Digital Social Hour
Unlock Peak Performance: Proven Habits for Success | Taylor Cavanaugh DSH #1189
Tue, 18 Feb 2025
Ready to unlock peak performance and transform your mindset? 🎯 Join Sean Kelly on the Digital Social Hour as he sits down with an incredible guest who shares life-changing insights on discipline, resilience, and building unstoppable habits for success. 🚀 From navigating the challenges of elite military service to overcoming personal struggles and finding purpose, this episode is packed with valuable lessons you don't want to miss. 💡 Discover how mastering your daily habits, embracing emotional intelligence, and connecting with your true purpose can lead to a life of excellence. 🌟 Whether you're looking to improve your mindset, boost your productivity, or simply find inspiration, this conversation is a must-watch. 🙌 Tune in now and join the conversation! 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🔥 Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 🗝️ CHAPTERS: 00:00 - California Fires 01:56 - RFK Documents 03:28 - Emotional Intelligence Strategies 04:55 - Joining the French Foreign Legion Experience 09:49 - Life in the French Foreign Legion 12:04 - Illegal Gold Mining Operations Impact 17:49 - War in Ukraine Analysis 18:57 - France's Role in Global Affairs 22:49 - Geographic Isolation Challenges 25:02 - Fiscal Conservatism Principles 28:21 - Dark Money Operations Explained 30:44 - Lessons Learned from Hard Times 33:43 - Kicked Out of the SEALs for PEDs 39:55 - Exploring Your Spiritual Side 41:18 - The Origin of Thoughts 42:58 - We Are All Connected: A Perspective 47:13 - UFOs and Their Implications 48:53 - What's Next for Taylor: Future Insights 52:55 - Outro APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Taylor Cavanaugh https://www.instagram.com/tcavofficial LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ #peakperformance #militaryexperienceinsights #motivationalvideo #sportspsychology #motivation
Chapter 1: What challenges are faced during Californian wildfires?
All right, guys. Got Taylor here escaping the fires, man. It's getting rough out there.
Yeah, man. It's been heavy. We're right in between it. So right in between San Diego and LA, we're in that inland area, Canyon Lake, kind of Temecula area. But dude. It's been horrible. Man, it's heavy. You know how that stuff rolls in. This is just that perfect storm of shit, man. That's Santa Ana with all the stuff going on, man. It's a shame.
A lot of people lost their homes, man. Dude, it's crazy. I try not to get too conspiratorial, but it just seems like a lot of fishy stuff, right? Yeah.
Yeah, I agree. Well, you know, I always say, don't just shed off as conspiracy what can be just complete incompetency.
I feel like conspiracy back when we were growing up was like, you're crazy. Yeah. Like if you believed in those. Yeah. Now it's like.
normal dude i mean there's so many people that have so many agendas and i don't put anything past anybody especially if you got enough enough ass in the sauce to be able to make some shit happen right and i'm sure you witnessed these firsthand you know with your military experience right yeah man i mean also you also i also in the devil's advocate piece it's hard to keep a secret.
It is hard to keep a secret. And so there's that conspiracy piece of you really need a lot of people to keep a lot of secrets and that's tough to do.
Yeah, because some of these are wild. Yeah, and I don't really trust people's ability to keep their mouth shut. Yeah, and on social media these days, I mean, people are just quick to fire the trigger. Yeah.
They're like, oh, I got a secret, man. Let me tell you how much you're going to pay.
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Chapter 2: What insights do RFK documents reveal?
Yeah. I was curious how Kennedy was kind of, RFK was kind of looking at how that might feel, you know, being family associated.
I mean, he must have known by now, right?
Yeah, I'm fascinated with some of the dinner conversations with that family, bro. Can you imagine? Yeah. You know, they've had helicopters landing on their front lawn for decades, you know, just being that... that tied in that high up. I can't imagine what some of those conversations are.
Yeah. It's going to be interesting, man. My grandmother, I was too young when he got assassinated, but she, she really got affected by that one. Yeah. You know, my grandparents, that was a big deal back in the day. Bro, imagine that scene.
That's powerful, man. That's pretty, that's powerful. what that, how that actually transpired. Yeah, because they got it on video too. Yeah, dude. I mean, people live. Imagine, I mean, we had almost that same thing happen here, you know, with, I mean, there was a lot of talk, but people think about what that actually would have been. That's horrifying, man.
