Nov 12, 2019
Tony Blauer is an entrepreneur
and world-renowned personal defense and combatives expert. He’s
started hugely successful businesses--but he’s also had the
unfortunate experience of trusting the wrong people and having one
of his businesses implode at its peak. He has created truly
world-changing technologies and ideas, but his inventions have had
challenging births and the world didn’t always understand what he
was doing.
Tony is the founder and
CEO of Blauer Tactical Systems, the host of the
Know Fear podcast and the creator of the SPEAR system, a
personal defense system rooted in evolutionary biology and
neuroscience that leverages our innate, instinctive response to
being surprised.
For the past 40 years, Tony has taught his system to
everyone from youth and soccer moms and dads to law enforcement
officers and tier-one operators in the world’s most elite special
operations units.
He also taught his system to me in 2009 as part of a story I wrote
based on my experiences living in an area with a gang problem in
Los Angeles. What I learned from Tony during a short period of time
a decade ago transformed how I thought about violence, personal
safety and situational awareness.
One of the reasons I started this podcast was because of the
experience I often had as a journalist where the best, most
interesting I learned while researching stories often didn’t belong
in the stories I was writing. So I’m happy to share this in-depth
interview with Tony about some of those things including the harsh
and unexpected bumps he has hit along the way during his career as
an innovator and entrepreneur.
You can follow Tony on Instagram and
Twitter @tonyblauer. Find his company at https://blauerspear.com/start
and check out his
Know Fear podcast.
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