WHY MAKE LIFE HARDER ?!| REAL TALK with Navy SEAL Jake Zweig 

Mf gonna be 32 getting hazed by dudes who can’t buy cigarettes 😂

As a marine who served in the eighties 0311, one of the first things I realize is that your mind paints a picture of what it wants to see. And when reality sets in you realize you are left with fantasy and reality fighting amongst them self. Ok thats life. But one has to try really hard at first to distinguish what is fantasy and what is reasonable reality.

This young man needs to join a police department with a search and rescue unit. They do a lot of cool crap similar to PJ'S. They also get to carry guns and save lives.

Lots of ex-Navy Seal motivational speakers these days but people forget the meaning behind their message. They want you to overcome obstacles with a never quit mentality - not leave everything behind in your 30's and join the military. You should be filled with motivation not with regret.

This dude could be a volunteer firefighter or paramedic a few times a month. He clearly is wanting, something like that wouldn't disrupt his good life.

@11:50 "You been on a pipe smoking PJs!!". Fkn Jake!!🤣

I'm 42 and have multiple degrees, and my biggest regret is not serving. Jake tells it how it is, even if you don't want to hear it. That's very rare now a days. Love this channel..

I spent 8 years in the Navy and yea. I'd trade places with him RIGHT NOW!

Even being a Paramedic or a Firefighter isn’t what people think it is. People do get on that pipe and come through the doors with starry eyes like they’re walking into Disney. I would recommend going and seeing if he can do a ride along with a busy Medic unit. Once he’s been awake for 20 + hours wading around in blood and puke he’ll find out quick if he really wants to be there or not.

Sounds like the best route for this dude would be National Guard or Reserves if he really wants to scratch that military itch (assuming he could still get in at his age).

Best video yet. You can be a damn good man n still be civilian. Do you.....

You're the man Jake!!!

Jake tells it like it is. Man, I love it!!!!!!!

This guy can take the PJ creed with him, doesn’t have to be military. Could be his business. Take that creed and go run a 30-50 mile race and raise money for something that could help others live.

Another great informative video! Jake, you are giving him good sound advise regarding his life situation. He should look into National Guard or reserves. He could go check out a local unit, go to a drill (highly recommended) see if he likes it then enlist, go to basic training and Advance Individual Training (MOS job training) that’s about 4-8 months, depending on training. He really needs to think about things, he’s 30 and hasn’t been training hard for this, has a family and his own business. I went in the NG after active duty and sometimes it inferred with my civilian life. Got deployed to Germany for 9 months during the Bosnian/Serbian war. Great advice and video as usual!

solid advice i went in the army active duty 18 in 1975no special training it was still alot 3 years ft hood texas great advice well done

Your perspective on things, both yours and his, are why you are in those rooms with the people you are in them with. You both are needed in those rooms not for yourselves but when you see a very similar person, you may be able to offer them a different perspective and possibly a chance that you didn’t have. We need you where you are. It’s important!

I graduated college in 08 and enlisted because their were no officer billets and no jobs because of the housing crash. I have no regrets because it allowed me to figure shit out over four years while the economy recovered. It put me in a great position in life and I've utilized the GI bill for two masters degrees. If I had bigger and better options I probably wouldn't of joined but this was during a recession and the military is a great place to start your life over if you have to.

I thought about enlisting. But I stayed in college, got married, had kids, built a successful career and became an ultra runner. I won’t lie, I wonder sometimes what if. But my ultra running became my challenge that gives me purpose outside of my family. You want to find out what you’re made of in your thirties…become an ultra runner that also manages a career, a wife and kids. It’s tough but so rewarding.

Jake, laying it down. This is why I stay on this channel. One is never to old to learn. I am learning alot from this. I call it going to class. Why don't he start a security company. That is my goal.Spend your time, building your goals around your life's aspirations.

Jake YOU are the recruiter that these people need to hear. Not the official ones who will get them onboard at all costs. It is clear you genuinely are thinking about their welfare.

Jake Zweig you are awesome!

Jake you are speaking straight knowledge to this guy. You are definitely keeping it real.

Now that’s keeping it real.

