Episode 370 - Greg Lapin

Cleared Hot

Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Greg has made a living for the past two decades in law enforcement, special operations, and Government special operations, deploying to war zones throughout the world. Greg spent eight years as a Louisiana Law Enforcement Officer with the majority of his time in Special Investigation and Narcotics units. He went on to work for Triple Canopy conducting high threat protection for the Department of State in conflict zones. Lapin was then recruited for a Department of Defense program, where he also worked in conflict zones while deployed. He has conducted various missions for both government and non-government clients around the globe. Greg is currently the head instructor for Fieldcraft Survival.

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0:31.5	welcome back. Episode 370. We are getting up there. Today's episode is with Greg Lapin. How to best describe Greg? Let's say law enforcement background. That could be the pin in the ground where we start. It branches out into a variety of other things. From government contracting, starting in law enforcement, leaving law enforcement coming back, starting
0:54.7	as a police officer, then working his way into a sheriff, time overseas, working with other
1:01.4	government agencies, working with foreign entities as well, teaching their soldiers and forces
1:07.4	as well, coming back to the United States, probably most recently recognizable as his role at Fieldcraft Survival. They have a gym, a jiu-jitsu gym,
1:16.1	and their headquarters down in Provo, which he is the head instructor of. So in addition to all
1:20.5	those things, very high-level black belt jujitsu instructor. And I think my favorite thing about
1:27.0	Greg is that he is just brass tax
1:30.4	honest. He talks about his experiences openly and honestly. And I don't want to give a spoiler alert,
1:36.7	but I am, you know, going to warn some people here. We opened up talking about what could be
1:40.8	considered relatively dark subject matter personal struggles the highs and
1:44.1	lows of life and we don't even know necessarily how it came up but talked a little bit in the
1:49.0	beginning about the lows and we came back to it and again like I said he talks about his experiences
1:53.9	at a brass tax on this level and that can be hard for people to hear or listen to but I think
1:59.8	it's incredibly empowering not only to the person, but it's powerful for the listener too. And I hope that the
2:05.5	listeners understand among listening to Greg talk about his experience in his background,
2:10.6	that you're not alone. And I'm sure he would want that message and sentiment sent out into the
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