You are listening to the Bear Performance Podcast.

We'll read you discuss topics on fitness, nutrition, business and leadership.

Help you perform at your highest level and go one more.

I'm your host Nick Bear, founder of Bear Performance Nutrition and prior US Army Infantry Officer.

We've scaled our brand to our core pillars of transparency, service and integrity.

And now I want to share with you through our experience and our guests.

How you can optimize your life. Welcome to the show.

All right, so today I have Sean Rogers on the podcast, former green beret author of Rising Above.

CEO of FNG Academy just finished up your book, Rising Above.

Love the man. I appreciate it.

I was telling you, I felt like I was playing out a movie in my head as you were telling some of the stories.

I was saying like, I pictured your house growing up.

I pictured your mom's car, you're on through your front door.

It was like a movie.

Yeah, it wasn't a fun movie, but it was definitely like a movie. It was unbelievable.

It was like, and now it's cool because I get so much, I get to help people with my stories and my childhood.

But in the moment, it was just so horrible to feel all the time like the constant anxiety.

You know, as a kid, you know that you shouldn't be feeling that kind of anxiety all the time.

You know, where you're almost like in a combat zone and you're like 12, you're like, this isn't normal.

You know, I'll never forget. It's just like, you know, you get off the bus and you walk down this desert road like mile and a half, two miles, get your house.

And then looking as soon as you could see your house, you kind of just be popping along the road, right?

And then as soon as you see your house, your stomach sinks, like you don't know what's happening behind that door.

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