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Liberty Risk
by Ryan Williams, Kevin Kent, Nick Betts
Mostly true tales of barroom brawls, bad decisions, and near misses. From former Navy SEALs to your average badass, every story walks the line between chaos and comedy. It's the stuff that happens when the uniform comes off and the liberty clock starts ticking. Some made it out clean. Some barely made it out at all. Either way, it's one hell of a ride.Pull up a stool. This is Liberty Risk.
Episodes
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Ep. 82.5 • Building a Brand, Breaking Rules, & Finding Peace • Cody Hightower Part 2 • Platoon Daddy 🇺🇸🏴☠️
🏴☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk Cody Hightower, better known as Platoon Daddy, is back with the Liberty Risk boys for Part 2 of our two-part episode, and this time we're getting into life beyond the Army,...
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Ep. 82 • Platoon Daddy • 20 Years of Chaos, Growth & Transformation • Cody Hightower Part 1 • 🔱🏴☠️
🏴☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk Cody Hightower, better known by his Instagram page Platoon Daddy, joins the Liberty Risk boys for Part 1 of a two-part episode covering his wild 20-year career in the U.S....
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Ep. 81.5 • Wild Stories & Legends with Eric Blehm • Part 2 🔱🏴☠️
🏴☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk Part 2 with bestselling author Eric Blehm! Eric is back with the boys at Liberty Risk for more incredible true stories, military legends, outdoor adventures, and the usual...
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Ep. 81 • Writing The Stories of Legends • Eric Blehm Part 1 🔱🏴☠️
🏴☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk Bestselling author Eric Blehm joins the Liberty Risk crew for Part 1 of a wild conversation about Navy SEALs, DEVGRU, military history, and the incredible true stories…
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Ep. 80.5 • Military Life, SEAL Wives, & Wild Stories • Surinder Goode Part 2 🔱🏴☠️
🏴☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk Surinder Goode is back for Part 2, and this one goes off the rails pretty quickly. After nearly three decades married into the SEAL Teams, Surinder has accumulated exactly…
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Ep. 80 • 28 Years Married to The SEAL Teams • Surinder Goode • Part 1 🔱🏴☠️
🏴☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk Surinder Goode has spent nearly three decades around the SEAL Teams, married to recently retired Team One legend Chris Goode, who racked up 15 deployments over a 30-year...
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Ep. 79.5 • The Men, Missions, & Mayhem of Ranger Regiment • Cameron Fath Part 2 🇺🇸🏴☠️
🏴☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk Former Army Ranger Cameron "Cam" Fath is back for Part 2. Part 1 was about everything it took to get to 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. Part 2 starts off with a WILD...
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Ep. 79 • Becoming a Ranger - The Wild Road to 2/75 Regiment • Cam Fath Part 1 🇺🇸🏴☠️
🏴☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk Former Army Ranger Cameron "Cam" Fath joins the boys for Part 1 of a two-part episode covering his path from a pretty normal childhood in Southern California to 2nd…
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Ep. 78.5 • Part 2 • The Wild Side of Undercover ATF • John "Hollywood" Carr 🏴☠️ • Ep. 78.5
🏴☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk John "Hollywood" Carr is back for Part 2, and we pick up right where we left off: deep inside his 34-year career with the ATF and his time working undercover as a fully...
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Ep. 78 • Undercover ATF Part 1: Inside the Mongols Motorcycle Club | John "Hollywood" Carr
🏴☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk John "Hollywood" Carr spent 34 years with the ATF, building a career around undercover operations, gang investigations, firearms cases, and some of the most dangerous…
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Ep. 77.5 • Ye Olde Plank Part 2 • Frogmen, Brotherhood & Desert Storm 🔱🥃🌴 • Extortion 17 Special at Ye Olde Plank
🏴☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk This is Part 2 of a two-episode special recorded during the Frogman Motorcycle Club's annual gathering honoring the men lost on Extortion 17. Part 2 from Ye Olde Plank Inn...
