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Beyond Your WHY

Self-Healing Through Storytelling

Season 2, Ep. 8

Meet Scott Mann

His WHY is Contribute

Interviewed by WHY Institute Founder Dr. Gary Sanchez (Better Way)


Self-Healing Through Storytelling


Scott Mann spent 23 years in the United States Army, 18 of those as a Green Beret in Army Special Forces, where he specialized in unconventional, high-impact missions all over the world including Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Iraq, and Afghanistan.


Scott’s problem-solving abilities were honed during long deployments in places where trust was absent, conflict rampant, and only seconds to make real

connections with local communities using his head, his heart—and when threats closed in against these communities—his hands. With those skills, Scott now helps organizations gain a better understanding of their internal culture and their external relationships, while exposing the potential for conflict that exists when trust has deteriorated.


In the same way he empowered local tribes in Iraq and Afghanistan to make transformative decisions—using very few resources, Scott teaches corporate leaders, special operators, law enforcement, and high-performance entrepreneurs and their teams to create strategic opportunities through the

relationship-building techniques that drove so many of his successful Special Forces experiences.


He is the author of two Amazon #1 international best-selling books. Scott appears frequently on CNN, Bloomberg, Fox and Friends, Fox Business

News, News Max, and dozens of syndicated radio shows including National Public Radio, Wall Street Journal Radio, Fox News Radio.


Discover your WHY:

www.whyinstitute.com


Connect with Scott:

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialScottMann/

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