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Jovon “Q” Quarles on Overcoming His Childhood, Becoming a Record-Breaking Navy SEAL & Life as a Special Forces DS

Navy SEAL Jovon “Q” Quarles sits down with Gia, who he watched win her season of Special Forces, for a powerful conversation about the road that made him. He opens up about a childhood marked by his mother’s addiction and incarceration, the grandmother who raised him and pushed him toward the military, and having kids in high school before turning his life around. Q shares the brutal, never-before-told story of quitting during Hell Week, fighting his way back, surviving kidney failure, and becoming the first Black man to graduate at the top of his BUD/S class. He also talks…

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