The Central Conversation
Continuing Education Through Conversation.
Hosted by Alan Baker, The Capable Academy Podcast explores practical lessons, lived experience, and useful frameworks that help people think clearly, train intelligently, lead themselves well, and continue becoming more capable.
Why This Podcast Exists
Continuing Education Through Conversation.
Capability can be developed through formal lessons, direct training, written study, and lived experience. It can also be developed through thoughtful conversation.
The Capable Academy Podcast is the conversational learning environment of the Academy. Each episode explores ideas that help listeners think more clearly, make better decisions, lead themselves more effectively, and apply practical lessons in everyday life.
This is not entertainment for its own sake. It is continuing education through conversation.
One Mission. Many Environments.
Where Conversations Explore Capability.
The podcast is not built around random topics. Each conversation explores capability through environments where people must think, decide, train, lead, adapt, and serve.
Combat Environment
Martial arts, conflict, discipline, pressure, timing, and skill development.
Protection Environment
Awareness, responsibility, deescalation, service, and decisions under pressure.
Physical Capability
Health, movement, durability, strength, recovery, and lasting performance.
Leadership Environment
Standards, communication, responsibility, influence, and leading by example.
Scholar Environment
Study, reflection, learning models, history, philosophy, and self education.
Outdoor Capability
Navigation, preparation, risk, self reliance, and lessons beyond controlled spaces.
The Current Conversation
Start With The Newest Episode.
The newest conversation is featured below. Continue through recent episodes, then explore the complete collection on YouTube.
Current Episode
Warrior’s Path Podcast 023 The Power of Indian Clubs and Filipino Martial Arts
Begin with the newest conversation from the Alan Baker Podcast, then continue through the complete collection.
Watch The Current EpisodeWarrior’s Path Podcast 022 Out of Position Fighting (Dog Boxing)
A conversation from the Alan Baker Podcast exploring practical capability through study, experience, and application.
Warrior’s Path Podcast 021 The Art of Self Leadership
A conversation from the Alan Baker Podcast exploring practical capability through study, experience, and application.
Warrior’s Path Podcast 020 What Are You Missing In Your Martial Arts Training
A conversation from the Alan Baker Podcast exploring practical capability through study, experience, and application.
Warrior’s Path Podcast 019 The C TAC Combat Blueprint In Your Self Defense Training
A conversation from the Alan Baker Podcast exploring practical capability through study, experience, and application.
Warrior’s Path Podcast 018 Lifelong Training In The Martial Arts
A conversation from the Alan Baker Podcast exploring practical capability through study, experience, and application.
From Self Defense to Self Protection: Understanding Advance Work in Boosting Your Personal Security
A conversation from the Alan Baker Podcast exploring practical capability through study, experience, and application.
Meet Your Hosts
Two Voices. One Continuing Conversation.
Each conversation is guided by two people with different strengths and one shared mission: helping listeners become more capable human beings.
Host 01
Founder And Host
Alan Baker
Alan Baker is the Founder of The Capable Academy and the primary host of The Capable Academy Podcast. For nearly five decades he has studied martial arts, leadership, executive protection, firearms, coaching, outdoor education, business, and human performance.
Drawing from a lifetime of teaching and continual study, Alan uses each conversation to help listeners think more clearly, make better decisions, and build meaningful capability that extends far beyond any single discipline.
His role is not simply to share information. His mission is to help people develop stronger perspective, practical wisdom, disciplined thinking, and the ability to meet life with greater capability.
Host 02
Cohost And Technical Director
Bob Burgee
Bob Burgee has spent more than three decades helping instructors build educational systems, produce instructional media, and preserve martial arts knowledge for future generations.
A longtime martial artist and instructor under both Dan Inosanto and Erik Paulson, Bob has manufactured more than 30,000 training blades through Edges2 and serves as Technical Director for the Combat Submission Wrestling Association, the C Tac Association, the Alan Baker educational platforms, and The Capable Academy.
On the podcast, Bob represents the listener. He asks the questions many people are thinking, helping conversations unfold naturally and making complex ideas practical and approachable.
Together, Alan and Bob create conversations designed to help listeners think differently, learn continuously, and become more capable.
The Conversational Classroom
The Podcast Is One Classroom Inside The Academy.
The podcast is where ideas are explored in motion. Articles develop public written work related to those conversations. Academy Studies turn selected ideas into structured Academy original education.
Conversation creates an opening. Reflection develops understanding. Structured study builds capability.