Chadd Wright

Date: 2025-07-31 | Duration: 3h 0m

Episode Overview

Former Navy SEAL and Christian speaker Chadd Wright joins Joe for a three-hour conversation about faith, mental toughness, death, and the transformation that happens when a person confronts their own mortality and limitations. Wright grew up chewing tobacco and hunting, and uses that Southern outdoors background as a baseline for discussing what hard physical experience does to a person's character. A significant thread covers his time sitting with dying people — something the old version of him would have dismissed as wasteful — and how that experience fundamentally changed him. He talks about a man who was dreaming as he passed, seeing into the next realm, and the strange peace that accompanied it. The Shroud of Turin comes up as a case study in evidence and faith, followed by a broader discussion of Biblical interpretation and the tension between demanding faith and providing evidence. Wright closes on mental toughness: preparation, planning, and training force you to grow in ways that comfort never could.

About Chadd Wright

Chadd Wright is a retired Navy SEAL, accomplished endurance athlete, motivational speaker, and entrepreneur, known for his relentless pursuit of excellence and mental toughness. As a co-founder of the Three of Seven Project, he empowers veterans and civilians alike to embrace resilience and overcome adversity through the principles of teamwork and leadership. Chadd has completed numerous grueling endurance challenges, showcasing his physical and mental fortitude, which has captivated audiences and inspired countless individuals to push their limits. His compelling stories of service and perseverance make him a sought-after speaker, instilling a sense of purpose and determination in all who hear him.

Key Moments

– Sitting with dying people — how it changed him
– Man dying while dreaming — seeing into the next realm
– Shroud of Turin as evidence and faith case study
– Biblical interpretation — making anything out of scripture
– Mental toughness through preparation, planning, and training
– Growing up hunting in the South — tobacco and shotguns
0:00:00 – Chewed tobacco since childhood — the Southern outdoors baseline
0:17:14 – Hunting — tree to tree with shotguns, cutting up and laughing
0:46:27 – Old version of himself would have thought sitting with dying people was a waste of time
1:06:28 – Man dying while dreaming — seeing into the next round, the next realm
1:50:38 – Shroud of Turin — have you ever really looked into it?
2:12:16 – Bible interpretation — you can make anything out of it if you want to
2:54:14 – Mental toughness — training forces you to prepare, plan, and grow

Transcript Excerpt

Starting point is 00:00:00 The Joe Rogan Experience. Trained by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. Yeah, I do too, man. I chewed tobacco pretty much since I was about 13 years old. But you know, as you get older, you start to try to optimize everything, because the world tells you everything's going to kill you. Is chewing tobacco going to kill you? Well, you know. Starting point is 00:00:33 I've heard people get mouth cancer. Yeah, that's the main thing, is mouth cancer. Mouth cancer's pretty nasty. All forms of cancer are pretty nasty, but mouth cancer can really screw you up. And I think it's the, you know, like the chemicals that they spray on the tobacco when they're growing the tobacco. So I don't know, maybe if you grew tobacco organically and then you chewed it, it wouldn't give you mouth cancer? Probably makes sense. Starting point is 00:01:05 I don't know. Well, I was just reading something that 100% of California wines that they tested had glyphosate on them. 100%. Yeah, believe it. Which is just nuts. You know, yeah, that stuff is everywhere. I mean, it's never going to go anywhere, Starting point is 00:01:23 because when I was in the Navy, I lived in Virginia, and we moved out to a rural community. And they grew corn and soybeans primarily in the fields, and nothing else would grow in that dirt. Like, you could for the genetically modified seed or whatever they put out there, you know what I mean? And how long does that stay in the soil? Like, does that ever come, can you ever get that out of the dirt so that other things could or would actually thrive there again? I guess after many, many years you could. Yeah, it's many, many years. Starting point is 00:02:08 I had Will Harris from, he's from Georgia, White Oaks Pastures, you ever heard of that guy? I actually listened to that episode that you did with him, man, because I've ordered a pile of meat from them. He's great. He is. That was a great episode. And it's a great episode to educate peop...

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