Taylor Cavanaugh From Dark Times to a Purposeful Life

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hector Bravo Unhinged .

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Chaos is now in session.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Welcome back to another episode of Unhinged.
Today we have another specialguest, Taylor Cavanaugh, who was
a French Foreign Legion NavySEAL, a physical fitness
instructor and, overall, just abadass man.
I'm excited to have you here,Taylor, Thank you.
Thanks, man, I appreciate it,bro.
What's up, dude?
So yeah, man, I asked yououtside when did you come on
scene, bro?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Because you just started blowing up dude, Dude, I
launched my YouTube when Irealized, dude, I was at a
suicidal state before and thennow, over years, it took me
years in that, in that Frenchforeign Legion barracks room, to
where I was like, man, I'mhaving good days every day now,
right, and that that was lastyear, like this exact time last

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year, and I just got back in thecountry in December and, uh,
yeah, man, we've been rockingand rolling since.
You've been hitting it nonstop,dude, like a chop in the wood
man.
I just, I approached this likeanything else.
Yeah, like like like a chop inthe wood man.
I just I approach this likeanything else, yeah, like like a
job.
I take it seriously, man.
Every day I'm up doing thisthing and you know, as you know,
man, it's about that diligent,that diligence is the only way I

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know how to work.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
That's what's up, dude.
So you were in the unitedstates military?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
yeah, so I was a seal and I was at seal team seven
for about seven years before Ihad some problems and I got
kicked out and I failed asteroid test but I had some
other things that brought someheat on me.
To actually bring that heat onme, I was no victim man, you
know, and so I brought the heaton me and I took it on the chin
and I took a general dischargeand got out and then worked in

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the civilian world for a littlebit.
Down at Jula Vista actually, wewere building a sky building, a
whole kind of near theamphitheater.
Out there we were building abig residential community, Nice.
So that's where I started doingit.
Where's SEAL Team 7, based outof Coronado?
So right here down in San Diegoat the SEAL compound down there
.
I think they moved down to IB,but they were up in Coronado at

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the time.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
So did you always have that dry?
Were you always like that hyperkid that you had to get
yourself doing stuff?

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, I would say probably I don't like labels, I
don't like the ADD and stuff,but I'm sure I'm on that type of
spectrum at some point and Iwas always out.
I would get in trouble inschool.
I was always pretty good atschool, though pretty smart, but
I played sports and but gottena lot of trouble too.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
So when you saw the navy seals or the navy in
general that's, you wereattracted to that man, dude,
when I realized that you couldbe a soldier.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Just in general, I think probably a lot of us when
we're at like seven, some kidsthey're playing.
You know they play for like us.
We're playing for real.
Yeah, we're like training,we're out in the canyons and
shit and we're like out in thedesert, dude, you're playing for
real and better at it than mostright, and so I think I had an
aptitude for it and I knew Ifound out about seals and so I
kind of latched on to that.

(02:49):
You know, in our era, our time,it was kind of man we grew up
it was like schwarzenegger andstallone, it was like the jungle
and that whole that how old areyou, dude?

Speaker 1 (02:59):
I'm 39, 39.
Yeah, we're the same age, bro.
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
so I was like we're our age that time bracket it was
man.
It was like man, shit, commando, shit Right.
It was like okay, that's thejob, I'll go try that.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
We're going to bring it back, bro.
This fucking country went toofar in one direction, man.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
I think the pendulum I think we're starting to see it
kind of swing back.
Yeah, see, kind of a.
I was talking with my fianceabout the.
It's kind of starting to becool again to have traditional
values.
I started to see that in likehigh school and shit Like
they're like I, traditionalvalues are coming back.
Thank God, right, because Ithink people started to see that
things started to get reallyillogical and dangerous and

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didn't make sense and man, it'seroding the morality of what
made this country great man,hard work, accountability, what
made this country great?
Man, hard work, accountabilitythose things are man it's.
It's the pillars that make anycommunity, business, family work
.
Why would we think it?
Our country is any different Ilike that dude.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, yeah, you hit the nail on the head.
So after the military you wentinto some civilian work.
How long was that space in thatcivilian work until you?
How the hell did the frenchforeign Legion come to mind?
That's a good question man.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
And um it, the French foreign Legion came on my radar
when I was a kid.
At some point I found out aboutthem but I'm like oh, that's
kind of weird foreign fighterunit.
But got shelved.
And then when I was getting outof, I went to college.
It took me a bunch of years togo to college but I ended up
getting a degree and but I had abunch of misdemeanors that I

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had DUI, driving on a Spenad andsome fightings and just a bunch
of things that had stacked.
So, getting in the military, Ihad to go to jail.
So I went to jail for sixmonths to to commute my
probation, to have theopportunity to even talk to a
recruiter.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Is that what the recruiters had told you?
Was that one of the?
No, that's what I that's what Iknew.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Because, okay, I on any type of probation they're
like dude, you can't enlist.
So I said, okay, well, I justwent to a lawyer and said what
do I got to do?
And they said, well, and thejudge said you will, you could
serve some time.
So I said, all right, let'srock and roll.
So I went on like a lockdownfacility up in like santa cruz
county on misdemeanors, up therewith felons you know about to
go, they're shipping up statedude.
I'm like what am I doing inhere?

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But it was actually, you know, Ifelt good about it because
finally I could go into mypurpose.
But coming out of that, when Iwas realizing the administrative
hurdle that I was about to gothrough, going man dude, the
Marines turned me down fortattoos, army turned me down for
criminal background and that'sso navy took me.
But in that process I was like,well, if I get turned down from

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everybody, what are my options?
And so that's when I started tocome on my radar about the
foreign legion.
So it was when I was in myearly 20s, like very early 20s.
I like your style man, I likeyour style, dude, just just a
wild wild dude, bro man, justyou know, and I, I, it felt,
systematic though I just I'mlike, I'm gonna find and I'm
sure you're like this hector,it's bro I'm gonna keep pushing

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until I get an absolute no likecorrect.
And I think a lot of peoplestop when they just hit friction
or an obstacle, when and thatpath of least resistance leaves
rivers crooked man, a lot ofpeople don't even start.
They don't even start.
They don't even start becausethey project the problems and
they go.
Or if they get some friction,they're like they take it as a
sign I go, no.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
The sign's much further than that, dude.
Would you agree that the wholecrabs in the bucket mentality
discourages a lot of people fromdoing what they want to?

Speaker 2 (06:21):
do.
You cannot listen to anybodywho's not in a position that
you're trying to be in.
So family is some of the worst.
At that, man.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
No they are the worst , bro.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
No disrespect.
Yeah, family is some of theworst at that.
And just because somebody iscoming from a position of love
does not mean they're right.
And that is where people aremistaken.
They go well, they love me.
They must be.
No, they're operating out offear, a lot of fear, man.

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They're operating from whatwant to keep you safe and what
they know and in their realm,when, if you have a bigger
vision man, you have a biggervision like.
Take Schwarzenegger, forexample right, if he would have
listened to his family, he'dhave been living in some town in
Austria, dude, for the rest ofhis life and been a police
officer.
And like listening to thatinternal voice.
I call it god man, but peoplecall it what they want, but that
authentic voice, it whispers atyou, it doesn't shout, and so

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you got to listen to it and yougot to quiet the noise to hear
it.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Dude that's awesome to hear, man.
Yeah, we think the same exactway, dude yeah and it's.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
And then it's execution and relentlessness.
And so when you latch on like apit bull man on a on a tire,
hold on man, stick to it, run itto ground.
I was riding my bike to therecruiters dude, they were
telling me no, and I was, youknow, sitting on my mom's couch.
I was stacking boxes at homedepot man at night trying to
figure out what I was gonna doand just kept going until I got

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the right answer what aboutfailing?

Speaker 1 (07:43):
failing, yeah, how do you view that?
Because I view that as a.
I love it, bro, because I knowthat's where the growth is going
to happen.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Dude, failure, failure is the best teacher.
And failure also means rightfailure.
Right, there's been fucking upand failure.
I like that which I've done.
A lot of fucking up, but thenI've also had real and true
failure is, man is when you'restriving and pushing and hitting
that line and then, okay, nowyou can reset.
How do I approach it a littledifferently, a little better.

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My first seal screening test, Ifailed, and a lot of people like
, oh you, dude, you must be so,so, like you done, silly dude,
I'm not particularly that likegood of an athlete.
I'm not, I'm a terrible runner.
Dude, I'm not particularly thatlike good of an athlete, I'm
not, I'm a terrible runner, likeI'm a.
I have a lot of things that Ihad to work past to actually get
and achieve some of the thingsI did.
But, dude, I failed.
And there's a differencebetween defeat and failure, and

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that's where I think people needto understand the difference.
Bro, if you're defeated, you'redone.
Right failure man.
You could lose some battles,bro, and still win the war.
So, dude, keep chugging bro.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
That's what's up.
Man, when you were in the SEALteams, is there anything you
particularly like?
Like maybe the camaraderie, theteamwork, or maybe what did you
like about it?
You got to shoot guns.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
What did you like?
What I really liked about theSEAL teams is it wasn't too
formal, which I really liked.
Like you're not saluting yourofficers, you're very.
You go through the sametraining as your officers, so
there's a tight cohesion andthere's a lot of responsibility
and autonomy.
They give you plenty of rope tohang yourself with.
I mean, dude, as a new guyshowing up, man, you're starting
to book your own training tripsby yourself, renting Tahoe's,

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going places and having toperform.
And you get to these places.
You can leave a school failingman.
It ain't cool in the seal teams.
And also there's no group PTs,there's no group runs.
They're like, dude, the onlyway you're if you show up at a
training site and land warfareand you can't get down, bro,
you're getting your bird pulled.
It's as simple as that.
They they're like oh, oh, youcan't later.

