Monty Heath: Navy SEAL, Father, Veteran Ambassador, TNQ Speaker

Team Never Quit

Marcus Luttrell

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.9 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In the studio this week, we have Monty Heath, a decorated veteran from Navy SEAL Team 2 and Red Squadron, a former supervisor for the U.S. Navy SEAL mentorship program and BUD/S preparatory program, helping veterans develop their entrepreneur goals, a father who has endured the harrowing, near-death experience of his eleven-year-old son, and who has successfully undergone supervised psychedelic treatments to facilitate psychological introspection. Monty brings a myriad of life lessons and incredible experiences to the table in this week’s TNQP episode.

In this episode you will hear:

If I want something, I have to put 100% into it. I can’t just half-ass what I want.
I’ve learned a lot from failure.
When I started working as a Special Olympics skiing instructor, that’s where humanity entered into my life.
I wanted to be a corpsman, but I didn’t want to help people. I wanted to hurt people. That’s why I got out of it.
All my friends were SEALS; all my friends were cool; all my friends were good-looking; we live these privileged, bad-ass lives, but what about someone who’s born with Down Syndrome?
[Special Olympics] It chipped away at my arrogance, and it installed humility.
As a self-punishment, I didn’t want to go work for the super cool guy organizations. I want to be with common people and common soldiers.
We have to be uncomfortable to grow and evolve.
Monty’s 11-year-old son, George, had what started as a bad headache. That quickly developed into his spine hurting, then continuing to degrade, until it was determined in the hospital that he had contracted Bacterial Meningitis He slipped into a coma and “coded” as he lay in Monty’s arms dying. He slowly began to recover, but spent 51 days in the hospital & was paralyzed. Yet, some of the first words he spelled out for his mom were: “you and dad complete each other.”
The idea of waking up and writing down what you’re grateful for can be a life-changer.
Gratitude & attitude and gratitude is like a see-saw. If your gratitude is high you can’t have a bad attitude.
I started to understand the power of being vulnerable. It’s disarming.
Ibogaine therapy will make you go through your trauma, and make you come out on the other side better. I suggest every human being on the planet experience it. Communication & relationships to me is like new.
Empathy is an important thing in life.

Special Christmas Deal! Every purchase of a 2-year plan will get you 4 additional
months free. Go to https://nordvpn.com/TNQ and use the coupon TNQ at checkout.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Slack. With Slack, you can bring all your people and
0:05.9	tools together in one place. It's your digital HQ where you can increase productivity,
0:11.1	enable flexibility and automate workflows. Plus, Slack is full of game-changing features
0:16.7	like huddles for quick check-ins or Slack Connect, which helps you connect with partners
0:20.9	inside and outside of your company. Slack, where the future works. Get started at
0:26.9	Slack.com slash DHQ. The team Never Quit podcast is sponsored by Navy Federal Credit Union.
0:33.0	Make a plan to do away with high interest credit card debt by transferring your balance
0:36.6	to a Navy Federal credit card. With a low intro APR and no balance transfer fees, you
0:41.3	can pick the right card to help you save more. Check out Navy Federal dot org for more information.
0:57.9	Alright everybody, welcome back to the TNQ podcast. I'm your host Marcus Matrell. Every
1:03.5	week it's my job to fire you up to ignite the legend inside of you and to push you to
1:08.3	break this. Join me every week as I take you into my Breaker room with some of the
1:12.4	most hard charge of people on the planet. They're going to show you how to embrace the
1:16.2	suck of life, teach you the values of working your ass off, and charge through whatever life
1:20.4	throws at you. This is the Team Never Quit podcast. Don't fuck a lot of buttercup.
1:26.9	Alright guys, welcome back to another episode of the Team Never Quit podcast.
1:38.3	If you guys aren't already following us on YouTube, you should be because we're doing
1:42.1	video now and that's fun. Patreon question, guys. Got a Patreon question. It's going
1:47.3	to be a little more chill than the last question. Rebecca. Let's ask. What is one object
1:53.7	from your childhood that you still have today? My baby blanket. My woobie. Your woobie.
2:00.7	You still use it? Or is it just like in a box or is it somewhere on your couch?
2:05.1	How does none of your business? That's none of your business. That's none of your business.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Marcus Luttrell, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Marcus Luttrell and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.