Perseverance Over Endurance: Leading Through Uncertainty With Brandon Young

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Richard Jacobs

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4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we dive into the five factors of perseverance with Brandon Young, a professional who has spent more than 25 years building and leading teams in the military, corporate healthcare, and nonprofit sectors.

Brandon is the co-author of Perseverance > Endurance: Lead with Resilience. Grow Through Adversity. Win Together. This is a book that he wrote alongside Blayne Smith that provides key insights for leading teams through the battlefield of uncertainty – a narrative that explains why perseverance is necessary for navigating today’s complex world…

Brandon is a former US Army Ranger with four combat rotations to Afghanistan. He has been published in various magazines and peer-reviewed academic journals, has assessed, mentored, and trained more than 1,000 Ranger leaders, and placed third in the 2006 Best Ranger Competition. He is also the co-founder of Applied Leadership Partners, a consulting firm that shares hard-earned leadership wisdom with professionals navigating growth changes and adversity.

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How Brandon’s diverse past has shaped his current ambitions.
The ways that your work ethic can change when you make hard decisions.
Various ways to cultivate a purposeful approach to life.
How veterans reconcile their profound loss of identity after their service.

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Transcript

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0:28.7	Here come the geniuses.
0:30.3	This is the Finding Genius podcast with Richard Jacobs.
0:37.4	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast. I guess. James.
0:41.1	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast.
0:42.7	I guess today is Brandon Young.
0:47.4	He's the co-author of a book called Perseverance with a carrot leads to endurance.
0:50.9	So I guess perseverance or endurance to perseverance or perseverance through perseverance.
0:52.8	I'm not sure to interpret it, but I ask him.
0:58.9	So we're going to talk about the five factors of perseverance to achieve no-fail missions, whether it's war or business or life or, you know, whatever may have you. So that's what we talk about today. So welcome and
1:04.1	thanks for coming, Brandon. Appreciate it. Hey, thanks for having me, Richard. Tell me a bit about,
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