My guest for this podcast is Steve Giblin and he recently released a new book entitled “Walking in Mud: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Rules for Surviving the New Normal“.   Steve is a Retired U.S. Navy Frogman ~ SEAL Master Chief.

In this interview with Steve, we speak about the new normal and Steve tips on  how to survive and thrive everyday challenges based on his own experiences as a Navy SEAL. His book, “Walking in Mud: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Rules for Surviving the New Normal“ serves as a guide map to get to the other side better and stronger than we were at the beginning of a journey none of us signed up for.

There’s a lot to be learned in this book about COVID 19, survival, sincerity and commitment. If you want to learn more about surviving in the new normal, I encourage to listen to this engaging interview with Steve Giblin.

If you want to know more about Steve, please click here to be directed to his website.

THE BOOK

Drawing on his more than two decades as a Navy SEAL, Steve Giblin uses his own experiences to offer wisdom and counsel on how to cope with the new normal imposed by COVID-19.

During his first few weeks as a Navy SEAL, Steve Giblin found a simple, typewritten document left behind in an old desk drawer by the Team commanding officer, entitled “THE TEN ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF AN UNDERWATER DEMOLITION MAN.”

That single page, and the maxims it contained, followed Steve wherever he was based during his twenty-six-year career with the SEALs—fourteen of those as part of the legendary strike force that took down Osama bin Laden. Steve still lives by those tenets today, coming to realize how it laid out a regimen not just for elite warriors, but also for the rest of us in our day-to-day lives.

Steve’s book – Walking In Mud, is much more than a Navy SEAL book. It’s a metaphor for living life. Walking In Mud provides a prescription for both healing and thriving, a guide map to get to the other side better and stronger than we were at the beginning of a journey none of us signed up for.

THE AUTHOR

Steve left his hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico enlisting in the Navy in 1981 at the age of seventeen for a four-year hitch that turned into a twenty-eight-year odyssey. Serving first in the Fleet, he attended and graduated BUD/S in 1983 and served in the SEAL Teams until he retired in 2009 as a Master Chief. His tenure included over two dozen overseas deployments as an operator for contingencies and named operations.

He served at SDV Team twice, DevGru for 14 years, NSWG-3, BUD/S & NSWCEN.  He rose to the level of troop chief, assault team chief, and command master chief within the teams and then went on to work for Naval Special Warfare Command for nine more years as a contractor and civil servant before retiring in 2018.

He now lives in upstate New York with his wife Barbara.

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You may also refer to the transcripts below for the full transcription (not edited) of the interview.

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