This is The Danger Close Podcast, beyond the books of me, Jack Carr.

Welcome to The Danger Close Podcast, an Ironclad original presented by Navy Federal Credit Union.

This is a best of episode featuring hunters and outdoorsmen.

Donnie Vincent, Cam Haines, Robbie Kroger, Bradley Oene, John Barclow, Jim Shachy, and John Norris.

Here they are. Enjoy.

Donnie Vincent.

Donnie is an explorer, biologist, filmmaker, conservationist, and sportsman.

He received his degree in wildlife biology from the University of Minnesota and was able to pursue

his passion for nature with research projects in Bangladesh to study Bengal Tigers in Alaska to study Spawning Salmon.

Since then, he has produced award-winning films including The Other Side, Taranova, The Rivers Divide, and The Winds of Aidek.

Here's Donnie.

For me, training is, you know, like I'm a mental mess, Jack, and I'm a person that I really suffer from lack of self-confidence.

I have my whole life, so I need to exercise, and I need to immerse myself in being outside, and those two things keep me balanced.

And not only push weights, but I also need to fat-tire bike, and I need to rock, and I need to, you know, do cold weather things, and I just need to do it.

I've heard you say that before about the confidence, and I can talk about it with your bow in the past, confidence there, and you know, if you never mentioned it, I never would have guessed that.

No one would have ever guessed that seeing what you do and how disciplined you are in your approach, and how thoughtful you are, and your writing, and your films, and everything is just incredible.

I appreciate that.

Oh, of course, of course, and none of that would point to a lack of self-confidence.

You know, it points to being thoughtful, which is something I appreciate about you and all that you do.

But I never would have thought that you needed to stay disciplined because of a lack of self-confidence in anything, because you're so inspirational in all that you do for so many people, me included, of course.

But I thought I needed to take some lessons, because when we first got here, man, we got out of the car in Park City, my wife and I, and we were in the Smiths parking lot, the grocery store, and we're looking around and we're like, oh my, people are in some pretty good shape up here in Park City.

I mean, every other person's an Olympic athlete, you know, they're coming here for the lifestyle, this is pre-pandemic, so they weren't fleeing from anything.

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