Gary Brecka
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And at that point I was a recruiter and I was like, Hey, like I can, like, that's what Goggins did.
I was like, I can recruit kids by using this Instagram platform.
If I can build it, like, can you guys help me?
And they're like, no, like we don't fucking, we don't, we don't like this.
Like we don't want you doing this.
Why is that you think?
I don't know.
I think, you know, I, I don't think that's the military in general.
I had horrific leadership.
like everyone on my team was fat everyone was out of shape like it was the small town iowa it was the small town iowa vibe within the iowa boys in the iowa national guard like like you know well that's not normal we don't do that you know and like they didn't they didn't i didn't have any type of support from me saying i want to do hard things and post about it on instagram so people can see it but i never even had like i didn't even think i never once in my life was like i'm going to
be an influencer.
Or, you know, like I was just like, hey, people are loving, like people are telling me that I'm just inspiring them to run.
And you know, like, this is cool.
Really like the biggest moment of my entire life, the turning point moment was I came home from Austin and my ex-wife met me in the kitchen and was like, I want a divorce.
As soon as I walked in the door.
And I, we had been having horrific problems.
I was, I was a horrible person.
I was a liar.
I was a manipulator.
I was, I was horrific.