Beyond The Beret
Spencer Lewis, a former Special Forces Green Beret, shares his journey of building a business, raising a family, and competing as a hybrid athlete. The podcast offers an honest look at life after the military, focusing on the mindset and standards that drive him. No fluff or highlight reels, just real talk about the work and discipline required.
Episodes
A Loss Is Not Your Identity: How to Get Back in the Arena | Ep. 17
Every loss feels like it becomes part of who you are. The tab you didn't earn. The relationship that ended. The business decision that cost you $20,000. The thing you didn't do when you should have. Most people carry those quietly for years and let them shape how they see themselves.In this episode of Beyond The Beret, former Green Beret Spencer Lewis and his wife MJ get into what real fai
Do Your Habits Match the Life You Say You Want? | Ep. 16
Everyone has goals. Physique goals, business goals, school selection, a certain kind of life. But somewhere between the goal and the day-to-day, most people quietly stop doing the things that get them there — and then get frustrated that they're not where they said they wanted to be.In this episode of Beyond The Beret, former Green Beret Spencer Lewis and his wife MJ talk about the disconnect
What Alcohol Was Actually Costing Us | Ep. 15
Spencer and MJ Lewis aren't sober. They're not in recovery. They're not here to preach. In fact, both of them say they'll probably drink again at some point. What they are here to do is have an honest conversation about what alcohol was actually costing them in the years they didn't see it — and what changed once they stopped.In this episode of Beyond The Beret, Spencer opens u
How to Prepare for SFAS: A Green Beret Answers Your Questions | Ep. 14
Every week, Spencer Lewis gets messages from guys asking the same set of questions. How do I prepare for SFAS? How do I train for selection while active duty? What physical standard should I hit before I show up? Should I take an 18X contract? What if I'm still in basic training and don't know where to start?In this episode of Beyond The Beret, former Green Beret Spencer Lewis and his wife
The Part of My Body I Neglected the Longest | Ep. 13
The part of the body the military never trains you to protect — and the part former Green Beret Spencer Lewis ignored the longest. Spencer and his wife MJ on why almost everything you feel every day traces back to one system nobody warned him about.
Why Most "Leaders" You Follow Have Never Actually Led Anything | Ep. 12
Somewhere in the last 10 years, leadership stopped being about action and became a content genre. Podcasts about leadership from people who've never led a team. Instagram life coaches with a million followers who have never coached anyone through anything. YouTube gurus quoting Jocko while sitting in a rented office.In this episode of Beyond The Beret, former Green Beret Spencer Lewis and his
TRT, Peptides, and Men's Hormones: What 10 Years of Experience Actually Taught Me | Ep. 11
Most of what's online about TRT, peptides, and men's hormones is either AI-generated influencer slop trying to sell you a stack, or it's academic research papers that don't translate to real life. In this episode of Beyond The Beret, Spencer Lewis and his wife MJ have an honest, first-person conversation about what they've each learned over the last several years of getting blo
Starting a Business After the Military: How I Built Alpha Country From Nothing | Ep. 10
Most veteran-to-entrepreneur stories skip the actual origin. The couch. The surgeries. The $25,000 you just sent to a manufacturer with no guarantee any of it works. The hours sewing patches onto hats one at a time in your living room because the orders are coming in and you don't have a manufacturer yet.In this episode of Beyond The Beret, former Green Beret Spencer Lewis and his wife MJ go a
Losing Your Identity After the Military (And How to Build a New One) | Ep. 9
This episode of Beyond The Beret started with a listener email asking exactly that: how do you find your identity and purpose after leaving the military? Former Green Beret Spencer Lewis and his wife MJ break it down without sugar coating it. Spencer goes back to the first time he lost himself — when high school sports ended and he turned to drugs and partying — and traces it all the way through h
What Ranger School Is Actually Like (From a Green Beret Who Recycled) | Ep. 8
Ranger School is the most asked-about school in the U.S. Army, and most of the content out there is either polished recruiter talk or guys who went straight through and skipped the hard parts of the story. In this episode of Beyond The Beret, former Green Beret Spencer Lewis sits down with his wife MJ for a full, unfiltered breakdown of what Ranger School is actually like — from a guy who got pre-
Obsession Is the Only Thing That Wins | Ep. 7
Why do some people get average results while others dominate everything they touch? Everyone wants to call it discipline, motivation, consistency, or talent. Former Green Beret Spencer Lewis says all of those are downstream of one thing: obsession.In this solo episode of Beyond The Beret, Spencer breaks down the trait he's seen behind every elite athlete, special operator, and successful entre
Developing Discipline From Motivation | Ep 6
In this episode of Beyond The Beret, Spencer and MJ dig into a topic suggested by Melissa after her visit: the real difference between motivation and discipline, and why most people get this wrong.Spencer's take is that motivation isn't bad, it's just an emotional state you can fall into when you're around the right people, the right examples, or in the right environment. The probl
Cop, Soldier, Athlete: Malissa on the Border, the Badge, and Becoming a Runner | Ep 5
In this episode of Beyond The Beret, Spencer sits down with longtime Alpha Country athlete and friend Melissa, who flew in from Chicago for the Memorial Day Murph. What started as a DM about a pair of shorts five years ago turned into one of the closest friendships in the brand's orbit — and this conversation goes everywhere.Melissa shares her full story: growing up on the South side of Chicag
What SFAS Is Actually Like (From a Green Beret Who Got Selected) | Ep. 4
In this episode of Beyond The Beret, Spencer and MJ break down the full story of Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS) — the gateway course every aspiring Green Beret has to survive.Spencer walks through it all: why he chose the SF route over Ranger Regiment after a training exercise with an ODA changed everything, how he prepped his body and mind in the 60 days before reporting, and what
Leaving the Green Berets: My Med Board, 3 Surgeries, and Losing Who I Was | Ep 3
A former Green Beret and his wife sit down to talk about the part of military life nobody puts on a recruiting poster: getting out. In this episode of Beyond The Beret, Spencer Lewis and his wife MJ go deep on Spencer's transition from Special Forces to civilian life — the Med Board process, three major surgeries (ankle, SI joint fusion, hip), losing 45 pounds bedridden, the identity crisis of "wh
Afghanistan 2020: The Peace Deal, COVID in Combat, and Watching It All Fall Apart | Ep 2
In this episode of Beyond The Beret, Spencer takes MJ and the listener inside his 2020 deployment to Afghanistan with 7th Special Forces Group. It's the longest, heaviest conversation they've had on the show so far, and it explains a lot of what came later in 2021 for anyone who watched the country fall and wondered how it happened.Spencer starts with the train-up: how a Bravo on an ODA carries th
The Origin Story: From Omaha to the Army to the Green Berets | Ep 1
Welcome to Beyond The Beret. In this first episode, Spencer and MJ sit down in the garage studio to lay the foundation for the whole show. The idea: the brand and the videos cover the present, but a lot of people who follow Alpha Country don't know where any of it actually came from. This podcast is for the deeper stories that don't fit into a reel.Spencer starts at the very beginning. Bor
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