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Bedros Keuilian Podcast Show

E173 - Embrace The Suck - Brent Gleeson

Bedros Keuilian Podcast Show

Bedros Keuilian

Self-improvement, Education

52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Today you’ll hear life and business lessons from a high performing entrepreneur and former Navy SEAL. From tough lessons learned on the battlefield to reinventing himself and building successful businesses, today’s episode is jammed packed with actionable knowledge.

  • 0:20 - Meet Brent Gleason, a former Navy SEAL turned successful serial entrepreneur and bestselling author.
  • 03:40 - What embracing the suck means as an entrepreneur and business leader. 
  • 4:50 - Discover the story behind how Brent was inspired to become a Navy SEAL. 
  • 11:20 - Hear about Brent’s first combat mission as a SEAL and how a picture of Muhamid Ali showed up during the mission. 
  • 24:28 - Next, Brent shares how he mentally prepared himself for a successful transition from the military to becoming a civilian entrepreneur. 
  • 30:43 - Brent shares the mindset and strategies he used to grow and scale a digital media based company despite having zero technological background or experience.
  • 34:08 - Bedros asks Brent a tough question about why some people have a truly hard time understanding and accepting constructive feedback.
  • 34:30 - Brent shares why he created his best selling book “Embrace The Suck” and tells how it’s different than the majority of other self help books. 
  • 54:48 - David Goggins endorses Brent’s book and Brent shares when they first met while serving as Navy SEALS. 
  • 59:40 How to dive deeper into Brent, his story and his resources available for Entrepreneurs. 

"Don’t just accept adversity or accept pain and suffering but lean into it. Be intentional in the fine art of expanding your comfort zone. " - Brent Gleeson

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Don't just accept adversity or accept pain and suffering, but lean into it.

0:03.9

Be intentional in the fine art of expanding your comfort zone. Hey! Hey friends welcome to another Empire show my name is

0:27.0

Bed Rose Koolian and this is an inside look into the life of another awesome

0:31.0

entrepreneur who is also an American hero who has also gone to two

0:37.4

different colleges on two different continents and who has got a pretty

0:42.0

colorful story.

0:43.5

He's my dear friend Brent Gleece and Brent,

0:46.0

welcome to the show.

0:47.0

Good to see you brother.

0:48.0

Yes, sir. So let's kind of paint in the pictures.

0:51.0

You are a former or retired Navy SEAL.

0:54.2

Former Navy SEAL and by the way your friends Ray and Jason have taught me the entire

1:02.3

ex Navy SEAL. have taught me the entire the entire

1:03.0

there's the former Navy seal

1:06.0

there's the former Navy seal and then there's a retired Navy

1:08.5

see, am I correct?

1:09.0

Is there any others that I'm missing?

1:10.0

Retired means you did 20 years or more

1:12.0

right, so otherwise you're former seal. And if you're ex then... Retire means you did 20 years or more. Right.

1:13.0

So otherwise you're former.

1:14.0

And if you're X then they like stripped you of your Trident?

1:17.0

Is that how that go?

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