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EP656: Samuel Romanzo - When Violence Is The Answer
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“Every single day, I wanna put time and effort into improving myself in some way, but the only reason I do that is for the purpose of better serving the people around me.”
Mastering self-defence isn’t just about learning to fight—it’s about preparing for the unexpected. The principles of situational awareness, decisive action, and mental readiness separate those who can protect themselves from those who rely on luck. The best defense isn’t always physical; it starts with a mindset. Understanding how to assess threats, navigate risk, and develop strategic habits ensures safety in an unpredictable world.
Samuel Romanzo shares hard-earned insights from decades of training in martial arts, law enforcement, and military defence tactics. His experience spans the globe, from Japan to Russia, from training elite forces to running home defence programs for families. He explains why most criminals aren’t looking for a fight—they’re looking for easy targets. And he lays out practical strategies for making sure you and your family aren’t among them.
Samuel Romanzo is a tactical training expert and founder of SNS Tactical Training. His background includes martial arts mastery, law enforcement instruction, and high-level security training in conflict zones worldwide. He specializes in helping civilians, law enforcement, and military personnel develop the skills necessary for real-world defence situations. Through SNS Tactical Training, he provides hands-on courses designed to empower individuals with the knowledge and confidence to protect themselves and their loved ones.
Learn more and connect:
SNS Tactical Training – https://snstacticaltraining.com
Expert action steps:
1. “Every single day, I wanna put time and effort into improving myself in some way, but the only reason I do that is for the purpose of better serving the people around me.”
2. “Train like a savage, give it away like a saint.”
3. “Do all the self-improvement in the world, but there’s another thing that we say, is I say, ‘Train like a savage, give it away like a saint.’ So train like an absolute savage, push yourself beyond your limits, and then everything that you get from that savage training, give it away every day like a saint to everybody that you can, everybody around you.”
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The Fragility of Hard Work and Life's Integrity
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and be working so hard every day to make this beautiful life and and doing all these great things for your for your family and yourself and app improving yourself. And one violent act can change all that in 10 seconds.
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All those decades of building this beautiful life can be taken away very, very quickly. Our main goal is make sure that never happens. We're going to have you be the winner in that situation so you can keep the integrity of that life that you that you've developed.
Podcast Introduction and Focus
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Welcome to the Thought Leader Revolution with Nikki Ballou. Join the revolution. There's never been a better time in history to speak your truth, find your freedom, and make your fortune. Each week, we interview the world's top thought leaders and learn the secrets of how they built a six- to seven-figure practice.
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This episode has been brought to you by ecircleacademy.com, the proven system to add six to seven figures a year to your thought leader practice. Welcome to another exciting episode of the podcast, The Thought Leader Revolution.
Meet Samuel Romanzo: Tactical Training Expert
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I'm your host, Nicky Ballou. And boy, do we have an exciting guest lined up for you today.
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Today's guest is a friend of a dear friend of the show, and this man... I got to tell you, has got a heck of a background. He's someone who is an expert when it comes to tactical training for all kinds of people.
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He runs a company called S&S Training. i am speaking, of course, of none other than the one, the only, the legendary Samuel Romanzo. Welcome the show, Samuel.
Influence and Passion: Samuel's Martial Arts Journey
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but Thank you, Nicky. Thank you for having me on. I appreciate it. That introduction is... Now got to live up to that introduction. I'm already feeling the pressure, man. That was great. Thank you. and very, very happy to be here. Absolutely.
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Good to have you here, bro. So, Samuel. Yes. Let's begin at the beginning. Tell us your backstory. How'd you get to be the great Samuel Romanzo? Now, just remember, you get a different story if you about this greatness if you talk to my wife, but we'll go with it.
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That's true for every man. Yes, we'll go with it. um No, so, okay, back story. Everything that has has come about, um the tactical training company, everything that I'm doing, that working overseas, working in the Middle East, doing all this stuff,
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really all came about as a result of of ah getting into the martial arts as as at a young age. um I was that kid who had older brothers who were into the martial arts, and I spent a number of years growing up as the practice dummy and the beating dummy for them.
