The Warrior Soul Podcast
Reclaim your Warrior Spirit. Each week, we'll be discussing tools, tactics, ideas, and strategies to help you strengthen your body, enhance your mind, and dominate life. US Marine Corps Veteran Chris Albert delivers a powerful message: life is too precious to sit idly and watch it go by. The Warrior Soul Podcast was created to help all Veterans, and anyone willing to listen, to live their best lives. Past guests include: Ryan Michler, Ben Greenfield, Remi Adeleke, Chris Bell, and so many more.
Episodes
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Episode 2.1: How to Deal with Darkness and Being Alone
In this episode, Chris and Albert begin the new format of the Warrior Soul Podcast, discussing mental and physical health, and delivering tools and tactics for becoming a better version of you. Chris discusses his recent trip to Europe and the dark thoughts he had while traveling alone. Albert...
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Fear is a Liar, Death Comes to Us All
In this episode, Chris and Albert discuss the importance of living like you're dying. Far too many people go through life believing that they actually have something to lose. This holds them back from being their true selves.
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When to Make a Change with Chris And Albert
This week, Chris and Albert continue to address the question of understanding when we need to make a change. Albert delivers his insights on the major question that everyone should be asking themselves before they undertake anything.
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When to Quit, When to Push Through, and When to Start Again
Contrary to popular belief, there's times in our lives when we should quit. There's also times when we should push through. There's also a time when you can restart something you haven't finished. In this episode, Chris takes you through the logic he's used through his life in determining these...
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Stopping Self Sabotage and Raising Self Confidence with Chris and Albert
Chris Albert Palmitessa and Albert Carrasco discuss measures they've taken to deal with past trauma, raise their self confidence, and present their authentic selves to those around them.
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Nobody Has an Easy Life and a Hard Life is No Excuse
This is more of a rant than anything. We all face obstacles no matter who we are, and they only get more difficult the more we accomplish.
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I Just Bought Another Property and Other Updates
I haven't done an episode in a bit, so I thought I'd update you guys on where I'm at. I recently purchased a second property, which is a big deal for me because just a few short years ago, I thought owning any property would never happen for me.
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Ernest Hemingway's TBIs
Ernest Hemingway is both an icon of American literature and widely considered to be the epitome of a man's man. On top of being an accomplished hunter and fisherman, Hemingway was a boxer. He served in World War I as an ambulance driver, and was present at Normandy on D-Day during World War II as…
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Just Start
A lot of us are stuck where we don't want to be because we have never taken the first step toward getting to be somewhere better.
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Investing in Real Estate As A Veteran with Adam La Barr
Real estate is a cornerstone of building wealth, and for a long time, I believed that it wasn't going to be accessible for me. That was until I came in contact with Active Duty Passive Income, a company that teaches Veterans and active duty military members how to invest in real estate. Following...
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Rob Hyde - Continuing to Serve
Rob Hyde is a US Marine Corps Veteran and business owner from Connecticut. He is currently running for US Senate. In this episdoe, we discuss Rob's service in the Marine Corps, his volunteer work to help Veterans, and why he's choosing to run for Senate.
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Don't Wait
One of the biggest mistakes we make is waiting for the proper time to start.
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Don't screw the future you
We hear a lot about hard work, and it's importance. I've got no argument with that at all. Hard work is the basis of success. But working hard toward the wrong thing can be worse than doing nothing. In this episode, I talk about how a little humility can save you years of effort in going down the...
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Kelsi Sheren: Fighting for Freedom of Speech
Kelsi Sheren is a combat veteran of the Canadian Army as well as the founder and CEO of Brass and Unity. Kelsi has been very public about her battle with PTSD. She began Brass and Unity as an art therapy project to put her mind off of the pain of losing friends in battle. Kelsi and Chris met at…
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Kevin Sullivan: 21 Gun
Kevin Sullivan served as a United States Air Force Officer until he was injured during combat operations in Iraq and then subequently retired. He is also the host and creator of the 21 Gun Podcast, and a co-founder of 22 Sierra Coffee. Kevin is also a Board Certified Physician's Assistant. For…
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Bill Anthes: Between the Ears
Bill Anthes (@billanthes) is a Special Forces Veteran continuing his service as a therapist with a unique approach of using physical fitness to improve mental health. Upon leaving the military to better serve his family, Bill founded BTWN THE EARS (@btwntheears) a coaching and experience-based...
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Stu Scheller: Demanding Accountability and Changing America
In August 2021, Lt. Col. Stu Scheller made a video that went viral and rocked the Marine Corps. Amidst the US Military's disastrous pullout from Afghanistan, and after the deaths of 13 service members, including 11 Marines, due to a suicide bomber, Scheller made a video demanding accountability...
