
Seb Lavoie, Part 1: Elite Tactical Team Leadership and Selection - Ep. 40
Sebastien Lavoie, a veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Armed Forces with over two decades of dedicated service, is now the CEO of Raven Strategic Inc. after retiring ...
13 Jun 202345min

You Will Have Your Waterloo - Ep. 39
SOF selection is an equalizer. It's an egalitarian machine designed to reveal what's inside each candidate when suffering. It's in this suffering that your character - the raw material that determines...
31 Mai 20239min

Managing Expectations & Maintaining Cognitive Flexibility - Ep. 38
When we fail to examine our expectations, and they don’t become a reality, we can have strong feelings of disappointment, resentment, anger, frustration, discouragement, or resignation. Expectations ...
16 Mai 202314min

Stress, Training, & Adaptation (Part 2) - Ep. 37
In this episode, we talk about stress, training, and adaptation. This is a big topic, so we’ve broken this into a two-part podcast. This is part two of that series, so you might want to check out the...
15 Mar 202323min

Stress, Training, & Adaptation (Part 1) - Ep. 36
In this episode, we talk about stress, training, and adaptation. This is a big topic, so we’ve broken this into a two-part podcast. To understand programming, you must first understand how and why yo...
23 Feb 202313min

Paradoxical Intent - Leaning Into Fear - Ep. 35
SOF selection requires that you develop a close relationship with pain. This doesn’t just mean lots of dramatic grimacing for the camera. Eventually, successful experiences teach us that pain can be...
7 Feb 202318min

How to Learn Faster - Dr. Karin Nordin - Ep. 34
People in the special operations community often find themselves learning to be human swiss army knives. They do intensive courses in anything from second languages to advanced trauma medicine, where ...
17 Jan 202343min

How to Motivate Yourself - Ep. 33
Everyone wants to know the ‘secret’ to motivation. Like most topics, this isn’t as simple as repeating cliches like ‘just don’t quit’ or ‘stay hard’. These sayings can be useful as simple reminders of...
10 Jan 202321min



















