FLAME with Brad Hook
How Do I Overcome Fear? Insights from a Combat Veteran and Spy
Mario Bekes spent 1,800 days in combat, worked in military intelligence, and now holds a Guinness World Record. His subject: fear — what it is, what it's for, and how to act anyway.
Mario's authority on fear wasn't earned in a seminar. From active combat through intelligence work to rebuilding his life as a businessman and author in Sydney, he has met fear in its rawest forms — and developed a working relationship with it that most of us never need, but all of us can learn from.
We discuss courage as a practice rather than a feeling, the mental frameworks that function under genuine threat, and how to 'hack' the brain's fear machinery for the ordinary battles of business and life. Intense, generous and surprisingly funny.
In this episode
- What 1,800 days of combat teach about fear
- Courage as a practice, not a feeling
- Mental frameworks that function under real threat
- Translating survival lessons to business and life
- Acting with fear rather than waiting for its absence
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