When a bad thing happens, you can let it destroy you, define you or strengthen you.

Choose wisely. Hey folks, this is Mark Devine.

Welcome back to the Undeadle Mind Podcast.

Super stoked to have you here today.

We are going to have a very interesting

conversation with Mr. Jake Wood, founder and CEO of Team Rubicon, an organization

near and dear to my heart. I will introduce him more in a little moment. But before I get started,

we're coming up on Veterans Day. I think this episode will be released right on or

Ron Veterans Day. Some of you have heard about our initiative at the Courage Foundation to raise awareness

and funds and provide support to veterans who are suffering from severe post-traumatic stress.

You might have heard that statistic that 22 veterans a day commits suicide.

Not sure how exactly accurate it is, but even if it's closest an appalling number.

And so we're trying to help with that. Now several years ago we took a bold move and we said I

challenged our tribe and I guess that would be you if you're listening to this to help me do

22 million burpees to raise awareness and funds.

And I thought we could do it in a year. I was a little bit bold, a bit off more than we could chew.

But we did get to 17 million in that first year, which was, I think, 2018.

And solely, myself and a small cadre have been chipping away, and we're at 21 million, 21 million, 800, 800,000 or something like that.

So we have about 200,000 burpees left

to get to 22 million burpees. We've raised over $300,000.

We've supported a number of vets in a transformational program and we want to help a

lot more. So this Veterans Day I'm going to be cranking out a thousand burpies with some friends.

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