Jake Harriman—Naval Academy grad, Force Recon Marine, Bronze Star, founder of Nuru International and The Brickyard (formerly More Perfect Union)—joins the MTNTOUGH Podcast on a simple fear: you can live a good life and still waste it. After years off-grid fighting extremism through livelihoods, he came home and didn’t recognize the country he’d fought for. Now he’s building higher ground, not just common ground—40,000 Americans swinging hammers together, Civic Valor in schools, and five steps from his book Rescuing the Idea of America: believe, serve, connect, lead, restore. Also: loneliness, agency vs. the algorithm, and why one life changed is enough.
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00:00:00 – A good life can still be a wasted life
00:00:37 – Intro: Marine, Nuru, The Brickyard
00:03:02 – West Virginia farm, “I can’t” was not allowed
00:06:45 – Coming home after 15 years downrange
00:11:00 – From 1,000 members to 40,000
00:15:11 – Young men ready to obey, unsure what the step is
00:17:28 – Civic Valor and servant leadership
00:21:02 – Loneliness, agency, and go help somebody else
00:33:42 – Coffee and encourage challenge
00:46:54 – Believe, serve, connect, lead, restore
