Kidney Damage Neardeath Stem Cells Street Leadership Secrets
recovery"The kidneys were blown out from opiates. Just blown out. And all that stuff almost killed me." Boone on how opiates destroyed his kidneys on top of the heart failure — expanded stem cells from outside the country were the only option. The best stem cells can't be done in the US. Also covers street-level leadership and why warfighters need to step into community roles.
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excuse me, kidney disease.
And so another thing that just affected the heart.
And the kidneys were blown out from opiates, just blown out.
And all that stuff almost killed me.
So stem cells, the best stem cells are out of the country.
They're called expanded stem cells.
They can't do it in the United States.
And I'm more than willing to talk to anybody
about that stuff outside about stem cells.
That's my story.
It truly did save my life.
Who's next?
Hey, would you talk a little bit about,
you like to say the street level leadership.
Yeah, and I've been following your posts for a long time.
And it gets gritty and a little crass sometimes.
But it's very inspirational.
And you move a lot of people from point A to point B.
You want to talk a little bit about that?
Yeah, and that is the goal.
We want to get people from point A to point B.
When I talk about the street leadership,
I'm talking about emergent leaders.
Emergent leaders that are in their local communities,
making contact with people, and actually taking,
like it would be a travesty to come to this event
and not take away the message that we're talking about.
That would be a travesty.
And when I say not take away, that
means if you don't give it away to somebody else,
because you never know who you're talking about.
The guy who saved me at Walter Reed Army Medical Center that
helped me get out there, gave me a job when I honestly
couldn't even do a job, and let me work there for two years,
that guy had no idea that there would
be something called the Spartan Pledge that
came from me staying alive.
He just knew he wanted to help one person.
So the person that you're passing on information
to that you're helping, you've got
no clue what they're going to do.
No clue.
It's huge.
It's huge.
So make sure you look at every emergent leader that's
at that street level that's coming up right now.
Look at them like they're the next big thing,
and train them appropriately.
Tell them about that squad leader.
Tell them about your traumatic self, your actual self,
and your squad leaders in charge.
You give them that authority, and you listen.
Some people tell me this.
This is a real simple one.
Guys tell me, emergent leader, we're
talking that kind of stuff.
Guys tell me, hey, Boone, I don't know what I want to do.
I know I've got to have a purpose.
And I remember I went to the NCO Academy,
and they were like, you've got purpose, direction, motivation.
Those are three things a leader must provide.
And I just don't know what to do for myself.
And I said, OK, let's do it this way.
I'm going to follow you.
Where are you going to lead me?
So when you take the impetus off of them,
because we are selfless, and you say, no, you're not
taking you to the destination you're trying to get to.
You're not taking you to the objective.
You're taking me.
Where are you going to take me?
Because now you're responsible for me.
Changes the whole perspective.
Now guys can click in.
Oh, I got you.
OK, I'm not selfish now.
Because in my mind, I'm doing it for someone else.
I'm taking them.
Does that answer your question?
Where are you at?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
You're good?
OK.
Next question.
Give them to me, guys.
I love this.
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