How a Navy SEAL Rebuilt Trust After Losing It All | Jason Redman

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0:43Jason Redman:I talk a lot about America as becoming a victim mindset nation. We are becoming a nation of individuals who are being convinced because of the color of your skin or your gender or your gender persuasion or where you came from or any of this, that you're a victim and that you cannot help yourself, that somebody else has to help you, which I unequivocally don't believe in. I believe in self-leadership. And the problem is we have tens of millions of individuals who are successful, incredibly successful, that have broken those odds. So it's this lie and myth. And I talk often about the victim versus the victor mindset.

1:22Jason Redman:So when you talk about that and being shot, I think we have to go further back because there was a period of time where I went through in my life where I was a victim. Really? For how long? It lasted about seven, six months. Okay. And it culminated with... While you were a Navy SEAL? Absolutely. It culminated with a leadership failure. And we can get deeper into that. But all I will say is when I made that failure, instead of owning it in the moment, I saw myself as the victim. I saw myself as being thrown under the bus and it was unfair and like I was great. And, you know, how could they do this to me?

2:03Jason Redman:And just it was a victim mindset. So that positive attitude came later as I grew and really became as I grew up, I should say, especially as a leader. And I think leaders, and it's one of the things that I talk about now, the power of positivity in leadership is such a powerful thing. And it's something that is needed. I mean, we're at a deficit for leadership in this country. And we are inundated with negativity. You were just fed nothing but negative energy from social media, from the media. I mean, people around here. Yeah, yeah, family. I mean, look at the world right now with COVID and civil unrest and all these things.

2:44Jason Redman:I mean, people are just negative. So positivity as a leader is such a powerful thing. But I did not see that when I was younger. And this journey of coming out of that leadership failure and coming to learn slowly, step by step, what it is to be an effective leader. And one of those components was I'm going to battle against this negativity, which the negativity was against me. The negativity was I had fellow SEALs who didn't want to work with me, who didn't trust me because of some of these leadership decisions that I had made in the past, the mistakes that I made and said, we don't trust you.

3:19Jason Redman:We don't want to work with you. But I had to continue to go through training and push against that and earn back that trust and build my credibility and build up my respect for these guys that I was supposed to be leading. How do you build credibility if you've been made a mistake or out of integrity or, you know, hurt people or? one day at a time. Yeah. By consistent, by leading yourself. So I teach three rules of leadership. Number one, 70 % of leadership is how you lead yourself. And these were the rules that I kind of created for myself and what I wasn't doing in the past. What were you doing before?

3:56Jason Redman:I was living the do as I say and not as I do. Okay. This is what you're supposed to do, but I'm not doing this. Exactly. And a lot of people, and this is a common problem everywhere with leadership. A lot of people confuse their ability to tell others what to do with leadership. And oftentimes that's not leadership, that's just management. Oftentimes it's bad management. But 70 % of leadership is how well you lead yourself, how well you build structure and discipline in your life, how you set goals within your own life and accomplish those goals, how you maintain positivity in the face of negativity in your home life.

4:34Jason Redman:And the amazing thing about that, if you live your life that way, in the immortal words of one of the best leaders I ever had the honor to work with, people will follow you if you give them a reason to. That's 70 % of self-leadership. So all of that coming full circle to your first question, it was a really long journey of several years of coming to understand that all these pieces came together to be effective leadership and have that mindset of positivity. So when I got wounded, I was probably in the best position in my life to go through that because I had just finished this other super hard journey.

5:10Jason Redman:Of regaining, of leading yourself, of gaining trust with the people around you that you lost trust with. Dealing with some daily negativity. Right. Having to push back against that.

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