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Bonus Episode - Drownproof Chapter 1 - Be the Author of your Life, not the Victim of it

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Society & Culture

4.911.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today's "episode" is the audiobook first chapter of my book: Drownproof. Thank you to everyone who helped make the launch such a tremendous success.

Hitting all of the "Best Seller" lists, to include the NYT, was quite frankly, incredibly humbling. You all made that happen, not me.

For those of you who have read or listened to it already, well, clearly today's episode is not going to be exciting for you! For those that haven't, this chapter is about a very formative experience in my young life that changed how I viewed my self in the world. That change in mindset altered the trajectory of my life.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning, people of the world. Actually, if it's people of the world, it could be afternoon. I have no idea where you are. Good, whatever part of your day, it may be, wherever you are. A little bit of a bonus Wednesday episode today. I recently wrote a book. I know people are probably tired of hearing me talk about it. For everybody who has supported the book,

0:21.3

help me spread the word, purchase the book

0:23.1

where it's the audio book or the physical copy,

0:25.8

thank you.

0:26.7

I do not have the words to express

0:28.9

how appreciative that I am.

0:31.9

It made all the bestseller lists,

0:33.4

which was not something that I was expecting.

0:35.4

But what I will say is this,

0:36.8

and this is even more important.

0:38.6

I've gotten an overwhelming amount of feedback from people in the real world

0:42.8

who have told me that they found the book at a time in their life where they needed it.

0:46.4

And that's actually all I care about.

0:48.4

Today's episode, actually, one more thing before I get into that,

0:50.6

if you have received the book, do me a favor.

0:56.4

Amazon reviews and Good Reeds reviews are super helpful. If you have the time, head over there and leave a review. Whatever

1:01.0

you may think of the book. Remember, if it's a one or two star, it's called Extreme Ownership by

1:04.9

Jocko in Leif. If you really like the book, it's called Drownproof by Andy Stumpf. Just keep that in mind.

1:15.2

Other than that, today's episode is just chapter one of the audiobook. For those of you out there may be wondering whether or not you should pick this up. This gives you some insight

1:19.0

into what the book is all about and who I am as a person. And one of the most formative moments

1:24.8

in my life was a change in mentality that changed the trajectory of my life and likely saved my career inside of the seal community

1:32.9

because I had done something pretty dumb leading up to this.

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