Episode 223 - Angel Cortes

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

You are not your mistakes....

Angel Cortes grew up in Orange County in what can only be described as very difficult and challenging circumstances. By the time he was in high school he was already a gang member, but he chose to pursue a desire to be an Army Ranger and changed the trajectory of his life.

Angel successfully became and Ranger and completed deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan.

After leaving the military Angel attends school full time with the goal of becoming a registered dietician, as well as creating and hosting military veteran-based events.

He has competed in Jiu-Jitsu and Muy Thai, and owns OG Pumpkin Apparel and Gear:

https://rangercortes.com/

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0:00.0	Well, good morning, everybody. I hope that this Monday finds you with a good beginning to your
0:04.6	week. Hopefully you're not listening to this one. It comes out at five o'clock in the morning
0:07.6	mountain time because that's just far too early to actually be awake. Today's episode and all the
0:14.1	episodes for the rest of this year are brought to you by Black Raffle Coffee. I've known Evan,
0:21.0	the alleged founder of Black Raffle Coffee for quite some time. He's become a very close friend and
0:25.4	I could not be more proud to be more deeply involved with the organization. I know the founders,
0:31.6	they're great people. I know that the organization stands for, I understand what they're doing
0:35.7	behind the scenes. And I actually really love their coffee. And if you do not want your coffee to
0:41.7	taste like it was percolated in a hobo's asshole, I recommend you go to blackwafflecoffee.com and
0:46.6	check out what they have to offer. They got a variety of blends or standalone. You can get their
0:52.4	monthly ECS. They also now have a merch subscription or it's getting ready to come out. So you can
0:56.6	basically have whatever you want delivered to your door as often as you want to. And in doing so,
1:03.2	like I said, you'd be supporting an amazing brand and one that could not be more proud to be a part
1:08.6	of. And that's it. Let's get to my guest today. Repeat guest. His name is Angel Cortez. And on this
1:15.8	episode, we talked less about his background than we did the first time he was here. So I would
1:21.3	recommend if you want to dive deeper into where Angel comes from, go to episode number 141. So it
1:28.4	was about a year ago, actually about a year and a half given the math. He grew up in Orange County.
1:34.1	And I'm going to describe his upbringing as pretty challenging and difficult. He had to spend some
1:40.5	time as part of a gang. Maybe he's chose to sell some guns and some drugs and then decided it was
1:46.9	time for a shift when into the military became a ranger. Completed deployments to both Afghanistan
1:52.4	and Iraq. And he's now full time in school still looking forward to becoming a registered
1:57.2	dietician. He has the company, the OG pumpkin. He's got a pretty unique daily driver in a white
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