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I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

At age 19, my guest today became the youngest woman to ever climb Denali, the highest mountain in North America.

She climbed Mount Rainier, Mount Kilimanjaro. She went on to become one of the Army's first female attack helicopter pilots, eventually leading an Apache flight platoon on deployment in Bosnia.

Now, you already know with that mild, basic setup that she's interesting.

There's going to be something in this woman that you want to learn about because maybe you can

use it for yourself.

But it was during those climbs, during those flights, during that training that she learned

about grit.

Yeah, grit.

G-R-I-T.

That's something, something that you know you got to have to win to get over the hump.

My guest today is Shannon Polson.

And today we talk about that very issue, grit, in her new book, The Grit Factor.

Ladies and gentlemen, without any further delay, let's jump right into my guest, Shannon

Polson, and find out what it

takes to get to the highest peaks, to learn how to fly at Apache helicopter.

You just know there's a lesson there that you can apply to your own life.

I hope you enjoy this conversation.

A native of Alaska, I've never been.

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