And here here's the kicker. Few Will Hunt is who we are and what we will become. Mike Trout.

Welcome to the fuel hunt show.

What's going on, Eagles? I'm Joey. I got Drew here with me too, and this is the fuel hunt show. On this show, we do something. What do we do?

We help you strengthen your brain, your body, and your business because those three things lead to a strong self. And a strong self is the building block to a strong society. And with a strong society, we can restore the dignity of hard work, which is our mission here at Fuel Hunt.

Well said.

How you doing today?

Living the dream, baby.

Every day. I love it. I love it. I love it. Today, we are going to talk about what Fu Wheel Hunt means, what it means to you, what it means to me.

You know that obviously that I'm a bowhunter. Right? Mhmm. Alright. So, recently, I took a few hours out of my Saturday and went hunting, archery hunting, right, up in, upstate Pennsylvania.

There wasn't much action. Never. Unfortunately, there wasn't much

There's nothing there's never there.

Wasn't much action. So I had a lot of time to sit alone in my tree stand if you're not a hunter. I know you aspire to be a a literal hunter. You're already a metaphorical hunter. But Well,

I'm a licensed hunter since I was 12. Okay. I have never actually hunted.

Okay. So do you know what a tree stand is? Yeah. Okay. Alright.

So for those listening or watching that do not know what a tree stand is, a tree stand is a a stand that's, as you would expect, tethered to a tree high in the air and, you know, usually 10 to 20 feet in the air. And, that's where you sit quietly and calmly as you await, the the creature that's going to fill your freezer.

Cell phones have probably made those a lot better for people. Something I mean, you you, like, probably like to sit in your thoughts and just think, but I imagine

So they they have probably for some because if there isn't much action, they can pass the time. However, I heard I've heard a lot of stories where people were in their phones And this and, you know, deer. So I I hunt white tailed deer, right, in in PA, Pennsylvania. Game walks by, man.

You don't

know because

You gotta

be ready.

You gotta be ready. Man, you gotta be ready. So but you're right. The phone for me is off. A lot of times, I don't have service with where my cabin is in upstate Pennsylvania, but I am alone in my thoughts, and I love that as you as you so astutely hit on.

And specifically, this day, I was able to think a lot. Right? I was able to think a lot about what Fuel Hunt means, what it means to us and what it means to our community. So what happened then was it inspired an email, that I sent the following Tuesday to the community. And I let them know what Fuel Hunt meant to me, and I asked them what Fuel Hunt meant to them.

And, one of my very, very, very favorite things about our community, about the few, is the ability to speak to them, specifically over email. Like, it's great to, meet them in person at HQ, but it's logistically difficult for us to meet, you know, almost 200,000 people at HQ every year, but email gives me the opportunity, to really get to know our community and I absolutely love that. So it's no surprise that the few came out in full effect, and I got a few hundred replies, that I'm still working my way through, from the few, telling us what Fuel Hunt means to them. So before we get into what it means to us, I wanna read, I'll open with one email from the community and, we'll close with 1. Right?

Okay. So pardon my phone here. So let's read, this is from community member David. Alright. 14 years ago, I was told that I would be in a wheelchair and eventually paralyzed.

Today, I'm a massage therapist, own my own business, and I'm working to become sustainable and thriving. There's the work. Right? So that's his opening. At some point, and here we go.

Now he just starts hitting us, hitting us hard. David, love you, brother. Love you, brother. At some point, fear has to become fuel so that pain can evolve into power. Prefer pain.

I am not a theorist of life, but I am a practitioner within it. I love that. David's on that level.

That is.

David's on my level. So now let's get to the to the to the, $1,000,000 question here. To me, fuel hunt means to hunt, to hit the mark. It means that you pick up your responsibility and you drop your victim. Not for ourselves, but for our families, communities, and humanity.

So what a what a strong response and what a strong

heartfelt message from David. So thank you, David, for number 1, replying to the email, and number 2,

hitting us all in the feels and I I wanted to open with that. Is it gonna be hard for us to follow that? It it it may be. Yeah. It may be.

So let me ask you, what does fuel hunt mean to you?

So when you first said the word the the phrase everybody wants to eat, but few will hunt, to me, like, it like I always say, you hear that phrase, and you're you're either about it or you're not. Right? Either you're an eagle or

you're not.

But for me, I I think it has evolved over the years, as well with our our mission and our vision and our our purpose. Mhmm. But for me, it used to it used to mean that in a society of of takers, I was an earner. Right? I was the one that was willing to go out and hunt for what I wanted and hunt to feed my family and hunt to be great.

Right? But for now in my life and and where I am, I think it takes more of a kai san approach, which is every day better. Right? Like, every day, I'm waking up, and I'm emptying the tank. I'm leaving nothing on the on the table.

So I wake up every day with the pursuit of capturing or killing my goals, my dreams, and my desires.

Excellent. Excellent answer. And you hit on a very important point that it evolves over time. Like that is we have a a message, another message in the community, a mantra grow or die. Right?

We're supposed to evolve. Like, what fuel hunt meant to us in the very beginning Mhmm. Right? Mhmm. Is not what it means to us now.

And I think our community probably feels the same way.

Your personal

Yeah. Meeting. Yeah. Yeah. Your personal meeting.

Yeah. Yeah. Of course, there's always It

means all of those things. Exactly. Exactly.

That's a beautiful thing that that about it. It resonates so differently with people, but there are common underpinnings. And those common underpinnings are the rules of the few, really. But that's why I like sending reply emails to the community like this because we get to hear all that richness. And then we also get to hear stories of the few Yep.

Like David. You know what I mean?

Yep.

Condemned, you know, or destined to be in a wheelchair

I thought you were gonna

eventually paralyzed.

