Guard the Guardians

Guard the Guardians - the show with 1 mission: help veterans, active military, first responders, and their families live better lives.

Guard the Guardians - the show with 1 mission: help veterans, active military, first responders, and their families live better lives.

Guard the Guardians - the show with 1 mission: help veterans, active military, first responders, and their families live better lives.

In this episode of Guard the Guardians we dive into the ideas that we hold about money and how it keeps veterans, active duty military, first responders, and their families from achieving what they most desire.

Guard the Guardians with Sean Hansen is the show with one mission: help active military, veterans, first responders, and their families live better lives. You served us, now let us serve you.

Guard the Guardians - the show with 1 mission: help veterans, active military, first responders, and their families live better lives.

Guard the Guardians helps veterans, active military, first responders, and their families live better lives by interviewing experts and other service members so that their knowledge and expertise can be shared with those who need it.

Guard the Guardians - the show with 1 mission: help veterans, active military, first responders, and their families live better lives.

Guard the Guardians with Sean Hansen is the show with one mission: help active military, veterans, first responders, and their families live better lives. You served us, now let us serve you. Please subscribe and share with your friends and family. You can reach out at:

• Guard the Guardians Website
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In this episode we're getting back on the mic with Lauren DiCredico, a Master Resilience Trainer Performance Expert and practicing member of the US Army's CSF2 performance optimization program.  After we shut things down last week we realized that we still had a lot of topics to examine.  So, this episode is going to dive right into the heart of the exercises that Lauren and her colleagues use to get soldiers to achieve their top level performance at home and on the job.  Specifically, we'll be talking about:

• How to overcome communication problems.
• A surprising factor that can destroy friendships and relationships.
• A good way to prepare your friends and family for how they should communicate with you when you're deployed. 
• How do you achieve greater self-awareness and how that improves your communication and relationships.
• How our unspoken beliefs can warp how we view our teammates.
• The best ways to establish connection with your family, teammates, and superiors.
• The way that our unrecognized beliefs sabotage our relationships.
• How to identify your hidden triggers that set you off.
• The power of gratitude journaling in improving your mindset.
• How proper breathing techniques can help reduce stress.
• The effects that visualizing has on your performance.

RESOURCES:

• The Dad's Edge by Larry Hagner
• How to improve your health through better breathing.
• Dr. Yuri L. Hanin is Professor & Senior Researcher at KIHU-Research Institute for Olympic Sports, Jyväskylä, Finland. - Individual Zone of Optimal Functioning
• Click here to access the Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness website.
• Lauren DiCredico's email address:  [email protected], [email protected].
• Click here to access The Daily Stoic website.
• Click here to access the Tim Ferriss blog on stoicism.

Guard the Guardians with Sean Hansen is the show with one mission: help active military, veterans, first responders, and their families live better lives. You served us, now let us serve you. Please subscribe and share with your friends and family. You can reach out at:

• Guard the Guardians Website
• Facebook - Guard the Guardians
• Instagram - Guard the Guardians @guardtheguardians
• Twitter - Guard the Guardians @GuardGuardians_

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In this episode we speak with Lauren DiCredico, a Master Resilience Trainer Performance Expert and practicing member of the US Army's CSF2 performance optimization program.  Lauren and her colleagues are tasked with helping soldiers achieve their top level performance at home and on the job using sports psychology principles.  Specifically, we'll be talking about:

• Why Lauren chose working with soldiers instead of athletes.
• How sports performance psychology is different from other forms of psychology and why it matters for those in uniform.
• The tricky part of hitting your IZOF:  Individual Zone of Optimal Functioning and how different tasks require different zones.
• The biggest adjustments that Lauren had to make in working with soldiers.
• The core aspects of the Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness (CSF2) program.
  • Master resilience.
  • Optimal performance.
• How units can access the help that the CSF2 program provides.
• How the ATC (Activating Event, Thought, Consequence) model can help you perform better when life gets hard.
• Why soldiers and first responders need to be vulnerable in order to do the hard things that their jobs require.

 

RESOURCES:

• Dr. Yuri L. Hanin is Professor & Senior Researcher at KIHU-Research Institute for Olympic Sports, Jyväskylä, Finland. - Individual Zone of Optimal Functioning
• Click here to access the Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness website.
• Lauren DiCredico's email address:  [email protected], [email protected].
• Click here to access The Daily Stoic website.
• Click here to access the Tim Ferriss blog on stoicism.