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🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Some of the most impactful skills CIA taught me and Jihi had nothing to do with weapons, locks, or lies. In this episode, we are excited to share what we learned about building, training, and improving personal courage. It's not what you think, and not at all what the movies make it look like.
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0:00.0 | The thing that changed my life about being a CIA officer was what they taught me about courage. |
0:06.0 | The lesson in courage was so powerful to me that I've taken it with me everywhere. |
0:11.0 | We started defining the core values for our company. |
0:14.0 | Without a doubt, courage was the first one that came to my mind. |
0:17.0 | Like, of course you're going to be honest. |
0:19.0 | Of course you're going to provide something of value to people. |
0:22.2 | Courage is truly optional. Like, courage really is something that you can choose to ignore or avoid. |
0:35.6 | I'm in a new state, in a new hotel room. I have been on the road for another week, and I'm in a new state, in a new hotel room. I've been on the road for another week, and I'm still not coming home for another week. My love, I miss you. I miss you and I love you and I miss the kids and I miss the North Florida fall when it gets so beautiful in our backyard has like perfect sunsets. |
0:55.8 | Yeah. |
0:56.5 | Yeah. |
0:57.6 | Don't feel sad for me, but feel a little bit sad for me. |
1:01.8 | We miss you too. |
1:03.1 | Although I was telling somebody yesterday that I see the pictures you post on like the locations you're at. |
1:08.5 | And they're just stunning. |
1:10.0 | And I'm like, oh, I really wish I was |
1:12.1 | with Andy, but kind of without the kids. Well, yeah, there's, I mean, there's upsides and |
1:20.3 | downsides to traveling. And, you know, now that I'm traveling to make television shows, you know, |
1:26.3 | it's, it's really quite impressive. |
1:28.5 | I mean, this week alone, I found myself scaling a mountain, climbing through caves, on boats |
1:35.8 | across rivers, I mean, just stunning, amazing locations that most people pay to go on vacation |
1:42.3 | to do. |
1:43.3 | And I'm doing it and it's all documented by like five |
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