True Blue Conversations - Paul 'Warlord' Warren

<p class="MsoNormal" style= "text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; background: white;"> In this week’s conversation Adam is joined by former Australian Muay Thai kick-boxing champion and Aussie soldier, Paul 'Warlord' Waaaaaarrrrrrennnnn!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; background: white;"> Paul is no stranger to the physically punishing world of martial arts at its highest level and the demands of being a soldier. But nothing could prepare him for the violence and brutality of the fight he found himself in barely a month after arriving in Afghanistan in July 2009. A fight that saw the death of his mate; Private Ben Ranaudo.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; background: white;"> Thanks to the quick-thinking of his battalion-mates and the wonders of modern battlefield medical evacuations, Paul Warren's life was saved with a quick trip in a helicopter that saw him in surgery within 16 minutes.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; background: white;"> During the conversation with Adam, Paul shares about the many dark times grappling with the shattering effects of PTSD, and the hammer-like blows of guilt and grief over the death of his mate, Benny.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; background: white;"> At his lowest, Paul thought about ‘tapping out’, like many other soldiers in similar circumstances and describes his road to recovery as a desper