"I was in Afghanistan in 2014 as a Navy SEAL we're in the middle of this gunfight and a grenade came over the wall and it detonated and I'm waiting to either be shot by the enemy or going to bleed to d..."

"much John yes there are clues in your early context that suggest you might have walked the path that you've walked in your life but there's also clues that suggest you absolutely would never have done..."

"before that there was something that seemed to happen to you in that basement which I consider to be the starting place which is awareness yeah this like self-awareness and with that self-awareness ca..."

"something really important in that that's really um really also critical to business but just really critical to anyone that's professional or in a relationship which is if you make a mistake you get ..."

"Seals because you know around the world I think people are aware of the term Navy Seals but we don't actually know fully what it is yeah so um every branch of I think basically every military in the w..."

"does it take to to get through training and pass the other end broadly speaking I would say it takes about two years uh but realistically it takes a little bit longer so you have um there's two ways t..."

"similarities that you noticed between the people that made it and didn't the thing that stands out honestly and this is what is pretty universally true although there's some outliers is the folks who ..."

"to meet the guy in his mother's basement and then meet the guy who qualified from the Seals training yeah in terms of their mentality like their psychology how would they be different what is it that ..."

"and it worked this idea of Rock Bottom it's so interesting and it sounds um sounds pretty tragic that sometimes people do need to go to the bottom on their own yeah to realize that as the quote says t..."

"was Jo will that said to me his friend had called him and was going through a difficult time in his life divorce lost his wife lost his job Etc and joer said something words to the effective when you'..."

"yeah so i i p on the must be checked because once you become the Navy SEAL yeah and everyone's saying that's John Allen the Navy SEAL does your motivation disappear or does it become something else an..."

"because I've never actually heard someone give that kind of advice before what people say is like find your why and they often are quite judgmental about what's motivating you sure so the only like ac..."

"get it yeah I began posting about being I was the quintessential look at this guy Mr Navy SEAL uh at first it wasn't that way it wasn't like one day I was like guess what guys I'm a Navy SEAL but it i..."

"knew what was going I knew the line and I knew when I crossed the line of being no matter what the public thinks about sealed content that you see on the on the internet I knew amongst the huge majori..."

"I have to ask what do you think happened to those hikers man I don't know I don't know so the they reopened the investigation like I said in 2020 uh it I I don't claim this to be true but I think it m..."

"you reflect on the Journey of your life yeah from from the basement to the seals to then producing the seals content getting disowned from your seals Brotherhood because of that then stumbling across ..."

"about timing I was thinking that's not what I think the answer is I was thinking that timing is one of those things you you see in hindsight and go gosh wasn't that perfect timing but for it to be per..."

"people misunderstand you cuz they like you they see you on a screen and they consume a certain type of content you make they probably don't know the full context of your life but how do you think peop..."

"you've got your priorities wrong well when I say that I really mean um because when you're a create content creator like we both are yeah um like you say it's you're constant it's constant it's consta..."

"subscribers you you would be okay with just walking away and saying could you see that reality in the future yeah is there anything that it would take for you to get there is it like would you need ye..."

"don't I I feel like you do it keeps you moving keeps you like thinking about it's like purpose and meaning isn't it it's like a there was that that horrible disaster with the The Little Submarine that..."

"been with your own mental health because you talked about PTSD um you talked about becoming a bit of an alcoholic as well at one point what's that Journey been like what's what's that sort of overlaid..."

"I think that it was like ultimately if I would to boil it down to its simplest part it's like I wanted to be a Navy Seal in part because I just wanted to go through the training I wanted to serve in t..."

"those demons yeah but I go to therapy for them and shout out to Vinnie shoran who actually he's based in the UK uh he's my therapist uh he's awesome we haven't really delved too deeply into the milita..."

"has their demons to some degree whether it's you know it's a spectrum of how strong those demons can be and how how much control they can have over your decisions um what have you learned about dealin..."

"one of the things that I think about all the time because my life is quite hectic and busy is how to manage my energy load and as a podcaster you kind of have to manage your energy in such a way that ..."

"that your you you were raised by a single mother in the basement at least yeah has how has your father been a sort of key figure in the man that you are and we talk about demons sure and the demons th..."

"the place yet where they they'll speak openly about their demons and how they're feeling and their emotions and stuff especially I mean people that have been in combat and that seen as big tough guys ..."

"with you yeah but it's I'm not saying it's going to be easy I think um like many of the things you've described in your story first you have to just take one step in that direction I'm not saying like..."

"like when I told you the de law past story like ultimately the goal is to get you to see the wow all these conflicting things there's pictures of this and that but the Russian government set an unknow..."

"was written and put together and it's in it's the first story in the graphic novel as well we have a closing tradition on this podcast where the last guest leaves a question for the next not knowing w..."

"corporatized yet amen John thank you so much for everything that you do um thank you it's really really incredible it's really incredible you run a phenomenal media company which I don't think people ..."