Tactical Talk With Allison Barrie

Cobras, nail polish and a cable. Today’s episode reveals these three things all have in common defying danger and retired PJ Matt Schrader who brings his 21 years of service experience and expertise to hook you up with insider advice. Opening the show, Matt shares a jaw-dropping icebreaker tale about a cobra encounter and right off the bat from there you know this PJ is going to deliver an unflinching look at life inside this elite force and arm you with essential tips honed through two decades of dangerous, vital missions.In the first half of the show, Matt takes us inside the unseen world of Air Force PJs. We’re talking advanced parachuting, weapons, combat diving, survival in all terrains expertise, ropes and mountaineering, tactical maneuvering, combat medic with surgical skills and more. We start in Alaska where Matt grew up and began serving and you’ll get to hear a harrowing tale- bursting with PJ bravery- when a tourist helo went down and a helo with a team to rescue them went down&h

Epic rescue mission of an American prisoner of war. The very first successful rescue since WWII. Today you get to meet and hang with Commander Dave Sears who led the ground assault in this dangerous, remarkable and historic mission.  Commander Sears served 20 years with the SEAL teams - and with the legendary SEAL Team 6 (Development Group). Missions on 5 continents in more than 40 countries. You are getting ultra-special access – Commander Sears himself takes you inside this epic, brave mission blow by blow. But that’s not all, this week Allison is also hooking you up with exclusive insider knowledge on how to think not just like a SEAL Commander – which is awesome - but like a SEAL Team 6 Commander! Commander Sears draws upon his deep experience leading SEAL Team 6 men and gives you advice on how to make better decisions and faster decisions in business and in life.  What if you get in a jam? A dangerous situation? With plenty of experience making split second decisions in highly

#1. That's right her album debuted at #1.    Patriot. Proud military wife and sister. Not to mention a #girlboss running a successful business since her teens! Today you get to hang out with remarkably talented country singer, songwriter and performer… RaeLynn.   RaeLynn has a special relationship with US Special Forces. She regularly donates her time and talent to support them from a surprise appearance for wounded SF operators through to her recent 4th of July massively successful and popular concert at Fort Campbell for Special Forces and their families.   This show gives you special access to a star who truly supports our troops and their families. RaeLynn takes you behind the scenes of life as a celebrity- the glamorous awards shows, on the road touring with titans like Blake Shelton and much more. And she also takes you inside her life bravely manning the Homefront as a military wife and sister.    You’ll find RaeLynn has a lot in common with our SOF guests&he

Danger can hit you at home, in your car or when you’re on your own just going about your daily life. Today’s guest Jeff Kirkham served almost 29 years as a Green Beret doing multiple classified details for the US government.  Jeff has had more training and real life experience in survival and or tactical situations than just about anyone. He is also a trailblazing inventor creating ReadyMan survival tools to give folks an edge in survival and more. He is a helluva storyteller and his ice breaker stories are utterly unmissable. He takes you right with him into the war zone and you'll find yourself laughing at times and also struck speechless at the remarkable courage, selflessness and heroism in one story. In the second half of the show, Allison asks Jeff to hook you up with some ultimate insider techniques and tips to arm you up to survive anything thrown your way. Do you know the 5 things you absolutely should have in your car? How about the 3 things you should always carry on your person? I

Special Forces. CIA. Coffee. Today we are hanging out with the extraordinary entrepreneur Evan Hafer. A combat veteran with more than 17 years of SF experience, Evan has applied his skills, talent and leadership honed through service to our country in some of the most dangerous places in the world for both US Army Special Forces and the CIA... and applied it to starting up a business. He’s taken a passion and with lightening speed turned his start up into an ever expanding empire. Evan shares his fascinating journey from gun toting to coffee roasting. Find out how this operator has liberated coffee from hipsters to give conservatives the right to excellent coffee too. In fact earlier this year, Starbucks announced it would hire 10,000 refugees to protest President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration. Hafer’s response? Fearlessly take on the conglomerate. This CEO of Black Rifle Coffee announced he would hire 10,000 veterans. Evan's an extraordinary entrepreneur so Allison asks him to hoo

