Recon Platoon Leader in Afghanistan | Clay Smith | Ep. 359

The Team House

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History, Government, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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In this episode, former recon platoon leader Clayton Smith shares his raw and compelling journey from combat in Afghanistan, where he earned a Purple Heart, to his personal battle with unaddressed trauma and alcoholism back home. He details his transformative experience with ibogaine therapy and his subsequent mission to co-found Beyond Service, a non-profit dedicated to providing free, comprehensive psychedelic treatment to veterans, first responders, and their families. Smith's story highlights the critical need for alternative healing modalities and destigmatizing mental health support within the veteran community.
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00:00 - Start
00:22 - Guest Introduction
07:58 - Recon Platoon Experiences
30:28 - Ambushed in Afghanistan
43:40 - TBI Diagnosis & Challenges
57:23 - Breaking Point & Seeking Help
1:17:39 - Founding Beyond Service
1:27:01 - Ibogaine's Efficacy & Access

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0:00.0	Special operations.
0:05.1	Covert Ops. Espionage.
0:09.9	The Team House.
0:11.9	With your hopes, Jack Murphy and David Park.
0:40.0	Hey folks, this is episode 359 of the team house. I'm Jack here with Dave and our guest on tonight's show is Clayton Smith. He served as a recon platoon leader in Afghanistan, recipient of the Purple Heart, a whole bunch of different experiences over in Afghanistan that we'll get into.
0:44.2	But he also works with an organization called Beyond EboGain.
0:50.5	That is B-E-O-N-D, I-B-O-G-A-I-N-E.com.
0:56.7	That's helping veterans and part of this movement of psychedelics being used to treat veterans that are dealing with PTSD and other ailments.
1:00.3	And so we got a lot to talk about, Clayton.
1:02.8	Thank you for joining us tonight.
1:05.7	Yeah, thank you guys for having me.
1:07.5	Really appreciate being here.
1:09.5	On behalf of the Beyond Team, the Beyond
1:12.4	Service team and Beyond's team down in Mexico, super appreciate the ability to talk about the
1:17.9	program that we're building and what we're doing for veteran mental health, first responders
1:23.7	and their family members. It's something I try to lead with is, you know, we hear about
1:29.2	22 a day and it's time to do something about it rather than just doing push-ups on Facebook.
1:34.2	You know, it's time to actually end or make a significant difference in this veteran suicide.
1:40.3	And, you know, we'll talk about the family side of it, but oh, by the way, everything that the families carry.
1:45.2	So, yeah, I'm super grateful to be here.
1:47.9	Thank you to your viewers and your audience as well.
1:50.6	And I'm really excited to share what we're doing and share a little about this medicine and the process that we do.
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