If our soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors, if they got injured on the battlefield,

if they showed up at the Combat Sport Hospital with the Pulse, they had a 90% chance

of making at home alive. And I grabbed grabbed onto that thought like a lifeline and was like if I have to reach into my own chest cavity and be squeezing my heart as I roll into that that operating room I'm going to have a pulse. Welcome to the Empire Show, my name is Bedros Kulin,

and you are here with me for another episode

of an inside look, where we look at the inside workings

of a peak performer in life, in business,

and athletics in performance.

And today we've got someone very special, my dear friend, retired Navy Seal,

Purple Heart recipient, and New York Times best-selling author of the Trident,

Jason Redmond.

Jason, welcome to the show again, brother.

Good, good to be back with you.

Yes, sir.

So, Jay, you've got an amazing book, The to Trident actually read the Trident in 2014 I think it came out in 2013 yep right I read it in 2014 you and I met December of 2018

It was pretty cool to be able to meet someone whose book you've read and I knew so much about what happened in your story. So why don't we jump there

before we talk about your second book here overcome

because your book was really about leadership the Trident and truthfully as

you said you weren't the best leader and you got a lot of leadership scars going through the seal

program but even then there was something that happened in 2007 one of your

mission so why don't we start off with the mission that took place in 2007 that kind of forced you into retirement?

Yeah, absolutely. And I mean the Trident at its heart and soul is a, it is a leadership journey.

That's really what that book is and even though it was my

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