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Tom Rowland Podcast

#0073 - Drew Chicone - Passion And Thinking Outside The Flybox

Tom Rowland Podcast

Waypoint TV

Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.9903 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

World Class Fly Tyer and author of 11 books, Drew Chicone found himself in a Cardiologists office at the age of 25.  Drew created success for himself and was killing it at 25 years old with an office full of employees and making big sales.  However, he was also killing himself with his stress level, extreme caffeine intake at 25 cups per day and simply neglecting his body.  He gave it all up one day and pursued his passion for tying flies.

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0:00.0

Fishing like a local isn't just about catching fish.

0:03.6

It's about connecting with the environment and the people who call it home.

0:08.0

It's about hearing the stories and traditions that have been passed down for generations and sharing unforgettable moments with the people

0:15.7

you meet along the way.

0:17.8

Fishing like a local is having an experience that stays with you forever.

0:22.2

And with Fishing Booker, you can experience it too, no matter where you are.

0:26.7

Discover your next adventure on Fishing Booker.

0:30.0

If you hunt enough, you learn the truth.

0:33.0

What you seek speaks a language and knows it will.

0:37.0

That's why every primo is called for everything you hunt is made the right way. We sweat every detail so you get more out of every hunt and

0:48.3

nothing leaves our hand until we know it'll work in yours because we don't just make the world's best cause. We speak the language, primos.

0:57.0

You know, I was 25, I had 25, 30 employees. I was drinking about 14 cups of coffee a day,

1:10.0

running three companies, and I start having like heart palpitations like I panic you know like the like fast beating and I went to a cardiologist that you know my actually went to my my father-in-law's

1:23.9

cardiologist he was in the 70s so when I walked in there like what are you doing

1:28.6

here and they they checked me out and they're like your stress is off the you know off the charts you

1:35.3

need to one stop drinking so much coffee but two you're gonna have to make it like a life

1:39.8

change you know you're you're trying to manage too much or you're going to have serious problems.

1:44.8

So, you know, it was kind of serendipitous.

1:49.3

You know, my release was always fishing and time flies that's what relaxed me so as things

1:56.3

started to wind down my leases were up and it was kind of at the top and I kind of realized that I didn't want to be doing it anymore.

2:06.7

Like it wasn't what my passion was.

2:08.9

So I just wound things down.

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