Team Never Quit

If you’re looking for an inspiring story of purpose and overcoming, you’ve come to the right place. This week’s guest, Paul Harris, aka “The Warrior Walker” is a former Royal Marine currently walking around the entire outer perimeter of the UK, and has already walked over 1,000 miles. He is raising awareness to help those struggling with mental health issues.
Paul shares many heart-warming and inspiring experiences as he is overwhelmed daily with coffee, meals and accommodations. Because he has no support staff or sponsors, he relies solely on the generosity of the people he meets to help him pursue his mammoth task!
This journey has completely changed Paul’s life. He has gone from an average, uninspiring, mentally challenging life, and feeling like a failure, to finding out what he could create with his own momentum, passion, and power.
While this endeavor started off as a walk, it has become so much more than that with the amazing community of radiators he has come across on his journey.
“Human kindness is real. They want you to win.”  In this episode you will hear:
• I feel like I’ve gone back in time. I’m breaking bread and having dinner with people all along the way.
• My parent’s issues in my childhood is why I’m passionate and positive.
• When I was ready to quit the Marines, my grandfather asked me if I wanted to be known as Paul Harris, or Marine Harris. That was all I needed  to keep moving forward.
• I like to push the boundaries.
• We tend to think of the me, me, me, but we should be thinking of others.
• Every day is an adventure.
• Becoming a Kindergarten teacher was therapy for me.
• I’ve had moments in my life when I should’ve done something but I didn’t. I overthought it.
• Be careful what you say to yourself, because the warrior within you is lessened by it.

• To be in control of what you do is the most freeing thing you can do.
• I’m always alone, but I never feel loneliness.
• A bad week doesn’t make a bad life.
• If you have passion - and you action that passion – you can live the life you want to live.
• Don’t ask yourself: What’s the worst that can happen? Instead ask yourself: What’s the best that can happen!
• There’s only one time in your life when you’re done, that’s when you’re done.

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How do you excel in life? How do you navigate complexity?If you ask U.S. Navy SEAL Commander (ret.) David Sears, he’ll tell you – and show you - how to reframe your thinking. Dave has over 20 years of tactical and strategic experience. He planned, led, and executed hundreds of special ops missions in more than 40 countries on 5 continents, from the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq to the jungles of Colombia and the oceans of the world. Dave Sears has received numerous awards and decorations for his service in the military.He is also the author of Smarter Not Harder, derived from seventeen tried and true Navy SEAL maxims, outlining the principles of excelling in all facets of life.Join us in this week’s podcast, as we “get in the weeds” with the inspirational Dave Sears.
In this episode you will hear:
• I was always fascinated with Special Forces.
• I knew I didn’t want to be part of the conventional military - marching with thousands, because I have always been an independent thinker.
• Being a SEAL is a physical and mental challenge.
• How do you make it through BUDS? It’s easy – don’t quit.
• The deciding factor is your mental attitude. Are you gonna quit or not?
• Where you want to go? Just take the next step to get there.
• Quitting will result in regret.
• The never quit attitude: Keep moving toward your goal.
• You don’t drive your car looking in the rear view mirror. You glance at it as a reference, but it’s the road ahead that matters.
• You gotta have a future mindset as opposed to a past mindset.
• Where you’re at now is not where you’re gonna be forever.
• One of the brilliances of UDS is not knowing when what that future is. Not knowing when you’ll be out of the water. So you learn to deal with adversity till whenever.
• The way we learn is through storytelling.
• Control what you can control. Influence what you can influence. Then navigate the rest – but keep moving forward.

Do you believe that anything is possible? This week’s amazing guest, Shay Eskew, has proven that it is.

As an 8-year old, Shay was severely burned on over 65% of his body and was told he could never be a competitive athlete. Now, several decades later, he lives life to the fullest and has a relentless “never quit” attitude.

Shay is a team builder, coach, mentor, RCM authority, market disruptor, motivational speaker, best-selling author and proven sales leader. He’s a high-energy innovator, entrepreneur, and has successfully built and sold multiple companies. 