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Kegan Gill: Unbreakable Resilience
Kegan Gill has been through things that would kill most people. As a US Navy Fighter Pilot, Kegan was forced to eject into the sound barrier as his plane was going down during a training exercise over the Atlantic Ocean. In the process of ejecting, Kegan sustained catastrophic injuries that...
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The Warrior Angels Foundation 4x4x48
On March 3-5, 2022, Veterans and supporters from across the country got together in the Houston National Forest for the inaugural Warrior Angels Foundation 4x4x48. We ran 4 miles, every 4 hours, for 48 hours through the forest, while camping. Along the way, we went through healing rituals with…
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Creighton Bayer: Army Veteran and Standup Comedian
Creighton Bayer is a US Army Veteran and Standup Comedian who currently works for the Miami Improv.
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Getting More Veterans in Office with Emily Cherniack
Emily Cherniack is steeped in the traditions of servant leadership. From her service in AmeriCorps and employment with City Year AmeriCorps, to being part of the founding team of Be the Change — where she led a coalition of over 200 organizations to engage 250,000 people for a Day of Action in...
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Getting More Veterans in Office with Emily Cherniack
Emily Cherniack is steeped in the traditions of servant leadership. From her service in AmeriCorps and employment with City Year AmeriCorps, to being part of the founding team of Be the Change — where she led a coalition of over 200 organizations to engage 250,000 people for a Day of Action in...
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Adam Kokesh: Psychedelics, Freedom, and Love
Adam Kokesh is a Libertarian activist, author, Veteran, and candidate for President of the United States. Adam has a long history of challenging the status quo of American Politics. This began with protesting the Iraq War with Iraq Veterans Against the War. Some of his most notable protests have...
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Lee Smith: US Army Veteran and Comedian
From making music to doing stand-up comedy, Lee Smith is an entertainer's entertainer. Born and raised in Miami, FL, Lee was placed in Gifted classes in Elementary school. Goofing off in class was an everyday thing, as he still completed his assignments. Elected as Class Clown, he knew that…
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Building an Awesome Life with Candyce Haynes-Forrester
Candyce Haynes-Forrester, known professionally as Candyce, is an American comedian, professional speaker, broadcaster, producer, host and actress. She first gained recognition as a United States Marine Corps Combat Correspondent. Her ability to deliver command messages and tell the stories of the...
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Taking Action to Fight TBI in Veterans with Andrew and Adam Marr
Andrew and Adam Marr are the founders of the Warrior Angels Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing healing solutions to veterans afflicted by traumatic brain injury. Andrew served as a US Army Special Forces Green Beret on multiple deployments to Afghanistan. He was a...
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Mark Pellon: Vision and Leadership
CWO3 Mark Pellon is an active duty Marine, K9 decoy, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Purple Belt. Mark currently serves as Band Director for the Parris Island Band at MCRD Parris Island. Mark's journey in leadership began as an enlisted Marine. It was during this time that he began to understand the...
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New Year Warrior: Finding Success in 2022
New Year's Resolutions work for some people and fail badly for others. Regardless of what you choose to do resolution-wise, these are underlying principals to follow so that you have a successful 2022.
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Josh Guerrero: A Life of Adventure And Service
Josh Guerrero is a Marine Corps Veteran, archeologist, podcaster, and adventurer. In his day to day life, Josh travels the world unearthing remnants from the past and has dedicated much of his time to training others to do the same. The last time I had Josh on the Warrior Soul Podcast, he was...
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Body, Mind, and Money: Taking Control in the Modern World
It's a crazy time out there and a lot of people aren't happy with what's going on. If you're in that category, the best way of doing something about it is to take control of your physical, mental, and financial life.
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Holiday Message: Don't Let Go
The holidays are a hard time for many people who have struggles within. It's a difficult time to be alive, but there's a lot of cause for optimism. Don't let the negativity get you down and never let go.
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Why I Started Doing Standup
In a time when freedom of speech and public get togethers are being made illegal in formerly free places around the world, it's more important than ever that you get up there and speak your mind. Comedy is one way of doing that.
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Geraint Jones: Veteran State of Mind
Geraint Jones is an author, podcaster, and Veteran who served as an infantry soldier in both Iraq and Afghanistan for the United Kingdom. Geraint has written a historical fiction series about the roman legions, and his Afghanistan memoir Brothers in Arms was published in 2019. Geraint is also the...
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The 20 Year War with Dan Blakeley and Beau Simmons
Since the beginning of the Global War On Terror, we have started chronicling the story of this conflict. The history of warfare is typically written by generals. They give their thousand foot view, talk about the big strategic picture, and pay little homage to the perspective of those who…
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How to Defeat the Devil
Most cultural depictions of the Devil are as some sort of anthropomorphic beast with cloven hooves, a pointy tail, and horns. In Napoleon Hill's work Outwitting the Devil, the Prince of Darkness is something different: a formless force that can invade the mind of any human being on Earth. He...