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Like you obviously aren't meantto be here.
So I really liked the, theresponsibility that was placed
on you.
It's just big boy rules man,like from day one, which that's
what I really liked about it.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
I like that dude yeah , now what about structure
versus authority?
Do you have a problem withauthority?

Speaker 2 (09:59):
oh man, man, authority man.
I still have to check myself.
I don't even like when.
When the security guard inWalmart tells me something,
right, I have a real proclivityto push back against authority.
I don't want somebody to tellme to put my fucking seatbelt on
, man or put a helmet on.
I don't see the need forgovernment to get in my Wheaties

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about keeping me safe oranything of the sort for that
matter.
But structure, man, is requiredfor any type of clarity, and
structure can be self-imposed.
It also, man, I found a lot ofbenefit from having structure in
sports.
You know, if you played, youknow football or whatever

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growing up man, that saved mefor a lot of years and a lot of
pain.
And when that was removed atthe beginning, bro, when I lost
sports, I had some struggles,some transitional period
struggles drugs and alcohol andcar accidents and things like
that, and then gaining thatstructure back in the military,
it was nice because now I had areason to be structured, wake up
early.
And then when that was removed,again, maybe what you
experienced, hector, getting outwhen that's rug is kind of

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pulled out from you man, thenyou your own devices.
And that's when I startedtaking adderall, xanax, weed.
I was doing taking fentanylevery fucking day, man, not
during the day, because I was,like you know, prescribed or not
prescribed prescribed.
You know, that's part of thereason.
That's how I could lie tomyself oh my god, it's chill,
man, it's from a doctor.
Or I'm not doing it during, I'mnot drinking at work, or I'm

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not doing this, but I'm sippingvodka at the gym, right.
Oh, you know in the evening I'mlike, oh, I'm done with work,
man, it's all good, take theedge off and that's that.
Those habits, those habits I'mdisciplined with shit and I'm
also disciplined when it's badI'm going to stay structured
with.
So I'm very careful about the,the daily things I do, cause
I'll structure in.
If it's going to be bad, it'sgoing to be good.

(11:43):
Well, you just describedinsanity.
Yeah, insanity, doing the samething again and again and
expecting a different result.
Do you have an addictivepersonality?
Yeah, I'd say I have a habitualpersonality, like I can shed
things quick, but if I, I gottabe very careful, because when I
find something that works or Ilike, I'll stick with it.
Breakfast training, whatever itcan be good or bad.

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But if I'm like, oh, this worksin my day, it's locked in, and
so I got to be real carefulabout what I lock in Nice.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, so when you left the Navy SEALs, did you
feel, like you'd said earlier,the pull, the rug pulled from
underneath you?

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, and it was because, man, I didn't want to
get out, wasn't okay, it washard because, dude, I wanted to
stay in a career I want us goingto try to go to that next level
.
And I gave it away, right, Ifucked up and so I was getting
out earlier than I really wantedand I had to go back to jail,
serve a little time not a longtime, but, like you know, a few
weeks to clear up some shit.

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And then I was signed on my DDtwo, 14 cleared, and that's when
I was like, what's my identity?
Dude?
I was, I was a seal.
That's how I, I, I, my wholeidentity was wrapped around.
It's all I ever wanted to dowas my dream.
Now, what was I?
So that I didn't even, I didn'teven process that.

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I shelved it and was just like,well, I'm just going to go work
and then go a thousand miles anhour in this direction and you
can only bend reality so longbefore it came crashing down.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Damn.
So what emotions were youfeeling when you got kicked out
of the Navy?
Shame, guilt, remorse.
What were you?

Speaker 2 (13:18):
feeling man, all those, all those Hector, that's
the.
The worst was like theself-loathing.
I had this like self-loathingat the beginning because I was
dude.
I had federal marshals here ina van trying to extradite me
about out of state.
It was.
It was complicated.
I was getting sued by a guy fora half a million dollars.
I had three lawyers in twoStates hemorrhaging cash.

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I had a military attorney,three civil attorneys.
It was mayhem and a violation ofprobation.
They're calling me that.
My phone's blowing up, takingdrug tests.
I'm still doing cocaine,selling cocaine at this time to
pay for lawyer.
It was insanity in every chaos,in every direction.
And so what I was feeling wasso stressed man, I don't wish

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that level.
I don't even know how I wasfeeling was so stressed man.
I don't wish that level.
I don't even know how I wasstanding, looking back.
I don't know how I wasoperating on a day-to-day basis,
but I was like going to the gymtrying to like walk through
quicksand is the only way Icould describe it, but I was
definitely stressed the fuck out.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Damn dude.
I would fucking feel stressedjust hearing that man.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
That was a lot dude yeah, it was a lot, man.
And when, when that got allcleared up, dude, it was weird
because I realized, oh my god,dude, wow, this feels great.
I I hadn't realized that I hadyears of like all these cases
and stress and things on me.
I mean, I was in iraq facing onbail and facing a jury trial

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for facing six years in prison.
When I got back, oh bro, Inever heard of that Dude.
I was like the only person whoever happened to do.
The court approved me to leavethe country and the team to
leave and go to Iraq on bail.
I was on a felony bail trial.
It was like all right, and Iwas on a helicopter from Baghdad
flying up to like South ofMizzou, going thank God, or like
getting shot at and I'm going.

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Oh man, I was so close.
I was like at least I don't gotto deal with that shit.
Man, it was seriously it feltlike a gift just being on that
bird.
But that was a time that I was.
I volunteered to stay overthere, man.
I was thought about joining theKurdish Peshmerga.
Dude, I was like I'll just stayover here and go AWOL.
I thought about it, bro,because I was that not wanting

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to come home and deal with thereality of what I was facing.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
So it makes sense now , how?
Because I was like how did thisdude get involved with the
French Foreign Legion?
Like it seems to me so far,like, far out, like a choice,
and it makes sense now, dude,you know it got worse.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
And so, even through that and I cleared it up, and
then I was like achieving somemeasures of success but stacking
those bad habits, hector.
And then it all came crashingdown.
I did a line of fentanyl,smashed my head on the table,
cut my face open.
It was like the venture cat Iused to work in this, this high
rise, right here, so it feelslike full circle victory lap.
Dude.
Coming back here, it was likemy whole world had just when you
know something's done, it'sdone.
It was like that moment and,man, I left.

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I went to the big Island ofHawaii and was just trying to
like, okay, I'm going to letsome things cool down and then
we'll figure it out, and waskind of waiting for that next
opportunity call that alwayscame.
No, no, call came.
Then I ran out of money andnext thing I know I'm homeless.
In my truck I have a sawed offshotgun next to me and I'm going
all right.
Well, I was like well, this ishow it happens.
I remember turning the key offon my truck and I just

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everything went quiet.
I remember this moment.
It was like dead quiet in thejungle, like deep jungle man.
I was parked way out there kindof near where the volcano was
erupting, and I just rememberbeing like, oh, this is how it
sneaks up.
I had no money, no gas, noanything.
I go, oh, I'm tired, bro.
I was like I just, I don't, I'mjust, I don't know how to climb

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out of this one.
I don't want to.
That was a.
I spent that for a few dayspondering that, and that's when
I I started to have that.
I had that moment of thatauthentic voice of God speaking
to me and being like sack thefuck up, dude.
Like you have a sister, a mom.
Like, dude, you're not thinkabout, think about somebody else
, but yourself for one second.
Like, play the dialogue.

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And this is for anybody man, ifyou're in a bad state.
And this was very helpful forme when I had this kind of
realization, or when thisrealization was showed to me.
It was dude, play your innerdialogue to yourself out loud.
What if you recorded it andplayed it back to you?
What would it sound like?
And if I did that, it was me,me, me, yeah, I, I, I, why me?
I'm sad, I it was, it was allabout me.

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And so that's when I go, youknow what, fuck it, I'm going to
join the french foreign legion.
I got one more push to like see, to just sack up, and I was
like if, if they send me, I waslike if I die over there, I die,
but at least I'm gonna do itwith my boots on sweet.
I was like I'm not gonna do itin here by my own hand, like a
you know, you know bitch madethat and that and then I just
organized my affairs, man, andpretty much you know about two

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weeks later I was in France.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Let me back up real quick.
So you strike me as a good guy,bro, a guy with a good heart.
Now you talked about doing coke, selling coke, steroids.
What do you know?
Look in hindsight, where wasthat coming from, that behavior?

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Dude, I think I just was used to living in chaos or I
had this criminal mind orsomething.
And I'm like, well, what's thebest way to make money, what's
the fastest way to do this?
And I was looking for thesequick fixes for a lot of ways
and what's the quick way to dothis?
And a lot of it, if I reallyget down to it, is ego based.
It's like, oh, I want to be theman.

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Oh, okay, if I'm not going tobe a SEAL, then I'm not gonna be
a seal, that I'm gonna be thebest fucking coke dealer in town
, like it's like status, it wasall status and that was, uh,
maybe what I tried for seals.
I had to, like, make these biggoals.
French horn and that's what Iended up finding, which we'll
kind of probably get into later,is when I was in that French
horn Legion barracks from a fewyears in, going, oh shit,
there's nothing else, like,where do I go?

