Colonel Bob Adams MD On How to Be Your Own Best Advocate EP 66

Passion Struck with John R. Miles

John R. Miles

Mental Health, Alternative Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 779 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Retired Army Colonel and Navy SEAL Bob Adams, M.D. sits down with John R Miles to talk about being your own best advocate in life. He discusses why this is so vital through the viewpoint of over 30 years as a doctor and applying the lessons he learned from BUD/S and his 12 years as a SEAL. Like this? Please subscribe, and join me on my new platform for peak performance, life coaching, and personal growth: https://passionstruck.com/. Please post a screenshot of your listening on Instagram & tag us so we can thank you personally! Thank you for Watching the Passion Struck podcast. Dr. Robert (Bob) Adams is a family physician with the UNC health system. He entered medical school after serving as an elite Navy SEAL for 12 years. He is the author of SIX DAYS OF IMPOSSIBLE - NAVY HELL WEEK – and The book SWORDS AND SAINTS - A DOCTOR'S JOURNEY - A must-read for future doctors and those wishing for change. He graduated from the Naval Academy, BUD/S class 81, obtained his MBA from James Madison University, and went to medical school at Wake Forrest. New Interviews with the World's GREATEST high achievers will be posted every Tuesday with a Momentum Friday inspirational message! Colonel Bob Adams Show Notes

0:00 Teaser from Dr. Bob Adams
2:05 Dr. Bob Adams Episode Introduction
4:31 His path to becoming a Navy SEAL
8:35 The difference between UDT and SEALs
10:51 Biggest Lesson Learned in BUD/S Training
16:29 Why he never hit the wall during Hell Week
18:56 How the Lone Survivor accurately depicts SEAL valor
22:45 His advice for Naval Academy Midshipmen
27:29 Why he became an Army physician
33:07 How he became the Delta Force Flight Surgeon
36:12 His book about Navy SEAL Hell Week
41:40 Why he believes we need to be our own best advocate
48:32 Why it isn't easy to trust agencies like the CDC
55:56 His third book featuring letters from the civil war

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0:00.0	I started realizing that if I retired and all of these experiences at war and at peace
0:09.0	as a military doctor and as a civilian doctor didn't get written down, then they just
0:14.8	might die with me.
0:16.2	And there are good stories and they're fascinating stories and they're every single chapter
0:20.8	is a patient experience or a life experience becoming a doctor that I've told many, many
0:27.8	times before as teaching points to residents and physician extenders so they can learn
0:35.8	without having to experience some of the good and bad things that I experienced.
0:41.0	And so it took me only, less than a year to write, as I was published last year, and
0:46.3	it is in fact designed to be the combination of stories about doctors as medical students,
0:55.6	learning residents as young doctors, as doctors at war and doctors in challenging situations
1:03.5	such that anybody that ever thinks they want to be a doctor, read this book, it'll give
1:08.6	you a good, true experience of what it means to go through the very difficult seven
1:14.4	years of training or more that it takes to be a doctor.
1:17.8	Welcome visionaries, graders, innovators, entrepreneurs, leaders and growth seekers of
1:22.8	all types to the Passion Struck podcast.
1:25.7	I'm John Miles, a peak performance coach, multi industry CEO, Navy veteran and entrepreneur
1:32.4	on a mission to make Passion go viral for millions worldwide.
1:36.8	In each week I do so by sharing with you an inspirational message, an interviewing
1:41.9	I achievers from all walks of life to unlock their secrets and lessons to become a Passion
1:48.1	Struck.
1:49.1	The purpose of our show is to serve you the listener by giving you tips, tasks and activities.
1:55.5	You can use to achieve peak performance and for too much passion driven life you have
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