Navy Seals Survival Story About Being AMBUSHED Will Leave You Speechless & Inspired | Jason Redman
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🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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It’s a simple fact of being a human that, at some point in your life, you’re going to face adversity.
The question is - how are you going to choose to face it? What will be your mentality?
Will you choose the victim mentality? Or the victor mentality?
When Former Navy SEAL Jason Redman was severely wounded by a spray of machine gun fire in Iraq, he had a choice: either assume the same victimhood narrative as everyone around him…
Or hold fast to what he calls the Overcome Mindset.
In today’s episode, Jason tells his incredible story of how he became a Navy SEAL against all odds, bounced back from failure as a leader, and not only recovered from a firefight that nearly killed him…
But rose to become a voice of courage and leadership in the wounded warrior community.
SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Overcoming the Odds
10:33 | Fighting Against the Victim Mentality
26:44 | How the Overcome Mindset Works
29:12 | Becoming a Navy SEAL
41:32 | Jason’s Near-Fatal Firefight
56:37 | Dealing With Aftermath
1:06:40 | No Bad Days
1:16:00 | What Defines Good Leadership
QUOTES:
“The greatest gift you have is you have a choice. You have a choice. Freewill is one of the greatest things we have as humans.” [05:31]
“A victim mentality limits your success in this life. You know, you will stay wherever you are, and you will achieve the limit of what you believe.” [12:38]
“Sitting there and focusing all your blame and time on the fact that your perfect plan, or something happened, or your world got thrown upside down, accomplishes nothing - nothing.” [17:32]
“We think that we need to be tough and do these things on our own. But sometimes, you know, it's okay to get help. It's okay to say I'm struggling, especially mentally.” [59:15]
“At the end of the day, leadership, teamwork, your ability to overcome adversity… all those things are within us.” [1:11:38]
Follow Jason Redman:
Website: https://jasonredman.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JasonRedmanWW
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jasonredmanww
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasonredmanww/
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/37rzuMF
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | At Honda, we've never looked to other car companies for inspiration. |
| 0:04.5 | No, it's not a matter of an inflated ego. We just prefer listening to what people really need. |
| 0:10.5 | For example, the Honda Jazz Hybrid doesn't have the expected six airbags. |
| 0:15.3 | It has 10, including one that prevents the drive and passenger from colliding with each other. |
| 0:20.9 | And because we also listen to our conscience, all our safety features come a standard. No charge. |
| 0:26.1 | Honda, the power of dreams. |
| 0:56.1 | And usually when there's a bad situation, there's a natural tendency to focus inward on the pain and the misery and all these things. |
| 1:03.5 | But the reality is on you to take that first step. |
| 1:07.7 | And that became the genesis of this idea that I now speak on getting off the X. |
| 1:14.4 | And it is a victor mentality. It's a mentality that I don't care what happens in my life. |
| 1:19.5 | I'm going to continue to drive forward. I'm going to figure out a way. |
| 1:23.2 | And that is the essence of what I speak on and what I believe in. The overcome mindset. |
| 1:35.2 | Jason Redman, welcome to the show. Tom, honor to be here. Thank you. |
| 1:38.8 | Dude, truly my honor. You're one of those people where I had to stop talking to you before we started rolling some of my hold on. |
| 1:44.5 | We wanted to talk about this on camera. But your mentality is insane. |
| 1:49.2 | So you've got the whole overcome mentality. The book was phenomenal. |
| 1:54.0 | Literally from like nine words in, I was like, I have got to meet this guy. |
| 1:58.3 | So really stoked to have you on the show. If you would, you've obviously been through a lot for anybody that doesn't know your story. |
| 2:07.0 | Give us like that quick thumbnail sketch so that all the stuff we talk about, no bad days, overcoming shit, not making excuses. |
| 2:13.2 | They'll have some context. |
| 2:14.2 | Yeah, Jason Redman and a snapshot. I don't know. I guess I'm the epitome of defying the odds. |
| 2:22.5 | I'm not a big guy. So I'm not the average person that you would think would become a Navy SEAL. |
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