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Global Recon

GRP 141-Easy Day: A conversation with Navy SEAL Jason Higgins

Global Recon

John Hendricks

Government

4.8592 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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GRP 141-Easy Day: A conversation with Navy SEAL Jason Higgins On for this week’s podcast is former Navy SEAL and owner of Easy Day Hemp Jason Higgins. Jason served as a SEAL for nine years before rotating into a government security job. It wasn’t until his transitioning out of combat where he started to experience difficulty. During this process, he hit personal lows and realized he needed to make a change. Using natural remedies including Yoga, Cannabis, and hemp he was able to overcome his issues. He went on to form a company with a fellow SEAL called Easy Day Hemp. Higgins is the CEO and they offer a wide variety of CBD based products including products for K-9’s as his teammate was a dog handler in the SEAL Teams. Enjoy. Follow Easy Day Hemp: www.easydayhemp.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/easydayhemp Follow John Hendricks www.Globalrecon.net https://www.instagram.com/igrecon https://www.instagram.com/globalreconpodcast www.twitter.com/igrecon https://www.facebook.com/GlobalReconPodcast/

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0:00.0

So we get up to the target, the Bradley maneuvered into position, and there's like, this tank round, just flies out of nowhere. And then you start to hear hear like tink, tink, tink, tink, tink, and the ramp goes down. And we peel out. And I've ran towards the target building. And as I like clear all the stuff, there's smoke and the stuff, and I just get this weird feeling like, not everybody's with me. So I kind of like take a knee and I'm like waiting. Nobody's running by me and I'm realizing you hear like snap, snap, snap. And then all of a sudden like I get the squeeze in this work behind me. So we go up to the front door. So I ran up, kicked it open and it propels me past the first two rooms. I'm like on my gun the whole time and I just give the going upstairs.

0:54.8

And as me and Chuckie get to the top of the stairs, this machine gun fire just comes in, dude, and it comes in heavy. You could tell it was really close. And all of a sudden you hear man down, like dire man down. And then he goes, we need a foreman down here now. So I just, it's like three bounds down the stairs and I get down to the stairwell as we're coming down I go to grab

0:54.4

mark and another bunch of machine gun fire comes down through there. So I kind of like duck out of the way, and Mark is, he's down. And Nick, our EOD guys, returning fire, I catch Nick's eye. It looked like sheer terror, the look that he gave me. So grab Mark,

1:29.8

and I drug him around that little alcove, and I just started cutting Mark's gear off. You know,

1:34.5

it was pretty apparent that he took one round right through the teeth. I could see the whole left

1:38.8

side was already bruising. You could see it all in his cheek. His face was like white, and Mark was tan.

1:46.0

I get the gear off and dude, I'm just doing like a quick assessment.

1:50.0

And, dude, there's nothing in.

1:53.0

I was like, we need a Kazavak now.

1:55.0

It's like, all right, it's outside.

1:56.0

So I go and I sling Mark up on there and I start carrying him, dude.

1:59.0

And it,

2:00.0

dude, it's heavy you know what I mean

2:05.4

and we're live Jason Higgins what's up brother hey how you're doing man honor to be on the show

2:16.0

good man good I'm glad that you came on.

2:20.2

So you've done a number of things working for the United States government. You were a Navy SEAL and

2:26.7

then you've worked OGA and now you have your own company. So we have a lot to talk about.

2:33.1

Correct. Correct. Yep. I did about nine years in the seal

2:35.8

team. Did OGA for another five years and we've been working this for about a year now.

2:41.0

So the name of your company is easy day hemp. Correct. Yep. Easy day hemp. So can we can we talk a

2:48.7

little bit about it like how it got started and why, and if any of that is related to your service?

2:58.4

Yeah, definitely.

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