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🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 142 minutes
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Note: This episode originally aired in November 2021.
Jocko Willink is a retired Navy SEAL, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author, and host of the Jocko Podcast, Jocko Podcast Underground, and The Unraveling. He is the co-founder and CEO of Echelon Front, a premier leadership consulting firm that helps others lead and win. He is also the co-owner of Origin USA, a Maine-based company bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.A. with American made Jiu-Jitsu GIs, jeans, boots, and Jocko Fuel Clean Energy drinks and nutritional supplements.
Jocko served for 20 years in the SEAL Teams. He was the Task Unit Commander of Task Unit Bruiser during the Battle of Ramadi in 2006. Following Ramadi, Jocko took over as the Officer-in-Charge of training for all West Coast SEAL Teams. He put Jack through two of his pre-deployment workups when Jack was a Platoon Commander and Troop Commander.
Jocko is the author of Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, The Dichotomy of Leadership, Discipline Equals Freedom Field Manual, Leadership Strategy and Tactics Field Manual, and the Way of the Warrior Kid series. His latest book, Final Spin, is his debut work of fiction and explores the themes of brotherhood, love, suffering, happiness, and sacrifice. In this episode, Jocko and Jack discuss their experiences in the SEAL Teams, Jocko’s latest book, and what it would take for Jocko to enter the political arena. You can follow Jocko on Instagram (@jockowillink), Twitter (@jockowillink) Facebook (@jkowillink), the Jocko Podcast YouTube Channel, and learn more at Jocko.com
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0:00.0 | This is The Danger Close Podcast, beyond the books of me, Jack Carr. |
0:17.4 | Welcome to The Danger Close Podcast, an ironclad original presented by Navy Federal Credit |
0:21.7 | Union. |
0:22.7 | My guest today is Jack O. Willink. |
0:25.4 | This is a rebroadcast of a conversation that we had last year when his book Final Spin |
0:29.8 | came out, but we certainly cover a lot more than that. |
0:33.6 | So now, without further ado, Jack O. Willink. |
0:36.8 | Yeah, man, look at this. |
0:42.2 | Bam! |
0:43.2 | Final Spin. |
0:45.4 | Look at that. |
0:46.4 | I read it the first to dish, as you like to say, is on the way so that shows up on |
0:50.8 | publication day. |
0:51.8 | It's always by books from people that send them. |
0:57.1 | It's also super cool to get the Advanced Readers Edition and then have that first edition |
1:01.2 | as well. |
1:02.2 | So this is awesome. |
1:04.2 | And I want to talk about this, not in too much detail because I don't want it to ruin |
1:10.2 | it. |
1:11.2 | And I think people should not listen to your podcast that you did on it, of what you |
1:14.9 | talk about it, or read The Publishers Weekly Review, which is a great review until after |
1:20.0 | they read this. |
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