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🗓️ 27 April 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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True American hero, Retired Navy Seal, Purple Heart Recipient and author of “The Trident”, Jason Redman was able to weather an Iraqi ambush, fought his way out, and became even stronger. Ambushes can happen both on the battlefield and in everyday life, in fact, any given person will have 4-5 life ambushes through their lives. Catastrophic events that will leave them with physical, emotional, or mental scars. What is important is how they react. Watch or listen now to discover what it means to get off the X of ambush, so when those events do happen in life or in business, you will be ready to fight and come out successful!
“I was sitting on the X of ambush as an entrepreneur”
“It’s mission over the man”
“I felt like I was dying, I felt like I was alone”
- Bedros Keuilian
Here’s what you’ll discover:
1:52 - How Jason’s heroics unfolded overseas in Iraq
10:00 - Against all odds, Jason was able to recollect and listen to his training - which helped him survive
18:02 - Jason knew he was going through hypovolemic shock, this is what was going through his mind
25:02 - What the ambush taught Jason about life - and how it strengthened him
39:05 - The trials and tribulations Jason went through during his recovery - and how that can translate to your business
“We walked right into a very well executed Iraqi ambush”
“The information is only as good as how quickly you can act on it”
“My guys saw me get hit.. And they thought I was dead”
“You have to take care of yourself”
“Action is what makes all the difference”
-Jason Redman
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0:00.0 | We train so well that we know what to do in just about every situation and so I started going through my mind my own checklist okay, you know guys are back there |
0:09.7 | Hopefully I'm pinned down here |
0:17.0 | What's next and I knew that the guys had to win the firefight before they could get to me. If they tried to rush forward under that fire they could be |
0:20.6 | shot and now we had bigger problems. Welcome to the Empire Show. My name is Beidros Koolian and this is an inside look and today we've got a very special guest someone who's an American hero, a warrior, |
0:50.6 | someone who I look up to and I've learned from he's retired Navy SEAL |
0:55.4 | Jason Redmond author of the book The Trident and recipient of the Purple Heart. |
1:01.1 | Mr Redmond welcome to the show. |
1:03.0 | Bedros, thanks for having me. |
1:05.0 | Yes, sir, yes sir. |
1:06.0 | So we've got a mutual friend, Ray Care, another seal. |
1:10.0 | Yeah. |
1:11.0 | And I love the banter that I see between the two of you. I see true Brotherhood. And man, when I read your book, when I read your book, it spoke to me. And of course, when you and I met in Miami a few months ago your talk from the stage |
1:25.3 | directly spoke to me because in 2011, 12, and part of 2013 I was sitting on the |
1:30.8 | X of ambush as an entrepreneur. |
1:34.0 | And while you were as a seal headed towards the X to do your job, |
1:40.7 | you found yourself on the X. |
1:42.9 | And so if you don't mind jumping in and telling us, |
1:45.5 | how does your story unfold? |
1:47.8 | Yeah, absolutely. |
1:48.6 | I mean, if you look back on my life and you look back on a lot of different things about the seal teams |
1:55.4 | we spend our entire lives learning how to take the fight to the enemy and we do |
2:00.3 | that in a bunch of different ways and one of those ways is setting up ambushes. |
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