Hosted by David Burnell · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 44 episodes
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David Burnell hosts Built by Fire Podcast, a society show with 44 episodes published.
When the earth breaks, the rules disappear. In January 2010, a catastrophic earthquake shattered Haiti—flattening cities, collapsing hospitals, and stripping law and order from a nation already on the edge. Into that cha
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Owning a defensive handgun carries responsibility long before it ever needs to be used. Defensive Handgun is not about bravado, speed, or tactics borrowed from movies or social media. It is about judgment, discipline, an
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Violence rarely looks like a movie scene.It starts with distance closing, instincts firing, and seconds disappearing. Quick Defense is a reality-based guide to surviving sudden, close-range threats—when avoidance has fai
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Most violence does not begin with an attack.It begins with a shift. A glance that lingers too long.A step that closes the distance without permission.A quiet internal warning that something isn’t right—followed by the da
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Air Force Special Operations has shaped modern warfare in ways few outside the profession fully understand. Operating in secrecy, denied environments, and the margins of conventional conflict, specialized airpower has en
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In March of 2011, after a massive earthquake and tsunami shattered Japan’s northeastern coast, David Burnell did not wait for an assignment, permission, or a perfect plan. He bought a ticket, packed his gear, and went al
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The Scottish clans were not symbols.They were systems. Long before centralized law and authority reached the Highlands, Scotland’s clans governed land, loyalty, and violence through kinship and obligation. In a landscape
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Most leadership advice is written for perfect conditions—clear information, stable markets, and predictable outcomes. IN THE BLACK is not. This series explores leadership when visibility is limited, information is incomp
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This isn’t fiction. It isn’t polished for TV. It’s a straight account of what it took to protect people in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake—and what it cost. In January 2010, Haiti went dark. Buildings fell. Hospitals col
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This book is a true account of a humanitarian mission into Burma—now Myanmar—during a long and largely forgotten war. It is not a political argument, a tactical manual, or a story about combat for its own sake. It is the
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Combat Ready is not a book about tactics, weapons, or war stories. It is a book about human performance under pressure—how people think, decide, communicate, and lead when stress, uncertainty, and time compression strip
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Not every war is loud. Some are fought in silence—behind closed doors, inside windowless buildings, over secure lines that never sleep. Some wars leave no parades, no headlines, and no obvious wounds. They linger instead
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Gravity and Grace is a faith-centered audiobook that helps you learn to hear God clearly when life feels heavy, uncertain, or overwhelming. After more than four decades serving alongside youth, first responders, rescuers
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Built by Fire: Hearing God in the Middle of the Flames is not a memoir of comfort—it is a witness forged under pressure. In this audiobook, David Burnell recounts a life shaped by service, danger, faith, and the unmistak
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If you’ve made it this far, then you’ve walked through fire with me—step by step, chapter by chapter. You’ve seen the moments I stood tall, and the moments I fell flat. You’ve heard the roar of battle, the silence of hea
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Fire changes everything. It reveals what’s weak, strengthens what endures, and leaves a mark that can’t be faked. The missions, losses, rescues, and quiet mercies in these pages were not the end of anything; they were th
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We spend our lives building—missions, careers, families, companies, movements. Some of us build empires of influence, others forge paths in silence, quietly offering their strength to those in need. But no matter how gra
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Fire refines. It burns away what doesn’t matter, leaving behind only what is strong enough to endure. Looking back on the journey that led to these pages—missions, failures, victories, grief, brotherhood—I see that the m
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There comes a time in every warrior’s life when the fight within becomes louder than the battle outside. When all the armor we’ve worn—duty, training, resolve, rage—starts to feel too heavy to carry alone. We were traine
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In the silence of loss, I began to hear hope whisper There are moments in a life built by fire when the flames no longer come from combat or catastrophe—but from within. After the collapse of my marriage, I found myself
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