Episode 43: Jim Stanford; A Life Built On Hard Work
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One minute Jim Stanford is a farm-country kid outside Cleveland pushing a mower across five-acre lawns. The next he’s caddying at a U.S. Open, running track and football at Kent State, and watching campus tension build until the Kent State shooting changes everything. Jim’s story has that rare mix of history, humor, and hard-earned clarity, and it only gets wilder from there.
We talk about leaving Ohio for San Diego, becoming a professional commercial diver, and how a civilian ends up training alongside Navy SEALs in the Vietnam-era world of mixed-gas diving and demolition…
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