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Mind Of The Warrior

MOTW #68: Back to Basics

Mind Of The Warrior

Dr Mike Simpson

Mma, Philosophy, Combat, Self-improvement, Education, Nutrition, Mixedmartialarts, Military, Fitness, Health, Society & Culture, Medicine

4.8900 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Mike Simpson has served over three decades in the military as an Airborne Ranger, a Special Forces Operator, and finally as a Doctor of Emergency Medicine assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his career, Mike has deployed to 17 different countries, from counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of South America, to the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Along the way, Mike has been trained as a demolitions expert, SWAT Sniper, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachutist, civilian paramedic, Special Forces Medic, Operations and intelligence Sergeant, and finally, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician.

Mike is also a martial arts enthusiast, who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. His passion for martial arts motivated him to become a practicing fight doctor. As one of the foremost experts in both tactical trauma medicine and combat sports medicine, Mike is highly sought after as a lecturer and instructor, working extensively with Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, law enforcement, and military organizations providing medical care and training. He co-stars on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

And the Hey everybody welcome back to mind of the warrior dock with you here as

0:19.0

always hey if you haven't done so already man make sure you go over to dr mike Simpson dot com that's dr mr mr mr mr mr-N-S-O-N-G-C-O-N-C-O-N-C-O-N-T-C-C-O-N-T-C-T-T-O-T-T-O-T-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O page and subscribe to my mailing list.

0:33.0

Got some really interesting stuff coming up.

0:35.3

Those who were on the mailing list were the first

0:37.2

to find out when my individual first date kits went on sale

0:41.0

a while back. I talked before about the fact that I'm going to expand my practice.

0:46.1

I'm going to be doing some remote stuff. Just on the phone quite a bit today talking to people

0:52.4

and figuring out kind of the way ahead for what I'm going to be doing

0:57.2

specifically in how it applies to my medical practice, what I'm doing, kind of in the realm of performance and everything like that.

1:08.0

Exciting news coming up, but if you're on that mailing list you'll be among the first people to avail yourselves of what I'm going to be doing in the very near future.

1:18.0

I'm really excited about it. I think you guys will too. I don't want to let the cat out of the bag just yet because I still have a lot of details

1:24.6

to iron out so it's going to take some time but if you haven't done so already go to

1:28.4

Dr Mike Sims dot com scroll down click subscribe also on the website links to all my affiliates, links to purchase my individual first aid kids as well.

1:36.0

All right everybody. Today, not going to be a real long podcast.

1:41.0

I just wanted to talk about, lately I've been having some challenges and you

1:44.8

guys know that I try to be pretty open and honest with you guys about when I'm having challenges

1:50.6

when it comes to physical performance, athletic performance, things of that nature,

1:56.7

just kind of life in general.

1:58.8

You know, COVID kind of kicked us all on the dick pretty good.

2:07.0

I've done a pretty good job of staying fit during COVID. I didn't have to make any really major adjustments.

2:10.0

My gym only closed briefly.

2:12.0

I was able to do a lot of stuff at home.

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