Travis Howze: Comedian, Marine, Firefighter, Motivational Speaker, Author of Create Your Own Light

<div>Q: What does a Marine Corps veteran, former police officer, former firefighter, motivational speaker, and international touring comedian all have in common?</div><div>A: They all live inside this week’s most entertaining guest, Travis Howze.</div><div> </div><div>Travis has come from a horrific experience as a firefighter when nine of his “brothers” were killed in a building collapse. He volunteered for the recovery team that pulled the bodies from the smoking building, causing him to sink deeply into post-traumatic stress and alcoholism.</div><div> </div><div>After Travis’ incredible defeat of his PTS, he has had a successful career in comedy and authored <em>Create Your Own Light, </em>an encouragement to stay in the fight and to never quit.</div><div> </div><div><strong>In this episode you will hear:</strong></div><div> </div><div>• If you’re gonna laugh at other people, you’d better be able to laugh at your damn self.</div><div> </div><div>• I don’t think about all the things I went through in my past. It’s a huge form of therapy for me not to.</div><div> </div><div>• Every day is a grind.</div><div> </div><div>• There are “character-building” days – you gotta recognize it, you gotta work on it, and you gotta build on it.</div><div> </div><div>• I have an older sister, so I did a lot of Barbie doll shit when I was young.</div><div> </div><div>• We’re more comfortable around our type of people because we have experienced some of the same things.</div><div> </div><div>• Non-stop fuckery – I had to have that.</div><div> </div><div>• If you knew what your tax dollars really went to, you wouldn’t pay fuckin’ taxes.</div><div> </div><div>• I was a cop, when you could still be an effective police officer, and you didn’t have cell phone cameras ruining your life. You could actually go out and do your job.</div><div> </div><div>• There’s consequences to our actions, whether in law-enforcement or a civilian.</div><div> </div><div>• When the military deploys and they go over, they leave that shit over there. They b