Welcome to another episode of John Gordon's Power of Positive University

podcast. I'm Daniel Decker, the co-founder of Positive You. On today's episode

John talks with former Navy SEAL Nick Hayes about high performance lessons and habits that will help

you become an elite leader and create an elite team. Nick combines his military training and

Harvard Business School education into practical, effective strategies to motivate, adapt, and overcome.

You and your team are in for a treat.

Speaking of teams, we want to invite you and your team to attend an upcoming Power of Positive

Team Workshop with John Gordon and our lead consultant Amy P Kelly, where they will help you build

a stronger team, create unity, build trust, overcome negativity, increase commitment, and so much more.

You can attend an upcoming public workshop, or we can bring a workshop on site to you.

You can get all the details at John Gordon.com

slash team workshop. That's J-O-N-G-D-D-D-O-D-O-D-O-T-T-T-T-E-H-T-E-S-T-T-T-T-E-T-T-E-T TAN Workshop. Hey, hey this is John Gordon, and today my guess is Nick Hayes. Nick is a foreman Navy SEAL.

One of the toughest people you will ever meet on the planet.

He has a new book out called Elite.

Nick, what does it mean to be Elite?

Yeah, you know, it's funny, John.

Growing up, you know, I got exposed to a lot of different ideas of what that is,

but to experience, I've gotten to see some commonalities, you know, from the SEAL teams

to contracting with the CIA, professional sports teams, and even going to Harvard.

One thing that I've seen, you know, everybody has in common is that elite people don't run away from adversity.

Elite people don't run away from the things that are

intimidating them instead they're gonna embrace those things man. They're gonna

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