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Veterans Voices AI Live Episode 1 · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  Hey, I'm Ace. Welcome to Vet Voice AI.
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  Around here. We believe veterans shouldn't
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  have to figure everything out alone.
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  Sometimes the right conversation or connection can change
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  everything. This show is about real
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  veterans, veteran owned businesses and organizations
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  doing good work in our community.
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  And your host, a Marine veteran, lifelong entrepreneur and the
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  guy behind the Veteran Directory network and Vet Voice AI.
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  Here's BJ Bronstad. Well, welcome to veteran voice
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  AI and so this is a story time and the reason is really simple
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  for those of you who've never met me, my name is BJ Bronsted.
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  I have been a lifelong entrepreneur.
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  Matter of fact, if you've ever looked me up online it for those
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  of you who want to know my true identity, you have to keep it a
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  secret promise not to tell that's right.
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  I am the one and only Superman. So I grew up on an Avon.
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  My mom was an Avon I had a crack through my skull from an
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  accident as an infant. I had to go through speech
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  therapy, was never supposed to read, write or talk.
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  And so this is very important for me in the fact that I've
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  been in major market radio. That's why I sound like a DJ and
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  I've done all of those other things.
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  And this is full circle because it's going something near and
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  dear and that is celebrating the success of the businesses, like
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  the T-shirt I'm wearing right here, that voice AI celebrating
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  the success of what they do. So if you'll notice, I've got a
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  T-shirt here for my Friday. Remember, everyone deployed and
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  this is from till Valhalla project.
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  And we're going to bring them up here in a minute.
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  And we're going to bring in my Co host and another veteran
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  who's just a day or two older than I am, coach Papa Tim
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  Stewart. And we're going to be covering
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  the amazing stories of these transformational organizations.
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  So not just for profit nonprofit and also veteran owned small
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  businesses. So they share their stories with
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  me. And again, my background was
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  doing search engine optimization as an agency that means helping
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  local small businesses get found online.
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  And so that's been my passion for decades, over 2 decades.
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  And I wanted to take that same passion and really bring the
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  voice of the customers of these incredible veterans and their
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  businesses and bring it full circle and bring it to you
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  because they make an impact in my life.
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  And I thought, why not continue to share because one of the
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  things that they tell me each and every time I'm talking to
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  these business owners and nonprofit owners is getting
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  found and getting that word out right.
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  And so I thought, let's connect the dots.
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  And that's why I say we are connected veterans.
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  You are one connection away. So let's get into our first
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  story. And that one is going to be.
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  And if you haven't noticed, there is a old Marine Corps flag
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  that's seen some action, if you will not combat action, just
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  action in general. It's been on a flagpole and and
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  a storm got it. But I'm not going to throw a
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  Marine Corps flag away. So I replaced it.
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  And that one now gets to cover the teleprompter in the
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  background. So that if you're curious what's
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  under that, it's a teleprompter. It's a giant TV basically.
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  So that is going to lead us into our first story that is actually
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  about a Marine. So I'm going to check the back
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  office and if you will, the back studio green room, see if Coach
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  is ready. If Coach is not, I'm going to go
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  ahead and start reading the story of a marine.
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  And again, that's why we're here.
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  It's all about the story because it, you know, I, I, I can't say
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  it enough. It's not about my story.
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  It's about your story. It's about the customer story.
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  It's about the veterans because that's why we're here.
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  So let's jump into the story, shall we?
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  So our first story comes to us and this is together we served.
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  So I'm going to change out something right now, so bear
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  with me as I'm clicking on I've got I'm surrounded by monitors.
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  If you hadn't figured that out. And that's why I'm looking all
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  over the place like a crazy person.
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  So our first one comes from together we served and this is
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  their website. I'm going to go ahead and hide
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  me and their story. They connect veterans, that's
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  what they've been doing. If you look at the numbers,
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  largest U.S. military veteran directory, helping veterans
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  connect and they've got them for each of the branches.
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  It's absolutely amazing what they're doing.
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  So our first story comes to a service reflection from a
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  Marine. Now that Marine is a gentleman
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  by the name of Larry. He was a corporal in the United
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  States Marine Corps back in 1957 and 19 to 1963.
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  So we're going to go through and just highlight some of what he
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  said and what makes this absolutely amazing as far as
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  sharing. So what inspired him, right?
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  That's one of the the questions that together we serve.
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  They have a number of questions that you answer when you sign up
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  for them. I again, highly recommend it.
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  So follow me. Let me just give you a back
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  story here. So Larry says, when I was in the
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  6th grade, I picked up a book that somebody had thrown in the
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  trash. It was called Follow Me and it
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  was totally about the Marine Corps in World War Two.
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  Well, after reading that book, I knew not only I donated the book
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  to the library because that's how Larry was, but he also knew
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  for sure he was going to be a United States Marine.
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  So when asked whether you were in the service for several years
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  or career, what really stands out as a distinction along your
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  path? Was it boot camp units, bases,
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  ships? What was really memorable about
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  that? So he goes in, he says, well, at
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  my last re enlistment interview, I had previously requested to be
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  a drill instructor. If you don't know what those
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  are, those are the people that shout at you in boot camp and we
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  can go all through that. That's a, that's a whole
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  different set for a whole different day.
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  But he said at my last re enlistment interview, I had
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  previously requested to be a drill instructor and go to drill
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  instructor school. And I, you know, for a while was
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  on this floating cruise that they called a BN cruise and they
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  said, well, we really can't guarantee anything but if you do
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  get in re enlist, we can promise Sergeant.
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  So if I re enlisted, I could have been promoted.
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  This is Larry's words, of course, but I was just kind of
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  looking at all of the things and all of the options.
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  So at that time, the core was down to about 170,000 men.
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  And one of my buddies, one of the guys he had served with
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  requested DI school and it was about a year previous and we
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  were both turned down because they were only taking O threes.
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  So the O threes and O3 elevens, if you know what that is, that's
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  infantry in the Marine Corps. So they wanted infantry guys to
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  go into the drill instructor field.
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  And at this time, Larry was a 4312.
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  That means he was in communication.
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  And so he was a communication guy, journalist in
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  communication. And his or his buddy was the
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  4312. He was an O 141, so Needless to
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  say, he requested an extension on his current assignment and
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  got promoted to Sergeant. But later that year when he
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  received orders to DI school, it was in Nam.
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  In other words, Vietnam started getting active, so they changed
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  the requirements. And it was at that point that
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  they literally took all of the O3 elevens, all the inventory
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  out of that drill instructor to go to combat.
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  And they made it so that the corpse decided drill instructors
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  wanted excellent Marine, excellent Marines, regardless of
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  their MOS. And so his career that he had
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  decided he was going to do decided to continue.
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  Well, he retired after 22 years as a major.
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  He kept in touch with all of as many of the guys as he could.
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  So when they asked, well, what was one of your favorite or
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  least favorite things? And he says, well, since grade
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  school he had played sports and year round he was always in
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  excellent shape. So when he got to boot camp, he
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  said he was actually kind of, well disappointed in the fact
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  that he was already in great shape.
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  He expected to have even more success than what he was having.
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  So he said, wow, you know, it's it's you know, and he did add
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  weight, which was kind of crazy. He says it was sure wasn't for
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  the food in the mess hall. Now, if you've ever been in a
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  Marine Corps mess hall in drill instructor, as far as when
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  you're learning to be a Marine and you're still not a Marine,
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  you go to the mess hall, you stand in line, they put the the
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  food on your plate and you literally it is a duck and go
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  and you literally shovel the food in as you're walking to the
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  door. So you walk in the door, put
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  food on your plate and you walk to the door.
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  And as this line of Marines is going, future Marines is going
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  down, there's these trash cans at the end and you are shoveling
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  it in. Some people use their hands,
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  some people use silverware. Some people just eat off the
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  plate and literally you're eating as fast as you can.
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  And that wasn't always the case in boot camp, but at sometimes
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  depending on what you did as a unit, because everything is done
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  as a unit, you're only as strong as your weakest link.
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  So you never wanted to be the weakest link.
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  So Larry goes on, he says for your entire military, the
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  question is for your entire military service.
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  Can you describe the military and or any memories that you
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  reflect on? And he says, well, he goes, I
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  served as a reserve liaison for one summer as a staff Sergeant.
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  And when asked if I could have, you know, he was talking to his
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  then up or his leader, right, the gentleman in command is up
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  command. And he said, Sir, he goes, what
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  is there anything that you would have done differently?
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  Well, the gentleman that he served with, right, his master
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  Sergeant of the of that time says, well, he goes, if you
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  think about it, he was I enlisted in 1918.
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  He goes, had I enlisted or he enlisted in 1919, he says, had I
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  enlisted in 1918, he goes, I could have actually been in
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  World War One, World War 2 and Korea.
