Brent Gleeson - A Navy SEAL's Guide To Embracing The Suck

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

Relationships, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This is timely a episode; whether it’s physical, mental, or spiritual resiliency, part of building ourselves up in the face of the uncertainty and chaos around us is going to involve “embracing the suck”. In this episode, Brent and I dug into his life as a Navy SEAL, his new bestselling book, what embracing the suck really means, and the important role empathy plays in cultivating perseverance. Brent Gleeson is a Navy SEAL combat veteran with multiple combat deployments to Iraq and Africa. Upon leaving SEAL Team 5, Brent turned his discipline and battlefield lessons to the world of business and has become an award-winning entrepreneur, bestselling author, and acclaimed speaker on topics ranging from resilience, mental toughness, leadership, and building high-performance teams, to culture, and organizational transformation. Brent is the Founder and CEO of Taking Point Leadership, a progressive leadership and organizational development consulting firm with a focus on business transformation and building high-performance cultures. Brent was named a Top 10 CEO by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2013. Brent holds degrees in finance and economics from Southern Methodist University, certificates in English and History from Oxford University in England and a graduate business degree from the University of San Diego. He is the bestselling author of TakingPoint: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Fail-Safe Principles for Leading Through Change, which was a #1 New Release on Amazon in Organizational Change and Business Structural Adjustment. Brent’s latest book, Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life was #1 on Amazon in the self-help, self-esteem, and military leadership categories. Connect with Brent:-Website; http://www.brentgleesonspeaker.com/-Latest Book; “Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to An Extraordinary Life”-Previous Book; ”TakingPoint: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Fail Safe Principles For Leading Through Change”-Business; https://takingpointleadership.com/-Instagram; @brent_gleeson-Twitter; https://twitter.com/brentgleeson Did you enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the self-leadership they’re looking for. Are you looking to find purpose, navigate transition, or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today. Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Man Talk Show. I'm Connor Beaton, and joining me today is Brent Gleason.
0:16.5	Brent Gleeson is a Navy SEAL combat veteran with multiple combat deployments to Iraq and Africa.
0:23.7	Upon leaving SEAL Team 5, he turned his discipline and battlefield lessons to the world of business
0:30.4	and has become an award-winning entrepreneur, best-selling author, and acclaimed speaker on topics
0:36.2	ranging from resilience, mental toughness,
0:39.0	leadership, and building high performance teams to culture and organizational transformation.
0:45.0	Brent is the founder and CEO of Taking Point Leadership, a progressive leadership, and
0:50.9	organizational development consulting firm with a focus on business transformation.
0:56.1	He holds degrees in finance and economics from Southern Methodist University, certificates
1:00.3	in English and history from Oxford University in England, and a graduate business degree
1:05.0	from the University of San Diego.
1:07.9	He's a best-selling author of Taking Point, Navy SEAL's 10 fail-safe principles for leading
1:13.7	through change, which with number one, new release on Amazon in organizational change and business
1:20.5	structural adjustment. And his latest book, which we talk about today, Embrace the Suck,
1:26.3	The Navy SEAL way to an extraordinary life is number one on
1:30.5	Amazon right now in Self-Help. So this is a really, really cool conversation about how we deal with
1:39.2	suffering, how we embrace the shit that can happen in life and how we cultivate a spirit of perseverance,
1:49.1	a spirit of resiliency in the face of challenge, in the face of controversy, in the face of
1:56.3	everything that we've been going through lately.
1:58.8	So this is a really poignant conversation.
2:02.8	I think it's very timely as well. And so we get into a number of topics. Brent shares a little bit
2:08.8	about his career as a Navy SEAL, a little bit about some of his experiences. We then dive into
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