All of my life I have been an underdog.

Someone who was told that you're not big enough, fast enough, smart enough, strong enough.

People have underestimated me just about all of my life and has that frustrated me at times?

Yes, of course, but it's also motivated me to fight harder.

Throughout my life, I came to realize that whether it was in school or sports or business or combat or politics,

there will always be naysayers and critics, and it doesn't matter what

your chosen arena is.

If you care about something enough, you have to fight for it.

And that doesn't mean you won't fail.

In fact, you likely will, multiple times.

If you're living life to the fullest and taking chances, it's all but guaranteed, you see, living greatly isn't about those failures.

It's about taking them in stride. It's about learning. It's about never quitting. In

this podcast, it's called Battle Ground. Well, because life is a battleground. It's called Battleground. Well, because life is a battleground. It's our duty to never surrender.

On the first episode of the show is a guy who gets this.

Hell, one of his books is titled in the arena the guy that I'm talking about is

Pete Hagseth Ivy League educated Harvard and Yale and typically I wouldn't brag on that because some of the dumbest people that I've ever met in my life have come from Ivy League institutions, but Pete Hageth is not one of those people.

He's a rarity, ladies and gentlemen gentlemen because he came out of those institutions

conservative. He's an Army Infantry Combat Veteran. He's a best-selling author.

He's the co-host of Fox and Fend's weekend he's

married with like a hundred kids he's got an incredible family and on this

episode we discuss service, we discuss combat politics, his family, his faith.

It is a great, great conversation.

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