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  So that was so literally he was talking about a long, long
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  career. So now let's jump into the rest
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  of the story. And I'm going to I'm not going
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  to just ramble on. I'm going to bring on coach here
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  in a minute. And I'm also going to jump back
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  on camera because now you know, if you've never gone to their
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  website, let me bring up their website and I am going to do
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  it's togetherweserved.com. So when they asked, well, which
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  individual from your time in the military stood out, Larry said,
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  well, you know, I can't really think of 1 because above all of
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  them because I really appreciate the Esprit decor and all of them
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  that were there. So that is where he's at.
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  And let's jump in and throw up their website.
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  If I've got it LinkedIn there. I don't.
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  Well, that's all right. So you can see it right here and
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  you can go to Till we Served and jump in.
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  Let me jump back on camera for you.
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  Now that I've done some reading, we're going to jump in, see if I
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  can bring Coach in. And that's right, I'm still
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  here. Welcome back.
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  All right, so let's change out our background to our cool
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  background once again, and we're going to go ahead and jump with
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  Coach. I'm going to see if Coach is
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  ready to add to the stage and we're going to bring in now
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  Coach, by the way, is it the director of Combat Brain
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  Training? And as the director of Combat
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  Brain Training, he has lots of experience.
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  He's also, and we'll let Coach tell you his story.
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  Coach, you ready to jump in here?
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  And we're going to see if we can add Coach Papa.
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  While we're adding Coach Papa, we're going to switch back to
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  our background. There is Coach Papa.
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  There we are. So this is Coach Papa, Captain
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  Tim Stewart, Coach Papa, for the viewing audience who's never
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  heard about that flag behind you.
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  Would you mind sharing that while I grab a drink of water?
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  Certainly. Walk through a County Courthouse
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  square on a park bench. An old man was sitting there.
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  I said your old courthouse is kind of rundown, he said.
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  Nah, it'll do for our little town.
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  I said. Your flagpoles leaned a little
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  bit and that's a ragged old flag you have hanging on it.
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  He said, have a seat. So I sat down.
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  Is this the first time you've been to our little town?
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  I said, I think it is. He said, I don't like to brag,
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  but we're kind of proud of that ragged old flag.
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  You see, it got a little hole in that flag there when Washington
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  took it across the Delaware and he got powder burned the night
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  ripped. Francis Scott Key said, watching
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  it writing, Jose, can you see? Got a bad RIP down in New
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  Orleans with packing him and Jackson tugging at the seams and
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  and she almost fell at the Alamo beside the Texas flag but she
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  waved on through. She got cut by a sword at
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  Chancellorsville. She got cut again at Shiloh
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  Hill. There was Robert E Lee,
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  Beauregard and Bragg in the South.
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  Wind blew hard on that ragged old flag Flanders field in World
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  War One. She got a big hole from a berth
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  again. She turned blood red in World
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  War 2. She had limp and low before that
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  was through. She was in Korea and Vietnam.
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  She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam.
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  She waved over our ships upon the briny foam, and now they've
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  about quit waving her back. Here at home, in her own good
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  land, she's been abused. She's been burned, dishonored,
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  denied and refused, and the government for which she stands
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  is scandalized. Throughout the land.
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  She's getting threadbare and wearing thin, but she's in good
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  shape for the shape she's in because she's been through the
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  fire before and I believe she can take a whole lot more.
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  So we raise her up every morning, take her down every
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  night. We don't let her touch the
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  ground, and we fold her up right.
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  On second thought, I do like to brag because I'm mighty proud of
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  that ragged old flag. So I'm proud to be here too, BJ.
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  It's it's always good to connect.
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  All right. Well, thank you for for sharing
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  that with us. I think that, you know, that
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  really calls for, well, you know, a little bit.
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  Of although audience goes wild so exactly.
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  Which is better than if they had did this.
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  This is very true. This is very true.
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  So you have the distinction of being a career army and a
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  captain. You also have the distinction of
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  being a business owner. Several times over, serial
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  entrepreneur, I think they call it, yes.
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  I used to couldn't even spell it.
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  Still can't. But yeah.
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  So it's one of those words that you can't be one thing, you can
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  spell it. So OK, I, I, I grew up on a farm
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  in Western NE, a small town. How small was it?
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  I graduated 5th in my high school class and I didn't make
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  the top 30% right. We farmed about 1000 acres.
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  We raised 150 head of hogs every year.
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  We chickens, pigs, just basic old dirt farmers in the
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  Sandhills, western Nebraska. But I'll tell you the lessons I
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  learned growing up on that farm have, you know, done me well
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  throughout my life. Farmers are all natural
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  entrepreneurs. You don't really think of
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  farmers as as business owners, but the, the things I learned
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  watching my dad, I think are the things that help me become who I
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  am. As I said, made it through at
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  18. After high school, I I joined
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  the Army, went off to military police school, became a military
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  policeman and met a cute little medic named April.
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  We just had our 51st wedding anniversary.
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  So it's, you know, it's been a journey.
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  After my active duty time, I stayed in the I stayed in the
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  Army Reserve and then switched over to the Illinois Army
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  National Guard. At that point I went to the
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  Officer Candidate School, received a Commission as a
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  second Lieutenant in 1985, commanded 2 infantry companies,
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  was a senior drill instructor at the Officer Candidate School.
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  So you talked about the drill Sergeant earlier.
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  It's, you know, it's the same, same, same.
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  And then one day I retired, got my my Navajo and drove off into
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  the sunset. No fanfare, no applause, just
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  see you later. But I'll tell you what, the time
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  I spent in the military has forever forged my life.
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  And the connection I have with my military sisters and brothers
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  is is powerful. Today I'm the Senior Vice
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  Commander of the American Legion Post 491 in McHenry, IL, and my
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  wife also joined the the Legion with her veteran status.
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  Because we're both veterans, we're both qualified to be in
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  the auxiliary for the American Legion, so I hold the
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  distinction of being the only male in our auxiliary.
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  But my wife won't let me go to meetings.
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  She said those belong to her, so wow, she got to.
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  Have something? Besides that, I don't want to go
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  and have to be ordered around by 35 women either.
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  I'm good with that. I'll support them from the
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  Legion standpoint. But it's a, it's been a, a
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  journey in the combat brain training thing.
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  And actually, you said director, but I'm director of training
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  currently. So I I'm the one who certifies
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  all trainers to train others. The John Kennedy, the founder.
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  Of the program is the founder CEOCOOCOO, whatever you want to
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  call. I had a business card one time
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  that everybody had had initials after the business card, after
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  their name on the business card. So I put the initial CCBW after
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  my I handed out probably about 1000 business cards and nobody
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  asked me what those initials meant.
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  Finally somebody did he what's CCBWI says that's chief cooking
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  bottle washer. You know, when you're a one
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  person entrepreneur, you do it all.
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  You, you do the marketing, you do the sales, you close the
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  deals and then you have to do the training.
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  And sometimes it wouldn't have it any other way.
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  But sometimes you're, you know, you're just chasing your tail in
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  a circle so fast it seems like you're not getting anything
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  done. And I think that's where the
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  power of that voice AI is coming in from what I see, because
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  having a support group out there, you know, there are
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  people in all different types of business who are, who are
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  veterans. And when you have a veteran
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  support and a veteran, we do it just a little bit differently,
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  whether we think about it consciously or not.
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  But it's another veteran we're serving.
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  We, we take it a little more seriously, We do it a little bit
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  more honorably. You know, today, our, our, our,
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  our colleges have taken loyalty out of the picture.
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  Our businesses today, our culture has taken loyalty out of
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  the picture. You know, I was listening to the
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  watching the NCAA tournament, which I do every year.
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  I I coached over 5000 athletes in my career in basketball and
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  soccer, my primary 2 sports. I'm watching the NCAA.
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  And one of the things that caught me off guard, Johnny is a
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  senior here at UCLA now. Johnny last year scored 4221
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  points for Notre Dame and his his freshman year he came in
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  through Georgia and I'm like, what, what is going on with all
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  of this? You know, I, I think if nothing
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  else, the time you spent in the, in the military teaches you to
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  be loyal. You know, we make, we make fun
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  of each other. I'm Army, you're Marine, my
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  brother was Navy. You know, you got the Coast
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  Guard and those fly boys that can't figure out who they are,
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  you know, and we'll tease each other and we'll banter back and
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  forth, but you mess with any of us, you got all of us.
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  Absolutely. So one of the things you
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  mentioned is and one of the things that actually got us
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  talking originally was Emma. Emma, good old Emma.
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  And I say old, she's not that old.
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  But the first time you would put Emma together and you let me
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  call her and Emma is an AI concierge basically.
