Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

DJ Shipley: His Life as a Tier 1 Operator, GBRS, and Finding Meaning After the Military

On this week's episode of Change Agents, Andy travels to the headquarters of GBRS Group in Virginia Beach to sit down with co-founder DJ Shipley, a 17-year Navy SEAL veteran who has built one of the most respected tier one training and gear companies in the industry. DJ opens up about the mental health void he encountered when he first transitioned out, why nobody was saying the words PTSD, suicide, or depression out loud even as the epidemic quietly destroyed careers and lives, and how ibogaine therapy in Mexico changed the way he sees himself and the world around him. They also dig into the brutal physical toll of 17 years at the tip of the spear, the near fatal electrocution that almost ended everything before GBS Group got off the ground, and what it actually feels like to leave a world where you are surrounded by people capable of extreme violence with no sanity check waiting on the other side. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original. Chapters (00:00:00) Cold Open (00:00:41) The Mental Health Void in the SEAL Community (00:02:25) Feeling Alone on the Island (00:05:16) Ibogaine Therapy in Mexico (00:08:15) Missing the Tribe (00:11:11) The Electrocution (00:13:04) Building GBS Group From Nothing (00:16:11) The Cost of Having No Balance (00:19:21) Would You Do It All Over Again (00:24:47) Tour of GBS Group HQ (00:30:04) What Would You Have Changed (00:38:49) Supporting Gold Star Families (00:42:14) The Physical Toll (00:54:56) Recovery Room Tour (01:00:20) What Would You Do If You Lost It All (01:05:20) The Most Effective Way to Talk About Mental Health (01:11:40) The Veteran Suicide Epidemic - Is It Fixable? (01:19:37) Closing Thoughts & Where to Find DJ Sponsors: Firecracker Farm Use code IRONCLAD to get 15% off your first order at https://firecracker.farm/ Norwood Sawmills: Learn more about Norwood Sawmills and how you can start milling your own lumber at: https://norwoodsawmills.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=ironclad&utm_campaign=ironclad Kubota Tractor Corporation: https://www.youtube.com/user/Kubotatractorcorp Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/change-agents-with-andy-stumpf/id1677415740 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3SKmtN55V2AGbzHDo34DHI?si=5aefbba9abc844ed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Chinese Mafia's Most Dangerous CCP-Linked Drug Farms Taking Over Maine — and Political Cover-Up

Steve Robinson is an investigative journalist and the editor of The Maine Wire, a news outlet that has grown from 20,000 monthly readers to nearly one million. A Maine native, he spent three years mapping a sprawling network of Chinese organized crime operations embedded across rural Maine documenting over 270 illegal cannabis grows, tracing financial patterns through deed records and electrical inspection data, and connecting the operation to the Chinese Communist Party. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:08:24) Why Maine Won't Act (00:17:53) The Search Warrant Gauntlet (00:27:12) The Governor's Brother (00:30:31) Following the Money (00:37:14) On the Ground (00:48:12) Why This Affects Everyone Sponsors: Firecracker Farm Use code IRONCLAD to get 15% off your first order at https://firecracker.farm/ Norwood Sawmills: Learn more about Norwood Sawmills and how you can start milling your own lumber at https://norwoodsawmills.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=ironclad&utm_campaign=ironclad Kubota Tractor Corporation: https://www.youtube.com/user/Kubotatractorcorp Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/change-agents-with-andy-stumpf/id1677415740 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3SKmtN55V2AGbzHDo34DHI?si=5aefbba9abc844ed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Former Sniper Now Hunting Poachers (with Damien Mander) | CA #8