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And that's when I had to startlooking internal and and realize
that man, there's no externalvalidation.
That's going to make me feelgood.
That's not it, that's, that'sthe fault.
First of all, can you take itaway from you?
I don't care if it's a job dude, even, even people's family or
whatever dude.
The truth is anything exteriorof you.
If you're not good withyourself, you're not good for

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anybody else.
So in in self and work out, andthen you're, then it's solid
I'm glad you said that, man.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
That's something that I had to identify too, man, the
title sergeant, lieutenant,yeah, cert commander.
You know it's like fuck dude.
Until you find inner peace andinner happiness, you're gonna be
fucking miserable chasingsomething that doesn't exist man
, and I'm sure you, I'm sure yousaw it, man, being a prison
guard and stuff.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
It's like the rank, you get one more up, you get a
little bit more, get a bit moreclout in the military.
It's like, oh, I get a littlebit more ass behind the more
brass, you know, and it's alittle bit more authority, and
it's it's just status man.
I think men in general werepushed, were status pushed, and
that's a dang.
It's endless, it's never goingto end.

(20:08):
And we see a lot of people allover who aren't happy because
they've never addressed theactual foundational principle of
them, their daily, theirmindset, their whatever.
They're not into, you know,reading Stoic philosophy or
scripture.
They're not taking any time toreflect on self.
They're completely lookingexternal to fix an internal
problem.

(20:28):
Facts, dude, I'm glad you'resaying all this stuff.
It's a never-ending abyss.
It's just like a drug man.
It's a drug Damn.
No, you're right.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
No, what is the process to join the French
Foreign Legion?
Is it an online application?
Is it an online application?
Is it a paper application?
Do you get on a toll-free line?

Speaker 2 (20:48):
What do you do, man?
Man, this is such a weird thingbecause it's like a.
It doesn't sound real, butthere's no application, there's
nowhere to call.
There's one way to do it andit's.
There's two places Oban andParis, the headquarter regiment,
or out in Paris where you justgo knock on the door.
Man, you knock on this irondoor with a bag, a dude will
open it.

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I had a Mexican dude with agreen beret.
He was from Mexico, foreignlegionnaire with a FAMAS, and he
just told me to take off myfucking hat and hand me his,
give him my passport, man, and Ididn't see that passport again
for two and a half years.
And from that point on, man, Ijust went into the belt, the
gallows of this like medievalstructure.
If, if anybody like they couldgoogle it or you could maybe

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show a picture.
It's a just a big brick, lookslike a medieval castle with
ironwood gates since la legionand trangere over the top,
foreign legion.
And you just go bang on thedoor like wizard of oz or some
shit.
Man, dude, did you go to the onein paris?
Yeah, there's one on theoutskirts of paris, it's called
fort nojent, but is that the oneyou went to the one I went to
because I thought it was alittle bit more poetic.
But and also, man, it was likedown in the headquarter regiment

(21:54):
.
I heard it was a little morehectic.
There's just a lot more goingon, and I heard it's a little
bit more like chill of a processfor the pre-selection.
Now these are pre-selectioncenters, so you're still in
civilian clothes for like thefirst couple weeks.
They're not like throwing youright into a military, they're
not yelling at you yet before wejump right into that whole
thing, how many selection stagesare there?

(22:15):
so you start, there's apre-selection, okay, then you go
into selection and all most ofthat is a little bit of physical
, but it's mostly psychologicalinterviews, medical screenings,
teeth and IQ tests, so that'susually what they do.
And the but the interviews andthe Interpol background checks
and all that are pretty hardcoretoo, because they don't want

(22:36):
sex offenders or anybody who'sgot serious issues with with
like arms trafficking or drugstrafficking.
Those are pretty much the onlythings that will really clip you
up.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
What kind of individuals are they looking for
?
Gung ho individuals?
Or do they want some fuckingthinkers too?

Speaker 2 (22:51):
That's a good question.
I they.
The foreign Legion is a veryinteresting institution because,
first of all, it's ancient manAnybody that know.
It's a 200 year old institutionthat was started by an old king
to get foreigners out of thebars and out of his streets back
onto the battlefield with thecarrot of French citizenship.
And it's modeled after the oldRoman legions.
So you serve your time, ok, andthen we'll, and so that was the

(23:15):
premise.
So they have a lot of toughindividuals from different
countries, some with militaryexperience, some with not, and
also it's a one-stop shop forFrance.
So, to answer your questionspecifically, they need them all
.
They need thinkers.
They also need guys who areabout to charge the machine gun
nest.
Right, they got guys crawlingout of holes in Russia.
You know just monsters.

(23:35):
And then you got dudes fromIndia with like glasses.
You know that they need to pushthe paper because they have
their own cavalry parachute.
India with like glasses youknow that they need to push the
paper because they have theirown cavalry parachute regiment.
They have their own infantryengineering regiments, mountain
regiments, like where I was atthey have.
It's a one stop shop.
They don't outsource anythingkind of like the Marine Corps in
that way they have their ownmedical admin, cooks, everything
, 7000 dudes and they're spreadall kind of around the world.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
I had no idea.
Dude, I had no freaking idea.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
It's a one-stop shop for France and they like it
because and they fought in everywar, from Algeria in the 1800s
to Afghanistan, every single warfor France.
And there's no politicalpressure of French citizens
coming back in body bags,they're just foreigners, oh shit
.
So there's no.
Okay, it's not a French cast,not a French flag raped over the
casket Right.

(24:22):
You also don't swear allegianceto France, you swear allegiance
to the Legion.
It's very unique.
It's like it's a branch of themilitary, so it's formalized,
but it's kind of like the MarineCorps in the sense of the
strict military bearing natureof it.
But they will take anybody aslong as you fit the parameters
of the physical side and thenyou're not a complete idiot.

(24:42):
They don't want you thinkingtoo much.
It's not that type of place,it's not like thinking shooter
place.
They want you to shut the fuckup.
More often than not and theysay that a lot.
They're like don't askquestions, shut up and just go.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Dude, that's very interesting, bro.
Now you gave me a little briefhistory.
Is history lessons part of thetraining?

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Oh, yeah, the tradition in the Legion is
massively pushed.
It's one of probably the mostimportant things you got to
remember.
First of all, you're not goingback home for a couple of years.
They don't give you yourpassport, so I didn't get to
leave the country for like thefirst two, two and a half years.
That's part of the system, andthey give you a fake name.
So they gave me, they give you afake name, fake French past

(25:26):
identity, not French identity,but a European identity with
social security number.
So mine was Trent Clayson, andso they give you the same
initials and they just move yourbirth date around and your
birth city and that's you, man,and that's how everybody calls
you.
Nobody knows your real name,nothing.
And you could keep that nameforever.

(25:46):
You could get Frenchcitizenship and just live on
that name for the rest of yourlife if you wanted.
It's very, very bizarre.
Or you do what I did and aftera few years you put in some
paperwork called regularization,situation, military, and
they'll route some additionalpaperwork, do some additional
backgrounds and they'll send youyour passport and they'll give
you all your name back.
They'll change your name, tapesand all that.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Damn dude, Is it like the United States military
where you're contracted, lockedin, you can't leave or you'll be
AWOL?

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah, yeah, so it's pretty much like that.
So five years, seven years Toget naturalized.
It's about seven years, butfive years is kind of the
minimum contract to how they go,how it goes in and you were
ready and available to sign upfor that man.
I had nowhere else to go.
So that was the situation,because the actual interviews

(26:31):
for me were really hardcorebecause I came with my dd214
okay, so I wanted him to knowwho I was.
But I and I wasn't really lyingabout my past, which was nice,
because the foreign legion mandude, they got guys showing up
with fucking face tattoos, headsblasted they don't care about
tattoo regs and and yourbackground can be checkered.
That's designed.
There's no boy Scouts there.
So it's kind of refreshing inthat sense.

(26:53):
It's like you go to maps andyou're like, yeah, they're like
okay later.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yeah, you're out.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
They're like they want you to be more honest
because they want the known evil.
They want to make sure if youare who you say you are, okay,
we can deal with that.
They don't want like the guythat's doing weird shit sketchy,
shit, sketchy shit.
Yeah, so those guys that do theinterviews, man, are like
masters at body language.
They speak like five languages.
They're pretty high rankingenlisted guys, super experienced

(27:19):
, from all over the world, andthey read you, man, they're
called Gestapo, they call themthe Gestapo interviews, and mine
was like eight hours.
They were like look, man, whatthe fuck are you doing here?
Why is the Navy seal here?
Right, you were a specialoperation, because the foreign
legion is not special operations.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Is it a panel of numerous?

Speaker 2 (27:34):
individuals or one on one, so some one-on-one but
some panel, because they're likedude, you're going back to
infantry.
This is an infantry unit, right, highly trained infantry.
You're going to be fuckingshark shit on the bottom of the
ocean.
Are you ready for that?
And I was like, look man, Iruined my fucking life and I
need a second chance, right.
And they're like all right,that makes sense.
Like it's not like that far out, it checks out of the sanity

(28:03):
check.
So that was, I got accepted andI got picked.
It's about one out of 15 guysthat come to the door that
actually will be given that likeopportunity.
And then you go to bootcamp Wow, so that's the process.
That whole process is aboutfive weeks.
Months can be a little bitlonger.
Are you staying in barracks?
Yeah, so at the beginning we'relike in a.
You're in a barracks but you'rein civilian clothes.
So it's what you brought.
You're up, but just you're on amilitary timeline.

