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Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

CLINT EMERSON | Developing Deadly and Rugged Skills (Ep. 327)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Clint Emerson to the show. Clint is a retired Navy SEAL who spent 20 years in service to the United States of America. He is the only SEAL ever inducted into the International Spy Museum. He continues to serve by empowering good people with safety and security skills at home, work, and abroad. His services have helped Fortune 500 companies, politicians, celebrities, and more. He’s also the New York Times Bestselling author of the 100 Deadly Skills series and his memoir The Right Kind of Crazy. He has a new book out called The Rugged Life: The Modern Guide to Self-Reliance. In this interview, we discuss the mass shooting in Uvalde, TX, the situation in Ukraine, the pullout from Afghanistan, the US military focusing on wokeness and not lethality, why he joined the military, what led him to spy work after he retired from the Navy, why he has written so many books focusing on skills, his thoughts on faith and religion, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Undaunted Life Amman's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.

0:38.8

Our guys today, we got a special guest on the podcast. His name is Clint Emerson. So he is a

0:42.2

retired Navy SEAL. He spent 20 years in service to the United States of America overall,

0:46.9

and he is the only SEAL ever inducted into the International Spy Museum. So that'll give you a

0:51.6

little hint as to what he did after he retired from the Navy. But he continues to serve by empowering

0:55.6

good people with safety and security skills at home, work, and abroad. And his services have helped

1:00.4

Fortune 500 companies and politicians and celebrities. And we get into all that in the show. But also,

1:05.6

he is a New York Times bestselling author of several books to include 100 Deadly Skills. That's

1:10.4

actually an entire series of books and his memoir, The Right Kind of Crazy. But he has a new book

1:14.5

out called The Rugged Life, The Modern Guide to Self-Reliance. And so we talk about that quite a

1:19.0

bit in this episode. But the one thing about this episode that I felt like was really, really

1:22.8

important for him and also for the audience is he gets asked the same, like, 10 questions in

1:28.1

most of his interviews. Okay. So he gets asked about, you know, why did he want to go in the

1:32.0

military? Why do you choose the Navy SEALs? And man, was it terrible being cold wet and sandy on

1:36.2

the beach in Coronado 20 something years ago? And oh, gosh, what was it like when you became a spy?

1:40.2

And oh, gosh, what was it like when you decided to become an author and oh, you know, about this

1:43.7

book and that book. And the one thing that I wanted to do in this interview is not that. And so

1:48.2

wait, I asked some of those questions. But from the beginning, we talk about the situation in

1:52.0

New Valdi because he's got a very, very unique perspective because he trains people in these

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