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And somewhere in my early teens, it occurred to me that I should probably actually start training instead of just being on the receiving end of of what my brothers were learning. Got into the martial arts and I was off and running.
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um It just sort of took over my life. Loved it. Loved training. Loved competing. And um it was a beginning to focus of my life through high school, through even in high school. I was finishing my high school day by about 12 o'clock in the afternoon so that I could head right to the martial arts school and be a little instructor and teach and train and all that, even even in high
Training in Japan: A Cultural Contrast
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school.
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College, college was secondary to my training. As soon as I finished college, zipped over to Japan to keep training. And even before, even when I was first got into college, i had already ah started training.
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competing, going over to St. Petersburg, Russia to to ah compete over there. And it was so the martial arts were starting to take me outside the outside of the U.S. even. And it was a blast, you know, meeting all these cool people, getting to train and and compete in other countries. and ah particularly being 19 years old and heading over to heading over to Russia to compete and seeing that world over there, which was ah so, so different and eye-opening for me.
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And those Russians are tough. They were very, very tough. There was some tough fighting over there. I think the the goat of fighting is ah is a Russian dude named Fedor Emelianenko, right? Yeah.
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Yeah, you're not going to get any argument on that. That dude is the baddest man that ever strode the planet in the fighting world, anyways. Yes. I don't know. Absolutely. And it was, yeah, these guys were tough. um Super nice. Great people. You know, we had a blast.
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And then, yeah, so the martial arts kept moving, went to Japan. And and actually back in 96 when I hit Japan is when I first started Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. because Oh, cool. Yeah, way back then I had gone over there thinking I was going to continue with my Japanese Jiu-Jitsu training because i was doing striking training, Japanese Jiu-Jitsu training.
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We went over to Japan and I already had a couple of buddies who were from the US who were already living there. So i went over to live with them and and get involved in the training. And when I got there, they said, hey, brother, we're doing this thing called Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
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And I was like, okay, what ah whatever, what is that? you know And we hit the mat, started training, and I was like, wow, this is awesome. This is really great. And we ah great had a great time. um Got to train with a lot of good people. Just the fact that we were Americans over in Tokyo,
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We got to get involved in a lot of training um just simply because we were from the U.S. So they and ah we got invited in to do a lot of good stuff, train with um the guys that were involved in Shuto and fighting in the Tokyo Dome and, you know, where I'm training with these guys. It was a blast. It was it was a great time. Did see the Pride guys back in those days?
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They were, they were, yeah, they were there. um And it was wild. And you I also got to see, for me, it was very eye-opening because I was coming up in this very traditional martial arts background.
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I get over to Japan, which I think is going to be like, ah but you know, everybody's a samurai walking around and it's going to be all traditional. No, not at all. Especially when you got on the fight side of the house, the shoot though, at the time what they call it, the MMA side of the house back then.
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Dude, these guys training, boozing, partying, you know, that that that was the, and I was like, whoa, this is so different. You know, like this is not what I thought was. Yeah, unexpected.
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The tradition was there in some of the other martial arts, Aikido and Judo, but the kind of the Jiu Jitsu path, going back to 96, 97 back then, it was, you know, it was very ah Brazilian culture, party, sort of a rejection of all the traditional stuff. And it was ah kind of messed with my head a little bit at the time, you know, because I was like, what is all this? You know, but the training was fantastic.
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Yeah. So that was, yeah, that was cool. And I probably would have stayed. i I actually asked my wife to be, to move to Japan and, um,
Return to the U.S.: Family and New Ventures
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and set up life there with me.
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Everything was going well. Yeah. Yeah. But she was willing to do that. and That's a good woman. She, she all almost, so she, she had just graduated. Uh, she was just about to graduate law school and, um, she had spent, she was coming off of spending years living outside the country, living in Europe, living in, uh, Russia. Um,
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Actually, she was lived in the so when it was still the Soviet Union. and And she was just kind of like, look, i'm I need to be in the U.S. for a while. like i you know I was like, okay, fair enough. So came back to the U.S., get married, family, which is awesome.
