Retired Navy SEAL Commander🔹Men Talking Mindfulness Podcast Cohost (number 3 mindfulness podcast in the world!) 🔹Keynote Speaker🔹Entrepreneur Through Acquisition 🔹 Striving to be a Better Dad and Husband!
People think the hardest part of being a Navy SEAL was combat. It wasn’t. The hardest part was leaving. Walking away from the Teams meant walking away from an identity I had built my entire adult life. The brotherhood. The mission. The clarity of purpose. What came next? Politics. Bureaucracy. And eventually—darkness. Anxiety. Survivor’s guilt. Luckily, years before, I had found mindfulness and meditation… in a counselor’s office when I was on the brink. And those practices didn’t just change my life. They saved it. Now my mission is different: to impact lives with the tools that pulled me back from the edge. Because leadership isn’t about titles or uniforms… it’s about serving. And sometimes, serving means being vulnerable and being honest about your scars. What’s a chapter of your story that changed your mission?
Your story is a reminder that purpose often emerges from the hardest transitions. Jon Macaskill
Powerful share, true leadership shines through vulnerability and service. Jon Macaskill
Profound and different path but same outcome my friend 🧬🙏🏽🌈☀️🌈🌊
Meditation isn't about making the mind silent. It is about realizing that the active or silent mind is objective to YOU. YOU are the witness of the mind - the mind isn't you. You are subjectivity. The space in which all objectivity arises.
Glad to know you found peace, Jon! Thank you for your service!
Jon Macaskill Being a Dad. Now my life is spent by and large raising my 13 year old son, Michael.
Know that all things in Gods universe are working to heal and love you into healing! Don't give up freedom is around the corner! If a little girl can make it out so can a big soldier like you!
You shined a light on one of the most challenging aspects is leaving a grounded core identiy of ourself. It is through supportive transition (like what you provide through grounding oneself Jon through mindfullness, meditation, and sparked you to share your abilities through at Men Talking Mindfulness (link provided here: https://mentalkingmindfulness.com/) It is through you finding what saved you Jon, that now you can help save others.
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1wVery similar story to you Jon Macaskill. Thank you for sharing.