Life never presents us with a linear path to success.

Often the journey is marred with failures and obstacles, setbacks, challenges and detours.

That's what we do in the face of the inevitable that determines the level of satisfaction and fulfillment in our lives.

My guest today is a master bladesmith. In fact, he was able to achieve that status younger than anyone else in history.

He's also the founder of Josh Smith Knives and Montana Knife Company.

His name is Josh Smith today. Josh and I talk about his personal journey from forging knives in his teens to working as a lineman thinking he was making the right move for his family.

Then back to where it all started as he worked to build the next great knife company from the ground up.

We cover paying attention to the little things.

The mixed emotions of starting a company, developing a powerful team culture and finding confidence when you don't have any experience.

You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. You embrace your fears. You can boldly charge 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.

What is going on today? My name is Ryan Nicler. I'm the host. I'm the founder of the Order of Man podcast and movement. Welcome here.

If you're new, I want to tell you first and foremost that this is a mission to reclaim and restore masculinity.

To that end and specifically on this podcast, I'm having conversations with guys like Dave Ramsey and Jaco Willink and Terry Cruz and Tim Tebow and Matthew McConaughey and Steve Varenella and Andy Frasilla.

I always forget people, of course, when I go to talk about this, but we've had 300 and almost 60, I believe incredible men.

Josh, with our conversation today is no exception, but we are having some powerful, powerful men on the podcast and I would encourage you to make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss any of the episodes.

And we've got some really, really great ones that I'm excited to release to you over the coming months. So please make sure you're subscribed.

And if you will, just leave a rating and review if you've ever received any value from this. That goes a very long way and making sure we are hitting the charts and new men are hearing about what we're doing and we're expanding this mission to reclaim and restore masculinity.

I'm going to introduce you to my guest here in just a minute. Before I do, I just want to mention that in the fall, I've got a new book coming out. It's called the masculinity manifesto.

And that comes out the end of September. So pre-orders are available on that book. You can jump on Amazon or Barnes and Noble or wherever you do the book thing.

We will have the reader copy or student of the electronic copy and we'll also have an audio version as well.

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