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Ep. 77 • Ye Olde Plank Part 1 • SEALs, Bar Fights & Bad Decisions 🔱🥃🌴 • Extortion 17 Special
🏴☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk This week, Liberty Risk got out of our studio & filmed on location at Ye Olde Plank Inn in Imperial Beach for Part 1 of a two-episode special recorded during the Frogman...
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Ep. 76 • Freddie Joe Farnsworth • From Desert Storm to Hollywood: War Stories, Stunts & Movie Stars 🇺🇸🎥🍿
🏴☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk This week on Liberty Risk: Brad Pitt. Band of Brothers. Desert Storm. Horse stunts. 13 Hours. World War Z. And somehow, Vietnam War dinosaurs. Freddie Joe Farnsworth has…
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Ep. 75 • Marc Oliver Gould • Backstage Chaos & The Wild Days of Warped Tour With Sk8er Boi 🎵🎙️🏴☠️
🏴☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk This week on Liberty Risk: Marc Oliver Gould went from a San Diego skater kid to the middle of the early-2000s pop-punk explosion, touring the country, crossing paths with...
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Ep. 74.5 • Mark Mason Part 2 • The Wild West Years of the SEAL Teams: 30 years in the breach.
A murder case that's suddenly back in the spotlight. A man calling himself a "Navy SEAL" who never earned his Trident. An Afghan donkey that wanted absolutely nothing to do with the war. And somehow, we still had hours of stories and life lessons with Mark Mason left. Part 2 picks up right where…
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Ep. 74 • Mark Mason Part 1 • The Wild West Years of the SEAL Teams: 30 years in the breach.
Fake Shore Patrol. Prank & hazing warfare. Glitter bombs. An Afghan donkey with absolutely no interest in the mission. And 30 years of Team Guy stories that only get better with time. We sat down with retired Navy SEAL Chief Warrant Officer Mark Mason for what was supposed to be one episode. Six...
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Ep. 73 • Michelle "Bombshell" McGee • Behind The Scenes of Tabloid Fame, Celebrity Chaos, & Navy SEAL Bars
Howard Stern. Navy SEALs. Mobsters. Celebrity boxing. A garbage bag full of cash. One of the biggest tabloid scandals of the 2000s. And somehow...a master's degree in engineering. This week, Michelle "Bombshell" McGee sits down with the Liberty Risk crew for one of those conversations that goes...
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Ep. 72 • Travis Warren • USCG Operator takes on Hurricane Katrina, Cartels & Billionaires
This week we dive into the surprising world of the Coast Guard Tactical Law Enforcement Team (TACLET) unit and its unique role in many of the operations you've seen in the headlines around the world. We sit down with Travis Warren, former Coast Guard TACLET operator, executive protection...
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Ep. 71 • Mark "Oz" Geist • Beyond Benghazi: The Stories Behind 13 Hours 🇺🇸
Benghazi survivor. Marine. Police officer. Bounty hunter. CIA security contractor. This week, we sit down with the legendary Mark "Oz" Geist, one of the real life heroes portrayed in 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. But this isn't just another interview about the events of that night.…
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Ep. 70 • Lew Knopp • Navy SEAL on Cheating Death & International Prison 🔱🇺🇸🏴☠️
On this episode of Liberty Risk, the guys sit down with former Navy SEAL Lew Knopp, whose life somehow reads more like an action movie than real life. After making it through BUD/S Class 161 and serving with SDV Team Two and SEAL Team Four, Lew's story was only getting started. Over the next…
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Ep. 69 • Rachel Cuda • Inside The CIA: The Story They Didn't Want Told 🔱🇺🇸🏴☠️
From growing up around the SEAL Teams - to building her own career alongside them as a CIA Case Officer - to ultimately building a life with a Navy SEAL husband, Rachel Cuda has experienced the special operations community from a perspective few people ever will. But this story isn't about the…
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Ep. 68 • Eddie & Andrea Gallagher • The Stories You Haven't Heard 🔱⚖️🏴☠️
We finally got our MOST requested guest ever on the show! On this episode of Liberty Risk, the guys sit down with former Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher for one of the most unique conversations we've ever recorded. If you're looking for a play-by-play of the trial, there are already several great...