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  And it just blew, blew me away. What she could answer it was you
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  told me to ask her anything and and being a little bit of the
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  goofball jokester I am, I said, Emma, could you tell me about
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  combat brain training? But do it the story like the
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  three there's you remember that. I do.
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  I've got the audio actually. So, and one of the one of the
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  nice things about this and what business owners love and
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  nonprofits and so forth, because we work with all of them is the
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  transcripts because it's voice AI.
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  So it automatically it's speech to speech nowadays our system
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  anyways, not all of them are. So it literally is faster, it's
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  more human like. And then it also gives us a
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  transcript that is, you know, very accurate and allows us to
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  be able to really know. So if you're a business owner
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  now you get to actually know what your customer is looking
• 23:56
  for directly before you ever talk to them.
• 23:58
  So it really is fabulous in the fact of getting the insights
• 24:02
  because we've all had employees being entrepreneurs that maybe
• 24:06
  didn't pass along 1000% of every detail and sometimes those
• 24:12
  little details really make the difference.
• 24:16
  They certainly can. As this is a show about success
• 24:23
  and we have combat brain training in our background right
• 24:26
  now, thanks to the fabulous screen capture software, What
• 24:34
  would what can you tell me? You've got just hundreds you and
• 24:41
  John have. So John Kennedy, the founder,
• 24:44
  you have hundreds and hundreds of success stories from there.
• 24:47
  Do you want to share one of them or, and maybe we got the young
• 24:52
  man there. So maybe if we could do one for
• 24:55
  for, you know, combat veterans and PTSD and traumatic brain
• 24:59
  injuries. And then maybe if we could share
• 25:01
  one for like I had with the ADHD or maybe not mine, I'll I can do
• 25:07
  that, but maybe a different one that is like a sports related
• 25:11
  you've got. Well, yeah, we we can certainly
• 25:13
  have that conversation. But I got to tell you, I, I, you
• 25:16
  know, I didn't catch on real quick.
• 25:18
  Again, I'm a farm boy and you know, as farm boys we can be a
• 25:21
  little slow on the uptake some days.
• 25:23
  And John was a guest on our radio show.
• 25:26
  The show was 2 ball guys and a microphone and I heard about
• 25:30
  this combat brain training and it connected with me because I'm
• 25:33
  an infantry officer. Combat brain, the ability to
• 25:37
  make rapid decisions and stressful environments and carry
• 25:40
  them out with confidence. I thought wow this is this is
• 25:43
  great. But another guest came in I got
• 25:46
  sidetracked. That was in 20/18/2020.
• 25:50
  I was the head SOCOR coach for Wilmot High School and Wilmot,
• 25:55
  Wisconsin. And the pandemic comes along and
• 25:58
  they wouldn't let me be on the field with, with my girls, but
• 26:00
  they'd let me be on Zoom. I can't catch the, you know, the
• 26:04
  COVID over the Zoom. So I'd bring speakers in.
• 26:07
  I remember this guy John Kennedy and John, you know, I called him
• 26:11
  up. Would you come on Zoom and, and,
• 26:13
  and do a combat brain training for my girls?
• 26:15
  So heard about it in 20/18/2020. John came in and trained us over
• 26:21
  a Zoom call and that was that was really cool.
• 26:24
  And as long as we are on Zoom, I kept doing it.
• 26:27
  But when they let me get back on the soccer field, I left those
• 26:30
  little sheets and the and the duffel bag and I went back to
• 26:34
  coach. And the way I knew how to coach
• 26:36
  in 2022, another two years had gone by.
• 26:39
  It was May. I went on retreat with my church
• 26:42
  and I rode out with somebody else and I'm riding back with
• 26:45
  this guy named Brian. And Brian says, Tim, I have to
• 26:49
  apologize to you. And I said, Brian, I just met
• 26:52
  you. What are you apologizing for?
• 26:54
  He said, well, I've had six brain surgeries and I have short
• 26:57
  term memory loss. I will repeat myself on this
• 27:01
  trip. And I said you already said
• 27:03
  that. He looked at me like, no, I
• 27:06
  didn't. I said all right, you didn't,
• 27:08
  but tell me why. You know what happened.
• 27:11
  He has hydro encephalitis where they have to put shunts in his
• 27:15
  brain to relieve fluid pressure, to relieve the terrible pains he
• 27:18
  was having. And during one of those
• 27:20
  surgeries, he suffered a mini stroke.
• 27:22
  And that stroke left him with severe short term memory loss.
• 27:27
  I called John up and I said, hey, hey, John, will this this
• 27:30
  combat brain training? Will this work for Brian?
• 27:33
  I'll never forget. He says, Tim, it's a sheet full
• 27:36
  of colored arrows. It's not going to hurt him and
• 27:40
  I'll never forget that. Right.
• 27:42
  So in three sessions, Brian recovered more of his short term
• 27:47
  memory than five years of medical therapy.
• 27:50
  Now all of a sudden introduced to it in 2018, experienced it in
• 27:55
  2020. Now in 2022, it was just like
• 27:58
  somebody hit me in the head with a 2 before I got something
• 28:01
  special here and I need to do something with it.
• 28:04
  And so that's kind of how the the the background got got
• 28:07
  going. Brian, we've never done another
• 28:09
  session and he has never had an issue with his his short term
• 28:13
  memory. It's it in three sessions.
• 28:16
  It the, the the human brain is, it's the only organ of any
• 28:23
  species that has the ability to repair it, repair itself, and
• 28:28
  knows exactly how to repair itself if it's given the right
• 28:32
  tools and we have the right tools.
• 28:35
  All of our research comes out of MIT and Rochester University.
• 28:40
  Dr. Kyrie Yoshi and Doctor Christine Sue the Greidberger.
• 28:45
  So we all, we have all the scientific evidence about this.
• 28:49
  And with what John created, you know, he didn't create it
• 28:53
  thinking he's going to meet all of these requirements and just
• 28:57
  kind of came together that way. And you know, we talked about
• 29:01
  Brian, but why don't why don't we just chat about your
• 29:04
  situation for a second? I mean, we're both here live.
• 29:07
  And I know sometimes it's, it's, it's a little bit different.
• 29:11
  When we first met, you know, you were, we're at a horse farm.
• 29:17
  Our my granddaughter is out mucking the stalls with your
• 29:20
  wife. And you had a Marine shirt on.
• 29:22
  And I kind of gave you a hard time because that's, that's what
• 29:25
  I do. And I pulled out the sheet of
• 29:27
  arrows. We talked about it for a few
• 29:29
  minutes and that was kind of it. A couple years went by and the
• 29:36
  back in Texas and I saw late late.
• 29:40
  OK, months to be exact, I'm not going to, I'm not going to hold
• 29:44
  you to two years, but it was about 14.
• 29:47
  Months, 14 months, and you posted a LinkedIn post and it
• 29:52
  said something about that voice AI, you're starting to get this
• 29:55
  going and give me a call when you have a have a chance.
• 29:59
  And I got to tell you, I didn't remember where I had met you,
• 30:02
  that you know that thing, BJ Bronstadt, I got it.
• 30:05
  Where'd that medium from? But I looked at your profile,
• 30:08
  your phone number was there. And I thought, well, dog got it.
• 30:10
  I'm just going to call it. So I called BJ.
• 30:13
  He answered the phone. I said BJ.
• 30:15
  I said I'd love to have a conversation about this, but I'm
• 30:18
  in Texas on vacation right now. And my thought was we could, if
• 30:22
  I get a hold of you in a couple of weeks, it goes, you're down
• 30:25
  here. And I'm like, where did I, where
• 30:29
  did I meet him from? And then you said, how's, how's
• 30:31
  Ella doing? Is she still riding Adora?
• 30:34
  Boom, boom, boom. It all came back to me.
• 30:36
  You're right here. I mean, you're close to me.
• 30:38
  Let's get out for coffee. We did.
• 30:41
  And I took you through the 1st baseline and it was painful.
• 30:45
  It was maybe it. Was for me, it was a world
• 30:50
  record. Let's be honest, coach, it was a
• 30:52
  world record. The first thing we do is we
• 30:55
  measure how long it takes somebody to read this sheet full
• 30:59
  of arrows. The average person reads it
• 31:02
  between 55 seconds and a minute and 20.
• 31:05
  And it took BJ 2 minutes and. 16 seconds. 16 seconds and lefts
• 31:12
  were rights and rights were lefts.
• 31:15
  And being somewhat intuitive, I thought this individual has some
• 31:19
  dyslexia going on there. He got done.
• 31:22
  I asked him have you ever been told you might have dyslexia And
• 31:27
  your response to me? Yeah, it was brought up as a
• 31:34
  child. However, because it wasn't
• 31:38
  covered for insurance and because I was already doing
• 31:41
  speech therapy, my mom said I'd have to figure it out.
