Evolved Coaching with Navy Seal Mark Divine PhD - 532

Relationship School Podcast

Jayson Gaddis

Relationships, Relationshippodcast, Sex, Relationshipadvice, Society & Culture, Jaysongaddispodcast, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 981 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

What if today were your last day on Earth? Jayson is joined by author and retired Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine for his 3rd time on the show to discuss finding your purpose on this planet, meditation vs. psychedelics, developing mental and physical toughness, and much more. Don’t miss Mark’s exhortation for coaches at the end.

Mark Divine is a retired Navy SEAL, bestselling author, and transformative thought leader, inspiring compassion, resilience, and fortitude. His distinguished military career spanned two decades with tours in Iraq, the Middle East, and the Korean Peninsula, culminating in his retirement in as a Commander. Beyond the battlefield, Mark founded SEALFIT, where he blends Navy SEAL training with innovative mental toughness and mindfulness techniques. Through the Unbeatable Mind program he has trained thousands in his "Kokoro" whole mind system, and through the Mark Divine Courage Foundation, he aids veterans seeking post-traumatic growth. Mark holds a PhD in Global Leadership from Pepperdine University and resides in Encinitas, California, with his wife, Sandy, and Husky Mahina.

Timestamps:

5:15 - Horizontal vs. vertical development
13:04 - The importance of training your body
19:06 - You are not your thoughts
24:08 - Vertical development takes time
29:24 - What are you on this planet for?
37:39 - Don’t feed the fear wolf
41:05 - Meditation vs psychedelics
45:33 - What if today is your last day?
48:48 - Why coaches need to be doing the work
56:53 - AI in coaching

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Mark Divine – Navy SEAL Speaker, Author, Founder of Unbeatable Mind
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0:00.0	All right, welcome back to the Relationship Coaching School podcast.
0:06.0	In my attempts to help you coach people better and get better results with your clients or patients, I'm going to be branching out interviewing world-renowned experts around coaching, around human potential, healing, and
0:25.7	transformation. So in this episode, I've got my good friend Mark Devine back for his third
0:32.4	time on this podcast. This time we zero in on, again, human change and transformation. Mark is a retired
0:41.3	Navy SEAL commander, serial entrepreneur, and best-selling author. He's known for his work in
0:46.4	leadership, development, mental toughness, and holistic well-being. The guy's like a master-level
0:50.8	yogi. He's a third-degree black belt. He was on Wall Street before
0:55.3	transitioning to the Navy SEALs, where he was the honor man of his class. He now rounds
1:00.5	multiple successful companies, including Seal Fit, an unbeatable mind. I've spoken at one of his
1:05.7	events. The guy is just an upstanding human. He's married, his kids, and he's a beast.
1:13.2	This guy, talk about mental toughness.
1:18.3	Yeah, so I continue to learn a lot from this character,
1:21.6	and he's just a really awesome man and human
1:24.8	trying to help us out in the world.
1:28.1	So, without further ado, let's go.
1:31.6	Welcome back to the show, Mark Devine.
1:33.9	Ooh, yeah.
1:34.9	So good to see you, Jason.
1:36.2	Yeah, you too, man.
1:37.9	It's like to learn from you and get into it here as we talk about coaching people and
1:43.0	just how do we get people to change.
1:45.4	So I want to start with that question is in your work with people for so long,
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