MIKE GLOVER | Prepared to Survive Worst-Case Scenarios (Ep. 479)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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In this episode, we welcome Mike Glover to the show. He is a retired Green Beret and CIA contractor that deployed 15 times during the Global War on Terror. He is also the Founder and CEO of Fieldcraft Survival which teaches survival and disaster preparedness training courses and provides equipment that aids with that training. Additionally, he has a new book out called Prepared: A Manual for Surviving Worst-Case Scenarios. In this interview, we discuss why he decided to join the military and how he ultimately became a Green Beret, common misconceptions about the Spec Ops community, why he decided to transition from the US Military to the CIA, what most people get wrong about being “prepared”, why lack of exposure to hard situations could lead to tragedies, how pre-decision enters into the equation of survival, lessons we can take away from infamous mass shootings, the types of equipment and gear people should consider owning in various circumstances, how his personal faith affects how he operates, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
0:26.4	All right, guys, we got a special guest on the podcast today. His name is Mike Glover. So
0:30.0	Mike is a retired Green Beret and CIA contractor. He was actually deployed 15 different times to
0:36.2	fight the global war on terror. And so we talk about that quite a bit on this podcast. But he's also
0:40.8	the founder and CEO of Field Craft Survival. So they teach survival and disaster preparedness,
0:46.5	training courses, and they provide equipment that aids with that training and everything.
0:49.8	But also he's the author of a new book called Prepared, a manual for surviving worst case
0:54.9	scenarios. And so in this particular podcast, that's a long one. We get into a lot of different
0:59.1	subject matters. You know, why did he go the military route? Why did he go to the army? Why SF?
1:04.1	He gave us a bunch of detail, like a crazy amount of detail on his transition from SF to the CIA.
1:09.9	But also a story that became kind of famous from Tim Kennedy's books, Cars and Stripes,
1:14.4	where he kind of attached himself to Tim Kennedy to where if something went wrong, they were both
1:18.0	going to get kicked out of sniper school. He gave a lot of detail that Tim didn't even get into his
1:21.9	book. We talk about the military industrial complex and how a lot of guys that fought in the GWAT
1:27.1	are now kind of looking back on their time and they kind of have some misgivings about what's
1:30.8	going on. But we talk about the book. We talk about why being resilient is a big deal.
1:36.2	What we can learn from different tragedies. So like the Virginia Tech shooting. What can we learn
1:40.3	from that? We talk about the Las Vegas shooting because a lot of stuff, that mass shooting,
1:44.0	the biggest mass shooting in the history of our country. There's a lot of stuff that doesn't
1:47.2	really add up there. But really in this podcast, we talk about decision making and pre-deciding
1:53.0	that we're going to expose ourselves to things that are going to make us better, that we're going
1:56.8	to have more situational awareness that we're not going to be lazy or arrogant in our planning
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