00:00Oh yeah, welcome to Diamond's Dream Chasers, Radio Special, shout out show.
00:17Hey guys, it's me, Yaya Diamond. What's up people? How you doing?
00:21Listen, I'm going to give a shout out to author Tamir Ransom.
00:25And this shout out is all about the mind of a soldier book, the 34 laws for the war after
00:32the war.
00:33Listen to me when I tell you that this is a subject that I know for a fact is a
00:41reality for a lot of people who come home from wars,
00:46people who come home that their family members or their friends don't even regard their service as service.
00:52So I wanted to go over this because this is also not just a book, but it's an audio book
00:57as well.
00:57And I wanted to show you this because, all right, so first of all, it is on Amazon, but like
01:04I said, it is an audio book as well.
01:08And oh my gosh, when I tell you that I want to share my screen with you really quick to
01:14show you what the book actually looks like online, there it is.
01:18It is a mind, the mind of a soldier, okay?
01:22The mind of a soldier.
01:25And oh, it just, it hurts me.
01:29It really does hurt me to know that the mind of a soldier is so close to me.
01:36Like I have a lot of friends that, you know, served in all kinds of wars and there is a
01:41war going on right now.
01:42And to know people in the war, to know that they're going to come back totally different than when they
01:47went out.
01:47They're not going to be the same person.
01:49So this is not a story.
01:51It's not fiction.
01:52It's not, it's not an autobiography.
01:55It's not a memoir.
01:56This is a handbook.
01:57It is a handbook.
01:58And I want to go over that with you guys really quick because I think a lot of people can
02:02benefit from having this book in their repertoire,
02:05having this book on their audio book, gifting this book to people who may be going through something.
02:10Because when the people go off to war, they come back to another war.
02:14The war that's not just inside of them, but the war to try to conform to who they were before
02:20they left.
02:21And that's never going to happen.
02:22And then you have the system that puts them through all kinds of different health issues.
02:27And it just, to me, it just, it makes me sad to know that, you know, when they do come
02:34back, there are people that don't appreciate it.
02:36They say that, you know, spit in their faces.
02:38I mean, I've seen it on, I've seen it.
02:40Have you not seen this?
02:41I've seen it where people were rejected by their own families because they came back and they came back a
02:46different person.
02:46And they came back violent or they came back sad or depressed or whatever.
02:51These people are going through a lot of things.
02:53Can you imagine?
02:54I don't want to imagine.
02:55I don't want to imagine.
02:56I don't.
02:57I don't want to imagine.
02:58All I want to do is I want to show you guys and I want to tell you guys about
03:02this book, Mind of a Soldier.
03:04It's the 34 laws for the war after the war.
03:07And I wanted to go over some of the realities that some people are going to have to face, regardless
03:13of whether you are the person or whether you are the person that's going to be dealing with them when
03:20they get back.
03:21And there are different questions.
03:23And there are different questions that we need to be asking ourselves as we talk about this book.
03:28And obviously, this is on Amazon as a regular book, as well as an audio book.
03:33But I wanted to go through this because you can go ahead and you can listen to the virtual sample,
03:37but we're not going to do that today.
03:39What I wanted to say was, and I wanted to actually reiterate this because I think that this is so,
03:44so very important to know that these questions, I never really asked myself these questions.
03:49And to tell you the truth, I never really thought about one of the questions that this, and this is
03:54not all of them, obviously, but one of the questions that is asked here, I always say it.
04:01I literally always say it.
04:02And I never really put it to mind that it wasn't something that they could compute.
04:08So, you know, they did everything right.
04:10They served, they sacrificed, they came home, and now they're sitting at the VA room waiting for someone to take
04:15care of them with a number.
04:17Okay, filling out the same forms over and over and over again, and being told that the approved treatment is
04:22available in 17 days, 20 days, 30 days, 60 days.
04:26I mean, how long do they have to wait to get service?
04:29They could just go down to the emergency room and get better service than go to the VA.
04:34The Mind of a Surgeon is not a help book.
04:35It's not a self-help book.
04:37It's not a memoir.
04:38It's a field manual written by retired Special Operations EOD Sergeant Major, who was the first Black Tier 1 EOD
04:47operator in U.S. history.
04:49A for the war that nobody briefs you on before you take off the uniform.
04:54So, as they come back, there is another war, not only doing and kind of going against who they used
05:01to be, but going against who they are today and who people expect them to be.
05:04And then, of course, you have the VA, you've got all these other things that they have to deal with
05:09when they come back.
05:10They never had to deal with this before they left.
05:13That's what this book is all about.
05:16So, some of the 34 laws are in this book.
