268: Raising A Family To Do Hard Things From A Navy Seal's Perspective // Bill Rapier

Now That We're A Family

Elisha and Katie Voetberg

Kids & Family, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Bill Rapier is recently retired after twenty years in the Navy, where his duty assignments included several years at SEAL Team 3 and over 14 years at Naval Special Warfare Development Group. Positions held include assaulter, breacher, sniper, team leader, troop chief and military working dog department senior enlisted adviser. He is a blackbelt in bjj, a practitioner of the Sayoc Kali knife fighting system, and trains in both western and Thai boxing. He and his wife live in the mountains of North Idaho where they homeschool their 7 children and are heavily involved in their local church through leading worship as a family, father/son ministry, and all around discipleship.

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Past Podcast with Bill Rapier: Why Every Christian Family Should Homeschool with Retired Navy Seal - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2147736914

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0:00.0	All right you guys today we get to do an episode interviewing Bill Rapier who is a
0:06.4	How do you say this like an ex-navy seal? Yeah former Navy seal. Yeah
0:10.2	Anyways really cool guy love his family. They have seven children, Bill and
0:15.2	Maria, and we just really look up to them how they're raising their sons,
0:19.4	how they're raising their daughters, and we feel so blessed to have met their family and we get to
0:27.2	introduce them to you now if you aren't familiar with them before I had some
0:31.8	questions for Bill because our kiddos
0:34.9	obviously are little boys and think it would be really cool to be in the service and
0:39.2	I have some fears as a mom and so not to say that what they want to do right now isn't going to change
0:45.7	sometime in the future but I was curious from someone who's been in that environment
0:49.4	how do you kind of toughen up your boys and your daughter to be in these
0:54.8	environments one day that are not the little homeschool bubble that are maybe
0:59.4	rough or rowdy or totally different than what you grew up in and I don't want it to take my kids
1:04.4	off guard but I also don't just want to throw them to the lions when they're
1:07.6	really little so or even when they turn 18 you know go it it's a whole conversation
1:11.8	we have that conversation on this episode so anyways
1:14.1	Eliza's gonna read you Bill's official bio but I really enjoyed this episode I
1:19.8	I got a lot of peace and clarity and I hope you guys do too.
1:24.0	Nice, yeah, and this is as official as I could find.
1:26.4	It's on the internet and I think it came from his website.
1:29.7	So Bill Rapier is recently retired after 20 years in the Navy where his duty assignments included
1:34.2	several years at Seal Team 3 and over 14 years at Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
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