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Deep in the forest. What do
I see, Will? It's a shadow
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behind that treet. No, it's
not a beer. I know that big
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food Will, He's right over them. Guys, We've got an awesome episode
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for you today. Thank you so
much for joining us as Bettle since we've
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been on with our podcast. But
we have something super super special that we
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really just couldn't wait to get out
there. And a lot of you guys
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know that you've been listening and following
us from beyond the Footprint and squash Nut
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and Squatch Jewish Squatch con As.
We like to give back to the community,
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and we have actually teamed up with
I would like to say probably one
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of the if not the best program
and institution that really dedicates their time,
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money and efforts to save Neil's lives
of first responders and veterans. And we
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really are honored to have three in
my opinion, and I think everyone can
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knt of agree on this, the
top three people in the organization and actually
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being is the founder, CEO or
president of this foundation and then we have
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Lance and then we have got Kelly, And this is gonna be a great
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episode, guys, So stay tuned, stay like listening, because we've got
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some huge things happening for the month
of June, and I'm just gonna jump
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right in to it. So let's
start with Jake. Tell us who you
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are, sir. Good evening,
everyone, Good evening, Brandon, thank
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you for having me on. My
name is Jake Clark and I'm the founder
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and the president of Sable Warrior.
Awesome. Thanks Jake for being here.
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Lance. Yeah, I'm Land Santiago
Savile war Cohort alumni zero one four three.
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I went through in August of twenty
twenty one. I've been voluntary with
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the organization ever since. Thank you. Kelly. I'm Kelly Lumsden. I
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am Cohort zero two three nine.
I actually sat in the seat just this
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last March, and as of today, I became a Stable Warrior Ambassador and
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for Idaho, and I am on
excited about it. I'm excited with you
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guys on because this is something that
I just am so grateful for for what
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you guys you. I was never
in the service. I was never a
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first responder. My wife was.
I've had a lot of family members serve.
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I've seen the trauma that it comes
from serving, and I've seen that
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comes from you know, first responder. My wife was in it for twelve
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years and some of the things that
Freger's her just from being on the night
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shift and the dispatch. It's it's
something that you can't really describe or relate
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to unless you've been through it.
And the reason why, guys, we
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have this amazing group of people on
tonight is because for the month that Jude,
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we are going to be donating a
portion of all of our proceeds that
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when you go to Squatch dot com
and six other companies that we are working
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with who we will actually announce those
later on and you purchase from them,
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we are donating a proceed a portion
of it to Saber Warrior. Because this
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foundation really is amazing, guys,
and without our help and without like our
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funds, it's hard to put on
this organization. It's hard to put on
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the things that they're doing. And
I just was overhearing coming in what Jake's
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describing is something that's just unheard of, and I'm gonna let him describe it.
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But guys, we give back with
squash Nut and Squatch Juice and we're
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honored to be able to do this
with Saber Warrior. This Jake tell us
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a little bit about Save a Warrior, like what got you started? Why
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did you want to start Save a
Warrior? Thank you for asking, Brandon.
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I was a graduate student on the
post nine to eleven GI bill about
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twelve years ago at Pepperdine University,
and I was working for a major corporation
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in the pharmaceutical space, and I
was aware that a lot of folks coming
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back from Iraq in Afghanistan. I
have a military background, I have a
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law enforcement background, but I was
aware of the increasing concern of the accelerattion
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of suicides. And what struck me
about that was that folks had been serving
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multiple deployments and I couldn't wrap my
head around how someone could serve in conditions
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and then come home to the relative
safety of the United States and not make
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it. And I started to really
educate myself in the space of all things
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returning veteran, all things Department of
Veterans' Affairs, and the more I looked
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at it, And I also had
a fairly extensive background in the space of
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recovery, and I'd always just been
curious to know things in the space of
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mental health and recovery of addiction.
And it just didn't make sense, and
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I didn't feel that that gap was
that health gap was being closed. So
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I had this idea of having looked
at this from a different variety of angles,
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that something a conversation could be put
together that could not only cause an
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impact and help someone get unstuck and
maybe choose a different path, but also,
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with the right kind of community of
support around them, make a real
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difference in their life to where you
know, you're not just preventing a suicide,
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but you're opening a whole new world
to that person that perhaps they didn't
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know was accessible to them. I
was watching your video about your testimony of
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why you started Save a Warrior,
and something really struck a chord with me
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as the conversation that you had with
your dad before he passed, and the
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reason why if for a couple of
reasons, because I kind of had a
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similar conversation with my dad before he
passed. Now, my dad took his
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life six years ago. He didn't
win the battle. I'm very sorry for
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your law and so now thank you. And you know, there's a lot
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of great things that I learned from
him, and one of them was,
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you know, he was a god
fearing man. He loved his Savior,
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and he always was preaching about how
if we could just save one soul under
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Christ, right, that would be
worth it. And that's what your dad
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said to you, is if you
can just save one one person, Jake,
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it's going to be worth it.
And that really I started to kind
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of cry because it just, you
know, made me think about my dad
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and I learned a lot from him, and Kelly can attest to this is
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one of the things that I learned
from him was just how important we are
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as individuals and how much we really
matter and mean to one another, and
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how important relationships are. I'm a
true and a huge believer that if you
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want to look at the wealthiest man
in the room, it's not about how
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much money he has or how many
worthy possessions that he has. It's how
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many meaningful relationships does that person have, how many people can he call on
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or she can call on and say, I have a brother, I have
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a sister, I have a friend
who actually is there for me, and
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I'm there for them. And that's
what it's about. That's what this life
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is all about. We're connected in
so much more than we all I think
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can I even fathom me and can
understand. And so when you started this
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program and I was watching that video, I just have to commend you for
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your bravery. I have to commend
you for you putting others above you and
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just do everything that you can to
save a person's life, because the ultimately,
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when you save someone's life, you're
saving yourself. And so I just
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want to commend you for that.
Jake, Thank you, thank you.
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That's that's humbling considering the company I'm
in. Thank you so much. I
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could jump in or Kelly Great.
