Hey everybody welcome to

welcome to battleground podcast I'm super psyched for the guests that we have today

he's an incredible guy his name is his name's Eddie Lima. He's the founder of Stocking Mill,

Coffey. He's also a combat veteran and I'm super excited to talk to him. I heard an interview

with him. He's a patriot. He's someone who loves this country, who served this country, and now he's an entrepreneur building a business. Eddie, thanks so much for coming on the podcast with me man. It's great to have you.

Well, thank you for having me tomorrow. I appreciate it. I mean obviously we I've heard a lot about you as well so I thank you so much for having me

Oh gosh you're welcome. I mean so I your story is fascinating to me because you're somebody that served this country and what I like to

ask people who have served is how did you like what inspired you to jump right into

service so I was 17 and like every other young kid growing

up in Florida I wanted to be an NFL superstar and it really came to the conclusion that I wasn't going to be an NFL

Superstar and I better start thinking of something better to do. I think that I think

that we had like a career day and a guy that was an airborne ranger came in and spoke and it was my senior year and told us the story as a Vietnam guy and it was probably one of the few guys I ever looked at

outside of maybe like my dad or you know uncles or something that I was like

hey I was a man's man I kind of pretty cool what he did.

My dad was served in World War II in the Army Air Corps and whatnot.

So to see, I was like raising an Air Air Force family but to see this army thing was a little bit different

and I liked it and I walked up to him after and I wasn't I wasn't a hundred percent honest when I told him it I was thinking about it pretty hard and I just looked at him I was like well I'm going to be a airborne ranger and he looked at me with a serious basis such, you're going to shit and fall back into it.

And didn't even talk to me anymore.

Literally, just went to the next person.

And then I ended up speaking to recruiters

and joined with a friend of mine who was my best friend in

high school and then went into the army and so it wasn't actually because I mean I

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