A top trainer and real life Wonder Woman is hanging out with you today and reveals some of the key secrets to the maximum fitness of tactical professionals. Alaina is a beautiful fitness model, but don’t let those looks fool you. A team leader of TacFit - a fitness system designed for elite special operations professionals to maximize their performance on missions and stay at maximum performance in high tempo relentless deployments - you are hanging out with her as she has just passed one of the most difficult fitness tests of this top tactical performance in the world - only about 50 men have achieved. She’s also a wilderness athlete as well as strength and conditioning coach. Learn the best way to build explosive power. Find out ultimate insider knowledge on the best way to gain strength. Alaina also shares inner circle know how on the secrets to the best stamina, endurance, agility and much more. Allison also asks Alaina to explain the science behind how they optimize humans and take special op

Swinging axes through the air with enough force to crack rock solid ice knowing that axe, that swing, is the one thing is keeping you on the face of a treacherous wall of ice…and away from certain death…that’s the sort of thing our guest gets up to before he shows up for work in the morning. That’s right, while most of us wake up and it is an accomplishment to manage to get the coffee going before work – he’s out there on extreme adventures while we are literally eating our breakfast.  Host Allison Barrie loves looking at the instagram and facebook feeds of Tactical Talk listeners so she decided this week to hook you up with one of her favorite professional photographers and videographers and ask him to share some of his insider top tips to capturing and sharing your adventures. Jake Blick served 12 years with the Marines and earned the incredibly tough selection into Marine Force Recon. Now he gets to travel around the world documenting his extraordinary extreme adv

Enduro Bros v. epic - to the literal end of the world- expedition…join them just back from conquering an extraordinary adventure riding their motor bikes from Chicago, USA all the way down to the southern most tip of South America in the extreme weather of Patagonia. They survived the most deadly road in the world and in spite of frequent dangerous challenges and unavoidable setbacks, they rode those bikes right on to the literal end of the road, at the end of the world. Aaron served in the Rangers so his experience and expertise as a US Army Combatives champion was certainly handy along the way. At every step of the journey, they were warned of danger up ahead..danger like heavily armed banditos and the risk of getting decapitated by marauding drug gangs. Armed with little more than their bikes, their smarts and skills, they relentlessly persevered danger after danger. And get this...these selfless motor biking bros not only raised funds for the awesome Task Force Dagger Foundation - there was no job

Unflinching, fearless look at freedom.  He’s back and he is not holding back. Get ready for a hard, charging episode this week with guest Tim Kennedy. You may know him from MMA and TV fame as the star of Hunting Hitler, but he’s also still serving his country with Special Forces. Tim just got back from a brutal adventure in the Arctic so Allison asks him to hook you up with what that was all about. For Hunting Hitler fans, you’ll get to hear what it is truly like behind the scenes on a hit show - and Tim reveals some key huge hints on what you could expect in the next season. You’ll get Tim’s insider’s perspective on Hollywood and hear just what he thinks of the Lena Dunhams of the world who criticize the military.  Lots of threatening news in the media these days like pronouncements North Korea can and will strike US soil with a nuclear bomb…Tim digs in and gives you advice on the best way to respond to that? Learn some of the secrets to how he trains folk

Commandos rock. These commandos also rock, rock. Today you’re hanging out with two guys who achieved selection into three of the most elite SOF teams - CAG (Combat Applications Group aka Delta), MARSOC and Rangers which makes them operating rock stars....and these humble, fascinating guys are now on their way to becoming rock star, rock stars.This is a band with an important mission - and here at Tactical Talk we are very honored to have them reveal on today's show this very exciting mission here first. That's right - YOU - get to hear all about this very special, important project FIRST. Brad joins Allison in the NYC studio and Tyson calls in from the South to hang out too.In the first half of the show, they'll take you inside where they're coming from - life in two very covert, unseen places...CAG and MARSOC. Then they dig in for some very real and authentic talk about the toughest days they ever faced while serving our country. They also share some of the challenges they've tackled going from a high