Yeah, no, I'm just gonna yeah,
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sorry, it's a littlelagg you apologize. Yeah, no problem. I
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was gonna jump in real quick and
say that this man here to my military,
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right, Jake Clark is the man
that saved my life. I've talked
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to people before and said, hey, you know, I went to save
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a warrior and it racked me open
and woke me up and showed me a
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new way to live, you know. And it didn't cure me in seventy
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two hours, but I was handed
a five hundred day plan of action that
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said, if you do this,
you'll heal. And I believed him because
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they didn't lie to me, there
was nothing that I could ever detect.
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There was a lie, you know, and I was looking for because I'm
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a good cop, right But and
I did the five Better Day Plan,
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and I've done it a couple of
times now, and I can tell you
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my life has completely changed. It
has become something that I never thought was
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possible. Every single day now,
at some point during the day, I
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say that today is the best day
of my life, and I mean it.
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And I don't have any regrets on
any of the days in my past,
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no matter what I can remember about
that day in the past, because
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it brought me here to this present
moment. And now I am in a
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position where I can share my experience, my strength, my hope with others
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and I can watch them heal.
And I'm telling you there is no bigger
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charge in my life than watching the
lights come on for someone that you know
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is in the space that I was
at, which was a glock twenty seven
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to my head with a round of
the chamber and finger on the trigger,
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you know. And going from that
to this, that's a miracle. Yeah,
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an absolute marble. And I owe
it all to say worry, and
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I would all to Jake Clark.
Well, that's yeah, that's that's I
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don't know how to take that in
other than to say, you know,
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you'd do the same thing for me. And you know, Brandon had mentioned,
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you know before when I started saw
my dad was really you know,
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because i'd gotten back from some deployments
i'd served in the former Yugoslavia and and
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I I had, you know,
gone through my own stuff over there,
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and it was really blessed to be
in a master's program at a really great
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school that I never thought i'd get
into. I'm almost done with a doctorate
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at usc Go Trojans fight on.
And I've been really really blessed. But
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I've also had my own struggles.
And you know, Lance, I I
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like to acknowledge when I talk to
people. You know, I don't know
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what got sprinkled on him, but
something happened. But I tell people this,
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you know. One of the things
that I hear a lot of people
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say is that they're gonna They're not
gonna fix you in seventy two hours.
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We're going to transform you, and
lifes that are going to occur the same
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way against you. I can,
whether you give the five hundred eight plan
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or not, you know, you'd
have to be in profound denial to try
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to convince yourself what happened here didn't
happen because we have such an emphasis on
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the quality of the contents within the
context of this experience that you know,
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it is really, really powerful.
And this is something that I've looked at
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my entire life, growing up with
a high degree of neglect, abuse and
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dysfunction, and growing up as an
observer of that, a real interested a
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real interested witness to that. I
imagined that life didn't have to be this
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way, and I had a lot
of questions, and I've been studying this
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material for a long long time.
And along that line, along that journey,
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I met a lot of people who
were similarly interested. And we're trying
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to crack this nut, this thing
called life, and you know, there's
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a lot to unpack here. But
when you see I'm not going to say
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Lance's experiences is not typical. It's
not you know, a lot of people
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have to really really grind and I'm
not saying Lances avoided any work, but
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he had a profound experience. And
I can say that because I was here
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to witness it, and that was
the gift you know, we don't cause
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miracles at Savil Warrior. We witnessed
them, and I think it's why we
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on the team that produced the experience
that remain so inspired and touched and moved
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to do the next experience tomorrow.
We have, you know, eighteen folks
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sitting in the seats and two cohorts
and before I forget, you know,
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I tend to get a little scattered
here. Idaho in the last thirty six
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months is the fifth most served state
at Savil Warrior, and it's only a
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handful of bodies away from being number
three, behind uh California and Ohio.
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We're based here in Ohio, but
we we've caused, through people like Lance,
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this diaspora to spring up in the
middle of the country where there's some
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really really good people who care,
like like the folks at Squatch and a
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great t shirts too. By the
way, Kelly was kind enough to leave
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some behind when she visited us recently
for an alumni intensive. But we've been
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so blessed to encounter groups of people
who come together like yours, Brandon,
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who say, hey, this is
this is wonderful. We're creating community,
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but we want to we want to
extend this reach and your support means everything,
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because your efforts are going to cause
somebody that you'll never meet to have
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an experience over which they'll never get. And we promise you that because I
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am not this shy, retiring person
in the space. What we produced,
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this experience it's it's not called an
intensive integrative intervention for nothing. It really
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it really is something that one is
not anticipating. It is quite novel,
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rather innovative as eruptive, and it's
designed intentionally to be that way because we're
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we're we're encountering someone who is seriously
considering you know, uh, you know,
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ending their life, completing a suicide, and we take that very very
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seriously. And the experience here is
one that is one that one cannot forget.
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And you know, I could,
I could go on and on and
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say, say a whole lot more, but I love the way Lance talks
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about it and K two But thank
you. Yeah, no, I totally
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agree. And I don't think anybody
can say any better than that, Jake.
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Honestly, I just say here and
I keep thinking, just you guys,
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right, the men and women who
serve our country, right, they
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put their their lives at risk for
our freedoms. They put their freedoms aside
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for ours and the trauma that they
go through, the things that they experience.
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And I was telling Lance, and
I was telling Kelly this as a
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civilian, I cannot tell you I
know what you're going through. I would
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be lying to you because I have
no idea. I have my own battles,
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I have my own demons. We
all have those. But the things
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that you guys have experienced and undergone
is something that we can never relate to.
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And that's going to cause even a
lot more trauma. That's going to
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cause a lot more of a reason
why we need to step up and help.
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And without you, Jake, without
Lance and Kelly, you know,
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going out there and being that ambassador, being that voice, which you've got
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a great person by the way,
to represent Idaho. She's by far the
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best one that I can think that
you chose. You know, you guys
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are also going to be making a
difference, right, And I mean that's
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what it comes down to, is
we all together a cumulative Even though that
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I can't experience what you guys went
through. I can't and I never will.
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Together though we can still bring awareness
and together we can lead people to
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the right areas where they need to
get the help. And mental health is
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a huge thing and it's getting worse, and we've got to do something.
