Fight Story (Ep 33): Jon Macaskill | Navy SEAL | Commander | Males Speaking Mindfulness | Entrepreneur



At present we hear the Fight Story of Jon Macaskill, a retired Navy SEAL Commander turned mindfulness and meditation instructor. He spent a profession within the Navy’s Particular Warfare and navy Joint Particular Operations communities and served in Iraq, Afghanistan, off the coast of Somalia, and in Panama.

One story that Jon shares and which reveals the burdens and intestine wrenching features of fight, was his affiliation with Operation Pink Wings, which many will recall from the ebook and film Lone Survivor.

Jon is a Naval Academy graduate, holds a Grasp’s diploma from the Naval Postgraduate College, and, since retiring, runs a consulting enterprise that brings mindfulness and meditation to excessive performing groups to assist in coping with stress, anxiousness, and melancholy, all whereas rising focus, creativity, and productiveness.

He shares the advantages and alternatives each on the present and on his personal podcast, known as Males Speaking Mindfulness, which, as Jon described it, is what occurs whenever you mix a Navy SEAL and modern-day Hippie!

I hope you take pleasure in Jon’s sincere, humble, and difficult Fight Story as a lot as I did.

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Discover Jon on-line:

Web site: https://macaskillconsulting.com/
LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonmacaskill/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindfulfrogman/
Instagram Males Speaking Mindfulness: https://www.instagram.com/mentalkingmindfulness/

Discover Ryan on-line:

Observe on Instagram @combat_stories (https://www.instagram.com/combat_stories/)
E-mail ryan@combatstory.com
Be taught extra about Ryan www.combatstory.com/aboutus

Present Notes

0:00 – Intro
0:55 – Jon Macaskill’s bio and visitor introduction
2:00 – Interview begins
17:30 – SEAL competitors on the Naval Academy
24:55 – One thing most don’t learn about BUD/S (Fundamental Underwater Demolition/SEAL Coaching)
33:02 – Being an Officer within the SEALs
40:07 – Fight Story #1: Deployment to Afghanistan
51:03 – Fight Story #2: Operation Pink Wings and the Lone Survivor connection. LinkedIN article on this occasion that is properly well worth the learn: https://thriveglobal.com/tales/this-is-why-i-meditate/
1:00:50 – Managing trauma, guilt, melancholy and discovering meditation and mindfulness
1:15:48 – Widespread difficulties for individuals new to meditation
1:18:13 – The way to discover Jon on-line
1:20:27 – The good factor Jon did as a SEAL (leaving a submarine on an SDV – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAL_Delivery_Vehicle)
1:22:14 – What’s one factor you carried with you on missions?
1:23:45 – Would you return and do all of it once more?

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