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Drownproof: Eight Life Lessons to Keep Your Head Above Water
EP55: Drownproof: Eight Life Lessons to Keep Your Head Above Water
You've built your whole identity around what you accomplish, and it worked, until the day it didn't. This week, host Shelly Rood sits down a fellow Veteran - a retired Navy SEAL - who says the strongest people he's ever known are the first ones to ask for help, and who's still working out what it costs when you don't.
Andy Stumpf spent seventeen years as a Navy SEAL, six of those on SEAL Team Six. In February 2005, an insurgent shot him at close range on a deployment in Iraq, doctors weren't sure he'd walk the same again. He came back, and later set two world records skydiving from 36,500 feet to raise $750,000 for the Navy SEAL Foundation. His book, "Drownproof: Eight Life Lessons to Keep Your Head Above Water," is a New York Times bestseller with a foreword from Jocko Willink.
In this conversation, Andy talks candidly about why asking for help gets treated as weakness in high-performance cultures when it's actually the opposite, why money is a tool to say no rather than a way to acquire things, and what his own career cost his marriage and his kids the first time around. We also get into a live, unresolved question: what happens when the label you've earned starts doing more work for your identity than you want it to.
Chapters00:00 Show Intro and Teaser
01:18 Season One Finale Setup
01:52 Meet Andy Stumpf
04:08 Montana Life and Big Sky
04:54 Spirituality and Saying I Dont Know
07:23 Podcast Questions and Relationship Themes
09:50 Entrepreneurial Path and Coffee Shop
13:00 Money as a Tool to Say No
14:53 Drown Proof and Identity Beyond SEAL
17:24 Asking for Help and Alcohol Culture
21:41 Competition Social Media and Jujitsu
35:50 Final Advice and Host Closing Reflections
Key Topics- Why the most capable people ask for help first, not last
- Reframing money as a tool to say no, not a way to acquire things
- The real cost of chasing danger and delaying what matters most
- Being more than the label you've earned, even one you're proud of
Guest
Andy Stumpf, retired Navy SEAL (SEAL Team Six), New York Times bestselling author of Drownproof: Eight Life Lessons to Keep Your Head Above Water, host of Cleared Hot.
Resources- Grab Drownproof: Eight Life Lessons to Keep Your Head Above Water at your favorite bookstore
- Go deeper into Andy's point of view: andystumpf.com
Connect with Hardcore and At Ease
- Join the community: join.othersoverself.com
- Take the Wildflower Assessment for Women Veterans: othersoverself.shop
- Be At Ease Woman Veteran gatherings: womanveteranstrong.org
- Mission Wildflower on Substack: shellyrood.substack.com
- Questions or booking inquiries: [email protected]
About the Host
Shelly Rood is the host of Hardcore and At Ease, an Others Over Self® show for mission-driven leaders who want to keep their edge without going over the edge.
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You've built your whole identity around what you accomplish, and it worked, until the day it didn't. This week, host Shelly Rood sits down a fellow Veteran - a retired Navy SEAL - who says the strongest people he's ever known are the first ones to ask for help, and who's still working out what it costs when you don't.
Andy Stumpf spent seventeen years as a Navy SEAL, six of those on SEAL Team Six. In February 2005, an insurgent shot him at close range on a deployment in Iraq, doctors weren't sure he'd walk the same again. He came back, and later set two world records skydiving from 36,500 feet to raise $750,000 for the Navy SEAL Foundation. His book, "Drownproof: Eight Life Lessons to Keep Your Head Above Water," is a New York Times bestseller with a foreword from Jocko Willink.
In this conversation, Andy talks candidly about why asking for help gets treated as weakness in high-performance cultures when it's actually the opposite, why money is a tool to say no rather than a way to acquire things, and what his own career cost his marriage and his kids the first time around. We also get into a live, unresolved question: what happens when the label you've earned starts doing more work for your identity than you want it to.
Chapters00:00 Show Intro and Teaser
01:18 Season One Finale Setup
01:52 Meet Andy Stumpf
04:08 Montana Life and Big Sky
04:54 Spirituality and Saying I Dont Know
07:23 Podcast Questions and Relationship Themes
09:50 Entrepreneurial Path and Coffee Shop
13:00 Money as a Tool to Say No
14:53 Drown Proof and Identity Beyond SEAL
17:24 Asking for Help and Alcohol Culture
21:41 Competition Social Media and Jujitsu
35:50 Final Advice and Host Closing Reflections
Key Topics- Why the most capable people ask for help first, not last
- Reframing money as a tool to say no, not a way to acquire things
- The real cost of chasing danger and delaying what matters most
- Being more than the label you've earned, even one you're proud of
Guest
Andy Stumpf, retired Navy SEAL (SEAL Team Six), New York Times bestselling author of Drownproof: Eight Life Lessons to Keep Your Head Above Water, host of Cleared Hot.
Resources- Grab Drownproof: Eight Life Lessons to Keep Your Head Above Water at your favorite bookstore
- Go deeper into Andy's point of view: andystumpf.com
Connect with Hardcore and At Ease
- Join the community: join.othersoverself.com
- Take the Wildflower Assessment for Women Veterans: othersoverself.shop
- Be At Ease Woman Veteran gatherings: womanveteranstrong.org
- Mission Wildflower on Substack: shellyrood.substack.com
- Questions or booking inquiries: [email protected]
About the Host
Shelly Rood is the host of Hardcore and At Ease, an Others Over Self® show for mission-driven leaders who want to keep their edge without going over the edge.