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I've been to twelve funerals in just
the last year. I've been to four
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and I'm and I'm tired of it, and I'm and I'm and it's all
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due to suicide a lot of my
close friends and family. And I'm just
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sitting here and I'm thinking, you
know, I want to do something completely
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different. What can I do to
create something that can be a movement,
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can create a culture that is something
that everybody wants to get behind. And
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I was on a mountain. I
was hunting, and I was just drinking
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a whole bunch of mountaintops and I
was just dying. I was like,
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this stuff is not working, and
I just like everything just kind of I
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think at one hundred miles an hour
sometimes and it all just kind of came
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together. I was like, Number
One, if I want to get up
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this mountain to go out and harvest
this this monster bowl, I need the
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power in the endurance of a sasquatch. Right in a sasquatch, he lives
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out in the woods, He's always
finding natural ingredients and I was like,
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squatch juice, something that's also gonna
be able to provide me the ingredients,
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right, the natural vitamins, all
of the vitamins, and then the altairazine
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to help with mental stability. And
it tastes amazing, right. So I've
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been super blessed with that, and
I kind of dealt without the people that
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I know in my life. But
what you guys have created here, yes
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something that it It's just inspiring and
I'm so grateful that when I reached out
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to Kelly and I said, hey, I would like to work with you
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and your organization of the month of
June, and she said yes. I
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was honored as she said yes,
So thank you for this opportunity. Hey,
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Kelly, sure, I would look
for you to share your experience in
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like your story because it's truly one
that is really inspiring. Like tell us,
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well, I had not had any
military or medical benefits for twenty five
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years after being out. Didn't even
know that I had rights to them or
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could even have them. And so
I've I've had my benefits for five years
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and I was just spiraling and I
believe that had I had maybe the therapy
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or the help. For those twenty
five years, I would have been in
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a much different spot. But last
December, I was I had a planned,
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I was tapping out. I was
done. I couldn't take it anymore,
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and I wanted I wanted to kill
myself. And a friend of mine
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told me about State a Warrior and
I hit the apply button. Miss Rosa
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reached out to me immediately. We
had a long conversation and I it was
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it was amazing, and she said, I would like to offer you a
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seat. That was in December.
I had to wait until March, and
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I was literally hanging on by a
thread. I was counting the days.
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I couldn't wait. She said,
well, maybe we can get you in
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in January, and then the seats
got filled and so I had to wait
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till March. And I said,
if Save a Warrior doesn't save my life,
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if this doesn't work, I'm done. I'm out. Literally, I
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was like, I knew exactly my
plan, and I was it was do
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or die. And when I had
no idea what to expect or what the
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experience is going to be like.
But only until they reintroduced me to this
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little girl who is me, This
is the little Kelly. That's when I
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had the awakening and I went,
oh my god, I wasn't going to
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tap out on me. I was
tapping out on her and I had no
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idea. And I finally pulled her
out of the flood and realized my Ace's
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score and it all just made sense. And so when I came home,
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I really didn't know what to do. I felt super empty. And Uncle
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Brad was like, no, you're
actually open because what you once knew is
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no more is no longer, and
now there's you're open to any possibility.
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And so I started doing the work
and started attending the meetings and then was
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offered an opportunity to go back to
the alumni intensive and I was like,
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I'm all in. There's no more
bullshit I got. I got to get
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through this. So I went back
in May, and when I came home
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and you approached me, I was
like, I have got to tell the
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world. The world needs to know, and I have a pretty big mouth,
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So here we are anyway, Thank
you, Jake. You know what,
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it's even bigger than you. You
say that you got a big mouth.
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You know what the biggest part of
you is is your and your soul,
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and you've got a lot of love
and you've got a lot going for
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you that we need in Idaho.
So you're going to change a lot of
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people's lives that you already have.
So the commission's not over. And I'm
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so glad that both of you,
all three of you are here, because
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without you, you never know there
might be somebody out there who may not
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be here because of not having you
guys here. If you get iwarns,
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I mean just kind of going over
your numbers, jakin like you guys,
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we guess helped hundreds of people every
year. Correct, that's correct. We're
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coming up on twenty five hundred returning
veterans and first responders served here in the
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next few months. And that since
we started with incredibly humble beginnings in Malibu,
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I know that humble beginnings in Malibu
may not necessarily go in the same
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sentence. That's just where I happen
to be going school at the time.
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But we really, we really fledged
as an organization when we start to centering
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our experience here in Ohio about six
years ago, and we're exclusively in Ohio.
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That doesn't mean we won't go back
to California. Unfortunately, our camp
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burned in the Woolsey fire and twenty
eighteen there was a really big fire out
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there and the camp was completely gutted. And we were very, very blessed
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to be a camp est Cramer,
where we got our start and where we
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had been since twenty twelve. But
yeah, we're so blessed. And I'm
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also I'm very moved by by Kelly's
story. And you know, we take
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seriously when somebody is like, look, I've got a plan if this doesn't
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work. And for many people,
they've expressed that this is the last house
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on the block, and it's a
deadly serious game because of the stakes and
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the consequences. And again, I'm
sorry for what you've gone through this last
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year, Brandon. I know you've
been touched personally by this. And you
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know, I think one of our
one of our kind of superpowers, is
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that we get folks reconnected back to
resources already available in their community that they
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just may not be aware of that
have been around for a long time.
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And those rooms can be scary to
walk into until we do, or we
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start to create those rooms where we
live for people to get together. And
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one of the reasons I think we've
had. The success is that we've never
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transacted with a participant. We raise
all of our funds privately, so it
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changes the dynamic of the interaction between
hear us here at Sable Warrior and the
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folks that we're serving and supporting.
It takes away all kinds of obstacles when
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the folks you're serving and supporting are
understanding, like, wow, they're going
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to tell me the truth because there's
no bill at the end, there's no
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bill at the beginning. You know, we are very transactional culture, and
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I understand that I'm not disparaging that
that's just the way things are. So
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part of the novelty of this game
is is we do not transact directly with
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the participant. Very blessed for the
support that we do receive, but I
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think that comes on the strength of
a reputation that we've built in certain sectors
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in this culture. We've never not
had what we've needed. It's kind of
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like the fishes and the loads,
a very famous story out of the Bible.