(28:25):
Now, now you're shaving.
Now they're, you know, kind ofwhistling you around, but you're
in civilian clothes.
Then, when you get to thisselection phase where you're
down in the headquarter regimentnow, now, like now you're
running around you got a littlelike guard belt, like that lame
shit, yeah.
But now they're kind of, butyou're sitting at tables burning

(28:46):
time for the most part and thensleeping in barracks rooms,
sleeping in bunks, barracksrooms where you're up making
your bed and doing all that shit.
So then once you're selected,then you're in a uniform and now
you're getting kind ofindoctrinated into the process.

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Speaker 2 (29:26):
While there's other individuals from other countries
there also, and everybody's inthe same room.
Man, it's a trip becausethere's no americans.
Bro, you have a coupleamericans, triple in, triple
trickle, in most of thecountries.
The biggest percentage isbrazilians, colombians, south
africans.
You have a ton of ukrainians,nepalese, some m Mongolians and
then you got all the other.
You know bunch of Africans,nations, thai and some scattered

(29:48):
Western cultures, australia,but that's very few, maybe a
couple from Japan or somethinglike that.
Some.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Chinese During that timeframe had the war in Ukraine
already kicked off.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
So this was in 2019 where I'm talking about this,
but I was.
I was in the Legion when thatkicked off.
So that was interesting because10% of the Ukrainians so they
were leaving to go fight temple,you know a bunch left to go
fight.
Some, I know, are still overthere fighting some Bella Bella
guys from Belarus.
So, very interesting, thedynamic is we also had guys from

(30:16):
Russia.
So sitting, you know, very,very weird to be in that dynamic
, but, man, you're sitting in aroom and hearing like 15
languages being spoken.
It's very, very odd.
I can't think of another placein the world maybe the olympics
or something where you might beable to hear something like that
.
You're right, but it opened upmy scope, man.
It really did open up my scopeof the world and how people grew
up.
And there's some toughmotherfuckers out there, man

(30:38):
right, with some experience, anda lot of them come to the
Legion because of three reasons,kind of like, go back on your
question.
Like who?
Who are these fucking guys thatjoin?
There's like the romantic guythat's like oh, my girlfriend
broke up with me and I'm goingto go in the Legion and be, you
know, fight war.
And I had one guy from likeTunisia or something, and he was
sitting this was in thepre-selection.
He goes, he goes, he goes.

(31:03):
You know, like love and warthey are like this, they're one
in the same.
And I and I looked at the dude,I was like this dude doesn't
stand a fucking chance and hegot, you know, getting smoked
out.
Yeah, I was like, yeah, so youhave those types.
And then you have the pragmaticguy that's like I want the
citizenship and the moneybecause they get paid way more
than their home countries,sometimes triple right, so
they're making it rain when theygo back to brazil, they're,

(31:24):
they're crushing it as foreignlegionnaires.
And then you have the machineof war, the guy that like wants
to get after it.
Right, you have some of those.
I'm probably like a mix of likethe last two, right, I'm like,
oh, it kind of I was there forkind of a pragmatic reason and
also, you know, I kind of wantto.
If they, we can mix it up, butwe'll do it, but yeah, that's
that's the three styles of dudeoh, that's cool, man.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Thank you for um breaking that down, dude.
Was the leadership of thefrench foreign legion pumping
like pumping guys up about thewar in ukraine?
Like hey, you guys are going tobe partaking in this, or they
kind of you know what's?

Speaker 2 (31:53):
weird about the foreign legion is there's like
very little dissemination ofinformation really.
It's very top down and it nevergets down.
No way, dude, dude, I would beon ops and shit.
I had no idea where I wasfucking going.
No way, dead serious, no idea.
The target, nothing, no, noidea.
They're just like hey man,here's the gun, we're gonna be

(32:14):
out here, we're coming back thistime and so, and a lot of it is
, I think, the culture, causeyou have French officers.
Most of them are officers fromFrance who went to their academy
, so they're like academy Frenchguys and they're like these
guys don't fucking understandthe French anyway, cause
everything's in French.
Man, so like, and none of usknow French, you know, so you do
learn French slowly but surely,but it's really rudimentary

(32:36):
French.
So there's some of that.
And also just it's the cultureof you know this is a unit where
you just do what you fuckingare told.
So is it a whole lot of?

Speaker 1 (32:44):
pointing Like, hey, you get the fuck over there.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
There's a lot of pointing, and there's a lot of
looking at the dudes who knowFrench, you know it's like
what's this guy do?
All right, so, but they'll showmaps and they'll show, you know,
inserts or infills and thingslike that.
So you have a kind ofunderstanding.
But like the actual overarchingstrategic approach you're like
not really tracking on reallywhat that is for the most part,

(33:07):
but it was.
It's a cool institution becauseit's tough man right.
They're probably the leastfunded out of the French
military, you're the least fed,and so you're.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
it's just grimy man, it sounds tough, dude.
It sounds tough from anoutsider, it sounds fucking
horrible from an outsider right.
Is it like fucking, likestraight, like bashing you like
the marine corps.
You know they sound tough.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
The boot camp is this straight smoke sessions, dude,
it's a lot of smoke sessions andit's a lot of fuck, fuck games,
is it?
Oh, yeah, it's a lot, dude.
They'll be like a lot of hazingand it's like, oh, put your
fucking dress uniform on, thengo get in the fucking shower,
you know, and you better beready by tomorrow.
That type of shit.
Did you learn any cool hazingtricks while you were there?
I hate hazing, man, dude.

(33:52):
They make me drink these casksthat are packed with like all
who the fuck knows, man, andlike it's crawling in the snow
because we were out way up inthe mountains it freezing your
balls off that.
I'll give you an example.
I was marching, not good, and Istick out, bro, and the colonel
sees me and he goes and he callsthe company and he's like the

(34:14):
american he marched, he marcheslike shit.
They're like, fucking, handleit.
So that was a huge deal.
Because a colonel called andthey're like, hey, american,
what the fuck did you do?
So they made me go outside andI had to stack a pyramid with
rocks.
For three days there's no rocks.
So they're like, hey, thereneeds to be a pyramid as tall as
you.
You know, we don't care.

(34:36):
And it's fucking blizzard, snow, snow, storm, fucking blizzard.
Snow, snowstorm, rain, snow indecember way up in the mountains
.
And so I'm walking like 10minutes to go, put three rocks
in my backpack 10 minutes back,stocking for like 19 hours a day
for like three days straight,just because I was marching back
I love it.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
You know it's like they can't break me.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
I'm thinking I like it, bro the wind's hitting my
face, I'm like like they can'tbreak me.
I like it, dude.
Yeah, I was like fuck it, dude.
But there's a lot of that, alot of like, hey, navy seal,
come clean this fucking toilet.
You know there's a lot of thatstuff.
But, like anywhere else man, youput on a little rank, right,
you get a little experience andyou don't budge and and real,
recognize real at some point,like they know the deal, dude,

(35:18):
and they, I pull out a, an hk,dude, and I'll light the range
up.
Right, you can't.
All that experience doesn't goaway.
So my weapons manipulation, myunderstanding of tactics is good
, and so that all kind of cameto light over time and they're
like all right, this dude, yeah,you're an asset bro, yeah.
And they're like hey, dude, anddeployments right, you facetime
.
I deployed the jungle in southamerica with them.

(35:40):
I was doing interdiction ofillegal gold mining, dude, deep
jungle operations, dude, forlike months.
And then, uh, when we went toestonia, we also did some
internal work in france for likeanti-terrorism domestic
missions.
So you get facetime with people,you know how it is you deploy
and then dude, now there's newguys coming in and now you're
the older guy, perfect you know.
So it's like uh, I wasn't muchof a hazer.

(36:01):
Just because I was dude, I gotshit to do, like I want to lift
and stuff.
But you know you tune dudes upif you know if they're
disrespectful and shit.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
So in 20.
Let's back up to this thehazing in 2024.
Man, we can both agree thatamerica has gotten soft, the
world has gotten soft, yeah,right.
Um, what is your take on?
And I hate to use the wordhazing?
People think hazing is a badthing.
Yeah, right, but do you agree?
That my extra military doesn'tit build character, though?

(36:29):
Wouldn't you agree that some ofit is a necessary evil?

Speaker 2 (36:31):
yeah, I think that there's also.
There's unit cohesion rightthere and there's bonding.
So there are some things I didin the seal teams, man, that
would be considered hazing man,they were fun, like looking back
, man, they were, they're suckedman, you're kind of bummed out,
but man, it's like it's kind ofa cool memory and we did some
stuff.
Nothing was super dangerous,but I do think, yeah, people
drinking too much and likehazing can go another where it

(36:55):
breaks unit cohesion.
So I'm like, if it also teachesa lesson, it's good Facts.
So people, getting tuned up man,for being disrespectful or
dangerous is fucking necessary,correct, right, it's 100%
necessary.
And guess what, if you don'tfuck up and you're not dangerous
, you're not getting tuned up.
Right, I'm going to clip that,bro.
It's fucking perfect, it'sfacts.

