Task Force Pineapple, Parenting & Why Promises Matter - Joe De Sena, Scott Mann & Tim Nye

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As a parent, as a warrior, as a veteran, as a human - what’s the value of keeping a promise. What’s the power of trust. What’s the power of commitment. Today Scott Mann, one of the originators of “Task Force Pineapple” the volunteer movement of Veterans and others committed to keeping a promise to the men and women they worked with side by side in Afghanistan, joins Joe De Sena and retired Col. Tim Nye to talk about all this.

You can support task force pineapple at https://www.operationrecovery.org/

You can follow Scott Mann’s Podcast “Rooftop Leadership” at https://www.rooftopleadership.com/podcast/

You can purchase Joe De Sena’s Parenting book “10 Rules for Mental Toughness for Families”

https://www.spartan.com/10Rules

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CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Host: Joe De Sena

Sefra Alexandra, Johnny Waite & Colonel Nye will be back soon, we miss them!

Transcript

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0:00.0	For me it was very personal. It was one Afghan commando call sign space monkey that was pinned down and couldn't get out.
0:07.1	So a couple of us Green Berets got on our phones and we worked our network and our craft and we moved him through the city and we got him
0:14.9	across the other side using a call sign pineapple that was given us to people inside the
0:19.7	airport and that's how we became Task Force Pineapple Express and we've seen this
0:25.2	Joe this is happening if you watch right now this pineapple story is on
0:28.4	CNN it's on Fox and it's because we have an opportunity here to mobilize around resolve to honor a promise.
0:36.7	And I think that's something we can all kind of get behind.
0:38.8	Welcome to the Spartan Up Podcast with Joe DeSena, founder and CEO of Spartan Race.
0:46.0	We are talking about overcoming obstacles.
0:50.0	The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, we will teach you here
0:57.0	on the Spartan up podcast to get over obstacles in your mind.
1:02.4	This is a special episode.
1:03.0	Colonel Nine is back on the show with Joe to talk about parenting and about keeping your promises with
1:08.0	Scott Mann, the force behind Operation Pineapple. This episode of Spartan Up pineapple.
1:19.0	This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by the Exogen ultrasound bone healing system. Exogen is a non-invasive treatment option that can help heal your broken bone.
1:24.5	To learn more, visit exogen.com slash Spartan.
1:30.0	Joe DeSena here, CEO founder of Spartan,
1:32.8	and we are here for the Spartan Up podcast
1:34.6	where we rip people off the couch, we get them moving,
1:37.1	we motivate them.
1:38.6	We got none other than the old Colonel Nye, couldn't resist.
1:43.4	He's been our co-host forever.
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