Right this moment we hear the exceptional Fight Story of Derek Herrera, a former Marine Particular Operator who led Marines in Iraq, Haiti, the Center East and Afghanistan. Whereas on a MARSOC operation in Afghanistan, he was shot and paralyzed.
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Derek is one other considered one of these guys that simply makes you are feeling lazy and that he has extra time in a day than you do.
Moderately than surrender after being injured, he medically retired from the Corps and has achieved important success whereas persevering with to serve others.
He’s the President of the Board of Administrators of the Marine Raider Basis, Chairman of the Board of MedTechVets, founding father of Behavior Digicam and UroDev Medical (previously Spinal Singularity), a keynote speaker, and host of the FORWARD podcast.
Derek is the actual deal who spends all his time placing others forward of himself and I do know you’ll get pleasure from his inspiring Fight Story as a lot as I did.
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Intro Music: Sport Rock from Audio Jungle
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Present Notes
0:00 – Intro
0:41 – Visitor introduction (Derek Herrera)
1:37 – Interview begins
3:31 – Having an entrepreneurial spirit since childhood
9:32 – A navy household and eager to be a Navy Seal
13:28 – The Navy Seal choice course of and never making it
21:08 – Mindset going into the Marine Corps
28:06 – First deployment primarily doing raids in Iraq
40:23 – A full-circle second serving to the Navy Seals as a Marine
45:11 – Deciding to go the Particular Ops route within the Marines
53:52 – First and solely deployment as Particular Operator in Afghanistan and what his missions had been like
1:04:58 Fight Story – The operation that modified his life and left him paralyzed from the chest down
1:12:58 – Response to studying he was paralyzed and the way he discovered a option to keep in navy
1:18:53 – Deciding to transition out of the navy and discovering ardour and function in enterprise
1:27:44 – The Marine Raider Basis
1:35:18 – What did you carry into fight?
1:37:24 – Would you do all of it once more?
1:39:44 – Listener feedback and shout outs
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