WRIF Virtual Rock Room with Dan Fielding
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00:00Thank you so much for watching Rift TV. Now, this interview is obviously with video, but I don't interview everybody on Zoom.
00:07That's why I put it on my Talkin' Rock with Meltdown podcast. We talk to rock artists from all over the genre.
00:13So check out Talkin' Rock with Meltdown wherever you get your podcasts. And now, to today's video interview.
00:20Now, Dan, I want you to know that I don't just shill for everybody, okay? I don't just, you know, just, I did this just for you.
00:30Wonderful. Fantastic.
00:32Yeah, The Asset Mindset, A Special Forces Perspective for Achieving Success is the book. We'll get into that here in a few minutes.
00:39But first of all, for those people that don't know who you are, like, give us, like, a brief synopsis of your career and tell everybody what you do now.
00:47Okay, so my career right now is I do security for Kid Rock, his personal security. I'm at his house when we travel with him.
01:00And I look out for him like I looked out for guys on my team when I was in the Army.
01:04So prior to working for Bob, we'll call him Kid Rock, I was a Green Beret on the U.S. Army Special Forces ODA 7226, which was earlier known as 756.
01:18So actually, I'm wearing the shirt right now. So shout out to my old team. And I was an engineer on there. So what I did as an engineer, it's called an 18 Charlie.
01:28So 18 is a reference to Special Forces. So everybody in the military has an MOS or Military Occupational Specialty.
01:39So I was 18 series, and then the Charlie was the engineer on the team, kind of like a combat engineer.
01:45So we would build things or we'd destroy things. We were the ones that would blow up a bridge or a radio tower or breach a door.
01:52So like there's stories in my book about me breaching doors and whatnot. So that was what I did there.
01:59Prior to that, I was kind of just a blue collar worker who ended up, you know, working in the family business, building houses, then went to school, got my degree in communications and business management and got my real estate license.
02:13I was planning on doing that with my dad. And then 9-11 happened. And as we know, 9-11 changed the world. And I was one of the people that it intimately changed.
02:23And that's when I decided to join the military at 27 years old. And I turned 28 in basic training.
02:29Wow. OK, I didn't know that. So we've known each other a few years, but there's a lot of stuff that I don't know about you just because, I don't know, we hang out and we talk about a lot of things.
02:36But what part of the country are you from?
02:38Originally, I was born just south of Boston. So I kind of, I guess, have some of them patriotic, you know, revolutionary blood in there, Paul Revere and all that.
02:50So, you know, Samuel Adams. Yes. I was born just outside of Boston.
02:55Yeah. You were a lot closer to 9-11 than I was growing up in Western New York. So you were you were kind of there.
03:01Yeah, it was pretty close. I mean, I actually thought about driving there because it was from my house where I lived at the time of 9-11 happened.
03:08It was like a four hour drive. Yeah. I remember that day specifically. It was a day just just like today here in Michigan.
03:16Anyways, I'm assuming all across the East Coast because we saw that all the video and whatnot.
03:21But that was the day that and it was like self cell phones and stuff were kind of new.
03:25And I remember trying to call my dad and you couldn't get through on lines.
03:28Yeah, no, it was a lot of that. I remember for me, I came down and, you know, typical routine, typical day, go down, turn the TV on, get some breakfast.
03:39And of course, what is there? Tower one was hit and it was burning. And I'm like, whoa, what happened?
03:45You know, so I'm eating breakfast, watching. And then live, I saw Tower two and the plane fly into it.
03:51And that's when I was like, whoa, OK, this is not this is not an accident.
03:55You know, this doesn't just happen. And then the Pentagon followed on.
04:01Yeah, it's just it was crazy that day.
04:03And it's amazing to me right now that we have people that are adults, you know, over 18 years old that really don't remember it.
04:10Because for our generation, that was like a Pearl Harbor moment, you know, on our soil.
04:16Yeah. And, you know, people, young kids that really don't know what 9-11 is, it's surprising.
04:22But, you know, we have to keep keep the information going out there and let it never be forgotten,
04:28just like the greatest generation did with World War Two and Pearl Harbor and share the stories.
04:34Now, it's crazy to think about how that moment changed your life, which it changed a lot of people's lives, for sure.
04:40But did the did the Dan Fielding back in the day realize he was going to be hanging out?
04:44I mean, to think of all the people that you hang out with nowadays.
04:48I mean, I've been to Rock's house several times and it's like I can't believe the people that walk through the door.
04:53And I'm like, I'm hanging out with, you know, name the person. Right.
