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Chris Callen is an Army Airborne combat veteran of Vietnam. This show has some amazing war stories from Chris. In addition to his service, he created The Callen Foundation in 2011 to fund the emergency financial needs of Ohio military families. He is the founder and past commander of the Ohio chapter of the national Combat Infantrymen Association. To learn more about his organization in Ohio visit http://thecallenfoundation.com Follow us:http://instagram.com/battlelinepodcasthttp://twitter.com/battlelinepod Ned's Mellö Magnesium is an instant hit! Nourish your entire body with their proprietary superblend with 3 forms of chelated magnesium, GABA, L-theanine, and over 70 trace minerals. It propels memory, mood, brain function, stress response, nerve and muscle health, and SLEEP. And about 75% of Americans are deficient in it!! Go to http://helloned.com/BATTLELINE For 15% off all Fort Scott Munitions ammo & gear go to http://fsm.com & use promo code: Battleline For full video of this episode subscribe to our Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/@battlelinepodcast

Bob joined the United States Army (USA) in 2002 as part of Airborne Infantry, and served for 4 years, reaching the rank of Specialist (SPC).In this episode Bob talks about his journey in joining the U.S. Army, and what it was like going through Basic Training, then onto Army Airborne School. He shares what it was like being sent to the 1st Battalion, 508th Infantry Regiment (1st of the 508th - Red Devils), in Italy, before being deployed to Iraq. This deployment saw his unit parachute into the country, being his 1st jump since Airborne School, and his 6th jump ever.Bob also shares what it was like returning home after 1 year away in a war zone, and then getting orders to join the 101st Airborne Division, at Fort Campbell in Kentucky. After arriving at the 101st, he deploys to Iraq for the second time, ahead of his transition back to civilian life. After leaving the U.S. Army, Bob goes on a journey to become sober, with writing being part of his therapy, which has lead him to releasing multiple books - his first being Warflower.Watch Episode on YouTubePart 1: youtu.be/pXDu0kjW2y4Part 2: youtu.be/X3itIUREDhsTikTok:tiktok.com/@militaryveteranspodcastInstagram:instagram.com/militaryveteranspodcastX:twitter.com/MilVetPodcastLinkedIn:linkedin.com/company/military-veterans-podcastMerchandise:milvetpodcast.com/merchSend us a textMessage at the beginning of the recording is from your host Gav, giving you information on how you can support the show through Patreon.Supporting monthly would help the show record future episodes and help with the upkeep of the show. £5 a month will give you access to bonus recordings, where Gav and the guest chat about things that don't make it into the main recording. Thank you. Support the show

Airborne Army Vet, Noah Bailey joins Kyle and Mark to share his incredible story of survival after being blown up by an IED. ================================= Subscribe to Shots Fired Podcast Here: ➡️ YouTube: @shotsfiredpodcast50 ============== Ways to reach the Shots Fired Podcast Team: ==============

ASHLEY HROMYAK MS, CSCS, TSAC-F, NASM PBC, RYT200 Adjunct Professor of Kinesiology IFBB Pro WBB, WP, Figure + Wellness US Army Airborne Veteran I'm thrilled to share the latest episode of the "Straight and Muscle" podcast with you. This time, I had the incredible opportunity to sit down with **Ashley Hromyak**, a U.S. Army Airborne veteran, fitness coach, trainer, teacher, and adjunct professor in kinesiology. Her story is nothing short of inspiring, and I can't wait for you to dive into it. Here are some of the key takeaways from our conversation: - **From Military to Fitness**: Ashley's journey from serving in the U.S. Army Airborne to becoming a fitness coach and educator is a testament to resilience and passion. She shares how her military experience, including two combat tours in Afghanistan, shaped her dedication to physical fitness. - **Transitioning to Civilian Life**: Discover how Ashley channeled her military discipline into bodybuilding and fitness coaching. Her story of hiring a coach and diving into competitive bodybuilding is both motivating and relatable. - **Becoming a Fitness Educator**: Learn about Ashley's path to becoming an adjunct professor at George Mason University. Her commitment to education in the fitness industry is truly inspiring. - **The Importance of Home Gyms**: In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ashley emphasizes the convenience and cost-effectiveness of home gyms. She shares practical tips on creating your own workout space on a budget. - **Building a Supportive Community**: Ashley highlights the importance of community in fitness. Whether you're working out at home or in a gym, having a supportive network can make all the difference. - **Mental and Emotional Aspects of Fitness**: Ashley opens up about the mental challenges of bodybuilding, especially for women. She stresses the importance of self-awareness and prioritizing mental health over societal expectations. - **Client Relationships and Coaching Philosophy**: Get insights into Ashley's approach to coaching, which focuses on understanding each client's unique journey and motivations. Her philosophy of addressing both physical and mental aspects of fitness is truly holistic. - **Safety and Boundaries**: Ashley shares her thoughts on safety in coaching, particularly for women. Her decision to limit male clients in her home gym for safety reasons is a reminder of the importance of being prepared and making informed choices. - **Bodybuilding Achievements**: From turning pro in bodybuilding to winning a masters pro show, Ashley's achievements in the fitness world are impressive. Her motivation to compete in multiple categories to enhance her coaching abilities is a testament to her dedication. - **Self-Reflection and Growth**: Ashley's journey of self-reflection and recognizing when to step back from competition is a powerful reminder of the importance of mental health and self-awareness. #### Squatmax-MD and Brian Hennessy: During our conversation, Ashley  shared her thoughts on the Squatmax-MD, a revolutionary piece of fitness equipment designed by Brian Hennessy. She praised its versatility and effectiveness, particularly for those looking to maximize their squat workouts. Ashley highlighted how the Squatmax-MD allows for a more natural range of motion and reduces the risk of injury, making it an excellent addition to any home gym setup. #### Connect with Ashley: Ashley is active on social media, particularly Instagram and YouTube, where she shares valuable content and insights. If you're looking for inspiration or guidance on your fitness journey, be sure to connect with her. I hope you find this episode as inspiring as I did. Ashley's story is a powerful reminder of the strength found in vulnerability, the importance of education, and the impact of community support in the pursuit of health and fitness You can find her at https://gotogrowfitnessllc.godaddysites.com/ And on Insta at https://www.instagram.com/ashley___the___amazing__/ I am Damian Porter , Former NZ Special Forces Operator, Subject Matter Expert from www.hownottodieguy.com  and www.eatwellmovewell.net And you are listening to my STRAIGHT TALK MIND AND MUSCLE PODCAST sponsored by www.mystait.com  - the ultimate daily formula for optimum hormone health, stress management, energy and performance.   100% natural and clinically proven ingredients, it provides everything you need to raise your game, in a convenient gut-friendly capsule. 

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Climbing the Army ranks from enlisted to Lieutenant Colonel with a tapestry of rich life experiences; I am honored to have Francesca Graham on the S.O.S. podcast. Join me as I discuss Francesca's diverse Army career and how she overcame multiple obstacles to be the person you see today. Furthermore, we'll discuss her formal complaint against a civilian SES supervisor, where, according to Graham, she endured sexual harassment, reprisal, and retaliation. Join us as we discuss what process takes place when one finds themselves faced with abusive behaviors and what actions you can take to protect yourself. Francesca enlisted in the Army at 17, just over 26 years ago. She is the daughter of two hardworking and loving parents, the sister to three incredible brothers, a United States Military Academy graduate, a senior jumpmaster, the holder of three master's degrees, a strategic intelligence officer, and a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army. Her service in the Army offers her a life that makes her proud of her contributions to our nation. Find Francesca here -https://www.linkedin.com/in/francescagraham/Sign the petition to reform the DoD Investigative General System - https://www.change.org/p/creation-of-an-independent-inspector-general-outside-of-the-dodVisit my website: https://thehello.llc/THERESACARPENTERRead my writings on my blog: https://www.theresatapestries.com/Listen to other episodes on my podcast: https://storiesofservice.buzzsprout.comWatch episodes of my podcast:https://www.youtube.com/c/TheresaCarpenter76

Nick Slatten is an Army Airborne veteran who is most widely known as one of the Blackwater contractors part of the Nisour Square incident of 2007. For his involvement, Nick was sentenced to life in prison. Prior to leaving office, President Trump pardoned Nick in December of 2020 along with the other contractors imprisoned. This is his story. Nick and the other men involved are working on a book that they plan to have out this summer. You can learn more at http://raven23productions.com . Nick is also advocating for the release of Staff Sgt Calvin Gibbs which you can learn more about at http://freecalvingibbs.com Follow us: http://instagram.com/battlelinepodcast http://twitter.com/battlelinepod PAMAX Tactical has several unique products including their LION blank fire device. Used as a safer and reusable cost-effective alternative for breaching and training for both civilian and law enforcement applications. All PAMAX Tactical product is 100% USA Made and backed with a lifetime warranty. Visit http://pmtactical.com and use the coupon code Tanto for 15% OFF your order.    Photonis Defense is the global leader in night vision solutions providing more high-quality night vision capabilities than anyone. Hunters, shooters, boaters and outdoor enthusiasts rely on Photonis Defense systems to make their adventures safer and more successful. Visit http://photonisdefense.com for more information; or look for Photonis Defense product options from your night vision dealer. For 15% off all Fort Scott Munitions ammo & gear go to http://fsm.com & use promo code: Battleline For 20% off all Bubs Naturals gear and products including collagen protein and MCT oil powder, go to https://www.bubsnaturals.com/?discount=BATTLELINE .. All purchases help to support the Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation For full video of this episode, subscribe to our Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/@battlelinepodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, historian and US Army veteran Dr. Rob Williams joins me to talk about the 82d Airborne Division jumping into Italy in September 1943 and also some of the origins of the US Army Airborne culture. Rob has a book in the works and one it's available I will update this descript with links to the book. Links Dr. Rob Williams -- links to some publications (https://history.osu.edu/people/williams.6859) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mother-of-tanks/message

Vincent Speranza was born to immigrant Italian parents in New York City. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Speranza's father stressed to his boys that they were Americans and that America must not lose the war. He was quite a bit more conflicted over the prospects of his sons fighting against Italy. Once old enough to serve, Speranza was assigned to the U.S. Army infantry but eventually moved to the airborne.In this edition of "Veterans Chronicles," Speranza details how he joined the 101st airborne after D-Day and the failure of Operation Market Garden in Holland, what it was like to be rushed to the Battle of the Bulge in brutally cold temperatures, and what he accomplished as a machine gunner during the battle.Finally, Speranza recounts his legendary effort to find beer during the battle for his wounded friend. And he tells us about his return to Bastogne decades later, during which he discovered he was a local legend.Sadly, Vincent Speranza died in 2023. But the service and stories of the Beer Man of Bastogne live on!

Skydive into a tale of an Army veteran's journey through military transition and mastery of Brazilian jiu-jitsu and his thoughts of being the next Randy Couture. This episode is a must-listen for every veteran and first responder seeking inspiration and guidance. In this episode of the Transition Drill Podcast, travel the life of Eric Franco. Growing up in L.A., Eric's childhood was marked by modest means and big dreams. His path led him to the Army, where he embraced the challenges of being an Airborne paratrooper, driven by a mix of fear and fascination. His military career, spanning over two decades, was deeply influenced by the events of 9/11, reinforcing his commitment to service and brotherhood. However, the transition from military life was not without its struggles. Eric candidly shares the complexities of adapting to civilian life, a journey familiar to many veterans. His narrative takes a turn as he discovers Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ), a discipline that not only offered a physical outlet but also a new direction in life. His passion for BJJ eventually led him to establish Virtus BJJ in Paso Robles, CA, a veteran-owned business, along with his veteran wife, that symbolizes his journey and the potential for life after the military. Throughout the conversation, Eric's experiences in passing Special Forces selection, MMA and Army Combatives, and his venture into a veteran-owned business offer a rich tapestry of lessons and insights. His story is a testament to the resilience and adaptability of veterans, providing a roadmap for those navigating the often-challenging path of military transition. ALL LINKS FOR THE PODCAST https://linktr.ee/TransitionDrillPodcast SUBSCRIBE AND WATCH EPISODE ON YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TransitionDrillPodcast?sub_confirm=1 CONNECT WITH ERIC: Web: https://virtusbjj.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/virtus_bjj/

Martin RooneyMartin Rooney is an internationally recognized entrepreneur, fitness expert, sought-after presenter, and best-selling author. Martin has his Master of Health Science and Bachelor of Physical Therapy degrees from the Medical University of South Carolina and also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Exercise Science from Furman University. Martin is the former COO of the Parisi Speed School, a youth sports performance franchise with over 80 locations nationwide, and is the founder of the Training for Warriors system. The TFW System has been operated in over 300 facilities in 25 countries worldwide and Martin's programs have been used by over one million youth athletes and adults. A former US bobsledder, Division I track athlete, Judo black belt, record-setting powerlifter, and two-time Guinness World Record holder, Martin not only has the academic and athletic background but also, first-hand business experience of what it takes to run global organizations.As a presenter, Martin is regularly in front of over 10,000 people per year and has consulted Fortune 500 companies such as Marriott International, Nike, Prudential, and Hasbro as well as major organizations like Prudential Financial and Weichert Realtors. Martin has also conducted training and development programs for Military Organizations including the Army Rangers, Army Airborne, and Navy SEALs, and has coached at and advised professional teams such as the NY Jets, Cincinnati Bengals, Carolina Panthers, and NY Giants. His university consulting clientele has included Notre Dame, University of Texas, Arizona State University, Brown University, University of Alabama, Oregon State University, Auburn University, Rutgers University, University of Tennessee, Montana State University, Furman University, and West Point. Martin has also been a training representative for Adidas and Perform Better.Over the last 15 years, Martin has traveled to over 35 countries to help train world-class athletes and teach trainers and leaders about coaching and culture. As a coach, Martin has been listed in the top 100 Most Influential People in Health and Fitness over 5 different years, and in 2015 Martin was inducted into the Personal Trainer Hall of Fame. Martin has trained hundreds of athletes from the NFL, MLB, UFC, NBA, and WNBA. He has also had the honor to work with numerous Olympic medalists, All-Americans, and World Champions. In addition to professional athletes, he has also coached 100 high school athletes who have gone on to compete at numerous top Division I colleges across the United States including high school national champions.Martin's two newest books, High Ten and Coach to Coach are helping to create better leaders and business and team cultures around the world. He has also written three best-selling books printed in 5 different languages for Harper Collins publishers (Warrior Cardio, Ultimate Warrior Workouts, and Training For Warriors) and his 12 books and DVD series overall which have sold over a combined 200,000 copies. His work has been featured on ESPN, Spike TV, Fox Sports, the NFL Network, and in the New York Times, USA Today, Men's Health, Men's Fitness, Muscle and Fitness, The Sporting News, Runner's World, SELF, Outside, and Sports Illustrated for Kids.Originally from New Jersey, Martin now lives in North Carolina with his wife Amanda and their four daughters Sofia, Kristina, Keira, and Sasha.Please click here to learn more about Martin Rooney.About Brad SugarsInternationally known as one of the most influential entrepreneurs, Brad Sugars is a bestselling author, keynote speaker, and the #1 business coach in the world. Over the course of his 30-year career as an entrepreneur, Brad has become the CEO of 9+ companies and is the owner of the multimillion-dollar franchise ActionCOACH®. As a husband and father of five, Brad is equally as passionate about his family as he is about business. That's why, Brad is a strong advocate for building a business that works without you – so you can spend more time doing what really matters to you. Over the years of starting, scaling, and selling many businesses, Brad has earned his fair share of scars. Being an entrepreneur is not an easy road. But if you can learn from those who have gone before you, it becomes a lot easier than going at it alone. That's why Brad has created 90 Days To Revolutionize Your Life – It's 30 minutes a day for 90 days, teaching you his 30 years of experience in investing, business, and life.Please click here to learn more about Brad Sugars.Learn the Fundamentals of Success for free: The Big Success Starter: https://results.bradsugars.com/thebigsuccess-starter Join Brad's programs here: 30X Life: https://results.bradsugars.com/30xlifechallenge 30X Business: https://results.bradsugars.com/30xbusinesschallenge 30X Wealth: https://results.bradsugars.com/30xwealthchallenge 90X – Revolutionize Your Life: https://30xbusiness.com/90daystorevolutionize Brad Sugars' Entrepreneur University: https://results.bradsugars.com/entrepreneuruniversity For more information, visit Brad Sugars' website: www.bradsugars.com Follow Brad on Social Media: YouTube: @bradleysugars Instagram: @bradleysugars Facebook: Bradley J Sugars LinkedIn: Brad Sugars TikTok: @bradleysugars Twitter: BradSugars The Big Success Podcasthttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-big-success-podcast/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/ep-33-martin-rooney-the-big-success-podcast-with-brad-sugars

When a Veteran starts a non-profit for other Veterans there is always a big reason. Meet Justin "BoFlex" Bohanan. Army Airborne turned recruiter and now Veteran, trainer, and Founder/Executive Director of Make a Vet Sweat. Justin sits down with Donna and Jay to talk about the journey from high adrenaline military career to a downward spiral into extreme activities, drugs, alcohol, and contemplating suicide; and the point in that journey that lead him to start Make a Vets Sweat. Find out who is his biggest influence in life, how he brings a community together to embrace Veterans through workouts and learn about the incredible prize participating gyms can win. Listen to the end to find out the date for their upcoming annual fundraising Gala and the announcement of the MC/guest speaker. Website: https://www.makeavetsweat.org/ Linktree: linktr.ee/makeavetsweat Email: info@makeavetsweat.org FB: @makeavetsweat IG: @makeavetsweat YouTube: Make a Vet Sweat LI: Make a Vet Sweat Tune into our CHW Streaming Radio and the full lineup at cominghomewell.com Download on Apple Play and Google Play Online-Therapy.com ~ Life Changing Therapy Click here for a 20% discount on your first month. Donna's Links Website: www.rebel-llc.com Consulting/Coaching Book: Warrior to Patriot Citizen (2017) Blog: Taking Off The Armor IG: @thetransitioningwarrior Twitter: @wtpc FB: The Transitioning Warrior Jay's Links Website: https://j2servantleadership.com/ Book: Breaking Average (2020) Thank you for listening! Be sure to SHARE, LIKE and leave us a REVIEW!

When a Veteran starts a non-profit for other Veterans there is always a big reason. Meet Justin "BoFlex" Bohanan. Army Airborne turned recruiter and now Veteran, trainer, and Founder/Executive Director of Make a Vet Sweat. Justin sits down with Donna and Jay to talk about the journey from high adrenaline military career to a downward spiral into extreme activities, drugs, alcohol, and contemplating suicide; and the point in that journey that lead him to start Make a Vets Sweat.Find out who is his biggest influence in life,  how he brings a community together to embrace Veterans through workouts and learn about the incredible prize participating gyms can win. Listen to the end to find out the date for their upcoming annual fundraising Gala and the announcement of the MC/guest speaker.Website: https://www.makeavetsweat.org/Linktree: linktr.ee/makeavetsweatEmail: info@makeavetsweat.orgFB: @makeavetsweatIG: @makeavetsweatYouTube: Make a Vet SweatLI: Make a Vet SweatGet the ammo you need to seize your day at Soldier Girl Coffee Use code CHW10 for a 10% off at checkout!Donna's LinksWebsite: www.rebel-llc.com Consulting/CoachingBook: Warrior to Patriot Citizen (2017)Blog: Taking Off The ArmorIG: @thetransitioningwarriorTwitter: @wtpcFB: The Transitioning WarriorJay's LinksWebsite: https://j2servantleadership.com/ Book: Breaking Average (2020) Visit on the web at cominghomewell.com, Got a great topic or a question email us at cominghomewell@gmail.com Thank you for listening! Be sure to SHARE, LIKE and leave us a REVIEW!

If you're enjoying the content, please like, subscribe, and comment! Please consider supporting the show! https://anchor.fm/worldxppodcast/support Brandon was an Army Airborne Infantryman from 2003-2012 who deployed to Afghanistan in 2004 then to Iraq in 2006 and then in 2008. Along the way he earned a couple of medals and some cool war stories. Now he's a husband and father of four living the vet dad life. ______________________ Follow us! @worldxppodcast Instagram - https://bit.ly/3eoBwyr @worldxppodcast Twitter - https://bit.ly/2Oa7Bzm Spotify - http://spoti.fi/3sZAUTG Apple Podcasts - http://apple.co/30uGTny Google Podcasts - http://bit.ly/3v8CF2U Anchor - http://bit.ly/3qGeaH7 YouTube - http://bit.ly/3rxDvUL #army #military #airborne #parachute #iraq #afghanistan #ranger #specialforces #mission #deployment #bootcamp #basictraining #podcastshow #longformpodcast #longformpodcast #podcasts #podcaster #newpodcast #podcastshow #podcasting #newshow #worldxppodcast --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/worldxppodcast/support

Join us for an episode featuring Ashley the Amazing! Ashley, an IFBB Pro with experience competing in four women's divisions at the pro level, will share insights into her military background, training and dieting regimens, mindset, and healthy lifestyle. Discover Ashley's strategies for developing a resilient mindset to overcome challenging goals, like enduring a competition prep. Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable bodybuilding and life knowledge from an NCO of the year and former soldier. Tune in to this episode today!-  Follow Ashley on IG here: https://www.instagram.com/ashley___the___amazing__/- Hosted by Joe Miller and Justin Harris from 1st Detachment.Support the show** DISCLAIMER **The content on this channel is for entertainment and educational purposes only. 1st Detachment does not provide, endorse, or promote specific medical providers. We do not make warranties to its accuracy, application, and completeness. Our guests share their opinions and views on a variety of complex topics. Always seek advice from qualified medical practitioners. Do not disregard medical advice or delay seeking medical treatment due to the information presented on this channel.Consult with a physician before taking any over-the-counter medications, supplements, or herbs. This channel does not endorse medications, vitamins, or herbs, nor do we condone the use of illegal drugs.Consistent with community guidelines, we do not glorify the use of illegal drugs or the consumption of drugs illegally. A qualified medical professional should make decisions with each patient's health profile, current prescriptions, and medical history in mind.