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And um dived into the martial arts. you know Got a school up and running. Opened the first school in 1999 right here in the Washington, D.C. area.
Defensive Tactics and Expanding Horizons
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And that's what led me into – um getting involved with ah working with the police, working with the military, because we set up and another fellow named Al Gauthier, who was one of my ah teachers, former police officer. And we started a defensive tactics company and it just grew and it grew and it grew. So doing the martial arts and doing the defensive tactics and then getting involved with different different law enforcement agencies, three letter agencies over here.
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Law enforcement, and it it was fun. And then that ended up bringing me out to a training school in Arkansas all places in like 2002, 2003, 2004. It was a training school for all former military who wanted to head over to the Middle East to get on PSD contracts.
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and to get their PSD certs. And I got brought out there mostly as the hand-to-hand guy for these guys. But I was also doing all the training while I was there, these 14-day courses of moving and shooting and vehicle counteractions and room clearing and all this stuff. And I was just doing it and it was fun. It was fun because like these guys had to go do it for real. I'm just running around doing the training, you know, like, yeah, this is so cool.
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But but That's what eventually led to, hey, why don't you come over, why don't you jump on one of these contracts in the Middle East, you know, we could, you could get involved over here.
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um And so at first, I was like, i don't know, I got a good thing going here with the martial arts school and I don't really want to, I'm very, very busy here doing the defensive tactics training, coming out to Arkansas, running these courses, running my school, um getting involved with kids and um in in in the school system and working with them.
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But eventually, you you want to do something different. You want sort of that new challenge. And I had um i had moved from Virginia. I'd actually sold my half of the school in Virginia, moved to New York. My family really wanted to go back to New York.
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So we're back up in New York and running a school, jiu-jitsu school up there again. And I had the opportunity to go.
Middle East Training Experiences
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over to the to head over to the Middle East, head over to Afghanistan, to Masri Sharif.
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um And right before we were about to leave, that contract got Killed like two days before we're supposed to leave. And then week later I got a call and said, hey, would you mind going to Kuwait instead?
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And I thought, yeah, whatever, much safer and it paid more. So I said, yeah, you don't ask me twice, sure. That turned into a training position and we're over there training um all the incoming security forces, ah all the US s military coalition forces.
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ah So we ran ranges all the time for all of the contractors coming in, um ran ranges. Anytime the military wanted a range, we would be offered up to run the ranges for them.
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And then I got word. I also ran the jujitsu program um on the the zone six combatives gym out there at Camp Arif John.
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So it was crazy because ah we were working 12 hour days and then 12 hour at least and then trying to run a jujitsu program and do an extra because then I started working with some of the Marines on doing some of their kind of, you know, we want some hand to hand work and, you know,
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It got busy and it was a blast though. I loved it. um But after three years, ah my wife kind of let me know like, hey, if you sign on for another year, ah you might as well just stay.
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yeah So I said, okay, all right. Three years is, that's enough. And and made my way back to the U.S. And that's when ah came back in 2020 when COVID hit.
Security Work in Alaska
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And so that was not really the time to get back into the martial arts world. um So I ended up through connection from the from from working in Kuwait. I ended up out in Alaska, um the northernmost point of Alaska, where all the oil and gas companies are on their security teams up there.
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And that was pretty cool, though. I really went from the hottest place on earth to the coldest place. And that was, you know, that was ah so It was kind of interesting, you know, and um spent some time up there in Alaska, which was a blast being up there where you get the 24 hours of light, the 24 hours of dark and all that that cool stuff.
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Even found a place in the little camps up there to teach jujitsu while I was there, which was fun. But that was a three-week on, three-week off job. So every three weeks I was flying across the country and making my way up to Dead Horse, Alaska.