That type, that level of violence and people seeing that and somebody died there too, right? And so...
man it's it's nothing just to scoff at that that level of violence yeah yeah you never wanted to get to that that far even if you disagree right dude people are extreme man yeah dudes talk some shit out man it's okay to have ideas but people get so wrapped up emotionally it's lack of emotional intelligence man yeah how how did you get control of your emotions because i'm assuming you weren't born like that right no dude i'm actually probably one of the worst i had a
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Chapter 3: How did emotional intelligence play a role in the French Foreign Legion?
I had a real bad temper growing up and all that wrapped in with growing up. And it's no excuses, it's just kind of reasons or things that I had to learn. But I really learned my ability to control my emotional state, my internal vibrational frequency in the French Foreign Legion, where I had everything stripped away and was just kind of forced to go internal, man.
Yeah, because that's like the highest level of the military over there, right?
Well, it's infantry. It's highly trained infantry unit. It's just a very unique unit. Anybody that doesn't kind of know 30,000 foot overview, it's like a couple hundred year old institution that's just foreign fighters in France started by an old king to get foreigners out of the bars and back onto the battlefield without the political pressure of French coming back in body bags. Interesting.
And they fought in every war from Algeria to fucking Afghanistan. Holy crap. Yeah. So it's a very, it's about 7,000 guys, almost all foreigners. And they have French officers for the most part that come from their like West Point, you know, equivalent over there. And all the rest are foreigners, man. And so you show up with a bag of,
and your passport and knock on the door dude it's like the it's like the wizard of oz man you just go there's no application there's no fucking there's no calling ahead you just go there's two little bases one on the east east outskirts of paris and one in south france
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Chapter 4: What is life like in the French Foreign Legion?
You just go knock on this big iron metal door and a dude with a gun and like a green beret, who was a French foreign legionnaire, will open it up and be like, qu'est-ce qui se passe? You know, what's up? You know, je suis ici pour la Légion. You know, if you Googled a little French before you got there. And they tell you to get up on the pull-up bar and you hand your fucking passport.
And I didn't see that passport again for three years, man. Whoa. Yeah, you hand it over. And if you make it through... You can't leave the country. You operate under a fake name. They give you a fake identity and all that. Holy crap. Yeah. It's a very unique institution. That is super unique. 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
You can go there at Christmas morning and knock on this door and they'll let you in. No days off. No, it's 24 hour guarded. It's just what they do, man. That is interesting.
Yeah. And all sorts of perspectives because you said it's people from around the world. It's not just French people, right? Yeah.
Yeah, it's 150 nations represented in the French foreign nation. So, I mean, in my graduating class of like 50 guys, it was Venezuela, Colombia, El Salvador. You have countries, every country in Africa, South Africa, Mali, Chad. And then you have all the way to Thailand, Mongolia. Yeah. Man, and every Eastern European, a lot of Eastern Europeans. Ukrainians, Romanians, things like that, man.
Nepalese also.
Yeah, so super tight-knit, too, because only 7,000, only 15 are class. So that's, like, very personal.
Yeah, man, and so it's about 1 out of 15 guys who knock on the door will actually get selected. Oh, that's it? Yeah, it's about 1 out of 15 because they're looking at your feet, your legs, your... Overall body composition. Military experience. Age. 18 to 39 and a half. 17 and a half to 39 and a half is the window. But they're looking at everything. And also...
massively important is the interview. So psychological evaluations, IQ tests, and Interpol background checks.
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Chapter 5: How do illegal gold mining operations impact South America?
So, or every few days, but in South America, uh, A lot of people don't know. I didn't know this. I didn't know France had territory in South America. I did not know that. It's called Guian Francais, French Guian. So they actually have, they use the fucking Euro. They speak French. Really? And yeah, and so it used to be a penal colony. And anybody seen the movie is the Papillon.
It's like with Dennis Hoffman, old movie in the 70s. That's the movie about French Guian, which is, dude, there's a lot of gold down there. The whole job down there was patrolling deep jungle operations, Pretty much combating, not combating, but policing any illegal gold mining operations and also kind of securing legal gold mining operations for French companies in French Guiana.
So you would run into illegal gold miners? Oh, dude, we do 14 day patrols. I had no idea how prolific it was down there. We would hit a new one every day.
Whoa.
Dude, every day, 14-day patrols in. Hit, hit, destroy, run off. Because you can't really wrap these dudes up, dude. You're 14 days hiking in the jungle. What are you going to do with them?