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Ep. 67 • Duffy Gaver • Marine Sniper, Navy SEAL & Hollywood 🔱🏴☠️🇺🇸
On this episode of Liberty Risk, the guys sit down with Duffy Gaver - former Marine Sniper, Navy SEAL, Hollywood stuntman, actor, celebrity trainer, and one of those rare people who seems to have lived five different lives in one lifetime. Duffy's story starts with dropping out of high school to...
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Ep. 66 • George Christie • Hells Angels & Navy SEALs on Leadership, Loyalty, & Brotherhood.
On this episode of Liberty Risk, the guys sit down with George Christie - prior Marine and legendary former President of the Ventura chapter of the Hells Angels, whose four decades as one of the club's most influential leaders gave him a perspective few people will ever have. George didn't just...
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Ep. 65 • Zach Masek • Green Beret Stories & Side Quest Chaos! 🪖🏴☠️🇺🇸
On this episode of the Liberty Risk Podcast, the guys sit down with Zach Masek - former Green Beret, 18D Special Forces medic, combat diver, GRS contractor, entrepreneur, military history buff, and a man who's somehow managed to fit several lifetimes and careers into one. Zach's path has taken…
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Ep. 64 • Crew Cast • Back Together After a Month Off! - Staccatos, Steakhouses & TSA Emergencies 🇺🇸
On this episode of the Liberty Risk Podcast, the boys are finally back in the studio together after spending the last month scattered across the country. Nick talks about being in Las Vegas shooting $5,000 pistols with UFC fighters, race car drivers, and the crew from Black Rifle Coffee, only to...
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Ep. 63 • Dave Swarts • A Navy SEAL's Long Road Home. 🔱🇺🇸
On this episode of the Liberty Risk Podcast, the boys sit down with Dave Swarts. Some people have one defining chapter in their life, Dave seems to have had about six. Before becoming a Navy SEAL, he was collecting DUIs, assault charges, and enough waiver requests to make joining the military an...
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Ep. 62 • Dave Maynard • 50 Years Behind The Gun: SEAL Teams in the 70's, Blackwater, GRS, & Everywhere In Between.
On this episode of the Liberty Risk Podcast, the boys sit down with one of the oldest (but not old!) Teamguys we've had on the show - Dave Maynard. Dave went through UDT/SEAL training in 1972 before BUD/S was even called BUD/S, back when the Teams were still figuring out what modern special...
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Ep. 61 • TJ Webb • "Stripper Cop" Shot 6 Times, & 19 Years of The WILDEST Police Stories! 🇺🇸
On this episode of Liberty Risk, the guys sit down with TJ Webb - former K9 officer, US Marshals Task Force Officer, SWAT operator, author of Just One More, and a man whose law enforcement career sounds like a mix of all the best cop movies you grew up with. This dive into some crazy territory...
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Ep. 60 • Todd Sharbutt • A Warrior Finds His Way: From Desert Storm To DevGru, To Life Beyond The Teams
On this episode of the Liberty Risk Podcast, the crew sit down with Todd Sharbutt - retired Navy SEAL Master Chief, DEVGRU veteran, BUD/S instructor, and one of the true OGs of Naval Special Warfare. Todd's career spans the full evolution of the Teams. From punk rock clubs in Los Angeles and...
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Ep. 59 • Moe Jeudy-Lamour • Morocco Adventures, Movies, & Hollywood Shenanigans
On this episode of the Liberty Risk Podcast, the guys sit down with Moe Jeudy-Lamour - actor, writer, former football player, and Kevin's previous co-star on Jack Ryan - for a conversation packed with Hollywood stories, personal transformation, and enough behind-the-scenes chaos to make this one...
