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🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Today’s guest is Chad Robichaux.
Chad is a United States Force Recon Marine veteran, author, MMA champion, keynote speaker, podcast host, founder of the Mighty Oaks Foundation, and co-founder of Save Our Allies.
After his military service, Chad founded the Mighty Oaks Foundation, a non-profit organization geared toward helping active duty, military veterans, and first responders combat PTSD through faith-based combat trauma and resiliency programs.
Chad is also the co-founder of Save Our Allies, a non-profit organization focused on the evacuation of Americans and American allies trapped in Afghanistan. The organization has helped evacuate more than 17,000 people from Afghanistan. His new book, Saving Aziz, details that experience.
Chad has authored numerous books including The Truth About PTSD, Fight For Us, Path To Resiliency, Behind The Lines, his memoir An Unfair Advantage, Redeployed and Marriage Advance: Love Never Gives Up.
A former Mixed Martials Arts Champion, Chad has a professional record of 15-2.
You can find out more about Chad at chadrobichaux.com. You can follow him on Instagram @chadrobo_official
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0:00.0 | This is The Danger Close Podcast. |
0:08.6 | Beyond the Books with me, Jack Carr. |
0:17.5 | Welcome to The Danger Close Podcast, an Iron Cloud original presented by Navy Federal Credit |
0:21.7 | Union. |
0:22.7 | My next novel, Only The Dead Hits Shels This Spring and is available for pre-order now. |
0:28.3 | Visit officialjackart.com, click on Only The Dead to get a little sneak peak. |
0:34.1 | My guest today, Chad Robacho. |
0:37.1 | He is a former Recon Marine MMA fighter and he went to Afghanistan during the withdrawal |
0:44.0 | of US forces in 2021 with a team and got out 17,000 people. |
0:51.7 | Incredible story. |
0:52.7 | His new book is called Saving a Zeez. |
0:54.9 | It is out January 17th. |
0:57.2 | Be sure and pick that up now without further ado. |
1:00.9 | Chad Robacho. |
1:03.9 | Chad, what's up, man? |
1:07.2 | Hey, man. |
1:08.2 | How are you? |
1:09.2 | Good. |
1:10.2 | You're making it happen. |
1:11.2 | Oh, thank you for being understanding about pushing it an hour or two. |
1:13.3 | So thank you. |
1:14.3 | I'm good. |
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