This week's Urban Valor episode features Army veteran Luke Simianer. Luke was born in Nebraska, then moved to Virginia, and grew up in Section 8 housing. The 9/11 attacks inspired him to enlist in the Army. Luke was only 17 when he went through Army Airborne school. He did a combat deployment to Afghanistan, where he had quite the experience with snipers, hard drives, and donkeys, to say the least. Luke was reprimanded by his command after making an anonymous video about being hazed. After working several blue-collar jobs upon transitioning, Luke founded “Clusiv,” the world's first e-learning platform for the blind.

When we think of the sweeping constellation of music that is Americana, we could be forgiven for thinking of it as a genre that doesn't really speak to our lived experiences as queer Black people. Emerging in the 1940s as music borne of the weathered realities of rural life in the United States, Americana is perhaps most closely — if not accurately — associated with the region of Appalachia and the experiences of white Americans. But as my guest, Paula Boggs, makes clear: there is no Americana — no bluegrass, no country, no folk music — without the backbeat of African influences and the musical ingenuity of Black Americans. Paula Boggs fronts the Paula Boggs Band, whose music is described as “Seattle-brewed soulgrass.” She is an accomplished musician and songwriter and the COVID-19 pandemic offered her an opportunity to reevaluate and research, §and to come into closer relationship with her ancestral lineages — an experience which animates Janus, the newest release from the Paula Boggs Band. Today, we explore how the pandemic has altered our understanding of place and belonging, how the segregation of public radio helped obscure the West African roots of bluegrass and why bluegrass is the genre Paula feels most at home within. She also shares the recipe for her 30-year relationship with her wife, a secret sauce which offers insights into how we might create a more graceful civic life together now and in the future. About Paula Boggs Paula Boggs served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at Starbucks Corporation from 2002 to 2012. In 2009, NASDAQ©️ named her its top general counsel. She also had a 14-year career in public service, including as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, and in various capacities as an attorney for the U.S. Army, the Department of Defence and the White House Office of Legal Counsel. She served eight years as a Regular Officer in the United States Army, earned Army Airborne wings and a Congressional appointment to the US Naval Academy – among America's first women to do so. Paula is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law and earned a bachelor's degree in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University. She was also an adjunct professor at the University of Washington School of Law and she served under President Obama on the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. About Busy Being Black Busy Being Black is an exploration and expression of quare liveliness and my guests are those who have learned to live, love and thrive at the intersection of their identities. Your support of the show means the world. Please leave a rating and a review and share these conversations far and wide. As we continue to work towards futures worthy of us all, my hope is that as many of you as possible understand Busy Being Black as a soft, tender and intellectually rigorous place for you to land.  Thank you to our funding partner, myGwork – the business community for LGBT+ professionals, students, inclusive employers and anyone who believes in workplace equality. Thank you to my friend Lazarus Lynch for creating the ancestral and enlivening Busy Being Black theme music. Thank you to Lucian Koncz and Stevie Gatez for helping bring new Busy Being Black artwork into the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greetings everyone and welcome back to the Air Power hour. TSgt Check here and today I had the opportunity to sit down with Lt Col Jerad Warren, the Air Force ROTC Detachment Commander at Marquette University here in lovely Milwaukee Wisconsin. In his current position he oversees all facets of recruiting, training, and education for about 70 Air Force Officer candidates per year. After graduating from the Air Force Academy in 2003, Col Warren entered the Combat Control pipeline and completed Army Airborne school, Air Traffic Control school, and Special Forces Military free fall school, along with many others. With almost 20 years of military experience and over 10 deployments in support of overseas contingency operations throughout the Middle East, Col Warren shared some amazing advice on how important foundational leadership is to the success of the mission.Learn more at Airforce.com or SpaceForce.com

In this episode, Dr. Preston Cline and Dr. Art Finch talk about the types of people who choose the hard path. Where do they excel, where do they struggle, and why don't they quite fit in with “normal” People. We focus on different learning and motivation profiles as well as the transitions between the routine and critical worlds.   COL(R) Art Finch, Ph.D., spent over 23 years providing psychological insight to the leading Special Operations and Tactical Law Enforcement organizations in the world. He is a graduate of U.S. Army Airborne, SERE, and Ranger Schools with more than 20 combat deployments to both Afghanistan and Iraq. He retired at the rank of colonel. created personality profiles for more than 10,000 candidates in support of assessment and selection events. Art continues to be licensed to practice psychology in North Carolina and in addition to serving as the Director of the newly formed Mission Critical Psychology Division at MCTI, he also serves as a Research Scientist with IHMC and The Gauge Group, a psychological consulting and executive coaching firm and is the founder and president of The Gauge Group has led leadership consultation and executive coaching for Fortune 100 tech companies; led assessment and selection support for Major League Baseball and National League Football; conducted high-stakes, high-performance psychological support for elite athletes; and assessment and selection psychological support for FBI, HRT and New York State Police SWAT team.   

https://www.facebook.com/tomgarveytomgarvey (Tom Garvey) is the author of https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Apartment-Stadium-surreal-memoir/dp/B08NTJ4HLX#customerReviews (The Secret Apartment: Vet Stadium a Surreal Memoir.) The book tells the story of Tom secretly living inside of Veterans stadium, the home of the Philadelphia Eagles & Phillies, for almost 3 years.  Our conversation starts off by what made Tom storm out of a college classroom at Widener University, walk down to the post office and volunteer for the Army Airborne during the Vietnam War.  Tom become an Army Ranger, then leader of a special forces "A"-Team on the Cambodian border during 1969. It took 40+ years and meeting his wife Peggy before he was able to write his first book https://www.amazon.com/Many-Beaucoup-Magics-Tom-Garvey/dp/1514228157/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2R7AN8E9LO1QI&keywords=tom+garvey&qid=1661631888&s=books&sprefix=tom+garvey%2Cstripbooks%2C59&sr=1-1 (Many Beaucoup Magics,) a memoir about his experiences in Vietnam.   From rollerblading around the 600 level at night, to sleeping under the stars in centerfield, to hanging with Phillies Legend Tug McGraw, Tom's stories keep coming.  Thank you for listening! "Life is Built, Not Born." Joe Ciccarone

Have you ever imagined what it feels like to get shat out of the back of an airplane doing 115 MPH? Yea, most don't. But for the crazy few volunteers in the US Army, this is a regular thing. Today the boys sit down and talk about the history and shenanigans of the Airborne and Ian, a former paratrooper himself, shares the silly and scary behind it all. Enjoy!

We are joined in this episode by Austin Knight. Austin serves in the active-duty Army as a Religious Affairs NCO where he's currently assigned to the U.S. Army Airborne School. We spoke to Austin about a variety of topics ranging from what Airborne School is like today, the experience of jumping out of airplanes for a living, to his ultimate role which is to care for not just the spiritual welfare of Soldiers (from Private to General), but their moral and emotional well-being as well. Support the show and become a War Stories patron: https://www.patreon.com/warstoriespodcast Website: https://www.warstories.co

This week on Inside Great Mind, Adam welcomes Medal of Honor recipient Florent "Flo" Groberg.  Groberg, a former US Captain in the Army, is a living lesson in persistence and determination. Listen as he unpacks his story of overcoming challenges and adversity to achieve the remarkable things he has accomplished. Here are just a few bullet points of his story and accomplishments:

Lisa and Scott Rogers owners of Wisconsins Drink LLC, Wisconsin based company that puts veterans on the side of their Old Fashion cans. Name, rank, conflict/era. Scott is a proud Army Airborne veteran and Lisa and an incredible MIL/Vet supporter. They both shared a lot about how they created the company and their personal lives and struggles thay drives them to create something so amazing. It was a pleasure to meet them. Please check them out their old fashioned in a can are super amazing https://wisconsinsdrink.com

In this episode, Jackie and Scott Campbell are honored to talk with Retired US Army Airborne Ranger and First Sergeant AJ Crowell. They discuss his two tours of Vietnam, meeting President Ford and spending time with Jackie and Scott on a sinking boat. Plus, how his Military training prepare him for the next chapter of his life.  For more information on Campbell and Company or to schedule a complimentary consultation, call 727-334-0024 or visit www.mycampbellandco.com 

YOU: Oh wow! Matt just interviewed these guys. Glad I'm catching it fresh.  REALITY: Sorry, bub, but this is over a year old. Patrons got it fresh.    That's right. Being a patron helps keep this show going. Because we believe you should get something back for your financial support, we give patrons over a certain tier, episodes created especially for them. Plus, they know what's going on before you do; they get early access to some special episodes; they know before the general public when tickets for our events go on sale and MORE! Please consider helping us eat! https://www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg   ORIGINAL AIRDATE 11.23.2021   I really enjoyed this interview with Colonels McCausland and Vossler about their new book "Battle Tested!" In this interview we focused on chapters 2 and 12 about Brigadier General John Buford's and Abraham Lincoln's (respectively) leadership skills and qualities. You can get your copy of the book by clicking here . You'll be hearing a lot more from these gentlemen on Addressing Gettysburg.     From the Diamond6 wesbite: JEFF MCCAUSLAND, FOUNDER & CEO Since 2000, both domestic and internationally, Dr. McCausland has conducted numerous executive leadership development workshops and consulted for leaders in public education, US government institutions, non-profit organizations, and corporations. Dr. McCausland is a retired Colonel from the U.S. Army and former Dean of Academics at the U.S. Army War College. He is a Visiting Professor of National Security at Dickinson College. During his military career Dr. McCausland served in a variety of command and staff positions both in the United States and Europe during the Kosovo crisis and Operations Desert Shield and Storm. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger schools, and the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds both a Masters and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Dr. McCausland is the co-author of Battle Tested! Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders, available September 1, 2020.   COL. TOM VOSSLER (RET.) | AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN Colonel Tom Vossler, U.S. Army (Ret.) served in the U.S. Army from 1968 thru 1998. He commanded an infantry platoon in the Vietnam War and a Mechanized Infantry Battalion Task Force in Germany prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall / Soviet regime. His military education includes graduation from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. Tom taught military history, strategy and leadership at the U.S. Army War College and he is a former director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks, PA. Tom is the co-author of A Field Guide to Gettysburg and A Field Guide to Antietam. His latest book, co-authored with Jeff McCausland, Battle Tested! Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders is available September 1, 2020.   ***This episode was made available for free to the public to help Tom and Jeff promote their book. If you enjoyed this interview and would like to hear more from Addressing Gettysburg, please consider becoming a Patron and support our continued efforts to bring Gettysburg to the World.***

Noah Malgeri is not afraid to say what he thinks and today's episode is no exception. Noah talks about all of his personal ups and downs and gives us his biography (engineer, inventor, Army Airborne, JAG Officer, businessman) when we don't go off on 10 minute tangents about current events. He is nationally acclaimed as one of the "Scariest Republicans" running in 2022. Find out why. From Newsmax to Veterans in Politics we try to get to everything, but alas the conversation got so interesting we couldn't stay on agenda. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejohnnybrushow/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thejohnnybrushow/support

Dr Jeff McCausland is a retired Colonel from the U.S. Army and former Dean of Academics at the U.S. Army War College.   Jeff is also a graduate of U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger schools, and the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.   He has built his training business Diamond 6 Leadership and Strategy LLC by bringing together a remarkable faculty of military, diplomatic and academic leaders.   In this week's episode:   What opportunity Jeff saw in the marketplace for leadership training How Diamond 6 integrates experiential learning into its programs Which leadership lessons Jeff addresses in his book ‘Battle Tested' Where Diamond 6 Leadership and the team are going next   Check out the episode now

Senior Non-commissioned officers build and lead disciplined, lethal, cohesive, and honorable teams. COL (Ret) Scott Halstead, Director of AUSA's Center of Leadership, speaks with CSM Eric Buonopane of the U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade about what has shaped him professionally and his philosophy on leader development. The Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade conducts transformational training to develop and deliver competent and capable Rangers, Parachutists, Jumpmasters, and Reconnaissance Leaders to enable the U.S. Army and the Joint Force to prevail in combat. Guest: CSM Eric Buonopane, Command Sergeant Major, U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade Host: COL (Ret) Scott Halstead, Director of AUSA's Center for Leadership    Resources: Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade (ARTB) U.S. Army Fort Benning and The Maneuver Center of Excellence Web: https://www.benning.army.mil/Infantry/ARTB/   Recommendations for future topics are welcome via email at podcast@ausa.org.

This old Patreon episode is brought to you for free and without commercial interruption by our wonderful Patrons. They want you to learn so badly, that they said to me "hey, Matt. Why don't you release old Patreon episodes for free so all of your listeners can be as smart as we are?" To which I say, "Well, dear Patron, you aren't smart from our shows. You were smart to begin with, as evidenced by your Patronage." But I digress. Please consider becoming a Patron so a) we can stop asking for your support, b) so we can keep doing these shows and c) so we can expand to all forms of media, as per our plan. Click here to join the movement today!   I really enjoyed this interview with Colonels McCausland and Vossler about their new book "Battle Tested!" In this interview we focused on chapters 2 and 12 about Brigadier General John Buford's and Abraham Lincoln's (respectively) leadership skills and qualities. You can get your copy of the book by clicking here . You'll be hearing a lot more from these gentlemen on Addressing Gettysburg.     From the Diamond6 wesbite: JEFF MCCAUSLAND, FOUNDER & CEO Since 2000, both domestic and internationally, Dr. McCausland has conducted numerous executive leadership development workshops and consulted for leaders in public education, US government institutions, non-profit organizations, and corporations. Dr. McCausland is a retired Colonel from the U.S. Army and former Dean of Academics at the U.S. Army War College. He is a Visiting Professor of National Security at Dickinson College. During his military career Dr. McCausland served in a variety of command and staff positions both in the United States and Europe during the Kosovo crisis and Operations Desert Shield and Storm. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger schools, and the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds both a Masters and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Dr. McCausland is the co-author of Battle Tested! Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders, available September 1, 2020.   COL. TOM VOSSLER (RET.) | AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN Colonel Tom Vossler, U.S. Army (Ret.) served in the U.S. Army from 1968 thru 1998. He commanded an infantry platoon in the Vietnam War and a Mechanized Infantry Battalion Task Force in Germany prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall / Soviet regime. His military education includes graduation from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. Tom taught military history, strategy and leadership at the U.S. Army War College and he is a former director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks, PA. Tom is the co-author of A Field Guide to Gettysburg and A Field Guide to Antietam. His latest book, co-authored with Jeff McCausland, Battle Tested! Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders is available September 1, 2020.  

Changing Discourse Mastermind: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/acet-culture-simplified-mastermind-tickets-171302770197   Jeff McCausland Since 2000, both domestic and internationally, Dr. McCausland has conducted numerous executive leadership development workshops and consulted for leaders in public education, US government institutions, non-profit organizations, and corporations.  Dr. McCausland is a retired Colonel from the U.S. Army and former Dean of Academics at the U.S. Army War College. He is a Visiting Professor of National Security at Dickinson College.  During his military career Dr. McCausland served in a variety of command and staff positions both in the United States and Europe during the Kosovo crisis and Operations Desert Shield and Storm.  He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger schools, and the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds both a Masters and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.  Jeffs Book: https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Tested-Gettysburg-Leadership-Lessons/dp/1642934534/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=battle+tested&qid=1637186948&sr=8-1

This episode features the adventurous and exciting life of retired U.S. Army Airborne soldier Tracy Hines. Tracy lets us in on how she got hooked into surfing, her surf therapy journey, the surf therapy camp for veterans that she joined down in South Carolina, healing from trauma, and all the activities she's been doing after she retired—paddleboarding, kayaking, skateboarding. Tracy is undoubtedly someone who always has an exciting story to tell. Social Media Profile: IG: https://www.instagram.com/tracyhines7770/ Topics Discussed: What's the process for filing a Costa Rican residency? Tell me about being a US Army Airborne soldier. Tell me about being an Olympic kayaker—how did you become one? What's the hardest course you ever experienced? At what point did you make a transition from kayaking to surfing. Surf camp therapy for veterans Do you think surfing and jumping out of a plane are similar in some ways? What's Virginia Beach like? How did you get to Costa Rica? How did you decide to take a trip down there? Location: Virginia - - - - - This podcast is produced by Derek Dodds, founder of Wave Tribe and lover of the sea. For more info, email support@wavetribe.com https://www.wavetribe.com/ https://www.instagram.com/wavetribe/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wavetribe/message

On Episode 41, we are lucky to have well known author and health and fitness renaissance man, Martin Rooney as our guest! Martin Rooney is an internationally recognized coach, speaker, and best-selling author. A former US bobsledder, Division I track athlete, Judo black belt, and two-time Guinness World Record holder. He is the creator of Training for Warriors which is a fitness company running programs in 200 locations, in 20 different countries around the world. Martin has consulted Fortune 500 companies like Prudential, Hasbro, Nike. Major universities including Alabama, Auburn, Arizona State, and Oregon State. Professional sport teams such as the NY Jets, Cincinnati Bengals, Carolina Panthers, and NY Giants. Military organizations of the Navy SEALs, Army Airborne, and Army Rangers. Martin has also trained Olympic Medalists, Super Bowl, and UFC Champions. The contracts of the professional athletes he has personally coached have totaled an excess of 1 billion dollars. Important Points: 04:00 - Started working in PT and knew he wanted to be involved in sports. -It wasn't just what I knew, but how I was coaching. The culture I was creating. 09:00 - Bad coaches vs good coaches. 14:00 - Coaches let things happen and hope the athletes take ownership of build the culture. 15:00 - If you permit it, you promote it. 21:00 - Don't get frustrated, get fascinated. 23:00 - Know what impact you're having. 26:00 - You never know who the next great kid is going to be. 38:00 - Whose dream is it? The parent or the coach? 41:00 - Every person you work with, they deserve a great coach. -A coach that believes in them. -A coach that gives everything they have. 46:00 - Action is the Antidote!

Martin Rooney is on a mission to make a world of better coaches.  In addition to being an internationally recognized coach, speaker and best-selling author Martin is also a former US bobsledder, Division I track athlete, Judo black belt, two-time Guinness World Record holder and the creator of Training for Warriors which is a fitness company running programs in 200 locations in 20 different countries around the world. Martin has consulted Fortune 500 companies like Prudential, Hasbro, and Nike, major universities including Alabama, Auburn, Arizona State and Oregon State, professional sport teams such as the NY Jets, Cincinnati Bengals, Carolina Panthers and NY Giants and military organizations of the Navy SEALs, Army Airborne and Army Rangers.  Martin has also trained Olympic medalists, Super Bowl and UFC Champions and the contracts of the professional athletes he has personally coached have totaled an excess of 1 billion dollars. www.trainingforwarriors.com www.coachinggreatness.com   Enjoy the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here's how>> Join Overcomer's community today! Overcomer's Podcast Website Overcomer's Facebook Overcomer's YouTube Overcomer's Linkedin Journey333 Instagram   About the Author: Before Travis Barnes became a best-selling author, international presenter, founder and franchisor of Journey Fitness 333 he spent a decade of his life in prison for a nonviolent drug offense. Upon returning home to his wife and daughter he worked hard to grow himself in the fitness industry so he could buy his family a home of their own. 2 months after buying their home Tropical Storm Lee caused it to be flooded to the second floor. Approximately 1 year after the flood while still rebuilding their home and during the Christmas holiday season Travis was let go from his employment as COO for a local fitness company. After he and his wife spent 6 months as traveling trainers and while still living on an unemployment check and in a FEMA trailer, they began what is now a fitness franchise . Most recently and with the rest of the industry Travis has overcome the obstacles of the pandemic by redesigning his business. Travis has used the pandemic as an opportunity to instead of returning to business as normal, he has returned to business as better than normal. Travis is an Overcomer.

Have you ever wondered why people resort to using cannabis instead of western medicine?Are you interested in knowing how cannabis is helping veterans cope with PTSD or other trauma(s)?Take a listen as Sierra break down how she was made ill by many medicines issued to her in the military and her discovery of how cannabis has not only helped her but others in coping with the many symptoms of head injures and trauma.Sierra is an Army Airborne veteran who has been in the cannabis, hemp, CBD arena for 20 plus years.  She is a cannabis activator and educator in  Colorado.   She shares her experiences with anyone wanting to learn and know more about using or cultivating the cannabis plant.sierraneblina@gmail.com

Tom Garvey is the author of https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Apartment-Stadium-surreal-memoir/dp/B08NTJ4HLX/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+secret+apartment&qid=1620436797&sr=8-1 (The Secret Apartment: Vet Stadium a surreal memoir). The book tells the story of Tom secretly living inside of Veterans stadium, the home of the Philadelphia Eagles & Phillies, for almost 3 years.  Our conversation starts off by what made Tom storm out of a college classroom at Widener University, walk down to the post office and volunteer for the Army Airborne during the Vietnam War.  Tom's time in the Army led him to becoming an Army Ranger, then to a special forces unit, leading an "A"-Team on the Cambodian border during 1969. It took 40+ years and meeting his wife Peggy before he was able to write his first book https://www.amazon.com/s?k=many+beaucoup+magics&crid=1DA8UDA7QLM6W&sprefix=many+beu%2Caps%2C147&ref=nb_sb_ss_sc_1_8 (Many Beaucoup Magics), the memoir about his experiences in Vietnam.   From rollerblading around the 600 level at night, to sleeping under the stars in centerfield, to hanging with Phillies Legend Tug McGraw, Tom's stories keep coming.  Thank you for listening!

