Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.

We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.

Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach,

2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ,

Michael Kaju.

Mind, Body, Brute. body brute.

Hey and welcome back. My name is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast.

This week's guest is Rick Alexander.

Rick is a former Navy Special Ops Combat Medic.

He's the author of the book,

Burn Your Couch, a manifesto for the average of verse.

And he's the host of Lionheart Radio.

Rick is a guy that I really aspire to be more like.

He's super adventurous, driven, and goal-oriented,

and yet he is going through life very consciously and making sure that

he's doing things that are truly authentic to him rather than things that he thinks

he should do or thinks other people want of him.

We talk about choosing comfort over happiness

and how often it is that we fall into this trap in our lives.

We talk about experiences that have shaped his perspective on life.

He's a really he's a really emotionally intelligent and deep person and I and I gave him props on the show because I think that's really uncommon especially in the military to have both of those polarities to be a warrior on one end and yet have the emotional depth and softness or gentleness that he has.

And we talk about how you can use some of the lessons

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