Blow things up today. We are super lucky to have an outstanding operator join us who served with the US Air Force Special Operations. From the middle of a firefight, CCTs get to call in aircraft – helicopters, fighter jets etc – and select what sort of bombs and missiles to unleash on the enemy. Airman Ed Priest in fact was so good at the job he was hand-selected to control all air assets for the protection and movement of the President of the United States on his visit to Afghanistan.  That is quite the coveted accolade being chosen to protect the US commander in chief in a war zone. CCTs get to go to the best cool schools and master some serious James Bond kind of stuff from firefights on skis to knife fights deep underwater. So Allison gets Ed to take you deep inside this unseen world of badasses. Ed is also an awesome storyteller so Allison asks him to share some mission tales that will truly knock your socks off. Find out why it was a bad day to be a donkey in Iraq.  Uncover the une

Could you get through selection to the nation’s elite Special Operations Forces? To become a SEAL, a Ranger, a Green Beret, a PJ, a Raider? Today’s episode zeroes in on the physicality required. To serve in the nation’s most elite units, operators need the physical fitness of a professional athlete.  Want to know how SOF operators can get peak performance out of their bodies? What is the best way for you to protect yourself in an unexpected attack? Today’s guest Scott Sonnon is a phenomenal expert and Senior Staff Scientist in charge of Operational Readiness for SOF elements in the Department of Defense. He’s an expert in martial arts (World Champion in fact) and fitness (Men’s Health Magazine “World’s Smartest Workout,” Top 25 Trainers in the World (Men’s Fitness Magazine, Top 7 Most Influential Instructors (Black Belt Magazine)). Today you’re getting hooked up with access to Scott’s unrivalled expertise who the most elite warriors

From Jolly Green Giant hidden footprints through to the elusive Charlie, this week’s episode is a deep dive into the tight knit, special unseen world of Air Force Pararescue. Our guest Tony Negron is going to take you inside some extremely dangerous missions. He served 26 years and has been on some of the most epic PJ adventures of the past 50 years– including “Vega 31,” the first and only F-117 Stealth fighter jet shot down in combat. Tony and his team raced to rescue the pilot who was behind enemy lines – while the enemy flooded the area with troops searching for him determined to capture him. This is a front row seat to this mega thrilling mission and more. Like the time Tony was working with SEAL Team 6 guys and their helicopter went down during a compound raid. What happened? How on earth did they complete the mission? You’ll find out. Tony has a phenomenal success rate of helping guys train up to achieve the elite coveted status of pj…so you get to hear him rev

Hear this astonishing discovery firsthand. WWI is often associated with trench warfare, but today’s guest has uncovered that beneath these trenches, hidden deep underground are cities that the soldiers created. While the horrors of trench warfare raged, these secret cities became refuges from the brutal trench fighting above. Dr. Jeff Gusky, a modern day explorer, uncovered these sites that have remained hidden, unseen, unknown for more than a century – until now. The coordinates remain a secret to protect the legacy of these soldiers, but today’s episode hooks you up with special direct access. Dr. Gusky is going to take you on a personal guided tour. Once quarries where stone was carved out of the ground to build the castles that dominated the landscape, these ancient sites were adopted and converted into hidden havens for soldiers on both sides. Don’t miss Gusky revealing some of the other secrets he unearthed down there. He explains how he learned the identities and stories of thos

Hang out at a SEAL base with one of your faves. Forget the hype, get the real skinny on life in the SEAL teams. Back by demand, guest Dave Meadows doesn't pull any punches and we talk to him as he finishes up crushing the new climbing wall. Dave served for many years and is now an actor - in fact he was in one of the most iconic SEAL films, Captain Philips with Tom Hanks - so he is exactly the right guy to set the record straight and explain what life is truly like for guys in this elite cadre - so you don't have to rely on tv and film interpretations some of which you've seen him acting in. We cover a whole lot of ground from Dave talking through the toughest parts of BUD/s selection through to key take aways from one of his toughest missions that you can apply to your daily life.  Any doubts you might have that SEALs are some of the funniest guys around - and not all serious, all the time like they are in books, movies and shows...guarantee they'll be squashed after this ep. Dave takes you inside an un

