#305 - Bear Handlon - Navy Seal & Founder of Born Primitive

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast

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Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Episode #305 is here! Navy Seal and Founder of Born Primitive Bear Handlon joins Evan Hafer in the BRCC Podcast studio! Listen as Bear and Evan discuss the challenges of running a business while still being a Navy Seal, how to maintain a good work life balance, and what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur from the Special Operations Forces. Find more out about Bear and Born Primitive in the links below! On Instagram @bearhandlon @bornprimitive @bornprimitivetactical & @bornprimitiveoutdoor www.bornprimitive.com www.bornprimitivetactical.com www.bornprimitiveoutdoor.com

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0:00.0	People don't quite understand what the point of this stuff is. One, it's fun. It has to be fun. So if you don't like it,
0:06.3	F you.
0:12.3	Yale. Yeah. Yale. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, when did you graduate?
0:17.6	2010. Okay. What did you study? Political science. Oh, okay.
0:23.0	Yeah.
0:24.0	I wanted to do like business, but it was like liberal arts school, so that was like the closest to like
0:27.0	something I was, you know, somewhat interested in.
0:30.1	So wait, take me on that journey then from like Yale to the teams.
0:36.2	Where did you grow up in Indiana?
0:38.1	Okay.
0:39.1	Yeah, so just Midwest guy, got to go to Yale.
0:41.0	You know, I was planning on doing the Navy out of high school.
0:43.2	That was the plan. I was talking to recruiters like you know, like they would like come to high school
0:47.3	and like they have a little booths like at lunch and stuff and I'd always be the guy like, you know,
0:50.5	talking to them like the whole lunch break but so I was planning
0:53.4	on doing out of high school and then football was progressing so like my parents were
0:57.4	kind of like hey why don't you go get your education and then if you still want to
1:00.1	do that thing then you can you know go do it right and for me it was 9-11 I was in
1:04.0	8th grade when 9-11 happened and that's what planted the seed to like serve so I was like
1:08.4	all right that's a fair deal so I got to go play football there for four years
1:11.3	and then I actually went and worked for
1:13.1	Red Bowl for four years did marketing for them which was awesome honestly a lot of I
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