Make Your Bed Part One

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

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Education, Investing, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 23 May 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In honor of the Memorial Day holiday, we're giving you a break from the money talk, and instead 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. Bill was the man who identified the body when it was flown back to Afghanistan and told President Obama that the U.S. finally had their guy.

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 (Hook ‘em Horns!). Little did McRaven know that his address, which spoke to how students could overcome challenges and change themselves, would become a viral hit with more than 10 million views online.

In January, 2015 Bill became the Chancellor of the entire University of Texas system and was encouraged to expand his commencement speech into a book, Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World.

We hope you enjoy this brief diversion from the money talk.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jill on Money Coronne virus Market Update. It's Saturday morning and
0:08.8	it's Memorial Day weekend. And for this Memorial Day weekend, we are doing something a little bit different.
0:15.4	Want to make sure that we're honoring our military people out there who serve and who have
0:20.5	given their lives.
0:22.0	And so Mark came up with this great idea
0:24.3	and that is that we polled an interview
0:26.9	that we conducted with Admiral William McRaven
0:30.6	a few years back.
0:32.2	And we're cutting it up into three successive days of
0:35.9	podcast for you guys now some of you may have heard the original maybe it didn't but
0:40.3	I think you're really going to enjoy this. He is just a delightful and gentle man. It's hard to believe he's a warrior. He was the mastermind behind the bin Laden raid. He was so easy to talk to. My nephew died in Iraq in 2006, so he made it really a seamless
1:00.5	conversation. And you'll also notice that Mark did something rather
1:04.4	clever for today and tomorrow's broadcast he cut up part of McCraven's University
1:11.2	of Texas commencement speech which led him to write his book
1:15.6	Make Your Bed. So I hope you enjoy this. Of course you can still send us questions
1:20.1	Ask Jill at Jill on Money.com, but here's the first part of our three days with Bill McCraven.
1:27.0	This is going to be goofy because you are here and you're talking really amazing 10 steps that really will resonate with everybody
1:35.4	listening no matter who you are and what you do. But before we start the show
1:38.8	because this is sort of a money show what is the best financial or career decision you ever made in your life?
1:47.0	Mary and my wife.
1:49.0	Nice!
1:50.0	His wife is here, ladies and gentleman.
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