05:19It's why the PTSD diagnosis was built for a single traumatic event and what it misses about the career warfighter.
05:26Why the treatment fails 91% of the people it was designed to serve.
05:31Go figure, 91%.
05:33Not like 1%, 10%.
05:3691%.
05:38Why do they have it?
05:40What?
05:40Why do they have the, why do they have it?
05:43Why is it there if it's 91% ineffective?
05:45It makes no sense.
05:48None.
05:48None.
05:49Why the civilian world's version of you is either a hero or a monster and you are neither.
05:53That was the one thing that got me.
05:55Because, yeah, I mean, think about it.
05:57They served their country, they went and they did what they thought was right, but they're not, neither a hero
06:02because they were in it and they had to survive it.
06:04And they're not a brutal person because if they didn't survive it, they would be dead.
06:10Yeah.
06:12Yeah.
06:13While your nervous system, your sleep, your body, and your identity are not broken, they are miscalibrated for an environment
06:20that no longer exists.
06:22They are no longer the person that left for the war.
06:24They are come back a different person.
06:26They have come back to traumatic events that they've seen.
06:30They've come back to a world that doesn't really accept them.
06:34And they don't accept it because their world has been completely changed because of what they've seen, what they've gone
06:39through, what they've experienced.
06:40And here we are.
06:42Yeah.
06:43And the one thing that I thought about that I was like, oh my gosh, I never really thought about
06:46this.
06:47The thank you for your service ends the conversation.
06:50It pretends to start.
06:52You know, I never thought that thank you for your service was bad.
06:55It does end the conversation.
06:57It really does.
06:58Because it takes them back to the moment where they were when this traumatic PTSD event happened.
07:06I don't know if I want to say that anymore.
07:08Maybe there's another way of saying it.
07:10Maybe there's something else I can do.
07:12While the most dangerous thing you'll ever do is not the mission, it is the silence after it.
07:17You got to speak up.
07:18You got to talk.
07:20You got to get them to talk.
07:21You got to get them to open up because that's going to, it's going to kindle inside of them.
07:26It's definitely going to turn.
07:27It's just so much stuff.
07:28This is written for the veteran who is performing wellness in the waiting room, for the spouse who cannot explain
07:33why the person they love is unreachable,
07:36for the civilian who wants to understand but does not know where to start,
07:40and for the policymaker who needs to gap, to see the gap between what the country promises and what they
07:48actually deliver,
07:49measured in the people who fell through it.
07:52Yeah.
07:53Yeah.
07:54Yeah.
07:55This is, yeah.
07:56Yeah.
07:58This book right here, Mind of a Soldier, 34 Laws of the War After the War.
08:04Yeah, we need to be paying attention.
08:07We need to definitely, especially in this time, especially in this time,
08:10in this day and age where people are at war, and I don't know what they're seeing.
08:15I don't want to know what they're seeing.
08:16I don't want to know what they're going through.
08:18I mean, can, I mean, I've heard of horror stories of people going through stuff that I don't even want
08:24to repeat because I don't,
08:26I think I'd get flagged.
08:28Yeah.
08:29Yeah.
08:30I think I would be flagged.
08:31But I want you guys to check this book out because maybe this is something that can help you.
08:36Maybe this is something that can help your loved one that just came back from war.
08:39Or maybe it can help, you know, your neighbor, your cousin, your brother, your sister, your mother, your best friend,
08:46somebody.
08:46Mind of a Soldier, 34 Laws for the War After the War is for everyone who is dealing with the
08:53war, not only in the past, but in their minds.
08:58And obviously, they're not going to be the same person that they were when they came, when they left and
09:03come back.
09:03And it's just not going to be the same.
09:06But what we can do is we can study up on what we can do as civilians, what we can
09:12do as someone who loves the person that came back.
09:16Or even the person that came back can understand what the civilian is thinking.
09:21Yeah.
09:22We need to do better.
09:23We definitely need to do better.
09:25I want to thank you guys so much for tuning in.
09:27I'm going to put the link to the description in the box so that it'll be easy for you guys
09:30to find it.
09:31It's called The Mind of a Soldier.
09:33And it's the 34 Laws for the War After the War.
09:36And remember that they love you.
09:38The loved one, the person that went through this traumatic experience, who has PTSD, who doesn't talk a lot, who's
09:45different than when they left, their love for you has not changed.
09:50It's just a situation that they went through that has changed them.
09:53And they have to kind of reintroduce themselves to society that they no longer probably fit in as good as
10:01they thought they could have fit in when they left.
10:04They're not the same person.
10:05I want to thank you guys so much for tuning in.
10:08Don't forget to dare to be different.
10:09And until next time, guys, bye.
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