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The Mark Divine Show

Mike Hayes on a Life of Excellence, Agility, and Meaning

The Mark Divine Show

Mark Divine

Fitness, Sealfit, Business, Leadership, Health & Fitness, Navyseals, Kokoroyoga, Alternative Health, Unbeatablemind, Politics, Entrepreneur, Health, Military, Yoga

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today Mark is talking to Mike Hayes-former Commander of SEAL Team TWO. Mike had a 20-year military career, was a White House Fellow for both the Bush and Obama administrations, and is currently working as the Chief Digital Transformation Officer at VMware. He is also a speaker on leadership and author of the book Never Enough: A Navy SEAL Commander on Living a Life of Excellence, Agility, and Meaning. He and Mark talk about the leadership principles that he has learned from years in government, the private sector, and the military. Hear how: You must not be afraid to aim high and miss-be afraid to aim low and hit In decision-making, the first decision is not the decision-it's when to make your decision It's necessary to have diversity in the decision-making process-it's better when we hear opinions/experiences different from our own Listen to today's episode to hear leadership insights from very different contexts.

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0:00.0

To live an uncommon life, one needs to learn uncommon disciplines.

0:22.0

Hi folks, welcome back to the Unveil Mind Podcast. My name is Mark DeBine. Thanks so much for joining me today.

0:32.0

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1:44.0

It's interesting. I resisted doing this because you know, we have a saying in the spec ops community that special operators can't be mass producing an unbeatable mind is a year long training program.

1:54.0

But you know, people are distracted and busy and so is hard first, you know, someone to commit to a year. So we've said, why not let's at least commit to 30 days and see how that goes.

2:05.0

And the results have been extraordinary. Of course, once you're done with the 30 days, you're going to want to do the year long program or join one of our books. So check it out. You'll love it.

2:16.0

Also, thanks to all of our sponsors, which helps us monetize this podcast so that we can do more great work. I am super excited to have Mike Hayes with me today.

2:25.0

You know, Mike was a teammate retired in 13 as a commander extraordinary career. I'm really excited to talk about it.

2:32.0

And I learned really about Mike because he put a book out recently. I'm going to hold up the cover called Never Enough.

2:39.0

What a phenomenal cover and the subtitles and maybe seal commander on living a life of excellence agility and meaning, which are the three major themes that he kind of digs into and helps kind of elucidate through some great stories.

2:51.0

Time in the seals as time as White House fellow as time is heading up digital operations for VMware.

2:58.0

Anyways, yeah, Mike, I mean, I could read. I was going to read what my producer put together, but I think it would just kind of get into the stories.

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