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If I put the work in and the effort in, I could achieve that. I think the question JB asked is, do you choose that or does the market, or the job choose it for you? . We've acquired all these things, and now we want to give it to you, and to you, and to you to be a better version of yourself. Yeah, I lived through some, and here I am, and now I'm really grateful to be present, but there's more to it than that. It's hard enough, as you know, to win a championship, it's even harder to repeat. For me, it's this purpose larger than self. There has to have been a time during that process that you got completely shit on, or you were like, oh, well Or somebody said, "Forget it, Foley. For my life, very quickly, is on the teams, on the Blue Angels, you go into that assignment knowing exactly how long you're going to be there. I have all this. She joins hundreds of other women who have served with the Blue Angels . And now my mind, I'm out of that heightened state of awareness, and I actually drop down a state, check out the three dimensional world, and then I can pull myself back in. I actually suck at it. Your brain and your hands aren't that dialed in yet. John Foley:No, I love it. That's the first part of the question. It comes with practice and it comes with the awareness. I'm going to learn this. I have to come up on the radio, and I got to say six is clear. By closing this banner, scrolling this page, clicking a link, or continuing to browse this site, you agree to this use. And that's great. It absolutely changes the neurons, the neuroplasticity in your brain, and you'll start to have more happy thoughts and you'll perform better. John Foley:What I realized with all science that's out there on gratitude and appreciation is just how powerful that mindset is for performance, how you can actually increase performance with this mindset. You bring the best athletes you can, but it's not about an individual. We learned how to do this without anybody ever teaching it to us. Motivational Speaker, Business Speakers, Keynote Speakers. During 1992 season, the Blue Angels traveled to Europe for the first time since 1973 to perform 16 air shows in 8 different countries including Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, England, Spain, Italy, Finland and Sweden. Then here's the last thing, and I'll do this for any leader is go, or anybody really, go forward in your day, and I use my calendar, but think about others, not just yourself, and think about, how can I show up in a way that helps somebody else. I have what I call my glad to be here wake up, and a glad to be here reboot. 192 Listens. Erik Weihenmayer:I could sense my breath. I want to know first off, are they even aware? The famed Blue Angels regularly take to the skies for maneuvers that bring their jets within mere feet of each other. There's fundamentals that work like breathwork, like my morning routine, what do I do when I wake up in the morning? Erik Weihenmayer:You thunk yourself out of it. Fearless Success: Beyond High Performance. This boat is moving up and down. He drives home his message with dynamic videos of his adrenaline-pumping performance with the Blue Angels. And then the work goes in and you start to realize that yo won't know unless you go, you won't know unless you tried. I believe, in all our jobs, we got to paint the picture of what the extreme looks like first. Oh, it's simple for me. PENSACOLA, Fla. - The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, released their 2023 air show schedule at the International Council of Air Shows convention, Dec. 7, 2021. Climbing, flying jets, that's not hard. Well, I was going to ask, speaking, I mean, you and I are both out there, and Jeff too, at the highest levels. Keep going JB. I'm so glad there's such a similarity here, and that's why I've been looking forward to talking with you is we've never flown a perfect air show. I initially tried to do drums, and I was just talking about this, and that is, I wonder why. He shows how to create buy-in and commitment for a teams vision and goals, leading to clarity that drives execution decisions. Yes, there's process, there's procedures. 109K views 5 months ago Blue Angels Podcast In what was once thought to be an impossibility, the Blue Angels made history in 1992 by becoming the first United States flight team to fly over. Jeff:Yeah. It exists. I know they are by two points. I was supposed to deploy on the midway, which was a four deployed carrier. Erik Weihenmayer:Or you get internal with yourself and you start making mistakes or something, like how pitchers in pro baseball get in a slump or something. He called me up, and we were actually using some of the video I'm in. But I do remember that distinct moment. I'm excited about it. But it was a dream that I remember in my heart. So, we have the rotation that's planned. Learn from people who have done it, and there's a combination of process and mindset. I appreciate you, my friend. I'm in my jet training, it's called A-7 Corsairs. Not that I was out of parameters that I didn't clear. The other new members