This is Jaco podcast number five with Echo Charles and me, Jaco Willink,

good evening Echo Charles. Good evening. Welcome to podcast number five. Here we are.

Here we are number five. Thank you everyone for joining us. So tonight I got

asked on Twitter, hey, could you talk about coaching some people and that kind

of prompted me to think about something that I have pulled out in the past when

I'm teaching some leadership classes and what this is is two counseling notes

that I wrote for sessions when I was trying to help a couple of seal leaders

improve themselves and get better. And the first one was for a seal that was a

buddy of mine and who was a little bit junior to me, just a little bit junior

to me in rank, but you know, because I was a prior and listed seal, I had actually

been in the seal teams for a much longer time. And this guy was a great, great

leader, great guy and very passionate about doing a solid job and very passionate

about the seal teams, which is an awesome thing to see. And with that passion,

and I've said this before, sometimes your strength can be your weakness and

sometimes you would get a little bit too passionate about stuff and a little

bit emotional and be a little bit easy to read. And so I was in a meeting with

him and I kind of saw how others people were reacting to him. And so when I

saw that, I kind of sat down and just put some words on paper to let him know

that he had a little area of improvement. And what's good about this is you

know, I was the detached person. So I was able to sit outside the situation and

just watch and see, oh, that's that he's not coming across the way he thinks

he's coming across. And so I'm gonna start off with that one. This is pretty

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