• 31:45
  And so. And so he figured it out.
• 31:49
  He'd have to look at a sheet of paper, scan it from the bottom
• 31:53
  to the top, scan it from the right to the left.
• 31:56
  Then the, the little letters of characters would organize
• 31:59
  himself for every piece of paper he had to read.
• 32:04
  That was so we, we, we started training.
• 32:08
  And instead of the lefts and rights, I took him to the colors
• 32:13
  red, blue-green and yellows. There it is.
• 32:17
  And then we slowly worked into the directions and BJ what
• 32:23
  happened after about four or five sessions the.
• 32:27
  Probably about a 70% went and so it literally switched to about
• 32:42
  70% of the arrows were actually done in the right direction, so
• 32:48
  they were no longer backwards. And then of course the other
• 32:52
  element of it was that I was now getting like my rights were
• 32:55
  rights, my lefts were lefts most of the time, and if I stumbled I
• 33:01
  would continue to go. And well, and that was big
• 33:05
  stumbling block for you early because perfectionism had really
• 33:10
  crept into you because of what you had gone through.
• 33:14
  And the truth is when Akairyoshi started this research, he looked
• 33:19
  at his original hypothesis was the brain will will reconfigure
• 33:24
  itself under robust stimulation. But what does that mean?
• 33:29
  Well, robust stimulation means what I can push you to a 20%
• 33:33
  failure rate. Your brain begins to rewire and
• 33:36
  rebuild itself. And you know, we, we have our
• 33:42
  teachers try to make us perfect, right?
• 33:45
  Some teacher with a big red marker circles or checks
• 33:48
  everything we do wrong. And if you get enough of them
• 33:52
  wrong, you have to stay after school or your mom and dad have
• 33:54
  to come in and see the principal.
• 33:56
  But the truth is, mistakes are the best lessons in our life.
• 34:01
  And the research of Akariyoshi proved it that when you can fail
• 34:07
  20% of the time, your brain will rewire itself.
• 34:11
  And over the course of that time, BJ went from probably
• 34:13
  about a 40 to 60% mistake rate to about a 8 to 10% mistake rate
• 34:23
  and everything started falling into place.
• 34:26
  And I, you know, I just, I'd look at that.
• 34:28
  And we talked about dyslexia, ADHD, which you also had severe
• 34:33
  ADHD and, and focus issues. And all of those things start,
• 34:38
  start coming into to practice. So you're, you're, I mean,
• 34:41
  you're clearly one of our success stories and which is why
• 34:44
  we work so closely together now with this because supporting
• 34:48
  each other and the fact you're a veteran, even though you are a
• 34:51
  Marine, it's OK, I will, I will still proudly serve any day with
• 34:58
  you. Well, thank you, Sir.
• 34:59
  I'm honored. I'm honored.
• 35:01
  And again. Thank you for recognizing the
• 35:05
  dyslexia because it was, you know, to say it didn't bother me
• 35:10
  would, would be an understory because, you know, I went
• 35:13
  through all the way through, you know, I, I was never a, a
• 35:16
  stellar person. I literally memorized everything
• 35:19
  that I needed to for tests all the way through high school.
• 35:22
  And I, you know, I had to do correspondence courses 'cause
• 35:25
  they didn't have online learning at the time.
• 35:27
  So literally they sent a book to you, you've had to fill in a
• 35:30
  test, send it back in order to graduate because of and it was
• 35:35
  the reading, writing and comprehension that got me.
• 35:39
  And it was all because of the ADHD and the dyslexic
• 35:42
  combination. Yeah.
• 35:44
  Well, so that's, I mean, anywhere the brain knows how to
• 35:47
  fix itself, even a brain that has been stuck in this for
• 35:51
  several decades. I mean, it wasn't like you were
• 35:55
  8 or 10 years old. You were in your 50s when we
• 35:57
  started going down this path. The the brain will the secrets
• 36:04
  out. BJ, I'm, I'm sorry to inform
• 36:06
  you. I, I had purposely left it, you
• 36:09
  know, so it wasn't really bright lighting, so you can't see all
• 36:12
  the Gray in my beard. Yeah, OK.
• 36:14
  Yeah, yeah. Or the lack of follicles I have
• 36:17
  on on top. But it's you know, I've been
• 36:21
  able to witness miracles. Now this is this is B JS story.
• 36:24
  And that's really more of a civilian side of the story.
• 36:27
  But but Jimmy won't give his last name.
• 36:30
  But but Jimmy, his dad and I were electricians together and
• 36:35
  Jimmy went off to the army and he he did a lot of very cool
• 36:40
  things in 27 years of special forces.
• 36:44
  A lot of a lot of interaction, a lot of activity.
• 36:49
  He came home and he came home with baggage, severe baggage.
• 36:54
  His his PTS was out of control on any given day and
• 37:00
  relationships were hard. Everything was was difficult.
• 37:05
  I met him at the gym and we were working out together.
• 37:08
  That's how I didn't know him as a child when I worked with his
• 37:11
  dad. But when I found out who he was,
• 37:14
  I remembered everything about him because his dad shared all
• 37:17
  the stories about him as he was serving.
• 37:20
  And we started coming together and he then he started opening
• 37:24
  up because of being in the military.
• 37:26
  He started opening up about his PTS and, and the things he'd
• 37:29
  been trying to shield and hide from everybody else.
• 37:32
  And I said, would you like to give the, the brain training a
• 37:35
  shot? And he said, I would, I would
• 37:37
  love that one session, one session.
• 37:41
  And he was able to discern the difference between the dream and
• 37:47
  reality. Because for those of you who
• 37:49
  haven't experienced PTS, the, the, the dreams that the, you
• 37:53
  know, the experiences, they come back, but they come back so hard
• 37:57
  that they, you know, the soldiers feels that he's right
• 38:00
  back in the conflict. And unfortunately, if anybody
• 38:03
  gets in his way during that time, and he has a trained
• 38:07
  special forces, he's a trained killer.
• 38:11
  There's been story after story of of people who've killed their
• 38:15
  own lives or children. And in one session, he was able
• 38:20
  to separate the difference between the dream and reality.
• 38:23
  And after that, the dream started fading away because the
• 38:27
  dreams no longer held a power over him.
• 38:30
  Now, I've had others that it didn't happen that quick, but it
• 38:33
  does after, you know, a few sessions, maybe four or five.
• 38:38
  But the more research I've done with the Karayoshi's work, you
• 38:45
  know, if you think of your early sessions, I was taking you
• 38:47
  through 3540 minutes of, of sessions.
• 38:51
  But as I dove deeper into his research, neural fatigue starts
• 38:55
  to just step in and really 10 to 12 minutes each session is only
• 39:01
  10 to 12 minutes long as we move through these and the impact is
• 39:06
  powerful. And, and, and one of the
• 39:09
  problems is our brain is a glucose glutton.
• 39:16
  When I take you through a session, your brain burns
• 39:20
  through as much glucose as an Olympic sprinter running a 200
• 39:24
  meter dash. So when you get done and you're,
• 39:28
  you're feeling hungry, that's real because your body says, oh,
• 39:30
  give me more, give me more. And then protein synthesis as
• 39:34
  it's building new pathways. So when you get done with the
• 39:38
  session, having a stake in some Gatorade would probably be the
• 39:41
  best thing you could do to get that brain recharged and back
• 39:45
  up. So I mean, that's a basically a
• 39:49
  civilian story, a veteran story, but one of my current biggest
• 39:54
  success. And you talk about miracles.
• 39:56
  Oh my goodness. I ran into this gentleman at the
• 39:59
  gym and he was on a Walker, but this was a special Walker.
• 40:02
  It was a stand up Walker with armrest on it.
• 40:05
  And he had a belt holding him into this Walker.
• 40:08
  So he basically was able to propel himself, but clearly
• 40:12
  couldn't support himself. And and I thought stroke
• 40:16
  recovery because we have do a lot, I do a lot of work with
• 40:20
  with stroke recovery and traumatic brain injury victim.
• 40:23
  So I walked over to him and introduced myself to see if I
• 40:26
  could maybe help. You know, did did you have the
• 40:30
  stroke? It's just no, no, no, he's got
• 40:32
  Gillian or Guillain Barre syndrome.
• 40:35
  I say Guillain Barre because I'm from Nebraska, but Guillain
• 40:40
  Barre syndrome. And I'm like, I've heard of
• 40:42
  that, but I don't know what it is.