(37:17):
And so I didn't have a problemin the SEAL teams regarding that
because, dude, I was locked on,I took pride in being prepared
and being on time, knowing whatthe fuck I was doing, so I never
had any issues with it.
And so guys that weren't thatway or just didn't have the
aptitude or were just notputting in the extra work, man,
you bring on the heat.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
A lot of similarities between the military and prison
.
Bro, If you fuck up, you'regoing to get fucked up.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Dude, I could see that, I mean I can imagine over
the years.
You're like seeing guys come inprocess.
You're like this is going to befine and this is going to have
a lot of issues, and I'm sureyou're like this dude
understands the flow and thisdude's going to go.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Literally dude, literally, dude, literally, bro.
So you did multiple operationswith the French War Legion, yeah
so we did two big deployments.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
The first one was down in South America and the
other one was with NATO on theRussian border.
When the Ukraine war kicked off.
Now we weren't in Ukraine butwe were with the Enhanced
Forward Presence Battle Group,they called it, which there was
three stage.
There's still are one inestonia, one in lithuania and
one in poland, maybe one ingermany, I think too.
But it was with the uk, thedanish, the french and the

(38:33):
estonians.
So we were kind of the frenchforeign legion contingent tank
movements, a lot of just flexing.
So so that was like moreexercise, building relationships
with countries Now down inSouth America.
That was a wild west down there,man, because I didn't know.
France has territory in SouthAmerica.
That was news to me, figuringthat on the way over there,

(38:54):
right, friends for leisure,they're like you're going to
South America, I'm like Googlingshit on the way over there.
But it's a country right nextto Suriname, north of Brazil,
west East of Venezuela, jungle,dense, amazon jungle.
So it's an old penal colony ofFrance.
And, dude, there's a movie outwith, like Dustin Hoffman, it's

(39:15):
an old movie that they do themovie on that.
I forget what it's called, butit's bad-ass.
They do it on french, guillenguillen, francais, and the
french call it linferver, whichmeans green hell, and it is
exactly that it deep jungleoperations.
And I didn't realize how muchgold's down there, man it the.
There's legal gold mining thatfrance has their piggies in,

(39:37):
right, they're getting paidtaxes and stuff, and then
there's a lot of illegal goldmining and that is what they
send the french foreign legiondown there to patrol and break
up is that when they usechildren like the movie blood
dining or all that stuff, man,we would patrol 14 days in some
days and hit gold mines everyday, new ones every fucking day,
break up all their shit.

(39:58):
They have structures, the wholetowns, man, for the most part,
and they would have all the menwould run and there'd be like
kids and wives and like grandmasout there.
You're like man, what are wedoing?
They have weapons, dude.
Some of them have weapons.
They're running.
We weren't taking rounds.
Some of the legal guys were onegot shot in the neck and some
other things were happeningbecause, right, they're robbing
them, right.

(40:19):
So there's like bandits outthere that are robbing these
guys that are dude.
They're pulling out like 750grand a week in gold and some of
these spots, legal spots, andlike six guys running an
operation, right, and they'regetting on a dirt bike, a dude's
in the back with like a the gundude.
It's like like the gauntlet,yeah it's fucking wild.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
Did you actually see any gold?
Oh dude, were they like nuggets?

Speaker 2 (40:41):
were they like big, it's raw, but there's so much
gold in this one place it waslike an island.
There's this spot interiorthat's a bunch of small little
islands in french guienne, andso we took these boats out to
this one island.
Would run all guys off, but Imean they had the full on like
gold, like wagons going into thelike built like that.

(41:02):
We brought a bunch of demo,blew it all up.
But on the beaches of theseplaces, man, you'd put your hand
out, dude, all gold flakes,like in your hands, just laying
on the ground.
Obviously, you know so smallflakes, it's not something
you're like putting your pocket,but you can see it.
You guys would blow up the gold.
We'd blow up the whole gold,mine blow up everything and

(41:27):
we're like, you know you gottaprocess the gold and stuff, but
we just blow it up and theyleave.
I'm sure french units wouldcome in and do something or,
yeah, you know, whatever miningorganizations they have.
But, dude, there's so much ofit that I mean I've started to
get hit up.
After I I came back with likeguys with companies going, hey,
what's going on down there?
And now they also found oil offthe coast of the thing.
So billions of dollars from theUnited States are getting

(41:49):
funneled down there to buildinfrastructure.
It's it's hugely popping rightnow, but it's bringing a lot of
problems too, man, because dudethe what it looks like coming up
to these places and you canlook at satellite imagery of
these places.
You're like, hey, illegal goldmines, it's crazy what they do.
They dig these massive pits andthey dump mercury in it and

(42:11):
that's how they kind of pull theraw material out and sift it.
But dude, these things likeglow in the dark, bro, and they
would have me jump in and pullthese fucking engines out
Mercury.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
That's the shit that they put in the.
Oh, bro, I like glow in thedark now bro, it ain't good for
they.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
Hey, navy seal, go, you can swim.
They're like go get the deadserious.
So I was swimming in this shit,pulling these diesel engines
out.
We'd break them up, blow themup, run the people off, burn the
shit down, man, so damn, notjust structures and then go on
to the next one and we justsleep in, sleep in the jungle
and drink water out of the waterpurification tablets, and just

(42:46):
that's how we were getting downwith all the elements?

Speaker 1 (42:49):
you've been in man, with the beaches of san diego as
a seal, the south america.
How are you with elements andthe different changes in the
climates?
Which one do you despise themost?
The cold cold man yeah, dude.
I mean, we're from fuckingsouthern cali, bro.
I was stationed in germany, allis fucking miserable.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Yeah, dude, the cold bro is like I the unescapable,
because there's a differencebetween cold and military cold,
and people who any military guywatching this will be like yep,
because in military colds it'sunescapable it's not like when
you're cold in the civilianworld and you're like, yeah, I'm
a little cold, oh, I'm justgoing to go inside or go in the
car.
It's like, nah, bro, you'restaying out here and it's

(43:27):
fucking going to be all day orall night, or weeks, weeks,
months or whatever.
You're staying out here and notbeing able to escape it.
So there was a lot of that inin the farm.

(43:47):
They call it the farm.
That's the first initial bootcamp phase, where they just kick
you in the dick and it's in thefrench pyrenees.
So, dude, it was middle ofwinter.
Dude, no way and no do.
We had kids from like tahiti,and shit, bro, that never, ever
saw snow and they were fuckingfreezing.
Got kids from like chad, dude,they're like.
I saw this kid from chad, bro,he had never been like in any
temperature, like you know,under super hot, and he's like,
he's like sitting there likethis, and he's like he didn't

(44:08):
have, he had, he never had, hedidn't put his thermal pants on
and so, like for like two days.
He's like, and I'm like, bro,you good, he's like, and I saw
him.
I'm like, bro, you gotta putthose thermal pants on.
Dude, he's like, oh shit likeI'm like bro, he's paying the
man.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
Dude was tough though man.
You guys have any likehypothermia casualties or cold
weather casualties.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
We had some guys go down we had some guys go down
like uh, but they keep yourunning for the most part, you
know.
So you're not, you're not super, you know, can't, that doesn't
happen.
But, man, cold on a differentlevel, because also you're
sleeping in cots and they justthey're not giving you the gear

(44:46):
yet too, when I got in the intothe mountain regiment which I
don't know why I fucking chosethat fucking thing.
So I went to the glutton forpunishment.
They, they at least gave yougood gear.
So our gear was better.
But, dude, we were sleeping infucking igloos in the alps.
No way, dude, we were makingigloos for like underground, for
like 30, 40 dudes.
Are those effective?
Oh, dude, at least puts it atzero degrees celsius.
So it's like you know, yeah,manageable, and so we dig these

(45:07):
little coffins in.
And, dude, but it was cool, man, because you have guys from
like norway and shit who likeknow how to get down in the cold
, and so I'd have, you know, youhave watch, or you got to stay
up, you know, and it's security,and I'd go down in the igloo,
like be seeing, like ifeveryone's good, and like I just
see, like I'd come into thisguy's like little like room and
he'd be sitting there like this,like a kid from norway.

(45:29):
He's got like hot tea and likejust chilling chilling bro and
I'm like what's up, dude?
he goes want some tea.
You know, like fucking godbless, these dudes like that
know how to get down in the snow.
But I but I say the snow isprobably the worst for me
because you can't escape it ifit's cold, but I like the jungle
the best.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
Explain to me the jungle, bro, because I've never
been to Amazon or anything likethat.
What do you see, dude?
Like big-ass spiders fuckingsnakes.
What do you see, bro?
It's like.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
Avatar.
What do you see, dude?
It's like Hunger Games downthere, dude, is it?
It's pretty wild, because whatit sounds like too, I had some
audio too after I could play itfor you.
It's like all night.
What is that?
It's howler monkeys mixed withother things, and they call it I

(46:15):
think that's what they call itgreen hell.
But you just hear it in theabyss.
And, dude, I got attacked bythese things, things they're
called fire flies, but theyain't like our fireflies here,
they're like real fireflies.
And we came across a nest ofthem, dude, and I swear it was
like that scene from hungergames where those fucking bees
come out.
It was like are they similar tobees, bro?
They are, they are bees, butthey're like flies.

