.8 | Like I grew up in a swampson. |
1:33.5 | And a long history of military, my family. |
1:35.9 | So me being in the military, it's not like something new, 84 years or so. |
1:39.6 | World War II, Korea, my father was the first Marine near a family who served in Vietnam. |
1:48.5 | I was a Marine for Sri Khan Marine, served at J-Socc did eight deployments to Afghanistan. |
1:53.7 | Both my sons are Marines when I went to Afghanistan as well. So going in the military was, |
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