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We're living in difficult times, and there's one thing that you can call upon to help you fight the negative insurgency.

And that's courage.

Today on the David Rutherford show.

Okay. Over the last few months, I have found myself entrenched in one particular concept.

Whether I'm out on the road speaking to hundreds of people every week or I get behind this microphone and try and bring context to the craziness of the world around us or even in our

nonprofit that we run trying to help operators deal with operator syndrome,

or raising four teenage daughters or having a healthy relationship with my spouse,

this one concept always keeps coming back to the forefront of my focus.

And that concept is the idea of courage.

And what it means for me as I face those multiple negative insurgencies, those doubts,

those insecurities, that anxiety, that depression, really all the different ways

that under pressure we have a propensity to collapse if it goes unchecked, encourages

the thing is the sword that we use to confront that,

that insurgency.

And so I want to start this show by painting a little, a few pictures for you in your mind.

And I want you to think about that 19 year old Marine who's on board a ship over in the Middle East right now.

And I want you to think about him as he goes through different types of drills or sits in different types of briefs about what he might or might not be doing in the coming days or weeks in Iran.

What it means to in the middle of the night jump on a helicopter with his kid on, 150 pounds of

gear, right, with his plates and his night vision and his weapons system,

sitting next to his friends as the helo spins up on the flight deck.

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