(46:37):
They're some kind of weirdalien and a worthy meanest
fucking things there was.
You couldn't run far enough.
They're coming at, dude.
Once they picked up on you, meand this kid from Madagascar,
dude, to paid the man on thesethings and got bit by a lot of
stuff.
There's a lot of ticks too, soyou'd have to really be careful
about the ticks.
Um, piranhas, crocodiles thatcame in, crocodiles and shit,

(47:01):
because we were bathing in theriver too, man, we didn't have
showers and stuff, so we werewashing our clothes in the river
and stuff and they have came incrocodiles really damn.
You could eat those things,though, man.
We had guys that were killingthe crocodiles and eating them.
How did that taste?
It tastes like.
It tastes like kind of like achicken, kind of like a grimier

(47:21):
chicken.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
How much of that impacted the mission.
You know the animals, theclimate, the environment.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
I would say the climate more than anything,
because you can't really patroltoo far from water, even though
it sounds like you're in therainforest.
So you'd have a lot of waterand you did, but when it rained,
man, we didn't waste it.
We'd put tarps up and like fillour bottles up and shit.
But but dude you, you pound,you're always wet, so you pound

(47:48):
it, it's you're.
You're not even pissing, youjust constantly drinking and
never pissing.
Yeah, just you cannot.
And if you get too far fromthat, I got pretty close.
I went Winchester on water andI was like not wanting to say
anything because I was still anew guy and and I look over, and
this guy from nepal is justlike bone dry, like totally
chill, those dudes are hard broand I'm like dude, are you not

(48:10):
sweating?
dude?
I'm like, he's like.
No, I'm good bro, can I havesome of your water dude?
I was dying dude and so I havea.
I've had a couple close callslike that, but I think the more
anything, it's the terrain thanthe animals.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
Damn dude.
So did you find the fulfillmentthat you were looking for while
you joined?

Speaker 2 (48:28):
I.
I would say what I really wentin for was I needed it some time
to just fucking get my headright.
I was like I knew I was wrong,I was still living wrong.
I was still immature.
I wanted to be get correct, butI didn't know how, and so I
knew I needed just a space tofigure that out.
So it provided me that.

(48:48):
So I didn't even really carewhat I did operationally.
I didn't go.
I didn't think I was going toget better experience in the
seals.
I knew I wasn't going to get goto like Iraq or something.
I was just like look, if I godo some cool shit, they give me
a gun cool.
But as long as I get some timeto like use it as a vehicle of
self-development, that will be.
And that's exactly what I got.
So that's awesome, dude.
Yeah, I was grateful for that.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
That's awesome, bro.
So, as it came to an end, as itwas winding down, um how many
years did you do so?

Speaker 2 (49:14):
four and a half.
Four and a half yeah, I endedup doing four and a half is
there a exit ceremony?

Speaker 1 (49:19):
do you get a form, a DD two, 14 type of?

Speaker 2 (49:22):
well, my exit ceremony was a little bit
different because, like, so I'msitting in this barracks room
and I'm done now, right, I'm.
So I'm like cruise control.
So I'm like moving trucks andstuff, like on my twilight tour
Cause I wasn't going to re upand um, so I'm like dude.
But I, I was like at this pointnow, where I was man feeling

(49:42):
good about myself, I was likeman, what am I going to do?
After I was like, well, youknow, I'm going to use I would
love to share some of my,because I had no social media or
anything.
I wasn't like doing any of thatstuff.
And so I was like man, dude, Iwant to share some of my story
and talk about where I've been.
And I dude, I was suicidal andnow I'm like very happy, I'm
happy in the foreign Legion,like having good days.
If I could be happy here, Ithink I could be happy anywhere,
right?
So I was like I want to sharesome of my story.

(50:03):
So I'm in my barracks room and Ijust put out a video and that
video popped hard.
I just told my story aboutstream of consciousness.
No, ed, it's just kind oftalking about drugs, you know,
being in this and that and thatwas fine, but until it got big
enough and then the legion, likencis, was like, hey, take all
this shit down.
Oh, are you serious?

(50:24):
Yeah, they came at me hard andI said but I was already getting
a lot of them, like, dude, yourveterans from your roar, your
for your whole push.
Like, hey, dude, I was about tokill myself, bro, like straight
gun in hand.
I saw your video, dude, and Ifucking thank you.
And I was like I was getting thechills because I was getting
hundreds of those hundreds CauseI'd put my email up there.
Like, dude, if you're having aproblem, hit me up.
Yeah, cause I w I've been there.

(50:45):
I promise you it gets better ifyou just put one foot in front
of the other.
And, dude, I was gettingflooded and so I really felt
like I was on.
Maybe it's, maybe it's notcorrect, but I was hearing
messages from God like hey, man,you got to stay the course here
, fuck what anybody says.
And so they're like take itdown.
I was like I'm not taking itdown, I'm not taking shit down.

(51:05):
Let me tell you I didn't say itlike that, but I was pretty
much denying order from thegeneral, because they were like
that fucking American and NavySEAL.
He put his thing up and theywere fine with it until it got
really big and of thousands ofviews.
But I was.
I got bad respect for theLegion.
I never, I've never, utteredone bad word.
I never would but they didn'tknow what I would say.
So I understand their side ofit.

(51:26):
I said, look, let's do this.
If this is an administrativebattle, let's do it.
So I got a lawyer.
I got a French lawyer.
I said, right, if we're goingto do this, let's do it.
So I tried to fight the case.
You know, and you know that youcan only fight an ancient
institution for so long.
And I was doing it for a coupleof months.
I wanted to stay and finish itout.
I was like dude, I just want toleave on good terms, you know.

(51:47):
And they said look, if youdon't take it down, we're going
to put you in jail for fourstraight months on, like food
discipline, until you take itdown, and then we're, or we're
just going to kick you out afterthe four months.
And I said, well, that soundslike a shit deal.
And I talked to my lawyer and hegoes dude, you're not even a
citizen here, man.
He goes dude, they'll totally,it's totally legally gray.

(52:10):
They can do whatever they want.
They'll lock you on the base,which is technically illegal,
but you're not a citizen.
So you're, they're like youshould probably just beat feet.
So I tried to.
We broke the contract, man.
And they're like all right, we,we said our goodbyes and I was
done, broke the contract.
What contract?
Yeah, there's no, there's nocontract anymore.
I was like, hey, man, I'mleaving.
And they're like all right, ifyou're going to leave, then

(52:31):
you're done here.
Right, you never took it down,no, I never took, you just
bounce and I left.
Yeah, the lawyer's like dude,you're no, you're done here,
like you can't do anything,they're not going to change and
if you go back to the regiment,they're going to put you in
fucking jail.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
That's good, though I don't see that as a loss, bro.
I mean, I see it as what it is,Dude.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
I wanted to leave things on good terms.
I didn't really try it.
I go.
Am I right?
Maybe not, I go, but I trulythink I am right on on my divine
path and the proof is it's likeyou only know if it's a good
call in retrospect and I go.
Man, now I'm engaged.
I got a baby on the way.
Six business has been massivelysuccessful and, dude, I've been

(53:12):
happening, helping people everysingle day.
My, my purpose, man, is showingpeople where I was and
recording my whole life of dude.
You can get yourself right bychanging your daily habits and
thought process, so you said youcame on scene in December.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
When did you leave the French Four Legion?

Speaker 2 (53:32):
So technically my contract broke in January,
january yeah, so technically.
But I was back in the UnitedStates December 17th but I had
done, like, all the legalpaperwork.
I had a doctor and they saidhere's the thing too.
They said, all right, you canleave, but you're going to have
to claim PTSD and then we'regoing to have to go through this
psychological process.
I said I'm not doing that.
I said I'm not going to go make.

(53:53):
Some said look man, I'm goingto do this on my terms and I'm
not going to like play this game, man, and lie about some shit
to try to get the paperwork.
I was like dude, I don't, I'mgood.
So that was the call I made andthat's the call, I'm all
standby.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
That's good, dude, that's badass.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
And you came back to California, yeah, and I came
which was weird, because we hadmet and started talking and I'm
like, well, I'm going to go backto my home.
My mom met and um startedtalking and I'm like, well, I'm
gonna go back to my home becausemy mom lives in poway.
I hadn't seen my mom in years,bro, you know, and I was like
just wanting to come back homeand she happened to live in
tabecula and so it was kind ofinteresting how things happen.
Yeah, so I was came right backhere, bro, direct here.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
So what a lot of people don't understand is that
you had already gotten your mindright, your daily habits, your
good, positive habits, and thenyou barely started filming
yourself, dude here's the thing,hector, and I think a lot of
people are doing this now.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
They're trying to be known without being worth
knowing, correct?

Speaker 1 (54:53):
so you got all these people who've never done shit
correct, trying to be known,trying to sell something that
they haven't even done yet.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
Yeah, you go, dude, how are you going to teach me
about, or anybody, about,hardship and overcoming, when
you've done neither yeah, orexperience none?
And so I say, dude, first getyourself correct, get yourself
on a good process, achieve somethings, have some social proof,
have some experience, man, andthen, when you know, you can

(55:22):
open your mouth and actuallyhave something to fucking say
and the world will show you ifit's worth listening to or not.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
Like the proof's in the pudding man, the market will
tell you yeah, dude, um, I andI've been in those dark places
that you've been, bro, like Iwouldn't say I was suicidal, but
I definitely did not want tolive.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Yeah, and I was doing everything in my power to get
everything, my power to getkilled, bro, yeah yeah, so yeah,
and that's uh, dude, that's apowerful place and I think a lot
of guys who have been there,dude, you know, bro, that is
such a terrible place to be.
It is fucking dark, it's dude,inescapable, all consuming.
And also, man, you can't I getthe chills.
Chills, man, because I Iremember it so thick that it's

(56:04):
like every day I just never wantto go back there.
And so I tell guys, dude, ifyou're in that, let's start
making some moves, start makinggetting some momentum, making
some shifts and getting a littlespace between that feeling and
that next step, man, and that,in that gap, is where you're
going to learn quite a bit, man,and see, see a little bit of
that light.
And it's not, it's no way tolive, man, because you can't

(56:26):
build anything, you can't builda relationship, you can't
sustain or let, you can't builda life, you can't build a
business in that dark place.
It's impossible.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
Are you good at identifying where people are at
in their stage of growth?