I thought

you were gonna tell me that he, like, like, just got done running, like, Leadville or something.

I wouldn't put it past him.

We did back from there.

I wouldn't. Please. Yeah. I wouldn't put it past it. Do you you said something else during your definition of, fuel hunt.

That's part of my definition as well. Right? It's the the relentless pursuit to capture and kill. Okay. That's a very so we talked about my hunt earlier.

That's a very literal hunt. I was on the hunt, right, to feed my family, literally feed my family. Now we're talking about the metaphorical hunt. Right? So, the definition that relentless pursuit to capture or kill can be taken literally.

Right? And you hit on that a little bit. Like you get up every day with that aggression to get after it. There's also some metaphorical meaning to it as well. So I kinda have both.

So I look at it as the relentless pursuit to capture or kill, but I'm trying to capture one very specific thing, and I'm trying to kill one very specific thing. Every single day, I'm trying to capture my strongest self, my highest self, my highest vibrating self. Right? The the free, focused, gritty, growing human that I know I am, that I know I'm meant to be. That's the capture part.

Mhmm.

I can't capture that person unless I kill one other specific person. Mhmm. And that's my lowest self, my weakest self, my low vibrating self. You know, the the distracted, depressed, anxious, addicted version of me that I once was that I am not anymore. But the interesting thing is, you know, the monster's always clawing at you.

You. Like that version of your lowest self, you kill it and it almost reincarnates. Like every day tries to reincarnate. And it claws at you and it scratches at you. So that's why the hunt is a daily hunt.

It's a daily practice of capturing your strongest self and killing your weakest self. So now that's the way I look at what fuel hunt means. In the very beginning, I don't think I had those words. It was more about self reliance, right, than it was

And not being like everybody else, like being different.

Right. Yeah. Which it still is. Yes. Right?

We're the few for a reason, but I didn't have the words. Like, I had the word self reliance and I I I I did pride myself in being self reliant. But I think as the years have gone on and we've evolved and the communities evolved, I've broken down the self of self reliance. Yeah. And I've I've really analyzed the weakest self and the strongest self, and that's what it looks like on a on a day to day basis for me.

And this could be a whole other episode, but there's another aspect of you on, and that's the eagles don't fly with pigeons.

Mhmm.

Like, who you surround yourself with during your hunt, you are who you hunt with.

Mhmm.

It's a whole another

Yeah. I mean, it's a rule of a few. Yeah. Yeah. Right?

That's what we'll get there.

It's a rule of a few, so we we will cover it. But we know we know the importance of the company you keep, you know, and that's one of the reasons why we set off on this this mission. Right? It's one of the reasons we set off on this mission because not only did we feel alone, but we knew that if we were going to achieve the impact, right, that we wanted to see in society, if we wanted to really be the change that we wanted to see in society, we couldn't do it alone. You know, we had to do it with a few, we had to find a few, we had to bond together in hard work.

Yeah. But that's the the paradox, I guess. I guess you would call it. It's like, when you when you're bound together in hard work with, all of those eagles and no pigeons, the work gets a bit easier.

Oh, yeah.

You know, it gets easier. And I think I said that maybe on Michael's pod on, Tranel's podcast when we did his his podcast. And I got some comments back like, oh, well, if the work's easier, then it's not hard work. Right? And I'm like, well, the theory here is that hard work that you were doing got easier, so now it's time to do harder work.

Yeah.

You know? That's the that's the theory. Like, it's a sliding scale.

It allows you to love the process even more. Yeah.

For sure. For sure. For sure. Alright. Before we tie up the well, is there anything else you wanna add for No.

No. That was

if you want?

I'm

gonna jump it forward to episode 11. So

Yeah. So, before we tie up, I wanna read I wanna close with another email. And it was very I'll I'll be honest. It was very, very difficult to choose the emails, that I would read today on the show. Number 1, because there was 100.

Number 2, they were all very, very powerful. If you speak to me over email, which a lot of community members do, they know that, we have a it's a it's a inner sanctum. Mhmm. So, we share a lot of personal details back and forth. So the most powerful ones that I I would really, really want to share, they were they were really, really personal.

And I'd rather have that person when they're ready here with us to tell their story and stories with you Yeah. And really do it it justice, with their permission then read, you know, some of them out loud. That's the, or on the show. That's the, you know, commitment that, you know, we've made to the community when it comes to, you know, bonding over email. So alright.

Let's let's close out with, an email, from community member, Cara. It's, and again, you know, I I gotta put the specs on.

I gotta

put the spectacles on because it's just,

you know

Getting that age.

Cara, it was very, very gracious, in her opening of her email, and she had a lot of gratitude, grace and gratitude, for us. As a community, I will skip over that part because we don't like to toot our own horns. But, Cara, thank you for your your very kind words. So, her closing paragraph here is what I will read. To me, fuel hunt means the relentless pursuit of purposeful achievement.

So that was really well said. We must actively engage and focus mentally, physically, and spiritually to be our best and be an example that elevates others. It means that we bring strength to our struggles and confrontation to our challenges. I love that. When circumstances shift, our standards do not.

And here here's the kicker. Few will hunt is who we are and what we will become. Mic drop. If I if I knock this over, Dane Dane will probably be pissed off. But what, what power from Cara.

So thank you, Cara. Thank you, David, again, for replying and sharing, what fuel hunt means to you with us. What a great way to to end the episode.

I love that.

So let me sign off here. Speak to the community with an ask. And that ask is, if this episode inspired you to grow, please share the show. Welcome a friend into the community, into the few so that we can help them strengthen themselves and in turn strengthen society. And remember, always choose effort over entitlement.

Always choose hard work over handouts. No one owns you. No one owes you. You're one of the few. Now let's hunt.