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Travis Howze: Comedian, Marine, Firefighter, Motivational Speaker, Author of Create Your Own Light Team Never Quit
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Q: What does a Marine Corps veteran, former police officer, former firefighter, motivational speaker, and international touring comedian all have in common?
A: They all live inside this week’s most entertaining guest, Travis Howze.
Travis has come from a horrific experience as a firefighter when nine of his “brothers” were killed in a building collapse. He volunteered for the recovery team that pulled the bodies from the smoking building, causing him to sink deeply into post-traumatic stress and alcoholism.
After Travis’ incredible defeat of his PTS, he has had a successful career in comedy and authored Create Your Own Light, an encouragement to stay in the fight and to never quit.
In this episode you will hear:
• If you’re gonna laugh at other people, you’d better be able to laugh at your damn self.
• I don’t think about all the things I went through in my past. It’s a huge form of therapy for me not to.
• Every day is a grind.
• There are “character-building” days – you gotta recognize it, you gotta work on it, and you gotta build on it.
• I have an older sister, so I did a lot of Barbie doll shit when I was young.
• We’re more comfortable around our type of people because we have experienced some of the same things.
• Non-stop fuckery – I had to have that.
• If you knew what your tax dollars really went to, you wouldn’t pay fuckin’ taxes.
• I was a cop, when you could still be an effective police officer, and you didn’t have cell phone cameras ruining your life. You could actually go out and do your job.
• There’s consequences to our actions, whether in law-enforcement or a civilian.
• When the military deploys and they go over, they leave that shit over there. They bring some of that back, but they don’t have to live in the environment that f****d them up.
• You can’t un-see, or un-taste, or un-smell a lot of things you go through in life.
Q: What does a Marine Corps veteran, former police officer, former firefighter, motivational speaker, and international touring comedian all have in common?
A: They all live inside this week’s most entertaining guest, Travis Howze.
Travis has come from a horrific experience as a firefighter when nine of his “brothers” were killed in a building collapse. He volunteered for the recovery team that pulled the bodies from the smoking building, causing him to sink deeply into post-traumatic stress and alcoholism.
After Travis’ incredible defeat of his PTS, he has had a successful career in comedy and authored Create Your Own Light, an encouragement to stay in the fight and to never quit.
In this episode you will hear:
• If you’re gonna laugh at other people, you’d better be able to laugh at your damn self.
• I don’t think about all the things I went through in my past. It’s a huge form of therapy for me not to.
• Every day is a grind.
• There are “character-building” days – you gotta recognize it, you gotta work on it, and you gotta build on it.
• I have an older sister, so I did a lot of Barbie doll shit when I was young.
• We’re more comfortable around our type of people because we have experienced some of the same things.
• Non-stop fuckery – I had to have that.
• If you knew what your tax dollars really went to, you wouldn’t pay fuckin’ taxes.
• I was a cop, when you could still be an effective police officer, and you didn’t have cell phone cameras ruining your life. You could actually go out and do your job.
• There’s consequences to our actions, whether in law-enforcement or a civilian.
• When the military deploys and they go over, they leave that shit over there. They bring some of that back, but they don’t have to live in the environment that f****d them up.
• You can’t un-see, or un-taste, or un-smell a lot of things you go through in life.
1 h