He has achieved multiple world championships, and after enduring nearly 40 surgeries, Shay is a 4-time IRONMAN, 4-time member of Team USA, 25-time IRONMAN 70.3 athlete, is ranked in the top 1% of IRONMAN worldwide, and has competed in 11 triathlon World Championships in 7 countries on all 6 continents. Equally impressive, Shay is the proud father of 5 children under 13. Shay’s life is overflowing with blessings.
In this episode you will hear:
• I felt close to God before the race, but He was not there during the swim.
• My wife will stand at the exit of the swim and tell me how many women beat me out of the water.
• I was accidentally set afire by a neighbor’s kid at age 8, and burned over 65% of my body.
• At the University of Tennessee, I never lost a wrestling match.
• I was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
• Thank God that doctors told me I’d never play sports. That was the best thing because it pissed me off enough to prove them wrong.
• Many times, pain is just a state of mind.
• When I started walking in the hallway of my school – there was complete silence.
• If people are gonna make fun of me, I’m gonna beat ‘em to the punch.
• There’s no reason to blame society. You just gotta make the most of it. You just gotta ask yourself what else can I do that I never thought possible?
• The hardest thing is watching your kid suffer knowing you can’t do anything to fix it.
• The more chances I’ve taken, the more time I put myself out there, the more opportunities have presented themselves.
• Everything I went through prepared me for who I am in life.
• On a campus of 30,000 people, nobody looked like me. They remember who you are.
• We all struggle, we all face adversity, we’ve all been tempted to quit. We’ve all said God, why me? How am I gonna get through this?
• Once you know that somebody else has not only been what you’ve been through, and not only survived but thrived… That’s Impactful.
• The things that we cherish are the things we bust our butt to get.
• Everybody’s out there racing. It’s not to win, but to finish. To finish is to win.

 “For the greater good.” That’s the mantra of this week’s guest, Chris Cruise. It’s amazing how being delivered a setback can cause someone to step up to the plate and take on what turns out to be a patriotic endeavor.

After being told that he wasn’t good enough to pursue a football career, Chris enlisted in the U.S. Army and subsequently deployed to Iraq, and learned that there truly is a brotherhood in the military. Chris sees it as the best thing he ever did as it was the path that led him to meet his wife. While re-acclimating to civilian life after his service, he didn’t know what to do with himself or how to adapt his heightened sense of awareness and constant wariness into his new life as a husband and a father.

His wife Amber gave him a new mission that grew into what has become Cruise Custom Flags. He figured out that woodwork was therapeutic for him. He’d found his happy place – a place where his mind could both rest and work at the same time, in balanced concentration and clarity of purpose.

Amber wanted him to make something tied to Kentucky for his next project. They both also wanted the project to honor military service, as her father is also a veteran. There are not many things that scream “Kentucky” more than bourbon, and not many greater symbols of military service than the flag. So, the first custom flag he made from a repurposed bourbon barrel hung in their home. The next two were Christmas gifts for both of their fathers.

The flags were so well received, he made more for some friends and family. Word spread, and requests began pouring in.

Chris says, what’s more American than a veteran handcrafted flag made out of a bourbon barrel? Bourbon, after all, is “America Spirit by law.”
In this episode you will hear:
• It really started when my wife wanted something in our home that represented her Kentucky roots and my service.
• I had a vision of having a shop full of veterans making American flags from bourbon barrels.
• Bourbon barrels once served a good purpose aging bourbon, and veterans served a good purpose and we help them both find a new purpose.
• “Never quit” is not what you do, it’s who you are.
• Generosity breeds success.
• With a never quit attitude, you’re unstoppable.
• I wish someone would have told me that I could have done my passion right out of high school without society telling me I had to climb the corporate ladder.
• I’ve got a business degree, but I could have done this right out of high school.
• I only did one deployment. That was enough for me.
• It’s hard to build a resume after you get out of the military.
• I get tunnel vision – nothing else matters – once I get focused on something – it’s on.

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Special thanks to Speakeasy Podcast Network for giving Chris a place to record his interview! 

Are uncertainty and hardship inevitable in this life? Could you use a jump start for pursuing your goals, while living a healthy, fulfilled life?

This week’s guest, Erik Korem, is the guy that can equip you to that end. His unquenchable curiosity and eagerness for knowledge made him an expert in high performance.

Erik started as a walk-on football player at Texas A&M, and that's where he found two things – a never-quit attitude and curiosity for high performance.

After spending over 15 years working as a sports scientist, Erik’s passion for solving the data-to-action gap in the wearable tech and mHealth space came to life. He is the founder & CEO of AIM7, teaching people how to turn data into healthy habits.
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This week, the TNQ Podcast brings you the inspiring never-quit journey of Aaron Quinonez – aka “Sgt. Q” – a Marine Corps Veteran, speaker, author, father, and PTSD ambassador.