Home Invasion Training for Families
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and flying all the way back to the East Coast, and back and forth and back and forth. so after a while, that got to be a lot. So we just settled back down here in the Virginia area, and back to teaching, training, started the tactical training company, which has been a ah blast, because we're getting to do tactical training again. And one of the focuses we do is, aside from doing pistol courses, and and rifle courses, and tactical courses, is we do we also do a work with people on Teaching them how to protect their home. We work with families in their own home.
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So they they it's it's sort of home invasion training, but it's done inside your own home. So you learn how the family unit, how everyone is gonna operate if Something happens inside their own home and because you're in your own home We've shown all the places all the tactical advantages to be whether they're a family that's armed a family that's unarmed Doesn't matter and we work with them and make sure that they feel comfortable in their own home If anything was to happen and then that translates to outside the home if anything was to happen how they move as a family unit so home invasion training what's
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Walk me through that. Sure. So if you're just chilling in your chilling in your home, right? and And the reason we got into this is, unfortunately, in the D.C., Northern Virginia, Maryland area, this it it it happens. It's not uncommon.
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that you will be sitting in your home, ah sitting in your apartment, sitting in your house, townhouse, single family home, whatever it is. And one way or another, there's multiple ways that they do it. There's forced entry where they'll just try to knock your door open and get into your house.
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There's ah to the other extreme of... Getting Domino's pizza clothes. This has happened. Domino's, dressing up like a Domino's pizza person, holding a pizza and ringing the doorbell and pretending that they're there to deliver you a pizza. And as soon as you open the door, four guys pile into your house, hold you at gunpoint and, and rob you.
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So they're very creative about how they'll get into your house. Uh, and then once they get into the house, there's usually multiple people, two to four people will come into the house. Um, and they'll hold you at gunpoint and they will, they'll rob your house, take your valuables.
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ah Often there's ah some violence that's going to take place. You know, people get hit, they get hurt. Occasionally people will get shot. And also we've had the situations where people are held hostage for 24, 48, 72 hours in their own home.
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So we're like, holy good God, this is craziness. So we wanted to, work with people and okay, you're home, you're with your family, you're in your own home, and this situation kicks off, what do you do?
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How do you do it? How do you deal with this situation? um And it's a matter of teaching principles because it's a chaos bomb if that happens. That's kind what we kind of describe it. It's like you're sitting at home, totally relaxing with your family, and if something like this happens, it's it's as if a chaos bomb just goes off in your house. It's complete and utter chaos.
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And then we're trying to take the steps to put order back to that chaos. It's often a matter of teaching the family members no matter what age they are. how to take a role in that situation to know what is your role and how to move and communicate. The same principles that you would use going through a house, clearing rooms, getting bad guys, everybody knows their role and they know how to move and they know how to communicate.
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And we take those principles of know your role, know how to communicate and know how to move and we apply it to that situation. So if something kicks off, each family member, instead of Everybody's running around not knowing what to do, who know where to go or what to do or what I'm supposed to do. Now everybody knows when this happens, here's my role. There's only two roles. So you're either one role or the other role.
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ah You're either a defender or you're a supporter. And then we explain how to communicate, what has to be communicated, and then movement, because the whole goal is simply to escape that situation.
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And we teach them how to move. And then once we go through and explain all the principles, then it's tailored to their house also. Where are your exits? How do you get in? How do you get out? Where's the safest place in your houses? Can you get out? If you can't get out, how do you set up a safe room in your house? And how do you make that work? If you can get out, how do you know once everybody's clear? We've got to go through this whole process with them.
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And then we just drill it and drill it and drill it and drill it. And it has a lot of variations depending on the family. You have different ages, totally different attitudes and approaches to the whole situation from people who want to fight and defend their home to people who have never had any experience with a concept of violence in their life whatsoever.
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um unarmed homes, armed homes, and having to make ah this work for no matter who you're you're working with. So everyone is very unique. Every time you work with ah with a family is a very, very unique. And part of it is taking the time to get to know this family.
