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Gritty Podcast

EPISODE 349// 2018 ATA SHOT SHOW WITH ESEE KNIVES

Gritty Podcast

Brian Call

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

I sit down with the guys at ESSEE to discuss how they went from a wilderness survival training company to one of the best knife companies out there.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, this is Sean D. Gray.

0:03.2

Nobody knows who that is, but it's me.

0:07.3

And you are listening to the Gritty Bowman.

0:11.8

It's all in perspective, right?

0:12.9

If you could make $150,000 a year, but you had to work 80 hours a week and you were committed

0:18.0

to a corporation that you hated what you did, is that more lucrative than making $70,000 a year

0:26.0

doing what you love with a lot of free time. And who's richer?

0:29.7

One of the things I never want to say, and I even think this with life is I never want to say like,

0:33.4

what if? Well, I hate that. I hate that feeling. What if I would have done this? What if I would have

0:38.7

just tried this? Or what if? What if? And there's very few things that I say, what if about?

0:44.8

Very few things. And that gives me a lot of peace of mind. So that helps give me drive,

0:51.6

because I don't want to ever say what if? Brandy always says this. You're going to run out of

0:55.7

health before you run out of money. And like I said, we started as a training company and

1:03.3

backed into this knife thing. Yeah. And it was to fill a need. To fill a need that we experienced

1:09.5

ourselves. And I think that's one of the things that separates this company is that like Patrick

1:13.6

said, we're not trying to hang 19 tools or 19 functions on one blade. We just want to be a good knife

1:19.5

and not not just a good knife, but a knife you could you could bet your life on. What would you say is

1:24.5

like a common reason people don't survive? Man mindset. There's been there's been a lot of case

1:31.1

studies where where people have done everything they could possibly do wrong, but they still

1:36.6

survive. They still made it out. And that's because you know, that refusing to give up just,

1:41.0

you know, mindset is the most important thing. You know, you see down the forums on the internet

1:45.6

all the time, if you could only choose one knife, well, you know, this is America. I ain't

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