Because I started to experience some intuitive moments and in those moments I could see and

feel myself as a different type of person and what kept them when I tried to put a word

to it, it just kept coming back to warrior.

Today's guest, Mark Devine, is not who I thought he'd be.

When I was out in Encinitas in Southern California, I had a chance to swing by his seal fit, exercise

location, about a 20,000 square foot location where he trained some pretty high level people.

And as we found a sort of a yoga studio off on the side, which is where we recorded this

actually, so you hear a little bit of a different microphone quality that explains why

you're probably a little bit of a neco or slightly different.

We sat down and I found a guy who had started in life in sort of a preordained path.

He was kind of destined and expected to join the family business as generations before

him had and just continue on that way.

He made a radical left turn that he didn't see coming, his family didn't see coming,

and he decided to become a Navy seal.

In a family where actually, you know, like there, the military path wasn't exactly looked

upon as the way that, you know, you would move up in the world.

He made a really radical departure and that profoundly changed his life.

He rose up the ranks, became a commander and a very well known person within the seals

and also within the military.

And during this whole time, he had actually started practicing martial arts and sitting

in from a very young age in his 20s and developing a very deep exploration of mindset practices

and stillness and this informed a lot of what he was doing in the military.

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