Andy Stumpf

And you think SEAL training is hard?

Imagine something that you don't have the vocabulary to describe how much you love and thinking every day, I don't know if I'm going to get this back.

What else can I do?

And now, thankfully, by staying the course, I think I have a closer relationship.

And not everybody has that outcome, but our relationship is probably closer than it has ever been.

And he'll call and ask for my advice or just want to bounce stuff off of me, which I think is apparent.

Like if your kids are soliciting your time to ask questions, whatever it is you're doing, stop doing that and take the time because it's pretty awesome.

And it means...

that they care about what you say.

But I thought that was gone, man.

You want to talk about soul searching?

There's nothing I did in the SEAL teams that made me wonder whether or not I was a good enough man to still exist.

And I would think about those too.

How could you not, with all three of my kids, how, and I have this conversation with my wife now, who honestly is the only reason that I think I pulled out of that was the recognition and seeing from somebody else, like, hey, just so you know, like, I know you're going through it, but this person sees something in you that is worthwhile.

I mean, I dedicated the book to my kids and to my wife for that reason.

But we'll talk about this now because it's like, why would they say that?

Or why would they do that?

And she's like, listen, that's always going to be their mom.

I'm like, yep, got it.

Totally nailed it.