04:57I mean, I'm just a I'm just a kid from BFE New York.
05:00And that day changed your life so much.
05:02And you've had to you've experienced a lot of things that some people will never get a chance to experience.
05:07Oh, yeah, absolutely. Incredible. I've been around Medal of Honor winners.
05:11I've been around celebrities. I've just, you know, and the funny thing is about all this.
05:18And this is why I wrote the book, The Asset Mindset, is it all was decisions.
05:22And this asset mindset philosophy is what brought me there.
05:26You know, like 9-11 created the fire inside me like I need to do something greater than myself.
05:33I always kind of felt it a little bit, but it wasn't it was just there in the background.
05:38It was like an ember. But 9-11 caught on fire.
05:41And I was like, nope, I'm changing my life.
05:43I'm making a difference in the world and I'm joining the military.
05:47I did my research, you know, and I'm going to war.
05:50So I'm like, I want to go with the best people.
05:52I want to go with special forces, people that are going to be on the ground.
05:55And at that point, I had my college degree and I went into the recruiter and he's like, oh, you've got to come in as an officer.
06:00And I'm like, no, an officer is going to take too long to get to special forces and be on a team because you've got to go to the regular army first and you can't go into special forces until you're a captain.
06:11So you have to be promoted a couple of times and I'm like, no, enlisted, I can get a special forces contract, which was an 18 x-ray contract.
06:20So I did that and I started being surrounded with amazing people and men that just motivated me, which is one of the key points in the asset mindset is, yes, you are your greatest asset, but you want to surround yourself with other great assets.
06:31And that's what ROC does.
06:33I mean, you see it like you talked about it yourself.
06:35You get to go there, hang out sometimes and the people you meet and they're all positive people.
06:40They're all giving like you and I in our friendship, you know, we hit it off immediately because it's just we have that same kind of mindset.
06:47And here you are helping me, you know, you're an asset mindset teammate to me and you got it, you know.
06:53Yeah, it's funny.
06:54It's funny you mentioned that because when I read this book, a lot of this stuff now, I never went to the military like, you know, I've made that very clear.
07:01I support the military and I'm a huge fan of people that have served and sacrificed for this country, as you well know.
07:06But it's like reading this book, a lot of it reminds me of myself.
07:10It's like you take responsibility, you take ownership, you, you know, you give and you get back, but you give more.
07:17I remember one thing ROC told me and I might be speaking a little bit out of school one time, but he says we help people and we don't talk about it.
07:23And it's like I never forgot that.
07:25Not that that's a bad thing, but that's just what he told me one time in passing.
07:28Yeah, no, absolutely.
07:30And it's funny when you say like, you know, the stuff with Bob and Sharon and, you know, ROC has just got great key points of life, those nuggets.
07:40I talk about nuggets that you learn from people.
07:42And one of the key points to the asset mindset, I call it, you know, it's a special forces perspective for achieving success.
07:50But one of the most important things that I try and convey in the book is that you don't have to be special forces to have the asset mindset.
07:59However, if you want to be special forces, you better have the asset mindset.
08:04Right.
08:04Yeah, exactly.
08:06So we'll get to the book here in just a few minutes.
08:09But a lot of people are wondering and I did text ROC.
08:11I'm like, hey, I'm talking to Dan.
08:13So I said, give me something.
08:14He goes, ask him about how you guys met.
08:17So how did that?
08:18What was he said?
08:18Something about the Bahamas or something.
08:20Yes.
08:21So I met him in the Bahamas in 2008.
08:25So in 2007, I was deployed to Afghanistan and I was running missions.
08:32Like literally, I did a raid on a house on my birthday.
08:36And like, that was crazy.
08:39A year later, I get out and I'm like, I want to do something special for my birthday.
08:43So I go down to the Bahamas and there I am on the beach, showed up first day, walking around.
08:50I'm like, here's some music.
08:51Is there a club over there?
08:52It's my birthday.
08:53I want to party, have some drinks, listen to some good music, whatnot.
08:57I'm like, something's happening.
08:58I'm going to go check it out.
09:00Who is it?
09:01It's ROC.
09:02He's got his private cabana.
09:03What does he do?
09:04Loves his music.
09:05He's a passionate guy for music.
09:07We all know that.
09:07All different genres.
09:09So he's got some great tunes playing and all that.
09:12And I'm like, wow, that's kid rock.
09:14Well, I got to go up and say thank you for all he does for the troops.