include an events coordinator, a C-130J Super Hercules pilot, an aviation maintenance officer and a flight surgeon . Play Audio. The U.S. Navy Blue Angels will transition to the Super Hornet platform for the 2021 season. So, they allow you more time, and then you just start, just like you, you just keep upping the game, where now you start flying jets, then you start flying faster jets. In Good Condition. If someone missed something, then you point it out to them. $19.50. If we back up to your adolescence and you started your training, and someone would've told you you're going to be a Blue Angel when you were like 20-years-old, you would've been obviously happy, but would that have been believable or were you just, in your mind, fast tracking and you knew exactly where you were going and how you were going to get there? At first, you're like, I wouldn't say you black out, but everything goes by so fast. Jeff:Number one question would be, were you the one who said it's time to step away from the teams, or did they say, we need some new blood in here? They leave the event not only transformed, but also with a set of concrete tools to immediately begin a high performance climb. Even if Alabama is a better, let's say team, proven by the earlier performance, the chances of repeating that are so hard at this level. John Foley is a former lead solo pilot of the Blue Angels, Sloan Fellow at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, leadership expert, speaker and Gratitude Guru. Does the gratitude negate that or overtake that in some way? It allows you to sort of get You're a flow guy, right? As if it happened yesterday, Foley fondly reflects on a flight he gave to his Russian counterpart that rendered his new comrade unconscious during a demonstration of high performance capabilities of the F/A-18 Hornet. As a Blue Angel, John consistently performed in an extreme, high-stakes environment, flying at speeds of more than 500 miles per hour in formations as close as 18 inches apart. Now I'm understanding. Happy 2022 everyone. Then the other thing you got a chance to do, and this is very unique with the Blue Angels, is you got to admit your own mistakes first. I think the challenge tonight is that Georgia got their asses handed to them by Alabama, right? But again, that was just academics. With his signature Glad to be Here mantra, Foley discusses the power behind gratitude as a way of thinking, working, and living. I've gotten the chance to ascend Mount Everest, to climb the tallest mountain in every continent, to kayak the Grand Canyon, and I happen to be blind. LINKS TO JOHN FOLEYS SOCIAL MEDIA AND WEBSITE:Website: https://www.johnfoleyinc.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JohnGucciFoleyInstagram: @johnguccifoleyTwitter: @johnguccifoleyINTERVIEW TIMESTAMPS0:00 Intro1:14 How \"Gucci\" Got His Callsign3:05 Upbringing5:22 Attending the Naval Academy6:48 Jet Training in Beeville, TX8:09 Flying the A7 Corsair12:21 Operational Deployments 13:45 Joining the Blue Angels21:35 Opposing Solo22:20 Lead Solo23:38 New Maneuvers26:35 1992 European Tour32:20 Historic Moscow Visit 47:11 Blue Angel Reunions49:28 Blue Angels Foundation51:30 Glad to Be Here 301, taxi you over to the six pack, shut it down. (Navy) The Navy's Blue Angels will conduct their final flight in the legacy F/A-18 Hornet . No, here's the challenge I have. My name is Erik Weihenmayer. Sometimes I'm a little bit ahead, sometimes a little bit behind, but I'm talking inches instead of feet. I liked it. You can't do it forever. John is a former lead solo pilot of the Blue Angels, where he consistently performed in an extreme, high-stakes environment, flying an F-18 at speeds of more than 500 miles per hour and in formations as close as 18 inches apart. Like, oh man, you got to get your act together. In 1997 he started working at Citysearch, an online city guide later bought by Ticketmaster. Keep going. There's twofold here, so I'm just You came off of a career that every day was filled with very precise, intense things. I was going to say a normal pilot, and then I realized there's no such thing as normal carrier pilots. The Blue Angels is a flight demonstration squadron of the United States Navy. All right. And thanks to all of you for listening. And then I just kept trying to improve on. I'm telling you, it's probably like climbing whatever the roughest pitch you went up. I mean, there are people who can teach breathing and meditation effectively, that have been doing it for years and years. I had a better snap the first time, whatever. Then you start landing jets on aircraft carriers. Foley, the former lead solo pilot of the Navy's elite Blue Angels shares their process and mind-set for achieving the highest level of performance. Learning, and I was helping him in any way, shape I could, but that exposure, I probably got 10 years of knowledge in six months based on having that. What is your preparation? I think about you guys, when you decided, I want to climb, something clicked in my heart. And then, I guess maybe reflect on that flow focus that you had then and how now that perhaps has given you the ability to