• 40:44
  So I put it in my little AI app that I have and found out that
• 40:50
  what Guillain Barre is, it's an autoimmune disease triggered by
• 40:53
  a bacteria that causes the body to eat away at the myelin
• 40:57
  coating on the nerves. The best way to describe it,
• 41:01
  it's like a leaky water hose. You turn on the faucet, but the
• 41:05
  water never gets to the sprinkler.
• 41:07
  It leaks out the whole way. So his arm would move up, but
• 41:10
  his hand was was just limp. And I said, let's give it a try.
• 41:16
  Said they agreed. So I went over and I sat with
• 41:18
  him and, and we went through the first session and you know, we
• 41:21
  went through the, the colors and the patterns and the fruits and,
• 41:25
  and all the different things we do.
• 41:27
  And I asked him when we got done, I, I kind of looked.
• 41:31
  I said, do your fingers ever move independently?
• 41:35
  And his wife always answers for him and she says his fingers
• 41:38
  haven't moved in three years. I said, you think you need to
• 41:40
  look at his hand and it was only doing this, but the fingers are
• 41:44
  moving by themselves. And you can see all of a sudden
• 41:47
  the energy's starting to get there.
• 41:49
  You see, the myelin coating on the nerves is protein and the
• 41:52
  protein synthesis that's happening during our training
• 41:56
  started to recover. Now the neurologist said he
• 41:59
  wasn't going to get any better than he was right there now
• 42:04
  after the third session. And I met with them on Tuesdays.
• 42:08
  It was the, the, the Sunday before Memorial Day.
• 42:13
  And I was speaking on Memorial Day.
• 42:15
  It's still the ragged old flag that you asked me to open with
• 42:17
  the day that, you know, some other patriotic things I do.
• 42:20
  And so I called him up and I said, would you guys like to
• 42:23
  come tomorrow morning and hear me speak, see a different side
• 42:25
  of what I do? He said, well, it's 9:00, That's
• 42:28
  a little early for us to get up and get going.
• 42:30
  I was talking to him on FaceTime and but she said, would you like
• 42:34
  to see what Bob's doing right now?
• 42:36
  And I said, well, of course, she turned it around.
• 42:38
  He was fishing. His daughter had taken the pole
• 42:41
  and put a Velcro strap around it so I'd hold it into his hand.
• 42:45
  But he is able to flip the bail, cast the bait and real after the
• 42:51
  neurologist told him he would never get any better.
• 42:53
  His hand would never move. And now we're about 8 or 10
• 42:56
  sessions in. And every day I asked him, I
• 43:00
  says, have you noticed anything different?
• 43:03
  And he'll be like, no, you know, everything's about the same.
• 43:06
  And his father goes, Dad, you were holding kettle bells the
• 43:09
  other day. You know, they're 5 LB kettle
• 43:11
  bells, but before he had no grip strength at all.
• 43:15
  He's holding 5 town bill bills and lifting them up and down.
• 43:18
  I mean, I get to witness miracles every day.
• 43:21
  You're you're one of them. He's one of them.
• 43:24
  The people who actually will get on board with this Jimmy.
• 43:28
  I consider Jimmy a just a, you know, a huge miracle and and the
• 43:32
  others. I've worked with some law
• 43:33
  enforcement also on the PTS issues and you notice I don't I
• 43:38
  don't put the D on it anymore. It's it, it is not a disorder,
• 43:43
  right? It's PTS, it's post traumatic
• 43:45
  stress and it is fixable, all right, and you got to work at
• 43:52
  it. My business card has a guarantee
• 43:54
  on it and I know you've seen it. My business card said there's
• 43:57
  100% money back guarantee that this won't work if you don't do
• 44:01
  it, but if you will do it and if you will do it religious right
• 44:07
  right now. I got a really interesting
• 44:08
  client. He was my, he was my martial
• 44:11
  arts instructor when I was in my 50s, you know, almost 20 years
• 44:15
  ago and he's in his 80s now and he's experiencing a little bit
• 44:19
  of cognitive decline. And I think, you know, being
• 44:23
  able to work with him and help him through that is really a, a,
• 44:27
  a powerful testimony of what goes around, comes around.
• 44:31
  And I, I ask him the same question when I'm working with
• 44:35
  my memory clients. I ask him the same question
• 44:39
  every time. What lays on the bottom of the
• 44:41
  ocean and shakes. And the answer is a nervous
• 44:44
  wreck. I'll ask him, I'll go through a
• 44:48
  couple of steps and then I'll ask him again.
• 44:50
  And they don't remember. Now the good news is if I wanted
• 44:53
  to be a comedian and just get some laughs, I'd keep asking
• 44:56
  that question every two minutes and I can get all the laughs I
• 44:59
  want. I was working at a memory care
• 45:01
  unit the other day and as I'm getting ready to leave, I said
• 45:04
  I'd like 8 ladies in here and I, you know, I go back every two
• 45:07
  weeks and I said I'll come back with some new jokes next time.
• 45:11
  And she says don't bother, we won't remember these.
• 45:15
  There's some humor in that. But also it hit me really deep.
• 45:20
  Matter of fact, as I laughed, I felt like crying the whole way
• 45:24
  out. Because they know there's a
• 45:26
  problem, but they don't feel there's anything they can do
• 45:29
  about it. And after my session with them,
• 45:32
  today is today is what, Friday? So yesterday I go there on
• 45:34
  Thursdays. After my session with her
• 45:37
  yesterday, four of them remembered the nervous wreck.
• 45:42
  And I was like, that's progress. It's simple, but it's progress.
• 45:45
  It's the fingers moving. It's the arrows left and right
• 45:49
  and left and right. It's it's the little stuff that
• 45:52
  makes such a big, big difference.
• 45:55
  Well, I think the that was really the defining moment for
• 46:00
  me because I had taught myself to read the same way that the
• 46:05
  computers do. So AI reads in other words.
• 46:08
  And I had this whole conversation actually with AI,
• 46:11
  with Gemini from Google, and it was all about how you and what
• 46:16
  they call Bert, which is actually my first name.
• 46:20
  It's Bert. And we can hear that.
• 46:24
  Good. Hold on a second.
• 46:27
  He's got. My, my 9 year old grandson is
• 46:34
  playing baseball, baseball. I'm in a little bit of let's
• 46:41
  just say I'm on detention with my wife for not going to his
• 46:44
  baseball game. So, so I got to have it over on
• 46:48
  the side here so I can at least follow the score every once in a
• 46:51
  while. That's so go ahead.
• 46:55
  I apologize. Yeah, no worries.
• 46:58
  Yeah, you got to take care of family, right?
• 46:59
  That's that's really why we're all here.
• 47:01
  And So what happens was coach had pointed this stuff out.
• 47:06
  So as I'm going through the training and so forth, and I had
• 47:08
  this conversation with Gemini and Google about Burt bi
• 47:12
  directional encoded transforming for the nerds in the audience.
• 47:15
  That's how social, social or search engines worked
• 47:19
  originally, not even originally, but most recently.
• 47:22
  And that was one of their updates.
• 47:24
  And it was taking into context. So if you can remember Coach's
• 47:29
  explanation of how I looked when I looked at something in
• 47:32
  writing, I would go and literally go right, bottom,
• 47:37
  left, back to the right. And I would put context by
• 47:41
  looking at the big picture of all the words that were on the
• 47:44
  piece of paper. And then my brain would go, OK,
• 47:47
  that's actually this word, not that word.
• 47:49
  And it would start to put the letters back in order because
• 47:53
  before I did that, and I taught myself to do that, when I looked
• 47:57
  at things, it looked about every other word look like alphabet
• 48:02
  soup. If you ever had the Campbell's
• 48:03
  alphabet soup with all the floating letters around, That's
• 48:07
  how I saw the world in terms of writing.
• 48:11
  And now I made it all the way into Graduate School by learning
• 48:15
  my little trick. I made it all the way into doing
• 48:18
  a lot of things over the years. But all of it was just came
• 48:25
  crashing back to me when I started working with coach in
• 48:28
  combat brain training. This is my sheet.
• 48:31
  This is the sheet that I have laminated for working with coach
• 48:35
  because it was that impactful in my life.
• 48:37
  And now I can look at like on the background, says military
• 48:41
  broadcast, radio, TV, let our veterans voice be heard.
• 48:44
  I could read that exactly left to right like the rest of the
• 48:49
  human population. And so that's transformational
• 48:53
  to me and that's a lot of why I do what I do with coach and
• 48:57
  combat brain training and accelerated mental performance.
• 49:00
  Their other sister company and. Our our diplomatic name.
• 49:05
  Yes, exactly. For those who don't like the the
• 49:07
  word combat and it is just such a transformation.
• 49:11
  And then when you hear the stories of like Jimmy, right,
• 49:15
  that's just incredible. And that's why we have to keep
• 49:20
  getting that's why I was, you know, building the voice AI that
• 49:24
  I built for them. Originally, it was almost a test
• 49:28
  to see if I could do it. Now the technology has changed
• 49:32
  since I first built the very first Emma a lot.