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I need to know how how what's dad's personality, what's mom's personality, what how old are the kids, what are their personalities, who's how is this going to work together? It's a trip. it's really a trip. It's very interesting.
Self-Defense and Crime Rates Discussion
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Well, I'm in Toronto and we are governed by some extreme far left loons, progressives. And what they've done is they've, well, people are robbing, stealing, even murdering and being let out on the street ah very soon thereafter, their arrest.
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And the police are saying, leave the keys, let them take whatever they want. wo yeah Which to me is nuts yeah I think Canada needs to start arming its citizenry.
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I think the bail laws need to be changed. And I think some of these guys that do this, like there should be some widely publicized stories of homeowners like decapitating them, killing them.
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So they start to think twice about doing this sort of thing. Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, it's interesting because even when you there's plenty of examples of of from the from the bad guy, the criminal's perspective, you just ask them, hey, if you had any inkling that this homeowner was armed, would you go in there? And emphatically, there's absolutely not.
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No way. If I know that that homeowner has weapons in that house, I'm ah absolutely not. I'm not going in. They know you you don't want to you don't want to run up against that. it is Absolutely, is it it's a it's a deterrent. I mean, the criminal mindset is generally, I want to achieve my aim, robbing you, hurting you, whatever, with no resistance.
00:19:04
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As soon as I run into resistance, I want out, I'm done. They're not trained criminal. The criminal mindset is not like a soldier's mindset. They're not there to overcome resistance and win at all costs.
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They're in it for the easy compliance. And when there's a lack of compliance and people start taking well-trained intelligent action and they realize this, it's like, dude, I'm done, I'm out, I'm in the wrong place, these are the wrong people, get me the hell out of here. They want out.
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Yeah, absolutely. um Yeah. <unk> How to defend against criminals is really what people need to learn. Yeah. Yeah. And it's even, at you know, in D.C. here, it's – I'm in D.C. every day. Muriel Bowser, man. My God, she's a communist. She wants the criminals to win.
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She wants the criminals to win. if i If I were to move to the U.S., I would go to Florida – Texas, Tennessee. Those are the three states that I choose. Or you know what I mean? Yeah.
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yeah Small town, the better. and and In Florida, the sheriffs say, we encourage you to shoot criminals. I'm like, okay, these are my kind of people. They do. They do.
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We encourage you to shoot criminals. I'm like, all right, cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, not and it's you know it's really it's nuts here. Here's what makes me crazy. you know Being in D.C., I get these reports all the time of the daily crime reports in D.C., and it's a shocking number. Every night, shootings, stabbings, um you name it, right?
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And even if you have a concealed carry in D.C., you the concealed carry is not good on any federal property. You can't bring a firearm onto any federal property, even if you have a concealed carry.
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The DC concealed carry is very difficult to get. And even if you get it, everywhere in DC is federal property. So it's that crazy situation where there are so many guns in DC. There are so many illegal guns being carried in DC by so many people.
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And if you attempt to do the right thing, get your concealed carry, do your training, carry your weapon... Good luck. Good luck. But the the the people just walking around, the number of people walking around armed in D.C. is shocking. There are so many guns in D.C. It's ridiculous.
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But if you try to do it the right way, yeah, good luck. Not happening. Same with Toronto right now. Same with Toronto. I mean, gun laws are pretty strict and the criminals don't give a shit and the regular people are completely unarmed, which is fucking nuts as far as I'm concerned.
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Yeah. Completely nuts. Completely nuts. yeah so So, Samuel, you what you do is honestly in the form of a public service, but it's a for-profit company. how Someone's listening to this, and they live in a progressive governed hellhole.
00:21:55
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What's your advice to them? So always, when no matter wherever we go, whoever we're working with, ah You do have to know and you to be really, really aware of whatever the the laws are governing wherever you live, your state, your county, your town, your ordinances.
