Nick Lavery: Objective Secure

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🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is author, speaker, and active duty U.S. Army Green Beret, Nick Lavery.

On a deployment in Afghanistan in 2013, Nick’s detachment experienced an insider attack that resulted in the loss of his leg. After a year of surgeries and recovery with a prosthetic limb, Nick rejoined his detachment in 2015. He is the first Special Forces operator to return to combat as an above-the-knee amputee.

Currently, Nick serves as a Special Forces Warrant Officer. He is the first amputee to complete several Special Forces tactical and combative operations courses. Nick received numerous medals including the Silver Star, three Purple Hearts, two Bronze Stars, and a Bronze Start with “V” for valor.

In addition to serving in the military, Nick is also a speaker and trainer who works with corporations, schools, sports teams, and non-profit organizations. He gave a TEDx Talk called “Living by an Ethos.”

Nick’s biography, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement, is available now.

You can learn more about Nick by visiting his website machinenick.com and by following him on Instagram @nick.machine.lavery

You can subscribe to his Youtube Channel @NickMACHINELavery

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Danger Close Podcast, an ironclad original presented by Navy Federal Credit
0:22.0	Union.
0:23.0	By upcoming novel, Only the Dead hits shelves on May 16th in e-book, audiobook and hardcover
0:28.8	and is available for pre-order right now.
0:31.8	My guest today, Special Forces Operator Nick Levery.
0:35.9	Nick lost his leg in Afghanistan, came home, rehabbed, stayed in the army, went back to
0:41.2	his ODA and deployed back to Afghanistan.
0:45.0	So now, without further ado, Nick Levery.
0:49.6	Are you still in?
0:54.0	Yeah, man, still active duty.
0:56.2	I'm with fifth group, tear, four cambell.
0:58.4	Okay, now I was reading through everything, I'm like, wait a second, is he still in?
1:02.0	Like I didn't realize that's all I might, he must be out by a few months at least, but
1:06.6	still in getting the afternoon.
1:08.5	Yeah, man, still going strong.
1:10.6	I come up on 16 years and just a month or two, so about four left.
1:16.7	God, what are you doing right now?
1:19.4	I actually just left the ODA life behind just a few months back.
1:24.5	Actually, now about four months back, which was a hard transition.
1:28.8	Yeah.
1:29.8	You know, you come in, you want to do the team guy thing forever.
1:32.9	It just, it runs its course.
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