MOTW #92: Afghanistan

Mind Of The Warrior

Dr Mike Simpson

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

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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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	The Hey everybody welcome back to Mind of the Warrior, Doc with you back again.
0:18.0	Sorry about last week. The episode that I'm recording right now was actually the subject matter
0:25.9	that I wanted to do last week but my Mac battery died. Come to find out this is an existing defect that Apple is aware of so I just
0:36.4	took it in they replaced it for free but had to be shipped out and basically took
0:41.1	took my Macbook out of my hands for almost the entire week.
0:45.0	So I didn't get to record this episode.
0:47.0	I apologize for that.
0:50.0	Today, as you're listening to this as this episode comes out, the day that my my book comes out on Amazon and I wanted it to be a very positive day a day
0:59.7	You know to celebrate the book coming out, to talk about the book.
1:06.0	But I feel obligated that I never did an episode
1:10.0	specifically addressing what's going in Afghanistan that I need to as an Afghanistan veteran
1:16.3	this is something that I need to talk about I need some things I need to get off my chest
1:20.6	some things that I think you need to hear
1:23.0	whether you served in Afghanistan or not.
1:25.0	So I'm going to get to that in just a minute.
1:27.0	But my book is out today.
1:31.0	I don't, you know, I to to start off such a serious episode of the
1:35.1	podcast with a plug but I do want you to buy the book I mean I put a good chunk of a
1:40.6	year of my life into writing this longer really I mean this is really this is the culmination
1:46.5	of a couple of decades of work but then you know really seriously sitting down to write the book and get it through editing
1:52.4	and get it published over the course of the last year during COVID and everything else.
1:57.0	So the title of the book is Honed, Finding Your Edge as a man over 40.
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