No Surrender

"What are you gonna do?" "I don't know. I'll figure it out." Jerry Morrison had left a pharmaceutical sales career earning approximately $150,000 a year to enter medical device sales for $3,000 a month. With a baby on the way, he learned a new industry and worked to earn doctors' trust. Then his commission check came up short of what he expected. When he questioned it, one of the owners asked, "Do...

Navy SEAL Team 3 Officer Larry Yatch: from the Firefight at the World's Largest Gas Station to Choosing Self Mastery over Victim This week on No Surrender, Navy SEAL Larry Yatch shares a raw, unfiltered conversation about discipline, leadership, and the relentless pursuit of purpose. From the toughest training in the world to the intensity of combat, Larry learned lessons most people only experien...

"We're never gonna hire you." Daniel Chilton built his entire plan around becoming an attorney in the financial industry. Then the bank's general counsel took that future off the table in a single sentence. Daniel was working 7:30 to 5:00 in finance at a large national bank, then heading straight to law school at night. He finished the four-year program in three years, and the bank was paying for...

Ryan Blair hit rock bottom. He sold his house, his cars, the toolbox he used to make money, moved into an apartment next to his shop, walked to work, and spent 18 hours a day, seven days a week, trying to save his business. His back was against the wall, and everything was on the line. That is when Ryan realized something had to change. What got him there wasn't going to get him out. He needed hel...

We spend so much of our lives trying to control what happens next. Alejandro Monteverde believes that control is an illusion. The filmmaker behind Sound of Freedom, the upcoming Zero A.D., and various other films says one of the greatest lessons he has learned is how to live in a state of Surrender - not by sitting back and doing nothing, but by working as hard as he can while accepting that the o...

70 men started Navy SEAL training with Dr. Bob Adams. Only 11 graduated. Years later, Bob looked back at those 11 men and discovered something surprising: every single one of them had already been tested by life before they ever entered BUD/S. Bob certainly had. At 11 years old, he watched his alcoholic father become violent with his mother. Bob stepped in and told him that if he ever wanted to hu...

Amy Lord spent 22 years battling addiction before realizing she couldn't fight her way out of it alone. Her story began at 15, during the breakdown of her family. In the middle of that pain, she was introduced to crystal meth, beginning a cycle of drug and alcohol abuse that would follow her for more than two decades. But looking back, Amy realized she wasn't addicted to just one substance. She wa...

Before Mark Divine became the #1 graduate and Honor Man of his Navy SEAL class, he learned a lesson that changed the course of his life: every battle is won in your mind before it's ever fought in reality. A chance encounter with a martial arts Grand Master introduced him to visualization, breathwork, meditation, and the practice of asking better questions. Those practices transformed a successful...

Brandon Webb ran the Navy SEAL sniper program that trained the two most famous SEALs in history - "American Sniper" Chris Kyle and "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell, who credits that training with saving his life. His own story is just as remarkable. Kicked out of his home (which happened to be a boat his parents owned and his family lived in at the time) at 16, Brandon fought his way through the Na...

"Only a psychopath would do that" - that's how Paul Davis describes the God he was taught to worship growing up. In this raw and unfiltered follow-up, Justin Cole welcomes back longtime friend Paul Davis - the Fired-Up Texas Lawyer turned spiritual guide and Real Good News Founder - for a conversation that goes even deeper than Part 1. Paul opens up about the Bible contradictions that continued to...

In this powerful No Surrender episode, Justin Cole sits down with Persephone Maglaya, CEO of The Media Socialites and a true embodiment of resilience. From a childhood marked by her parents' bitter divorce, Munchausen by proxy abuse, a bipolar misdiagnosis, and forced medication, Persephone emerged with unbreakable grit. She climbed from intern to a top-performing sales leader at WeddingWire and T...

In this raw and deeply honest No Surrender episode, Justin Cole reconnects with longtime friend Paul Davis, a Texas attorney known as the Fired Up Texas Lawyer. Paul shares his remarkable life story: from breaking his collarbone on the first day of football practice, to becoming a University of Texas cheerleader while in law school, building a successful legal career, and then losing nearly everyt...

In this powerful No Surrender episode, Alan Walker, a direct descendant of the legendary Colt Walker gun Design Consultant, Texas Ranger Founder, and namesake of Walker County, Texas, shares his unbelievable rise from rock bottom to building a $15 Million pool management empire. Starting with no car, no money, and literally counting change at Taco Bell to buy meals, Alan took Advanced Aquatics of...