09:17And I kind of talk about this in gratitude when I explain how good gratitude is in the world and what an effective tool it can be for helping build the asset mindset or build relationships.
09:27So I walked up to him to thank him for all he does for all he does for the troops and, you know, supporting us.
09:33And he goes, oh, are you in?
09:35I'm like, actually, I just got out.
09:36And he's like, you just got out.
09:38Well, thank you for your service.
09:40Let me buy you a drink.
09:41And he gets me a drink.
09:42So our relationship for that first, I don't know, a couple hours and through on is he was thanking me for what I did.
09:50And I was thanking him.
09:52We weren't trying to like, oh, I did this or like you talked about don't talk about the good things you do necessarily.
09:59Don't be a bragger and don't boast.
10:01Just be you.
10:02And I was giving gratitude.
10:04He was giving gratitude.
10:05And we just hit it off.
10:06And here it is about 15 years later.
10:09We're friends.
10:10And I'm working for the guy.
10:11Now, he's you're not the first ex-military person he's hired.
10:16He's hired several of them in the past.
10:17So you started working for Rock right around the pre-pandemic, right?
10:23Well, I've worked for Rock twice.
10:26OK.
10:26This is one of the interesting stories of us.
10:28So I met him in the Bahamas like we just spoke about.
10:32And that was 08.
10:33He had to go over to Europe for a VH1 thing.
10:38And he was like, when I get back, I'm going to hit you up.
10:41And I think I might have a position for you.
10:43And, you know, of course, I'm like, yeah, OK, this guy, Kid Rock.
10:46Who am I?
10:47You know that he's going to actually text me or, you know, no kidding.
10:53January, I forget the actual date, but it's like January 8th or something.
10:57And I get a text.
10:58Hey, I got a show at the Borgata next week.
11:00You want to work it?
11:02I'm like, OK.
11:03So I worked that job.
11:06He goes, I'm happy.
11:07If you're happy, you got the job.
11:08So next two years, I worked for him.
11:11Things kind of slowed down in the tour.
11:14I was still in between touring, doing some Department of Defense work, working with Navy
11:19Seals, Green Berets, doing a lot of training, contractor work.
11:22And I kind of separated.
11:24We were still friends.
11:25Sometimes we'd hang out when our timelines matched, but, you know, it just kind of fizzled
11:32off with working with him.
11:33And then I moved to Nashville and he's like, hey, you know, why don't you come back on?
11:40We got a great relationship.
11:42We got trust.
11:43And I could use you again if you want to come back.
11:45So, yeah.
11:46And around the pandemic beginning, I moved to Nashville and started working for him again.
11:51So I'm about four years working for him and 15 years in a friendship.
11:55Yeah.
11:56You know, I don't want to, you know, pry too much here on Rock, but he is the guy where
12:01if he says he's going to do something for you, he does it.
12:05Oh, absolutely.
12:06Absolutely.
12:07And that's one of the things I respected about him, you know, and why?
12:10Because I wasn't looking to do this.
12:12You know, I wasn't like, oh, I want to be a, you know, security for a celebrity or do,
12:16you know, executive protection, you know, I enjoyed what I did with the Department of
12:21Defense.
12:22However, you know, when you're trying to surround yourself with positive people and do positive
12:27things in the world, he's my friend.
12:29I know he could use somebody that's really, truly going to look out for him and not, you
12:34know, try and take advantage of him.
12:35A lot of people have angles.
12:36We all know that.
12:37We see it in the world.
12:39And I don't really have an angle and he doesn't have an angle on me.
12:42Like he doesn't need me.
12:43He could be like, hire anybody else.
12:45He's got plenty of money to do that.
12:46You know, I have lots of credentials.
12:48I can do other things, but that's what makes a good relationship and a good team is you
12:54don't need each other, but you want to be around each other.
12:56Right.
12:57So what, what is the first, uh, the first domino to fall as far as like you deciding to write
13:03a book?
13:05The first domino to fall was probably, I think my wife and she was watching how I was helping
13:12people and sharing my philosophy or the asset mindset.
13:16At that point, I didn't call it the asset mindset.
13:19Um, but I also had friends that I work with.
13:22I have one military veteran who, um, used his GI bill to become like a psychologist.
13:29But when he needed help, he'd call me and talk to me, which was kind of ironic.
13:34And we've joked about that.
13:35I'm like, you're the one that got your PhD in psych clinical psychology.
13:38Why am I helping you?
13:40You should be helping me.
13:41But he's, and then he encouraged me to write the book.
13:44And then I have a family friend, um, who is an author.
