Articles by: DA

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Strength, Balance, and Resiliency – Part 1: Self-Leadership

Most people think leadership is about managing others. They’re wrong. Strength, balance, and resiliency start with one person – YOU. And if you can’t lead yourself, you sure as hell can’t lead anyone else. I learned this the hard way. As a young Navy SEAL officer, I thought leadership meant barking orders and looking tough.

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Adapting Quickly as a Leadership Skill

I’ve spent most of my adult life in situations where the difference between rapid adaptation and hesitation was literally life or death. As a Navy SEAL for 21 years, I learned that adapting quickly is an essential leadership skill for survival and success. But the same principles that kept me alive in the streets of

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Monday Muster: You’re the Problem and the Solution – Part 2

Jason Redman’s Monday Muster to start your week off right & crush those goals! It’s been 3 years since we’ve talked about the hard truth: YOU are the problem, but YOU are also the solution. This week, we’re diving deeper into what personal accountability actually looks like and how to develop the self-leadership skills that

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How to Learn to Love Yourself Like a Warrior

There was a time in my life when I hated the man staring back at me in the mirror. I had just come out of surgery. My face was shredded. My confidence was shattered. My identity as a Navy SEAL, a leader, and a warrior felt like it had been ripped away in a split-second

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How to Find a Life Coach Who Actually Gets Results

When I was lying in a hospital bed in Bethesda, missing a third of my face and wondering if I’d ever lead again, I didn’t need a cheerleader. I didn’t need someone to tell me everything would be okay. I needed a battle-tested guide who could help me rebuild—not just my body, but my mindset.

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How to Improve Public Speaking?

The company CEO looked me dead in the eye and said, “Jason, I need you to fix this. My executives can present numbers, but they can’t inspire action. They’ve got the technical skills, but when they get in front of people, they fall apart.” He was describing what I see in 90% of speakers: they

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Confidence Training That Builds Leaders

I’ve led men through firefights in Iraq, survived being shot in the face at point-blank range, and rebuilt my life from a hospital bed when most people would have quit. None of that happened because I was fearless. It happened because I trained for it. And what I trained above all else was confidence. Most

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How to Be Confident?

I’ve been shot in the face, blown up, and ambushed in Iraq. I’ve also stood in front of thousands of people wearing my scars like a badge and told them they could become more than what life tried to take from them. And let me tell you something—learning how to be confident was not about

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My Best Public Speaking Tips 

I was sitting in a corporate boardroom last month, watching a brilliant engineer completely fall apart during what should have been a career-defining presentation. This guy had developed technology that could revolutionize his industry, but he was so paralyzed by his fear of public speaking that his groundbreaking ideas sounded like mumbled apologetic suggestions. After

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Overcome the Fear of Public Speaking

Let me tell you about the time I almost chickened out of my first civilian speaking engagement. There I was, lying in my hospital bed at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, when a Fortune 500 company reached out asking me to speak at their annual leadership conference. Six months earlier, I’d been leading assault teams through

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