Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

Audacy

Self-improvement, Business, Investing, Education

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In honor of the Memorial Day holiday, we're once again re-airing an interview we did back in 2017 with retired Admiral William “Bill” McRaven. If Bill’s name sounds familiar, it’s because he presided over the 2011 Navy SEAL raid that resulted in the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. A few years later in 2014, the four-star admiral and 37-year Navy SEAL veteran delivered the commencement speech at his alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin. Little did McRaven know that his address, which spoke to how students could overcome challenges and change themselves, would become a viral hit with 20 million views online. McRaven was eventually encouraged to expand his commencement speech into a book, Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World. Have a money question? Email us ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jill on Money LIVE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Jill on Money Newsletter YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@jillonmoney⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@jillonmoney⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@jillonmoney⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ "Jill on Money" theme music is by Joel Goodman, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.joelgoodman.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.4	Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It is Monday, May 26th. It is Memorial Day. And this is an important day for our nation,
1:14.1	and it's not just about barbecues. It is about the people who are serving in the armed forces.
1:20.6	And so for today's program, we are airing an interview that took place a while back with a wonderful, wonderful guest. I talked
1:29.9	about this on Friday. His name is William H. McRaven. He is an Admiral. And he wrote a book called
1:36.8	Make Your Bed. A couple of things of note about this interview. We are going to reference a speech
1:42.6	that Admiral McRaven made at the University of Texas on which this book was actually based, the Make Your Bed speech.
1:51.5	At U of T, he subsequently went on to become the Chancellor of University of Texas, but he is no longer anymore.
1:58.5	But we love this interview.
1:59.9	Mark and I have always thought this is a wonderful
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