Building the Elite Podcast

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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