Jake can talk so confidently because 1) he’s done the work 2) he can speak and articulate his ideas eloquently because he lives in the moment. He is focusing on this call and nothing but this call. You see with some of the colors they give you the “ughhh huh? Ummm” searching for the word to say when Jake will just respond quickly and with a purpose. Why? Because he’s focusing on now, when you focus on your present, your future is more bright. When you focus on the past, it’s dead and will start darkening your days. If you prematurely, think about the future, you are setting yourself up with false expectations because you’re failing to reach those expectations by working hard and present

Wisdom speaking…👍🏾💯

Good to hear this kind of shit because at 34 I wanted to enlist now I’m 38 & glad I’m watching these Videos on the couch, But I wanna say Thank you to all the brave men & women who have served this country you guys are heroes now back to COD

Savage Jake 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 back to back videos time to take these notes 📝📝

W video, thank you for everything your doing I am 13 and currently lost in what I want to do but the Military is one of my main passions and especially the Navy Seals. My mom does not like the idea of the Military but me being who I am and to the times I have listened to you I convinced her enough to listen to me for once!😁 I like playing sports, and I am very focused while playing because I want to be able to do it during live situations. Very thankful for everything happening in my life although I am very and still learning a lot, but I know nothing is impossible you just need to have the right mindset (learned this from you). Im going to end everything hear!

I would tell this guy to join a volunteer fire department

This was awesome. Your counsel makes so much sense to these young men, saving them headaches and heartache.

Mr. Zweig, love your videos. Have you ever thought of having anyone on as a guest who followed your advice or program and made it through buds? Someone who meets this criteria would be able to offer a perspective to these young men about how they dealt with adversity in buds that even being in top physical shape couldn’t prepare them for, among other things.

Lol. My best homeboy joined the army national guard at 35, for officer training. He's about to turn 37, get commissioned, and is enjoying the training immensely!

Not to be rude but I’m smelling a early mid-life crisis goin on. Jake is awesome to try to help people understand ,that sometimes ,the time has passed . If you’re that far down the road of life and have a family that’s ok !!! The one thing families need nowadays more than ever is a real man!!!

Go be a fire fighter or a police officer!!! You missed the boat on the military brother, but you wouldn't be to old to get into a fire academy or police department.

I could've done this episode better bro but I greatly appreciate this episode. I'm in the same position. The same exact position. I think I'm going to go the LE route. Appreciate the insight big dog. It answered several questions for me. 33 years old.

Jake Zweig!

Jake, just tell him to go Bruh. He is hard headed.

Team Leader too! Also in Army get EIB, & Ranger Tab & that will get you E5 3-4 years based off if you high speed or not! Also your body don’t recover as fast in 30’s!

I think you should start reccomending people go and try to do wildland fire fighting for a summer instead of construction. That imo will make them decide real quick how much ambition they have to live hard and die even harder.

I enjoy your content

He needs to dig deep into WHY he wants to be a PJ. Then determine if PJ is the only way to meet that need. It most certainly is not. Consider a different path that is leads to meaningful service.

I joined at 31 and he's right.

Yeah, unless this dude has an experienced medical background, PJ is a very tall order. Their pipeline is damn-near as physically & mentally challenging as the SEAL pipeline. Even more-so physically challenging when it comes to certain specific tasks.

I’m struggling with swimming I was a iron duck at Marine Corps boot camp and leaned enough to pass basic swim qual. I’m going to ITB in a 14 days because I’m currently doing RA. My goal is to try out for MARSOC in the future so I have a couple years to train while im serving in the infantry.

Age cut off for a pj is 38 There is a dude on the send me podcast that was 35 when he made it through pj selection

Simple keep things simple even when they’re not easy. Be mindful as well as follow Jake’s PDF. If you always wait around until you get a spike of motivation, then more than likely, you will not pass seal training. That’s almost like training for life, most people cannot handle something that’s not instant gratification. They lose motivation if they don’t get what they want quickly, which results to dropping out just before becoming successful. Yes and hard work is definitely needed, however, you need to be mindful. You can get yourself 100% ready for buds, but if you’re not mindful and conscientious you are in for a rude awakening. They do it purposely they want to see you operate when you’re not motivated, when you’re tired, when you just “don’t feel like it” how do you respond.? To be honest, with you even successful people, they don’t wait around until they’re motivated. If you lose motivation, which happens to everybody, all you need to do is stay consistent, you need to stay consistent with your virtues of motivation. The problem is too many people fall back on their “” when they lack motivation instead of being consistent with their virtues.

