Episode 370: A Father's Wisdom: Dr. Jose Estela's Life Lessons and Kevin Estela's Reflections
Fieldcraft Survival
FieldCraft Survival
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🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
Father and Son, Dr. Jose Estela and Fieldcraft Survival Director of Survival Kevin Estela, discuss survival in the Philippines during WW2, strong habits for success, and coming of age in this podcast. Dr. Estela immigrated to the United States in 1965 with few possessions and built a career spanning 58 years, married the woman of his dreams, and raised a family in New England. Estela overcame many obstacles in life and his son asks questions about work, love, and life. "Kevin's dad" inspired the best-selling book, 101 Skills You Need to Survive in the Woods and continues to inspire him to this day.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to the Field Crafts of All podcast. |
| 0:15.8 | We're going to get to the show in just a minute, but before we introduce our guest and |
| 0:20.6 | get down to business, we got to recognize a few of our friends that make this totally |
| 0:23.7 | possible. |
| 0:24.7 | I want to recognize SIG Sauer, SIG Sauer, and that's the correct pronunciation, SIG Sauer, |
| 0:30.4 | SIG Sauer. |
| 0:31.4 | SIG Sauer is a leading firearms manufacturer and they are the makers of one of my favorite |
| 0:38.4 | firearms out there, which is the SIG MPX. |
| 0:41.8 | Guys, SIG and I, we go way back. |
| 0:46.2 | SIG Academy is the training branch of SIG Sauer and I was thinking about this the other |
| 0:52.1 | day. The first SIG pistol I repurchased was an early SIG 226, which I stupidly sold. |
| 0:59.4 | And I know that like DASA guns aren't as cool as modern striker file pistols. |
| 1:05.1 | Striker fire pistols like the 320 or the 365. |
| 1:09.7 | But man, that SIG 226 was a tank and talking to buddies who are classic line armors. |
| 1:17.0 | They say that you can rebuild those classic line pistols, the 226, 225, 228, 227, 229. |
| 1:26.0 | I mean, the list goes on and on and on. |
| 1:28.0 | You can rebuild those over and over and over. |
| 1:30.2 | So SIG is definitely a firearms manufacturer you want to take a look at. |
| 1:34.6 | If you decide to go up to the training academy, you're going to get a chance to train with |
| 1:37.8 | some of the best instructors in the world. |
| 1:40.2 | And you know, in this industry, I've met a bunch of cool guys, a bunch of tier one folks. |
| 1:46.4 | And I've met some folks with some seriously, seriously bad egos. |
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