Jeremiah Sehorn - BUD/S, LA City Fire, and a Faithful God

00:00 Welcome Back to Built on Truth00:34 Who Is Jeremiah Seehorn? Raised in Tehachapi07:00 The Ruggedness of a Small Mountain Town11:44 Chasing the FBI Dream to Point Loma14:27 Dropping Out of College to Chase Navy SEAL18:02 Shipping Out to BUD/S20:10 First Day of BUD/S: Chaos and Attrition21:57 The Hardest Evolution: Log PT24:04 Stress Fractures, Recycling, and Walking Away25:11 Finding Barabbas Road Church Through a Classmate27:02 Hip Surgery and a New Calling in Medicine28:22 Choosing Family Over the SEAL and CEO Track28:41 Meeting Kylie, Married on Lockdown Day31:51 "God Is Faithful to Provide the Daily Bread"39:27 Grinding as an EMT While Kylie Provides43:53 A Move to Encinitas and a Rough Pregnancy48:57 Pulling Kylie Out of Teaching, No Matter What51:01 The Phone Call — A Job Offer Before His Son Was Born52:03 Starting Fire Academy52:53 The Ladder Problem Begins54:18 Fired From the Academy56:19 The Call Offering a Second Chance59:41 Training Smarter for Round Two1:00:24 Graduating Near the Top of the Class1:01:14 Station 57, South Central LA1:01:19 "God Said So — Not for Any Other Reason"1:03:01 Be the Side Character in Your Story1:04:11 Closing Word: God as the Author of Your Life"You were not here because of your willpower or your success or your focus. You were here because of God's grace."Jeremiah Seehorn grew up hunting and fishing in Tehachapi, California, chased a childhood dream of the FBI to Point Loma Nazarene University, then dropped out mid-degree to become a Navy SEAL. He made it all the way to BUD/S in Coronado — where stress fractures and exhaustion took him out before he ever saw Hell Week. That's also where he found Barabbas Road Church, through a classmate who'd rolled out ahead of him.After the Navy, Jeremiah set his sights on becoming a firefighter — one of the hardest jobs in the country to get hired for in Southern California. What followed was a two-year gauntlet of interviews, background checks, and a pregnant wife carrying the family financially while he worked EMT shifts for scraps. The job offer came days before his son was born. And then, months into his first academy, he got fired — undone by something as small as judging the distance on a ladder throw.This episode is about what God does with the men who get back up.In this episode we get into:Growing up in a small, rugged mountain town and what that does to a manChasing the FBI, then dropping everything for a childhood dream of becoming a Navy SEALGetting hurt, getting recycled, and walking away from BUD/SFinding a home church through a classmate at the lowest point of that journeyChoosing marriage and family over the SEAL dream and the "CEO" trackTwo years of interviews, background checks, and financial strain trying to get hired in LAThe phone call with a job offer that came a week before his son was bornGetting fired from his first fire academy over a single failed evolutionThe pilot-program second chance almost nobody getsWhat it means to see yourself as the side character in a story God is authoring