![]() ![]() But we'd stuck together through the tough times, and I'd thought we were in a pretty good place. The marriage had seen its troubles, especially with me being away so much during the sniper school years. Not that it was entirely out of the blue. We were never going to be that family, the one that split up and fractured our kids' lives. There was nothing in the world more important to me than our kids. Keeping this family together was the reason I'd left the military in the first place. I'd lost my business, our life savings, and now my family. The situation I was in now played on my deepest, darkest fear.įear of total personal failure. ![]() True, none of that sounds very appealing. You can talk about bombs and bullets all day long drowning or being waterboarded, shot in the Afghan high-mountain desert, thrown to rot in an Iraqi prison. There are fears like the fear of falling, of flying, of injury and death. And then my wife told me she was leaving. ![]() I'd poured in just about all my net worth, money I'd been saving for years, as well as money from a lot of investors, including family members, friends from the military, and more. I'd been out of the service for more than five years, most of that time spent building Wind Zero, my multimillion-dollar business venture. ![]() The following is an excerpt from "Mastering Fear: A Navy SEAL's Guide" by Brandon Webb and John David Mann. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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