Agents & Media
FOR AGENTS
A practical guidebook from a former Navy SEAL with 20,000+ hours of mind-training under the guidance of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, the teacher of Pema Chödrön.
COMPS
10% Happier · Atomic Habits · The Body Keeps the Score
Complete manuscript (~68,000 words) · proposal and sample chapters available.
FOR PODCASTS & MEDIA
BACKSTORY
From the Beirut bombing to contemplative practice — a SEAL’s path out of the fog.
THE GAP
Closing the Reality Gap — the distance between what you expect and what’s actually so, widened by confusion — so the needless suffering abates.
THE METHOD
The All-Clear Method — mind-training without the mysticism: four short practices (Awareness, Anchoring, Grounding, Alignment) to stop overthinking.
ON AIR
A 60-second practice your audience can try live — and listeners get the Four Practices free at davidgodshall.com.
GRAB & GO
“David Godshall is a former Navy SEAL and combat veteran of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, where he dug for survivors by hand, all day, under sporadic enemy fire. He buried that day for eighteen years; when it caught up with him, it set off a twenty-five-year search to quiet his own mind — more than 20,000 hours of it under Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, the teacher of Pema Chödrön. His book The Restless Mind turns that search into four short practices for overthinking, stress, and anxiety.”
PRESS BIO
David Godshall served in the U.S. Navy SEAL Teams from 1981 to 1989 — UDT-21, SEAL Team Four, the Regional Survey Team, and the Navy Experimental Diving Unit — and is a combat veteran of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing. He earned the Combat Action Ribbon and the Joint Service Commendation Medal, among other decorations. He later founded the UDT-SEAL Memorial in Fort Pierce, Florida, and served as president of the National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum.
After the bombing, he dug for survivors by hand, all day, under sporadic enemy fire — then quietly suppressed it for eighteen years. When it caught up with him, he came apart, then resolved: “I know there’s a better way; I just don’t know it yet.” That vow began a twenty-five-year search without a map. Over the first nine years he explored Eckhart Tolle, yoga, Satsang, and Zen, followed by sixteen years and more than 20,000 hours of mind-training under Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, the teacher of Pema Chödrön, who gave him the dharma name Jigme Gonpo: Fearless Protector. His forthcoming guidebook, The Restless Mind: Four Short Practices to Stop Overthinking anchors a planned series; his memoir, SEAL to Sage, carries a foreword by former Navy SEAL and New York Times best-selling author Chuck Pfarrer. David lives in Palm Bay, Florida, with his wife, Viviana.
david@davidgodshall.com · davidgodshall.com · Palm Bay, Florida
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