Aaron Kendle: Retired Navy SEAL, Harvard Business School Graduate

Team Never Quit

Marcus Luttrell

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.9 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

What do you do when you witness a Chinook helicopter with 31 guys you know get shot out of the sky by an RPG, enter into spiraling depression, fail your team, as well as yourself, and then experience a horrible accident that causes you to lose your hand and forearm?

In Aaron Kendle's case, who refuses to be defined by failures, you pick yourself up, and lean on a never quit mindset to live life to its fullest, and achieve an incredible life.

Mr. Kendle is a retired Navy SEAL where he served as a specialized medic, sniper, airborne leader, and jump school instructor. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, a father, a husband and a Scottsdale Charro. Mr. Kendle is a decorated member of the United States Navy, served as a member of SEAL Team 7, NSWG-1 Training Detachment, and Naval Special Warfare Development over a 15-year career and has dedicated his post-military professional career to helping his fellow brothers in arms transition back into civilian life.

Aaron comments: “My resume may read great — but what they don’t see is all of those fails between the lines. For me, those failures stay between the lines.”

In this episode you will hear:

Obstacles and failures aren't your defining moments. It's everything that comes after that you grow from.
A major physical injury doesn't define you.
When major things change your life in the physical, figure out ways to do things the best you can.
Make every day better than the day before.
You can dwell on how great Plan A would've been. But when Plan A fails, you gotta come up with a plan B.
Never leave a human hand in the freezer of your hotel room, where the cleaning staff can find it.
After a devastating accident, the prevailing thought should be “I'm alive”.
Terrible occurrences in your life can actually be used to give others, who are in despair, hope, and encouragement.
Perspective, attitude and determination go a long way in life.
There's a lot more to life. You just gotta figure out what it is.
You don't get any better than the SEALS mentorship program.
Everything we accomplish in life is based on failures.
Pain and suffering unites us all.
If there's one thing I think we're good at is stuffing emotions.
Watching a Chinook helicopter with 31 guys you know get shot out of the sky with an RPG, is like watching a horror movie.

Transcript

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0:00.0	The Team Never Quit podcast is sponsored by Navy Federal Credit Union. Have a large credit card balance
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0:08.9	Navyfederal.org. If you look at my resume, man, it looks really good. But what you don't see is
0:14.5	in between every one of those great bullets is a bunch of failure and a bunch of hardship,
0:19.4	obstacle after obstacle. you know the difference is
0:22.2	those aren't my bullets those obstacles and those failures aren't my defining moments it's everything
0:26.2	that comes after that you grow from all right everybody welcome back to the tmg Team Never Quit. Food. We need, never quit. He never quit radio.
0:39.9	All right, everybody.
0:42.1	Welcome back to the TNQ podcast.
0:44.2	I'm your host, Marcus LaTrell.
0:50.2	Every week, it's my job to fire you up to ignite the legend inside of you and to push you to your greatness.
0:55.5	Join me every week as I take you into my briefing room with some of the most hard charge of people on the planet. They're going to show you how to embrace the suck of life, teach you the values of working your ass off, and charge through whatever life throws at you.
1:03.0	This is the Team Never Quit podcast.
1:05.0	Don't buckle up, Buttercup.
1:18.8	What's up, guys? Welcome back to another episode.
1:20.3	My name is Andrew Brockenbush, and I'm your producer,
1:22.1	and I'm joined by the two most badass podcast hosts on the planet,
1:25.0	Navy SEALs, Marcus, and Morgan the Trail.
1:27.2	Hey guys, welcome back. No, we're good, man. We're good. Life is rolling, excellent. Pretty much the awesomeness all day. The birthday is coming up. Whose? Daughter. Yeah. Nice. All right. Morgan, I got one for you this morning. Let's do a movie quote. Send it. I'm always prepared. All right. I can't be got. Here's a quote. Let off some steam. Let off some steam. That is from Commando after Arnie threw that pipe through Bennett, stuck him in the wall, and the steam was coming out of the pipe. He looked at him and said, let off some steam Bennett.
2:01.9	Man, if we ever caught any of our guys walking around on a chain mail wife beater, that's what he's wearing.
2:08.4	Oh, gosh. Oh, watch the movie again. Oh, really? If anybody hasn't seen Commando in a while, watch it again.
2:16.4	It is so terribly awesome.
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