037 Taylor Canfield

About this video

Taylor Canfield, a former Navy SEAL and K-9 handler with three combat deployments to Afghanistan, discusses his childhood in Colorado, his path to joining the teams, and his transition to professional NASCAR driving. Canfield recounts growing up in a blue-collar trucking family, impulsively deciding to become a SEAL after minimal research, and enduring BUD/S twice due to remedial training and a family tragedy. He also describes founding the Green Light Society, a nonprofit focused on adrenaline therapy for combat wounded veterans.

Key takeaways

• Canfield describes impulsively deciding to become a Navy SEAL after only a couple hours of dial-up internet research in high school, with no concrete plan beyond wanting the military to pay for college.
• Canfield recounts suffering bilateral stress fractures during BUD/S first phase and being placed in remedial training repeatedly, earning the nickname ‘iron marshmallow’ and essentially going through BUD/S twice.
• Canfield missed his BUD/S graduation because his father passed away three days before the ceremony, which placed him in an unusual limbo status between BUD/S and SQT while waiting to make up training requirements.
• After ten years on active duty including three Afghanistan deployments (one as a K-9 handler), Canfield transitioned to professional NASCAR racing and founded the Green Light Society, a 501(c)(3) providing adrenaline therapy for combat wounded veterans.

Episode details: published July 12, 2019 · 31.3K views · 2:37:59 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Stories told by Mike Ritland’s podcast guests are the guests’ own accounts, attributed to them — not independently verified. Commentary is Ritland’s, presented as his analysis.

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