13:47And he said, Dan, you know, you've got an amazing experience in life.
13:51You've done things that so many people haven't.
13:53You should probably talk about it and share.
13:56And so I just started writing and the asset mindset was kind of born.
14:01And I was writing because I wanted to share with people on how to help them better their
14:08lives.
14:09So one of the things that's core for me, that what I've done with the asset mindset is in
14:14special forces, we have a motto de oppressor liber, which is to free from oppression or free
14:19the oppressed as it's commonly known as.
14:21I think people now, a lot of these crybabies and snowflakes, oppress themselves with their
14:27own thinking.
14:28Oh, I can't, or, oh, this, or other people are against me.
14:31Like the struggle is real for everybody.
14:33You're a human being.
14:34Life is going to challenge you.
14:36You know, I'm now trying to take that motto de oppressor liber and move it into the civilian
14:41world where people get to free themselves from their own oppression.
14:46Because that's what I think right now is a problem in our society and world for that
14:50matter is we put ourselves down in our own mind.
14:54We oppress ourselves.
14:55So I'm trying to, through the asset mindset, you know, free the oppressed.
15:00Yeah.
15:00It's a, it's, it's clearly a, sometimes a victim mentality.
15:03So when you're, the thing that struck me about the book is that, and I've heard about this
15:07before, if you put out positive things into the, into the atmosphere, positive things
15:12will come back.
15:12And if you're a negative person, you're going to have a harder time.
15:15Yes, absolutely.
15:17A lot of people call that the law of attraction.
15:19You know, there's been a movie made about it called the secret.
15:22They talk about the law of attraction.
15:23Right.
15:24And it's absolutely true.
15:25I mean, think about it.
15:26If you're a positive person, are you going to want to hang around with people that are
15:29negative and down?
15:31Right.
15:31And if you're a negative person, you get uncomfortable around other people that are uplifting
15:36or positive, or you try and put them down like, oh, you're bragging or, oh, you're
15:40lucky.
15:41You know, I've had someone tell me I was lucky before that I was in the military and I got
15:45my college degree.
15:46And I'm like, how was that luck?
15:48I went to college, paid for it myself.
15:50I had to do the assignments.
15:52And then I joined the military and went to war.
15:54That is not luck.
15:56That is, you know, you make your destiny.
15:58And that's why I say everyone is their own greatest asset in life.
16:02Well, there's the old saying, the harder I work, the luckier I got.
16:05Yes.
16:07You know, we have a, go ahead.
16:09I'm sorry.
16:09Go ahead.
16:10Well, I was going to say in the military, we have something as far as like luck favors
16:15the prepared.
16:16That's true.
16:17Yeah.
16:17So the more you're prepared for battle, the probably the luckier you're going to be on
16:21the battlefield.
16:22The more you've trained, the more you've shot, the more you learned how to move and
16:25communicate, the odds are in your favor that you're going to be, you know, have the
16:30luck on your side.
16:31Yeah.
16:31I tell my kids all the time, I go, you know, preparation is really key, you know, and you
16:36know, you're talking about like, for example, when my son was starting out,
16:39playing hockey, he was a pretty good hockey player.
16:41And every time someone would steal the puck, he'd get mad and slash him or hit him or
16:44something.
16:45I go, look, you got two choices.
16:46You can whine about it or you can go get it.
16:48So that's pretty much life.
16:50You can whine about things or you can just go try to achieve them.
16:54Yeah, absolutely.
16:54And I love that you keyed in on preparation.
16:57And this goes back to like, I know you already have a good portion of the asset mindset.
17:01You think that way, because I talk about preparation and I can equate this to sports.
17:06I've already done some military analogies.
17:09Let's look at whoever's going to win, you know, the next Super Bowl.
17:13Did they win that Super Bowl just on that day?
17:16No, they trained, they practiced, they did plays.
17:19Before they even play their very first opening game, how many hours of practice, how many
17:25years does that NFL player that's going to maybe be the MVP of the next Super Bowl put
17:31in before he becomes MVP?
17:34It doesn't happen overnight.
17:35You know, you have to have that preparation.
17:37And that's where I talk about habits can become assets also in my book.
17:42Well, there's the new series on Netflix, which you just reminded me of.
17:46But I was just watching an episode last night about Urban Meyer and about when he took over
17:51for Florida.
17:52And it's like he went in there with a real militaristic approach.
17:56And what he did was he tried to break the guys that didn't want to be there.
18:00And the guys that wanted to be there rose to the top.
18:02And they were like, yeah, keep bringing it.