Special Operations world w/ the ultimate tour guide - Mat Best. Ranger. CIA. Veteran. Rock Star at Comedy. Movie Star. Youtube Sensation. Author. Empire builder. And surprisingly good rapper and singer…so what exactly is SOF? And how are these unseen, secret cultures different? Mat takes you through it with his insider knowledge and sharp satirical eye. For Mat Best fans, this is a special chance to get up close and personal with him. For soon to be fans, Mat skyrocketed to fame in the military world for his beyond hilarious videos – each with millions and millions of views. Now, this veteran entrepreneur is on the fast track to mogul with a number of successful businesses. He has become one of the biggest names in the pro military and 2nd amendment space in the world. This jam-packed episode covers a wide range of topics from what it takes to be a real man to the art of rock raking and MRE haggling. Get some exclusive sneak peeks about Mat’s book months before it is published, hook yourself up with some of M

What sort of mindset does it take to be a SEAL? What's the biggest mistake you could make in all of the world's most extreme terrains? What qualities do the very best operators share? What does it take to get through selection to become a SEAL? Today's episode is jam-packed with things that the very best SEALs know - that you can use in your life to crush it. Sean served in the legendary Development Group (SEAL Team 6 ) and he is back by popular demand. He takes you on some more of his adventures in Latin America. You'll find out how SEALs train for assaults and raids on terrorist compounds and why these raids are necessary for national security. You'll get to hear his unforgettable tale of something hilarious that happened during a firefight. You will never guess who turned up unexpectedly on a SEAL Team 6 mission and how they handled it. You get to hear the powerful piece of special advice Sean was given by one of the nation's original SEALs that he found helpful throughout his career. Don't miss finding

Part Robocop-part James Bond…this week’s guest served as a Special Forces Captain and has a story that you will never, ever forget and will hugely inspire you.. Ben Harrow has triumphed against impossible odds and his experience will motivate you to get out there and next level achieve. The episode opens with Ben explaining how the SOF world works, how SF guys are different to SEALs and the different missions that different parts of SOF take on. Ben reveals the key qualities Special Forces.operators possess. Ben and Allison discuss direct action, special reconnaissance and unconventional warfare. Go inside missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and hear some amazing stories. Find out what happened when the crypto – that keeps communications secret from the enemy – went missing. Ben continues to lead by example.In spite of losing both legs to a vicious IED and being told he would never walk again, not only is he walking but this unstoppable natural athlete is working on winning gold medal for the USA in ice hockey!

Lone Survivor + Black Hawk Down. Inside 2 big military movies based on 2 real world incidents this week...and that is just for starters in our jam-packed double episode this week in recognition of Memorial Day + PJs - our nation's "angels of the battlefield" - who put their own lives at risk to save the lives of our nation’s wounded. Go inside who saved the "Lone Survivor" (here's a clue they were PJs) and head behind the scenes of the movie w/ the guy who saved Mark Wahlberg's life. Hear about the Mogadishu battle in a way you’ve never heard anywhere else from an insider who was there on the ground - saving lives. Our guest. Ishmael Antonio served more than 20 years and is now a master instructor in PJ skills. When a mission does not go according to plan, PJs charge in to save lives often facing extremely, extreme danger all around the world. Hear about all the cool skills and brutal conditions that PJs master to do just that. Learn how to survive a helo crash over open ocean. This episode takes you from the

Fighter jet crashes in the Atlantic Ocean…imagine flying more than 1000 mph in a Hornet and having to eject. Go inside this extraordinary story of calm courage in the face of extreme danger. Our remarkable guest today, Duane Liptak, is both an original member of Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command- now redubbed the Raiders- and a Marine Corps fighter pilot. He will take you inside moment by moment what it was like as both engines suddenly caught fire and failed. Then having to eject with a damaged parachute, far away from any coastline stranded out in the Atlantic with a storm coming in…Their emergency signaling devices and location beacons were smashed. How did they survive and escape? Duane also takes you inside the fighter pilot world. You’ll get insider knowledge on what it is truly like from inside the cockpit (like how they pass the time on long missions in ways that will surprise you) through to beers in bars and preparing for missions on the ground. Check out the story about a strike to a f