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Supporting The People Who Are Fighting
In this episode I talk about people I consider to be on the front line of fighting for values and against government overreach. In this episode I discuss Ryan Michler of Order of Man, Eddie Gallagher, The Marine Rapper, Bryson Gray, Hire the Zapper, and others who are using their voices to fight...
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Eddie Gallagher: Fighting The Military-Government-Media Industrial Complex
Eddie Gallagher is a retired US Navy Seal who was falsley accused of war crimes, and then nearly railroaded by the military and the media. He, his wife Andrea, his brother, and his legal team successfully fought off the Navy's attempt to put him away for life, but at great personal and financial...
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How the VA System is Making Veterans Sicker and Poorer with Daniel Gade
Daniel Gade enlisted in the Army in 1992 and deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom as a company commander in August 2004. He was wounded by enemy fire twice and decorated for valor; the second wounding resulted in the amputation of his entire right leg. After retiring from the Army as a Lieutenant...
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On Sacrifice with Gold Star Widow Michelle Black
Michelle Black lost her husband Bryan in 2017. Bryan was serving with a team of his fellow Green Berets in Niger when his team of 11 was ambushed by between 100 and 200 ISIS militants. From the moment she learned of Bryan's death, her life, and the lives of her two sons, were turned completely...
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Protecting America in the Modern Age
Many of us grew up hearing stories about our grandparents and great grandparents in World War II, and wished we could have been part of something like that. The truth is, that we do have a chance to save our country. The ideas laid out in the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of...
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Dr. Kirk Parsley: Politics and Medicine in 2021
Over the past few years, there has been an unprecedented collision between medical science and politics. Some would say that politics has perverted science, and it seems that many people are viewing specific scientific view points as a religion. I brought my good friend, Dr. Kirk Parsley on to…
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From Average to Extraordinary: Mike Kurland
Mike Kurland is the founder and CEO of the Branded Group, a facilities service company based out of California. Over the past 8 years, Mike and his team built the Branded Group into one of the fastest growing companies in the country. Nevertheless, things weren't always easy for Mike. He started...
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Your Mission Isn't Over
Over the last week, there's been an awakening in the Veteran Community. We've seen Veterans coordinating the rescue of Afghan interpreters, holding their political leaders to account, and advocating for their active duty brothers and sisters. The question is: where do we go from here? If we fall...
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A Dam Strong Business: Beaverfit
Mike Taylor and Alex Roodhouse served as officers in the United States Navy's Riverine Units, patrolling the Euphrates River during the war in Iraq. Fitness was always an important part of their job, but as the demands of the job changed, so did the fitness requirements. When they first entered…
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Baktash Ahadi: Tragedy in Afghanistan
Baktash Ahadi was born in Afghanistan and raised in the United States. After college, he joined the US Peace Corps and went to Mozambique. As the US war in Afghanistan ramped up, Baktash decided to return to Afghanistan as an interpreter who worked alongside the US Marines. In this episode…
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The Afghan Blues
Like many Veterans, I'm angry and appalled at the United States' hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan. If you're angry, that's completely justified. You should be. But to change things, we need to move beyond anger toward action. Veterans need to step up in society to ensure this never happens…
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No Zero Days
I listened to this video a few weeks ago as part of my morning motivational routine called "No Zero Days." I'm not sure who put it together, but the concept really spoke to me. Essentially, the video encourages you to never have any "zero days" again. A Zero Day is a day where you've done nothing...
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Mike Robillard: The State of American Academia
Mike Robillard is a US Army Veteran and author who earned his Ph.D in Philosophy from the University of Connecticut before doing a post-doctoral fellowship at Oxford. Mike has since left academia to co-found an organization called Christian Veterans United, which seeks to restore the values of...
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How to Avoid Being a Slave to Debt
The financial decisions you make as an early adult can follow you for much of your life. In this episode, Chris discusses the mistakes he made with money, how to avoid them, and how to fix them if you've already made them.
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How to Deal with Imposter Syndrome
As veterans move into the civilian world, many of us feel innate insecurities about our experience and education in the new context. In this episode, I discuss overcoming this insecurity and beating imposter syndrome.
About this show
Reclaim your Warrior Spirit. Each week, we'll be discussing tools, tactics, ideas, and strategies to help you strengthen your body, enhance your mind, and dominate life. US Marine Corps Veteran Chris Albert delivers a powerful message: life is too precious to sit idly and watch it go by. The Warrior Soul Podcast was created to help all Veterans, and anyone willing to listen, to live their best lives. Past guests include: Ryan Michler, Ben Greenfield, Remi Adeleke, Chris Bell, and so many more.
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