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Ep. 58 • Jon Wechter Returns! • Blackwater, Bachelor Parties & Ranger Battalion 🇺🇸🏴☠️
On this episode of the Liberty Risk Podcast, former Army Ranger Jon Wechter returns for round two - and if you thought his first appearance was wild, this one somehow goes even further. After one of our most talked-about episodes covering everything from Ranger Battalion, spirituality,...
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Ep. 57 • Tyler Hoover • Controversy, Cop Stories, And Building A Life Behind The Mic 🎙️🏴☠️
On this episode of the Liberty Risk, the guys sit down with Tyler Hoover - Army veteran, former Florida cop, and you probably know him best as the founding member of the Anti-Hero Podcast - we dive into a raw conversation that goes way deeper than war stories and police calls. Tyler breaks down…
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Ep. 56 • Tim Speer • The Dark Side of Military Justice: From The Battlefield To The Brig 🔱⚖️🏴
On this episode of the Liberty Risk Podcast, Tim Speer is back - and this time we go way past how he got to the Teams. If you heard his first episode (way back on number 6!), you already know the origin story. High school chaos, figuring it out the hard way, and forcing his way into the SEAL...
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Ep. 55 • Jett Cruzz Lanoha • Frogman Toasts, Bar Brawls & Building Brotherhood After the Teams 🔱🏴☠️
This one opens the way every great Liberty Risk episode should - with a shirtless man standing on a table, reciting the Frogman Toast from memory. Jett Cruzz Lanoha, former SEAL Team 3 operator, does the thing right, and what follows is a nearly-lost piece of SEAL culture that the old guys had to...
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Ep. 54 • Kris Groves • WILD EOD Stories Like You've Never Heard! 🦀🏴☠️🇺🇸
You've heard EOD stories before - but NOT like this. In this episode the Liberty Risk crew sits down with Kris Groves - former Navy EOD tech attached to the SEAL Teams - pull up a chair as we start unpacking a life that doesn't follow a normal script. Before the military, he was already making...
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Ep. 53 • Sheriff Chad Bianco • Behind The Badge: The Race To Save California 🇺🇸
Behind the badge with Sheriff Chad Bianco. 30+ years in law enforcement. Current Sheriff of Riverside County. Now running for Governor of California. But this isn't a campaign speech - this is what it sounds like when you put a career cop who's seen everything across the table from guys who...
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Ep. 52 • Andy Stumpf • Beyond The Trident: A Life of Curiosity. 🔱🏴☠️
You've heard the stories, you know him: Former Navy SEAL. DEVGRU operator. Host of Cleared Hot Podcast. But this isn't the highlight reel. This is 3.5 hours of the stories behind everything you think you know. This is what it sounds like when he's sitting across from guys who actually know him -...
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Ep. 51 • The Power of Tattoos: Pain, Purpose, & Self Discovery with Aaron Della Vedova of Guru Tattoo
Veteran and icon of the West Coast tattoo world pulls up a chair, pours a bourbon, and starts unpacking one hell of a life story - 3.5 hours with Aaron Della Vedova of world-famous Guru Tattoo. Aaron's path from punk-rock kid in Boulder City, Nevada to Coast Guard veteran to one of the most...
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Ep. 50 • Grant Harvey • Surviving Hollywood - Jungle Medivac, Sniper Training & Leprechaun Fight Club
This episode we sit down with Grant Harvey - actor, adventurer, and living proof that sometimes the craziest stories in Hollywood happen off camera. Grant's path into acting started the way most good stories do: irrational confidence, a couple weird opportunities, and a last-minute decision to...
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Ep. 49 • Tim Pyles • 30 Years In The San Diego Underground Music Scene
This week we sit down with Tim Pyles - San Diego's "Mayor of Local Music" - for a long-form conversation that feels less like an interview and more like closing down a bar with someone who's seen every version of this city. Tim walks us through a 30-year run in radio that started with…
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Ep. 48 • Ink, Blood, and Brotherhood • Joey Hamilton and Big Ceeze Castaneda
Two worlds bound by ink. This week we sit down with Joey Hamilton and Big Ceeze Castaneda - Ink Master Show alumni, black & gray killers, and two men who've lived more life than most people could handle. Joey went from 10 years in the Air Force - tattooing friends and PJs in the barracks - to...