This week on Change Agents, we look back on one of the breakout interviews from the first season of the show in 2023. Andy Stumpf sits down with former Australian special operations sniper Damien Mander. Today, he is the founder of the International Anti-Poaching Foundation: https://www.iapf.org/ Change Agents is an IRONCLAD original. Sponsors: Firecracker Farm Use code IRONCLAD to get 15% off your first order at https://firecracker.farm/ Norwood Sawmills: Learn more about Norwood Sawmills and how you can start milling your own lumber at https://norwoodsawmills.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=ironclad&utm_campaign=ironclad Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/change-agents-with-andy-stumpf/id1677415740 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3SKmtN55V2AGbzHDo34DHI?si=5aefbba9abc844ed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chase Hughes: The Most Effective PSYOP Ever Created — You're Proof

On this week's episode of Change Agents, Andy travels to Chase Hughes' new studio to break down how human behavior is manipulated at scale, from bot farms manufacturing fake consensus to the psychological framework Chase calls WOUND that explains why outrage, fear, and loneliness keep us glued to our phones. They dig into why Chase believes the algorithm is less a sinister mastermind and more an engine optimized purely for ad revenue, how think tanks may shape policy more than most people realize, and why Walter Cronkite and Julia Child both have far stranger backstories than anyone learned in school. Andy also gets a tour of Chase's new independent news studio, Station One, built to show audiences the psyops behind the headlines rather than just the headlines themselves. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original Chapters: (00:00:00)  How the Media Actually Works (00:05:59)  Why Chase Built Station One and How It Works (00:08:20)  Unrestricted Warfare and the Chinese Playbook for Dividing America (00:13:34)  The WOUND Framework: How Social Media Gets Weaponized (00:17:20) Do They Start With the Outcome or the Emotion (00:19:28) The Deep State and Think Tanks (00:23:26) Station One's Intelligence Brief Format (00:27:55 ) The Biggest PSYOP Right Now Is… (00:29:49) Engineered Loneliness and the Fear of Judgment (00:38:58) Is the System Correctable From the Top Down? (00:41:58) True vs Truth: The Coaster and the Elephant (00:48:47) Why Chase Joined the Navy (00:50:56) What People Actually Regret on Their Deathbed (00:56:44) Veterans and a Broken Relationship With Money (01:00:21)  Can You Truly Bulletproof Yourself Against Manipulation (01:03:15)  Walter Cronkite Was on CIA Payroll: Operation Mockingbird (01:05:50)  How to Fight Back Against Division (01:09:30)  What Social Media Companies Will Do When Usage Drops (01:11:57)  Outro Sponsors: Firecracker Farm Use code IRONCLAD to get 15% off your first order at https://firecracker.farm/ Norwood Sawmills: Learn more about Norwood Sawmills and how you can start milling your own lumber at https://norwoodsawmills.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=ironclad&utm_campaign=ironclad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sleeper Cell Threat Inside America & The Northern Border Crisis (Sarah Adams Returns)

Sarah Adams is a former CIA targeter and the host of The Watch Floor, a show that breaks down global news and emerging threats for everyday people. She previously served as senior advisor to the US House of Representatives Select Committee on Benghazi and was a co-author of the Committee's report on the 2012 terrorist attack. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original Chapters (00:00)  Introduction: Sarah Adams (03:23)  When Are We Taking the Uranium Out (06:19)  Can Regime Change Happen From the Air Alone (10:44)  Trump Wants to Take Kirk Island (14:35)  The Haqqani Network Bombshell (18:43)  How US Money Actually Reaches the Taliban (26:55)  Confirmation That Hamza Bin Laden Is Alive (32:58)  The 2000 Foot Tunnel Discovery (36:22)  The Cartel and Al Qaeda Connection (39:19)  The Northern Border Nobody Is Watching (46:21)  The ISIS Arrests That Weren't Real ISIS (54:44)  Closing Thoughts Sponsors: Firecracker Farm  Use code IRONCLAD to get 15% off your first order at https://firecracker.farm/ Norwood Sawmills: Learn more about Norwood Sawmills and how you can start milling your own lumber at https://norwoodsawmills.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=ironclad&utm_campaign=ironclad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices