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🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Today’s guests on this episode of Danger Close are Dean and Alana Stott.
For the last two weeks, Dean has been in Israel helping with evacuations following the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7th. Alana has been coordinating efforts from the United States.
About Dean:
Dean Stott is a security consultant, speaker, author, and former Special Boat Service (SBS) operator. After a parachuting accident in 2011, he began working in the private security sector focusing on high-risk jobs involving extortion campaigns, kidnappings, pirates, military coups, and civil unrest. He led the evacuation of the Canadian Embassy in Libya in 2014.
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He is the author of Relentless: From Special Operations to World Record Breaker.
To learn more about Dean, follow him on Instagram @deanstott and visit deanstott.com.
About Alana:
Alana Stott is an entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, security expert, speaker, publisher, and former Mrs. Scotland. Alana is known for her international philanthropy, which has raised millions of dollars for causes like mental health and the fight against human trafficking.
She is the author of How to Ask for Money, a book about philanthropy, and She Who Dares, her memoir. She has also written and developed a children’s book series called Mollie’s Adventures.
You can learn more about Alana by following her on Instagram @alanastott and visiting alanastott.com.
Dean and Alana host the Behind the Seen Podcast. It is available on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.
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1:07.9 | My guests today are Dean and Alana Stott. Dean is a former SBS operator who is on the ground |
1:12.8 | in Israel, assisting with evacuation efforts, as Alana handles logistics side of things from |
1:17.6 | California. You can help them out by going to their spot fund, and you can link to that from |
1:22.2 | their Instagram at ALANA, STOTT, or Dean, D-E-A-N, STOTT, link in bio to assist with those efforts. |
1:33.4 | And now, without further ado, Dean and Alana Stott. |
1:37.6 | We got it. We got it hooked up. So good to see. I feel like you guys were just here in this |
1:47.4 | very room, not long ago. I think, now, actually, two weeks. Exactly, two weeks, wouldn't it? |
1:54.1 | It seems like days. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think we left you, went home and we were in Disneyland |
2:02.2 | on Saturday, and then on Sunday, booking flights. It was like, you know, it was a whirlwind. |
2:08.0 | Oh, crazy. So crazy. I think it's going to change. That's how life is. Things change very quickly. |
2:14.6 | You're on the ground in Israel. Yeah. That's it. I'm in Jerusalem tonight. Yeah, but I've been |
2:20.5 | bouncing around between Tel Aviv, Haifa, Ash Klon, and here. But Jerusalem seems to be |
2:27.4 | the safest option. As you know, Israel is actually quite a small country, so you can actually |
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