be able to get in that meditative pocket now. The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement. As we evolve as athletes and precision professionals doing heady shit, that we get to a point where we realize what is my That's the completion of the hero's journey. What I love about this was you were so real, you were so honest and clear, and you gave people a lot of thoughts and process and mindsets to really bring them to new places of growth. I'm just so excited because you and I got to meet up and Vail at a retreat, and we had some coffee, and you were so nice to talk to my dad who was a Marine. Jeff:Yeah, or you say, I'm not good enough. I don't have those all the time. John Foley:I think the first part of focus is you got to block out the distractions. I've taught myself to block out distractions. I know it'll happen. You finally get to the air show, and you can feel it. (167) 19.00. Reaching that level of excellence required commitment, discipline and trust. Ending Tuesday at 3:15PM PST 1d 19h. It's how you feel. I think that's so critical. He flew A-4 Skyhawks. Yeah, they're two points favorites, but here, this is the cross section of everything we've really talked about, which is you can line up the best pilots in the world. First thing I want to acknowledge is, if I have a fear-based belief, what's that causing me, it's usually stuckness. What I've learned is, it's like two sides of the same coin, operational excellence, process, briefs, debriefs, preparation, focus, trust, and then you add in this glad to be here mindset. Now, for me, personally, so when I left the team, it was not a big deal. Not one to quit, he attended University of Colorado for his freshman year of college before successfully transferring to the United States Naval Academy where he graduated in 1982. I don't know. Yeah, me too. This fosters gratitude and new perspectives to recognize opportunities versus simply focusing on challenges. John Foley:A couple of things. $3.00 shipping. When you were going through that process, John's like 12 years old and he's committed, I'm going to be a pilot, and all Now you're going to be the best pilot, you're going to be this best pilot. I'm not good enough. It doesn't have to be this intense stuff that the three of us are doing. John Foley:Oh yeah. I mean, you got this jet, it's coming in about 145 miles per hour. Scared to me means I'm aware, I'm present. John Foley:I just said, holy cow, I can do this because it's a value to others. But is it similar to that? So, you have to have the ability to slow it down, and I slow it down in my mind. John Foley:If I'm operating from fear, and there's sometimes, it's important to know, like it's easy to kill yourself. What's hard is to be aware of the situation. As a Blue Angel, John consistently performed in an extreme, high-stakes environment, flying at speeds of more than 500 miles per hour in formations as close as 18 inches apart. Because my mind is starting to take over my body. There must be a lot of things like that, that you've really tried to take with you from being a Blue Angel. You're reacting based on your training. In fact, by the way, the College Football Championship's tonight. It's just so hard and so intense. #gladtobehere stickers (50/pk) $ 17.99. I said, I don't need to be an airline pilot. Here's what's interesting. Erik Weihenmayer:John, backing up, one thing I kind of missed in my thought process talking to you was, you were on that track to be a Blue Angel, and you talked about your dad who was an officer. The Blue Angel: Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Erik Weihenmayer:Yeah, for sure. Then you get in the cockpit and you see we're moving like crazy. Research shows that teams and individuals that embrace a positive mindset as a core belief improve communication, inspire commitment and buy-in to group objectives. John Foley:At some point, you become a Blue Angel, and we take our pilots from the instructor ranks. This isn't working. I'm scared all the time. I don't mind that. The reboot is basically first awareness. Not, you were off by one degree or 0.1 degree. I want to appreciate it. Glad To Be Here Debrief Program - Digital Book. It was really awesome. Erik Weihenmayer:I've been thinking a lot about integration lately as well in that way. By visiting Those are the skills that we can learn. Because now that you're not flying, aren't there some activities you're like, I suck at this? Jeff:You're welcome for all that work I've done with you. Erik Weihenmayer:My hands sweat, my hand shake. Then you climb into the, we call it a water wagon, but you climb into the vehicle that's going to take you out to the jet. I could find out, okay, these are how I prepare and all this, but all it takes me is one minute listening to you, or Erik, and I realize, these guys have done it. John Foley:Sorry for that little blurb, but that's-. The eye can't see that, but as you're learning, you're moving a lot. ", - John Foley, Former Lead Solo Pilot, Blue Angels. That's even worse. Lt. Amanda Lee has made history as the first woman to serve as a demonstration pilot in the Blue Angels. There's a