Yeah, you can't bring them back.
No, you can't bring them back. Dude, they would have full-on little cities built. Dude, they would have karaoke bars. What? They would have whorehouses, man. They would have... It was like coming into these small little shack villages, man. And so we'd be like, dude, we'd have to... wasn't really disrespectful.
You're like, Hey man, you know, we'd break their engines, you know, pretty much burn the buildings down. Cause, but it, dude, they would use tons of mercury. There was to cut the gold. They rip apart that place in terms of chemicals. Dude, they would have us jumping in these mercury lakes, pulling out diesel engines and hoses and shit. They're like, hey, Navy SEAL, go for a swim, you know?
And I'm like, all right, dude, let's get it. New guy on the totem pole, man.
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Chapter 6: What is France's role in global affairs?
and just fill we'd have water purification tablets and so just fill you'd go through three liters of water in like a hour holy so you'd have to consistently be refilling these things and putting water purification tablets and ideally hiking near a river or patrolling near a river so you can actually keep your water surplus like
up it's substantial so you have one completely wet pair that you just have socks pants boots and that's just soaked then in your ruck because you're carrying chainsaws and sledgehammers and shit you're carrying a lot of heavy shit
and as the american they gave me a lot of extra love too so i had a little extra weight you know of stuff to carry but in there you have a dry bag with dry stuff that you only bring out at night after you kind of rinse off in the river and kind of like clean up a little bit then you'll put your dry on it dude putting that dry on at night bro is like
heaven yeah heaven man you lay in your hammock you're like oh dude just having dry feet for like five seconds i love it it's like putting on the fresh laundry it's a little warm oh dude it felt amazing and then in the morning you're putting all that wet shit back on because it's not drying so it's like wet socks and pants and your shirt you know like putting a wet shirt back on yeah it's good times man like why did i sign up for this dude i was actually happy because
Working in the French Foreign Legion is like a break because back at the regiment in France, dude, the French Foreign Legion is like prison with a gun, man. It's strict, very strict, very formal. It's a lot of pressure. Job satisfaction is not super high. It's a lot of guys that are from really poor countries that need to be there. Some guys running from the law, they need to be there.
So it's a tough job. it pushes, it's like an Eastern block. A lot of Eastern block guys are in leadership positions on the enlisted side. So you, those dudes are fucking tough, man. You got, you got Moldovians, you know, dudes from Belarus, you know, all, you know, tough, tough places. And they push that culture down.
You know, and so that's who's running the show, as it should be, not judging it. It just is like that. You know, that's just the reality of it. That makes sense.
So you were the only American out there?
There was one other American who was in my company who ended up going to Ukraine. So he ended up leaving his contract early and going to fight in Ukraine. He's still over there. Prior Marine. Yeah, that war is still going on. Yeah.
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Chapter 7: Why is fiscal conservatism important in the current climate?
left and, you know, very, very tough laws around weapons and all that stuff in France. But then you also have this other juxtaposition where foreign French foreign Legionnaires patrolling the streets.
Very odd. The psychology of it's fascinating because over here it's the reverse. You see a police officer, you get nervous. Yeah. You know? Yeah.
That, that, that authority, who knows why, why that is. Maybe we have some, you know, I think, I think it is our geographic isolation and the safety that's created that we're like, what, why do I need this? Yeah. Cause we have no imminent threats. Yeah. Why does this, why does this authority thing need to be here?
Why does this guy with a gun need to be here? Other countries are worried about invasion. They got neighboring countries to worry about. We're so, like you said, we're so far out of the way. We're not worried about invasions.
Yeah, man. And it's important for people to remember that we we are safe because of our big stick. Right. Right. We flex a lot of power and and that deterrence important. Right. I'm not necessarily I don't think we need to be in all these different countries spending all this money. But there is a line that I think is very important for us to maintain.
Yeah. There's always that debate of like, should we send foreign aid here? Should we send it there? Should we even get involved at all? Yeah. I mean, we're helping so many different countries.
I think probably the answer, and I think Trump's mentioned it too, is we got to dial a lot of it back. Agreed. I think that just being fiscally conservative, I don't think should be a bipartisan issue. No. Being fiscally conservative, man, you operate your home finances that way.
Yeah, the government is a business, right, at the end of the day.
Yeah, man, it's money in, money out.
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