Live and Challenge: Recent Episodes
Mike Liguori
From best-selling authors to successful entrepreneurs to inspiring individuals, Live and Challenge highlights valuable insight and perspective that will help listeners overcome their own set of challenges and live fully.
On Oct. 3, 2009, Daniel was one of 53 Americans who battled insurgents after nearly 400 Taliban attacked the American Combat Outpost Keating near the town of Kamdesh. For more than 12 hours Daniel continued to fight with shrapnel embedded in his neck and leg and bullet fragments lodged in his shoulder. Eight U.S. soldiers were killed during the skirmish, including Daniel’s close friend, Kevin Thompson. Daniel was awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal with a “V” Device for Valor.
Upon returning home from his tours of duty overseas, Daniel often found himself feeling unfocused and displaced amidst the normalcy of stateside life. As a result, he turned to drinking to calm his anxieties and soothe his mind. The darkness that accompanied his diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder made Daniel’s transition from combat to classroom difficult when he enrolled at Germanna Community College just three months after returning from Afghanistan.
Somehow Daniel dug deep and found a way to power through.
Brandon Webb (brandontylerwebb.com) is a former US Navy SEAL sniper, New York Times bestselling author of The Red Circle, experimental aircraft pilot, and entrepreneur. He’s the founder of the Hurricane Group, a U.S. based media and e-commerce company focusing on outdoor, military entertainment, news, and clubs and the host of the Power of Thought podcast, a show features some of the world's most powerful thought leaders who also share hard-won tools of success and mindset.
Jen Sincero is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, success coach and motivational cattle prod who’s helped countless people transform their personal and professional lives via her products, speaking engagements, newsletters, seminars and books. Her #1 New York Times bestseller, You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life (2013), has sold well over a million copies, is available in twenty-plus languages, and continues to grow in popularity around the globe.
Her follow-up, You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth (2017), also a New York Times bestseller, is written with the same inimitable sass, down-to-earth humor and blunt practicality that made You Are a Badass an indomitable bestseller and Jen a celebrated voice in the world of self development.
In this conversation, we discuss:
How she overcame being broke
The power of having a "spiritual gym"
Overcoming self-doubt and personal challenges to build a thriving business
The time she was in a rock band (yes, she used to be in a rock band!)
Kamal Ravikant (@kamalravikant) is the author of the bestselling books, Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It and Live Your Truth. He's been a US Army Infantry soldier, held the hands of dying patients, climbed in the Himalayas, spoken to audiences around the globe, walked 550 miles across Spain, meditated with Tibetan monks, and has worked with some of the best people in Silicon Valley. But more than anything, he is passionate about writing books that improve lives.