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Becoming a Warrior with Jeff Boss

Live Conversation with Jeff Boss of Healing Warriors Within.
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From SEAL to shrink, Jeff Boss’s life has been exploring edges of performance and health. After 13 years as a Navy SEAL with eight deployments, Jeff transitioned to the private sector. After five years of battling grief and finding his place in civilian society, he did something he thought he’d never do - ask for help.

In this powerful conversation, Jeff explains his philosophy behind becoming a warrior which is accessible to anyone, his mission as a clinical therapist primarily supporting first responders, and his approach to life.

We discuss effective forms of help, self-care, the skill of awareness, benefits of experiencing emotions, empathy vs sympathy, using stress advantageously, and much more.

Jeff writes beautifully on nuance within words and dichotomies within concepts. Getting to learn about his story and philosophy was an extremely enjoyable experience that offered numerous actionable strategies we can all take to start becoming a warrior in our own lives.


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Jeff published a book called Navigating Chaos: How to Find Certainty in Uncertain Times. Highly recommend this read to gain insight into using high performance skills in everyday life:

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Jeff’s account on Substack is titled Healing Warriors Within and is one of my favorites on this platform:

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Some of my favorite posts by Jeff:

Healing Warriors Within
The Warrior And The Warfighter: Metaphors For What It Means To Be A Man
For most of my adult life (and I use the word “adult” loosely here) I was influenced by what I believed a warrior—and subsequently a man—to be: Tough. Cold. Emotionally shutoff. Refuses to ask for he…
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Healing Warriors Within
How Warfighters Are Made
This is the third article in a series covering the differences between Warriors and Warfighters–a concept I initially proposed as metaphors for being a man. I focused exclusively on men to address th…
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Healing Warriors Within
Mental Health Isn't Just 'Mental'
Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel at Harvard Business School about mental health. I was asked by another SEAL buddy of mine, Andrew Sridhar, who’s also a coach and founder of the W…
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Healing Warriors Within
The Myth of Absolute Independence
On July 4th, Americans across the nation gather to celebrate a profound ideal: independence…
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