An absolutely stellar conversation with my guest Jeff McCausland of Diamond 6 Leadership on the topic of leadership. His ability to connect historic battles and those that played pivotal roles in them to todays business world and it's leadership is simply astounding. Truly a riveting  conversation I know you'll enjoy as much as I did. Dr. Jeffrey D. McCausland Diamond6 Leadership & Strategy, LLC Since 2000, both domestic and internationally, Dr. McCausland has conducted numerous executive leadership development workshops and consulted for leaders in public education, US government institutions, non-profit organizations, and corporations. Dr. McCausland is a retired Colonel from the U.S. Army and former Dean of Academics at the U.S. Army War College. He is a Visiting Professor of National Security at Dickinson College and a National Security Consultant for CBS radio & television. During his military career Dr. McCausland served in a variety of command and staff positions both in the United States and Europe during the Kosovo crisis and Operations Desert Shield and Storm. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger schools, and the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds both a master’s and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Dr. McCausland is the co-author of Battle Tested! Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders. https://www.diamondsixleadership.cominfo@diamondsixleadership.com

Podcast26:   When you want to know, where to go, what to do, to be seen, to make a difference, you come here, to iIrish: the Truth & the Pulse of what matters   Hello Everyone!  Welcome back to iIrish; Songs, Stories & Shenanigans.  After listening, I hope you will feel we have a great show for you today.   What’s the News, What’s the News? What’s the news today?   Well, Passover begins at Sundown tomorrow; the virtual Lincoln & The Irish Presentation is Saturday at 1; my interview with the LAOH and Marilyn Madigan is Sunday at 1; the spectacular print edition of the April issue comes on Wednesday; Friday is Good Friday (and last Fish Fry of the year); Sunday the 4th  is Easter; and the last day before we podcast meet again on April 9th, is Holocaust Remembrance Day. There is  a varied mix of celebratory and solemn events, for sure, each deserving of our attention.   Did you get the jab yet?  I got my 1st one on Monday, at the Wolstein Center.  If you haven’t, I highly encourage you to call the 833 number, rather than try and book online – I got an appt the next day.  The Army Airborne’s were manning the Center – The speed, graciousness and organization just blew me away.  I had a 3:30 Appt, got there at 3:20; because of me auld cane was escorted to check in, then another soldier escorted me to a seat. Within minutes, a soldier came to me, holding a tablet, asked a few questions, and said left or right shoulder? I chose the left, since I heard it might ache for a while after.  About 10 minutes later, another soldier came over, verified me, and administered a Pfizer shot. I kid you not, I did not feel a thing.  He said he had been doing medical duties for about 2 years – In a lifetime of RA and back shots, this fella was better than most I have encountered.  He then set me up for the 2nd shot appt. in 3 weeks. I got up, walked out, and went to my car; it was 3:45. I cannot adequately describe how impressive the whole process was.  I am grateful, AND I never felt any shot pain that day, or since.   I’d like to share a celebratory story from the coming issue with you, written by John Myers: Donnybrook: The Greatest Generation   by John Myers Robert James O’Malley died in February 2021 in Washington, D.C. at the age of 98. O’Malley, a proud son of Cleveland, was like so many Irish Clevelanders of his generation; he had a hard scrabble childhood growing up on the near-west side of Cleveland. He joined the building trades; fought fascist dictators as a soldier; was a good public servant and a great human; living a life of little fanfare, middle class economics, and thousands of friends.  We salute the quiet, everyday contributions to our community, our Nation, and our world by these members of the Greatest Generation, living and watching history each day.  Bob ‘earned’ his Purple Heart on the same snowcapped mountain in Italy, on the same day as his fellow 10th Mountain Division member, Senator Robert Dole.  This Bob left Cleveland to join the Congressional Staff of his good friend, Robert Emmett Sweeney, in Washington, but he always had Cleveland in his head and heart. He was a cherished friend of Cleveland Congressman James V. Stanton.  Every Sunday, Bob took a taxi to St. Stephen’s on Pennsylvania Avenue, a church close to the Whitehouse, also frequented by JFK.  O’Malley lived in a modest efficiency across the street from the historic Omni-Shoreham Hotel, the sight of everything from FDR’s inaugural ball to late night, bipartisan poker games with President Truman, to hosting the Beatles on their first trip to the U.S.  Not being much of a cook, Bob walked across the street every day for most meals at the Shoreman’s dining room.  In fact, the hotel staff put a plaque up at his ‘usual’ table.  Bob will be buried at Arlington Cemetery, and now more than ever, we all state the 10th Mountain’s motto: “Climb to Glory” Bob, you deserve it.  Purple Heart Winner Several years ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid honored his good friend with these words, which were entered into the Congressional record in 2010: Mr. Reid:  Mr. President, every one of our servicemembers deserves the unqualified appreciation and admiration of the Senate and our entire Nation.  Today, I wish to salute the service of one such soldier, a man who first answered his country’s call in World War II and has not stopped. Bob O’Malley served our nation with distinction in the 10th Mountain Division in combat in Europe.  He was a sergeant and a squad leader who led his men bravely and with honor.  He put his life on the line on many occasions to protect his men and to fight for freedom against Nazi Germany and was recognized with his squad’s admiration, the Combat Infantry Badge and, because he was wounded, a Purple Heart.  But he has not stopped serving his country.  Bob came to Washington in 1965 and worked for Congressman Robert E. Sweeney before starting a 27-year career with the Doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives.  That is where I first met him, as a young Member of Congress.  The Doorkeeper, Mr. Molloy, and Mr. O’Malley had a suite of offices and it was kind of a hangout for Democratic members of the House; especially it was a way for new Members of the Congress to become acquainted with what was going on over there.  They were very caring about new Members and always pointed us in the right direction.  I have always remembered those two men for all the good deeds they did on my behalf. His was a 27-year career with the Doorkeeper.  As I indicated, that is where I met him.  By the time the war in Afghanistan started in 2002, Bob had retired from service in the House of Representatives.  Most retirees are content to seek a well-earned life of leisure, but Sergeant O’Malley did not.  He signed up for a new and worthy mission, waking every day to serve our Nation’s wounded warriors.  When the war started, he went back to work as a volunteer-supporting and caring for the men and women of the 10th Mountain Division, his old unit.  He has made countless visits to Walter Reed, this great medical center where these wounded warriors come to recuperate.  On all these visits to Walter Reed, he spent countless hours talking and sharing stories about the Division and taking his fellow veterans to ball games and other events, including the sharing of meals on many occasions.  When many of these wounded warriors could not make it home for the holiday, Bob would reach into his own pocket and pay for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s dinners for soldiers and their families at some of the finest eateries in the Washington, D.C. area.  Bob says that helping soldiers recover from their war injuries has added years to his life.  We know it has added years to the lives of those he helps.  Bob O’Malley would be the first to tell you this is not a one-man mission. He has had help from many different areas.  When he decided to help those wounded on the battlefield, for example, he enlisted the help of another veteran and fellow Clevelander, Dom Visconsi, Sr., an original member of the 10th Mountain Division in World War II.  He asked Dom to help, and Dom was happy to help entertain and support these troops.  Many of Bob’s friends soon joined the cause as well, and they are a constant presence for the soldiers, whether here or at home.  Our Army would not be the best place in the world without the work of veterans such as Sergeant O’Malley, whose life has been synonymous with service, sacrifice, and selflessness. He is an inspiration to me, our Armed Forces, and our country.  He is a hero, and I am proud to call him a friend.    Our April issue comes out on Wednesday.  It is our 172nd issue. I kid you not, it may be the strongest issue we have ever put out.  Stories on the legendary Sarah Makem; The Captures of Cash, which is a new feature highlighting Irish historic sites today, by photographer John Cash; Cleveland IrishBaseball in America, The Gaelic Football and Hurling Tournament coming to Cleveland next month; an Illuminating story on The Whiteboys, relative to today’s world; new Toledo Irish Columnist Molly McHugh’s Levi & Lilacs Coffee Pub; and a new occasional feature on Stone Mad, a joint effort by a Cleveland man John Digney and the Dry Wall Association of Ireland to understand and preserve the story of stone walls prevalent throughout Ireland. The walls were not randomly built; you will be very surprised at the meaning and measure taken there. Plus, we have our Speak Irish monthly lesson; Safe Home wishes to Tom Bodle and Beverly Connolly. And of course, there is humor, opinion, Kid’s Craic and Coloring contest, profiles and history, book and music reviews and the monthly Irish Crossword Puzzle. The crosswords are a great way to learn or refresh your Irish knowledge, history and folklore, and all past issues, with the crossword inside, are available on our website, OhioIANews.com.   Our April cover shot and Inner View this month is an extensive conversation with Irish American Melissa Fitzgerald, former West Wing show and other TV, live and film actor veteran, now leading Justice for Vets, a non-profit organization based in DC that works to help Vets.  It was probably the most interesting Inner View I have ever done. The stories are shared on our Facebook, twitter and Instagram pages, of course. Part I in the issue comes out on Wednesday and all the stories, with more pics, more text and LARGER print, are lodged online soon after. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starbuck's Coffee Frm Exec Vice President This 2021 New Year's Theme is about Game Changing in Networking. With a NEW Year it's Time to Step Up In Integrity & Making Strong & Keeping Connections. As I sip my Starbucks Carmel Latte,I talk to my guest Paula Boggs, who has served as: *Executive Vice President of Starbuck's Coffee * Executive Board of NASDAQ Sterling Financial * A Voting Member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences "The Grammy Awards". Paula Boggs fronts a rock band, their new release is Elixir: The Soul Grasses Sessions". She is also owner of Boggs Media, LLC. She is also a seasoned executive, lawyer, board member and public speaker seeking opportunities that capitalize on my leadership talents and make the world better. She led the global law department of Starbucks Coffee Company for 10 years, was on its executive team and secretary of the Starbucks Foundation. Before Starbucks, Paula was an executive 5 years in the technology industry (Dell Corporation.) Paula was appointed to the President's Committee for the Arts and the Humanities and served on the White House Council for Community Solutions. She have serve 20 years in the American Bar Association's House of Delegates and 16 years as a Johns Hopkins University Trustee where She chaired the audit committee,was a member of the Carey Business School and Peabody Institute Dean Search Committees, chair the student life committee, and serve on the executive and academic affairs committees alongside the Peabody National Advisory Board. Paula served on NASDAQ's Sterling Financial, Inc board until its acquisition by Umpqua Bank, serve on boards of School of Rock LLC, a portfolio company of private equity firm Sterling Capital and NPR-affiliate KEXP as secretary, executive committee member and capital campaign co-chair. Paula has held a variety of professional and community leadership roles over the past 25+ years and am an Army Airborne ~ veteran. www.paulaboggsband.net All Rights Reserved © 2021 Building Abundant Success!! © 2021 Building Abundant Success!! Join Me on ~ iHeart Radio @ https://tinyurl.com/iHeartBAS Spot Me on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/yxuy23ba

      I really enjoyed this interview with Colonels McCausland and Vossler about their new book "Battle Tested!" In this interview, we focused on chapters 2 and 12 about Brigadier General John Buford's and Abraham Lincoln's (respectively) leadership skills and qualities. You can get your copy of the book by clicking here    From the Diamond6 wesbite: JEFF MCCAUSLAND, FOUNDER & CEO Since 2000, both domestic and internationally, Dr. McCausland has conducted numerous executive leadership development workshops and consulted for leaders in public education, US government institutions, non-profit organizations, and corporations. Dr. McCausland is a retired Colonel from the U.S. Army and former Dean of Academics at the U.S. Army War College. He is a Visiting Professor of National Security at Dickinson College. During his military career Dr. McCausland served in a variety of command and staff positions both in the United States and Europe during the Kosovo crisis and Operations Desert Shield and Storm. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger schools, and the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds both a Masters and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Dr. McCausland is the co-author of Battle Tested! Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders, available September 1, 2020.   COL. TOM VOSSLER (RET.) | AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN Colonel Tom Vossler, U.S. Army (Ret.) served in the U.S. Army from 1968 thru 1998. He commanded an infantry platoon in the Vietnam War and a Mechanized Infantry Battalion Task Force in Germany prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall / Soviet regime. His military education includes graduation from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. Tom taught military history, strategy and leadership at the U.S. Army War College and he is a former director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks, PA. Tom is the co-author of A Field Guide to Gettysburg and A Field Guide to Antietam. His latest book, co-authored with Jeff McCausland, Battle Tested! Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders is available September 1, 2020.    

We have Joe Beasley tattoo artist, former Army Airborne, comedian, podcaster and was in a band that had some pretty hardcore sounding music. We talk about the first times trying the white devil, my friends "I'm an eleven story" and I learn about the cervix. I show Joe my tattoos for critiques and end up doing the episode shirtless. We talk about his heavy drinking days, the band days, a dead body in Haiti story and the time I had to use the bathroom in Mexico with some pigs. I think I was high towards the end of the episode and might have had a light buzz.  Support The Lobo Den Patreon for goodies and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/theloboden Video: https://youtu.be/uZ7bDiMkdZU Instagram: @trendkilltattoos @invisioninktattoos @lobo9110 @thelobodenpodcast Twitter: @lobo9110 @lobodenpodcast Donate: https://www.paypal.me/thelobodenpodcast Links: KA-BAR Dozier Folding Hunter Knife Black https://www.amazon.com/KA-BAR-KA4062-BRK-Dozier-Precision-Hunter/dp/B000BSWEBY   Dia de los Dangerous - Canadians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rUXrg6BPrM   Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man Official Trailer #1 - Mickey Rourke Movie (1991) HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8K34N604Iw   Stone Cold (1991) trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bNfag1hosI

We sit down with Josh Adair and talk about Army Airborne School, Riding Wheelies, trailriding on dirtbikes, and his thoughts on hunting. Watch The MVM Show on Youtube  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChfUd5fvEkW97ZwEwT4mEYw/featured?view_as=public Email - themvmshowpodcast@gmail.com

This episode revolves around the free form conversation of Jesse Holder (author, Army Airborne veteran, former inmate Lowndes County, GA) and Colter (host). | Topics of this episode include #criminalCulture, #criminalJustice, #prisonReform, #prisonerRights, #transgenderPrisoners, #eugenics, #operationPaperclip, #China, #WarInAfghanistan, #modernSlavery, and #humantrafficking

Martin B. Kraft is a licensed private investigator in Boston, Massachusetts He is a former U.S. Army Airborne and a Vietnam Veteran. After serving with the Boston Police Department for 32 years and retiring with the rank of Sergeant in 2015, Marty opened his own company in 2016 and founded of Kraft Investigations Group located in Boston, MA. Mr. Kraft is also a Member of the Board of Directors for the Licensed Private Detective’s Association of Massachusetts. He is also a member of NALI.Martin is featured in the September/October 2020 issue of PI Magazine as or PI Agency Profile. Martin B. Kraft is a licensed private investigator in Boston, Massachusetts He is a former U.S. Army Airborne and a Vietnam Veteran. After serving with the Boston Police Department for 32 years and retiring with the rank of Sergeant in 2015, Marty opened his own company in 2016 and founded of Kraft Investigations Group located in Boston, MA. Mr. Kraft is also a Member of the Board of Directors for the Licensed Private Detective’s Association of Massachusetts. He is also a member of NALI.Martin is featured in the September/October 2020 issue of PI Magazine as or PI Agency Profile. Martin B KraftKraft Investigations GroupPO Box 261, Boston, MA 02137https://kraftinvestigations.com/marty@kraftinvestigations.comoffice 781-326-4444cell 617-719-1623 PI Magazine Social Media Pageshttps://twitter.com/PImagazineUSA https://www.linkedin.com/company/pi-magazine-inc-/about/ https://www.facebook.com/PIMAGAZINEUSA/

Elite Military Service Leads to Smarter Investment Decisions David Blain, Blue Sky Wealth Advisors – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 451 David Blain David L. Blain, CFA is the Chief Executive Officer and Senior Wealth Advisor at BlueSky Wealth Advisors, a fee-only, independent Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) he founded in 1999. He is responsible for defining the overall firm policies, strategy, and goals. He also formulates advanced financial planning and sophisticated tax strategies for clients and is responsible for setting the firm-wide investment strategy. David received a Bachelor of Science in 1989 from The United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was a Distinguished Honor Graduate and member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. Before his career in finance, he served with distinction for 10 years in U.S. Army Airborne, Ranger, and Special Operations units. He is a member of the CFA Institute, the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA), and the Financial Planning Association (FPA). He currently serves as Vice-Chairman on the Board of Directors of CarolinaEast Health System in New Bern, where he also chairs the Investment Committee. Previously David was on the Board of Advisors and Finance Committee of the West Point Association of Graduates, Treasurer for Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Eastern North Carolina, President of the Cumberland Interfaith Hospitality Network, Treasurer of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Raleigh. He served as the Chairman of the New Bern Heart Ball and has provided countless hours of volunteer service to numerous other charitable organizations. In addition to his many board duties, he has coached youth league baseball and soccer teams in the New Bern area for more than a decade. David is a recognized speaker on investments, financial planning, and taxes. He has written for and been quoted in numerous trade journals and mass media outlets, including, Wharton Business Radio "Spotlight: Your Money", BusinessWeek, U.S. News & World Report, Money magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and other national and local publications. He was for five years the host of “All Things Money with David Blain,” a weekly television and radio program. Under his leadership, BlueSky has received several awards and accolades throughout its history for their quality of advice, growth rate, and client satisfaction. Listen to this informative Sharkpreneur episode with David Blain about lessons learned from the military and how they apply to the financial world. Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show: ●    Why the best investment people can make is in their intellectual capacity. ●    How there are five basic habits you should use for financial success. ●    Why the secret to success is producing income that isn’t reliant on your labor. ●    How you need to save money and spend less money than you make. ●    Why you should only invest in the market what you don’t need for five years. Connect with David: Guest Contact Info Twitter @blueskywealth Instagram @blueskywealth Facebook facebook.com/blueskywealthadvisors LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/bluesky-wealth-advisors YouTube youtube.com/channel/UCVJsfx0dqkrsqKuFkecLCtw Links Mentioned: blueskywa.com/success davidblain.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we discuss some of the issues and challenges facing the American private security contractor as well as some the barriers we must overcome and some of the stereotypes that perpetuate our industry. Our guest is Myles White, former U.S. Army Airborne and Green Beret, and private security contractor. With more than 13-years in Special Forces and 22-years as a private security contractor to DoD and DoS contracts -- currently under contract in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Myles brings a wealth of experience to this episdoe. Special Guest: Myles White.

This week we had the honor of hosting former Marine Force Reconnaissance and now Army Airborne Infantryman Alec Candelari to the Frowned Upon table where he shared some awesome stories about his career, honoring those who helped make him who he is as well as discussing the importance of discipline. One of our favorites so far! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frownedupon/support

Episode 107 Interview with Sam Galvez   Sam Galvez spent 5 years Army Airborne, tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now setting up Archangel Project to help schools to obtain EMLE Kits, hear his story now.    The Archangel Project GoFundMe:https://www.gofundme.com/f/emle-kits-4-kids The Archangel Project Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/ArchangelEMLE/ The Archangel Project YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCcvKjD_77brqBFFMK1X-u6A     ------------ If you want to tell your story live on air, or you want to vent, give us a call or text Toll Free 1-877-359-5424 We will give you a shout out, you will get a spot on the Q&A Episodes released every Saturday, Sunday and Monday ------------ Check out our Sponsors: https://getacregold.com/ruckup https://www.manscaped.com/ USE CHECK OUT: RUCKUP (For all your Manscaped Needs) https://ballwash.com/ USE CHECK OUT: RUCK20 ------------   Also you can check out our book "Stop listening and start talking: A survival guide to starting and maintaining a podcast.  Find it on Amazon and Kindle Amazon USA https://tinyurl.com/yx6da2om   Amazon CAN https://tinyurl.com/yx6da2om   ------------ We fight human trafficking worldwide by rescuing children from forced labor and sex slavery, providing medical care, clothing, food, safe shelter, education and training to prepare them for a life of freedom.  To date CRI has rescued 2,160 victims and their families. In 2018, CRI freed 118 children in 2 countries. We plan to expand into additional countries, add more rescue missions and save more children every year. You can help! https://thechildrensrescue.org/ https://thechildrensrescue.org/donate https://thechildrensrescue.org/training   DV Radio RuckUp media has joined forces to bring you RuckUp Podcast content every Monday night 21:00 EST, the podcast will be released on Tuesdays @ 21:00 EST. Make sure to check out DV Radio for all the info on SSM and other GREAT shows https://www.dvradio.net/   ------------ If you are able to help out the show, and give us a chance to increase the amount of content, please click the link below, either way, I am so honored you have chosen to listen to RuckUp Podcast and thank all of our listeners all around the world. Stay Safe and RuckUp  https://patron.podbean.com/ruckup If you want to check out all of our show click the link below or go to RuckUp Media (Remember to join our newsletter. Don't worry we don't spam and will only send out info once a month) http://ruckup.contactin.bio http://www.ruckupmedia.com

Nathan Crankfield is a 2015 graduate of Mount St. Mary's College in the Army ROTC. After completing Army Airborne and Ranger Schools, he served three years as an officer in the US Army, including a combat tour of duty in Afghanistan during which he was awarded with the Bronze Star. Nathan now lives in Cincinnati, where he works as a Parish Consultant for the Dynamic Catholic Institute.Music: "Homebound" and "Concrete Jungle" by Audiobinger © 2018, editedhttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/AudiobingerUsed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License

The first Americans to set foot in Europe on D-Day in June 1944 were the paratroopers, including the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division.California native Tom Rice was the first man from the 101st to jump out of his plane into the pitch black night over the Normandy coast.In this edition of Veterans Chronicles, Rice tells host Greg Corombos about the difficulties of getting out of the plane, trying to find the rest of his unit scattered across the French countryside, and fighting his way out of Normandy.Rice also shares his experiences from the unsuccessful airborne attempt to cross the Rhine in September 1944 known as Operation Market Garden. He also details fighting and getting injured at the Battle of the Bulge and what he felt when the war in Europe came to an end.Finally, Rice tells why he decided to re-enact his jump into Normandy again in 2019 at 97-years-old for the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