• 49:35
  And now it's a whole lot easier than when I did it.
• 49:38
  I had to do it a whole lot more complicated and we don't need to
• 49:42
  go into that, but it let's just say that it it took a whole lot
• 49:45
  more time. Why I I'm just laughing because
• 49:50
  you had so many lines of code you had to read to find that one
• 49:54
  little character that was out of place that would cause it.
• 49:59
  And now you can just ask it and and it'll take care.
• 50:02
  So he he had pulled all of his hair out and look, it's all
• 50:05
  grown back now you can look. At fella All right so our next
• 50:13
  story thank you coach for sharing combat brain training
• 50:16
  and and amp and we'll certainly come circle back to that coach
• 50:19
  knows I'm a big supporter of the T-shirt I'm wearing the T-shirt
• 50:22
  I'm wearing is another Marine so that we have a theory theme
• 50:26
  going tonight no offense coach it's it's Marines and Marines
• 50:30
  who are doing great work in the world so it is till Valhalla
• 50:34
  project for our viewing audience.
• 50:38
  That is what it means and I'm going to jump to there the gun
• 50:49
  so till Valhalla project and that is the guy looking up is
• 50:53
  actually the founder. He is a Marine veteran named
• 50:55
  Corey. And one of the things that they
• 50:59
  do and I'll show you in probably in magazine is the easiest way
• 51:02
  to do it is you see these wooden plaques that this woman is
• 51:08
  holding. So Corey came back and when he
• 51:14
  came back from his time in the Marine Corps, he had a good
• 51:18
  friend of his in the Marine Corps that he served with.
• 51:21
  And what happened was he was looking for a way to do
• 51:28
  something and he made a tribute to his friend that he served
• 51:32
  with. And it was a wooden plaque.
• 51:36
  And he thought, I really shouldn't keep this.
• 51:41
  I should look up his parents and his mom, and I should give her
• 51:47
  the plaque. And So what started in the
• 51:49
  garage as plaques that then got shared on Facebook became to
• 51:55
  Valhalla Project. And then it came into T-shirts
• 51:59
  and it came into all of the other things.
• 52:02
  So I highly recommend you going through and looking at it.
• 52:06
  But just some of I'm going to read his words because I've got
• 52:09
  them right here. And literally he says the T
• 52:15
  you've just received is the power to change someone's path.
• 52:20
  That someone might be you. It might be the person standing
• 52:23
  behind you in line. Every shirt has a message on the
• 52:32
  back. It might be someone at the work,
• 52:38
  at gym, at the gym, or with a family member who is quietly
• 52:44
  carrying more than they'll ever say.
• 52:47
  This is why that T matters. It reminds people that surviving
• 52:51
  hard things doesn't make them broken beyond repair.
• 52:55
  It proves that there's still strength, still purpose, and
• 52:59
  still a reason to keep going. Included is they include
• 53:06
  different gifts. So in the instance of the shirt
• 53:09
  that I'm wearing, there is a they give stickers, right?
• 53:13
  So this is a replica of what's the message is on the back and
• 53:18
  it is Red Friday. And as it says, remember
• 53:23
  everyone deployed and then they always have a what we would term
• 53:28
  is like a tagline, right? And I misspelled it by the way,
• 53:32
  it's 1L, not two. I'll have to correct that.
• 53:36
  But it's their mission continues.
• 53:38
  So does our support, and I love the fact that what they do is
• 53:45
  they also support Mission 22. They support a lot of other
• 53:49
  nonprofits and they do that with the proceeds from the members,
• 53:54
  from the T-shirt, from all of the different things.
• 53:57
  So not only are they making it so that these family members and
• 54:00
  they do 72 of them a month, that's a lot.
• 54:04
  And it's all done from the amazing work of people seeing a
• 54:08
  T-shirt and going. I'm going to look that up and
• 54:11
  they do a search, they find it and that's actually how I came
• 54:15
  to find it. I was sitting in the VA and if
• 54:18
  you've ever been a veteran in the VA and you've ever sat in
• 54:21
  the waiting room at the VA, you know how fast that is, right?
• 54:24
  It's lightning speed you go through like, OK, not light lane
• 54:29
  speed. It takes a little bit of time,
• 54:31
  let's be honest. So sitting in the veterans in
• 54:35
  the VA, in here in Denton, and I kept looking at the shirt and it
• 54:39
  said till Valhalla Project. So exactly as it is up there,
• 54:43
  minus an L on the till. But I was like, OK, what does
• 54:48
  that mean? Right.
• 54:50
  And of course, it means till we meet again in the heavens.
• 54:53
  And that was in and there's a whole on their website, they do
• 54:57
  a great job of explaining that. So this is exactly where we
• 55:05
  wanted to in why I was like, OK, what is that?
• 55:09
  So then I came home and I was like, OK, and I had snapped a
• 55:14
  picture of the guy. I actually took my phone because
• 55:16
  I got called to go to the VA and go in for my turn.
• 55:20
  So I took a picture of it, and all I had was this on the guy's
• 55:24
  shirt. So I sat here being an SEO guy
• 55:26
  for two decades, and I'm sitting here looking and looking and
• 55:29
  looking, and I found it. And I'm like, Oh my gosh.
• 55:31
  And then I found Corey's story and I was like, OK, so I got a
• 55:34
  shirt. And then I found about the ways
• 55:37
  that they support other nonprofits, the ways they
• 55:40
  support other veterans, And I thought, I want to continue to
• 55:43
  support this. So that's exactly what I did.
• 55:49
  Now you know the secret behind the shirts.
• 55:51
  Now we just have to get Coach into a Till Valhalla project
• 55:53
  shirt that works. So Coach, what other amazing
• 56:03
  veteran success stories do you have?
• 56:06
  Well. I'm I'm going to share another
• 56:09
  story that will kind of tie together what you're you're
• 56:12
  talking about. I about three years ago, I went
• 56:19
  in for an eye appointment and the eye doctor said she wanted
• 56:23
  to have an ultrasound of my carotid arteries and my right
• 56:26
  carotid turned out to be 87% blocked, but never a symptom.
• 56:30
  He said we'd better look at your heart.
• 56:33
  And I had 4 blocked arteries, 200%, one in the high 90s, one
• 56:37
  in the high 80s. I needed a quadruple bypass.
• 56:41
  Now, I'd never had a symptom, so they weren't pushing the
• 56:44
  envelope real, real hard. I was able to schedule it and I
• 56:48
  was able to stay going to the gym and working out as long as I
• 56:52
  didn't do anything stupid. Now I press a lot of weight with
• 57:00
  my legs, 56700 pounds or nothing, and I was getting ready
• 57:06
  to go over to the leg press slab when somebody beat me to it and
• 57:09
  I'm like, dog got it. You know, That was the last
• 57:12
  machine I had to work on before I got out.
• 57:15
  And he put one plate on each side.
• 57:20
  I'm like, oh, this is going to take forever.
• 57:24
  And then when he got down on it, he only used one leg instead of
• 57:28
  two. I'm like, oh, good Lord, what's
• 57:31
  this guy doing? So he did 8 or 10 repetition
• 57:35
  with his one leg. I'm waiting for him to switch to
• 57:37
  the other leg. But he didn't do it.
• 57:39
  He got up to put another plate on.
• 57:40
  And I noticed as he got up to put the other plate on, he had a
• 57:44
  little bit of a hitch. And it gets giddy up.
• 57:45
  He had a little of a limp and I thought, oh, this guy's
• 57:50
  rehabbing something. I shouldn't give him such a hard
• 57:53
  time, you know, And I hadn't given him a hard time.
• 57:56
  It was all in my own mind at this point.
• 57:59
  And he put that plate on and then he put a third plate on and
• 58:02
  then he got up to put a fourth plate on, which is about £300.
• 58:08
  I walked over to him and he said, you know, I noticed you
• 58:12
  got A and I use a type of I said, notice you got a little
• 58:15
  itch in the giddy up. And I said, are you rehabbing
• 58:18
  something? And he said, oh, no.
• 58:22
  He said they pulled up. It's the leg he's not using as
• 58:25
  artificial. He, you know, he only had one
• 58:28
  leg. And I'm like, oh, OK, well, you
• 58:32
  know, being a guy. So yeah, I'm going in for a
• 58:34
  quadruple bypass in a couple of weeks.
• 58:37
  I kind of can relate to you. He goes well, he says I lost my
• 58:42
  leg from cancer. And he said, well, you know, I'm
• 58:46
  sorry, sorry to hear that, he said.
