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 Juni 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Mars 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
