Green Beret Opens Up About The Importance Of Mental Health | Nick O'Kelly
The High Performance Life · Scott Danner
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Show Notes
In this week's episode, I am joined by Nick O'Kelly!
Nick is a retired Chief Warrant Officer 3 with 13 years of service in the U.S. Army, including 9 years in Special Operations.
He is one of the rare individuals to have served both as a U.S. Army Green Beret and as an MH-60M Black Hawk pilot with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.
Over the course of seven overseas deployments—including three combat tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Philippines—he provided direct support to Tier 1 Special Mission Units in some of the world's most dangerous and complex environments.
Nick is now the author of Stigma, a powerful and unflinching exploration of mental health in the military and other high-performance communities.
The book breaks the long-standing code of silence around psychological struggle, revealing that strength and struggle can coexist—and that battle is not weakness.
Key Points
• Life as a high performer and mental health • The impacts of mental health stigmas • Special Forces training mirrors life's battles • Family dynamics of a high-performing soldier • The liberating power of vulnerability