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Ep. 47 • Crew Cast No. 3 • Morocco, SHOT Show, & Shenanigans
This week's Crew Cast is just the three of us back behind the mics - no guest, no guard rails, and no real plan… welcome to the Thunderdome! 😂 We kick things off catching up on the last few weeks - Kevin fresh off a month in Morocco prepping the stage for a major Hollywood production, while Ryan...
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Ep. 46 • Greg Hake • Skull Surgery to Sniper Ops in Afghanistan: Keep Fighting
This episode is a long-form sit down with Greg Hake - Nebraska farm kid turned Navy SEAL, senior enlisted leader, and now Corporate Operator. We have some fun unpacking a 22-year career that took him from the conventional Navy all the way to retiring as an E8 in the Teams, with combat deployments...
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Ep. 45 • Brian Price Part 2 • From Hell Week to Hamlet: a Hard Earned Second Act.
If Part 1 was Navajo roots, SEAL Team life, cryptids, and Brian trying to make sense of God and the unseen… Part 2 is where the mission shifts inward. After leaving the Navy, Brian finds himself standing at the edge of an entirely different world, one that has nothing to do with war zones or...
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Ep. 44 • Brian Price Part 1 • Navajo Navy SEAL on Cryptids, Spirits, & Tracking God.
This episode of Liberty Risk goes somewhere we've never been before. We sit down with Brian Price, a Native American Indian & former Navy SEAL turned award-winning Shakespearean actor, for a conversation that moves from reservations to war zones, from BUD/S to the supernatural, and from elite...
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Ep. 43 • Kevin Macon • 31 Years in Policing - Leaving It All On The Field. 🏈
This episode is a deep, unfiltered sit-down with Kevin Macon, a recently retired San Diego Police Department sergeant with nearly 31 years on the job, 19 of them spent working gang units, and a lifetime of stories earned the hard way. Kevin takes us from a Midwest childhood in Michigan to making…
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Ep. 42 • John Wayne Freeman • The Art of Having Fun & Finding Your Lane at 40 🤙🏼
This week on Liberty Risk, we sit down with Jonathan Wayne Freeman for one of the most raw, hilarious, and unexpectedly heavy conversations we've ever recorded. What starts as jokes and side quests quickly turns into a no-shit, no-filter breakdown of a life built on big swings, spectacular...
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Ep. 41 • Nik Hawks • From Navy SEAL to Sailing NAKED Through The Panama Canal & Other Adventures
This week on Liberty Risk, the crew sits down with Nik Hawks - former Navy SEAL, sailor, entrepreneur, and adventure connoisseur - for an absolutely WILD episode with story after story for almost 5 hours. From bouncing between the U.S. and England as a kid, to questionable high school decisions…
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Ep. 40 • Peter Lemke • The Path Of Entrepreneurship Is Never A Straight Line. ☕🚀
This week on Liberty Risk, the crew sits down with long time friend and fellow entrepreneur, Peter Lemke for a wide-open conversation about business, relationships, risk, and learning things the hard way. Peter walks through his path from Arizona to Southern California, launching a limo bus...
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Mostly true tales of barroom brawls, bad decisions, and near misses. From former Navy SEALs to your average badass, every story walks the line between chaos and comedy. It's the stuff that happens when the uniform comes off and the liberty clock starts ticking. Some made it out clean. Some barely made it out at all. Either way, it's one hell of a ride.Pull up a stool. This is Liberty Risk.
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Ryan Williams, Kevin Kent, Nick Betts
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Mostly true tales of barroom brawls, bad decisions, and near misses. From former Navy SEALs to your average badass, every story walks the line between chaos and comedy. It's the stuff that happens when the uniform comes off and the liberty clock starts ticking. Some made it out clean. Some barely...
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