From Pulpit To Protector: A Guardian's Journey -Angelo
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
4.9 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with former pastor, current firearms instructor and security professional Angelo and discuss two different third party encounters he found himself a party to and when a defender should or maybe shouldn't get involved.
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Active Self Protection exists to help good, sane, sober, moral, prudent people in all walks of life to more effectively protect themselves and their loved ones from criminal violence. On the ASP Podcast you will hear the true stories of life or death self defense encounters from the men and women that lived them. If you are interested in the Second Amendment, self defense and defensive firearms use, martial arts or the use of less lethal tools used in the real world to defend life and family, you will find this show riveting. Join host and career federal agent Mike Willever as he talks to real life survivors and hear their stories in depth. You'll hear about these incidents and the self defenders from well before the encounter occurred on through the legal and emotional aftermath. Music: bensound.com.
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| 1:17.9 | Okay. Welcome back, welcome back yet again to the actor self-protection podcast. |
| 1:40.5 | I am, as always, your host, Mike Williver, and I remain your favorite former fed in the |
| 1:45.8 | whole wide world. Today, our guest's name is Angelo. Our guest's name? Our guest's name is Angelo. He is from |
| 1:52.5 | the greater Las Vegas area. He's in public safety out there. He is married with one child and one is just |
| 1:58.8 | about to show up any minute now. In fact, he may have to end this podcast early to go rush his wife to the hospital because they're that close to giving birth. How are you, my friend? I'm great. Thanks for having me. Yeah, and if that happens, you know, if the wife texts you, hey, it's time, we got to go, just go. I'll figure it out and we'll re-record it at another time. Hopefully we'll get through this, though. |
| 2:23.6 | So before we get started on sort of the formalities of the podcast, it's interesting. |
| 2:31.0 | You had kind of a sort of a similar path to our president and owner, John Korea, in your life, |
| 2:36.6 | wherein you were sort of in the ministry and then went sort of a more self-defense slash public safety sort of route. It's kind of walk us through that. Where were you and where are you now? |
| 2:41.8 | Yeah. So I went to Bible College, did my ministry in Southern California. And while I was working as a |
| 2:49.8 | youth pastor, I was finishing up my religion degree online. And while I was working as a youth pastor, I was finishing up my religion |
| 2:52.5 | degree online. And while I was serving in ministry, of course, I thought that's what I was |
| 2:59.0 | going to be doing for the rest of my life. That was going to be my life career, my life calling. |
| 3:03.1 | And then a very significant incident happened that completely changed the course of my of my life. |
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