Episode 421 - Chadd Wright - A Navy SEAL's Amazing journey to salvation and resilience

Cleared Hot

Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 186 minutes

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Summary

Born and raised in the mountains of rural northwest Georgia, Chadd grew up obsessed with becoming a SEAL, but when the Navy discovered a rare but asymptomatic cyst on his heart, he was disqualified from entering BUD/s. Chadd refused to give up, ultimately tracking down a surgeon willing to perform a procedure deemed too risky by every cardiologist he previously petitioned.

Cyst successfully removed, Chadd went on to realize his SEAL dream, serving over the next decade as a Team Leader on multiple deployments to conflict zones across the world. He became a SEAL instructor. A Master Training Specialist. Chadd even served a stint as President Obama's bodyguard. Along the way, he battled PTSD and traumatic brain injury.

Now retired from the military, Chadd has found new life as an elite ultramarathoner — a spiritual quest for self-knowledge and mind-body mastery that has compelled him to tackle some of the world's most insane endurance slogs like The Revenant — a 118-mile footrace across south New Zealand with over 52,000 feet of elevation gain that not one person has ever successfully completed.

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0:00.0	Okay, got the red smoke.
0:05.0	Gun runs, north and south, west of the smoke, west of the smoke.
0:11.0	Okay, copy, west of the smoke. I'm looking at danger close now.
0:15.0	I'm all winning, baby. Give it to me, I mean it. You're cleared hot.
0:19.0	Copy, cleared hot. It was this building. Let's get it all. Let's get it on. When are we starting? Where are you going? Oh, you're good? Yeah. Holy crow. Oh, by the way, he tried to convert me to Christianity at the coffee shop. And I introduced him as David Godgans to a man. Oh, I actually have a gift for you. Is it a Bible? I have a gift for you.
0:38.3	Do we do the gift?
0:39.3	Hold on.
0:40.3	It's very special. It's a very special. No, we should do it at the beginning or the end. Some gifts. No, we should do it at the beginning. Okay. Yeah. We should do it at the beginning. Yeah, I actually found this today.
0:52.1	And I'm projecting, I'm going to project my likes onto you.
0:58.7	Okay.
0:59.1	So this is very cool to me.
1:01.1	Okay.
1:02.2	May not be cool to you at all.
1:03.6	Fair enough.
1:04.8	This is very cool to me.
1:06.2	When I found this, I almost lost it.
1:09.3	And then I, when I found it, I was like, dang, do I want to
1:12.8	keep, because I was looking for a gift for you. But then I found it and I was like, I want to
1:17.5	keep it. I knew it was a Bible. What is a Collins, what is a Collins reference? So that Bible
1:23.3	is from 1949. So about the year you were born.
1:29.5	A little bit before.
1:33.3	This is, okay, yeah, this is an older Bible.
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