Dan Kanivas is a true Renaissance man. As an Army Airborne Ranger, he spent time as an artillery officer near the DMZ on the Korean peninsula and later worked closely with Iraqi officers during the Iraq War, where he trained a 130-soldier Iraqi Army unit while serving as a strategic advisor to senior Iraqi Army officers. He has since shifted his sights toward both public investing and angel investing with Triple Summit Advisors, all while prepping to summit Mount Rainier. Show Notes Triple Summit Advisors WeWork's Veterans in Residence Program, Powered by Bunker Labs Follow Dan on LinkedIn Theme music by: Ruel Morales Episode remastered by: Pascual Marquez Audio Transcript Brian Schoenborn 0:01 Hello, Hello, everyone. Our guest today is a true Renaissance man. As an Army Airborne Ranger, he spent time as an artillery officer near the DMZ on the Korean peninsula. And he shifted his sights toward both public investing and angel investing while prepping to summit Mount Rainier. Give it up to my friend, Dan Kanivas. Brian Schoenborn 0:25 My name is Brian Schoenborn. I'm an explorer of people, places and culture. In my travels, spanning over 20 countries across four continents, I've had the pleasure of engaging in authentic conversations with amazingly interesting people. These are their stories, on-location and unfiltered. Presented by 8B Media, this is Half the City. Brian Schoenborn 0:52 So what's up, Dan, thanks for coming out. Appreciate it. Dan Kanivas 0:55 Yeah, thanks for having me on the show, Brian. It's great to be here. Brian Schoenborn 0:57 Awesome. You know I've always had a respect for Airborne, Rangers, right? Stuff like that, you know, you're watching the movies, the 101st Airborne, you know, dropping down from the skies on like D-day or whatever else. You know, Hollywood's done a really good job, kind of, I don't wanna say romanticizing, but like maybe, you know, telling your story anyways. Right? Dan Kanivas 1:24 Right. Brian Schoenborn 1:26 And when you told me the other day that you've done both Airborne School and Ranger School, I was like, wow, this guy is legit. And you never would guess because he is one of the most calm, cool and collected dudes. I think that I know anyways. Dan Kanivas 1:40 I appreciate that. Brian Schoenborn 1:43 So, um, so why don't you tell me a little bit about like, you know how you made that decision to join the Army. How you made the decision to move towards Airborne School, Ranger School. I'd love to hear about you know the challenges of each. Dan Kanivas 2:02 Yeah. Alright, so let's start. That's a, that's a multi part question. So let's, let's start with the decision join the military. So I grew up in Scarsdale, New York, which really nice suburban community in the suburbs of New York. I was very lucky, as were other members of the community, to have the resources, whether it's great school, safe neighborhood, very great public services, etc. Caring community where children were put first, and students were put first. And so as a result, we had every opportunity available to us. And I was very grateful for that. And I felt like a system and a country that could produce something like that was worth defending. I wanted to give back and show my gratitude for it. Dan Kanivas 2:45 There are a lot of ways to get back, whether it's public service, volunteering, whatever it might be. In my case, I'd always had some interest in military history and I was athletic enough. I said, Okay, I wanted to give back by serving. I felt like that was my way where I could show my gratitude and then continue with the rest of my life. Luckily for me, that's basically how it worked out. And I did four and a half years of service and active duty as a field artillery officer in the US Army. Brian Schoenborn 3:15 So for those listening, you know, For the uninitiated artillery is what? The big guns? Dan Kanivas 3:21 The big guns, that's right. Brian Schoenborn 3:22 Like the cannons, Dan Kanivas 3:23 and the rockets, etc. And so I had the privilege of serving there with some fantastic soldiers, fantastic leaders. And I had overall a great time in the military and there'd be very few things I trade it for. For me, my path towards Ranger and Airborne School started with my initial training as an artillery officer. So at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, we got the option while we're doing our officer basic course for artillery. We got the option of trying out for Ranger School. Dan Kanivas 3:59 And what that entails is showing up in the morning to do a lot of PT physical training, a lot of exercise with the instructors that we had. So I was a lieutenant of time and there was a captain who was an instructor who, at the artillery school who also happened to be Ranger qualified so he had gone to Ranger School. This is back in 2005. Dan Kanivas 4:24 The instructor and instructors, there were multiple of them by the end of it, would lead us through training just to get us familiarized with some basic things that would be required of the, required of us at Ranger School, but mainly it was a lot of physical training. And so the first day of the training, maybe half the class showed up and on purpose just like they do in other military schools, the instructors, to use the military terminology, smoked the hell out of you. Right. Brian Schoenborn 4:54 They're trying to separate the men from the boys. Dan Kanivas 4:56 They purposely make it difficult in the first day because they want to see who wants to come back the next day. So, yeah, so the I had a pretty big class at the officer basics course. And I want to say we had class with 120 or 130. Somewhere around those lines. So maybe 60 people showed up the first day. Brian Schoenborn 5:14 And it was all officers? Dan Kanivas 5:15 It was all officers, all lieutenants. Yeah. And then the next day, 30 people showed up. And so the, the group of people who are training for Ranger School was cut back quickly. And we did this for the whole entire five or six months that we were there. And I think in the end, we ended up sending somewhere between 12 to 15 people who made it through that pre-Ranger prep program. Brian Schoenborn 5:39 So you're talking like 10% ish, of the original, like 120 that showed up for the for that signed up for it. Dan Kanivas 5:47 Yeah, maybe 60 people showed up the first day, so maybe 20% of them, or so made it and made it through them and 25% and then I think we ended up graduating from Ranger School, those 12 or so people who went, I think we end up graduating maybe six, seven or eight, something like that. I know at least one guy I was friends with, couldn't make it through at that time or have to drop out but then he subsequently went back and so good for him. I think he's still in the reserves actually. Dan Kanivas 6:17 But anyways, yeah, that was the process of, of getting there of starting it. And in my case, it was never a gigantic goal of mine. Some people were gunning for it and they had to do it. Brian Schoenborn 6:30 Yeah sure. Dan Kanivas 6:31 You know, the kind of the two leaders in our class who I'm still friends with today, who are, you know, corralling us all, encouraging us all to, to do this pre-Ranger prep. They they were gunning for they they knew that this is what they wanted to do. In my case, I just put one foot in from the other. And a lot of it's just about not giving up, right? At Ranger School, they they call someone who quits not, they don't say it, it's you quit because you couldn't, you know, handle the technical aspects of it or something like that, or because your muscles were too weak or something. They say you quit because you are an LOM: lack of motivation. Brian Schoenborn 7:09 There you go. Dan Kanivas 7:09 Right? And so you put one foot in front of the other, you're not guaranteed to succeed and graduate. Definitely not. But it is the main part, in my opinion of being able to graduate from Ranger School is putting one foot in front of the other. Brian Schoenborn 7:23 Yeah, you know, I kind of relate it to my own experience, right? Like I was a marine. And, and there's statistics somewhere, like, I heard this before I joined maybe it changed in the last 20 years. But before I joined, I remember seeing or hearing a statistic, talking about, like, one in five recruits that enter boot camp don't make it. Brian Schoenborn 7:47 right. Brian Schoenborn 7:49 And for the Marines, you know, it's one of those things where, you know, you'll be able to do the physical stuff. Dan Kanivas 7:56 Right. Brian Schoenborn 7:56 As long as you can pass the minimum physical fitness tests. Which is like three pull ups, you know, 60 crunches in a second, like a five k in like less than 20 minutes or something. It's not like extreme. As long as you can pass those minimum PFT requirements, you know, it's really more mental than anything. Dan Kanivas 8:15 Sure. Yeah, absolutely. I think a lot of a lot of military training military schools are very mental, very psychological. And that's intentional. that's intentional. You do leave Ranger School, and this is not a new sentiment that I'm expressing other people express this too, you do leave Ranger School, if you pass it feeling like you're fairly impervious to things that life can throw at you. Brian Schoenborn 8:41 Oh know, for sure. It's the same with the Marines. Dan Kanivas 8:45 Put it lightly right Brian Schoenborn 8:46 You get through there and you're just like, “I could do anything. I'm Superman!” Dan Kanivas 8:50 Exactly. Exactly. And so that that is the whole intent. That's the whole intent, right, of any Military School. And so… Brian Schoenborn 9:02 Last thing you want is somebody going into, you know, going into fire potentially with any sort of self-doubt. Dan Kanivas 9:09 Right, right. Brian Schoenborn 9:10 Hesitation will kill you. Dan Kanivas 9:11 Right. That's completely the idea and the military, US military is fantastic at training people to be able to do those sorts of things. To act against your basic instinct of self-preservation and do things that are essential for the survival of the team, the accomplishment of the mission. Brian Schoenborn 9:30 Absolutely. Dan Kanivas 9:31 So anyways, that was me at Ranger School, which took me a little while to get through. I didn't get through it right away. I didn't I wasn't a true blue just pass every phase the first time ago. took me a little while but I got through. Brian Schoenborn 9:45 And that's perseverance and resilience. Dan Kanivas 9:46 There you go there. Yeah, that's right. Brian Schoenborn 9:49 There's a lot of bunch of character. Dan Kanivas 9:50 There you go. That is one way to look at it. Dan Kanivas 9:53 And then for airborne school, a lot of people go to Ranger School already Airborne qualified meaning they've successfully passed Airborne School, but in my case I didn't. I got sent to Ranger School first. Brian Schoenborn 10:05 Okay. Dan Kanivas 10:06 Basically once you pass Ranger School, you're already at Fort Benning when you when you finish up which is the home of the infantry and also the home and Airborne School, and they're going to give you — the the people who are responsible for processing you — give you orders Airborne School after that, because oftentimes those two things go together. The Airborne Ranger, you know, the missions go together. And, they generally had extra slots to give right there at Fort Benning, and so I just got a slot for the next one. Dan Kanivas 10:37 And so, typically every school certainly is an intense school, you're jumping out of airplanes, right? And safety is paramount and taking care of, of your buddies your teammates is paramount and certainly the instructors there are not, not kind about any any infractions, right? Brian Schoenborn 10:55 I'm sure. Dan Kanivas 10:56 But given the experience, I just previously gone through Ranger School, Airborne School was relatively easy. And so I I use it as mainly a three-week vacation. Brian Schoenborn 11:08 So you got your Ranger School and you're just like, “Yeah, I'm good. I'll just breeze right through here, chill on the beach.” Dan Kanivas 11:13 Yeah, I wouldn't have felt that way that I'm not just been through that experience, but because I had it felt that way to me. It's all about relative intensity. Brian Schoenborn 11:22 You're seeing these guys struggling and you're like, psh! Dan Kanivas 11:25 Yeah, I wouldn't go that far. We're still, I still out there in the you know, the in the Georgia heat and in June, but yeah, Brian Schoenborn 11:33 I mean, all due respect to everybody. Dan Kanivas 11:34 Yes, of course. Brian Schoenborn 11:36 Of course, you know, it's all relative, like you said. Dan Kanivas 11:38 That's right. It's all relative. It just happened to be that I was coming out of… Brian Schoenborn 11:42 of a different situations. Dan Kanivas 11:43 Yeah, right. Exactly. So and yeah, and that was the that was my training in the military. It took a year for me to get through six months of my Artillery School and then Ranger School and Airborne School and there's some kind of downtime in between all these things. So yeah, I spent a year and training. And then they sent me off my first actual duty station, which was Korea where, again, the privilege of serving for two years. Brian Schoenborn 12:09 So we're so so this was near the DMZ, right? Dan Kanivas 12:12 Yes. So at the time, the I'm not sure where where everyone's stationed now. But at the time I was stationed north of Seoul, but not quite the DMZ. At two different bases, Camp Red Cloud and Camp Casey, who my dog's name after, by the way. At those two duty stations, I served with the second Infantry Division the whole time, but specifically the artillery unit that I was with at Camp Casey was 138 field artillery, which has rocket launchers. MLRS, multiple launch rocket system, rocket launchers as its primary weapon system. Brian Schoenborn 12:54 So were, I'm just trying to get an understanding of like, where about you? I mean, you said you're near the DMZ, But like, can you maybe show me on a map? Dan Kanivas 13:02 So yeah, sure. So… Brian Schoenborn 13:03 So audience listening at home, you could just just kind of visualize it. Dan Kanivas 13:06 So if you pull up Google Maps and zoom in on Seoul, which is towards the northwest of South Korea. Brian Schoenborn 13:13 Yeah, I'm looking at it as it's I mean, I've been to Seoul yet. So it's it's literally like, what 20 miles or something? Dan Kanivas 13:19 Yeah, from from the border. Brian Schoenborn 13:20 From the border, from the North Korea border? Dan Kanivas 13:22 And Seoul is well within artillery range of the North Korean artillery. That's near the border. And as a result, that means all the American troops and ROK, Republic of Korea troops, who are north of Seoul, also within archery range of the North Korean guns, and so… Brian Schoenborn 13:40 …and that's what, the 49th parallel? Dan Kanivas 13:43 I think so i think so. Brian Schoenborn 13:44 49 or 47th, something like that. Dan Kanivas 13:45 I think so. Yeah. And so you see this Wejunboo here? Brian Schoenborn 13:48 Yep. Dan Kanivas 13:49 That was,that is where Camp Red Cloud is located. And so I was stationed there for a little bit and then further north in Tongduchun there is where Camp Casey's located where I was stationed for my second year. Brian Schoenborn 13:59 Huh, yeah, so that's literally I mean, that was like, probably no more than like 20 miles. Dan Kanivas 14:05 Yeah, it's it's pretty short. It's it's not a lot of distance. And while you're stationed in Korea, you also had the opportunity to do the JSA tour, if you saw these…the JSA stands for Joint Security Area. If you saw the news footage about Donald Trump crossing into North Korea. That's exactly where you where you do it. And so you can as a US service member, go and visit there and take a tour and you know, the US service members and Korean service members who are there, both maintaining the area and protecting the area will take you on a tour of the area. Brian Schoenborn 14:41 So do they allow you to cross the border? Dan Kanivas 14:43 Technically, I've crossed into North Korea technically, yeah. Brian Schoenborn 14:46 Wow. Dan Kanivas 14:46 What they do is there's these buildings, which again, you can see in the footage with Donald Trump. They're these buildings where the negotiations between the two sides have historically happened. These buildings are bisected by the border, by the actual border. Brian Schoenborn 15:00 So like, is there, like, a demarcation line or something like that? Dan Kanivas 15:04 There is. If you look at any pictures of it, you can see there's a line. And so what the on the tour, what they'll do is they'll take you on the tour, and they'll go, one of the Korean guards will go and check the building and go lock the far side door that's in North Korean territory. And then you go inside the building, and when you're inside the building, you can see all around the building and technically cross into North Korea. Brian Schoenborn 15:27 You know, it's interesting, because I've heard so many stories of like, you know, North Koreans trying to defect and crossing the border and right, you know, getting shot or something like that. Dan Kanivas 15:37 Right. Brian Schoenborn 15:37 So like, you know, so everything that I've heard throughout the years is like, the DMZ, like that line border is like the most dangerous border in the world, because there's never officially the war has never officially ended. Dan Kanivas 15:49 Right. It's still under an armistice. And so it is they're there. It's a heavily guarded border. You wouldn't cross there at the JSA because there's a lot of attention at that location, but I imagine there are other points along the border where there the defenses are softer. It's less monitored at any given time. Also, defectors go through China as well as Russia. Because both of those countries border North Korea. Brian Schoenborn 16:18 Well, I've heard there's actually a whole like, almost like an underground railroad to us like an American historical reference. Dan Kanivas 16:24 Yes. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 16:24 But there's you know, there's like this whole network of people that like help get people through. The northern border. Through China. And and yeah, maybe down to like Southeast Asia or something like that. Back to the south. Dan Kanivas 16:35 Exactly. Yeah, exactly. That's that's exactly how that underground railroad works. Brian Schoenborn 16:41 Yeah, in essence, right? Pretty much the same thing? Dan Kanivas 16:43 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 16:45 I wonder like, so so you cross over the border. Dan Kanivas 16:48 Right. Brian Schoenborn 16:51 And…how do I say this? So what was the experience like? You said heavily heavily guarded is it also like, you know, let me put it this way. When I was living in China, all right? I was in Beijing. I've got a lot of friends that have visited North Korea. Americans, English, other expats. Americans can only fly in. Dan Kanivas 17:19 Okay. Brian Schoenborn 17:19 For example. Dan Kanivas 17:19 Okay, they can't drive into the Chinese border? Brian Schoenborn 17:22 They can't take the train through the Chinese border. Dan Kanivas 17:23 Right. Brian Schoenborn 17:24 I forget the name of the city, Dongdan or something. Dan Kanivas 17:27 Okay. Brian Schoenborn 17:28 But if you're if you're English, you can take the train. Dan Kanivas 17:31 Okay. Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 17:32 If you're American, you have to fly in. And from what I understand, like it's the most eye opening like, surreal experiences they've ever had. Dan Kanivas 17:42 Yeah, that's what everyone says. Yeah. Right. Brian Schoenborn 17:44 You know, like, it's one of those things where you can only go the tour group. Dan Kanivas 17:48 Yep. Brian Schoenborn 17:49 And you do absolutely everything. Dan Kanivas 17:53 Yes. Brian Schoenborn 17:54 That they tell you to. Dan Kanivas 17:54 Yes. Brian Schoenborn 17:55 You don't do anything else. Dan Kanivas 17:56 Right. Brian Schoenborn 17:57 I've got some friends at ran the Pyongyang marathon. Dan Kanivas 18:00 Wow. Brian Schoenborn 18:00 Right? Which they've done every year for the last, I don't know, five years at least, something like that. Dan Kanivas 18:05 Okay. Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 18:06 But it's one of those things where the North Koreans run first. Dan Kanivas 18:10 Okay. Brian Schoenborn 18:10 So that way they Dan Kanivas 18:11 So they win…Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 18:15 North Koreans get the head start. Um, but I've got friends that have done that and I've got a, I've actually got a friend, I think he's still in Beijing, but he owns and operates this tour group in North Korea. In fact, he actually he was the tour group operator that was heading this group in which Otto Warmbier was arrested… Dan Kanivas 18:46 Right, for potentially doing…he was accused of… Brian Schoenborn 18:49 Apparently apparently what happened is he tried to steal a poster or something. Like, apprently a propaganda poster or something. Dan Kanivas 18:55 Right, right. Right. Brian Schoenborn 18:56 We don't need to get into all that, like it's just kind of a, I know some people that have significant experience in North Korea, that's the point that I'm making. So when I hear that it's like a surreal experience, you know, I'm just kind of curious if you've had anything similar like that in your experience crossing the border, even though it may have been limited since you're in this building. Dan Kanivas 19:17 No, no, I did not have any experiences like that every. I think most people who have that JSA Joint Security Area experience is going to be very similar to mine. Brian Schoenborn 19:26 Yeah. Dan Kanivas 19:27 It's very scripted. Designed to be that way. Brian Schoenborn 19:33 Yeah. Dan Kanivas 19:34 It's still a singular experience a unique experience, because there's not too many other places in the world where… Brian Schoenborn 19:44 I don't know if there's any place in the world that's like that. Dan Kanivas 19:45 Exactly, right. There may be not there may not be right. But it's not anything like actually going to Pyongyang and running a marathon there. That's, I can't imagine what that's like. Brian Schoenborn 19:55 Well, maybe even something like that, like from what I hear from what I've heard, um like, as soon as you land or arrive in North Korea, the police or the guards, whatever. They'll take your phone and they'll go through all your photos. Dan Kanivas 20:08 Yeah, I'm sure. Brian Schoenborn 20:09 And makes sure that there's nothing that's like wouldn't be in line with the North Korea's values. Dan Kanivas 20:14 Yeah, I'm sure. Brian Schoenborn 20:15 And I guess they check your footagae, you cameras, and all that stuff as you're leaving. Dan Kanivas 20:18 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 20:19 Make sure you're not you know, it makes you like there's there's apparently there's only one way you can take pictures of the dear leaders. Dan Kanivas 20:24 Okay. Brian Schoenborn 20:25 Right? Things like that, so so if you're like, even veering off from that a little bit, you're screwed. Dan Kanivas 20:30 Yeah, yeah. I, this is not a level of risk that I would be comfortable taking, but more power to the people who want that sort of adventure in their lives. Brian Schoenborn 20:40 You know what's funny is, a couple of my friends were like, yo, let's do the Pyongyang marathon. And I'm like, Oh, that sounds sweet. Let's do it. Like, I'll fall in line and do absolutely everything that you know, not color out of the lines. Dan Kanivas 20:52 Sure. Brian Schoenborn 20:53 Right? And I put a message on Facebook. I was like, I think I'm gonna go to North Korea and my mom and my older sister were freaking out, dude. Dan Kanivas 21:02 Yeah, sure. Brian Schoenborn 21:03 They're like, Oh my god, Brian, you've done some like, you know, you've done some crazy things in your life, but please don't do this. Dan Kanivas 21:09 Right. Right. Brian Schoenborn 21:11 So I buckled in our didn't go. Dan Kanivas 21:13 Yeah, yeah. Brian Schoenborn 21:15 So what do you think you're kind of bringing back to this this DMZ thing? You mentioned? You know, Donald Trump stepped over? Dan Kanivas 21:22 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 21:24 What do you kind of make of all of that sort of curiosity? Dan Kanivas 21:28 I don't have much an opinion on it. I'm not a Trump supporter. Brian Schoenborn 21:33 Yeah. Dan Kanivas 21:34 And so… Brian Schoenborn 21:35 I'm not trying to be too political, but it is a historical moment. Dan Kanivas 21:39 Yeah. I don't know. How much intention was behind it. I don't know generally what his strategy or lack thereof is with North Korea. Brian Schoenborn 21:49 Yeah. Dan Kanivas 21:50 All I know is I'm not a Trump supporter in any way, shape, or form. Brian Schoenborn 21:54 Yeah, no, I mean, same here. You know, I feel like he's he ramped up this crisis unnecessarily, in my opinion. Dan Kanivas 22:04 Sure. Brian Schoenborn 22:06 And now he's going to try to find a way to put it back the way it was before. And, like, claim the victory. Dan Kanivas 22:11 Sure. Brian Schoenborn 22:13 Like he's done with so many other just like, Jesus, dude. Sorry, anyways, we can we can move on from that. What other stuff did you do as an artie officer? Like where like, were you, were you other places as well, or..? So you mentioned you're there for like two years? Dan Kanivas 22:29 Yes. Brian Schoenborn 22:29 How long were you in the service overall? Dan Kanivas 22:30 So four and a half years in active duty. So I mentioned one year and training two years in Korea, where most of the time not the whole time I was actually doing an artillery job. I was also a general's aide for a little bit. And then after that, I got orders to go to Iraq on a military transition team and what those what those teams are, MIT teams for short. Acronyms for everything in military, of course. On the MIT team, we were responsible for training Iraqi security forces, be they Army, be the police, so that we could eventually pull out. Brian Schoenborn 23:06 Right. Dan Kanivas 23:06 And they can be self sufficient. And so this was back in 2008. I got I got the orders 2007, but I deployed in 2008, after some training at Fort Riley, Kansas. And while…you have a question? Brian Schoenborn 23:20 Yeah, well, I'm just thinking like 2008 we're were we with the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts? Was that during like the counterinsurgency plan, or…? Dan Kanivas 23:30 Yes, it was, it was during the surge, and so the unit I relieved, the MIT team that I relieved, was just coming down off the surge. They'd been there for the surge, and I was relieving them. And so luckily, I think history will show this to be true. It certainly felt that way to me over there, the surge worked, it worked. The additional deployment of troops and also more importantly the deployment of a strategy to solve the root problem of, or help solve the root problem, or trap the root problem of what was going on in Iraq at the time, which is that there are a lot of unemployed, underemployed, especially males, young and otherwise. Brian Schoenborn 24:20 Desperation. Dan Kanivas 24:21 Right, who couldn't feed their families because previously they had a source of patronage that the US took away. The US restored a lot of that patronage, hired the Sons of Iraq and things like that, to pay them essentially to not attack not just us, but also their fellow countrymen and provide some light security duties. And that in conjunction with additional US troop deployment, actually did the trick. And so when I got to Iraq in 2008, I spent the year in 2008-2009, doing training for two different Iraqi Army units. One didn't really need us anymore, the mission was essentially considered more or less accomplished, they were trained. And so we spent about six months down before I was sent up further up north east to a brand new unit in Kirku. Dan Kanivas 25:09 And this is where I most of my experience I remember, most of my experience there, it's more vivid there, where we're trying to help stand up a brand new unit. And try to help them do simple things like get concertina wire to string around their perimeter. Brian Schoenborn 25:25 And what is concertina wire? Dan Kanivas 25:27 So is barbed wire, the military version of barbed wire. Brian Schoenborn 25:31 It's like the spiral? Dan Kanivas 25:32 Yeah, the spiral with with the barbs on it. And it's much more intense than…well, it's what you see above prison, a chainlink fence in prison. Brian Schoenborn 25:42 That's right. Dan Kanivas 25:43 So more intense than you'd see perhaps in a pasture. So getting concertina wire around the perimeter, getting their soldiers to get the proper uniforms, getting their soldiers to learn how to put on the proper uniform, so it's like that. Brian Schoenborn 25:54 Essentially setting them up for success. So they can be self-sustaining. Dan Kanivas 25:58 Right, so basic things like that. I'll say a few things about this, the Iraqi officers that we worked with, who almost by definition, to the last man had served under Saddam. Almost by definition, not everybody, but almost all of them, because in order to be that senior, had the experience, they had to have served under Saddam. They were very professional in general. Some of them, you know, had less experience and they were more political appointees, had less, were perhaps less professional that way. Dan Kanivas 26:27 Most of them were very professional. They generally knew what they were doing under their own system. But like all bureaucracies they never could get all the supplies they needed. They could never get all the ammo they needed, the training they needed. The manpower, the money. Brian Schoenborn 26:41 Basically various extremely important choke points, bottlenecks. Dan Kanivas 26:45 Exactly. So we made due with what what we had. Luckily, again, at the time, the surge, I was a beneficiary of the surge having worked out pretty well. So my time in Iraq, generally, was pretty peaceful. Generally. Brian Schoenborn 27:00 Let me ask you, kind of in general, about the Iraqi people. Dan Kanivas 27:04 Yes. Brian Schoenborn 27:04 Right? So like, I didn't go. I was medically discharged or, you know, whatever you can listen to RELENTLESS and hear that whole story. But I was discharged one week before my unit went to Iraq. Post 911. My unit was the first to go to Iraq, we fought they fought in Fallujah. Dan Kanivas 27:23 Yeah, right. Brian Schoenborn 27:24 It was fucking crazy. Dan Kanivas 27:26 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 27:26 But I never got my I never got the opportunity to I was never there. Dan Kanivas 27:32 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 27:32 Right? Let's put it that way. So I'm just wondering, you know, like you hear on the news all the time about like, the terrorists and like, you knows, which ties in with like anti-muslim sentiment and stuff like that. I'm just curious, like, you know, you spent like, a year and a half over there or something like that? Dan Kanivas 27:49 A year. Yeah. Dan Kanivas 27:50 A year? Okay. Brian Schoenborn 27:50 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 27:51 So you spent a year over there, um, any work with some of these generals and high ranking officers. I imagine you probably interacted with some of the people, like, the everyday civilians as well, a little bit or no? Dan Kanivas 28:03 Not as much, sometimes we did, but not not too too much. My job wasn't that I wasn't on patrols trying to learn about what was going on at the village chief's house or something like that. Brian Schoenborn 28:17 Well, I guess I mean, I'm not necessarily saying that