Living with a SEAL
Entrepreneur and one-time rapper (under the name Jesse Jaymes) Jesse Itzler's life is bold and risky by design, which in turn has brought him plenty of rewards. Feeling that his life has begun to run on autopilot, Itzler hires a Navy SEAL to live with and train him for a month, and what ensues is both hilarious and inspirational.
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Entrepreneur Jesse Itzler hires a Navy SEAL to move in with him and his wife for thirty-one days and turn his life upside down. The SEAL has rules. They start with predawn pull-ups in a December snowstorm.
Yes. Living with a SEAL is Jesse Itzler's 2015 memoir about hiring an unnamed Navy SEAL (later revealed to be David Goggins) to live with him for a month and torture him into peak fitness. The events are real, told with Itzler's comic voice.
No. Living with a SEAL is Jesse Itzler's perspective on hosting David Goggins; Can't Hurt Me is Goggins's own memoir. The two cover overlapping events but read very differently.
Living with a SEAL was written by Jesse Itzler, published in 2015 by Center Street.
Living with a SEAL is 270 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Living with a SEAL takes most readers 4 to 6 hours to finish.
Living with a SEAL is a standalone novel by Jesse Itzler, not part of a series.
Living with a SEAL is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
