If I Can’t Trust You, I Don’t Want You in the Stack | Chad Wright

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Chad Wright, a former Navy SEAL, discusses his second deployment where he experienced a religious conversion during missions in North Africa and Nigeria. He recounts training Nigerian special forces and observing Christian and Muslim operators working together effectively. Wright shares how his newfound faith changed his perspective, and later describes making the difficult decision to step back from his SEAL career to support his wife through severe addiction, emphasizing selflessness and covenant commitment. He also explains how he discovered ultra-distance running as a way to maintain physical and mental challenges after military service.

Key takeaways

• Wright recounts experiencing a religious conversion during his second deployment and observing it change his interactions with teammates and his worldview.
• Wright argues that selflessness is the most important attribute in a SEAL teammate, stating that if every member focuses on serving teammates over personal desires, the platoon becomes unstoppable.
• Wright describes choosing to support his wife through severe opioid and benzodiazepine addiction rather than continue his SEAL career, framing it as honoring his marriage covenant and learning to ‘die to himself.’
• Wright asserts that addiction is more powerful than maternal love, sex, or money, calling it the most powerful influential force on earth, and emphasizes that his life with his wife is better than any career achievement could have provided.

Episode details: published January 18, 2026 · 7.8K views · 29:53 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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