Speaker 2 (56:38):
I ask a lot of questions.
So most guys I work with, Iit's like a holistic approach,
like fitness is a piece, butit's like with you it's like
fitness isn't my life bro, it'sa piece.
Man, it's like a fraction ofwhat, but I think it's mandatory
for mental clarity.
So I ask a lot of questions.
Some guys need it's glaringthat the fitness is where we
need to start, right?
Some guys are pretty welldeveloped and they just are like
man, I'm still experiencingsome.

(56:58):
I'm just not happy man.
And so some it might be habits.
They might have some weird vicethat's pulling them Dude.
They might be porn addicted orthis or that and they can't
really see that that's what'sholding them back or something.
Right?
I'm not saying people need tobe a monk, that's not my whole
approach but I'm like man, starttaking active things to pull
things away and make yourself alittle better.

(57:19):
Just one small thing here, onesmall thing there.
The Japanese call it Kaizen,which I really like.
It's small, incrementaladjustments, right, most people
don't need massive coursecorrections.
Some do, but most need smalladjustments over time, just
consistently, man.
And then one day they're likeoh fuck, dude, I feel pretty
damn good and it happens likethat they don't even realize

(57:39):
what's changed until they lookback and everything's changed.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
Now would you say, this journey of self growth is a
marathon or a sprint.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
Oh dude it's a marathon baby, it's a marathon
Dude.
Flash in the pan.
Shit, it doesn't last.
First off.
And success it glows, itdoesn't flash.
True success is like I look atit like a nuclear reactor like
that.
That is how I view it.
Visualize success to me.
So I'm for me.
I'm like I look at it like anuclear reactor like that.
That is how I view it.
Visualize success to me.
So I'm for me.

(58:05):
I'm like chop the wood, make thepost, hit the workout.
Nothing flow state, nothingsporadic, nothing dramatic, just
.
And I've tried to work that inmy emotional state too.
It's like that, that walkingmeditation.
So I mean, I'm turnt up alittle bit, man, but you can be
high energy and still be fuckingcalm, right, you can send it
and still be, still be grounded,and so that's.

(58:27):
I always try to try to viewthings, man, and that you know a
lot of Greek philosophy andthings.
What it's, what is this thingteaching me?
A lot of all these stories isour life's one big story.
What's that guy who just cutyou off, flipping you in traffic
?
What's he there to teach you?
You don't need to get worked up, we go, man.
Thank God for that guy.
It taught me a little.
It taught me a little patience.

(58:48):
You know it's like man.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
I hope that guy.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
I hope that I pray for that guy, man, I hope the
guy who falls in love with theprocess is going to smoke check.
The guy who wants the results,the guy who's just in it for the
abs or whatever is going to get, is going to fall off if it

(59:13):
doesn't happen fast enough orhe's got a bad or he gets
injured right.
The guy who just does it, forhe just wants to feel better and
loves to, loves to just feelproud of himself.
Man, I just want to wake upearly and hit my workout or make
the correct moral decision,this and just because I want to
feel better, Just the process ofthat man is the aggregate

(59:34):
exponentially that stacked overtime.
Dude, because if you're justdoing it because you want the
dollar amount or this or that,dude, it's, it's, it's going to
be futile because, especiallywhen you get there, it's going
to feel hollow when, dude, I,it's like dude, I love this
whole base.
The whole base is what I'm into, not the top.
How important is mindset?
The mindset is the entire lens.

(59:55):
It's your entire lens on theworld.
That optimistic lens seesopportunity, right?
So if you're in thatclosed-minded, low vibrational
state, which is that mindsetright that low vibrational mind.
That low vibrational mind ispleasure seeking.
That low vibrational mind ispleasure driven, not purpose

(01:00:16):
driven.
It's also very negative.
So your mindset, man, thinkabout when you come home in like
a low vibrational state and inyour relationship or whatever,
or work and you're, you takethings personally that you
normally wouldn't.
When nothing's changed and youmight hear that same thing and
nothing's changed except yourinternal state, your mindset's

(01:00:36):
just different.
So you're now you'reinterpreting external
information differently.
So it's changing your life.
Changing mindset is the entiregame.
It's the entire game.
It's gonna make sure you go tothe gym.
It's gonna make sure you yousee the opportunity, you
communicate correctly, youactually operate at your highest
capacity.

(01:00:56):
Man, I can't think of a moreimportant thing than than
maintaining an accurate andcorrect mindset.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
You're right, no you're right and taking that
calculated risk when you need to, oh absolutely yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
And having the balls and the clarity to know when to
make that call, like that riskyou're like, okay, I see what's
going on, dude, if you're in aweak mindset, you're going to
fucking let that opportunitypass.
You're going to be scared,fear-driven man.
It's.
I'm sure you've seen a lot ofthis man, military and off, and
this people who are driven byfear, man are, are a slave of it

(01:01:27):
for their whole life andthey're going to miss so many
opportunities they're also goingto miss, they're going to miss
a high, high quality of life.
Right, if you're scared to try,scared, scared to launch the
podcast, scared to man, what ifit doesn't work?
What if it all for nothing?
Bro, that's fear, it's limitingbeliefs, it's all these things

(01:01:47):
that these terms that we say.
But it's man, it's everything,bro.

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
and for the record, and, for the record, I was
scared to launch this podcast,bro, because I mean I'm human,
I'm normal, so it's like fuckthe what ifs how am I going to
figure out?

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
man?
It's so complicated, man'mnormal, so it's like fuck the
what ifs, how am I going tofigure out man?
It's so complicated, man, somany things, and it's like, dude
, joe Rogan didn't know what hewas doing, right, right, at some
point.
These guys nobody knows.
And I think that a lot ofpeople are waiting for
permission, waiting forpermission or some thing to drag
them.

(01:02:21):
Dude, it's not coming.
Elaborate more on that, dude.
So a lot of people are like,okay, I'm going to wait till I'm
sure, or that there's some surething into that next step.
What, dude?
Nobody is coming sliding thatbad-ass life under the door.
It's not coming.
It's fucking, just accept it.

(01:02:43):
Once you accept it, then you'relike all right, well, let's,
let's make it happen.
Then let's go do it, let's tryit, let's figure it the fuck out
.
Right, it don't, nobody's gonnacome and grab you by the hand
and give you permission.
Hey, man, come start thispodcast actor, it's gonna work
out really well.
And uh, you're like, okay, andlet me.
No, dude, you gotta make theconnections, you gotta reach to
reach out, you got to, you gotto show up, you got to do this

(01:03:04):
and push it, man, and ask theright questions and be in the
correct mindset to link up Dudeit's facts, build the
connections in the network.
It's not happening for you.
You got to be valuable and yougot to.
You got to be willing to getyourself into circles that push
you and make you fucking scaredand feel inferior.
Man, that's the only way.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
What are some misconceptions that people have
of successful people Like, hey,maybe they were born into riches
, or what are somemisconceptions?

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
Well, you know a lot of people think that you know
wealth is.
A lot of wealth is inheritedpeople.
Most wealth in this country isactually self-made people, and
the term self-made is a littlenot not necessarily correct,
because nobody's self-made,right, everybody has help along
the way, um, but it's, it's acop-out.

(01:03:52):
It's a cop-out for people to topoint out why they don't have
it.
I'm like man, that guy mighthave just worked way fucking
harder, right, dude?
Do you think?
Think when your shit pops andpeople look at you and they go,
oh, you just handed it.
Yeah, hector, yeah Dude, nobodyknows you.
You went to fucking war andenlisted in the military and did
all these grind.

(01:04:12):
Nobody's going to know all thatbackstory and they're not going
to see it because they don'twant to see it.
They don't want to see itbecause then the haters online,
the people that throw shade,they want a reason that they
could sit in their mom'sbasement say, oh dude, I wasn't
given the opportunity.
It's like, bro, I was raised bya single mom dude, right, I'm
ready by a single mom, joinedthe military man, took loans out

(01:04:34):
to go to college and shit paida lot of debt back, like, made a
lot of mistakes along the wayyou know, but making it happen,
going to jail this and that,talking to the right people,
figuring it the fuck out, ridingmy bike around, you know and
I'm not saying my situation wasthe hardest, I'm just giving you
an example that that there's alot of pathways to the top of
the mountain and everybody'sgiven some type of benefit,

(01:04:58):
opportunities or talents thatthey can take advantage of, and
it's them capitalizing on it,man, and and maximizing your
life.
Play the hand you're dealt to,play the hand you're dealt to,
the go all in.
So you only got one hand, sowhy not go all the fuck in?

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
Right, there's only got one option how important is
network networking with theright people versus network,
versus hanging out with thegossipers, the Debbie Downers,
the toxic people?
How important is?

