EP804: Kris Hregdovic - Seeking Service

The Thought Leader Revolution Podcast · Aug 4, 2026 · 56m

"You think you've won today? You haven't won nothing. Your country will burn from the inside, and we will have victory."

That's what a flex-cuffed Taliban fighter said to Kris Hregdovic's face in Afghanistan in 2012. He still thinks about it, fourteen years later.

Kris spent two decades as a Navy SEAL — the latest in a family line that answered the call every time the country asked. A great-uncle survived a POW camp in Korea. An uncle was killed in Vietnam. A brother deployed to Iraq. Kris lost his own father to cancer right after high school graduation, and lost his mentor and his direction…