In this powerful No Surrender episode, former Navy SEAL Sniper, author, and entrepreneur Eric Davis shares his raw journey through BUD/S, quitting and returning stronger, and learning to embrace extreme pain as a pathway to personal mastery. From Hell Week and freezing navigation courses where he nearly died, to high-stakes combat missions and major life pivots after leaving the SEALs, Eric breaks...

In this powerful and deeply personal No Surrender episode, Author, Entrepreneur, Actress, and former Miss USA Ali Landry shares her raw journey from winning the crown with a homemade dress to devastating public heartbreak and betrayal, and how she completely reshaped her life through radical Faith and Surrender. From small-town Louisiana to Hollywood, Ali opens up about the Oprah-covered wedding t...

In this raw and long-awaited No Surrender episode, Justin Cole finally tells the complete untold story of the only factory Tucker Convertible in existence. From discovering the unfinished experimental serial number 1057 prototype in a small Wisconsin garage, trading multiple cars, a diamond ring, and more to acquire it in the middle of the 2008 financial crisis, to the explosive New York Times fea...

In this raw and resilient No Surrender episode, Justin Cole sits down with 23-year-old Joe McCarthy, who went from growing up on a Virginia farm to building a personal brand with over 500,000 followers and coaching over 7,500 students. Joe shares his wild journey: from selling eggs as a kid to losing hundreds of animals in a devastating setback to wanting to quit to learning a major life lesson wh...

In this raw and resilient No Surrender episode, we talk with Chad Cunningham, CEO of duPont REGISTRY Exchange about dominating the exotic car world: rising from his dad's cheap car lot, GM roles at massive dealerships (400+ Toyotas/month), risky shift to wholesale for family balance (initial pay cut from $250K+), buying and wholesaling for other companies, and now leading duPont to over $1 BILLION...

In this powerful No Surrender episode, host Justin Cole sits down with Lyndol Woodruff, former Hollywood executive, recovering addict, solo dad, and energy-efficient window consultant at Woodruff Windows in McKinney, TX. Lyndol opens up about his wild journey: living the dream in LA after getting there on a Greyhound bus with only $340, battling alcohol and drug addiction, multiple DWIs, felony pr...

Jerry Morrison did not grow up with stability. Raised in a single-parent household surrounded by financial hardship, family instability, and exposure to abuse, his early life was marked by uncertainty. With an absent father and a home that often shifted between survival and struggle, Jerry learned resilience before he even knew what the word meant. By high school, the path ahead was not promising....

Larry Yatch didn't grow up preparing to be extraordinary. He grew up like most of us, facing challenges, uncertainty, and even undiagnosed autism. But his journey would take him to the elite ranks of the U.S. Navy SEALs. The battlefield didn't just test his body. It tested his mind, character, and purpose. What does it mean to lead under pressure? To stay disciplined when failure is not an option?...

Daniel Chilton didn't grow up with a blueprint. He was raised in a broken home. One of three fatherless boys. A childhood shaped by instability, unanswered questions, and rebellion. Authority didn't make sense. Tradition felt hollow. And purpose felt distant. Without a father to model manhood, Daniel wrestled deeply with questions most people avoid: What does it mean to be a husband? A father? A m...

Ryan Blair grew up navigating chaos—family fracture, addiction inside a doctor's household, ADHD, and a constant feeling of being out of place. School never fit. Authority never stuck. And for a long time, neither did direction.   By 15, life forced a reckoning. Sent away to a boys' rehab school in Mexico, Ryan was stripped of distractions, and for the first time, asked the question that would cha...

He came to the US at 17, not knowing English, with no diploma, and a 1.6 GPA. Six months to learn English in America. That was the plan... Parties. Alcohol. No direction. Life felt chaotic—but easy to ignore. Until something shifted. Not overnight. Not dramatically. But quietly… a conviction in his soul that the life he was living was destroying him. He didn't know how he'd tell stories. He only k...

She grew up at Wincroft Academy (the same school Taylor Swift attended), surrounded by art, music, and opportunity. A tiny girl with a big voice. Life felt golden… until age 15. Her parents divorced, and a scandal rocked her family. Suddenly, the golden girl found a life of parties, boys, and drugs. What followed was a whirlwind of alcohol, self-destruction, and hidden pain masked by a smile.  Unt...