EFR 447: Leading Amid Crisis and Navigating Life's Transitions with Greg Anderson
Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning
Chase Chewning
5.0 • 947 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Greg Anderson is a former Law Enforcement Officer and Special Forces veteran. He caught the public eye with a viral Instagram video he posted on May 6, 2020, in which he, in full uniform, challenged the constitutionality of enforcing strict stay-at-home orders. Greg was promptly terminated. His video went on to garner millions of views and counting.
Asked how the video was received, Greg says that "95% of people were supportive. Tons of police officers, too." He even got a message from a sergeant who told him that he played the video during roll call. "It's crazy," continues Greg, "how eight minutes changed the entire trajectory of my life—defined my life, really."
A year following the incident, Greg says that the experience freed him from a career that, while he was thankful for, never really felt passionate about. He felt law enforcement was "a kind of natural progression" after his time in the military, and he ended up giving the profession a good eight-year run. "But it was never me. So, this forced me to step outside of that and focus on some things that I'm passionate about."
Today, Greg dedicates most of his time to his Jiu-Jitsu academy and CrossFit gym, Electric North Jiu Jitsu, which he founded back in 2015. With Chase's help, through Operation Podcast, Greg also recently launched his own podcast, Endless Endeavor.
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Key Highlights
- Greg reflects on the past year following the release of his viral video message.
- The power of vulnerability is key to addressing a variety of issues, from military trauma to homelessness.
- Chase and Greg speak on the proven use of psychedelics to overcome emotional trauma.
- What is leadership, and why does Greg think that leadership is sorely lacking in America today?
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- Watch the complete in-person interview at https://chasechewning.com/podcasts/episode/447
- Electric North Jiu-Jitsu
- Endless Endeavor
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, hey, what's up guys? My name is Greg Anderson, former Army Ranger. I did about 10 years of military, paramilitary stuff, and then went right into law enforcement and did another, almost a decade as a police officer and a deputy. |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah, I moved past that profession based on, you know, my viral video that kind of changed my life |
| 0:22.0 | this last year. |
| 0:23.1 | And now I've moved into the podcasting world. |
| 0:26.2 | I opened a Jiu-Jitsu Academy |
| 0:27.9 | and just taking my life in a new direction. |
| 0:30.1 | So I'm on Ever Forward Radio today with Chase and we're just talking about how to be motivated, |
| 0:35.6 | some leadership principles and kind of how to take your life to that next level. |
| 0:40.3 | Because 2020, as bad as a year as it's been for a lot of us I think there's a lot |
| 0:45.4 | of there's a lot of gems to be discovered in it too and I've used this as a really a good |
| 0:50.8 | opportunity to grow and do a lot of things in my life that I don't think I would have been able to do had it had it played out differently. |
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