18:04And they're throwing up and everything else.
18:06And then when he won the national championship, everyone says, well, you're so lucky.
18:09It's like, well, wait a second.
18:10That day back in July, while I was sweating my ass off, that all prepared them to make
18:16those steps.
18:18Absolutely.
18:19Absolutely.
18:19And that's what we do with the special operations community.
18:23You know, you go through a selection process, whether you're going to be a Navy SEAL going
18:26through Hell Week, whether you're going to be a Green Beret going through selection.
18:29Like people will be pushed so hard that they're going to break you.
18:34And I talk about there's people.
18:36There was a guy that I served with that he was actually my airborne black hat or airborne
18:43instructor for airborne school.
18:46He was in there talking all kinds of smack.
18:48You want to be a paratrooper?
18:49You need to do this, do that.
18:51And rah, rah, rah, rah.
18:53Well, he ended up going to the same selection class I did.
18:55And he quit.
18:56He had all the time.
18:58I mean, he was a PT stud.
18:59He came in there.
19:00He did everything.
19:01Got a perfect score on his PT test.
19:03But he didn't have the heart.
19:04Everything came easy to him because he was in such great shape.
19:08But when they don't feed you right, you don't sleep right.
19:11You're cold.
19:11You're tired.
19:12That's suck.
19:13That's why in the special operations community, we have that saying, embrace the suck.
19:17And you just talked about it with the football.
19:19You know, like you have to embrace that.
19:21And the people that can embrace it and push through it and not quit, those are the winners.
19:26You know, you start a business, entrepreneurs, nothing straight up.
19:30The stock market isn't straight up.
19:32It's this and that and bumps and crashes.
19:34That's life.
19:36That's the ebb and flow.
19:37Yeah.
19:38It's like that old meme on the internet that think that, you know, people think because
19:41of your success, you went like this, but you actually went all over the place.
19:44Yeah, yeah, exactly.
19:46That's another prime example.
19:47You know, you talk about preparation.
19:49I don't know a band out there.
19:51And Kid Rock is a prime example of this that just goes on stage.
19:56You know, you see it all the time.
19:58He's constantly preparing.
19:59Oh, constantly.
20:01I remember being shocked about that when I first started working for him back in 09.
20:07Like we would get on the tour bus and then we'd get a disc burned, handed to us and driving
20:15to the next city that night.
20:17Rock would watch the whole episode or the whole concert, I should say, not episode.
20:22And he would be tweaking it.
20:24All right.
20:24What can we do better?
20:25Oh, the lighting was off a little bit here.
20:27No, let's get some timing with these lasers.
20:30You know what?
20:30The fans, they love Kid Rock.
20:32They're going to be like, woohoo, great concert.
20:34But he always wanted to do better, always trying to improve.
20:38And that, again, is the asset mindset.
20:40You know, people that are successful are always working.
20:44They're always trying to be better.
20:45And if you're not working to be better in life, then your life's not going to get better.
20:49It's not hard.
20:51It's kind of like diet and exercise if you want to be healthy.
20:54Yeah, there's some things that necessarily can't be totally controlled by diet and exercise.
21:00But I can pretty much tell you your odds are a lot better, like we spoke about odds.
21:05If you do diet and exercise, even if you get an illness, you're going to be able to handle
21:09it better.
21:09You know, you're going to be able to recover faster.
21:12There's things that we all know we can do.
21:14It's having that discipline and then taking ownership of our lives to really make it happen.
21:20And that's what the book is doing for people.
21:23And it's really changing lives, which to me, you know, there's that old saying, the pen
21:28is mightier than the sword.
21:30After 9-11, I was all sword.
21:32I'm like, you know, but for us, it was a rifle.
21:34You know, I'm like, I'm going to go get these guys, these terrorists.
21:37They're killing innocent people in the world.
21:39They don't even know who they are.
21:41You know, like the poor people on the planes, kids, everything.
21:44I'm like, this is evil.
21:45I need to go and hard charge.
21:49But now I'm seeing how I'm changing people's lives and I'm able to touch so many more people
21:53through this book.
21:54It absolutely just is mind boggling.
21:57And it's creating more fire for me to get it out there, to help people, to do stuff like
22:03I am with you, to share it because it's truly making a difference.
22:08And I'm so humbled by it.
22:10Yeah.
22:10Whenever somebody like contacts me about, you know, advice for their kids or, you know,
22:14they want to tour the station or something.
22:16I always try to do that to help out people, to kind of show them what's going on out there.
22:20You know, you mentioned Rock watching episodes, you know, watching his shows, his concerts
22:24back.
22:25And that's just, I'll tell you exactly why he does this.
22:28And I almost, I'll almost guarantee why he does this.
22:31It's the same reason I will watch this or I will listen to my podcast because when you're
22:37in the moment, it's way different than when you're watching it from the, from the crowd.
22:41Oh, absolutely.
22:42So that's why he does that.
22:43That's my, that's my take on it anyways.
22:45Yeah.
22:46Oh, that's absolutely.
22:47Cause you can't see everything when you're doing it.
22:49You know, if you're a boxer, yeah.
22:51When you're there feeling it, it's different than when you're in the fifth row.
22:55Yes, absolutely.
22:56And you learn a lot.
22:58And that's also, you know, being someone that can take criticism.
23:02You know, you're going to critique, so to speak, your show or yourself.
23:07Like you do that, you watch a podcast of yourself or something you did, you know, we all need
23:12to critique ourselves.
23:14It's very important, but we can't let it get us down.
23:18Like it's got to be a positive, like, okay, this is a learning experience.
23:23You know, I love that acronym that they use with fail first attempt in learning, you know?
23:28Yeah.
23:28You may fail, but you're going to learn from it.
23:31So it was a lesson and everybody failed.
23:34I mean, you can go to Sylvester Stallone.
23:37How many times did he try and get the Rocky movie out there?
23:40You know, and his manuscript got shut down and then it ended up being an incredible worldwide
23:46hit and went on, you know, like there's so many stories like that.
23:50Well, I think that people that tend to win a lot, I think they're kind of losing at something.
23:56You know, I always told like, you know, once again, going back to my kids and hockey, I
24:01don't mind if they get their ass handed to them as long as it doesn't happen all the
24:05time.
24:05You've got to get your ass beat every now and then, right?
24:08Yep.
24:09Oh, absolutely.
24:10I mean, some days are sunny.
24:12Some days are rainy.
24:13Sometimes it's a hurricane.
24:15Sometimes it's perfect, you know, and that's what makes you appreciate those good moments.
24:19If someone always wins and I'll go back to that black hat that I had, he was always able
24:24to be the stud and to do things.
24:26And then when he wasn't, he couldn't handle it, you know, and that makes people soft.
24:31You need to have some of that, you know, failure to build character, to build heart so you can
24:39push through the struggle of life.
24:43Yep.
24:43No question about it.
24:45Well, Dan, I'm going to ask you one final question here.
24:47What is the meaning of success to you?
24:51Oh, success to me.
24:53And this is something I'm going to go back to my dad, who was a huge influence and my
24:56first real hero in life.
24:58If you did something to move your life forward, at least one thing that day, and you can put
25:04your head on the pillow and you were honest and open and go to sleep without any guilt or
25:09stress, that's success.
25:11I mean, think about it, if you can go to bed every night and just be happy with who you are
25:17and how you live.
25:18So if you don't wake up that next day, you went to bed at peace.
25:21To me, that is success.
25:22I mean, there's other things like, oh, is this book going to be a New York Times bestseller?
25:27Oh, is this record going to be platinum?
25:28Those are success in different terms, but true success to me, because all those things
25:36at the end of the day, when we're on our deathbed or whatnot, that's where we got to reflect
25:40and be like, are we at peace with ourselves?
25:44And did we do everything we could to live the best life and give love to the ones we care
25:49about?
25:50Well, I'll tell you what, Dan, I really appreciate your time.
25:52The Asset Mindset, Special Forces Perspective right here.
25:56I'll show the book once more, one more time here.
25:58You know, you've always been a really good and fair to me.
26:01And I think that we've clicked ever since I met you.
26:03And of course, it doesn't go unnoticed to me whenever we're hanging out that, you know,
26:08you're really the true hero in our relationship.
26:10I'm just some guy that just floats along on your coattails.
26:13So I appreciate everything you've done for this country and your sacrifice and your service.
26:16And of course, the book as well.
26:19Thank you, sir.
26:19I appreciate it so much, Meltdown.
26:21You're a great American and you are one of the people why guys like me did what we did.
26:26For fellow Americans and our family members.
26:29And like, that's what makes the American soldier or warrior so special.
26:35Yeah, there's no question about it.
26:36Well, Dan, thank you so much.
26:37Good luck with everything.
26:38Maybe we'll see you down in Nashville sometime soon.
26:40Okay.
26:41All right.
26:41Sounds good, my friend.
26:42You reach out anytime.
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