MOTW #138: Brady Pesola

Mind Of The Warrior

Dr Mike Simpson

Mma, Philosophy, Combat, Self-improvement, Education, Nutrition, Mixedmartialarts, Military, Fitness, Health, Society & Culture, Medicine

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Brady Pesola is a U.S. Marine Corps Veteran with extensive experience in teaching tactical disciplines, including firearms, self-defense, and survival. He has worked as a firearms instructor for civilians, law enforcement, and military personnel, specializing in direct action applications and CQB. Brady also served as an Executive Protection Agent and Security Consultant, safeguarding politicians executives, celebrities, and high net worth individuals.

In addition, Brady founded Triple B Adventures, a non-profit focused on improving veterans' mental health through outdoor adventures. After stepping down from his role after five years, he transitioned to an advisor position to prioritize his family and develop a coaching program based on Stoic Philosophy.

Currently, Brady specializes in using Stoic Philosophy to enhance cognitive function and decision-making for individuals in the military, law enforcement, and tactical industries. He also coaches people on mental resilience, social independence, and self-reliance, using Stoic Logic and Reason to overcome emotional reactions and cultivate happiness and peace in chaotic times.

You can follow Brady on Instagram @Grayman.Project.

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Mike Simpson has served over three decades in the military as an Airborne Ranger, a Special Forces Operator, and finally as a Doctor of Emergency Medicine assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his career, Mike has deployed to 17 different countries, from counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of South America, to the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Along the way, Mike has been trained as a demolitions expert, SWAT Sniper, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachutist, civilian paramedic, Special Forces Medic, Operations and intelligence Sergeant, and finally, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician.

Mike is also a martial arts enthusiast, who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. His passion for martial arts motivated him to become a practicing fight doctor. As one of the foremost experts in both tactical trauma medicine and combat sports medicine, Mike is highly sought after as a lecturer and instructor, working extensively with Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, law enforcement, and military organizations providing medical care and training. He co-stars on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.

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0:00.0	You're going to. So, Welcome back to Mind of the Warrior, everybody, Doc you here as always and as always this podcast is brought to you by gray beard performance do you need a little bit more energy do you need help with healing and recovery do you need something to kick you in the ass and get you into the
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0:58.0	My pleasure to have on the podcast today as a very special guest.
1:02.0	United States Marine entrepreneur just all around
1:05.3	fucking badass human being. Brady Pazola brother welcome. Hey Doug how are you
1:12.0	thanks for having me on, my man.
1:14.0	Good man.
1:15.0	So let's, everybody that comes on the podcast if you've never been on before, you get spared
1:19.7	this if you come back as a return guest.
1:21.8	But everybody has to relive their childhood trauma.
1:24.9	So let's jump right in.
1:26.9	Tell me where you're from.
1:29.1	What was your path growing up?
1:31.8	What was your path to the military? And then what was your path growing up? What was your path to the military and then what was your path from the
1:35.2	military to everything you're doing now? You know I come from very very very humble background. My old man is an ironover miner. My mom should stay a home bomb and you know I grew up in the North woods in Minnesota on a farm and I'll tell you there's definitely some slings of arrows of
1:57.4	outrageous fortune growing up as a kid and then being in high school to be honest with you I was not a very popular kid in high school I was very much skinny boy and
2:10.2	picked on quite a bit of bully quite a bit. So, and then around 2002, my senior year in high school,
2:18.2	the towers fell.
2:19.5	And so that's, which is funny because about two weeks later I watched, I remember in my social
2:24.4	studies class watching a C-130 shit a bunch of Rangers out the back of it and I
2:29.4	didn't know the range at the time. I thought those were Marines and I was like
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