Clint Emerson: ...how to be the right kind of crazy

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 14 April 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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We’re honored to welcome our guest on this episode, retired Navy SEAL Clint Emerson, who spent 20 years in the Special Operations community, including time with a Special Mission Unit. He's the New York Times bestselling author of '100 Deadly Skills'. His book, 'The Right Kind of Crazy', is a gripping memoir about his time as a Navy SEAL. In this interview, he explains how and why he became a Navy SEAL, the hard lessons he learned while in service, life as a civilian, and how to protect ourselves in dangerous situations, like a shooting or an assault. His website is https://clintemerson.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.7	I'm Laura Owens.
0:14.8	And I'm Jan Black.
0:16.2	And we are honored to welcome our guest on this episode, retired Navy SEAL, Clint
0:20.5	Emerson, who spent 20 years
0:22.4	in the special operations community, including time with a special mission unit where specialized
0:27.6	skills were developed and implemented in support of U.S. government operations in hostile environments.
0:33.2	Clint is the founder of a company called Escape the Wolf, which focuses on workplace violence
0:38.8	prevention and response, along with crisis management for small as well as large global companies.
0:44.8	He's the author of several books, including the bestseller, 100 Deadly Skills.
0:49.7	His latest book is called The Right Kind of Crazy, My Life as a Navy SEAL, Covert Operative, and Boy Scout
0:56.9	from Hell. Clint, thank you so much for joining us. We can hardly wait to talk to you.
1:01.7	Hey, thank you for having me. That was a great intro. God. I don't even know. I don't even know
1:08.5	where to begin. You've done so many different things.
1:11.4	So tell us how you became a Navy SEAL. I did meet a seal in an airport overseas when I was
1:18.7	traveling abroad. I was probably 10 years old. And he had a tattoo that was, you know, curious to me. And I asked him, hey, what is that? He's like,
1:29.4	it's a trident. I'm like, well, what's a trident? It's a symbol, kid. Okay, well,
1:34.5	what's the symbol of? And so then he finally explained to me the whole Navy SEAL world.
1:40.7	So at that point, you know, I always wanted to be a ninja. And then that day, a switch to,
1:47.3	okay, I want to be a Navy seal now. And the beauty of that is that when you kill people as a ninja,
1:55.4	it's called murder. But when you kill people as a seal, it's called heroic. So, you know, as long as you pick the right side of the line,
2:02.8	then you're good to go. And I heard a story where you said that the guy who inspired you to
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