How Elite Operators Change Their Life

EverydaySpy Podcast

Andrew Bustamante

Spy, Learning, Spies, Thinking, Human, Cia, Intelligence, Espionage, Education, Lifehack, Social Sciences, Advantage, Edge, Unfair, Science, How To, Humint, Secret, Growth, Business

4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The greatest lessons you need to learn often get lost. People are either too successful to share their secrets, or they fail too fast and their experience is lost forever to history. In today's episode, Andrew give's you a peek into how one elite UK Royal Navy SBS officer has changed his life on his own terms. And how he views money in a way that most people do not...

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0:00.0	My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.
0:07.0	Freedom! Freedom. Freedom. Freedom.
0:21.6	Freedom.
0:23.6	I had an opportunity this week to sit with a good buddy of mine, who's a former special boat service,
0:34.6	SBS.
0:35.6	That's not something you often hear about here in the U.S.
0:38.0	But the UK Royal Navy, their special forces, their seal equivalent is called the special
0:43.0	boat service, SBS. And these are Tier 1, highly trained, awesome, killer operatives,
0:48.9	covert action, some of the best and most impressive people in the world, but also some of the
0:53.8	most humble and some of the most friendly. Like people in the world, but also some of the most humble
0:54.5	and some of the most friendly. Like many of the Tier 1 operators that you may never get to meet,
1:00.6	they're really just awesome people to be around. And my buddy James is no different. Now,
1:04.4	James was one of the most elite special boat service helicopter pilots in the Royal Navy. He served in some of the nastiest
1:13.6	parts in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And he was in the US and he was visiting Tampa and we decided
1:18.3	to go out and have some coffee. Compare notes, talk about business, talk about life, and just do
1:23.8	what we do whenever we get together. And he brought up this concept that I thought was just, to borrow a British term,
1:30.3	just absolutely brilliant.
1:32.2	And I did not want to sit down and record this podcast without sharing with you
1:39.7	this awesome idea that he just dropped in the middle of a coffee date together.
1:45.0	So let me give you some background here.
1:47.0	Now, James wrote a book back maybe five or seven years ago,
1:51.0	where he was detailing his experiences overseas as a covert, elite helicopter pilot
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