Four Combat Seasons, Failures and Triumphs: Finding Your Way W/ Nick Devlin

2019-08-26

E26 Today we talk through failure as an entrepreneur and getting back at it over and over again. Nick Devlin is currently a life coach pursuing a role leading entrepreneurs in adventures to challenge their comfort zone in extreme outings. Nick is a 4 combat season Army Ranger 75th regiment vet, MBA graduate of Cornell, father, and husband. Sometimes it’s hard to know exactly what you want to do in life to live intentionally but you know it’s not what your doing currently. Nick talks through testing out what he thought he should lean into and what he didn’t like in order to finally land on what he feels he was meant to do. It’s ok if you don’t know what you want to...

E26

Today we talk through failure as an entrepreneur and getting back at it over and over again. Nick Devlin is currently a life coach pursuing a role leading entrepreneurs in adventures to challenge their comfort zone in extreme outings. Nick is a 4 combat season Army Ranger 75th regiment vet, MBA graduate of Cornell, father, and husband.

Sometimes it’s hard to know exactly what you want to do in life to live intentionally but you know it’s not what your doing currently. Nick talks through testing out what he thought he should lean into and what he didn’t like in order to finally land on what he feels he was meant to do. It’s ok if you don’t know what you want to do but you have to try different things and go for it to know what works and what doesn’t.

In This Episode We Cover

Moving frequently
Failure and getting back up
Taste testing your strengths
How does the Army play into your business
Finding your way
Stop going through the motions
Having a child and a marriage to keep in mind
Being intentional
Challenging questions
Facing issues entrepreneurs have in their relationship
No job’s are “safe” nothing is guaranteed
Saying it until it manifests itself

Quotes

“My biggest challenge is control, I say that’s my addiction is control and I was white knuckling life to death.” - Nick Devlin

“It’s incredible what can happen when you ask a question, and it’s a real question and its from the heart. You can change the world.” - Nick Devlin

Your in it, from the outside or what your doing on a daily life isn’t normal. None of it’s normal. But shit get’s normal when you do it everyday and when people don’t check you it’s a problem.” - Host Dave Swillum

Nick Devlin’s Links

nickdevlincoach@gmail.com

IG, Twitter, Youtube

@nickdevlincoach

Nick’s Recommended Book

You Are A Badass

by Jen Sincero

Waking Up From Work Podcast Links

Website

www.wakingupfromwork.com

Instagram/Twitter

@davewakeup