Coleman Ruiz

I didn't know what to do with any of it.

Like, I didn't know what to do with night sweats.

I didn't know what to do with, I thought the term PTSD was the, was the biggest fucking joke on the planet until I read all the symptoms.

And I'm like,

Wait a minute.

And so it's that.

And so I remember even the little things that kind of make the point of the big things.

I didn't know how to get a dentist.

Like just go to the dentist in the military.

You know, I thought when I was walking around the food line that somebody was going to call me and say, come back to the base because like the bubble went up.

You just, I had zero context and didn't have the, not even just the courage, but know who to ask, right?

It wasn't the mentoring.

One of the most important books in my life in the last 12 years has been Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces for the back end of the hero's journey.

You should actually listen to it.

I've probably only listened to five audio books in my life.

I prefer to read in paper because I can take notes.

In the margin, that book is better listened to.

It was in that case, for sure.

So Joseph Campbell wrote that book in 1949.

And The Hero with a Thousand Faces is effectively the 17-stage hero journey, which, by the way, George Lucas says and has said many times publicly.