‘Can’t Hurt Me’ Author & Ex-Navy SEAL David Goggins Signs With WME

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed David Goggins, the retired NAVY Seal and author of Can’t Hurt Me, his self-published book that details his transformation from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world’s top endurance athletes.

He will be repped by a team of agents supporting his interests in film, among other areas, we’re told.

Goggins’ tale is ripe for a Hollywood treatment with his part-memoir/part-self-help book published in December about how an obese kid from Indiana survived an abusive childhood to became the only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger and Air Force Tactical Air Controller (hint: a lot of grueling training). He since has set records in several ultra-endurance events — Outside magazine named him “The Fittest (Real) Man in America.”

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The book meanwhile has sold 900,000 copies in four months and remains one of the year’s top bestsellers on Amazon. It has made Goggins an even more sought-after public speaker, and he also continues to raise money for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, which provides a post-secondary education to the surviving children of fallen special ops service members.