Jason Kuhn was a Division 1 pitcher at MTSU on the verge of professional baseball when he woke up one morning and couldn’t throw a strike. Six wild pitches in a single inning later, his baseball career was over. So he became a Navy SEAL.

In Episode 3 of Lessons From The Sidelines, Coach Greg Brown sits down with Jason — decorated SEAL operator and sniper, founder of Stonewall Solutions, and the performance coach who helped Tyler Matzek beat the yips and win a World Series — for a tactical conversation about identity, failure, and what it actually takes to perform under pressure. Jason takes the systems forged in BUD/S, Hell Week, and combat and translates them into a framework usable by anyone who competes — in sport, in business, or in their own head.

In this episode:

• Why combat eliminates the clutter — and why the principles that win in war are the same ones that win anywhere else

• The yips story: career-ending injury that became his life’s work

• Why your identity can’t be your outcome — and what to anchor it to instead

• The tactical approach to failure: controllable corrections, uncontrollable workarounds, and the part high achievers skip

• The Three Defeaters: distraction, others’ beliefs, and failure

• Why team-first isn’t self-sacrifice — it’s self-interest done right

• When decentralized leadership works (and when it absolutely doesn’t)

• Why he hates the phrase “surrender the outcome”

• And the one lesson he’d give from the sideline

This one will reach the high achievers, the coaches, the operators, and the parents trying to raise kids who can compete without losing themselves.