I Shot Through My Own Car Window at 140km/h to Escape a Baghdad Ambush | Ollie Ollerton

He joined the Royal Marine Commandos at 18, passed selection for the Special Boat Service, and spent six years on operations. Then he left — and the hardest fight started. Ollie Ollerton on the Baghdad ambush that changed how he thinks about fear, the years of addiction that followed, and why he believes almost everyone is living inside a survival response they never chose. In this episode Ollie takes us inside Iraq in 2003 as a private contractor: what an RPG actually sounds like when it lands on your street, why he and his colleague didn't look up from their laptops when it did, burying weapons in the desert before a border crossing, and the ambush on the road where he returned fire through his own closed car window at 140km/h. He breaks down the one thing that saved him in that moment — a single breath — and how it became the method he now teaches. We also get into why he hasn't read a newspaper in 25 years, how he thinks fear is manufactured and sold, the "one metre square" rule the special forces use when everything is falling apart, and what he's doing with his body at 55 — a 72-hour fast, one meal a day, and a first-ever triathlon that accidentally qualified him for the World Championships. Ollie is the author of the Sunday Times number one bestseller Break Point and its follow-up Battle Ready, a directing staff member on SAS: Who Dares Wins, and the founder of Breakpoint and Battle Ready. Note: any figures, percentages or health claims mentioned by our guest are his own views and experience. Nothing in this conversation is medical advice. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open 02:16 Welcome 02:44 Why he went back to a war zone after leaving the military 04:19 Setting up operations in Baghdad 05:40 Is it about oil? Why he refuses to speculate 07:15 What is your personal algorithm? 09:26 What an actual war zone sounds like 10:07 An RPG hits the street — and nobody looks up 12:39 When complacency becomes the danger 14:28 How an attack really unfolds 16:45 Why your brain normalises almost anything 18:05 Saddam's statue and the calm before the storm 20:38 Never rest on the target 23:49 The one metre square rule 24:32 Sex and death: how the media holds your attention 27:13 Breathe, recalibrate, deliver 27:49 Stress, immunity and illness 29:50 The ambush on the road 32:48 The breath that changed everything 35:08 Firing through the window 38:25 Burying the weapons before the border 40:24 Addicted to chaos 45:03 Plans fail — correction is the skill 47:48 Break Point: writing the book 51:59 Getting in the best shape of his life at 55 54:42 The 72-hour fast and one meal a day 56:50 The triathlon that qualified him for the Worlds 1:00:05 Next: London to Mont Blanc by bike 1:01:12 Pushing through the break point 1:04:30 What he'd say to his future self 1:05:04 On legacy 1:06:25 If he could change one thing in the world 1:09:14 What success actually means 1:10:32 The fear he still carries 1:11:49 Reprogramming the subconscious 1:16:32 The best advice he ever received 1:19:01 A message to anyone over 50 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW OLLIE OLLERTON Instagram: https://ift.tt/kwRlZd6 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #OllieOllerton #SASWhoDaresWins #specialforces Disclaimer: I do not accept any liability for any loss or damage incurred from you acting or not acting as a result of watching any of my publications. You acknowledge that you use the information I provide at your own risk. Do your research.

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