Chad Robichaux

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That would be in New Jersey. I mean.

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Oh, I think hours. If our military wanted those things out of the sky, they would be down in hours. Well, that's the question.

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I 100% think. I mean, I watched John Kirby speak about them, and he says, they don't know what they are, but they're not a threat to public safety, and they're not a national security threat. Well, that means they know what they are. That's what I thought. The Pentagon spokeswoman said it's a local law enforcement matter. They're not reacting because they know what they are. We can relax.

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I think so. I think we know exactly.

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Well, I ran a lot in service because of, you know, being in special operations, all those fields you run a lot. And, uh, but, uh, I, I, I probably ran from like 13 years old to about three years ago. I kind of backed off from running because I felt like it was, uh, it was starting to impede my jujitsu, uh, competing in jujitsu.

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Thanks for that, Chad.

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When I came to Christ, it was after all my deployments to Afghanistan. I came home and just fell on my face, and I was in that just complete rock-bottom moment. I was in a complete state of panic, panic attacks, anxiety, depression, and just real hopelessness. And I spent about three years in just this dark downward spiral. And at the end of that three years ended in a suicide attempt.

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And that's when my wife came in and some amazing people from my community came in and got around me. And I was really confronted with the truth that everything I had tried to repair, the damage I had done to myself, to people around me, that I was trying to fix myself, that I was not capable. Everything I tried had failed.

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medication, counseling, professional success, the MMA stuff, rebuilding my ego and trying to, you know, rebuild what I thought I lost from my, you know, my persona and then bravado, all those things, uh, you know, so some of those things are good. Some of those things are bad, but those things had helped heal me and restore me.

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And, uh, the only thing I had yet to try was, it was a relationship with Jesus. And, uh, so for me, it was kind of like, I made it into my rope. I've tried everything else. What do I have to lose? And I, and I made a, uh, a very, uh, I'd say uninformed decision. Cause I didn't even really understand what I was doing, but it was just like, I'm going to give God a chance.

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And, and, and, but that came, that decision came with about a year of discipleship that radically changed me because I realized that all the things that had happened to me, the anxiety, depression, those all came from some moments that happened in my life and some bad things happened, but those things didn't leave me to be in a closet, my pistol in my hand, wanting to take my life.

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What it led me there were the choices that I made responses to those things. And so I really, I realized through this year of discipleship that the problem I had was a, a problem with my own wretchedness, with the choices that I was making and, And all these bad things that happened to me, those things were not what had caused me to be in that situation I was in. It was a choice I was making.

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So the Bible gave me a new blueprint to make better choices. And so did I still get anxiety, depression, all those things? Of course I did. I've been through some hard things. But when I did, I went to the Bible for how to respond in accordance to what I was dealing with. And I became very intentional about it. And through that, I found restoration. I found hope.

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And ultimately, I found a new purpose. And that purpose manifested in me, just this deep desire to pay it forward and share that story with others and that I knew how many other people were struggling with the same thing I was struggling with. And, you know, my whole life has been just committed to that sense.

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Yeah. For me, like, um, it's funny when I hear people say that about me and a lot of people, I hear a lot of people say that about me now, uh, not as eloquent and beautiful as Chad said, it really, really meant a lot. And you said that, but, uh, my wife gets to see both. She's this contrast. She's like, you did not like people. I didn't want to talk to anybody. I didn't want friends.

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I had the guys I worked with and that was it. I didn't want like, don't invite anybody I don't know over for dinner. Like, I don't like that. My wife was like, she used to hate that, that she couldn't

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I didn't want to meet new people, yeah. So the fact now that I had this heart for people and I really had this really just compassionate heart for people is still surprising to me. You've been made a new creature. Yeah, it's a brand new creation.

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I'll let Chad go first, because I know he's got a good one. I do too, but I don't want to steal time from him.

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That'd be the same for me. I mean, look, before I surrendered my life to Jesus, everything was about me. I always worked hard. I always felt like I'm a provider for my wife. I'm going to make sure I'm working hard. I'm going to put a roof over their head. They're going to be safe. all the things that I'm supposed to do. So I felt like that was, that was my responsibility.

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That was my duty and I did it well. But what I realized looking backwards now is that I was the center of my own universe. Like the whole world revolved around me, me, my wife, I was in a marriage from a wife to provide what I wanted out of a relationship. My kids were, I was their, their father for them to be there to serve me. Everything was me focused.

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And I was, you know, very selfish and, uh, and, And so that surrender to Christ, I think changed something in my heart that make me from selfish to And I would have never admitted to being selfish before. I'm like, what do you mean I'm selfish? Like everything I do is for, like I'm serving the military. I'm serving, like working hard. I'm providing.

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Like I would have never even saw it, much less admitted it. But the truth is, you know, I was selfish. And it's a shift happened in my heart to go from selfish to selfless and realize that my life's really not about me. My life is about service. And that's why I think I'm, I thought I was service driven before, but now even more so I'm service oriented, service driven.

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My life is about others, but it starts in my home. It starts with my wife. It starts with my children. Because I can't serve well in ministry if I can't do that at home first. So it starts there.

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We could spend hours just- We could, we could.

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I got a new fiction series coming out called Silent Horizons. It's actually available on Amazon right now for pre-order.

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Yeah, it's very much Jack Carr style, that style.

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In fact, Jack wrote the forward cover, like the cover endorsement on it. Jack Carr did.

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Yeah. So the resilience shows my podcast. And in fact, uh, as we're recording today and it'll already be out once, once this drops, but, uh, but is the episode with, with Chad, right? So, I mean, we just, this was short. We didn't get really into chat story. If you want to hear out Chad's full story, we, he just, he, he, man, he, he unburned and bore, bore his life story, which is super powerful.