356: Travis Mills—The World's Biggest Therapist

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.9 • 40.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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The former 82nd Airborne Staff Sergeant and quadruple amputee drops by to chat about the first time he met Mike, how he pissed off Bill Nye science guy, why he's a proud member of the everything-is-great club, and his new book Bounce Back: 12 Warrior Principles to Reclaim & Recalibrate Your Life.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Mike Rowe here. It's the way I heard at episode number 356. It's the world's
0:09.7	biggest therapist with Travis Mills. Or is it the world's biggest therapist is Travis Mills?
0:17.2	Which one's more declarative, Chuck? We should have worked this out before we started doing the preamble, don't you think?
0:22.6	No.
0:23.2	No.
0:23.6	Studies show people like to listen to us, figure things out in real time.
0:27.6	They can't get enough of it.
0:29.3	The world's biggest therapist is Travis Mills.
0:32.0	I would go with that.
0:33.2	All right.
0:33.8	Well, you know what?
0:34.3	You're in charge of production matters, so I'll let you deal with it. As you listen, friends, you can quibble, if you'd like, over the size of the therapist,
0:42.6	but I don't think you'll disagree with the fact that some people are simply in a better position
0:47.3	to dispense advice than others. Travis Mills, if you haven't already heard, he's been a guest on this podcast before.
0:56.3	He's been a friend of mine for a while, featured in a month on an episode of returning the
1:00.3	favor a few years ago, famously got himself blown up in Afghanistan back when he was a staff sergeant
1:07.5	and had the misfortune of dropping his backpack on an IED that was really there to
1:14.2	disable a truck. Yeah, it was a big one. Yeah, he has some truck-like qualities about him. He's
1:20.6	about as tough as they come. Anyhow, he lost his arms and legs and was one of the first quadruple
1:26.3	amputees to not only survive but make it home.
1:30.9	And that is really where his incredible story starts. What he's done since his injuries,
1:37.9	it's kind of mind-boggling. He runs a very successful foundation for other wounded veterans
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