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Hey guys, welcome to the Fieldcraft two survival podcast

This is Amber L and today I am joined by the lovely Dana Monroe. You may recognize her face from the work she does with Black Rifle Coffee, but she is such a big influence in the women's world.

I am getting the women's world of hunting and self-reliance. Sorry. I am getting to know her really for the first time.

I have been introduced to her by our team and I think that the work she does is incredible. We have some things coming up where we get to work together.

We wanted to take this time to get to know each other better live with the studio audience. Why wouldn't people want to get to know each other that way?

For all of you guys to get to know her too as we move into some programs that we will be doing with her in the future.

I love that you created your own segue into the hunting world and you were able to do... I am sure you found moments where you were intimidated.

I feel like that is the word that comes up a lot for women that I hear from is the intimidation factor.

Hunting is kind of like ranching or farming where you have the legacy component and people feel so ill-equipped if they don't have that legacy factor involved in it.

But that can look so different and nuanced for so many people.

It is not a requirement but people feel very threatened and intimidated if they don't have that. You created that for yourself and now you want to create that for other women. I think that is incredible. What did that look like for you?

The main roadblocks you felt like you had to get through?

When I first started getting into hunting, you said I didn't grow up doing it and I think I was in my mid-20s when I started hunting.

I had no idea how to even start. I didn't know how to apply for tags. I didn't know how to buy bonus points or even acquire a hunting license.

My dad did hunt. He hunted. I looked to him for a lot of help for some of the basics. But I didn't live near him and his health was heading into a direction where he wasn't really able to take me in the field.

I looked to friends and others but being a female, some of my male friends, they were like, I can't take you hunting because my wife would not allow me to take a cute little 20 year old hunting with me.

That was a huge obstacle for me. I wanted to go with somebody that knew what they were doing so I could learn because that's the best way that I learned is just hands on.

That's how I have to learn. I scoured the internet for all of the information that I could read. I read everything you can read about hunting but that only does so much.

I had an application that I struggled with in the beginning and just kind of found friends. I moved to Colorado and found some friends that let me tag along with them on hunting trips and just kind of learned everything I could from everybody I could.

I was out and spent as much time in the field as possible even if I wasn't the one hunting, even if I was tagging along, I've learned so much from other people just being there.

Just through observation for sure.

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