486: How to Be Self-Reliant & Ready for the Unexpected | Clint Emerson
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/clintemerson486
Clint Emerson (IG: @100deadlyskills) grew up in Saudi Arabia, attended high school in North Dallas and enlisted in the Navy in 1994, serving as a SEAL operator at SEAL Team Three, the NSA, and SEAL Team Six, before retiring in 2015.
Now he runs a crisis-management company, Escape the Wolf.
Today we’re discussing Clint’s latest book, The Rugged Life: The Modern Guide to Self-Reliance.
Stick around and learn how to design and live a more independent life for you and your family.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What does the “rugged life” mean?
- Start with your interests
- Be your own homemaker
- Learn how to collect water + how to filter it
- You still need an income to live off-grid
- Be your own power grid
- Do you like who you’re living with?
- How to make a vertical garden out of old tires
- Ideas to monetize your farm
- The willingness to fail
- Build a community to barter with
- How to build a chicken coop in your backyard
- Understanding the cycle of life and death on the farm
- The spiritual aspect of valuing nature
- Be your own protector
- Become your own handyman
- Solve your own problems
- Being self-reliant doesn’t mean being stupid
- Clint’s transition from being a Navy SEAL to civilian life
- Make a decision, do research, take action
- Movement is naturally built into the rugged life
- Take advantage of luxury & time
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast start by just doing things yourself create your process of elimination figure out how things work figure out |
| 0:08.3 | How to troubleshoot because most of the time it's not broken. It's just you. You're broken. So we just need to fix ourselves |
| 0:17.3 | Simply put |
| 0:19.3 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast episode 486. I'm Jesse Chapis and I'm here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:30.3 | Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health and wellness leaders from around the world. This week I'm chatting with Clint Emerson. |
| 0:37.3 | Clint grew up in Saudi Arabia attended high school in North Dallas and enlisted in the Navy in 1994. |
| 0:43.3 | Serving as a SEAL operator at SEAL Team 3, the NSA and SEAL Team 6 before retiring in 2015. He now runs a crisis management company escape the wolf. |
| 0:54.3 | Today we're discussing Clint's latest book The Rugged Life, The Modern Guide to Self-Reliance. |
| 1:00.3 | Stick around and learn how to design and live a more independent life for you and your family. |
| 1:06.3 | Highlights of our conversation include Be Your Own Homemaker, How to Make a Vertical Garden, |
| 1:12.3 | The Willingness to Fail, Understanding the Cycle of Life and Death on the Farm, |
| 1:17.3 | and Clint's Transition from Being a Navy SEAL to Civilian. |
| 1:21.3 | As always, if you'd prefer to watch versus listen, this full interview is available over on YouTube. |
| 1:26.3 | You can get there by going to ultimatehealthpodcast.com slash YouTube. Be sure and subscribe while you're there so you don't miss any of the action. |
| 1:33.3 | If when you get to the end of this conversation, you enjoy it and you can think of somebody in your life that might want to live more independently, |
| 1:40.3 | be sure and share this with them and help spread the good word. Thank you so much. |
| 1:44.3 | Without further ado, here we go with Clint Emerson. |
| 1:48.3 | Clint, when you used to term The Rugged Life, what do you mean by that? |
| 1:52.3 | Really, it is getting away from digital and going analog and it doesn't have to be 100%. |
| 2:01.3 | You can just dip your toe into the Rugged Life or you can go ahead and just dive ahead first. |
| 2:07.3 | But ultimately, the point of The Rugged Life is that the more self-reliant you become, the less the crazy world out there can touch you. |
| 2:21.3 | So going back in time and actually doing some things for yourself and not relying on technology or other people allows you to put your own air gap between you and that crazy world out there. |
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