Every conversation starts with a story.

Wade Boggs

Hall of Fame Third Baseman

He started as his father's bird dog on dove and quail hunts and now has about 270 animals in his house, which he describes as building an ark. He holds the North American sheep grand slam, all nine billfish, and a 59-inch Marco Polo from Tajikistan, and the piece still missing is a marlin over a thousand pounds. He took a sheep on every sheep hunt he went on and puts that down to being blessed.

Marlon Mueller

Cofounder and Wealth Mentor, Your Wealth Resource

The farm is still his place to get out of town. He spends weekends moving dirt, improving buildings, and dealing with the groundhogs that moved in after the farm dog was gone.

Chris Norton

Financial Advisor and Private Markets Fund Manager, Strategic Growth

He grew up on Long Island with an uncle who worked as a mate on a charter boat, which meant fluke, flounder and striped bass most weekends he could get out. Later he and a buddy pooled money from waiting tables and washing cars and bought a used center console that somebody clearly wanted gone, properly named The Gambler, and running it aground was a regular feature of the day. He lives near Tampa now and admits work has kept him off the water.

Dan Beaudoin

President and CEO, DMF Bait Company

He grew up fishing every day with his best friend, out in any weather until the ice turned hard, and then lost the habit somewhere in the building of the business. These days he gets out for the bass tournament on his own lake the second Saturday of June, an event he describes as more of a drinking club than a tournament, where live bait is allowed and he keeps the garlic nightcrawlers in his own boat. The family had hunting property in the Upper Peninsula for years, and he keeps telling his wife that fishing is what retirement is for.

Brian McNally

Exited Founder and Executive Coach

He grew up doing archery in Pennsylvania, not far from the Poconos, got out of it entirely, and now has the hankering back, partly because his oldest is not the only kid discovering that a bow is quiet. These days he is on a lake near Tampa with a dock he finally built, catching bass while his son hauls twenty inch mud suckers out of the mud, and he is angling for a run offshore on the Gulf. He also started jujitsu just before turning forty and took his first MMA fight at forty three.

Ben Jordan

Trades Entrepreneur and Coach

He grew up elk hunting in Colorado with his dad and uncles, packing horses four or five miles deep to an old army tent with a wood stove, and he still prefers roughing it in a wall tent to the amenities of an RV. Deer he can mostly take or leave, though his brother John talked him into Kansas whitetail ground, food plots, cameras, and a skinning shack. He has taken his great aunt to New Zealand, Africa, and this year Alaska, on a promise he made her at eleven years old.

Ken Wall

Fitness Coach And Author, Hunting Beyond Limits

Pennsylvania whitetail mostly, with fall turkey and archery bear overlapping if the calendar cooperates. He was his father's bird dog before he was old enough to carry a gun, got into archery in 2008, and has taken two fall gobblers out of a deer stand on the logic that it was slow and worth trying. He has also passed on shots he could have made, because a tag ends the season and he wants more mornings in the tree.

Carl Gould

Business Growth Advisor and Author, 7 Stage Advisors

His father fished offshore out of New Jersey and had him steering the boat at seven, running the Ambrose Channel water and the canyons sixty to a hundred miles out for stripers, bluefish, and tuna. He still fishes, his son is a freshwater guy, and a dove hunt in Texas with a dozen people a couple of years ago went down well enough that Sam spent the last few minutes of the episode trying to get him on a helicopter over a pig population.

Matt Fourie

Senior Enterprise Leader, Siemens Digital Industries Software

A professional hunter's son who quit at thirteen for surfboards and motorbikes and got it all back at thirty in a country where a rifle is not a luxury. Hunts to shoot, admits it cheerfully, and reads a refusal in the field exactly the way he reads one in a boardroom: you were seen, heard, or winded, and the animal has not gone ten miles.