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It seems that we get exactly what
we need when we needed and it's
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just a real opportunity and a life's
privilege to be able to do this work
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every day. It was life changing
these last twelve years. I would need
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a long time to describe what the
last twelve years life has been like,
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because I wake up every day,
Like Lance said, it's as if I'm
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inside of somebody else's life, and
I get to work with really, really
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good people. And we've been very, very lucky. One hundred thousand things
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had to fall our way for me
to even be on this screen with you,
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and I'm thankful for every one of
those that fell our way. Me
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too, I agree so much on
that. Yeah, guys, things don't
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happen for a coincidence. I'll tell
you right here, right now that things
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happen for a reason, and for
us to be able to be here together
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on this podcast, on this call
is for a reason. And I just
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am so grateful that you guys have
gone through this, that you're here,
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and that you're able to provide the
services that you need. Because so,
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if anybody is listening to this right
our listeners out there, if you're watching
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this on our YouTube channel, if
you guys are a veteran or a first
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responder, please go to save a
warrior and apply. These folks know what
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they're doing they can help you,
and for the month of June, we
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will be donating a percentage of all
of our proceeds to them. And these
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are the companies that we're working with
nationwide that decided what can we do together,
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and this is something that we've all
joined, we have said we're gonna
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do. So we've got squashed on
Squatch Juice. Obviously you guys know who
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those people are. We have idea
prep co who wants like one of the
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best jerkeys I've ever had, Dirt
wrote out Laws back East. They do
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amazing cool things with side by side. Same thing with Misfit Moto Sasquatch tea
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company, Bro Builds, Bro Builds
Garage, you know the dad jokes.
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They've got some really cool swag if
you guys go to their websites. And
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then we got Kelly herself who's a
relator that she's gonna be donating a proceed
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of for Commission Commissions. And then
we got bow Spider. Guys, we
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all believe in the cause of helping
veterans at first responders because you guys deserve
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it. I want you guys to
really say keyed in what everybody is on
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this podcast because we are connected more
than you know and face happen for a
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reason more than you know why.
And I'm just honored that I get to
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work with these fine people. And
I hope that we can continue a relationship
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going in the road and we can
work get together. I don't see this
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just being a one time thinking,
and I want this to be a continual
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thing. Jake, I I just
I had an idea. I want to
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run a by eel. You'll have
to you don't have to, uh,
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you know, say yay or nay
right now, you can think about it.
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But not only do I want to
give you guys a percentage of my
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proceeds for the month of June,
but moving forward for as long as I
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am in control of Squatch Juice,
and you guys would like to say,
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hey, here's here's something that you
can be taking that's gonna help your overall
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health and your medal stability instead of
pharmaceuticals or pills. I am. I
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love to give a code to you
and that you can use for for anybody
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that you are helping that they get
Squatched. You set my cost. Thank
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you. That's very general a relationship. Thank you, Brandon, that's very
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very very generous of you. We
would love to talk more about that offline.
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Thank you. Incredibly generous than on
your part. Thank you. He's
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amazing, absolutely absolutely. I mean, if there's anything that I can do
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to help, I just want to
make sure that I'm doing everything that I
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can. There's a couple of you're
doing more than by and I told you
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you're doing more than you know.
Well, he's sitting on the side of
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in the middle of nowhere to go
pick up a whole trailer full of squatch
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juice. Literally, are you not. He's on his way to Salt Lake
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City right now and then well of
nowhere. So super faithful, yep,
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yep. So I just want to
do whatever I can. So absolutely well,
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thank you guys. I mean,
is there anything else that you guys
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would like to to share with everybody
out saber Warrior and what you guys can
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do, how you guys can help
anything that I'm missing. Yeah, for
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anybody who's listening, if you're interested
in anything you've heard and you've like you'd
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like to learn more, please go
to www Dot Sablewarrior dot org. There's
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a lot of great information there.
There's a lot of great stuff on social
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media. All you have to do
is is uh. You know, Kelly's
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holding up a brochure in the window
here. You might be able to even
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scan on that, but there's the
you know, whatever you do, reach
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out. Please, I know the
telephone can get heavy, but please know
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that there are people who do care
more than you'll ever know, more than
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we'll ever know. I promise you
that. And if we keep looking,
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we will find you know the rooms
and the spaces that we're meant to be
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And I'm convinced of that. But
again, Sablewarrior dot org and if you're
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if you're I would get in touch. If you're in the local Idaho area,
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please get a hold of Lance or
Kelly or even Brandon, and they'll
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get you connected to the right people
and we'll have a conversation with you if
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you say, been an application and
see if this is a good fit for
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you. We may not be the
right fit for you, but we'll help
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you find something where you are or
not too far from here, maybe some
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services and support that you're not aware
of. Well, we'll do our level
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best to get you connected to the
support you so richly deserve, absolutely a
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hundred percent, and I'll be posting
a lot of the events that I'm planning
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for the next few months where I'll
be representing Save a Warrior as well and
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have tables and information and all the
grocers and flyers, and yeah, I'll
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be spreading the work. And I
just want to say, I just my
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goal today is I just want to
be half the man that lands Santiago's dog
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already thinks I am. I didn't
think it's that's a little John Carnes in
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there. No granted, thank you, faking well thanks againing guys, you
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know, God willing, somebody will
hear this and it'll circle back to you
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one day, and you'll somebody might
just walk up to you and say,
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hey, I was somewhere and I
heard this podcast, and you know,
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I got this message and he I
ended up going to Ohio and it made
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all the difference in my life.
And that that never gets old, you
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know, because I encountered someone tonight
who's here to shepherd for this weekend's experience
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that's getting ready to kick off in
about oh sixteen hours, And you know,
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I asked this one young man who's
here to shepherd, how he heard
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about us. I'm always curious to
know how people hear about us and how
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they make our way to us.
And it's like you said, you know,
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I think coincidences are God's way of
staying anonymous. But we just had
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such an amazing opportunity these last twelve
years to serve some remarkable people like Lance
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and Kelly and a whole lot more. And it's just a real blessing to
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be blessed by you. So thank
you, Brandon. Yeah, thank you,
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Brandon. Thank you for hearing.
Yeah, so much more than welcome,
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guys, Yeah, more than welcome. So well, guys, thank
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you for coming on. We'll call
it a good night, and guys,
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save a Warrior's where it's at.
So yeah, thanks guys, Thank you
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I see. Well, it's a
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Deep in the forest. What do
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behind that treet. No, it's
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food Will, He's right over them. Guys, We've got an awesome episode
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for you today. Thank you so
much for joining us as Bettle since we've
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been on with our podcast. But
we have something super super special that we
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really just couldn't wait to get out
there. And a lot of you guys
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know that you've been listening and following
us from beyond the Footprint and squash Nut
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and Squatch Jewish Squatch con As.
We like to give back to the community,
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and we have actually teamed up with
I would like to say probably one
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of the if not the best program
and institution that really dedicates their time,
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money and efforts to save Neil's lives
of first responders and veterans. And we
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really are honored to have three in
my opinion, and I think everyone can
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knt of agree on this, the
top three people in the organization and actually
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being is the founder, CEO or
president of this foundation and then we have
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Lance and then we have got Kelly, And this is gonna be a great
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episode, guys, So stay tuned, stay like listening, because we've got
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some huge things happening for the month
of June, and I'm just gonna jump
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right in to it. So let's
start with Jake. Tell us who you
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are, sir. Good evening,
everyone, Good evening, Brandon, thank
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you for having me on. My
name is Jake Clark and I'm the founder
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and the president of Sable Warrior.
Awesome. Thanks Jake for being here.
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Lance. Yeah, I'm Land Santiago
Savile war Cohort alumni zero one four three.
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I went through in August of twenty
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the organization ever since. Thank you. Kelly. I'm Kelly Lumsden. I
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am Cohort zero two three nine.
I actually sat in the seat just this
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last March, and as of today, I became a Stable Warrior Ambassador and
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for Idaho, and I am on
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guys on because this is something that
I just am so grateful for for what
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you guys you. I was never
in the service. I was never a
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first responder. My wife was.
I've had a lot of family members serve.
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I've seen the trauma that it comes
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comes from you know, first responder. My wife was in it for twelve
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years and some of the things that
Freger's her just from being on the night
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shift and the dispatch. It's it's
something that you can't really describe or relate
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to unless you've been through it.
And the reason why, guys, we
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have this amazing group of people on
tonight is because for the month that Jude,
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we are going to be donating a
portion of all of our proceeds that
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when you go to Squatch dot com
and six other companies that we are working
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with who we will actually announce those
later on and you purchase from them,
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we are donating a proceed a portion
of it to Saber Warrior. Because this
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foundation really is amazing, guys,
and without our help and without like our
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funds, it's hard to put on
this organization. It's hard to put on
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the things that they're doing. And
I just was overhearing coming in what Jake's
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describing is something that's just unheard of, and I'm gonna let him describe it.
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But guys, we give back with
squash Nut and Squatch Juice and we're
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honored to be able to do this
with Saber Warrior. This Jake tell us
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a little bit about Save a Warrior, like what got you started? Why
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did you want to start Save a
Warrior? Thank you for asking, Brandon.
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I was a graduate student on the
post nine to eleven GI bill about
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twelve years ago at Pepperdine University,
and I was working for a major corporation
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in the pharmaceutical space, and I
was aware that a lot of folks coming
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back from Iraq in Afghanistan. I
have a military background, I have a
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law enforcement background, but I was
aware of the increasing concern of the accelerattion
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of suicides. And what struck me
about that was that folks had been serving
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multiple deployments and I couldn't wrap my
head around how someone could serve in conditions
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and then come home to the relative
safety of the United States and not make
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it. And I started to really
educate myself in the space of all things
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returning veteran, all things Department of
Veterans' Affairs, and the more I looked
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at it, And I also had
a fairly extensive background in the space of
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recovery, and I'd always just been
curious to know things in the space of
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mental health and recovery of addiction.
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I didn't feel that that gap was
that health gap was being closed. So
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I had this idea of having looked
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that something a conversation could be put
together that could not only cause an
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impact and help someone get unstuck and
maybe choose a different path, but also,
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with the right kind of community of
support around them, make a real
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difference in their life to where you
know, you're not just preventing a suicide,
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but you're opening a whole new world
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know was accessible to them. I
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why you started Save a Warrior,
and something really struck a chord with me
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as the conversation that you had with
your dad before he passed, and the
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reason why if for a couple of
reasons, because I kind of had a
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similar conversation with my dad before he
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life six years ago. He didn't
win the battle. I'm very sorry for
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your law and so now thank you. And you know, there's a lot
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of great things that I learned from
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you know, he was a god
fearing man. He loved his Savior,
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and he always was preaching about how
if we could just save one soul under
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Christ, right, that would be
worth it. And that's what your dad
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said to you, is if you
can just save one one person, Jake,
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it's going to be worth it.
And that really I started to kind
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of cry because it just, you
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and I learned a lot from him, and Kelly can attest to this is
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one of the things that I learned
from him was just how important we are
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as individuals and how much we really
matter and mean to one another, and
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how important relationships are. I'm a
true and a huge believer that if you
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want to look at the wealthiest man
in the room, it's not about how
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much money he has or how many
worthy possessions that he has. It's how
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many meaningful relationships does that person have, how many people can he call on
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or she can call on and say, I have a brother, I have
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a sister, I have a friend
who actually is there for me, and
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I'm there for them. And that's
what it's about. That's what this life
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is all about. We're connected in
so much more than we all I think
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can I even fathom me and can
understand. And so when you started this
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program and I was watching that video, I just have to commend you for
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your bravery. I have to commend
you for you putting others above you and
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just do everything that you can to
save a person's life, because the ultimately,
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when you save someone's life, you're
saving yourself. And so I just
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want to commend you for that.
Jake, Thank you, thank you.
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That's that's humbling considering the company I'm
in. Thank you so much. I
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could jump in or Kelly Great.
Yeah, no, I'm just gonna yeah,
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sorry, it's a littlelagg you apologize. Yeah, no problem. I
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was gonna jump in real quick and
say that this man here to my military,
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right, Jake Clark is the man
that saved my life. I've talked
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to people before and said, hey, you know, I went to save
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a warrior and it racked me open
and woke me up and showed me a
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new way to live, you know. And it didn't cure me in seventy
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two hours, but I was handed
a five hundred day plan of action that
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said, if you do this,
you'll heal. And I believed him because
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they didn't lie to me, there
was nothing that I could ever detect.
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There was a lie, you know, and I was looking for because I'm
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a good cop, right But and
I did the five Better Day Plan,
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and I've done it a couple of
times now, and I can tell you
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my life has completely changed. It
has become something that I never thought was
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possible. Every single day now,
at some point during the day, I
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say that today is the best day
of my life, and I mean it.
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And I don't have any regrets on
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no matter what I can remember about
that day in the past, because
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it brought me here to this present
moment. And now I am in a
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position where I can share my experience, my strength, my hope with others
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and I can watch them heal.
And I'm telling you there is no bigger
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charge in my life than watching the
lights come on for someone that you know
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is in the space that I was
at, which was a glock twenty seven
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to my head with a round of
the chamber and finger on the trigger,
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you know. And going from that
to this, that's a miracle. Yeah,
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an absolute marble. And I owe
it all to say worry, and
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I would all to Jake Clark.
Well, that's yeah, that's that's I
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don't know how to take that in
other than to say, you know,
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you'd do the same thing for me. And you know, Brandon had mentioned,
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you know before when I started saw
my dad was really you know,
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because i'd gotten back from some deployments
i'd served in the former Yugoslavia and and
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I I had, you know,
gone through my own stuff over there,
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and it was really blessed to be
in a master's program at a really great
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school that I never thought i'd get
into. I'm almost done with a doctorate
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at usc Go Trojans fight on.
And I've been really really blessed. But
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I've also had my own struggles.
And you know, Lance, I I
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like to acknowledge when I talk to
people. You know, I don't know
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what got sprinkled on him, but
something happened. But I tell people this,
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you know. One of the things
that I hear a lot of people
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say is that they're gonna They're not
gonna fix you in seventy two hours.
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We're going to transform you, and
lifes that are going to occur the same
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way against you. I can,
whether you give the five hundred eight plan
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or not, you know, you'd
have to be in profound denial to try
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to convince yourself what happened here didn't
happen because we have such an emphasis on
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the quality of the contents within the
context of this experience that you know,
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it is really, really powerful.
And this is something that I've looked at
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my entire life, growing up with
a high degree of neglect, abuse and
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dysfunction, and growing up as an
observer of that, a real interested a
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real interested witness to that. I
imagined that life didn't have to be this
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way, and I had a lot
of questions, and I've been studying this
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material for a long long time.
And along that line, along that journey,
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I met a lot of people who
were similarly interested. And we're trying
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to crack this nut, this thing
called life, and you know, there's
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a lot to unpack here. But
when you see I'm not going to say
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Lance's experiences is not typical. It's
not you know, a lot of people
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have to really really grind and I'm
not saying Lances avoided any work, but
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he had a profound experience. And
I can say that because I was here
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to witness it, and that was
the gift you know, we don't cause
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miracles at Savil Warrior. We witnessed
them, and I think it's why we
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on the team that produced the experience
that remain so inspired and touched and moved
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to do the next experience tomorrow.
We have, you know, eighteen folks
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sitting in the seats and two cohorts
and before I forget, you know,
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I tend to get a little scattered
here. Idaho in the last thirty six
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months is the fifth most served state
at Savil Warrior, and it's only a
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handful of bodies away from being number
three, behind uh California and Ohio.
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We're based here in Ohio, but
we we've caused, through people like Lance,
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this diaspora to spring up in the
middle of the country where there's some
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really really good people who care,
like like the folks at Squatch and a
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great t shirts too. By the
way, Kelly was kind enough to leave
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some behind when she visited us recently
for an alumni intensive. But we've been
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so blessed to encounter groups of people
who come together like yours, Brandon,
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who say, hey, this is
this is wonderful. We're creating community,
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but we want to we want to
extend this reach and your support means everything,
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because your efforts are going to cause
somebody that you'll never meet to have
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an experience over which they'll never get. And we promise you that because I
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am not this shy, retiring person
in the space. What we produced,
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this experience it's it's not called an
intensive integrative intervention for nothing. It really
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it really is something that one is
not anticipating. It is quite novel,
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rather innovative as eruptive, and it's
designed intentionally to be that way because we're
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we're we're encountering someone who is seriously
considering you know, uh, you know,
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ending their life, completing a suicide, and we take that very very
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seriously. And the experience here is
one that is one that one cannot forget.
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And you know, I could,
I could go on and on and
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say, say a whole lot more, but I love the way Lance talks
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about it and K two But thank
you. Yeah, no, I totally
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agree. And I don't think anybody
can say any better than that, Jake.
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Honestly, I just say here and
I keep thinking, just you guys,
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right, the men and women who
serve our country, right, they
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put their their lives at risk for
our freedoms. They put their freedoms aside
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for ours and the trauma that they
go through, the things that they experience.
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I was telling Kelly this as a
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civilian, I cannot tell you I
know what you're going through. I would
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be lying to you because I have
no idea. I have my own battles,
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I have my own demons. We
all have those. But the things
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that you guys have experienced and undergone
is something that we can never relate to.
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And that's going to cause even a
lot more trauma. That's going to
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cause a lot more of a reason
why we need to step up and help.
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And without you, Jake, without
Lance and Kelly, you know,
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going out there and being that ambassador, being that voice, which you've got
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a great person by the way,
to represent Idaho. She's by far the
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best one that I can think that
you chose. You know, you guys
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are also going to be making a
difference, right, And I mean that's
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what it comes down to, is
we all together a cumulative Even though that
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I can't experience what you guys went
through. I can't and I never will.
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Together though we can still bring awareness
and together we can lead people to
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the right areas where they need to
get the help. And mental health is
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a huge thing and it's getting worse, and we've got to do something.
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I've been to twelve funerals in just
the last year. I've been to four
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and I'm and I'm tired of it, and I'm and I'm and it's all
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due to suicide a lot of my
close friends and family. And I'm just
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sitting here and I'm thinking, you
know, I want to do something completely
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different. What can I do to
create something that can be a movement,
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can create a culture that is something
that everybody wants to get behind. And
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I was on a mountain. I
was hunting, and I was just drinking
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a whole bunch of mountaintops and I
was just dying. I was like,
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this stuff is not working, and
I just like everything just kind of I
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think at one hundred miles an hour
sometimes and it all just kind of came
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together. I was like, Number
One, if I want to get up
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this mountain to go out and harvest
this this monster bowl, I need the
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power in the endurance of a sasquatch. Right in a sasquatch, he lives
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out in the woods, He's always
finding natural ingredients and I was like,
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squatch juice, something that's also gonna
be able to provide me the ingredients,
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right, the natural vitamins, all
of the vitamins, and then the altairazine
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to help with mental stability. And
it tastes amazing, right. So I've
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been super blessed with that, and
I kind of dealt without the people that
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I know in my life. But
what you guys have created here, yes
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something that it It's just inspiring and
I'm so grateful that when I reached out
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to Kelly and I said, hey, I would like to work with you
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and your organization of the month of
June, and she said yes. I
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was honored as she said yes,
So thank you for this opportunity. Hey,
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Kelly, sure, I would look
for you to share your experience in
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like your story because it's truly one
that is really inspiring. Like tell us,
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well, I had not had any
military or medical benefits for twenty five
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years after being out. Didn't even
know that I had rights to them or
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could even have them. And so
I've I've had my benefits for five years
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and I was just spiraling and I
believe that had I had maybe the therapy
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or the help. For those twenty
five years, I would have been in
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a much different spot. But last
December, I was I had a planned,
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I was tapping out. I was
done. I couldn't take it anymore,
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and I wanted I wanted to kill
myself. And a friend of mine
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told me about State a Warrior and
I hit the apply button. Miss Rosa
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reached out to me immediately. We
had a long conversation and I it was
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it was amazing, and she said, I would like to offer you a
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seat. That was in December.
I had to wait until March, and
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I was literally hanging on by a
thread. I was counting the days.
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I couldn't wait. She said,
well, maybe we can get you in
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in January, and then the seats
got filled and so I had to wait
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till March. And I said,
if Save a Warrior doesn't save my life,
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if this doesn't work, I'm done. I'm out. Literally, I
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was like, I knew exactly my
plan, and I was it was do
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or die. And when I had
no idea what to expect or what the
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experience is going to be like.
But only until they reintroduced me to this
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little girl who is me, This
is the little Kelly. That's when I
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had the awakening and I went,
oh my god, I wasn't going to
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tap out on me. I was
tapping out on her and I had no
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idea. And I finally pulled her
out of the flood and realized my Ace's
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score and it all just made sense. And so when I came home,
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I really didn't know what to do. I felt super empty. And Uncle
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Brad was like, no, you're
actually open because what you once knew is
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no more is no longer, and
now there's you're open to any possibility.
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And so I started doing the work
and started attending the meetings and then was
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offered an opportunity to go back to
the alumni intensive and I was like,
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I'm all in. There's no more
bullshit I got. I got to get
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through this. So I went back
in May, and when I came home
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and you approached me, I was
like, I have got to tell the
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world. The world needs to know, and I have a pretty big mouth,
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So here we are anyway, Thank
you, Jake. You know what,
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it's even bigger than you. You
say that you got a big mouth.
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You know what the biggest part of
you is is your and your soul,
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and you've got a lot of love
and you've got a lot going for
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you that we need in Idaho.
So you're going to change a lot of
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people's lives that you already have.
So the commission's not over. And I'm
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so glad that both of you,
all three of you are here, because
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without you, you never know there
might be somebody out there who may not
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be here because of not having you
guys here. If you get iwarns,
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I mean just kind of going over
your numbers, jakin like you guys,
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we guess helped hundreds of people every
year. Correct, that's correct. We're
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coming up on twenty five hundred returning
veterans and first responders served here in the
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next few months. And that since
we started with incredibly humble beginnings in Malibu,
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I know that humble beginnings in Malibu
may not necessarily go in the same
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sentence. That's just where I happen
to be going school at the time.
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But we really, we really fledged
as an organization when we start to centering
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our experience here in Ohio about six
years ago, and we're exclusively in Ohio.
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That doesn't mean we won't go back
to California. Unfortunately, our camp
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burned in the Woolsey fire and twenty
eighteen there was a really big fire out
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there and the camp was completely gutted. And we were very, very blessed
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to be a camp est Cramer,
where we got our start and where we
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had been since twenty twelve. But
yeah, we're so blessed. And I'm
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also I'm very moved by by Kelly's
story. And you know, we take
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seriously when somebody is like, look, I've got a plan if this doesn't
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work. And for many people,
they've expressed that this is the last house
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on the block, and it's a
deadly serious game because of the stakes and
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the consequences. And again, I'm
sorry for what you've gone through this last
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year, Brandon. I know you've
been touched personally by this. And you
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know, I think one of our
one of our kind of superpowers, is
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that we get folks reconnected back to
resources already available in their community that they
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just may not be aware of that
have been around for a long time.
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And those rooms can be scary to
walk into until we do, or we
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start to create those rooms where we
live for people to get together. And
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one of the reasons I think we've
had. The success is that we've never
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transacted with a participant. We raise
all of our funds privately, so it
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changes the dynamic of the interaction between
hear us here at Sable Warrior and the
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folks that we're serving and supporting.
It takes away all kinds of obstacles when
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the folks you're serving and supporting are
understanding, like, wow, they're going
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to tell me the truth because there's
no bill at the end, there's no
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bill at the beginning. You know, we are very transactional culture, and
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I understand that I'm not disparaging that
that's just the way things are. So
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part of the novelty of this game
is is we do not transact directly with
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the participant. Very blessed for the
support that we do receive, but I
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think that comes on the strength of
a reputation that we've built in certain sectors
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in this culture. We've never not
had what we've needed. It's kind of
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like the fishes and the loads,
a very famous story out of the Bible.
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It seems that we get exactly what
we need when we needed and it's
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just a real opportunity and a life's
privilege to be able to do this work
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every day. It was life changing
these last twelve years. I would need
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a long time to describe what the
last twelve years life has been like,
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because I wake up every day,
Like Lance said, it's as if I'm
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inside of somebody else's life, and
I get to work with really, really
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good people. And we've been very, very lucky. One hundred thousand things
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had to fall our way for me
to even be on this screen with you,
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and I'm thankful for every one of
those that fell our way. Me
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too, I agree so much on
that. Yeah, guys, things don't
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happen for a coincidence. I'll tell
you right here, right now that things
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happen for a reason, and for
us to be able to be here together
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on this podcast, on this call
is for a reason. And I just
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am so grateful that you guys have
gone through this, that you're here,
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and that you're able to provide the
services that you need. Because so,
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if anybody is listening to this right
our listeners out there, if you're watching
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this on our YouTube channel, if
you guys are a veteran or a first
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responder, please go to save a
warrior and apply. These folks know what
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they're doing they can help you,
and for the month of June, we
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will be donating a percentage of all
of our proceeds to them. And these
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are the companies that we're working with
nationwide that decided what can we do together,
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and this is something that we've all
joined, we have said we're gonna
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do. So we've got squashed on
Squatch Juice. Obviously you guys know who
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those people are. We have idea
prep co who wants like one of the
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best jerkeys I've ever had, Dirt
wrote out Laws back East. They do
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amazing cool things with side by side. Same thing with Misfit Moto Sasquatch tea
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company, Bro Builds, Bro Builds
Garage, you know the dad jokes.
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They've got some really cool swag if
you guys go to their websites. And
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then we got Kelly herself who's a
relator that she's gonna be donating a proceed
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of for Commission Commissions. And then
we got bow Spider. Guys, we
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all believe in the cause of helping
veterans at first responders because you guys deserve
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it. I want you guys to
really say keyed in what everybody is on
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this podcast because we are connected more
than you know and face happen for a
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reason more than you know why.
And I'm just honored that I get to
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work with these fine people. And
I hope that we can continue a relationship
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going in the road and we can
work get together. I don't see this
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just being a one time thinking,
and I want this to be a continual
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thing. Jake, I I just
I had an idea. I want to
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run a by eel. You'll have
to you don't have to, uh,
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you know, say yay or nay
right now, you can think about it.
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But not only do I want to
give you guys a percentage of my
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proceeds for the month of June,
but moving forward for as long as I
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am in control of Squatch Juice,
and you guys would like to say,
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hey, here's here's something that you
can be taking that's gonna help your overall
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health and your medal stability instead of
pharmaceuticals or pills. I am. I
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love to give a code to you
and that you can use for for anybody
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that you are helping that they get
Squatched. You set my cost. Thank
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you. That's very general a relationship. Thank you, Brandon, that's very
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very very generous of you. We
would love to talk more about that offline.
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Thank you. Incredibly generous than on
your part. Thank you. He's
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amazing, absolutely absolutely. I mean, if there's anything that I can do
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to help, I just want to
make sure that I'm doing everything that I
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can. There's a couple of you're
doing more than by and I told you
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you're doing more than you know.
Well, he's sitting on the side of
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in the middle of nowhere to go
pick up a whole trailer full of squatch
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juice. Literally, are you not. He's on his way to Salt Lake
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City right now and then well of
nowhere. So super faithful, yep,
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yep. So I just want to
do whatever I can. So absolutely well,
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thank you guys. I mean,
is there anything else that you guys
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would like to to share with everybody
out saber Warrior and what you guys can
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do, how you guys can help
anything that I'm missing. Yeah, for
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anybody who's listening, if you're interested
in anything you've heard and you've like you'd
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like to learn more, please go
to www Dot Sablewarrior dot org. There's
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a lot of great information there.
There's a lot of great stuff on social
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media. All you have to do
is is uh. You know, Kelly's
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holding up a brochure in the window
here. You might be able to even
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scan on that, but there's the
you know, whatever you do, reach
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out. Please, I know the
telephone can get heavy, but please know
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that there are people who do care
more than you'll ever know, more than
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we'll ever know. I promise you
that. And if we keep looking,
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we will find you know the rooms
and the spaces that we're meant to be
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And I'm convinced of that. But
again, Sablewarrior dot org and if you're
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if you're I would get in touch. If you're in the local Idaho area,
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please get a hold of Lance or
Kelly or even Brandon, and they'll
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get you connected to the right people
and we'll have a conversation with you if
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you say, been an application and
see if this is a good fit for
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you. We may not be the
right fit for you, but we'll help
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you find something where you are or
not too far from here, maybe some
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services and support that you're not aware
of. Well, we'll do our level
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best to get you connected to the
support you so richly deserve, absolutely a
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hundred percent, and I'll be posting
a lot of the events that I'm planning
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for the next few months where I'll
be representing Save a Warrior as well and
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have tables and information and all the
grocers and flyers, and yeah, I'll
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be spreading the work. And I
just want to say, I just my
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goal today is I just want to
be half the man that lands Santiago's dog
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already thinks I am. I didn't
think it's that's a little John Carnes in
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there. No granted, thank you, faking well thanks againing guys, you
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know, God willing, somebody will
hear this and it'll circle back to you
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one day, and you'll somebody might
just walk up to you and say,
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hey, I was somewhere and I
heard this podcast, and you know,
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I got this message and he I
ended up going to Ohio and it made
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all the difference in my life.
And that that never gets old, you
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know, because I encountered someone tonight
who's here to shepherd for this weekend's experience
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that's getting ready to kick off in
about oh sixteen hours, And you know,
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I asked this one young man who's
here to shepherd, how he heard
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about us. I'm always curious to
know how people hear about us and how
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they make our way to us.
And it's like you said, you know,
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I think coincidences are God's way of
staying anonymous. But we just had
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such an amazing opportunity these last twelve
years to serve some remarkable people like Lance
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and Kelly and a whole lot more. And it's just a real blessing to
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be blessed by you. So thank
you, Brandon. Yeah, thank you,
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Brandon. Thank you for hearing.
Yeah, so much more than welcome,
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guys, Yeah, more than welcome. So well, guys, thank
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you for coming on. We'll call
it a good night, and guys,
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save a Warrior's where it's at.
So yeah, thanks guys, Thank you
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