Sean Parnell: combat vet and bestselling author

Mind Of The Warrior

Dr Mike Simpson

Mma, Philosophy, Combat, Self-improvement, Education, Nutrition, Mixedmartialarts, Military, Fitness, Health, Society & Culture, Medicine

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Sean Parnell is the author of the bestselling memoir Outlaw Platoon. He is a retired Army Infantry captain who served in some of the heaviest combat of the Afghan War. He recounts those battles in vivid detail during his leadership presentations for the nation's most successful teams and corporations. He is also the Co-Founder of the American Warrior Initiative, a charity that honors and and empowers our nation's veterans.

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Mike Simpson has served over three decades in the military as an Airborne Ranger, a Special Forces Operator, and finally as a Doctor of Emergency Medicine assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his career, Mike has deployed to 17 different countries, from counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of South America, to the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Along the way, Mike has been trained as a demolitions expert, SWAT Sniper, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachutist, civilian paramedic, Special Forces Medic, Operations and intelligence Sergeant, and finally, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician.

Mike is also a martial arts enthusiast, who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. His passion for martial arts motivated him to become a practicing fight doctor. As one of the foremost experts in both tactical trauma medicine and combat sports medicine, Mike is highly sought after as a lecturer and instructor, working extensively with Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, law enforcement, and military organizations providing medical care and training. He co-stars on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.

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0:00.0	And the So, Welcome back to Mind of the Warrior everybody as always this podcast is brought to you by Greybeard Performance,
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0:58.7	Very happy to have on the podcast today.
1:02.4	Patriot, Combat Veteran, Best Selling Author, All Around Badass,
1:08.0	Sean Parnell, brother, thank you so much for coming on the podcast.
1:11.0	Hey, it's awesome to be here.
1:12.8	I don't know that I'd go so far as to say I'm a badass.
1:15.2	I, like I was a city guy that served in the infantry after 9-11,
1:20.8	but had lots of badasses around me.
1:23.6	So, but here I am.
1:25.7	I tell people that all the time is, you know,
1:29.4	I don't consider myself a bad-ass,
1:31.1	but it was very, very comforting when sitting on a Chinook in the middle of the night
1:35.8	somewhere overseas to look around and know that the 16 dudes around you were badasses.
1:41.5	That's a very calming feeling knowing that.
1:44.0	Yeah, and it's crazy looking back on my time because I was in Afghanistan. I was deployed to Afghanistan back in 2006, 2007 in Burmell District.
1:55.0	And at the time, our forward operating base was
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