Podbit · The Shawn Ryan Show
Every morning Frohardt gives God the first hour. Prayer, Bible reading, journaling. He's been doing it for over ten years and credits it with more energy, sharper thinking, and none of the PTSD nightmares his teammates struggle with. One hour in — seven hours of energy out.
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The transition from warrior to civilian was the hardest period of Frohardt's life — harder, he says, than kidney stones in Hell Week or surviving IEDs. His identity was the Trident. Without it, he had 18 months without a paycheck, no degree, no team. The turning point came around 2012 through a faith-based men's business networking group in Denver that used the concept of 'abiding' — staying close to God through daily practice. Frohardt started reading the Bible, praying, and journaling. A month became a year. He has now read the Bible cover-to-cover every year since. He describes his morning with precision: 5 to 6 AM, prayer (structured around relationships from Leah to country to finances), then the Word, then journaling, then a walking prayer during his workout. His claim: the energy returned from one hour of investment is at least seven hours of output — and he attributes this practice to his absence of PTSD symptoms and his success in business.
Frohardt spends the first hour every morning in prayer, Bible reading, and journaling, and believes the energy return is at least seven times what he invests.
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