Jocko Podcast - Jocko Underground: Smashing Life with No Support | Could a Woman Be a Navy SEAL?

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

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This is the Jocko Underground podcast number 187 with Echo Charles. And we are going to, well, we're going to read some questions from troopers out in the field. And then we're going to provide guidance. We're going to provide answers. We're going to provide courses of action that you can use to get on the correct path and move forward. That's where we're at. Let's get this first one. Hopeful guidance.

Yes, sir. First question, Jocco. I've been a fan of your work for a while. I love the good, quote unquote, good mindset when adversity strikes. And I also use your supplement products daily. Okay. I'm a 26 year old pitching coach seen as a young, bright mind with potential. But I know potential means nothing without results.

My life has had plenty of adversity. My father passed when I was 16. I've lived with three learning disabilities and partial deafness. And was diagnosed with a back disease that nearly ended my baseball career. being half Native American also shaped me. My dad's family opposed his marriage, and after his passing, their hostility drove my mom into deep depression. In college, I battled depression, drug addiction, and nearly took my life. But I've been clean since January 2025.

Recently, I was let go from a job. My fault, and I own it. My girlfriend has been my rock through it. But my question is, if I didn't have that support system, How do you recommend picking yourself up as an adult? There's a battlefield kind of mentality, which is always improve your position. And it's something that implies to jiu-jitsu as well.

Always improve your position. Always improve your position. On the battlefield, always improve your position. It's something that clearly you can apply to your life as well. And you have to be careful because when you get knocked down, it's very easy to focus on how far you've fallen. And it's also equally difficult, or no, it's actually equally easy to get focused,

not just on the fact that you've fallen down, but it's easy to get focused on how far you have to go to get back up again. And that's not going to help you. But going back to this battlefield saying, if you can just focus on improving your position right now, just a little bit, then the overwhelming nature of these events will begin to fade because you're now focused on something that you can control, something just as simple as improving your

position right now. And you've heard me say it, like, what can you do? Well, you've heard me say, wake up early and work out. Just do that. Just start with that. You've heard Admiral Craven say, make your bed. Just get that done. Just make your bed. You've heard Jordan Peterson say, clean your room, right? These are all, each one of these, it's basically the same message. right it's take control of what you can control and make that little thing a little bit better and what that gives you is agency it gives you control it gives you personal responsibility and what that does is it gives you ownership that that actually is extreme ownership right the the the the recognition that the world does not control you you you can't let the world control how you

react right the world does not control and the world cannot control how you respond the world cannot control how you react to things you control that now look the world can throw some mayhem at you they can throw at you depression it can throw at you uh girlfriends dumping you and your father's passing when you're 16 like the world can throw some adversity at you for sure, but it can't control how you respond to those things. You do. You control that. And here's the thing. Here's the most important part of this. For me is to know that and recognize that the support system is you. That's the way it is. That's the way it is always going to be. And that might sound overwhelming. It might sound overwhelming to hear

That there is no external support system you can count on. There's not going to be any backup. No one's coming to rescue you. That can seem scary. But when you recognize that where you go and what you do and how you respond is all your choice, that is the most positive thing you can get to in the world, that you get to decide what you do. You don't need anybody else. else you don't need that support system what you need is that recognition that this is your life

that how you respond and the way you behave are choices that you get to make and that's awesome you are the support system so own it and then get after it one small step at a time and that's where I'm at man and stay clean next question uh Jack Rock why do you think no women no women have ever been a navy seal slash finished buds looking at the required and even recommended fitness standards I know women who can pass but what is it that has prevented this from happening in your opinion I don't know I'm not 100% sure what requirements and recommended fitness standards he's looking at I'm not sure I know of many women that could physically achieve the standards.

You know, sometimes you'll get a woman that's really strong, but she won't be very fast. Or you'll get a woman that's very fast. We're like really good endurance, but not very strong. So that's, it's a very hard category to fit into to be both strong and have endurance. It's very difficult. And Bud's basic seal training is a test of those. things you know you've got to be able to carry that big ass log around and carry that boat on your head and you've got to be able to run fast and you've got to be able to do

oh by the way so you have really strong legs because you're a fast runner and you're carrying a log but you've got to also have strong upper body that you can do pull-ups and rope climbs so it's I think it's a little bit more it's not like you know maybe he's referring to like you see the fitness standards or whatever the recommended fitness standards that are like 20 pull-ups, you know, that is a little excerpt of what we are doing on the Jocko Underground podcast. So if you want to continue to listen, go to jocco underground.com and subscribe. And we're doing this to mitigate our reliance on external platforms.

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