Hello, this is Father David Nix on the Padre Peregrino podcast. This is theology and current events number 48 called Daily Leadership with a Navy SEAL. I'm joined today by my friend of about six years, Mike. Mike, how you doing today?

Pretty good, Father, and how are you this afternoon? Doing well. Thanks for joining us again. Mike's been on this podcast a couple times before,

and I want to give Mike CV here. Mike's a retired career Navy officer, naval officer,

who served 27 years in the Naval Special Warfare, which is the formal community designation for the U.S. Navy SEALs.

During his time in uniform, he led or commanded SEAL plactunes, task units, assault teams, squadrons,

strike forces, and joint task forces during 13 deployments, seven of them to combat.

He did three tours at Naval Special Warfare Development Group and was among the

first special operators to fight in Afghanistan. Besides combat, he also developed and deployed

highly classified special undersea capabilities and clandestine intelligence gathering activities in

theaters as diverse as Bosnia and Southeast Asia. As a senior officer, he served as the

operations officer for a deployed Joint Special Operations Task Force of 5,500 personnel

in 27 countries across the U.S. in support of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations,

including the fight against both ISIS and al-Qaeda in the Middle East,

as well as the MILF insurgency in the Southern Philippines.

Mike has been awarded both the Silver Star and Bronze Star for Valor in Combat.

He's a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, where he graduated with distinction, top 2% of the class,

also holds a master's degree from the naval postgraduate school.

His proudest accomplishments is maintaining the marriage of 27 years and a family through the many

decades of deployments war, family moves, and associated pressures and stresses.

After military retirement, he worked for several years as a leadership and management consultant on Wall Street.

Now is a semi-retired consultant, Mike has recently advised organizations as diverse as the Philadelphia Eagles, Merrill Lynch,

Team Liquid from e-sports, world cricket, and the USA rugby team on various leadership and performance challenges.

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