A veteran explains how military training built his resilience and how he stays grounded through family, hunting, and helping other veterans find jobs. He sees his hardcore mindset and sense of ease as two sides of the same thing: staying true to himself and staying connected to people who matter.
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Are you ready for this? I decided to take them to the street and ask, what makes you hardcore and how do you stay at ease?
So what I think makes me hardcore is my resiliency, which everyone in the military, like, they pound that into you. Stay resilient, hunt the good things, uh, and all that happy stuff. But I feel like I've really embraced it in two ways. One is staying true to myself and always being transparent in my own person. Two, staying active in the veteran space. Even though I left the service, I still felt that sense of commitment from when I was a leader taking care of my guys, and I really missed that, and I wanted to get back into that. I could totally understand why people are like, I'm done babysitting people, I'm done herding cats. And now I went from taking care of, you know, soldiers that were on time, where they needed to be, to now helping individuals seek employment. It's basically the same thing, right? What puts me What keeps me at ease besides a bottle with a brown liquid, I would say, is my family and hobbies, because those really remind me who I am and what my values are. My hobbies of doing things outside, hunting, remind me of just like— keeps me motivated, what I like to do. And my family reminds me of who I am, what values I have, and just obviously everyone needs that support.