Tucker Green

Lobbyist, Association Executive & Advocate for the Trades, Tucker Green & Associates

A Georgia deer hunter who found quail late and fell harder for it. The stand is where he turns the world off, the covey rise is where he gets it back, and either way it teaches the same thing the Capitol does: you do not get to pick the day it finally works.

Hugh Hornsby

Founder of Blue Collar Smart & Trades Turnaround Strategist, Hornsby Business Consulting and Coaching

A Chesapeake waterman's grandson who still measures a morning by the crab boats leaving at 3:30 — striper and cobia on the bay, duck blinds where nobody needs to see a duck, and a standing conviction that the best business conversations happen where there's no agenda and no cell service.

Gregory DePriest

Amazon DSP Owner & Former Pastor, Amazon Delivery Service Partner

A Mississippi-raised outdoorsman who reads a great lodge like a business case — bird hunting behind the dogs, fly fishing the tailwaters of East Tennessee and the rivers of Montana, with a cast-and-blast in Argentina still on the bucket list.

Jeramie Worley

Real Estate Developer & Hospitality Operator, Lake Longbow

An Ozarks landowner who didn't hunt until he was 40 and now builds the hunt for other people — whitetail off the ridge-top trail at Lake Longbow, black bass and crappie out of his own 10-acre lake, and a Kodiak fishing camp still on the drawing board.

Chris Rood

Real Estate Investor & Entrepreneur, Allies Wholesale Depot

Chris Udall

Venture Capitalist & Fund Manager, Innovate Alabama

A frontiersman by lineage and by choice — chasing elk in Oregon over ammunition he machined himself, hogs in the mountains of Oahu, and red stag abroad, and using the woods and the fly rod as the reset that keeps his head clear for the fund.

Eric Killen

Founder & Owner, Killen Outdoor Adventures

A global hunter and angler who turned his passion into Killen Outdoor Adventures — chasing buffalo in Africa, red stag in New Zealand, and whitetail in Michigan, with his wife Mary right alongside him.

Theron Leany

Partner & Operator, Action Plumbing, Heating, Air & Electric, Action Plumbing / The Action Group

A Utah bowhunter who unplugs on no-service elk and mule deer trips, found his best hunt yet in New Mexico's Gila, and is building a Kansas whitetail spot to bring his four daughters into the field.

Mark Baker

President & Owner, ACRE Development Corp.

A lifelong Prince Edward Island angler from the bluefin tuna capital of the world — chasing sea trout, striped bass, and Atlantic salmon across the island's rivers and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Kendall Price

Founder & CEO, Elevate Marketing

Adult-onset bowhunter who married into 1,000 acres of central-Illinois whitetail ground and a Lake of the Woods cabin — now a Mathews-shooting trophy manager teaching four kids the work behind the hunt.

Will Bamber

Pro Racing Driver & Co-Owner, Family Hunting Safari (New Zealand)

Fifth-generation New Zealand safari host and professional Lamborghini racer who grew up hunting from horseback and now gets his kick watching guests take the red stag.

Ryan Seekatz

Owner, Pool Construction & Renovation Company

Fairbanks-raised Alaskan who shot his first caribou at seven, ran his own guide business, and still hunts from the truck — caribou, moose, and a standing goal to fly back in.

Lynn Jared

Founder & Principal Broker, Let's Go Real Estate Co.

Two-year turkey grand slam holder chasing the World Slam, land-and-farm specialist, and Mathews Lift bowhunter from the Tennessee Upper Cumberland.

Erik Nordstrom

Co-Founder, Iron Ridge Capital

Texas whitetail hunter with a 13-point trophy buck and a son who's been fishing since he could hold a pole.

Dr. Jonathan Saigh

Chiropractor, Real Estate Investor & Consultant

Upper Peninsula whitetail hunter with roots in a family logging operation.

Aaron Chapman

Author of Redneck Economics, EVP of Investment Lending

Big-game hunter from cattle country — Alaska moose, Arizona mule deer, New Zealand.