I'm kind of thinking more like, you know, what was your general impression of like the culture and like the people like at their core, even you know, even if they were some of Saddam Hussein's henchmen or whatever you want to call them, right hands. I'm just kind of curious, like, what the, the, the the, the overall feeling? Dan Kanivas 28:39 I suspect that it would be the overall feeling that you would have in a lot of other countries that are foreign to you. Brian Schoenborn 28:49 Sure. Dan Kanivas 28:50 So people will keep to themselves that they don't have any particular business to be dealing with you. I mean, I was rolling around in heavily-armored via with machine guns. Brian Schoenborn 29:01 So you stood out a little bit. Dan Kanivas 29:02 Yeah, right. So, but that's dead. I can't remember single instance where I did interact with people and folks were angry at me or there's a mob yelling at me or something like that, that that never happened. I remember one time we broke down in the middle of a small village, small town that was along the roads that the road that we often traveled through, and we broke down. So we had to perform recovery operations to get our vehicle moving again, we essentially towed one of the back to the base. No one gathered around us and started anything, they just left us alone. Dan Kanivas 29:42 And I think generally that is the attitude that most people would take, because there's not a lot of advantage, I think. to be gained by interacting with heavily-armed people unless you're trying to harm them or otherwise have a mission related to that. People just want to be left in peace, they want to take care of their families. Right? And they want the same things for their families that that we would want for ours. Brian Schoenborn 30:08 You know, it's curious that you mentioned that, you know, with your experience during more time, right? You know, like, I'm always curious about this stuff, because in my travels, you know, like I've been to I traveled through Vietnam, for example. Dan Kanivas 30:23 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 30:23 Three weeks backpacking Vietnam. Dan Kanivas 30:25 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 30:26 I lived in China for over three and a half years. Dan Kanivas 30:28 Right. Brian Schoenborn 30:29 Right? And one of the things that surprised me most about Vietnam was how friendly, how genuine the people were, and and how much they love Americans. Dan Kanivas 30:41 Right. Brian Schoenborn 30:42 Or just people in general. You know? They're a very warm welcome, people. Dan Kanivas 30:46 Right. Brian Schoenborn 30:46 And then like in China, I remember when I first came back home like six months after staying in China. I ran across this lady that I grew up with in church or whatever. And she goes, “Brian, what are you doing?” And I go, “Oh yeah, I'm living in China or whatever.” She goes, “China? China? Brian, what are you doing there? I'm so scared. China's communist, like, are you okay?” Dan Kanivas 31:08 Right. Brian Schoenborn 31:09 And I go, “I fucking love it there. You know like the government's, yes CCP, all that stuff, right, authoritarian, whatever you want to call it. Dan Kanivas 31:17 Right. Brian Schoenborn 31:18 But most people don't really pay attention to it. Dan Kanivas 31:20 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 31:23 Most people in general are very welcoming, you know, they want to share their culture with you. Dan Kanivas 31:30 Yes. Brian Schoenborn 31:30 Right? They wanna share their food. Dan Kanivas 31:32 Yes. Brian Schoenborn 31:32 They want to drink with you. Dan Kanivas 31:33 Yes. Brian Schoenborn 31:34 China's a heavily smoking country. Dan Kanivas 31:35 Oh yeah. Brian Schoenborn 31:36 They want to they want you to try their regional cigarettes. That's why smoke again. It's ridiculous but you know, like this very warm, welcoming people. Dan Kanivas 31:45 Right. Brian Schoenborn 31:46 And essentially what it what it sounds like you're telling me is like you know, place in Iraq, even with all the propaganda that we receive, right? People, pretty much anywhere you go, whether it's an enemy or whether it's a country that we've fought before, or whether it's a people that were fighting at that moment? Dan Kanivas 32:06 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 32:07 You know, people are essentially people. They all want the same stuff. Dan Kanivas 32:10 Yes. Brian Schoenborn 32:10 Right? They have to they want to be able to provide for their family. Dan Kanivas 32:13 Right. Brian Schoenborn 32:14 Right? They want to live in a safe environment. Dan Kanivas 32:17 Yes. Brian Schoenborn 32:19 And they want to, you know, and they want to have a small little group of family and friends, like people can be successful, right, like people want to have some sort of value, right? Dan Kanivas 32:28 Yes, absolutely. 100% I think it's human nature. Brian Schoenborn 32:32 Yeah. Dan Kanivas 32:33 Cultures affect the expression of that. But ultimately, that's human nature, and it's going to be universal. I didn't have the good fortune of interacting as much with the average Iraqi while I was over there, because my mission just didn't take me there. But the Iraqis I did interact with, whether they were military, or they were soldiers that I was serving with, advising, or otherwise helping, or our interpreters who were with us. I generally had a good experience with them. And I have, you know, nothing. I have nothing negative to say about that interaction. Brian Schoenborn 33:16 And I think that's really, um, I think that's poignant. Because when you're fighting in different you know, when you're when you're at war with another side easy for all that stuff to get lost. Dan Kanivas 33:28 Sure, yeah. Brian Schoenborn 33:28 Because what whichever side you're on, you know, they're they're propagating to turn this turn this group of people into an enemy or whatever. Dan Kanivas 33:35 Right. Brian Schoenborn 33:35 And dehumanise them. Dan Kanivas 33:36 Sure, sure. Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 33:37 You know, and, you know, you may you may have disagreements on like fundamental beliefs. Dan Kanivas 33:42 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 33:43 But at the core, we're all the fucking same. Dan Kanivas 33:45 Yeah, and part of my mission was to do the exact opposite, that not dehumanize but understand that we were fighting the same fight on the same side, of most people anyways. And that we had shared interests and shared values they gave us, the military gave us, a fair amount of cultural training before we went. I, I can, not today, but at the time, I tried to conduct as much of my conversations with my counterparts, my Iraqi counterparts in Arabic as possible. I always had an interpreter with me, obviously, I don't speak Arabic. But I tried to pick up phrases here and there. Brian Schoenborn 34:27 Yeah, sure. Dan Kanivas 34:28 That would be helpful. Brian Schoenborn 34:30 And that goes a long way too, right? Dan Kanivas 34:31 Oh, yeah, it goes a long way. It goes a long way. A long way. Brian Schoenborn 34:34 When I was in China, like, I took one lesson. But everything else I picked up. You know, the emergency Chinese, survival Chinese, that sort of thing. But even if I could just say “hello” in Chinese, there like, “Oh, my God, you know, you get us.” Dan Kanivas 34:48 Yeah. Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 34:50 It goes a long way, man. Um, yeah, I think that's I think that's pretty interesting. I think that's pretty interesting. But I do want to move on to some other stuff. Dan Kanivas 34:58 Okay, yes, absolutely. Let's do it. Brian Schoenborn 35:00 We could talk about that and get as deep as we want them off that as long as humanly possible. But I think the biggest point for me on that is, you know, it's pretty interesting shit, and you know, something that you've realized is that people are people are people. Dan Kanivas 35:17 Yep. 100%. Brian Schoenborn 35:19 And I think that needs to be made more known. Dan Kanivas 35:21 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 35:24 When you've got people like our current president threatening to wipe Afghanistan off the face of the map. Dan Kanivas 35:29 I did not catch him say that. But if he did say that, that's very wrong. Brian Schoenborn 35:33 So he was meeting with the leader of Pakistan. I think his name is Mohammad Sharaf or something. Dan Kanivas 35:38 Okay. Brian Schoenborn 35:39 I forget his name, exactly. They were in the White House or Oval Office with the camera opportunity. Like he's been doing where he's got this leader, but he's really just talking about his own stupid agenda. Dan Kanivas 35:50 Of course. Brian Schoenborn 35:50 Right? And he, someone asked him about Afghanistan, and he goes, “Look, I have all sorts of options with Afghanistan. If I want to, I can wipe Afghanistan off the face of the map.” He's like, “I don't want to kill 10 million people. But if I had to, I could do it.” Dan Kanivas 36:09 Awful just, awful. Brian Schoenborn 36:10 And so Afghanistan comes back and they're like, “Fuck you, dude, how could you possibly say that?” Dan Kanivas 36:15 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 36:15 And everybody else do like, seriously. You know, it's called soft power. Dan Kanivas 36:20 Incredibly bad. Incredibly bad. Brian Schoenborn 36:22 Obviously we can do that, but you don't talk about it. Dan Kanivas 36:25 Incredibly bad but that's but it's unfortunately par for the course here. Brian Schoenborn 36:31 I know. It's not fair. Why? Dan Kanivas 36:37 You know, the scary thing too is that there's a lot of writing, articles, etc, from news sources that are typically considered liberal that are saying that Trump will probably win reelection, which is just scary to think about. Brian Schoenborn 36:56 Well, I think right now. Again, without getting too political or topical, but I think right now, the democratic field is so big. Dan Kanivas 37:07 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 37:08 That it's hard for that base. To really consolidate around one person. Dan Kanivas 37:15 Right. I agree. I agree with you. Brian Schoenborn 37:19 So I think as various candidates drop off, you know, that will consolidate itself a little bit more. And, you know, hopefully, hopefully that madman is dethroned. Dan Kanivas 37:34 Oh, I I thoroughly hope so. Brian Schoenborn 37:36 You know? Cuz I think he's setting us back a long way. Dan Kanivas 37:41 Yes. Brian Schoenborn 37:43 But, you know, we'll have to wait to see you know, like, last last cycle, or last presidential cycle. You know, everyone thought that Hillary was gonna kill it. Dan Kanivas 37:51 Yeah, right. I remember where it was that night on election night. 2016. And I remember exactly what it was. was like and what it felt like in the depths of depression that we all went through then. So yeah. Brian Schoenborn 38:05 Yeah. I remember I was sitting in Beijing watching this thing going, “I'm not coming for the next four years, maybe eight.” Dan Kanivas 38:15 Yeah, I contrast that with how I felt, I was in Iraq in November in 2008, and I remember being in the dining facility at the time. We got news that Obama had won. And wow, the feeling of excitement then, was great. Brian Schoenborn 38:34 Yeah. You know, what's weird is like, I actually I was a registered Republican for like, 10 years. I was always like, fiscally conservative, socially liberal kind of guy. Not that any of this matters, but I voted for Romney and McCain. Dan Kanivas 38:51 Sure. Brian Schoenborn 38:51 Right, so I didn't vote for Obama either time, but I've since dropped my affiliation. But I also believe that Barack Obama is probably the best president we've had in our generation. Dan Kanivas 39:06 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 39:07 I think hands down. Dan Kanivas 39:08 I agree with that. Brian Schoenborn 39:09 Yeah, I mean, you know, there's there's positives and negatives that you can say about anybody, but that's kind of how I feel. Dan Kanivas 39:15 Yep. Brian Schoenborn 39:15 Um, so I want to move out, move on, like move out of military stuff a little bit. Because I know you're up to some really cool stuff. Dan Kanivas 39:21 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 39:22 I mean, you've managed to maintain your, your physical endurance activities, that kind of stuff. Dan Kanivas 39:30 Trying to, trying to, yeah. Brian Schoenborn 39:32 I know, you mentioned something about Mount Rainier. Can you tell me like what you're planning to do? And like how this whole thing came about? Dan Kanivas 39:39 Yeah, sure. So last year, one of my friends texts me and says, “Hey, Dan, do you want to climb Mount Rainier?” And I said, “Okay, I'm interested. What What does that entail?” He's like, “Well, we can go with guides and they'll take us through it. It's a four-day program. It would be next August, but you have to decide now. And you have to decide, like right now basically today.” And I said, “Okay, let me go ask my wife.” And so I said, she said, sure, that sounds good. And I said, “Okay, all right, I'm in.” Dan Kanivas 40:18 I had no idea what it entailed. I had zero idea would entail. So my friend who, who, who asked me to do this was my friend from the Army who was in Korea. He just recently got out of the Army. So he's in much better shape than I have than I am. Than I am. I've been out for almost 10 years now. But we've been training. We've been training for trying to summit Mount Rainier next month. So actually, tomorrow, we are headed out to Mount St. Helens, again for the second time this season, to do our last big training hike before Rainier, when we attempt that, and so that is something I'm definitely looking forward to. Come, you know, one way or the other is going to it's all going to culminate here in a few weeks. Dan Kanivas 41:06 I'm looking forward to that. Of course, I hope I'm successful. Of course, I hope the weather cooperates and I have the endurance and the fitness and the ability to, to make the summit and all that stuff. But ultimately, I'm looking for just the general experience. Brian Schoenborn 41:22 Nice. Well, so let me let me clarify for our listeners right now. So we're currently in the city of Seattle. Dan Kanivas 41:30 Yes. Brian Schoenborn 41:30 Right. So Mount St. Helens and Mount Rainier. Those are the two of the those are the biggest peaks, right? Dan Kanivas 41:37 Rainier is the tallest one here in the state of Washington. St. Helens. I don't know where it ranks, but it's up there. Brian Schoenborn 41:43 It's up there, right? Dan Kanivas 41:43 It's up there. Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 41:44 So like how, and they're not far, they're like an hour, two, or three something like that. Dan Kanivas 41:48 You can drive north-south througn the state of Washington, you know, comfortably within hours, not two hours, but they're all within driving distance of Seattle, yes. Brian Schoenborn 42:01 Okay yeah um so so they're close by but they're like huge. Dan Kanivas 42:05 Yes. Brian Schoenborn 42:05 You can see them on the horizon and see at least Rainier. Do you have an idea like how like how tall these are like their peaks or whatever? Dan Kanivas 42:16 Yeah I don't know St. Helens off the top of my head. Brian Schoenborn 42:19 Is it like a 10er, 10,000 foot-ish? Dan Kanivas 42:21 I want to say it's like eight or nine something like that, but Rainier is over 14,000. Brian Schoenborn 42:26 Yeah. Dan Kanivas 42:26 Yeah, so it's it's definitely tall. It's some serious altitude. When you do it, I've been told that, I haven't done it yet that you do feel the effects of altitude sickness. Yeah, so it's, it's definitely going to be a challenge. Brian Schoenborn 42:44 So Mt. St. Helens is a pretty good prepper. Dan Kanivas 42:46 Yeah, I think it's it's definitely on the training plan for a lot of folks and Mount St. Helens. Because it is popular for people to hike and climb, you have to get permits during the season in order to be able to hike it. So, I'm going with some other friends of, same group of people who I'm training for Mount Rainier plus, we're adding on a few more to do Mount St. Helens again in two days. Brian Schoenborn 43:10 Oh cool. Two days? Dan Kanivas 43:12 Yeah so Saturday is what we do is we will take off tomorrow afternoon from Seattle head down their, bed down for a little bit, and then start alpine start two am, something like that, so that we can start start headed up to the top of St. Helens while still while it's still dark out. Still cool out. And then if we're lucky, depending on conditions we might get to glacade down St. Helens. Brian Schoenborn 43:38 What is that? Dan Kanivas 43:38 So yes, this is the funnest part of and the payoff for climbing. So you get to the top and there's snow. And what people have done rather than walk back down is you ride the snow back down. Brian Schoenborn 43:54 Dude that sounds so awesome! Dan Kanivas 43:56 Yeah. So so that that I'm excited for Hopefully that will happen. That's what we did last time, but we also went May when I suspect there was a lot more snow. This time, there should still be plenty of snow to glacade down, but I don't actually know. Brian Schoenborn 44:11 How are you? How are you sliding down on this? Like snowboards, toboggans, just like the little $5 plastic sleds, like the saucer slows? What do you, uh, what's going on there? Dan Kanivas 44:20 All of the above. Some people bring their snowboards, some people bring their skis. You can just do it in hardshell pants. You can even take, and this is what I did last time, you take a trash bag and just ride down on a trash bag. Brian Schoenborn 44:32 Dude, that's sweet. Dan Kanivas 44:33 It works. And it's sure as hell beats walking down. Brian Schoenborn 44:39 I bet. Dan Kanivas 44:40 You don't want to walk anymore after you reach the top. So yeah, glacading down is is pretty fantastic. Brian Schoenborn 44:46 But that reminds me of, I'm doing these Nicaragua stories right now. That reminds me this time I summitted a, it was a short volcano. Dan Kanivas 44:55 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 44:56 Right. But it waas an active volcano. Dan Kanivas 44:58 Yes. Brian Schoenborn 44:58 One of the world's youngest volcanoes. Dan Kanivas 45:00 Okay, yeah. So it's millions and millions of year old, but it's one of the world's youngest. Brian Schoenborn 45:05 No, no, it's only like 150. Dan Kanivas 45:06 Oh really? Brian Schoenborn 45:07 Yeah. Dan Kanivas 45:07 Oh wow. Brian Schoenborn 45:08 Okay, it actually sprung up out of the cornfield in like the 1800s. Dan Kanivas 45:11 Oh, it's a 150 years old? Not a 150,000? 150 years old? Brian Schoenborn 45:18 Yeah, and apparently it blows up, it blows like every 15 years or something like that. Dan Kanivas 45:21 Oh okay. Brian Schoenborn 45:22 And when I was there it was around 15 years I don't know if it's it didn't blow up when I was there but it was definitely active. Dan Kanivas 45:28 Sure, sure, sure, yes. You see gasses and… Brian Schoenborn 45:30 At the summite could see a little, in the crater. And you could see gasses coming up out of the ground. Dan Kanivas 45:35 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 45:36 So we went to the top of it. Brian Schoenborn 45:38 Yeah. And we had a fast way down too. Yeah, we we with with the tour group. They gave us this backpack. And you can choose between a snowboard-looking thing. And like a mini toboggan-looking Dan Kanivas 45:51 Yeah, nice. Brian Schoenborn 45:52 And we volcano surfed. Dan Kanivas 45:55 Yeah, that's fantastic. Yeah. I like the outdoors a lot. I generally don't say no when people want to do outdoorsy things but I almost never wake up and say to myself, “I really need to get outdoors today.” Brian Schoenborn 46:10 Yeah. Dan Kanivas 46:11 I for better for worse live in my head a lot. I love to read. I love strategy games, things like that. Right? So I don't feel compelled to go and get outdoors. However, I'm almost never, I almost never regret it. Because there's so much fun to be had outdoors, including volcano surfing. That's awesome. Brian Schoenborn 46:32 You know, like, like, well glacading or volcano surfing. I mean, what else can you do that is there's only so many volcanoes. It's not like they're everywhere. I mean, they're they're all over the world. Yeah, but they're only in very specific locations. Dan Kanivas 46:46 Yeah, they're very, they're very cool experiences. A lot of people I've talked to about, you know, our pending Mt. Rainier adventure here are very curious about it because they do realize that, okay, yeah, there's not a lot of other ways to kind of express this sort of desire to experience nature and experience your own backyard, your own environments in a very in a unique and very singular sort of way. And so you just got to go out there and do it right and you have which is fantastic. Brian Schoenborn 47:25 I'll never forget that. That sounds fucking awesome. I'm super looking forward to hearing about all of it. Dan Kanivas 47:31 Yeah, fingers crossed it all goes well, so yeah. Brian Schoenborn 47:33 I got a pretty good feeling about it. You mentioned something about strategy stuff? You do strategy games? That kind of caught my attention. Dan Kanivas 47:44 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brian Schoenborn 47:44 Can you dive into that? What do you what kind of games you into like? Like for me, me and my brothers and my dad. We have a tradition every time we go home for the holidays, we play Risk. And we get super into it. Dan Kanivas 47:56 Yeah, sure. Brian Schoenborn 47:57 Like we used to like pretty much be out for blood for each other. Dan Kanivas 48:00 Oh, sure. Yeah, sure. Brian Schoenborn 48:01 Um, I think there might have been some fistfights. At one point where my mom was like she took it away, and she banned us from playing Risk for like 5 years. But I'm just curious, like, what can I hear the strategy stuff? What are the strategy games and other, you know, tell me like what kind of stuff to do. Dan Kanivas 48:17 So, growing up, definitely my favorite type of video game, for example, was role playing games. So RPGs, Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, that sort of thing. And if I had more time now I still play them because there's no shortage. There's no shortage of fantastic stories that are told through these through these media, right? Through those mediums, right. And they get you so invested and they know how to get you invested. These game designers know how to get invested. In college I played a lot of poker for various reasons: socially, also to try to attempt to win money mainly to lose it, but that things like that was a large part of my college experience. Dan Kanivas 49:04 And also as a kid, 12 years old, 11 years old that that sort of timeframe. It was around 94, 95, 96. So Magic the Gathering has just come out. Brian Schoenborn 49:16 Magic the Gathering? Dan Kanivas 49:17 Yes. Brian Schoenborn 49:18 You know, I've heard of that game. I think I'm a little bit older than you. I was, you know, I was active duty in the Marines in 2000, 2002. So I'm fucking old. Dan Kanivas 49:26 I was born in 1983. Brian Schoenborn 49:27 Oh I'm two years, about two years then. I remember, I think it was early in high school, you said seventh or eighth grade? Dan Kanivas 49:36 Yes. Brian Schoenborn 49:36 So that would put me in high school. Right? So I remember hearing about magic together. But I was kind of at that point where it was, I don't know, I just, I wasn't. I wasn't there at that point. Dan Kanivas 49:46 Yeah. Oh, yeah. Brian Schoenborn 49:46 You know, yeah, it was a different spot. Dan Kanivas 49:48 Oh, yeah. Brian Schoenborn 49:48 But my younger brother. He was born in 83. Dan Kanivas 49:50 Oh, yeah. Brian Schoenborn 49:52 Huge into Magic the Gathering. Shout out to Dave. Dan Kanivas 50:00 Being born at a certain time or being a certain age, in that timeframe, made all the difference. If I was actually a if I were actually a year older or two years older, it may have worked out that, you know, I may missed it just like you. Or I could have gotten in on even a little sooner. And had I done that then some of those cards from those era, from that era, which I missed by just about a year are invaluable now. Brian Schoenborn 50:31 Really? Dan Kanivas 50:32 They're quite, they're quite expensive. Yeah. Because it becomes collector's, collector's items. Brian Schoenborn 50:36 They're what, like baseball cards or something? Dan Kanivas 50:37 Yeah, that that idea that they're not being made anymore. So anyways, so I played for a little bit back in those days, as a middle schooler, and, you know, as the nerdy kid who was looking for something that was popular to do the time, well, mainly with other boys. This was, you know, spoke to me strategy games and the the fantasy portion of it, you know, dragons and, and demons and angels and stuff like that. That's pretty cool. Like, that was that kept us interested, but life moved in other directions. I got involved in sports, became more active socially, especially with the fairer sex. Brian Schoenborn 50:39 Sure, of course. Dan Kanivas 50:40 And so, you know, Magic disappeared from my life. Brian Schoenborn 51:22 And that's where I was at but just out of curiosity, do you recall like playing the game? Like, can you can you, cause, I don't know anything about it. Like, can you kind of give me like a high level, like the highest level overview like how it works? Dan Kanivas 51:40 Yes, sure. So it's a card game, that you take a set of cards and you build decks with them. And the idea is that you and your opponent is typically played one on one. Typically. You and our opponent are both powerful wizards, and you cast spells to try to defeat each other. The game was actually created by a grad student, I believe UPenn, a mathematics grad student at UPenn who had a lifelong fascination and love for games. And though, his name is Richard Garfield, though he's brilliant, this is going to be his legacy on Earth. Brian Schoenborn 52:24 Yeah. Dan Kanivas 52:24 So not mathematics or anything else. Most likely it's going to be this game, which is going to be very, very popular. Brian Schoenborn 52:30 It's pretty impressive legacy. Dan Kanivas 52:31 Yeah, absolutely. And he's still active in making games and things like that. But anyways, so that's the basic gist. You can use these cards, cast spells to try and defeat each other. And you know the game, though I left the game a long time ago, it grew and grew and grew and grew. And in 2018, last year, one of my friends who I worked with right out of business school, turned out that he has some cards. I talked to him about He's like, “Hey, Dan, did you know there's an online platform for this now that it's pretty nifty?” Brian Schoenborn 53:05 No way. Dan Kanivas 53:06 Yeah. And, you know… Brian Schoenborn 53:09 So like 15 years. Dan Kanivas 53:10 Yeah. 20 years. Brian Schoenborn 53:11 20 years? Dan Kanivas 53:12 Yeah 20 years. Had I not had that conversation? I don't think I would have rediscovered it but now it's 100% my guilty pleasure to play Magic the Gathering Arena Online. And it takes away a lot of the issues of having to play with paper cards, not that I don't like to play with them, I do. But it's one of these things where you don't have to do it in a room full of other people. You can do it from your bed, or from your desk, or on a train, right? Just on your laptop. Dan Kanivas 53:44 And what I thought I liked before about the game, the you know, the again, the fantastical aspects of it, right, the the dragons and stuff, actually turned out not to be the exciting part of the game for me. What I thought the game is how deep strategically it goes. It combines the the deep strategy of a game like Risk or Chess or Settlers of Catan, things like that, right? Where each choice you make really matters. It combines that with randomness. Again, that's, that's involved in Risk or Poker, right, where the top card of your deck that you don't know what it is, will change the outcome of the game. Dan Kanivas 54:32 And so the combination of those two things, the skill and the luck, the roll of the dice in Risk keeps people coming back for more, because it makes every game you play different. Which is really really cool. And it goes very, very deep. So I'm, I am a newly, newly reintegrated player. Brian Schoenborn 54:55 That's interesting you know, I've heard I've heard some people have been kind of resurging with like Dungeons and Dragons and stuff like that too. I dabbled with it, but I was never really like that into again that was my brother's sort of thing. Dan Kanivas 55:06 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 55:08 But I've heard that a lot of people like kind of our age, have been getting back into these things. So it must be, must be interesting to play against these people with that new perspective and that level of knowledge and experience that you've gained. The thought process and all that. Got to be pretty cool, bet you can get some, like, if you were to play if you had some buddies that like are in the area, and they have like a deck of cards it would probably be pretty cool to have like a dude night a dude Magic the Gathering — a person, a friend night I guess — I don't want to be gender bias or whatever. Dan Kanivas 55:42 For for better, for worse, and this is actually a big topic of discussion within the community. Not just Magic, but gaming generally. Right? And gaming is gigantic, it's exploded. And my wife works for a gaming company, like it's everywhere. Brian Schoenborn 55:55 Oh cool. Yeah. Dan Kanivas 55:56 And so yeah, gaming is, unfortunately, very biased towards males. And as a result, oftentimes, there are people in the community slash the companies and the, you know, the policies that inadvertently get set up, I don't think it's intentional, at least from a company standpoint, are exclusive unfortunately, right? And they're not not always integrative and not always inclusive. Brian Schoenborn 56:27 Right. Dan Kanivas 56:27 And so there's actually to Magic's credit, they really do try to be inclusive, you see it in the artwork, you see it in their messaging, you see it in how they treat people who are not inclusive. Which is great. Brian Schoenborn 56:44 I think that's fantastic, you know, because like I tripped up and said, “Oh, dude, you know, it's a dude thing”, but it's finally not, and it shouldn't be you know? It's games you're having fun, it's strategy. Like, you're using you're using your mind, you have little bit of a social environment. Like that's not. Dan Kanivas 56:59 Yeah, I don't I don't picked up at all, I think this is a real issue. And it's something that the community has to figure out. If you if you go have a boardgame night with friends, which like you said, it's kind of you're seeing a resurgence of people around our age doing this. I think there's several reasons for it. One, it's if people have families, it's a pretty low-key way to get together and… Brian Schoenborn 57:22 You're not going crazy. Dan Kanivas 57:23 Exactly. Brian Schoenborn 57:24 You're not getting super wasted playing Magic the Gathering, maybe a casual beer. Dan Kanivas 57:27 We're not going to Coachella because we have kids. Right? Brian Schoenborn 57:29 Exactly. Dan Kanivas 57:30 Exactly. Right. So you know that that's a great way to get together and like I just played actually last weekend. Settlers of Catan with I have friends around here. While we're out in Walla Walla, you know, on a wine country trip. It was great. It was one of the highlights of the trip. It's always fun playing with them. And so, you know, it's a very enjoyable, easy to get into, and social thing to do. I think this is

