Mike Drop Podcast: Episode 55 - Nick Bare

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Mike Ritland interviews Nick Baer, Army veteran and founder of Bear Performance Nutrition, about his military service and entrepreneurial journey. Baer recounts his time as an Army infantry platoon leader, his grueling experience repeating portions of Ranger School, and the challenges of building his supplement company while on active duty. He discusses his upbringing on a Pennsylvania dairy farm, overcoming an eating disorder as a teenager, and applying military discipline to business growth.

Key takeaways

• Baer attributes his work ethic to growing up around dairy farmers and military family members who modeled discipline and hard work without needing to explicitly teach it
• Baer spent 140 days completing the normally 61-day Ranger School after failing patrols and recycling through phases, which he identifies as a pivotal learning experience in going all-in on challenges
• Baer and his brother took no salary from their supplement company for five years after founding it, with Baer initially taking out a $25,000 pre-commissioning loan to start the business while still in ROTC

Episode details: published March 27, 2020 · 40.9K views · 1:47:24 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Stories told by Mike Ritland’s podcast guests are the guests’ own accounts, attributed to them — not independently verified. Commentary is Ritland’s, presented as his analysis.

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