• 58:48
  But the the medicine they gave me to save my life from the
• 58:53
  cancer also damaged my heart. So he said in 2012 I had to have
• 58:58
  a heart transplant. Now I'm sitting back here
• 59:02
  whining because he's taking up the time and I can't get on the
• 59:05
  thing. And here's a guy who lost a leg
• 59:07
  to cancer. He's had a heart transplant and
• 59:10
  he's still out there doing it. And how many of us make these
• 59:13
  silly little excuses? Oh, I don't have time to get to
• 59:17
  go to the gym today because I got to play Sudoku on my phone
• 59:20
  or, or I can't go out because, well, it's misting outside and I
• 59:25
  don't want to get my, my hair wet.
• 59:28
  Right. And when we flip that back to
• 59:31
  the veterans, especially, you know, the veterans and the
• 59:34
  families that are going through what you were just talking about
• 59:37
  with the the Holla project, we need to just supply, you know,
• 59:44
  provide support. We just need to, to be there
• 59:48
  because that's a lot of times that's all they need.
• 59:51
  You know, I get a little old veteran out here every Tuesday,
• 59:54
  I sit with him for an hour. He's, you know, in his 80s.
• 59:57
  He's a former Vietnam helicopter pilot.
• 1:00:02
  And we solve every one of the world's problems in that hour.
• 1:00:07
  Doesn't matter what it is. Doesn't matter what we talked
• 1:00:09
  about it, it really does. It just matters that we're
• 1:00:11
  together, right? And that's, that is really when
• 1:00:16
  you talk about, you know, that connect.
• 1:00:18
  That's really what it's all about is just staying together,
• 1:00:23
  making sure no one gets left behind.
• 1:00:26
  Yep. I mean, that was, you know, when
• 1:00:31
  I looked at what I had done in helping all of these amazing
• 1:00:36
  entrepreneurs, but the they weren't veteran entrepreneurs.
• 1:00:41
  And when I have all these friends from the Marine Corps
• 1:00:43
  I'm still in touch with. Matter of fact, I had lunch with
• 1:00:47
  a gentleman that I hadn't seen in 38 years and we were in the
• 1:00:50
  same unit together and and we were assigned twice into the
• 1:00:55
  same unit. So he kept, and you know, any
• 1:00:58
  pictures I have from the Marine Corps are actually from him
• 1:01:01
  because he was a great photographer and he and I both
• 1:01:05
  had that interest in taking pictures.
• 1:01:07
  And for whatever reason he had more room in his backpack than I
• 1:01:13
  did. Because as the show opens with
• 1:01:15
  an old fashioned radio, I carried those big £100 worth of
• 1:01:19
  radio on my back. So I didn't have, I had to have
• 1:01:22
  extra batteries and extra handsets and extra antennas and
• 1:01:26
  you name it, I had to have all the extras.
• 1:01:28
  I was packing everything. And to this day I still have all
• 1:01:31
  kinds of extras. And So what happened was my
• 1:01:36
  friend Julian would take his camera because he the truck
• 1:01:40
  took, he was a wire guy. So for in old fashioned, if you
• 1:01:43
  remember, like the string can between a can and then a string
• 1:01:46
  and then a can, that's kind of the same technology that,
• 1:01:50
  believe it or not, the Marine Corps used.
• 1:01:52
  It was called wire communication and he was the guy who would run
• 1:01:57
  wire between and make sure it was all connected and, and I was
• 1:02:02
  the radio guy. So, you know, they put us
• 1:02:05
  communication guys together. So he had a little extra room in
• 1:02:08
  his backpack and he'd always bring his camera.
• 1:02:11
  And so that's how I got so many cool pictures of myself.
• 1:02:14
  It's not because of me. It was because he was taking
• 1:02:17
  pictures of all of us, our entire unit.
• 1:02:19
  He was like the photographer for the unit, unofficially so.
• 1:02:24
  I always had my collapsible fishing pole because there's a
• 1:02:27
  lot of ponds on military bases and there's a lot of fish that
• 1:02:31
  that need to be caught. So I'd always sneak it out by my
• 1:02:34
  driver. They said, Kelly, swing over by
• 1:02:38
  this pond. He goes, what for, Sir?
• 1:02:39
  He said, well, we need, I need to do some thinking.
• 1:02:43
  And I did my best thinking with the fishing pole in my hand.
• 1:02:46
  And once once he saw that, he said, Sir, could you bring
• 1:02:49
  another pole next year? I said, Dad, you keep your mouth
• 1:02:52
  shut. I'll bring two more poles.
• 1:02:54
  Well, and, and one of the upcoming stories that we're
• 1:02:57
  going to have on Vet Voice AI is exactly that it is a outdoor
• 1:03:02
  fishing for veterans. And I won't go into the details
• 1:03:06
  now, but we I've got an amazing story that we shared with me
• 1:03:10
  from a veteran. And so I networked with and I
• 1:03:14
  wanted to learn before I really relaunched from doing my own
• 1:03:18
  agency and and my business, my business partner for that agency
• 1:03:22
  actually passed a cancer. And he was kind of like coaches
• 1:03:26
  in terms of the age difference between US and he was really
• 1:03:29
  like coach. He was another dad.
• 1:03:31
  And you know, it was. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:03:35
  Sorry, but I was the exact same age and one month difference
• 1:03:39
  than his son. And so he was a guy that I
• 1:03:44
  talked to, not only worked with and he had spent and retired
• 1:03:48
  from IBM when a computer was in the entire side and size of a
• 1:03:53
  room. And he had retired from that.
• 1:03:56
  And I met him in 2005 and we were at a Healthy Life Expo.
• 1:04:00
  And his name is Larry and Larry was, you know, just IT computer
• 1:04:06
  engineer guy, right? And so there was a technology
• 1:04:10
  out and it was literally doing like we're doing here streaming
• 1:04:14
  video. That was 2005.
• 1:04:17
  So if you think about it, it was before YouTube and we were doing
• 1:04:20
  video, e-mail and webinars like this right now and we could
• 1:04:25
  actually stream just like we're doing right now.
• 1:04:29
  So it was, he comes around the corner, sees us and he goes, Oh
• 1:04:33
  my God. And he was there for his wife
• 1:04:35
  because she was in doing skin care stuff and had a business
• 1:04:38
  doing that. And he goes, if this is what I
• 1:04:42
  think it is, I need to talk to you.
• 1:04:44
  Well, he didn't just talk to me then, he talked to me every day
• 1:04:47
  for the next 11 years. And it was great.
• 1:04:51
  And he was just an amazing, amazing guy.
• 1:04:54
  But one of the things that we always talked about was doing,
• 1:05:00
  you know, some of the things I'm now doing with AI are some of
• 1:05:03
  the things that were inspired by Larry.
• 1:05:06
  And again, he followed, you know, he followed the trends, he
• 1:05:10
  followed computers. He knew what what things were
• 1:05:13
  going and where they were going. And he kept thinking, this is
• 1:05:17
  going to come around. And when it does, you know,
• 1:05:20
  things are going to be different.
• 1:05:21
  And he goes, you know, I just wish you could, you know, I
• 1:05:24
  could be there. And because he knew he, he
• 1:05:27
  figured out mathematically it was going to be longer than what
• 1:05:30
  his cancer would be. So unfortunately he now has to
• 1:05:35
  watch it from above and is getting a bird's eye view.
• 1:05:38
  But. That's where my brother's
• 1:05:41
  watching from, so maybe they're watching together.
• 1:05:45
  Yeah, yeah. So next story actually is
• 1:05:50
  another T-shirt. Hold it back just a little bit.
• 1:06:01
  There we go. Dogs and freedom there.
• 1:06:05
  We go, and so this is another Marine Corps company, the hero.
• 1:06:11
  I'll bring them up here, the hero company.
• 1:06:16
  There we go. So the hero company is heroes.
• 1:06:21
  And what they do is they have bracelets like what I wear and
• 1:06:28
  they have, and this is actually made from a the plating that
• 1:06:33
  they use on a tank and the inside of it is copper with
• 1:06:36
  magnets. So they have bracelets, they
• 1:06:39
  have T-shirts and all the 20% of the proceeds that they have go
• 1:06:45
  to a dog for a veteran and an amazing, amazing thing.
• 1:06:51
  So tonight's story is about Joe, so pardon me while I look.
• 1:06:57
  The story is actually I have multiple monitors so I am going
• 1:07:00
  to read from the monitor above or I could actually stand.
• 1:07:07
  Let's take the show up a notch. No, your don't adjust your set.
• 1:07:15
  My desk does raise. So right here the story of how a
• 1:07:22
  dog chose Joe. Now Joe is another Marine.
• 1:07:26
  It just happens that it's an old Marine show tonight.