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So I do want to know what can I do? What can I do? Is it a stand on your ground state? is it not Do I have to retreat all the way you know all the way through my house, lock myself in the bedroom and wait for the bad guy to come through the door before I can defend myself? or um Yes, I have to know what the laws are. However,
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We have the second talk, which is, okay, here's what the law is for your state. For example, Maryland is, you know, DC is very strict. Maryland is very strict. Virginia is is less so. um So we'll go over, okay, here's, you know, here's the state laws in Maryland. This it says you have to do. However, of course you have to make your own decisions.
00:22:50
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you know, your, your safety, your, your survival, that has to come first first. So, you know, here's what, here's what the law says. But at the end of the day, you and your family need to stay alive.
00:23:01
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And, In order to satisfy the law, um yeah here see if you can work it out when we run these scenarios where we can still stay on the right side of the law, but you are still taking care of your family. And you ask any person, of course, when you ask this question, let me just ask you this.
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What's more important to you, staying on the right side of the law or keeping your family alive and safe? Everyone's going to say, keeping my family alive and safe. And say, okay, so we're going to do whatever we have to do and we'll sort out the aftermath
The Philosophy of Conflict Avoidance
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afterwards. Now, hopefully...
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we can We can run everything where we keep you on the on the correct side of of ah of the your state's laws and your but ordinances, whatever you got. you on the right side of that the best we can.
00:23:44
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But at the end of the day, you have an absolute right to defend yourself. You got to keep your family safe. You know, ah of course. And now yeah I will say this on the other side of the training. This is something that's important. I do a lot of you know these always get asked to do self-defense training and and and all of this stuff.
00:24:00
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And i'm I do I do it maybe a little differently than than most. But this is the other thing with people who come in and do training, who come in and for the first time and do some are a new concealed carry person and they want to do some pistol training.
00:24:13
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And. You can almost see it sometimes, or even people who get into the martial arts at at at first, and you say, look, i can I swear I can almost see it. Do not, please, for the love of God, do not take this training and now do something you normally wouldn't do because you think you have this training now and now you think it's okay. You know, if you if you see trouble, you still have to go the other way.
00:24:36
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Please don't go out looking for it because now, oh, I took a pistol shooting course and so now nobody's going to push me around. No, no, no, brother. We still avoid this stuff like the plague. Of course. We still go out of our way to stay vigilant. This insurance. This isn't insurance. This isn't let's go out there let's go out here and ah pretend I'm Wild Bill Cody. This is insurance. yeah That's all.
00:25:00
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Yeah, absolutely. But it's amazing. Some of the stuff that I'll hear are questions I'll get asked. And, you know, well, I'll tell you what, now that I know this, if somebody messes with me, I'm going to get out of my car and I'm going to, I'm like, whoa, no, you're not. No, at no point will you be the aggressor. No, that's not how this works.
00:25:15
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And um so that's another, that's a drum that just I've learned over the years. You got to beat a lot is because you have the training, please don't go out there and be the aggressor in this situation now. Yeah. It's not going to end well for you. you know Because at the end of the day, at the end of the day everything that we're doing, everything that I do, everything that we're doing, we're trying to help people.
00:25:34
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make Allow people, do whatever I can to have people have a better life. You know, and if you if you do get caught up in a violent situation, um that's one of the the reasons i'm so, I try to help people and work with people to learn how to avoid and mitigate violent situations is you can have a beautiful life. You can be working so hard every day to make this beautiful life and and doing all these great things for your for your family and yourself and improving yourself.
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And one violent act can change all that in 10 seconds. And it can have ah a lasting effect for the rest of your life. If you're the victim of a violent attack and it doesn't go your way, all those decades of building this beautiful life can be taken away very, very quickly.
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our Our main goal is make sure that never happens. i don't want it to happen anybody. you know So we can help you avoid that situation at all costs, recognize and avoid a situation, beautiful. And if it does happen, we're going to have you be the winner.
