It's no secret that during COVID, we began to see how bad the foreign supply chain crisis

really was. That woke a lot of people up to the reality of importing cheap products from

overseas adversarial countries. But we've spent the last century closing American manufacturing

facilities and exporting our American jobs overseas. With the new potential tariffs,

which I believe are more of an economic bargaining tool for Trump, we again are staring down

the barrel of high prices for everyday goods. And that's part of the reason I love what

Josh Smith, founder of Montana Knife Company, is doing in a very small town called Frenchtown in Montana.

He's putting Americans to work, building American products, specifically hunting, tactical, and culinary knives.

Today we talk about the challenges with starting American-made companies, what you're likely going to hear from competitors when you do,

why growth isn't always so linear and there are also no overnight successes,

why foreign markets are unfair business partnerships and learning to build a business from the ground

up, literally. You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. Embrace your fears and boldly

chart your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time. You

are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who you are.

This is who you will become at the end of the day.

And after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man.

Gentlemen, welcome to the Order of Man podcast. We are knocking on our 10-year anniversary.

That's going to be in the spring of 2025. And I just want to take a minute and say thank you

for tuning in, for listening,

for sharing, for promoting, but most importantly, for living your life as a better man.

That is our goal here to give you all the tools that you need so that not only can you thrive

as an individual, we can reclaim and restore masculinity as men in our cities, in our neighborhoods, in this country,

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