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How a Pararescueman Found Purpose After Leaving Special Ops with Matt Schollard
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Picking up “The Perfect Storm” at a Blockbuster could forever change your life… Or at least it did for Matt.
Matt Schollard is a former special operations Pararescue team leader and lifelong action sport athlete.
As a water confidence coach, he is passionate about developing future special operations candidates, extreme athletes, and anyone curious about expanding their perceived limitations.
We talk about:
-Pararescuemen: The people who show up to save Navy SEALs
-The Air Force Pararescueman selection course: the hardest day of your life over and over again
-Surviving Hell Week and fantasizing about quitting
-Stories of how fear is contagious– but courage is, too
-Joining the military with eyes on ocean rescue, but then 9/11 happened
-The mental health impacts of compartmentalizing fear for so long
-Upregulating and downregulating tools when experiencing post-traumatic stress
-Hanging on to the identity of a job even when he knew he needed to step away
-The big life pivot that came to Matt after bawling on a paddleboard in the ocean
-The tool of humor as a way to cope with stress
-Working with extreme athletes and non-extreme athletes around mindset and water confidence
-The incredible Water Confidence Class at the Hood River Aquatic Center
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-Why Kayaker and Filmmaker Rush Sturges is Rethinking Work-Life Balance
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Shout-Outs:
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