What is whit SF nacional guard?

I’m not trying to hate, and I wish this do nothing but success in the future he sounds like a great kid! I just have a bullshit detector! If his businesses were “successful“ or had any traction, as a business owner of three businesses all in real estate, one in creative financing, and buying commercial properties utilizing creative financing, the military be the last fucking thing I’d be thinking about. When I was 35 years old, I flipped a commercial property with zero dollars out of my pocket. I got it under contract for $945,000. It needed roughly $225,000 of renovations, and after renovations, the property would sell on the resale market for $2.5 million. I didn’t have a pot to piss in nor a window to throw it out of this was totally taking action. By the time the seller was asking me to put down my “earnest money“ I found an actual buyer who wanted the property who had the money to buy it and conduct all renovations. I assigned it over to this company for. $1.5 million. The buyer came to the deal with $1.5 million, funded escrow, escrow paid the $945,000 contract, along with the closing cost, and I was paid $525,000. The entire deal took me a week to work on until I was paid. I’ve never seen this money before in my life. It was all uphill from there with my business. So this guy is truly in finance or has clients like myself, what I pay my finance managers, the last thing they’re thinking about is scamming their feces down in the mud testing themselves lol They want to do that. They’ll go to some weekend getaway or a hell night somewhere to get their rocks off. This just tells me this guy has conducted numerous things and just gave up on it. We hear he drops out of and quit, then runs businesses, very vague on the businesses. All I hear is that he has two when all he says is “finance” giving no emphasis on what he actually does. Trust me if he was rolling in and his businesses were really “self-sufficient “he isn’t thinking about “testing himself “he be too busy and getting deals or getting another client. I’m just being honest unless he is out of a million. no offense by the sound of his voice he seems like an average person thinking he’s more than what he is. How much you want to bet. He probably grew up with no father, which is sad.

Just be an infantry officer in the national guard on the weekend to get the thrill he looking for!!!

lmfao @ on the pj pipe

Run an ultra get into running. Anything 31.1 or higher. It’ll get you there.

If I wanted to get access to the PDF with all of the run/swim workouts would I just need to send you an email

I get what Zweig is saying, but at 32, I think the guy if he is highly motivated and gets in good shape I think this guy can do it. Maybe he can explore the Army 18X program for the National Guard SF that way he can keep his business and still do the hooah thing part-time. Even the PJ and the AFSPECWARFARE has a part-time National Guard deal that a person can explore. So, if he really wants to do the SOF thing and keep his business going, there are options out there...

i know a tacp that made it around 30

Just join army National guard to be a weekend warrior.

I've been watching your videos and you've almost convinced me to go Army instead of being a SEAL, would wrestling still help me in becoming a Green beret or ranger

Sounds like this guys should become a firefighter…

Jake what do you think about skating? Failing a trick over and over and over until you finally land it. Would you consider it gritty? My entire life has been pretty damn easy so i dont really have a good concept of grit.

An excellent video like always JZ. Very realistic. I think this guy should try but not SPECIAL OPS. I joined at 36 years of age. I was running 1mile at 6:20 seconds at that age. I prepared myself before joining for months. I joined the MI as an E-4 Linguist. I am E-6 right now and so far I have not regretted it. At age of 42, I went to Selection went through until the end, unfortunately, was not selected. It was stuff. I have been all South America, learned a lot in the military. It is true about the age you will have younger PLT SGT's but the respect they give you is established by you. Besides that, at his age, you have to maintain your physical condition well. You should try but not PJ absolutely not my friend.

It's crazy these intelligent dudes got it all backwards and it's scary seeing these type of dudes make it lol

Military life is hard as HELL!! Married people should think about how tough it is on families and relationships in general! It's tough on single people, let alone married with families! Think about this and what these videos are saying! As a Marine, I had a girlfriend at the time and I saw her 6 weeks out of the two years we were together! We broke up eventually, but I'm saying it's a tough, rough life on anyone!

