One's Too Many - It's up to us, no one else is coming. With James Hintzke

It's up to us, no one else is coming. With James Hintzke

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09/12/18 • 33 min

One's Too Many

On today’s episode, we have my friend James Hintzke on with us. He was a 30-year veteran in the SEAL community as a demo guy. James is a pretty amazing guy, and he gives us some real nuggets. We go over a bunch of things that I wish I had known when I was transitioning. We learn about how important it is to fill your life with a positive environment, and how to find your triggers, while making an impact in your environment.
He tells us about his art with Valhalla’s Forge and the difference you can make in your community through so many different ways. He shares about his strategy of being a leader to the young men working with him, including transiting vets and gold star kids. James gives us a lot of good information about how to deal with what you are going through and how to give just give yourself a break sometimes.
Coming from many of our backgrounds, it is hard to be easy on ourselves, but sometimes it is exactly what we need. You had to redevelop yourself into something that is sustainable for you and into something that will keep allowing you to grow. We go over that and a lot more in this episode. Come listen and take away a couple of things that you can use in your struggles too.
Website - http://www.architecturalrenaissancetechniques.com/
IG - @sealartisan
Keys
1. Believe in yourself- you’re a fucking bad ass
a. Don’t let anyone convince you you’re not epic, you are
2. Be kind to yourself
a. When you fuck some shit up, whatever it is, and you will, don’t beat yourself up too hard and get back at it
3. Do something ssmall for yourself every day
a. Take care of yourself, if just for 5 minutes, take care of yourself
4. Create a lifestyle that you are proud about

Previous Episode

Be careful who you laugh at with Boyd Renner

Today’s show we have an amazing guest named Boyd Renner joining us today. He is a soon to be Alumni from Penn State’s MBA program, a Co-Founder of a startup, and 23-year member of the NSW’s prestigious Development Group.
In today’s episode we go over what it takes to get through BUDS and what your mindset should be when going through while tackling what they do to help combat depression and suicide. According to Boyd it is a problem with every unit in the military, even the best still struggle through sometimes.
Among the many different strategies used, talking about it is the main way to help someone you think might be off. It may suck, you may even loose a friend. In the end though, which is worse losing a friend for asking/confronting them about what they’re going through, or losing them once they choose to complete suicide. We learn that no matter who you are you go through some stuff. Sometimes just pulling people aside and shooting the s***, getting a coffee, or whatever goes such a long way.
“Get out, have a plan before hand, and find that tribe”
As many of us know, once you get out, it isn’t all a piece of cake. We learn more about finding a new tribe to replace the one that you left and how to make that one part of your life. We learn a lot about difficulties once you get out from his perspective and how doing something every day to make himself better has kept him grounded. Giving back is always a fantastic idea, as we learn about a walk coming up soon for Cystic Fibrosis. Everyone should check out his and his wife’s page, please donate if you can, share if you can’t. Every dollar helps go to an amazing cause.
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Keys
1.Never underestimate yourself
2.Never let others underestimate you, if they do use it to your advantage
3.Don’t be afraid to ask
Links
Cystic Fibrosis Walk http://fightcf.cff.org/site/TR/Hike/130_Virginia_Richmond?px=2033416&pg=personal&fr_id=7009
Boyd- @Brenner350
FB/Twitter- Everence.life
Everence Webpage – everence.life

Next Episode

Isolation Kills. It’s not me, it’s we. We’re all in this together.

For today’s guest, we are very excited to bring you the real Rudy Reyes. From MMA, to many tours in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marine’s 1st Recon Battalion, to your TV, and finally to conservation sites all over the world this man has done it all.
I really enjoyed this my conversation with this man. It changed the way I thought about myself and others. We go over a lot of good stuff, from the journey from selfless to self-love, to finding your new purpose, and how to fight off the tendency to isolate when it comes up. We go over what was difficult for Rudy to handle when getting out, his nonprofit work with Force Blue, and the greatest lesson he learned since leaving the Recon community.
Listen to what Rudy has to tell you, I know it is going to change your perspective. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did. Please feel free to leave us a comment and let us know what you think.
Rudyreyes.com
IG realrudyreyes
FB rudy reyes
Forceblueteam.org
Keys
1. Reach out. Take a radical 30’ step forward and ask for help.
2. Physical fitness
3. Find time to get into nature, find time to smell the flowers