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Speaker 1: Time and step up your game. Let's learn from a

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Speaker 1: fifty five Carasey Morning Show. And God bless him and

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Speaker 1: all other Navy Seals and everybody else who serves our country.

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Speaker 1: Try to do everything we can for the American veteran

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Speaker 1: five Case Morning Show Don Mann. And you may very

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Speaker 1: well know him. You Marredy recognized his name. He is

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Speaker 1: a decorated combat veteran, motivational keynote speaker, athlete, an author,

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Speaker 1: and talk about author. His autobiography Inside Seal Team six,

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Speaker 1: My Life and Missions with America's Elite Warriors, a national

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Speaker 1: bestseller also at Washington Post political bestseller. Not only that,

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Speaker 1: his recent works are Seal Team six military thrillers. So

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Speaker 1: if you want to work of fiction that is all

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Speaker 1: cloaked in actual fact, you got Hunt the Wolf, Hunt

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Speaker 1: the Scorpion, and Hunt the Falcon. Also other popular books

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Speaker 1: he's written the Navy Seal Survival Handbook, The Modern Day Gunslinger.

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Speaker 1: I could go on and on, Don Man, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the fifty five caroseing More show. Thank you for your

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Speaker 1: service to our country and your service to everybody else

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Speaker 1: with your brand new book, The Navy Seal Playbook Principles,

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Speaker 1: Practices and Strategies for Achieving Success. Good to have you

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Speaker 2: Oh, thanks so much for having me. It's a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know what I got to tell you, I

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Speaker 1: serve my country. I am always impressed because I've seen

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Speaker 1: some of the training that the Navy Seals have to

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Speaker 1: go to and all the hurdles that you have to

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Speaker 1: could not do it, which will lead me to another question.

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Speaker 1: But I did get the opportunity, and thank you to

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Speaker 1: my retired Lieutenant colonel and fifty cow trainer. I got

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Speaker 1: now and shoot fifty cows training the Navy Seals. So

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Speaker 1: Those guys are awesome. They're just regular folks. It was

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Speaker 1: impressive group of young men. And if they're representative the

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Speaker 1: other Sealed teams, these are Seal Teams two and three. Boy,

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Speaker 1: we we are in great hands when it comes to

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Speaker 2: Oh well, well, thanks for saying all that. And you

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Speaker 2: know there's other ways to serve your country. You said

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Speaker 1: And considering the rounds we were shooting were one hundred

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Speaker 1: Seal playbook, this what you have done is broken down

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Speaker 1: and you're obviously here to talk about it. The principles

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Speaker 2: That's right, And and you know I had the I

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Speaker 2: four things you have to do every day. That's it.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, you get inoculated to stress and a

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Speaker 2: And if you took someone off the street and you

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Speaker 2: put them in one day training, they could have a

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Speaker 2: heart attack, you know, because it's so chaotic. But this

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Speaker 2: becomes a daily ritual. This is just what happens every

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Speaker 2: day in life. And we have this thing where most

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Speaker 2: all the seals, I'd have to say, every seal I

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Speaker 2: know when something terrible has happened, a shooting or a

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Speaker 2: to stay calm. For instance, there I was at a

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Speaker 2: I was involved, and there was a helicopter crash, and

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Speaker 2: I don't want to get too graphic, but one of

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Speaker 2: the young rangers was decapitated by the rear rotor and

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Speaker 2: I was right there, and I was there helping them out,

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Speaker 2: and while helping out the others who were part of

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Speaker 2: but the others didn't die. And it was just taking

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Speaker 2: care of those guys, staying calm under pressure, getting these

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Speaker 2: example I have ever seen, is when our three star

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Speaker 2: general came up. My mouth was filled with blood from

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Speaker 2: doing mouth to mouth on mouth to crike on one

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Speaker 2: were senators and congressmen there, and this was a demonstration

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Speaker 2: at Fort Bragg, and this three star general was in

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Speaker 2: charge of everything. This helicopter crash, and there was a

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Speaker 2: all the medical emergencies, and he came up to me,

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Speaker 2: and he said, why don't you go rinse off your

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Speaker 2: face in your mouth? The show must go on, meaning

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Speaker 2: what you have to do now is the shooting demonstration

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Speaker 2: and climbing demonstration. He was so calm under pressure. And

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Speaker 2: whenever I think of times under pressure, I was captured

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Speaker 2: at one time and I felt calm. I knew I

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Speaker 2: wasn't going to be killed. I knew these guys weren't

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Speaker 2: going to kill us. I wasn't right in knowing that,

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Speaker 2: but that's what I believed. And you just know you're

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Speaker 2: going to come out victorious. And when things go wrong

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Speaker 2: all around you and you stay basically because your training

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Speaker 2: from day one has built you built a foundation around you,

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Speaker 2: so you're inoculator. Things happen, explosions, gunshoots, you know now

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Speaker 2: that somebody wounded. Things get bigger and bigger and bigger.

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Speaker 2: But you're trained to react and stay calm because when

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Speaker 2: you don't have one hundred percent to react, and that's

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Speaker 2: when you need one hundred percent of yourself to react

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Speaker 2: to keep things in control or save.

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Speaker 1: Lives, and as a seal, if you break down, we

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Speaker 1: know what failure might mean, and in that circumstance and

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Speaker 1: of course in our day to day lives, failure can

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Speaker 1: mean a lot of other things. But staying calm one

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Speaker 1: of the principles you can learn in the Navy Seal

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Speaker 1: Playbook Principles and Practices and Strategies for Achieving Success. Learn

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Speaker 1: about building elite level discipline, strengthening and mental toughness, leading

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Speaker 1: and collaborating like a seal, and breaking through barriers. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what. I cannot thank you enough for spending

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Speaker 1: time with listeners and me, and of course writing the book.

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Speaker 1: Don Man, retired US Navy Seal, thank you for your

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Speaker 1: service to our country and your ongoing service in the

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Speaker 1: form of these wonderful books you write. We're looking forward

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Speaker 1: to the next fiction book as well, and it's been

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Speaker 1: great having you on the show, Sir,