Building the Elite Podcast

Darkhorse Benefits is a special operations veteran-owned charitable organization. Many of their members are former medics who are actively involved in the tactical medicine community as instructors. N...

6 Des 202254min

Injuries happen. Even if your training program is well thought out, sometimes you’ll run into small issues or you’ll injure yourself playing your sport or doing your job. These inevitable setbacks, wh...

26 Nov 202223min

The goal of programming is not to develop specific abilities, but to develop specific skills. The difference might seem trivial - it isn’t. An ability is the raw capability to perform a task. It mea...

8 Nov 202216min

Tom Satterly is a former Command Sergeant Major from the US Army’s Delta Force, also known as The Unit. During his 20 years at The Unit, Tom fought in and led countless high-profile missions including...

13 Sep 20221h 1min

There is a distinction between pain and suffering. Pain is what you experience, suffering is how you respond to it. Pain is built largely out of nerves and your brain telling you something is wrong. ...

8 Sep 202213min

Todd Bumgardner is a human performance coach at a tier one special operations unit. He works with operators during their qualification course. To do this well, he must balance their immediate physical...

16 Aug 202251min

18-Delta, the Special Forces medic qualification course, and SOCM, the Special Operations Combat Medic course, are among the most difficult schools in the US Special Operations pipeline. The people wh...

9 Aug 20221h 12min

Special operations selection teaches you to rethink your relationship with pain. The discomfort of doing something with a painful but partial effort isn't meaningfully different from the pain of givin...

2 Aug 202217min