Mike Sauers & Sam Bonilla: Navy SEAL & Marine Discuss Life & Entrepreneurship

Team Never Quit

Marcus Luttrell

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.9 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

What an incredible couple we have in the studio this week. Mike Sauers - Navy SEAL, combat veteran who fought alongside Marcus Luttrell in Ramadi, philanthropist, and owner of Forged Apparel. In selfless fashion, Forged has raised millions of dollars to assist the families of fallen heroes. Mike is an exceptional story-teller, and his stories about military life, extensive travel experiences, and his subsequent entrepreneur life, are authentic and entertaining.

Sam Bonilla is an amazing soul in her own right. As a marine with a Master’s Degree in Homeland Security and a certificate in intelligence, marketing manager and concept producer for Forged, social media influencer, model, and Instagram celebrity, Sam is as down-to-earth as they come. She is a joy to listen to as she shares her experiences and perspectives, and a humble servant of people alongside Mike.

In this episode you will hear:

Ideas can be birthed in any setting; they’re limited to the imagination.
You should always take pride in your country.
Follow through.
America was forged – Everything great was forged.
It’s too bad that some establishments that have existed for over 100 years, are probably not going to make through this pandemic.
Never question an order from a marine [in battle].
If you don’t have pride in your country, then what do you really have?
Just like great team guys, we busted out some bungie cords and tied a karaoke machine to our golf cart.
Every great nation, has to have pride.
You have your real life, and then you have your social media life.
Being a marine is not as sexy as it looks on TV.
There are criteria for what is considered a dive bar:
Mainly whiskey selections
A picture of Burt Reynolds
Christmas Lights
Smokey & the Bandit memorabilia
A Juke Box
Spilled Beer Stains on the pool table
Huge “mints” in the urinals
No separation between the urinal & the toilet

Transcript

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0:00.0	The Team Never Quit podcast is sponsored by Navy Federal Credit Union.
0:03.1	Visit NavyFederal.org slash celebrate to check out member exclusive offers during military appreciation month.
0:08.5	All right, everybody, welcome back to the TNGU podcast.
0:25.0	I'm your host, Marcus Latrell.
0:27.0	Every week, it's my job to fire you up to ignite the legend inside of you and to push you to your greatness.
0:33.0	Join me every week as I take you into my briefing room with some of the most hard charging people on the planet. They're going to show you how
0:39.3	to embrace the suck of life, teach you
0:41.2	the values of working your ass off, and
0:43.2	charge through whatever life throws at you.
0:45.5	This is the team never quit podcast.
0:49.1	Don't buckle up, Buttercup.
1:03.2	We're going to, like, go out to an old farm where they have, you know, just... You could have said it was just a good idea and not told about it.
1:05.8	You remember how, you know, like, when you're on deployment, you're stuck somewhere, and you're just making up weights. You just find, like, an old bar and you tie some sandbags to it. Oh, the tire. The tires on the end of it. Yeah, that was the best. The concrete tire. Or the, for the volleyball, or the, when we would set up those bladders. Concrete side of the tire right there. The Marines come up with that stuff quick.
1:27.7	Oh, yeah.
1:28.6	You're a Marine.
1:29.6	Don't you know what we're talking about?
1:31.9	Like instigms. When you're out in the middle of nowhere, and it's funny because now we, part of our loadout, it has to be the gym. Like you've got to move that out there so we can work out. Because of the war's not hard enough.
1:40.9	But out in those...
1:42.7	You remember when he's put concrete inside the tires
1:44.6	and put volleyball poles in them?
1:46.9	I never had...
1:47.8	Says it's a ball. enough but uh out out in those you remember we just put concrete inside the tires to put volleyball
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