Season 5 Episode #16 Joshua Daniel - Burn The Ships - an inspirational lesson on COMMITMENT!

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Season 5 Episode #16 Joshua Daniel is coming from Bedford, Virginia (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find Joshua via his website herogamescharity.com and counterculturesolutions.com

About our guest: Joshua Daniel is the Founder and President of Hero Games Charity and the Founder and CEO of Counter Culture Solutions. With over 20 years in Special Operations and 9 deployments serving in the 75th Ranger Regiment and Special Forces, Joshua has lived through the toughest situations and learned what it takes to lead, adapt, and dominate.

As the driving force behind Hero Games Charity, Joshua channels his passion for honoring fallen heroes by creating impactful events that bring the community together in support of Gold Star families. His unique perspective—from the front lines to everyday challenges—offers a no-nonsense approach to life’s hardest lessons. Joshua’s focus is on more than just survival; it’s about thriving in chaos, mastering resilience, and taking control when everything seems stacked against you.

Joshua, thanks for your dedicated service to protect our country, to using your experience, insight and expertise in creating Hero Games Charity, and for your creativity in bringing Counter Culture Solutions to life as one of life’s great teaching tools. Welcome to the show.

TOTD – "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Teddy Roosevelt

In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

Military provides an opportunity to see the world… what are some of your memorable places you have been to?

COMMITMENT to being on the team with no intention of leaving the team…

War in Iraq was an inspiration for you at age 17… why?

Dealing with dark periods… what helped you get thru them…

Bedford has a HUGE military history…

Dealing with no access to technology… how did you get thru those challenges…

Hero Games was started in 2017 out of necessity… the games provided an opportunity to give back to your brothers and sisters who have fallen…Tell the story about the Hero Games journey…

Coaching at your brother’s Cross Fit company…what have you learned about people and coaching…

The honor of giving back….and something we should all do…

Books you recommend?

Congrats on your podcast – Hero Games.. interview the families who were the recipient of the Stoicism – what do you appreciate about it…

Hero Games

SEAR Training– survive, evade, resist, escape…was one funding source for Hero Games which led to Counter Culture Solutions

The Weight We Carry…

Legacy