On November 29, 2017, the Change Your POV podcast posted episode NIW009, “Michael J Penney of Cigars and Sea Stories Talks Whitetail Deer Hunting.” It was his second time on the show. The first, about a year earlier, was about his deployments and his drive to add value. This one was about deer. It runs just over an hour.
What the episode covered
The host introduces Michael with real warmth:
This week on the podcast we’re joined by my old and close friend Michael J. Penney.
Change Your POV NIW009 description
The description sums up who he was by late 2017:
- A Marine combat veteran with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan
- A foreign weapons instructor, a Police Advisor to the Afghan National Police, and a trained designated marksman
- A serial entrepreneur, or “Vetrepreneur,” and the published author of the Five Paragraph Business Plan
- A co-host of Cigars and Sea Stories, which the host calls one of his favorite podcasts
Then it gets to the point of the episode:
Penney is also an avid outdoorsman, hunter and lover of all things venison.
Change Your POV NIW009 description
The host credits Michael for getting him hooked. Michael shared the first deer he killed in North Carolina with him, and the host says Michael is in many ways “responsible for my obsession with deer and deer hunting.” On the show they talk about how Michael’s season was going, “extreme” tactics for calling in whitetail deer, and a range of other topics. The description admits that list runs all the way to how you handle nature’s call in the woods.
Why it mattered then
Most of Michael’s appearances in 2016 and 2017 were about service, transition and business. This one shows another side of him: the hunter and outdoorsman, swapping tactics with a friend. For listeners who knew him from Cigars and Sea Stories or the 5 Paragraph Business Plan, it was a looser, funnier hour.
It also shows the friendships behind the work. The host is not just booking a guest. He is talking with the man who got him into the woods.
Looking back
The same description that calls him a published author and podcast co-host also calls him an avid outdoorsman. This episode is the public record of that side of him.
This post is part of the From the Archive series, which collects Michael’s past media appearances in one place. See the full media archive.
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