You don’t grow a mustache like this without doing some serious shit. Shane Barnes did bad things to some bad people as a 160th Nightstalker. Most notable- an operation a couple years back that killed the top ISIS leader. Shane didn’t miss. He took my spot on that operation, and I stayed home. The result was a bad dude dead and the birth of my daughter 9 months later. He pushed me- and I pushed him. The type of relationship that accelerates your life. Shane was killed when the force positioned across the world to help our allies. He left behind a very young family.

I have a CRO role, but I am not a sales expert. Unlike a majority of my searches, experience is a requirement here. So I tapped in the sales process himself @JerimiahLee to help me assess the experience portion. I’m considering the same approach for some CFO searches that I am asked to do. I can find the talent with the military background, and couple it with someone who intimately knows the role better than me.

I'm working with a PE backed $100M ARR MarTech platform that is looking for a CRO. Killer opportunity to lead both sales and account management teams. Develop the entire revenue strategy (build and scale the sales process & grow the base customers). Ideally they have experience in Ecom, performance marketing, or MarTech. If this sounds like you DM me or if know a killer tag them.

The best commander that I had kicked me out of his office one day when I came to him with a problem. There was an aircraft maintenance issue, I was new and unsure of what to do. "Ruf get the fck out of here and come back with recommendations" I had to source info from the maintainers, evaluate the options, weigh the pros and cons. And by the end of it I had a pretty solid idea of what to do even though I was light on the subject matter. That was 2012, and since then, when someone gives me a problem, I just ask "give me three options" and I wait. The good ones come up with options and present. The great ones execute and update later.

Update: problems compound too! All a result of getting more than i asked for!

I am looking for a materials engineer- does not have to have a military background. Recruiting for a advanced materials company. -Remote role -Exec team is all prior special operations/IC -$250k base + equity Will pay referral for candidates

I'm at one year post ibogaine + 5-MeO-DMT journey. Here is what has transpired (going to be long): -First 120 days were bliss, lots of neuroplasticity This timeframe was critical for integration, building better habits. I became and remain consistent with closeness to God, and finding peace in faith and family. Alcohol became very unattractive. Today, I have maybe a beer or glass of wine 1-2 times a week. Zero desire for hard liquor, whereas previously I drank a good amount. Started meditation practice, which I was consitent at but dropped off. Need to do some work there. -Post 120 days, fluctuations in depression/anxiety resumed. While I had hoped this wouldn't be the case, it was. I felt better equipped to handle it, but the reality is my entire family has a history of this, so likely chemical. I started SSRIs, and that was a complete shitshow. This set me back dramatically, going through iterations of different ones was the most brutal 4 months of my life. Coming out of that, I felt closer to how I did within the first 120 days of ibogaine. What began to emerge at this point was the unveiling of memories around my dad dying when I was 17 that I have not addressed in 20 years. A fear of death began to emerge- not wanting to die as he did: physically and emotionally alone and in a period of life that was extremely low for him. This got to the point where one night I was terrified of falling asleep, thinking that I would not wake up. So I called @KrissBergTweets the next morning and we scheduled a journey. We gathered the boys @MatznerJon @smallrites @KHendersonCo and went out to CO. I was very nervous about this- my last trip (5 MeO) was terrifying, and I didn't want to go back there. But, I felt the calling to dive in the month prior, and knew it was what I needed to do. My experience was incredible- I relived some key memories around my dad, and sobbed for 3 hours, only lifting out of my pillow to watch @KrissBergTweets @smallrites prancing around the deck underneath a meteor shower. I did 20 year of therapy in 3 hours. That puts me today, and here is the real evolution that has occured: Anything beyond my family, faith, and friends is a bonus. Material things are nice, but I put little weight in them. Business wins are fun, and I would like to avoid problems, but it is a means to providing a lifestyle, not a rich life. We are all heading to the same place, all we can leave behind is love, and that you are exactly where you need to be at all times.

Got this question in the DM's about "oneshotting" in psychedelics. I get asked it a lot. It's probably the #1 fear keeping people from trying it. Who *wouldn't* be afraid of getting permanently rewired during a trip? Here's my answer: First off, it's extremely rare to have lasting *negative* psychological events. It's less than 1% in the studies I've researched. There's also a ton of subjectivity here, what one person views as a negative experience is another's 'doing the work'. Second, the one-shotting is more associated with large doses of ayahuasca and harsher hallucinogens than we do at our retreats. We have two options generally: mushrooms/psilocybin, or Unity which is a microdose of several different hallucinogens. You're doing a relatively low dose in both cases, there's just not enough in there to freak you out for life, to be blunt. The Unity is the most gentle psychedelic experience I have ever had. No harsh, agitated "liftoff" that some medicines are known for, the come down is as soft and comfortable as any I've ever had. And the trip itself is probably one of the most beautiful experiences of my life. Third, the set and setting are actually just as important as the dose. Hoot (our facilitator/shaman) creates a container that is so gentle, peaceful, uplifting, positive, that everyone's (so far) takeaway is lifechanging in a positive direction. That's the real magic to his ceremony, the dosage and medicine is just one part of it. The settings I've heard about one-shotting tend to be large groups (as many as 50 trippers) with relatively few facilitators (I've read the ratio is 20:1 in some places). This is a recipe for disaster and you can see how this environment (a bunch of wigged out trippers running around and not enough facilitators to help them) could have a damaging effect. Our events are 5:1 and often less. Many providers are doing 1:1. This is a far better set up. Finally, I'd like to see some of the infamous "oneshotters" a year or so after their trip. The stories you hear of people coming home and upending their lives, many of those turned out for the better, I'm guessing. Quitting your job, selling your business, ending a toxic marriage, changing your life - that's exactly what some people need and want. More importantly, those seeds usually were sown long before they took the dose. The medicine revealed the truth - it didn't insert it. For 99% of psychedelics users the #1 outcome is CLARITY. They see their lives, their past, their spirituality with clear eyes for the first time. AMA...

2 years in, still having a lot of fun

By far the best recruiting firms out there are franchise development/growth groups.

That is an Apache

Think blackhawks cost a lot in maintenance?

Cliff is such a good guide that he will even carry all of your meat out for you while you focus on footage

-sophisticated -parents are immigrants -looks great with a top off -high maintenance but ages well

We had an older Italian guy as our fraternity chef He would use this to clean kitchen equipment

I keep coming back to this domain What would you do with it? (I need some ideas to push me over the ledge- I feel like there could be some real goodness done)

How could I forget? -A nice rack

Figured out how to nuke my tax bill. And my cash.

Some of my finest work, i think