David Goggins Is The Toughest Man Alive
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Author, ultra-marathon runner, and retired United States Navy SEAL, David Goggins joins the Brute Strength Podcast this week for an incredible story of suffering and success.
David Goggins is a retired Navy SEAL and the ONLY member of the U.S. Armed Forces to complete SEAL training, including three Hell Weeks, the U.S. Army Ranger School, where he graduated as Enlisted Honor Man, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller training.
This episode is all about pushing the limit, craving discomfort, facing death and defying all odds. Strap in for an inspirational story and a close look at what happens when you make suffering a habit.
Topics:
02:37 - Abusive childhood
10:00 - Craving discomfort
15:00 - Seal training
26:05 - Improving your self-talk
28:32 - “Kindling”
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Books:
Can’t Hurt Me - Goggins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.0 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, |
| 0:15.0 | 2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ, |
| 0:18.0 | Michael Kaju. |
| 0:19.0 | Mind, Body, Brute. body brute. Hey and welcome back. |
| 0:26.0 | My name is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | I am so fired up about this one. |
| 0:32.0 | I've got David Goggins on the show today. I followed |
| 0:35.2 | David for the last couple years. I think I heard him for the first time on the Joe Rogan |
| 0:39.4 | show and he's got an absolutely insane story, one of the most inspiring guys I've ever heard, |
| 0:46.5 | and he may be the toughest man alive. |
| 0:49.0 | On the show today, we talk about his experience growing up in an abusive household at the hands of his father, |
| 0:56.4 | Trunis, growing up in extreme poverty and racism, getting held up at gunpoint, and then we talk about the turning point in his life in which |
| 1:06.4 | he joined the Air Force. He goes on to qualify for the Air Force, he gets out and then he balloons up to 300 pounds. |
| 1:15.0 | Then we talk about the story of him transforming his life yet again |
| 1:20.0 | and becoming a Navy SEAL, and literally one of the badest men in the history of the US military. |
| 1:26.0 | This guy has got so many vivid incredible stories and over and over and over he's overcoming obstacles that all of us can relate to. |
| 1:36.0 | And he talks about the specific ways that he sharpened his mind and developed himself into the toughest man in history. |
| 1:44.0 | He's got a new book out called Can't Hurt Me. |
| 1:46.2 | It's incredible. |
| 1:47.2 | This is one of my favorite interviews that I've ever done, |
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