Dan Kanivas is a true Renaissance man. As an Army Airborne Ranger, he spent time as an artillery officer near the DMZ on the Korean peninsula and later worked closely with Iraqi officers during the Iraq War, where he trained a 130-soldier Iraqi Army unit while serving as a strategic advisor to senior Iraqi Army officers. He has since shifted his sights toward both public investing and angel investing with Triple Summit Advisors, all while prepping to summit Mount Rainier.

Dan Kanivas is a true Renaissance man. As an Army Airborne Ranger, he spent time as an artillery officer near the DMZ on the Korean peninsula and later worked closely with Iraqi officers during the Iraq War, where he trained a 130-soldier Iraqi Army unit while serving as a strategic advisor to senior Iraqi Army officers. He has since shifted his sights toward both public investing and angel investing with Triple Summit Advisors, all while prepping to summit Mount Rainier.

Starbuck's Coffee Frm Exec Vice President This New Year's theme is about Game Changing As I sip my Starbucks Carmel Latte,I talk to my guest Paula Boggs, who has served as: *Executive Vice President of Starbuck's Coffee * Executive Board of NASDAQ Sterling Financial * A Voting Member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences "The Grammy Awards". Paula Boggs fronts a rock band, their new release is Elixir: The Soul Grasses Sessions". She is also owner of Boggs Media, LLC. She is also a seasoned executive, lawyer, board member and public speaker seeking opportunities that capitalize on my leadership talents and make the world better. She led the global law department of Starbucks Coffee Company for 10 years, was on its executive team and secretary of the Starbucks Foundation. Before Starbucks, Paula was an executive 5 years in the technology industry (Dell Corporation.) Paula was appointed to the President's Committee for the Arts and the Humanities and served on the White House Council for Community Solutions. She have serve 20 years in the American Bar Association's House of Delegates and 16 years as a Johns Hopkins University Trustee where She chaired the audit committee,was a member of the Carey Business School and Peabody Institute Dean Search Committees, chair the student life committee, and serve on the executive and academic affairs committees alongside the Peabody National Advisory Board. Paula served on NASDAQ's Sterling Financial, Inc board until its acquisition by Umpqua Bank, serve on boards of School of Rock LLC, a portfolio company of private equity firm Sterling Capital and NPR-affiliate KEXP as secretary, executive committee member and capital campaign co-chair. Paula has held a variety of professional and community leadership roles over the past 25+ years and am an Army Airborne ~ veteran. www.paulaboggsband.net © 2020 BuildingAbundantSuccess!! Join Me on ~ iHeart Radio @ https://tinyurl.com/iHeartBAS Join Me @ Facebook.com/BuildingAbundantSuccess

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Starbuck's Coffee Frm Exec Vice President This 2019 theme is about Game Changing As I sip my Starbucks Chai Frappe,I talk to my guest who has served as: *Executive Vice President of Starbucks Coffee * Executive Board of NASDAQ Sterling Financial * A Voting Member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. Paula Boggs fronts a rock band! She is also owner of Boggs Media, LLC. She is also a seasoned executive, lawyer, board member and public speaker seeking opportunities that capitalize on my leadership talents and make the world better. She led the global law department of Starbucks Coffee Company for 10 years, was on its executive team and secretary of the Starbucks Foundation. Before Starbucks, Paula was an executive 5 years in the technology industry (Dell Corporation.) Paula was appointed to the President's Committee for the Arts and the Humanities and served on the White House Council for Community Solutions. She have serve 20 years in the American Bar Association's House of Delegates and 16 years as a Johns Hopkins University Trustee where She chaired the audit committee,was a member of the Carey Business School and Peabody Institute Dean Search Committees, chair the student life committee, and serve on the executive and academic affairs committees alongside the Peabody National Advisory Board. Paula served on NASDAQ's Sterling Financial, Inc board until its acquisition by Umpqua Bank, serve on boards of School of Rock LLC, a portfolio company of private equity firm Sterling Capital and NPR-affiliate KEXP as secretary, executive committee member and capital campaign co-chair. She has held a variety of professional and community leadership roles over the past 25+ years and am an Army Airborne ~ veteran.www.paulaboggsband.net © 2019 BuildingAbundantSuccess!! Join Me on ~ iHeart Radio @ https://tinyurl.com/iHeartBAS Join Me on @ Facebook.com/BuildingAbundantSuccess