lot of opportunity here. Nov 3, 2020. And it's different. Now you have breakthrough performance. Is that Jeff:That's maybe what the difference is. But I would say first off, Erik, we were making tons of mistakes flying. Then he looked at me very clearly and he said, "I'm going to give you one more chance. We know that you've got a lot of choices about how you can spend your time, and we appreciate you spending it with us. John Foley:That's basically what he was saying. I constantly want to learn, and I don't want to beat myself up in the learning. So, we come from the instructor ranks usually. That part of the maneuver for that 18 seconds is absolutely what you just talked about. AI was so excited, and I know that's probably super annoying to have to talk to people's family members because you only have a little bit amount of time and you John Foley:Actually, Erik, not to interrupt you that made my whole day. It was during these deployments that Foley received the Top Nugget Award for first-tour pilots in Carrier Air Wing Eleven, and was also recognized as one of the Top 10 of all air wing pilots. What separates the best of the best and makes for elite teams? I still remember this to this day as we're talking, I can visualize it. No Barriers is a registered 501(c)3 Non-Profit Guidestar Platinum Rating Boom. Whichever podcast platform you enjoy, were already there. To date, TCV has raised more than $15 billion in capital and emerged as a leading provider of growth capital to technology companies. When you get selected for the Blue Angels, you have either a two year tour or a three year tour, and then you know that you will be reassigned to another Navy squadron, and it just won't be the Blue Angels. . I could sense the space between my heartbeats. They're just small. We get a choice of how we want to perceive a situation. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Based on his Blue Angels experience, John truly understands the how of high performing teams and he readily applies his knowledge to his keynotes and his consulting practice. So, I like to put a nuance in there, Erik, and that's about being scared. Then we give it away. We've become good friends. The importance of teams being in sync is a concept that John Foley understands profoundly. Generally, how did I feel? You have to be What's crazy is though I practiced and practiced and practiced and know these songs, it's just, when I get in front of the group, it's when everything sort of falls apart, I forget what I'm supposed to do. He retired from active duty after 27 years of distinguished service and joined Check-6, a global leader in optimized performance and safety solutions serving the most demanding industries, where he directed business development and corporate strategy for the North American Division. I'm in the jet, my opposing solo's coming at me at a thousand miles per hour closure. $ 21.95. In this brand new interview, Gucci candidly dives into his navy experience and opens the discussion with his upbringing as a German born army brat and the influence his father had on him to pursue a military career. Let's make it real. Either you step up to that challenge, okay? Because I'd love to swap some stories with you. Even like right now, as we're talking, am I thinking about, well, when is this over? Subscribe 3K views 2 years ago John Foley is a top leadership keynote speaker and former lead solo pilot of the Blue Angels that delivers keynote experiences to inspire leadership, improve. Then the other thing that occurs to me is, as I've taken the deeper dive on the Gucci platform, is this other little side note that I wouldn't have guessed. I'm in Sun Valley. As lead solo pilot of the heralded Blue Angels, keynote speaker John Foley had to consistently perform as part of team in an intense, high-stakes environment. And they've got a great program too. You know what I mean? John Foley:But yeah, so that's for sure. John Foley:See, that's a big difference. Guess what? Never will because of the nuances in it. Those are much more take the who out of it, be very of what happened, where were the decision points? That's what it meant while I was a Blue Angel. What it really meant at that moment was I'm really appreciative to be part of a team like this. Toms Del Coro Blue Angels at Miramar Air Show 2014 . John Foley:To me, a liberating belief is where that opportunity. If you acknowledge that empathy, that compassion, and then actually take the action to reach out to them, amen. During the 1950s in a small German town, high school Professor Immanuel Rath falls in-love with a young cabaret entertainer, with dramatic consequences. That's one of the rare professions that, that's true. Can I get back into body? You don't want to take more than a minute. All Rights Reserved. I hated it, it sucked. I could do that. He demonstrates how learning to focus prepares individuals for action and increases successful outcomes. What's wrong? I know that I've never achieved perfection in terms of, like I'll say I'm speaking in front of a group or something, I'll get off the stage and I'll be like, oh my God, I screwed up eight times.