Just join the police dept swat team.

Rugged man of wisdom!!!

Are you still at UIW football?

He should join the reserves. Maybe police or fire fighter can scratch his itch.

If he really wants to serve, he doesn’t have to join the military. Just become an EMT or volunteer firefighter and serve your community.

Im not raising another man's kids

Can you go through BUD/s without 20/20 vision and able to wear glasses or its mandatory you have 20/20 vision. Because I currently wear glasses.

If he is that gung-ho; tell him to go Army Delta/CAG. After he takes that long walk, if he makes it that far, he will wake up.

I think people like this guest spend a lot of time daydreaming about what they see on social media and not being happy with what they have and are questioning throwing their life in the garbage for something they have no possible shot and getting through.

Just go army guard or Air national guard. Just get it out of the system

He can get a finance job in the army.

Im 28 can i still be a ranger?

Dude over there smoking that good crack lol

I know a guy who went to berekly and enlisted in buds and dor before 1st phase even started. I was so confused he could have done some many better things but now he is an e dog doin lame shit in the fleet. I thought he was smart

He needs to stop taking care of another mans kid and expand his own business.

Do u ever want us to work in fin work

And he fell over and that was it…🤣

Dude, go to med school! If you wanna be a PJ so bad…

I have to say I don't think you talked him out of joining, I don't think he had any real intention of joining. I do notice with the younger people you ask more questions about what they know about the military, what they have looked up, etc. With the older guys you tend to focus on their career and family, which makes sense. But this guy here, just sounded like he wanted an audience, he wants to join the military at 32, how many recruiters has he talked to? He do any research? He probably got off the phone with you and told everybody he knows he just talked to you, a Navy Seal talked him out of joining and he was so fired up to join. My BS meter was off the charts on this one. It is no different than someone offering to do do something, and says I can help or do it, but it would have to be at 7AM, you say okay, and there is a pause, wait I just remembered I have something to do first thing in the morning! If you told this guy, Go for it, you will get so much satisfaction from joining the Army or Airforce at 32, your sense of duty and purpose will be all you need, your family and friends will admire your devotion and dedication to the Country. I bet he would have been the one asking, but what about my family, my career/business, etc? This one here, I think he just wanted someone to tell him not do something he had no plans of doing anything. If he was remotely serious he would have looked into the National Guard, he didn't sound stupid, just like he wanted attention.

This guy sounds like having midlife crisis. Adopted three children, not his and not married to the girlfriend. She leaves him he has to pay child support since he adopted them. His decision I hope he listens to Jake.

This mf is crazy lol

Hes not tough..his current experiences does lead him to do anything

A hard life is a life that is a challenge to live A life that’s a challenge to live Is a life that is earned not given

I know this is 2 years old but dude … Dude you can get in shape on your own. Learn to skydive and scuba dive on your own. If you want to be in the mix of some stuff look into start a security company specializing in executive protection for the rich - not famous. Contract with Diplomatic Security Services, start your own Blackwater or something. You don’t have to join the military to do cool sh*t.

3 kids that arent his and he wants to be an E-1...she gonna leave his ass once he cant send those kids to college.

Holy smokes …he needs to go back to school and get his degree or join a volunteer fire dept. and JAKE…dude, you are a flipping counselor😂😂, a psychologist and you need to be earning a living on the advice you give. Man I would have to especially when you have to say the same thing over and over and over. Nah….I couldn’t listen to these kids who think they got all the answers. I couldn’t. Oh…yes I could….for a LOT of $$$$$.

If he go active duty he will not make it because he’s is his own boss for yrs. he will end up getting kick out.

O.I.C. I started you content , watched for 3 min and stopped ! With all do respect , he still thinks like a single man ? I would have said if you want to make a career , out the military ! Drop your broad and focus , that broad is dead wait . There's no time for marriage in the military...

Lmfao all these kids go straight to PJs… they aren’t hard!!!!!!!!!!

Terrible , your life is on the descending end , why you wanna be involved with a bunch of young hungry savages

Bro messed his life up taking care of another mans kids and being with a female who dont respect nor love him seriously for that same reason.