Having been raised in a rough, homeless environment surrounded by people in the drug trade, Aaron became a marine right out of high school.

What he didn’t know is that his real battle would be fought in his mind. Sgt. Q suffered from depression, anger, and panic attacks and was diagnosed with PTSD. He nearly ended his own life in the parking lot of a church, where later he was redeemed by Jesus Christ, who gave him a new life.

When he volunteered to build housing for a family in Mexico, Quinonez was so inspired by the experience that he founded the organization, Q Missions, to bring Veterans together to construct buildings around the world and bring mental healing through mission service.

Quinonez authored the book: Healing Thru Service, The Warrior’s Guidebook to Overcoming Trauma.

We have an inspiring guest in this week’s Team Never Quit podcast. Brian Kilmeade shares his motivating views about reaching your personal potential, despite apparent failures along the way. Brian is a television and radio presenter and political commentator for Fox News. On weekdays, he co-hosts Fox's morning show, Fox & Friends, and he also hosts the Fox News Radio program The Brian Kilmeade Show. He has authored or co-authored non-fiction and fiction books, and is a New York Times Best-Selling Author. Brian is also a father of three.His attitude related to pursuing a dream, making things happen for a better life, and his love for this country is refreshing.
In this episode you will hear:
• Coming out of college, I just wanted to talk sports and news.
• I played soccer through college. I wanted to be great, but I wasn’t.
• If you fire me or don’t hire me, that’s your choice, but I’m not gonna quit.
• It’s our job to reach our potential – whatever it is.
• If things don’t work out, you can’t blame people.
• Newscasters pretend they didn’t put an oar in the water or tell you who to vote for, but by a look - by the way they give one side more power that the other. When you think you’ve heard a straight newscast – no you didn’t.
• If you are for an open border, you don’t care about the country. If you destroyed the oil and gas business, you don’t care about the country. If you’re gonna stand down the Army to talk about white supremacy, you don’t care about the country.
• If you want to see an example of overcoming obstacles, pick up Andrew Jackson’s book. He was orphaned and he was raised by his town, his county & his country, yet he became a 2 term President.
• Don’t get caught up in results. If you fail, your success is just delayed.
• The only time you fail is when you quit.
• The most rewarding thing to me is helping other people.

Now here’s a guy with an unbelievable vision, drive, and a relentless pursuit of success. Dre Baldwin not only helps athletes get recognized for their talents; he’s a former basketball player, speaker, influencer, YouTuber, and author of The Third Day: The Decision That Separates the Pros from the Amateurs. Tre is a master at teaching discipline, mental toughness, and personal initiative.

Listen in as this well-spoken motivator tells of his personal path from his high school team's bench, to the first contract of a 9-year professional basketball career, then pioneering new genres of personal branding and entrepreneurship via an ever-growing content publishing empire, publishing literally thousands of YouTube videos, viewed over 73 million times.

If you could use a spark to get your life moving, this is the podcast for you.
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What an incredible saga of a ten-year-old boy, from Baton Rouge, LA, who had been sexually abused by his Karate instructor, then abducted by him and taken to Los Angeles, CA, where he continued to be abused. Our guest this week, Joseph Plauche, tells of the events that led up those scenarios.  By way of a traced collect phone call, the FBI rescued “Jody” in LA and his abductor was arrested. To add to the craziness of those events, Joseph’s father waited at a bank of pay phones at the airport and then shot and killed the abductor as he walked by, all of which was captured on film by a local news crew.

Plauche has worked in the field of violence prevention since 1995. He wants his story to help others in abusive situations, and he offers direction on protecting children. 
In this episode you will hear:

This week’s episode brings you the incredible, first-hand account from Donna Michaels, a US Navy veteran turned police officer – all the while suffering horrifically from depression, nightmares, and PTSD, yet embracing every day of her life with passion and courage. Donna went from victim to solution – she’s now on a relentless mission to stop PTSD suicides.

She also authored the book, Courageously Broken - her journey to hell and back. Donna has quite a story to tell, including the candid memoirs of her military life, her association with Navy SEALS, becoming a cop, the dark years of her life, and her unbelievable recovery.  In this episode you will hear: