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Ep. 202 | The Biggest Thing Firearms Training Gets Wrong w/ Instructor and Writer, Kevin Creighton (opens the original)
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As shooters, we spend a lot of time trying to become better shooters. We want to be faster, more accurate, improve our draw, get better at all the things we can measure.But how much of that actually prepares us for what we’re carrying a gun for in the first place?That’s a lot of what I talked about this week with Kevin Creighton. Kevin has spent more than 20 years in the firearms world as an instructor, competitor, and writer, and I really enjoyed his perspective because he looks at training a l
Ep. 201 | Perfect or a Piece of Sh*t? | Lora Thorson, Defenders LIVE (opens the original)
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Five oatmeal cream pies. In a couple of hours. Yep. I did that. And as ridiculous as that sounds, what happened in my head afterward is the reason I’m talking about it.One poor choice became another. Then another. And pretty soon I wasn’t simply thinking, “That was a bad decision.”I was in what I call the shame cave.“You know better.”“Why can’t you control yourself?”“What’s wrong with you?”That’s the part I want to talk about.This week’s Defe
Ep. 200 | We Probably Shouldn't Have Recorded This | Adam Winch & Lora Thorson | Defenders LIVE (opens the original)
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Apparently I “weenied down” a workout in Arizona, Adam cannot handle a computer without having a complete meltdown, and I hauled guns all the way to Arizona because HE begged me to bring them...only for us to never even use them. 😂And that’s just where this conversation started.Adam Winch is the founder and lead instructor of Defenders USA, but he’s also a good friend, and our conversations behind the scenes don’t usually look much like a formal interview.So we decided to let you guys in on one.
Ep. 199 | The Question I Couldn't Answer Until Everything Stopped w/ Lora Thorson (opens the original)
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When is enough, enough? I had been wrestling with that question, and then just hours later I became so sick that almost everything I normally do came to a stop.No normal everyday life.No workouts.Almost no screens.Very little I could actually do.And in the stillness, God answered the question in a way I wasn’t expecting.In this week’s Defenders LIVE, I’m sharing something different... a journal entry I wrote after a few difficult days and what they taught me about:The difference between growth a
Ep. 198 | The Threats You Never See Coming w/ Author, Liz Lazarus (opens the original)
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As a college student, she woke to an attacker kicking through her bedroom door. Years later, she found herself in an entirely different fight, trying to protect her aging mother during a years-long guardianship battle.Those experiences taught her some hard lessons about what it really means to protect yourself and the people you love.In this episode, you’ll hear:Why your instincts deserve your attentionHow small actions can buy critical time when something goes wrongWhy women sometimes ignore re
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