00:26:27
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in that situation so you can keep the integrity of that life that you that you've developed you know and you don't have to deal with the fallout of a violent situation years ago on my podcast i interviewed tim larkin he's tony robbins's personal protection mentor he wrote a book called when violence is the answer which was a new york times bestseller and that's his message too don't go looking for trouble yeah don't go looking for trouble If you cannot avoid trouble, be ready to defend yourself. But if you can avoid trouble, avoid it every time. And I'm yeah yeah ah i'm game with that. Who the hell wants that?
00:27:03
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Bring harmony into your life as much as possible. Look for harmony. Absolutely. Look for harmony. Yeah. And and if it if it yeah the other thing too that's interesting is when is training people to get the idea of ending a situation. If it does if we are going to have to act in a violent manner...
00:27:23
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realizing, you know, understanding the dynamics of ah of a violent situation. we what We generally call them developing hostile situations. And when I mean when i recognize I'm in a developing hostile situation, how what do I do?
00:27:36
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And a lot of that involves ending the situation before it has a chance to get started. And that's a whole trained mentality of understanding how how violent situations develop. Rarely does...
00:27:50
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Rarely is it a what we call a ninja attack. Rarely am I walking down the street and five ninjas drop down and I'm instantly in a fight. It's it's generally there's a building, whether it's a physical, I'm being attacked physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. it's ah it's a There's a process in there. Even a physical fight, it might be 10 seconds, but there's a prize there's a building process that happens before we come to blows.
00:28:13
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And it's the ability to recognize that and then not wait until – we get to that 10 seconds and start going. But at second number 1.5, it's done. We recognized it and we ended it before it had a chance to get started.
00:28:29
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And it sounds very violent, right? That kind of speed, surprise and violence of action. But on the other hand, the worst situation is to get into full on developed violent situation because now more people are getting hurt and the amount of violence that happens is usually a lot.
00:28:45
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If I can end this before it starts, least amount of violence and it's just, it's over. So there is, it's interesting because you you do, we we teach peace, like you said, we teach peace and we peace teach harmony all day long and that's that's what i want.
00:28:59
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But if you're going to, if you have to employ violence, then we're gonna teach you how to employ it as effectively as possible. um and And to be able to do, unfortunately, it's sad, but we have to be able to do both.
00:29:11
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I wanna be that 99.9% harmony, if I need that 0.1% of violence, it's going to be shockingly effective. And so I can get back to the harmony in my life and not not allow anything in to disrupt that, you know.
00:29:27
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yeah That's all. No, that's good, Samuel. That's good. So yeah if someone wants to find out more about your trainings, what do we send them?
SNS Tactical Training: Expertise and Partnership
00:29:37
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So they can go to our our website, um which is SNS Tactical Training, and it's S and the letter N, ah S, S-N-S. SNS TacticalTraining.com. Okay. that make sure thats We'll make sure that's in the show notes so people can go check it out. I've enjoyed this conversation, Samuel. So if we end every episode by asking you, our guest expert, what are your top three expert action steps in bullet point form?
00:30:07
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These are your three best pieces of advice to my listener. What say you? All right. Well, my first is keep listening to your podcast. You've got a lot of good people on here for sure. So besides that, um,
00:30:23
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That's a good piece of advice. It's a good piece of advice, right? now and it Well, it actually ties into what would be my next my next bullet point because this is a theme, but putting together the marshial you know running the martial arts schools, putting together SNS tactical training, Team Food Ocean, all this stuff.
00:30:38
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there There has to be, like said, the one overarching theme. Why am I doing this stuff? Why do I do this stuff? And for me, it's this is my my mantra for every day, that every single day,
00:30:51
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I want to put time and effort into improving myself in some way. But that the only reason I do that is for the purpose of better serving the people around me. I want to make myself a better person every single day so that every person that I run into, I'm better able to serve that person, whether it's my own family, my coworkers, family,
00:31:10
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The person I run into at the grocery store, it really doesn't matter. i want to have more that I can offer to serve the people around me Because just self-improvement for just self-improvement sake to me is like, well, that's the ultimate act of selfishness.
00:31:22
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So self-improvement for the sake of the people around me, to me, that makes – That makes a lot of sense. So you do all the self-improvement in the world. But there's another thing that we say is I say, train like a savage, give it away like a saint.
00:31:37
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So train like an absolute savage, push yourself beyond your limits. And then everything that you get from that savage training, give it away every day like a saint to everybody that you can, everybody around you.
00:31:50
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But kind of a – yeah, those those that's really what's – goes through my head all the time. Everything that we're doing, everybody that I'm working with is how can i give how can I give away to this person? How can this person walk away from me saying, damn, my day got a little bit better because I ran into a romancer over there. and It was was great.
00:32:08
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And the other thing, too, I want to put out there is my partner in this with SNS Tactical Training, Sean Sullivan, he's really the tactical, super tactical part of this, too. And this is a guy who was Green Beret for years, spent over 10 years deployed in the Middle East, um worked with the Delta Dues, was on the SIF teams, and has just spent a huge part of his life in combat.
00:32:33
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but And so he's... um so he is he's He's been through a lot, seen a lot, and he's a real interesting dude, real crazy guy. um And you know he's got the whole, everything that we're doing, he's bringing all that tactical experience to it also um from having been there, done that. Like I said, 10 years either in Africa or the Middle East, 10 years of being deployed with the Green Berets, with the SIF teams, or as a contractor, um and brings all that all that stuff to the table when we get into the ah the tactical training and
00:33:09
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So that it just, it lends um to the, especially when you speak of the mindset, the mindset that you need and the dynamics of these situations. And, you know, he's he bringing that reality-based training to everything that we're doing, for sure.
00:33:25
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Awesome.
Importance of Self-Defense in Progressive Areas
00:33:26
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So, listener, Samuel Romanzo is the real deal. S&S Tactical Training Sounds like a hell of a company that teaches some badly needed skills to civilians.
00:33:41
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And here's the truth. If you live in a country, city, state governed by progressives, they have abandoned you. And they have made you far more likely to be a victim of ah the criminal element.
00:33:59
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So you gotta learn how to defend yourself. You can't wait on the cops. The cops aren't gonna show up till these guys are long gone. And you and your family could be hurt or dead. And it's very important that you learn how to protect yourself.
00:34:15
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When violence is the only possible answer, you need to talk to someone like Samuel Romanzo. And this is a powerful episode that's opened my eyes and I know it'll open your eyes.
00:34:28
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If you let it. And you should let it. Because this is 2025. This is not the year 2003. The city, the county, the state, the country you lived in might have been safe back then.
00:34:44
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Home invasions, criminals attacking you and robbing you and stealing your car, doing carjackings were not a thing 22 years ago. But they are a thing today.
00:34:56
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You better wake up. and be prepared. The Boy Scout motto, be prepared, is the greatest motto of all time. Be prepared, learn how to defend and protect yourself. If you're a man in particular, gotta tell you, it's the most important thing you can do.
00:35:17
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Your number one job is to protect that which you love and those whom you love. your number one job. You don't do that job, no other job that you have really matters. You got to that job first, foremost, to the very best of your ability, to the very best of your ability. And your best can't be an excuse for dogging it and in ah sliding ah away from taking full responsibility and ownership. as ah As a man, if you're a man, if you're father, you're listening to this, your best means like going all in the win, all in the win.
00:35:53
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That's very powerful. It's very important to understand, and it's very, very important to live by that. If you do that, you and your family are likely going to be safe.
00:36:05
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If you don't do that, you may or may not be safe. And that's a fact. Samuel, thanks for coming on the show, brother. You got it Thank you so much. appreciate it. And that wraps up another exciting episode the podcast, The Thought Leader Revolution. To find out more about today's amazing guest, the one only Samuel Romanzo, go to the show notes at thethoughtleaderrevolution.com.
00:36:25
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00:36:39
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