Michael Montoya - I Left my Foot in Ukraine

Michael Montoya - I Left my Foot in Ukraine

Michael Montoya is a veteran with over 15 years of experience in military and security sectors, specializing in EOD/IEDD/CIED/HMA operations. Michael's extensive experience has seen him providing training and operational support across the globe, from the volatile terrains of Iraq and Kurdistan to the challenging environments of Africa and Pakistan. As an independent contractor, his work under the U.S. State Department's AFRICAP and GPOI initiatives has empowered over 600 trainees.

We took a deep dive into Montoya's extensive career, from his days in the United States Marine Corps serving as an EOD team leader in Iraq and Afghanistan to his work as a senior trainer and analyst managing multimillion-dollar budgets for training programs. Michael is now focusing his efforts on Invictus Global Response, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mine action, capacity building, and humanitarian aid in conflict-affected regions. During a recent clearance operation in Ukraine, he tragically lost his foot to a landmine, and is now home rehabbing and preparing for continued operations with IGR.

https://www.invictusglobalresponse.org/

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Cruise Ships, Cover-Ups, and Cow Killers | Negligent Discharge Friday | 5.8.2026

Cruise Ships, Cover-Ups, and Cow Killers | Negligent Discharge Friday | 5.8.2026

Michael and I get into it on this one. Hantavirus headlines, the Doomsday Clock, wind turbines, the Epstein note, and a guy on YouTube paying his bills by getting stung by bugs. I open by confidently ...

8 Mai 1h 5min

The Cost of Telling the Truth | John Kiriakou | Ep. 446

The Cost of Telling the Truth | John Kiriakou | Ep. 446

John Kiriakou spent 14 years at the CIA. He started as an analyst, went operational, and eventually ran counterterrorism work in Pakistan that led to the capture of Abu Zubaydah. He was the first U.S....

4 Mai 3h 20min

Learning To Suffer Well | Full Auto Friday | 5.01.2026

Learning To Suffer Well | Full Auto Friday | 5.01.2026

Four questions this week. The kind that don't have clean answers. A guy whose father murdered his mother is asking how to get back to who he was before. He's not. A 28-year-old still living at home is...

1 Mai 57min

Bonus Episode - Drownproof Chapter 1 - Be the Author of your Life, not the Victim of it

Bonus Episode - Drownproof Chapter 1 - Be the Author of your Life, not the Victim of it

Today's "episode" is the audiobook first chapter of my book: Drownproof. Thank you to everyone who helped make the launch such a tremendous success. Hitting all of the "Best Seller" lists, to include ...

29 Apr 31min

Working for Kanye, Building "Items" for Delta Force | Justin Klahn | Ep. 445

Working for Kanye, Building "Items" for Delta Force | Justin Klahn | Ep. 445

Justin Klahn is hard to put in a box. Twenty years inside Nike Innovation. Years embedded with JSOC units building gear that had to actually work. Time consulting with three-letter agencies, DARPA, an...

27 Apr 3h 26min

Bladder Control and Geopolitics | Negligent Discharge Friday | 4.24.2026

Bladder Control and Geopolitics | Negligent Discharge Friday | 4.24.2026

Michael, my dad, and me. Three generations arguing in one room. That's the format today. My dad watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon live at twenty-two years old. He remembers the Iranian hostage c...

24 Apr 1h 12min

How Fast and Furious Buried an FBI Agent | John Shipley | Ep. 444

How Fast and Furious Buried an FBI Agent | John Shipley | Ep. 444

John Shipley spent fourteen years carrying an FBI badge. Army aviator first — commissioned by his own father, a retired Vietnam-era lieutenant colonel — until a spinal cord injury at Walter Reed ended...

20 Apr 2h 57min

Windshield, Not the Rearview Mirror | Full Auto Friday | 4.17.2026

Windshield, Not the Rearview Mirror | Full Auto Friday | 4.17.2026

Week one of the book being out in the world, and I still don't have the vocabulary for the support. Thank you. Genuinely. If you read it, an honest Amazon review costs nothing and helps more than you'...

17 Apr 1h 2min

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