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Darin Hardy

Darin Hardy

Founder and CEO of Level 7 High Terrain, retired Special Operations Marine Corps officer offering transformational wilderness coaching and elk hunting retreats in Montana.

Oct 9, 2026

47:52
You gotta, you gotta have one of those to get to the other side, don't you? [laughs]
47:56
Yeah, and, um, that was, uh, the-- I was, uh, you know-- And, and it really speaks to like I was at the height of my military performance, um, where I was, I was performing at a high level, at a high rate, um, you know, gone between 250 days a year, and no one had anything bad to say about me because I was the first one to, to volunteer for any opportunity or any deployment or any training opportunity and Um, so my performance was at an all-time high, especially in my job field.
48:41
And my presence and my being, my inner self was absolutely hollow and, and just shot to shit.
48:50
Um, and, uh, it-- and that, that even-- that, that will come up.
48:57
That, that, that will catch up to you sooner or later.
49:01
Um, and I...
49:02
The way I see it, and, and I've, uh...

20 MINS LATER

68:42
Yeah.
41:09
I used to do an Oregon where I basically Turkey hunted in the same spot I elk hunted and and we'd run ridges find gobbles chase gobbles it was there are much easier ways to kill birds but i always enjoy doing it so when i saw your video i was like i was gonna i think i texted you i was like man what a great awesome film uh but yeah a lot like elk hunting i know people are gonna be worried about that
41:32
yeah um it man i had to First off, thanks for watching the film.
41:37
It was a lot of fun to make it.
41:40
First for me, I've never had to run around with a camera crew behind me.
41:44
So that was a, that was a whole new experience.
41:47
You know, usually like you're used, if you're, if I'm hunting with someone and I'm not part of the hunter, like I'm taking them hunting or guiding them, you want them like kind of out front and you're kind of directing everything.
42:01
Well, Now I'm directing everything, but also directing everything behind me or like tangent to me off to my side.

23 MINS LATER

65:06
I don't know if that's a, an asset or a liability, but, um, talk a little bit about what you got going with it, with all your projects, like, uh, which one do you want to talk

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