Leif Harrison has entered the world of the Hemp business after a multi-varied work experience in both high-level corporate business and post US Navy career. Born in AZ, raised in OH, Leif was a scholarship competitive sailor for the US Naval Academy. He is a trained parachutist, and tells of his religious calling to embark upon a 40 day fast. Incredible show about resolve and calling, check it out!And now I thought from Geico motorcycle it took 15 minutes to take a spirit animal quiz online please be the cheetah please be the cheetah and learn your animal isn't the cheetah but before less appealing blog fish come on let insult to injury you could've use those 15 blood fish minutes to switch your motorcycle insurance to Geico Geico 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on motorcycle insurance hello listeners out there it's a gut check project here with your host Dr. Ken Brown I'm Eric Rager and a course I got check project you check your egos at the door and nothing's off the table this is episode number 13 Doug Brown with that number 13 I miss that music bandwidth we actually had to travel little bits we missed last week we did a rerun on that one but I love that music and get my little metal groove I'll never hit him like a word and have some fun today yeah you know it's it you remind me of that you say you miss at music the music that I remembered when I was younger on Thursdays was cost show but were not going to be putting anything anybody's drinks so just mean you great way to open the show will will be, oh boy you will about sweaters anymore is it stepping out about sweaters so let's let's touch on that last week we've been trying for two and half years to you to get to the Institute functional medicine shall and this year we got our first chance to be a part of it I would say it right being Trond Teal trying to and that we were joined by Mike Logsdon and I think the three of us unanimously decided that not only was a great exposure for trying to heal we connected with people that have been using arch on teal for a long time and on top of that I think that we found a lot of new fans who just basically wanted new explanation on how much until could fit into their practice they love the fact it was less expensive was all natural solution for bloating and a course in Canada we can say IBS and Joseph say afterwards a I BSA but not BSC and obviously is IDSA but it was what you think I thought that the exposure to that level of really involved in caring practitioner was cute well so we the I FM this was the international IFN meeting we been trying to get in there for a long time what I learned from that was holy cow there are a lot of very smart doctors who are now adopting this functional approach because the system that we have right now are we just treat diseases it's breaking the bank lately it is a broken system that needs to feed on itself so these are a group of doctors that have flown in from all over the world and there are trying to help people at the base level so that we don't have to get to a point where they're being prescribed opioids or whether being prescribed this were to do this thing and so have a booth there without trying to and then have all these doctors that already knew about us was such a cool experience speaking of all of those positions that were there think about some of the other people that were there talking about their new delivery systems or for instance Carolyn Krishnan and just so everyone knows we can do a quick reset writ right here if you don't mind last week we did have shell so because we were on the road we didn't have the ability to do remote show because we were doing a completely different set up that being said Ron Krishnan of mega spore or actually it's like bio lads the makers of the megastore is a fantastic probiotic and we ended up doing a recording which will be released later this month of thus interviewing with Charon those kinds of innovative minds that's what's all over the IFN it's new ways to deliver health and wellness in a savings to the patient using in most cases natural approaches and they work they have science that backs it up is really super exciting that was so cool so first of all thank you get on yeah for taking us to have future results with amazing Peruvian Asian fusion restaurant and we just had a blast we did and I love being around like-minded people and entrepreneur who's a scientist she's a microbiologist in his training when he came to the house we did the podcast he kicked some crazy knowledge absolutely phenomenal as to why you should be using a spore based probiotic and not a traditional probiotic based on plausible science replicated in the lab that is what is amazing she is all about will that makes sense let's test he is a researcher first entrepreneur second and that's kind of the model we have outrun to you is because really we've got some science to back it and that's why we developed it and that's why think were gonna be able to possibly work together to really help a lot of people using the combination of the two dad hates he says he's pretty amazing in the way that he talks about science it's like he's talking about a friend oh he's just I mean he describes the you have to listen to this episode because it's so into it that it's so cool but we come from bacteria make no mistake about it yet and we have lost sight of that and we have developed a world that kills what he calls the whole mobile which is a term of never heard is a real rain forest when you take out the canopy things die and we have systematically been destroying our own God given reason why were here which is our micro bio and were all about the microbe I'm also talking about polyphenols talk about probiotics protecting Mike by Marissa said he just came out I just saw that yesterday where they were looking at how the micro biome affects aging if you have a healthy micro biome is an anti-aging situation then and it set in really when you start digging into the science that your Acheron and now is butchering his name so Chiron uses to back up where why spore-based probiotics are not only more efficacious but actually more natural and then you begin to look at how the micro biome itself benefits from having a spore base probiotic make its way to the: it's it really the mysteries no longer mystery it makes sense on why you need to care for that for your body and your you're basically a vehicle for bacteria and if you're keeping them healthy and happy you can be healthy and happy it's the signals we talked about what we've always talked on the bottom of this we talked a few episodes ago were in TCU they did the study with injected people would like the polysaccharides and they show that the new information created impulse problems the lead to anxiety all kinds of stuff please brought up LPS that's exactly what he talked about was a better marker remember that instead of just using C-reactive protein and other markers to find true long long-term information in order to find out if you could heal the gut LPS was a better marker and you could speak to distant is that something that current practitioners through traditional medicine are using no traditional medicine does not look at LPS I do have a science article today were really touching a little bit Because when we talked about the leaky got leading to leaky brain right well I got really cool article just published this month 2000 19 June 2019 will real look at how CBD and a cannabinoid like Endo cannabinoid called PEA actually some really cool science on that and that's what we always come back to bridging the gap or to trying take some science and bring it over here John was talking about that the whole time because this doesn't make sense why people are doing this with probiotics when we should be doing this because this makes a lot more sense we want to ruin that episode because I think it is one of the coolest funny nerdy episodes were we get way into it because just like you talk about he talks about the spores like there is little baby that he loves those things yet he does and you're right we don't want it we don't want to spoil that episode because we will release it here in a couple weeks however today on today's episode we have an incredible guest who's got a great journey and his story on how he got to where he is today that's Lafe Harrison now currently he is an executive for director of operations for licks and all and we know quite well from that but he's got so much more depth than just somebody who who lucked into being in a frontier industry in fact one of the coolest things about Lafe and the fact that he's in the hemp industry is this is a man who has a military service in the Naval Academy was in Annapolis he was trained by the Army on becoming a parachutist he's got tactical training not only in the Navy but as a civilian he worked at Boeing am I gonna ruin his whole biography will let him do it but the man has got lots of exposure from the military from a large corporate structure and now working in literally the wild West of a very legitimate industry which needs legitimacy absolutely and that's one of the reasons why we have teamed up with election all because I really think that they are just a step above everybody else we've had Joy Beckerman on that they brought on and she is a procedure and policy expert Christmas song with the marketing he's been involved in that a listen to those two episodes were to have Dr. Paul Blair onward and talk about the science PTSD and all that what we have with Lafe is this business background really smart guy coming from incredible background to say no you need to legitimize this because this is real it's not going away and people need this we talk about healthcare dollars we talk about functional medicine CBD is not going away and we just need legitimate companies producing great products without question so stay tuned life will join us in the next half hour and well let's see here real quick paying the bills go to love my tummy.com if you weren't at the IFN conference and you would like to learn a little bit more about our 2011 my tummy.com/spoony use code spinning say some money and 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had to go to a show right when you talk so Nate spurred recipe that we were in beautiful San Antonio fry FM over near it was held at the JW Marriott great little air B&B we stayed out that was cool like right off property so that was me that was nice you can schedule the wrong day so little funny story to the sum of what you tell it because I'm a little embarrassed so I'll throw it back to you you can describe what happened so basically can you tell me that Eric I'll meet you down there I'm flying to your driving or taking equipment down and I did it when checked in and then I went to the location where the home was forced to stay and I rang the proprietor and just as you said I should she's incredibly friendly and she said hey how you doing as I can find to this is Eric reinstate your house he said yeah yeah can't wait see you tomorrow and I I will that's cool because I'm here today and she couldn't of been more accommodating she laughed she got everything ready within an hour home was beautiful so we had that we had a great stay but she was able scramble around everything up and running if you've never done a home share things like Uber I mean the RBL air B&B are both super easy to use and huge house very comfortable and not really expensive for is using for to consider the Princeton hotels under them no because we were correct eventually got you a few people be you and Mike it was pretty funny because that's what happens when you've got two people that are busy doing a bunch of other things and just sort of all you have to put the place yes okay doubled up on you move on and so it probably would be better if we just had somebody to be handling that kind of stuff for so yeah now it's okay if the Internet well out turned out perfect and so we went to beautiful San Antonio like I said Johnson was also a great dinner we had a wonderful time that's a joy to my training so I'm I'm very fond of Sen. that's where I met my wife that's all that stuff so going doctors always find a lot of people there but that was a great great conference I was awesome while I was there quick update on the family Carla actually had a tennis tournament and she killed it in Dallas in the Dallas area she won the whole thing so she started to really hit stride right now really proud of her and you know she's realizing that there's a lot of both physical skill but you in tennis you really have to put the mental with it because Rother alone and she's really hit your group right now and band were to be having some national tournaments coming up with both kids are now playing on the national level so I'm very proud of Carl she did awesome Lucas appears we go through a growth spurt because he did actually nothing just slept the night I don't blame you Lucas and good Alcala network so and then of course myself to him with cold and though you know Lloyd is basically has to make sure the kids get started so how about you guys not everything on our home front is great breeze business sat with her wellness Center continues to grow and Doug Gage had day 17 had his wisdom teeth taken out I guess it was that you have days ago and he's recovering but he's doing well maybe we expect good things I think it will be back to his normal self by about a day or two and then nab Mac we had at several so yard turn in early summer that need new sod around town around Decatur so Mac went out after basketball practice on its was Monday and Tuesday and basically he's visit by he's in a new entrepreneur is nice walking home with 200 bucks a day throwing sod saw death that is not easy I did that when I got my first home in San Antonio so he's pretty pumped about then the little change in his pocket and dad not enough time to spend it's that's the best way to do it and for 15-year-old it said it's not too bad there that's awesome that's awesome now that's it that lets you like the removing all Midsummer that's cool we quick shout out to Melanie Avalon and Jen Stevens because I did the intermittent fasting podcast again love going on their show had a great time talk about all kinds of stuff I want things that we did hit on which I actually had a little research was the carnivore diet told him about it well recordable diet it's basically meet nominate me all right and while doing some homework on that you actually pointed to Jordan Peterson out to me right you how did you find Jordan Peterson and the work he was doing originally actually it is this attribute to gauge gauge is a big he just spends his time reading about different things all the time and he finds Jordan Peterson to be somewhat interesting just as a personality himself just so happens that Jordan and his daughter I believe suffer from his daughter deftly suffers from some autoimmune issues that they should be the most outspoken person with this correct Michaela right at sadly that's her name and so she and Jordan both had at least some type of autoimmune issues they both reset decided to go and try to carnivore dad had been reading about it and according to them they don't have those issues anymore and I think he's 18 months into it or something like that it's around that time on I can't member exactly but I have heard his interview on Joe Rogan and a few other different podcasts where but Rogan is 16 at the most disease has the longest format and it's really interesting to hear someone make that transition I love vegetables I love fruit so I don't know if the carnivore diet is for me did you see the Joe Rogan Sean Baker one the orthopedic surgeon that Stu the carnivore died as well now I know he's quite outspoken also not really on Instagram much but I've seen that he's pretty prolific and basically showing that he likes meat he likes meet similar thing where he went his orthopedic surgeon really smart guy is doing strictly meat is eaten quite a bit of meat so I have my first patient we had a long talk and we tried a bunch of different diets still struggle with some stuff and so I put them on the cardboard I've lost two weeks he feels good really yet so my knee-jerk reaction would be no way like everybody else like every other diet that's out there is a traditional doctor you look at this and you go want what Haley oh no go oh well that's kind of interesting sure OT don't know now Tito I tried you know I'm mostly pale Leo tried Tito I'd I it's difficult for me to say on what I do and we talk about this on the podcast so that comes out next Monday I believe all IFP yeah yeah intermittent fasting contest that she generally set next Monday which are all this but the problem is that a lot of people do like I do his dirty Quito you think your keto in the new country and ruin everything and I cannot screw your base are screwed some things up doing that so we look these different diets will the initial reaction is oh the carnivore diet that's crazy needs bad apples meet your: the John Wayne died with 20 pounds beautiful whatever clearly untrue and there are certain primal lineage people that really survive purely on meet during certain times of the Inuit Eskimos for instance trying to not eating vegetables now it's just strictly meat and then Sean Baker had some examples of some tribes in Africa that really only have meat and they are extremely healthy so I'm looking more into it not succumb only wants to talk about it so we got weird into that little bit that's first time I love going on podcast like that reps do little homework I like to listing every single week we trying to little homework we try and bring everybody up to speed and supercharge a little bit better at something and that's just another example looking into it I got my first patient experience with let's see what happens if you try the carnivore diet out there in your listeners GCP or you know someone has to choose an email I'm really curious to see what it's like in and what that transition is like and how do you feel how long did you do it what is it like it when we talked at Quito diet and doing dirty Quito I can certainly relate and I didn't realize I was relating in the same way out after I come avoiding carbs and avoiding sugars but something that I wasn't taken into account was was offsetting some of that by consuming probably more protein and a should have and you could probably speak this if you over consume the protein in terms the protein ratio to the fat body can actually just go through gluconeogenesis and basically use the protein turning circle and glucose he can for yourself out of Quito itself right yet it sounds sounds counterintuitive but Dr. Sean Baker extra possible disease is a power lifter hold couple records at his age group and he got arguments with other doctors were they said no you and enough glycogen in the muscle to do this with the fact you write on the protein the amino acids and then you for glycogen in the muscles that's fuel so people do Quito but they take to too much protein in and then you actually stored glycogen in your liver and your muscles and then when you work in fact you when you and I were fasting we did a little experiment with you where we were actually working in between patient oh yeah and we did the we have a keno mojo we we checked your ketones right Cheetos were up blood glucose was rewriting yet again 958 some around there and I'm okay let's try something once you do a bunch of squats that and what happened I think to check the glucose again was it 10 minutes later and I was at 76 to correct yet you go to slop in your teachers with relevant Burly ketones is fuel and immobilize some of the glycogen right muscle and so a lot of this physiology takes place and people don't realize that that's actually going on I did remaining in technical ketosis cadets .5 I believe on the Quito mojo hundred percent and so one of the things is to direct you just burn some key tones or did you mobilize like that I think will build both probably length and selection of stuff goes on the interesting thing to have motivated by intermittent fasting just the idea of it and you know this most days that only consume bacon and eggs for breakfast and so I typically stay in moderate ketosis in the morning until we finally get to lunch past the first half-hour was really fast holy cow I got so much more stuff to talk about placing a hopping but we didn't get to the to the study and and I run it by him and see what he thinks and I trust some of the new doing that but anything to add before we take this break I just want everybody to take this break and go to love my tummy.com/booty yeah yeah he should totally do that because it's the summer everybody wins there nothing out of some orders I will be back with Lafe Harrison here in just a moment say to get a project episode 13 Dr. Kim Brown here a host of check project with my cohost Eric Rieger Eric Regency and mojo guys over there and overhears Billy talk about our 20 over bloating I've seen in my practice that I'm trying to is a whole lot more than just a floating product yes it does a whole lot more than just exploding because the polyphenols that you find to and trying to get your exactly right the polyphenols are those molecules that we find in the Mediterranean diet it makes vegetables and fruit very colorful what are some of the things these polyphenols do Eric these polyphenols can actually stop in formation help you have more energy thinking have you antiaging and polyphenols are great athletes it sounds like it's your health: more people than just loading tell me how everybody should be taking out front if you want to go so 2002 capsules three times a day basically with if you aren't bloated just want that polyphenol intake every day to three classes a day will work for you go to love atomic.com/now you can fly anywhere in the world and pay discount prices on your airline tickets flight today to London Paris Madrid or anywhere else you want to go and pay a lot less guarantee quality international 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Daniel fast which was no that was just the irresistible call by God the fast route yeah so I just did some quick Internet research on like how to even attempt it and I settled on it was all water with a little bit of organic fruit juice in the morning in a little bit of organic veggie juice at night and I just ran without the hallway 40 days Yep that's the longest everybody doing it… Looking back on that this probably maybe four years ago literally not possible without God really I don't think I don't think a human being can just sit down and knock it out of the room while did you have a regimen of prayer that you are doing with those yes Ramadan the way that the that that is done yes I think it was probably to three times a day I had some note cards of prayer said it written down in advance and I just work through those with with issues I am my family were dealing with at the time we just work through that the whole time that's amazing there is when you look at fasting it's in every single religion really if you look at it oh yeah but in the only person I can remember this even come close to as long as life is that Rita Marie Scott oh that's right she went to and for the almost the same bid the same motivation she went and she went to a rosary uncle resort but is basically a place that they facilitate people that are going to do long term fast and they give them coaching they give them support they make certain that they don't have to move too much while they do it and make sure they have water that are hydrated but she member she said she did four weeks five weeks something like that did you have a die off. Her some. We went through like a keto Fluor that stuff the people to also I don't have any terms for it but you go through multiple stages during the whole process so my experience was probably about every 45 days you would switch from one aspect of it to an entirely new one and so it started out with incredible headaches and then those past and then this is my understanding I don't know if it's valid or not but it appears that may be there are a bunch heavy metal stored up in your body and that in the course of an extreme fast they are there being released and hopefully flushed out but apparently they tend to then collect in the larger muscle groups so you go through things like extreme thigh pain extreme back pain that type of thing and that's the only correlation I can make the why you get those kinds of pains but then again over the weeks of the fast they tend to be the focus and then they tend to move on from that you really selling this like I said it's not something that can be done on your own in my opinion so this is yeah holy cow identified a fast you get a water fast days I've done the prolonged fasting mimicking diet I've done fasting in my opinion is the greatest life hack you can do that what you did is like Navy seal stuff that is that it's tough it's my opinion it's God inspired and God supported so I don't think it can be done on your own and for the for the scripturally sound people out there I'm well aware that the Bible does speaks to this is not something you brag about I only share it because that was just a process I went through and and maybe somebody else can relate to that no is an incredible journey having a need and I don't think you're bragging all the interest it's an experience for so yeah know you're being very honest headaches yeah muscle aches half can only do it if I focus on prayer now that's I mean I think that that is there's a lot of people that need to reset and I I do the fast I fast for the five days usually around trying to do it four times a year and I find a lot of habits that I've developed that I go oh my gosh that's more of a habitual thing of having that snack or having a glass of wine at night or whatever when you start paying attention to it one surprise at the end I did need to come off it mean when I finally hit the goal I I could've kept going but I stopped but I wasn't expecting a part while it is that is that is very impressive and you said a word I like is reset so it sounds to me like life you you are inspired to do it and you had your own motivations one of them that you didn't specifically mention but of course the body being a temple it would only make sense what type of away from the spiritual benefits what type of of the body the improvements did you notice at the conclusion of the fast did you feel healthier did you sleep better did you find maybe even during the faster began to just have better periods of rest and in clarity as countries I don't know that I can speak to any of those specifically know what little reading I did on it leading up to it and then try to kind of understanding it after all all that happened was it you know if if losing weight is a goal of your fast then I'm under the impression that you really don't want to be in caloric deficit more than about 300 cal per day when you're doing an and at that level you tend to compensate for that deficit your body tends to burn way more fat than switch to muscle for calories when you do an extreme one that sort of 9010 ratio becomes more like 50-50 and so you you take hits across the board so it it literally came out to I think I was 39 pounds lighter after 40 days 39 pounds right but a lot I lost a lot of muscle mass in the process sure yeah I'm it's a sacrifice though for you for going for going through it to me nothing like that comes easy but I do think that there's a spiritual reset there's a family interaction reset this did you do with would with your wife was as you will know I I told her in advance and then we as I just I told her it just kept feeling this Paul and this not preoccupation with it but it just wouldn't set aside and then I I targeted the date for the future it started but I was just like I think I'm just going start now so I just wonder because this would be all you know I do know what was common and that would affect you know the family for a good six or seven weeks but I basically just started about a week or two after having it come top of mind and just did it that's impressive because limits are what I've had. During those five day fast each one had different issues but it I want to I wanted to date three you like to get them done you know I want to know this is I am hungry definitely did you go through so both Eric and I experienced there is a hormone called a Rex and that when you get to a certain point your body is telling you to get out there and go do something did you have a surge of energy at some point day for day five of the first know but I appreciate the people would do shorter fasts go through experiences like that so I think mentally I was in this for the long run but to the best that I could be so I wasn't thinking a bit in short chunks plus I was dealing with the fact that sort of various kinds of pain were coming and going up that would really absorb a lot of the moment but I do know that people do three day five day type runs it's almost F it's almost like a runner's euphoria but there's there's there are things that can kick in during that time's up that can make a pretty special and it's hard to access those other ways is not passing because mentally your body your body knew that it had to do this is the reason why the sexy chicks and it's it's it's an evolutionary thing where if you're if you're part of a tribe and you need your get food you haven't had food by day three or four you get this surge of energy and we all day I woke up at 1 AM and started cleaning the closet and it makes sense because this hormone kicks in as it says look you get you need to get food you need to go get a surge of energy when you get beyond that when you get into a longer fast that ends and then you're actually in the starvation mode you actually went to a starvation point yeah what's also interesting is you think about people lost at sea all kinds of situations you know civil unrest something where one food and water become an issue the really do seem to be some hard stops and hard stops tend to be like three days max without water or your you're in serious trouble but you could go 30 days without food and so I don't know I'm sure most people are prepared to try to do that but it seems like physiologically you could do that if you had to while that's just impressive but super impressive and it states and ended not so much the faster the duration it's the commitment did that life was able to put himself into seems aware of your background which is really cool and very clearly or very mentally strong person but you don't own it you say no I can only have done it with prayer and through God yet it was a it was a irresistible Paul was never something I thought about it just happened in that about two weeks later decided to just go for Noah to be more like you from now on I must start with this also to stand up for second look at as an irresistible pull here is an irresistible pull into your quick picture taught that ritualized picture because I would be more like life well Amazon just launched a brand-new thing at the connection started yesterday called Stiles snap and you can look at here is a picture of late that I just took their and then Amazon will build your outfit for me it's called style snap somebody has to find out so I can get there you go Tommy Hilfiger sure I can get from Amazon so basically my wife's been trying this for seven years and was left except that I get some genital pants and I will look exactly like yourself it's called style steps interesting so Amazon has not been very good about breaking through the clothing market assault news article on it yesterday they're just about to walk around the city and be like that person looks cool take a picture and then just order the whole outfit to your house right there I don't know if that's cool or creepy as hell's creepy that mean it is cool as a Tinker that said I could see me at day seven looking just like that be like my muscles my head hurts screw the sun what if you take a picture of somebody who's really really stacked now it doesn't show shortages has a bunch of waits for you to order a treadmill or something like that awful mail through a blender and some protein, videos is very sweet lady might sit in while we will be attacked this week's research topic must do this I so ever so weak we always I was trying to pick up something that's relatively new that I find interesting and most of the time it gets really science you really geeky so I try to dumb it down but this is really cool because a few weeks ago we talked about leaky gut and a lot of my colleagues in the traditional medicine space they don't even acknowledge we can get them say that we can get exist they say that there's no intestinal permeability we really do know that there's a lot of evidence out that the article we describe that time was leaky gut leaky blood brain barrier right now we have some evidence that Alzheimer's and dementia can actually be caused by intestinal health so this article just came out it was published in the inflammatory bowel disease June 2019 very recent very recent and what they actually looked at these researchers some really cool stuff that comes out of the UK and they looked at its action one article including two different studies one an in vitro study which means they do things outside of the body in a lab then they use that knowledge to piggyback it on and in vivo study in the in vivo's when you look at humans and you look at certain and outcomes so this is really cool and what they looked at is that we all know that the tight junction in the intestines it's a selectively permeable barrier you have to be able to absorb and take in calories and you know enforcement, fasting a lot of people with a lot of intestinal disease were they fast you really don't want to because they're not actually absorbing all the food without you taking it right so in addition to CBD that we always talk about right there are other endo- cannabinoid light compounds in the definition of them and we talked about that like Bridges owns one of them right but another one is called PEA or Powell toy less than Nola mind and this is an atypical and a cannabinoid possession found in foods was found in soybeans some found in eggs in our body X produces it it increases your own endogenous and then my levels and it actually binds to certain receptors so little sightsee but it makes sense of this article looked at CBD and PEA PEA is one of those molecules that depending on how you want to use it but it is an entourage molecule so it actually works together with CBD in your own and a cannabinoid system so they have shown that PEA can buy to something called PE part alpha which is just a receptor similar to an end of cannabinoid receptor just keep that in mind. So this group had previously shown that inflammation actually causes an increase in the permeability of the intestine so these guys are on the forefront of leaky gut and have always been on the forefront of this they looked at how CBD in previous animal models could actually help this may publish this big meta-analysis looking at animals on how CBD and PEA can actually correct leaky gut based on this they went down this path and this is the study that they are she just published so when we had to don on the show he geek out like crazy and he deftly did this is my digging out because this justifies a lot of the stuff and why a lot of the reasons why all health begins and ends in the why will become sicker as a society I am working some of that crisscross article that you have it that you got from him and it makes total sense so the in vitro part of this is that they took intestinal tissue human intestinal tissue and they soaked it in these inflammatory cytokines so these are cytokines that your body produces when it's exposed to toxins specifically like TNF alpha interferon gamma and things like that they showed that this inflammation caused an increase in leaky gut and they looked at these very specific cell parameters were they could show oh look this size of molecule came through and they did it in a very elegant study so is this tend to be outside molecules penetrating or inside materials leaving so what they did is they soaked the tissue in these inflammatory cytokines and then they used immunofluorescence to show that it actually was going through from one side to the other so inside to well technically the inside of the lumen crossing the barrier into the inside of what ever that they had this case it was just another medium but it would normally be crossing into the lemon appropriate where your body would react to it so essentially what you're saying is the particles that shouldn't have been making its way to the bloodstream are now being sampled by the lecturer in this piece of fish priceless first time I've ever read an article recently looked at this and said leaky gut does exist when you cause inflammation this actually happens okay so then they added PEA okay the molecule that is cannabinoid -like receptor that is found in a full spectrum hemp product so it's going to be one of the entourage molecules that and they showed that the PEA markedly decreased the penetration of these modules I good so then I said okay will that's objectively try to cool so then they blocked the receptor the PEA binds to copy part alpha so they did that with another molecule the leaking us continued continued impressive so now we know so we sit there and we talked about where's the science in the CBD and cannabinoid industry there's people like this publishing this and nobody talk about this absolutely amazing because they said okay look it's Dr. then we blocked where it works and it happened again development I saw then they added CBD this also markedly improved the permeability stop the permeability then there able to bind the CD1 receptor and it happened again okay so they get a molecular model where they showed oh this is what is happening it actually prevents leaky gut this in my mind proves a subtle level that inflammatory markers alone can create intestinal permeability or leaky gut but now we have a mechanism but I can tell my patients like this is why I like to use these products and the symptoms that you have we now know that when somebody comes in and they got bloating and that hurt to get a bad diet a highly processed diet and they say things like I have brain fog I feel fatigued I've developed Hashimoto's I've got this we know that you've now open this gate in your body is reacting to the outside world specifically to be reacting to bacterial components to antigens things like that so many of these people this is how I got into talk about CBD the first W. Soucy in such incredible improvement sure I don't really know why you're getting better now we have a reason why don't you feel like at these levels of validation in terms of discovering what the NOAA I'm sorry but the mechanism of action is in part is is one of the key pieces that universally the hemp industry just needs for the validation and actually it's not even about the hemp industry that could be the diet industry could be anything where there is applicable beyond anecdotal improvement it's just how do I piece together the science to show that what were doing is going to actually work I think that we can do that with studies like that when you study like that were the plausibility of it makes sense and these guys clearly are deep into the weeds in this kind of stuff this is your passion and they've Artie done that analysis on on animal model so they Had a pretty good idea look we just did approve it on so so then I kicked up a notch in the same paper which is fastening which is basically two different study right and it is pretty fascinating then I decided okay this is cool know if you believe us let's see what we can do in humans so the same group took 30 individuals and gave them high dose aspirin aspirin in itself can actually create it's an inflammatory thing we know aspirin creates ulcers I'll see people commit with G.I. bleeds and know their own aspirin as per the some good things but also increases intestinal permeability okay so the way that they prove this is that they got people they gave an aspirin and then they did what's called a lactose mannitol test it's an interesting old test that mannitol is a very small molecule and it'll go through MB absorbed the depute out lactulose is a big molecule and technically you don't absorb it and you'll poop it up tonight if you have intestinal permeability that lactulose mannitol ratio comes closer so you start peeing some lactulose out night so they get aspirin until people start P lactulose so that was pretty impressive yeah want a good baseline for coming things down I think I followed that I like that they did references, funny they did reference other science articles as to why they use as principles other things in the reference a few trials in Europe were people try to give them straight micro polysaccharides which is bacteria and people and subjects of the so all of this is not an ideal test at the close of you gets up like this so what they determined that they had leaky gut and what they determined that they were peeing out this lactulose they randomly this was a randomized placebo-controlled trial gave them CBD PEA more placebo okay now they did give a pretty high dose of CBD at 6 mg and PEF 600 mg per day yes per day and admittedly said there was sort of rescaling given that docent sure happens they try to base it off some of the ratios that they soaked the tissue in in the first study but they admittedly say were just trying this to see what happened they didn't they did have a placebo-controlled though they did have a placebo correct so they were able to show that the addition of CBD and PEA dramatically reduce the lactulose mannitol ratio okay so in humans they showed that at least with this particular test leaky gut improved they took it one step further these guys are mean it's like it but I would publish the first part sure been eureka and they do this one and the lightweight I wait for it right let's take molecules which of the exact size of bacterial life policy okay without causing sepsis important so they found these text rents called FB for nifty 10 which II just I love science minds work were somebody just goes let's get the exact size because the size thing right and if it crosses then we know that they're going to react to the lie proposed record of the to react to the bacteria these happen to be very similar to the size of E. coli and I commend what sucker with the other one was basically very common G.I. pathogen okay that we would actually act both CBD and PEA reduced the FD four and FD 10 transfers well so people were paying that so they're using it like a lactulose mannitol test and why this is relevant is because this is the first time in humans that two compounds have a mechanism to repair mucosal induced wiki that's impressive and they believe it's through changes in the tight junction receptors and something called optimal Warren three in the ileum I'm not her that I've not heard of it either as it turns out aqua porn three is something that in Crohn's disease gets upregulated to try to absorb more water so you don't get dehydrated so insight it's a mechanism that the body knows that the got is inflamed and you want to absorb more water so you can survive longer as you can go three days without water or if you have too much diary of that old new depleted share of the 30 days with food so it's an incredible mechanism that you can't beat mother nature yet it you you give it you give what the body needs it's going to do this so what they theorize that this is why it may be really useful inflammatory goddesses so in my space this is an incredible find where we've got did I get a lot of Crohn's and colitis have got a lot of the people with that I can at least look at them and say look I think that this might help because of this mechanism when you look at the research with mega spore biotic disease claim you're talking about mechanisms the mechanism makes sense and many of my colleagues on and believing that God so it's very hard to actually talk about hey I want to tell you about a disease process and then I will tell you how this molecule that you probably don't know anything about is you help and this is what were to get into the next half hour you know that the whole process of how you sit there and educate and where people, and that's what Lacey did to get a great incredible background but how do you educate someone on a benefit when they don't even know that the disease exists that's out white noise that we are talking about so well they forget to go through your your history and how you got to where you are but just we got just a couple of minutes what do you think since you are a director of business and the hemp industry when you hear new levels of validation for the application of hemp products and it's not it's not just subjective this is object of data what does that do to embolden the effort of education in and around CPD yeah I think two things come to mind one is thirst just a vacuum waiting to be filled bigger than we can imagine for science backed argument for what's going on that many many people can just anecdotally express but don't know what type of context or framework to put it in in the number two it's communication there are so many people waking up to what this seems to be and in doing so few sources to go to and also buyers in the CBD market needing a eight 1/2 a a simple message that resonates that speaks truth above all the noise in the market that is confusing it and probably in it in itself based on a lot of nonsense it's it's difficult to explain but it's just stressing that everybody coming in and taking a look needs to be brought in in in a way that that is anchored to truth to the best of our ability so that they can make the best decisions for themselves and I think that so what we I am a graduate student that helps us and she send me articles like this weekly she's like talk about this on your show this is really cool and this is a thick thick thick article so every time I talk to people my colleagues to traditional MDs go there's no science behind it like alone on yeah I got thousands of articles looking at the site you just haven't taken the time to do. Not a drug rep show up and go here's the detail piece we have been Pavlovian training that we should look at anything unless you have lunch in your that is that is the truth so that is going around up this half-hour going to be back here in just a moment but looking to bring back some context behind Lake Paris and see all in just a couple minutes this is the only 24 hour take anywhere platforms dedicated to food and fun queer spoony writing this hour from Townhall.com I'm Wally Hines marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day by honoring it survivors and the fallen June 6, 1944 operation overlord that massive Allied land and sea invasion of the French coast that began Nazi Germany's downfall help and World War II a year later to the Americans that fought there you are among the very greatest Americans who will ever live speaking your Omaha beach the president called them the pride of the nation French leader Emmanuel LeCrone said his nation thanks them and the other Allied troops who broke 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product for IBS and bloating can't but is that mean well that means that we have done rigorous testing on it so if you happen to be an Olympic athlete a college athlete or somebody wants to make sure that what you take there was a recent study that just came out yesterday on how they were warning teenagers lots of increase to ER visits were teenagers returning to weight loss products and sport supplements that the finding lots of nefarious ingredients in their pharmaceutical stuff and that's NSF guarantees that none of that stuff exists and so that's outcome if even if you're an athlete's polyphenols can help you recover they increase nitric oxide to the muscles and they get rid of reactive nitrogen species and reactive oxygen species is Quickstart you know last week I have been there were two physicians that deal with athletes and A's they saw the NSF Marne moniker which doesn't always mean a whole lot to everyone but when you're with athletes it matters to they came up and they said that's really cool that you have that that means that we can use that and I didn't know I knew nothing about NSF until I was contacted by the registered dietitian it was on staff from the Oakland Raiders and wanted to know if I could sell them in bulk Sinatra and Teal for them to distribute amongst the coaches and the wives of players in a civil what about the players and he said Wiley if you not NSF certified is not anything that we can do with it and that's really went through me and I learned that they have a collective bargaining agreement with that includes the recommendations from physicians and dietitians that work in the MLB NFL most NCAA sanctioned whatchamacallit schools they have to adhere to NSF or for cleanliness and the other thing we are such a geek out little bit the polyphenols and are trying to do something really cool related to the under cannabinoid system to assure that is well basically you have your own endogenous cannabinoids that your body uses to stimulate your ECS and it just so happens that FAH is one particular enzyme that breaks down those Indo cannabinoids where they are supposed to function and if you are light in your polyphenol intake that enzyme may be a little bit more reactive than you need to be and so your ECS or your Indo cannabinoid system tense not function at its optimal level so having enough daily polyphenols can actually enhance the ability for your CBD both the oil you CBD you may be taking but as well as your endogenous cannabinoids to work better so one of his recovers and is absorbed this matter until one of the reasons why we teamed up powered by lexical KPMG health CBD is because they do everything right from the beginning to the end soil to bottle there they have certificate of analysis and we have our guest today at Lafe Harrison who happens to be the what is your official title Dir. business development director of business development and his pathway to get there it is really interesting yes it is and what you find out when we get through all of this is that a company like… All is really finding some very intelligent very well-rounded people to bring some legitimacy to this industry which really although it's been around it's been referenced since Chinese medicine 2400 BC or whatever it is a retard little little shows right now it seems really fairly new and there's a lot of people out there, the wild West and so they tracked a guy like you down and working to go through setting one of the cool things is your background we talked about your 40 day fast in the mental discipline and your calling by God to go ahead and do that that shows your character but where you come from I think is absolutely amazing so bad now so you filled out a questionnaire like we ask everyone to do and you were born in Phoenix and then I know if you ended up in Annapolis and the Naval Academy so you my life tell us little bit about what that would drive you to join the Naval the Naval Academy and and what that experience was like in the 80s while this was the 80s so wasn't exactly spoke I was Piccoli without the marijuana I actually grew up in the Midwest in Ohio but believe it or not a group a competitive sailor from probably age 8 on and did well enough that by the time I got through high school I got enough accolades to actually draw the attention of the sailing coach at the Naval Academy and at the time they were like multi-year NCAA champions so minus the sailing well is probably it was probably accommodation two things I got me and one was a sailing one was us is right in that sweet spot of the Reagan Lehman Navy build up for the for the 600 ship Navy at the time so they were just allowing more people in sure and caress you a quick question because whenever people come on the show like I'm two years ago we had Robo on Mike how did you become a professional rodeo got how does one get into saline and like what you start with that right so my dad was an extremely gifted mechanical engineer and through a job change to Ohio he got surrounded by other high-end engineers who were actually in this very high performance sailing world and so they sailed us one type of boat, 505 and this boat was very technically demanding and so for an engineer who could like to tinker on at the same time that's what his draw was but the ask my parents became very good sailors and then I just brought in that world 24 seven whatsit 505 is that calico catamaran or it's it's actually it's metric so it gets stands for like really 5.05 m that was the length of the boat it was just called the 505 but was very similar to some of the high-performance boats they would say looked in the Olympics at the time and so you didn't like start out like when you find like when people become Formula One race car drivers a start on go carts in the work… As you do so there are there are many different kinds of boats to fit many different kinds of of capabilities and goals and so you can really progress sort of graduate almost like you know tadpole to admit oh you know all I can and going up the dolphin you don't get your badges along the way sailing is a lot like that and then coincidentally at the same time as when windsurfing was born so my folks again just happen to be at the right spot where there were less than maybe 8000 windsurfers the entire world this is right at the beginning in the mid-70s they had them so I learned how to do that at the same time so I was almost parallel paths and then again by the time I got to high school I was good enough to you know finish well at national championships and things like that and then from that unexpectedly get the attention of the coach of the Naval Academy and the next thing I know is essentially I did just well enough on SATs and all the other requirements everybody else had that I the opportunity to go that is no joke Naval Academy is a me when you say that it's just immediately total respect to me that's that is an impressive place to get your education without question and then so your expanse the Naval Academy were you on our competitive on the sailing team for all four years are yet I did it for 3 1/2 3 1/2 years I decided to snow last semester to shut it down but it was it was her it was a that was some schedule I mean so if you go from being sort of spy coleus in high school okay right to then bang your on the other extent other extreme of hard regimen hard academics hard hours commitment me know I was probably between it's between academics and sailing I be like you have a few hours a week you know to myself we talk about it with our kids you're your son's age of 17 he is looking at colleges my sons a competitive tennis player you start realizing why when you choose take that scholarship to a college it's a job and no matter what it is was talking about it he went and did rodeo in his college yet in your dislike I don't care if it's football sailing rodeo no matter what you do and that's a job gets a job yet rated the sport probably took 35 to 40 hours a week just on the sport while my goodness what so your experience the Naval Academy beyond the sailing your degree you math I got about her science and mathematics that's fantastic and that not being a about whether brought under looks all right your math acumen I don't think they say that well I had so bit. Probably a lot of your experience along the way is the reason they brought you on and I know when your Naval Academy you you did become a parachutist and so what did that entail what you were trained to jump from planes and what kind of training that right so part of the professionalism the motor professionalism you undergo at the Academy is are you sort of summer experiences that are required so if you think of a normal through three months of summer they fill it up with two in terms of various kinds of training depending on what grade you're at the Academy so one of the summers generally one of those two months that you have to do is set your aunt ureter on a ship or you're getting a variety of sort of worldwide naval experience of submarines aircraft the Marines all kinds of things very cool but the other month is more elective and if you could pass the required tests you could do things like go to Army Airborne school at Fort Benning Georgia where the soldiers go we could get scuba training or jungle training in Panama there were all kinds of things at that time this is your electric playing going to be in the jungle to raise cool man was bowling so you see you selected to go to Georgia and jump on a plane what was that like it was okay I mean notes the Army way so they took three weeks to teach you something you can learn in a week so just in San Antonio where I said that we were just there but I did my training and so we would have to rotate your fellowship at Wilford Hall and Brooke Army base and totally cracked jokes like that the whole time on each other generate yeah it's inevitable it never stops so it's funny because you know you go through this training and it's you know it's the Army world and you just have to play ball for a few weeks but it's also the same training that that seals would go to after buds because it was the only sort of real formal basic parachuting school to go to like the Army would send their rangers to her their airborne guys to that type of thing those guys would just stand there and laugh the whole time I mean the Army you know sergeants running this program they didn't even know what to do with them but this is just some boxer seals had to check it out to her for those guys standing around and you wouldn't touch him with a 10 foot pole but you know you're just trying to like that with the young soldiers notice these other kinds of guys out there and

