How a Navy SEAL Rebuilt Trust After Losing It All | Jason Redman

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Retired Navy SEAL Lieutenant Jason Redman was shot eight times outside Fallujah, Iraq, but the wound that almost broke him happened long before that. Lewis Howes sits down with Jason Redman on The Daily Motivation Show to unpack the leadership failure that cost him the trust of his own SEAL teammates and the grinding, unglamorous path back to becoming the kind of leader men would actually follow.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:05.5	I talk a lot about America is becoming a victim mindset nation.
0:17.0	We are becoming a nation of individuals who are being convinced because of the color
0:23.6	of your skin or your, you know, gender or your gender persuasion or where you came from or any of this,
0:30.5	that you're a victim and that you cannot help yourself that somebody else has to help you,
0:34.7	which I unequivocally don't believe in. I believe in self-leadership.
0:38.8	And the problem is we have tens of millions of individuals who are successful, incredibly successful,
0:45.3	that have broken those odds.
0:47.3	Right.
0:48.3	This lie and myth. And I talk often about the victim versus the victor mindset.
0:53.3	So when you talk about that and being shot,
0:55.0	I think we have to go further back
0:57.0	because there was a period of time
0:59.0	where I went through in my life where I had, I was a victim.
1:03.0	Really? For how long?
1:04.0	It lasted about seven, six months.
1:09.0	Okay. And it culminated with... While you were a Navy SEAL? Yeah, absolutely. It culminated with while you were a Navy SEAL yeah
1:13.0	absolutely it culminated with a leadership failure and we can get deeper into that
1:16.8	but all I will say is when I made that failure instead of owning it in the
1:21.3	moment I saw myself as the victim I saw myself as being thrown under the bus
1:25.7	and it was unfair and like I was great and
1:30.3	you know how could they do this to me and just it was a victim mindset. So that positive attitude
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