When you just decide and you make the conscious effort that this is what I'm going to do and nothing is going to derail me, I'm going to fail along the way, but I'm going to continue to move forward.

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Welcome to the Hunt Backcountry Podcast. This is episode 173 and our guest is Greg McCale from Wilde UConn.

Greg is a mountain hunter based up in the UConn as you might have guessed, and he has a TV show and so much more what you hear about.

What I love in this conversation with Greg is that it's about much more than hunting.

Yes, you're going to be a better mountain hunter if you take into consideration some of what we talk about today, but it really just touches on life in general.

And Greg has some fascinating experiences before the TV show, before he was known for hunting about adventures that he used to do and how those experiences have made him who he is today, which I'm excited for you to hear about.

Before we dive into that discussion, I want to just descend a shout out and thank you to a server for the iTunes review.

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Alright guys, thank you so much for tuning in. I hope you enjoyed this episode. I want to tell you one thing about it.

There's a lot of information in here that sounds inspirational and motivational and all that.

None of it's good unless you take action.

So wherever you're at, find one thing in this episode that you're going to do something about to change yourself for the better.

Alright, thanks for tuning in. Here's the discussion with Greg.

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