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University is a key contributor in the support of Veteran entrepreneurs and research on transitioning Veterans. In the past, we have spoken with IVMF's Director, Mike Haynie, and their Manager for Managing Director for Programs and Services, Jim McDonough. This week, we talk with Nicholas Armstrong, IVMF's Senior Director for Research and Policy. Nick began his career as an Army field artillery officer upon graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 2000. In the Army, he served seven years on active duty, including nearly three years deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Bosnia with the 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), during which he received two Bronze Star Medals and the Combat Action Badge, among other commendations. In addition, Nick served as a speechwriter to the commanding general of the 10th Mountain Division and Fort Drum, NY, as well as aide-de-camp to the division’s deputy commanding general. Nick is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Airborne, Air Assault, and Ranger Schools. Serving in his current role since 2014, Nick developed and leads a multi-disciplinary team comprised of social, behavioral, and data scientists, student analysts, and an extended network of affiliated scholars and experts. He manages a broad portfolio of sponsored research, program measurement, and evaluation efforts to inform the social, economic, wellness, and related policy concerns of the nation’s veterans and their families. In addition, Nick is responsible for the IVMF’s data analytics, quality, and decision support activities that guide the Institute’s operations to serve, annually, more than 20,000 veterans and family members nationwide and abroad. Nick joins Borne the Battle to discuss his experience in the Army, his efforts at IVMF, and some key research from the institute that provides essential information on transitioning Veterans.

July 2, 2018 - Our time machine strikes gold in Nevada’s Comstock Lode — a world-record vein so immensely valuable that it changed the destiny of the United States as the Civil War loomed. Our guide on this journey is Gregory Crouch who brings us: The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Riches in the American West. It's the history-making, rags-to-riches story of an Irish immigrant who made his fortune, won the love of his adopted country -- and then fell from the national memory in part because nobody had a bad word to say about him. Gregory Crouch's previous books include the World War II flying adventure China's Wings and the alpine memoir Enduring Patagonia. He studied history at the United States Military Academy at West Point, completed U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger schools, and led two infantry platoons. Visit him at GregCrouch.com, Facebook.com/GregoryCrouchAuthor, @GregoryCrouch on Twitter, or Gregory.Crouch on Instagram.            

This week's podcast guest is retired U.S. Army Capt and Medal of Honor winner, Florent "Flo" Groberg. Flo was born in Poissy, France and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2001. Flo went to high school with my wife at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Md. Groberg attended the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) and competed in varsity track and cross country. In May 2006, Groberg graduated from UMD with a bachelor's degree in criminology and criminal justice. Groberg entered the Army and attended Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga. He received his commission as an infantry officer, Dec. 4, 2008. After completing Infantry Officer Basic Course, Mechanized Leaders Course, U.S. Army Airborne and U.S. Army Ranger Schools, he was assigned to the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colo., as a platoon leader. In November 2009, he deployed to Afghanistan as part of Task Force Lethal, with responsibility for the Pech River Valley in Afghanistan's Kunar Province. Upon returning home in June 2010, he continued serving as a platoon leader until he was reassigned as an infantry company executive officer from October 2010 to November 2011. He was then assigned as the brigade personal security detachment commander for 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. He deployed again to Kunar Province, Afghanistan, in February of 2012, with Task Force Mountain Warrior. He was promoted to captain in July 2012. As a result of his actions, Groberg sustained the loss of 45 to 50 percent of his left calf muscle with significant nerve damage, a blown eardrum, and a mild traumatic brain injury. Groberg spent his recovery at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center from August 2012 through May 2015. He was medically retired from Company B Warriors, Warrior Transition Battalion, as a captain, July 23, 2015. Groberg's awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal with one Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster, the Purple Heart, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal with one Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal with three Bronze Service Stars; the Global War on Terrorism Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Army Service Ribbon, the Overseas Service Ribbon, the NATO Medal, the Combat Infantryman Badge, the U.S. Army Parachutists Badge, the U.S. Army Ranger Tab, and the Meritorious Unit Commendation. You can follow Flo on Twitter: @FlorentGroberg and read his book, 8 Seconds of Courage.  Also, if you liked this episode and others, please support us at Patreon or follow me on Twitter: @brianlevenson or Instagram: @IntentionalPerformers. Thanks, Brian

U.S. Army Airborne soldiers and Serbian Special Forces train alongside each other during exercise Double Eagle Serbia 2017. News break produced by Airman First Class Deven Schultz.

In every band of brothers, there is always one who looks out for the rest. For the Easy Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Army Airborne, the legendary fighting unit of World War II, the one man every soldier in Easy Company looked up to was Major Richard D. Winters. “Biggest Brother” is the story of an ordinary man who became an extraordinary hero-from Winters' childhood in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, through the war years in which his natural skill as a leader elevated him through the ranks in combat, to now, decades later, when he may finally be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions on D-Day. Larry Alexander has been a journalist and columnist for the Intelligencer Journal newspaper in Lancaster, PA for more than a decade, winning numerous awards for excellence in journalism. He grew up on the same street in the same town as Major Dick Winters, three decades later.

   In this episode we welcome threatmanagementcenter.com founder Dale Brown. Dale C. Brown is the founder of The Detroit Threat Management Center located in Detroit. Commander Brown created Eclectikan survival tactical training systems in 1993.This training system is comprised of tactical psychology, tactical law and tactical skills, to teach communities and corporations how to properly manage human threats and create non-violent outcomes. In 1995, on the eastside of Detroit, Commander Brown officially formed the V.I.P.E.R.S. (Violence Intervention Protective Emergency Response System). A bodyguard tactical training program that emphasizes the importance of mission motivated altruistic community service. The organization became known for helping the community, by stopping home invasions and murders that had been a problem for many years prior. This resulted in a good quality of life for the residents who lived in the community. The byproduct of which meant that the building owners went into the black for the first time in twenty years and the police department received accolades for a 90% reduction in violent crime and 911 calls.  In 1997, the Survival Scouts Program was created to teach youth urban survival skills and proper work ethic. Youths, ages 4 to 17, were taught Basic Self-Defense, Gunfire Evasion, Basic First Aid, Conflict Avoidance, Personal Discipline, Threat Awareness, and Problem Solving. In 1998, Commander Brown stopped hijackings of delivery trucks for a $250 million dollar company operating in Detroit. This company experienced injured workers and substantial financial losses despite federal, state and local law enforcement efforts to stop these crimes. As a direct result of Dale C. Brown’s V.I.P.E.R.S. strategic tactical system, this company is now a 300 million dollar company and remains a current client.  In 2005 Commander Brown’s V.I.P.E.R.S. Program mounted a volunteer rescue mission during the first weekend of the storm to assist families who were Hurricane Katrina victims. The Threat Management Center C.E.R.T. Unit worked with law enforcement in New Orleans and deployed with U.S. Army Airborne assigned to the U.S. Navy Destroyer Tortuga. The rescue operations were conducted throughout the flooded New Orleans area. This same year, the Oakland County Prosecutors office awarded Dale Brown and the Detroit Treat Management Center an award for helping stalking victims.  In 2006, Dale C. Brown opened The Threat Management Center located in Detroit and began offering classes to the public as well as law enforcement officers for free. This same year, The Detroit Threat Management Center began its maritime nautical rescues assisting private boat owners in distress in the waterways bordering the U.S and Canada.  In 2007, Channel 2 Fox News interviewed and reported about the community service that Dale and the Detroit Threat Management Center provides stalking victims and domestic abuse victims. The Detroit Threat Management Center has been featured on both Fox 2 News and Channel 4 Detroit News, as recently as March 2011. In 2011, The Detroit Threat Management Center was featured in the Detroit Institute of Arts for promoting non-violent positive outcomes and helping ordinary Detroit citizens empower themselves against violent predators. This same year, The Detroit Threat Management Center was featured on Fox 2 News for reuniting a 2 year old child with her mother. The child was taken from Arizona and brought to Detroit against the mothers will. The Detroit Threat Management Center reunited the 2 year old child with her mother without any violence. The Detroit Threat Management Center has been assisting the local domestic violence shelters in reuniting the children with their parents, as recently as November 2013.  In 2012, The Detroit Threat Management Center teamed up with the Detroit Branch of the NAACP for an important and potentially lifesaving training session for youths that was borne out of the Trayvon Martin tragedy. As part of its Fight for Freedom weekend event program, the NAACP conducted “Cops & Stops,” a two-hour interactive session at Cobo Center that aimed to prevent deadly street encounters like the one that took Martin's life after a street encounter with David Zimmerman, who has since been acquitted of murder charges. The purpose of the scenarios was to demonstrate the right and wrong ways to interact with law enforcement officials, neighborhood watch members or overzealous armed citizens. This same year, Commander Dale Brown and The Detroit Threat Management Center on February 28th received an award from Kenneth Cockrel and The Detroit City Council for providing community service, protecting and sheltering of the domestic violence victims in the city of Detroit and Wayne County.  In 2013, Commander Brown and The Threat Management Center received certification from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) in Weapons of Mass Destruction Tactical Operations. Since 2004 Commander Brown and The Threat Management Center V.I.P.E.R.S. Program have been assisting the Detroit Police department and FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) in active shooter and anti-terrorism training. The Threat Management Center has successfully developed tactics, strategies, and logistics to deter, detect and defend corporations and communities from both internal and external sources of violence using primarily non-violent methods. The success of this community-based organization has evolved to include high level corporate facilitation. Corporations discovered the success and discipline of the personnel within the organization and have retained the Threat Management Center for training workshops and referral of protective service professionals. The Threat Management Center’s history of success has led to high profile protective assignments.

On today’s show: House Armed Services Committee finally approves a plan to block A-10 from retirement! Adaptive storage stock….it’s horrible and frankly, we can’t see any practicality in this carbine accessory. Pentagon looking to explain why the US Marine Corps and US Army shoot different variations of 5.56 ammo.  With massive cut backs in defense […] The post Army Airborne Testing Ultra Lightweight Combat Vehicles appeared first on Military News Talk Radio and Military Podcast - Chairborne Commandos.

Starbuck's Coffee Frm Exec Vice President Happy Holiday's & Cheers to a Great New Year 2015. This week's theme is about Meaningful Networking. As I sip my Starbuck's Chestnut Praline Latte , I talk to my guest who has served as: *Executive Vice President of Starbuck's Coffee * Executive Board of NASDAQ Sterling Financial * A Voting Member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. This year she was appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for the Arts and the Humanities Paula Boggs also fronts a rock band, with an album "Carnival of Miracles,", a voting member of National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences and owner of Boggs Media, LLC. She is also a seasoned executive, lawyer, board member and public speaker seeking opportunities that capitalize on my leadership talents and make the world better. She led the global law department of Starbucks Coffee Company for 10 years, was on its executive team and secretary of the Starbucks Foundation. Before Starbucks, Paula was an executive 5 years in the technology industry (Dell Corporation.) Paula was appointed to the President's Committee for the Arts and the Humanities and served on the White House Council for Community Solutions. She have serve 20 years in the American Bar Association's House of Delegates and 16 years as a Johns Hopkins University Trustee where She chaired the audit committee,was a member of the Carey Business School and Peabody Institute Dean Search Committees, chair the student life committee, and serve on the executive and academic affairs committees alongside the Peabody National Advisory Board. Paula served on NASDAQ's Sterling Financial, Inc board until its acquisition by Umpqua Bank, serve on boards of School of Rock LLC, a portfolio company of private equity firm Sterling Capital and NPR-affiliate KEXP as secretary, executive committee member and capital campaign co-chair. She has held a variety of professional and community leadership roles over the past 25+ years and am an Army Airborne ~ veteran.www.paulaboggsband.net © 2014 BuildingAbundantSuccess!! Join Me on Facebook @ Facebook.com/BuildingAbundantSuccess