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
network.
You said two words there that Ilike that are very important to
differentiate.
There's hanging out and there'snetworking.
Hanging out is wasting time.
We don't have time to hang outanymore.
I'm sure, growing up in up andfor a season there might be a
time where you're hanging outwhen you're younger dude, but at
some point you go.
It's time to get serious.
It's time to get serious aboutour life.

(01:05:48):
Dude, hang it out is for thebirds.
So networking man, I only wantto be around people that I most
most of the people, if not allthe dude are in better shape
than me, more money than me,more more experience in a war
than me, more this or more Ilook up to.
I like to look up to the peopleI'm around.
Facts I'm like man.
I'm impressed by this guy'sbusiness aptitude or man I I

(01:06:10):
feel inferior in a lot of roomsthat I walk into.
Really, yeah, man, I feel Ifeel like man.
Dude, I gotta prove myself hereand I think that, man, if
you're walking into a roomthinking man, a fucking, I don't
gotta, don't got to do shithere, bro, you ain't valuable
dude, you got to be.
Any group I walk into, I want toprove myself to like man.
If I want to prove myselfworthy, man, we're on this.

(01:06:30):
I want to prove that I'm thatyou've.
You're glad to have me on thispodcast, man.
Like all these things, man, Imaybe that's from a rooted
childhood thing of me notfeeling worthy enough, or
something, who knows where itcomes from but I always feel
that I wake up with that everyday, dude.
I wake up and I feel fat andbroke and like you know, damn,
dude, dude, every day, man, andso I pop up out of bed and I go
I gotta, I'm gonna work thisfeeling away until I go back to

(01:06:54):
the next night, do it?

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
again.
No, I'm glad you said that, bro.
Reason being is no homo bro.
There's very few people that Ithink are more badass, right,
and you're one of them.
Dude, it's like fucking.
This is a badass dude, bro.
I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
Well, dude, I look up to you, man, dude, I know where
you've been, and so I got madprops because.
But, dude, I don't feel thatway at all, and I think that
that's part of my talent is Inever, ever, felt like that I
was the shit.
I always felt confident.
Man Always felt confident andyou should feel confident about,
like, but I earned myconfidence, right, I make sure

(01:07:25):
that I wake up, I get my clarity, good Times that I haven't been
confident when I've on drugs orhungover or this, or that I
feel like dog shit because Ihaven't earned it.
Man, I'm burning karmic debt, Ideserve to feel like shit.
And when I'm proud of what I'vedone in the day, man and I'm
like dude, that's.
I feel confident, my energy'sright, and so I've earned it
right.
Inner peace and clarity are thetwo of the most coveted states

(01:07:48):
on the planet.
They're not free, right?
People think they should wakeup and feel, dude, I haven't
done anything yet.
Dude, we got to earn it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
Earlier, we spoke on ego.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
How would you describe being selfish versus
being selfless man?
So, man, there's a piece ofbeing selfish I think is
important in that.
I think, just like those masksdropping up out of the out of
the airplane, you know, they sayput your mask on first, dude.
I think you have got to be goodfirst.
I see a lot of people I thinkwomen experience this a lot too
is they try to be everything toeveryone and then they end up

(01:08:23):
smoke checking themselves.
And men do it too.
Man, try to be providers andnever complain and like I'll
just be stuck, and then they'redying inside.
Correct, I go, bro, invest inyourself a little bit.
It's not selfish to go to thegym, dude, for 30, 45 minutes an
hour.
Get your shit straight, right.
Then you come home and you'remiserable piece of shit for the
whole day.
No, go get your correct, feelgood about yourself, eat, eat

(01:08:46):
some good food.
That's not being selfish, right?
And any, any person, or in arelationship you know the
opposite, the spouse if they'repushing back on that stuff.
That's something you got tocheck.
Hey, jim Rohn I don't know ifyou know Jim Rohn Jim Rohn's
like a real old time famous,like motivational guy.
He said something good, he goes.
I used to say, hey, take careof me and I'll take care of you,

(01:09:06):
he goes.
I learned the faulty of thatstatement.
He says how about now I saythis he goes, I'll take care of
me for you if you take care ofyou for me.
I like that dude.
Start with this with a littlebit, a little bit selfish, so
that they can be selfless,correctly, right, they can come,
they.
Now you can take care ofeverybody else, correct, man?
When you're not, hollow.

Speaker 1 (01:09:28):
So what is it that you're doing now, bro?
After you've been through thegates of hell, you got all these
fucking experiences, man, goodand bad.
What is it that you're doingnow?

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
dude, I do all online one-on-one coaching.
It's all I do so.
So I got elite programs, I gotmid-level.
The whole thing is I take thatholistic approach Right.
So I go ask a lot of questionsman, mind, body, soul, that's
what I focus on.
Man, let's get your I'll showyou a blueprint, what I do.
I built this blueprint overyears like fucking up and to

(01:09:57):
where I a nice daily battle withthem.
Let's get you your wake uptimes, your supplements, workout
program.
Here's what food to eat.
Right, here's how you do it.
Man, here's where's your weightgoals.
All right, let's get your bodygood.
Then let's start working on whatliterature to read.
Now, what?
How should you be thinking?
Let's work on mindset andvisualization.
Training, on zooms.
How should you be approachingyour morning process?
Getting a good, clean morningprocess?

(01:10:19):
That's not some like two hourbiohacking bullshit where you
got to stand on your head and ina red dot you know something
simple that you can do in ahotel room or, and that's, I
think, is foundational, and sothat's all I do, man, and I'm
writing a book now that shouldcome out, you know, next week
maybe we do a book to movie kindof thing that they're looking
at.
So I got some work to do onthat.
But my whole focus, man, isspeaking engagements.

(01:10:40):
And then in my coaching, man,where can people find you, dude?
Everybody can always get me onmy website, taylorcavenacom.
That contact form goes right tome.
I don't outsource and I don'tdo AI, so that contact form goes
right to my personal email.
It has some pictures and somemore of the story.
Or on my Instagram, tcavovofficial, where, once again, I

(01:11:05):
always answer my DM.
So hit me up and I'll.
I'll hit you right back up.
And TCAV TV, youtube, where wedive into some of those deeper
principles.
I do stream of consciousnessvideos a couple of times a week,
just no edits, no, no stoppingthe camera.
And I post that first videoalways.
And I do gym sessions, manseals, you know famous people,
man.
I travel around and we go todifferent gyms and we just talk
about business, family, faith,finance, all that stuff.

(01:11:28):
Man, that's fucking badass bro.

Speaker 1 (01:11:30):
Yeah, I've been catching your stuff dude your
Instagram reels, your YouTubechannel.
Yeah, I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
Yeah dude, I'm stoked to be connected with you.
The door, You're like what's up.
I'm like dude, you can alwaystell somebody that's been
through that's like stacked, youknow.
You can always tell somebodythat's like had some weight on
their shoulders.
You know what I mean.
It's very obvious.
It's like how you can tell justsquare jaw, you know thick,
thick, broad shoulders, man, itshows.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
It always shows no to give back to the world, bro.
We're like, hey, we're offeringthis to you guys.
Man, just fucking take it, takeour hand and we'll lead you to
the fucking promised land, ornot, or fucking stay there, but
we can tell you what the resultswill be.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
It's a free country man, you don't have to do
anything, I say but here's thisMichael Jordan had a coach.
I have mentors I'm sure you'vehad continue to do outside of
killed abilities Very helpful,like, let's be quite honest,
it's 10% information, 90%accountability, cause we're not
splitting the atom here.
But hey, what?
There's?
Analysis, paralysis.
Most people don't do shitbecause they're like is it keto,

(01:12:31):
is it this, is it that?
Is it fucking fruit Watermelondiet?
I'm like, bro, how about weshow you a clean blueprint,
something that works?
You see somebody that works.
Do they have a lifestylemindset?
You want approach, have somesimilarities?
Cool, and then, okay, let'smake a change, because nothing's
going to change if you don'tchange.

Speaker 1 (01:12:49):
Just facts, facts, dude.
Is there anything you want toend?
Last closing words.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
Yeah, it's all in your power.
If my mission is boiled down toone thing, it's empowerment.
I say, dude, I don't care ifyou reach out to me, reach out
to somebody, make a change, makethe decision.
I say, man, it takes one momentto decide and then a lifetime
to prove it.
A lifetime to prove what you'reall about Never stops.

(01:13:15):
Once you make that decision,you're like I'm going to be a.
My purpose is being a badassmotherfucker.
That's it.
Taking care of my family,showing up, having people around
me, being like that's myfucking dad.
That's my proud to point and belike.
If you're not that, lookyourself in the mirror and say
why.
And then why won't you make thechange?

Speaker 1 (01:13:33):
That's it, and stop blaming other motherfuckers too
in the process, man.

Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
The minute I pointed all the fingers at back of
myself was the moment I startedto make some changes for the
better.
Facts dude.

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
Well, taylor dude, thanks for fucking coming on,
bro.
I was blown away by thisepisode bro.

Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
Yeah, no, I really appreciate it, hector.
Thanks, man, this is solid.

Speaker 1 (01:13:51):
I'm glad to meet you, dude.
This shit's awesome.
We've got a network for surebro yeah, we're linked up, man,
definitely.
Well, there you guys have it,folks.
Holy shit, man.
A lot of fucking knowledge,wisdom for you guys.
Man, you can't get the shitanywhere else.
Thank you guys for tuning in.
Make sure you hit thatsubscribe button on the bottom.
Love you guys, keep pushingforward you've been listening to

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