• 1:07:28
  Sorry guys. But and by the way, Speaking of
• 1:07:32
  that, I did notice that we had a great show coming pop across
• 1:07:36
  from Arlen. So thank you very much, Arlen
• 1:07:37
  for acknowledging that we appreciate it.
• 1:07:39
  So tonight's story is how Max found Joe and you can actually
• 1:07:47
  see the story right on the hero company and you can look at
• 1:07:49
  their their amazing testimonials and success stories.
• 1:07:53
  But in this case, this is about a dog named Max who chose his
• 1:07:59
  veteran. What does that mean?
• 1:08:02
  He's a service dog. How can he choose his veteran?
• 1:08:05
  Well, let's get into that. So the most powerful stories in
• 1:08:10
  healing usually happen in the most unlikely places, right?
• 1:08:15
  I met Coach at a horse ranch and where his granddaughter and my
• 1:08:20
  wife were mucking, right? So it's an unlikely place.
• 1:08:25
  Well, same thing with Max. So Max is a mixed breed.
• 1:08:28
  He was wandering rural backwoods of Texas and run around with his
• 1:08:35
  dog sister, right? And somewhere in that Max is
• 1:08:41
  today, he is a service dog or a Marine named Joe.
• 1:08:46
  Well, what happened was really simple, that Joe served his time
• 1:08:54
  in the Marines. And like Coach talked about, a
• 1:08:57
  lot of people come back and they have trauma.
• 1:09:00
  They have things that, you know, are, they've been programmed, I
• 1:09:04
  call it just like we program a computer.
• 1:09:06
  They've been programmed to turn off that part of them.
• 1:09:09
  And as a Marine, I certainly can appreciate that because for the
• 1:09:13
  first three years of my Marine Corps life, I was programmed
• 1:09:16
  that way too. I got either lucky or unlucky,
• 1:09:20
  but my collarbone is now union and which means that I couldn't
• 1:09:24
  do my duty or my job. So they said thank you very much
• 1:09:27
  and sent me out. So I didn't get the chance to
• 1:09:30
  have a career that I had planned on having because of that
• 1:09:34
  training accident. So unlike me, Joe did have a
• 1:09:39
  career. And when he got back from his
• 1:09:41
  career in the Marine Corps, he was having struggles.
• 1:09:46
  And so it was suggested that he get a dog.
• 1:09:49
  Well, it began long before he met Max.
• 1:09:56
  He actually started back when, like the earlier story, it was
• 1:10:00
  back when he was a kid, he said, you know what?
• 1:10:03
  At 17, he knew he wanted to dedicate 20 years of his life to
• 1:10:07
  serving his country as a United States Marine.
• 1:10:12
  But like many veterans, when he came back again, civilian life
• 1:10:17
  always has different challenges when you've been in a system
• 1:10:21
  that is so organized. And so, you know, there's just
• 1:10:26
  so much to it. And it's not good.
• 1:10:28
  It's not bad, it's just a way of life.
• 1:10:32
  And coach, certainly even as an Army guy and an Army captain and
• 1:10:36
  a leader of men in the Army, can certainly appreciate that.
• 1:10:40
  Right. Well, when you said organize, I
• 1:10:41
  thought, I thought you were talking about the Marine Corps.
• 1:10:44
  I'm sorry. So Max was saved by a group
• 1:10:52
  called Bark Rescue. Max the Dog.
• 1:10:55
  Joe never really planned on having a service dog, but it
• 1:11:01
  kept coming back. And so one what happens is,
• 1:11:06
  according to Max's friends and from the rescue kennel that
• 1:11:10
  saved him, he was placed in a foster home.
• 1:11:15
  Well, the foster home is where Joe met Max.
• 1:11:21
  Now Max wasn't really trained to be a service dog at that point,
• 1:11:25
  but Joe and Max connected so they needed another hero to step
• 1:11:31
  in and help them. And that's exactly what
• 1:11:35
  happened. So he literally went from being
• 1:11:40
  a rescue dog in a foster situation to going into training
• 1:11:45
  for Joe to be a service dog. And Max didn't just become Joe's
• 1:11:50
  service dog, he became a support system is he instinctively
• 1:11:55
  responds. If you've ever had a service
• 1:11:57
  dog, I have one myself. And if you've ever had a service
• 1:12:01
  dog, they, you know, are so intuitive in how they respond
• 1:12:08
  and what they respond to. And it is absolutely incredible.
• 1:12:13
  And so in this instance, Max didn't just become his dog, he
• 1:12:18
  became his complete support system.
• 1:12:21
  He instinctively responded whenever Joe started to
• 1:12:25
  experience distress, he would place his paw on Joe's arm.
• 1:12:29
  He would come up, he'd rest his head on his lap, right?
• 1:12:33
  And it's that calm and reassurance when you are having
• 1:12:38
  something and you're having a, let's just call it stress, it's
• 1:12:44
  that reassurance that that dog allows to bring you back into
• 1:12:49
  presence. For me, it only happens when I
• 1:12:52
  sleep. And it affected my heart.
• 1:12:55
  And so I had a sleep study and they said you need a dog.
• 1:12:58
  So I got a dog. So that's why I can relate to
• 1:13:01
  the story of Joe and Max. So the rest of the story.
• 1:13:06
  But Max, he's beyond just being his go to dog, he's also
• 1:13:13
  emotional support and it extends beyond that.
• 1:13:17
  He has helped Joe stay active and he's with his side by side
• 1:13:23
  because of the training that he got.
• 1:13:26
  And that training is what allowed him to be able to really
• 1:13:30
  strengthen the bond. And it truly if if you've ever
• 1:13:34
  seen a veteran with it, with the dog set, see, mine stays home
• 1:13:37
  because I it's only for sleep, right.
• 1:13:39
  So I am just in awe of the training that these dogs and I
• 1:13:44
  have met. I've got a good friend of mine,
• 1:13:45
  John, whose dog goes with him everywhere.
• 1:13:48
  And I'm just in awe of that, of what they do and how they do it,
• 1:13:52
  right. Well, in this case, Hiro, the
• 1:13:56
  company that has the shirts and the bracelets and so forth, they
• 1:14:01
  pay for them taking donations, they pay for the training that
• 1:14:05
  dogs like Max need to become a service dog.
• 1:14:10
  So. And that's 10s of thousands of
• 1:14:12
  dollars, isn't it, BJ? Well, let's get into that.
• 1:14:15
  That's actually the next part of the story right here.
• 1:14:17
  So and again, the hero company powers stories like Maxon and
• 1:14:22
  Joe, right? In other words, they're taking
• 1:14:25
  devoted people like me and coach and and other people who support
• 1:14:29
  them and they take those partnerships and those dollars
• 1:14:32
  and they apply it forward. Well, if you look at what the
• 1:14:37
  cost is of that, I mean, you're talking, you know, 2535 up to in
• 1:14:43
  some cases it literally can be anywhere from about 15,000.
• 1:14:47
  And this is on their own publication, 15,000 all the way
• 1:14:50
  up to in excess of $75,000 depending on the dog, depending
• 1:14:55
  on the breed, depending on the training, depending on all of
• 1:14:59
  those things, right? So in this instance, the hero
• 1:15:02
  company partnered with a group down in Texas called Hope Lives
• 1:15:07
  here and they're saying is healing Heroes 2 at a time.
• 1:15:13
  So they take and train the dog and they connect the dog and the
• 1:15:17
  veteran so that both are trained and can work together.
• 1:15:22
  So these are, and I, again, we could go on for hours, literally
• 1:15:27
  with the amount of stories that we have gathered and I have
• 1:15:30
  gathered and I'm putting together.
• 1:15:34
  And the reason I have so many stories is not that I'm just
• 1:15:38
  fascinated with stories. I am fascinated with stories and
• 1:15:40
  I love people and I love listening to other people's
• 1:15:43
  stories, like coach, right Coach.
• 1:15:46
  I do have one question for you, BJ.
• 1:15:48
  Now Hannah is his his service dog and you mentioned she's for
• 1:15:53
  sleep. Yes.
• 1:15:58
  I have to laugh at that because she wakes up two or three times
• 1:16:02
  during the night to make sure you're you're doing OK.
• 1:16:06
  She is. So what happens is I have a
• 1:16:11
  heart condition and it started actually in the Marine Corps and
• 1:16:14
  it was diagnosed back then and it continued forward.
• 1:16:17
  And so when I sleep, I have different things where and it's
• 1:16:21
  not sleep apnea, it's actually heart related and it's an
• 1:16:25
  irregular heartbeat that happens if I don't get my sleep.
• 1:16:28
  And So what happens is I would have scenarios, right?
• 1:16:32
  So I had devoted my energy to being a career Marine.
• 1:16:37
  That's what I was destined for. I trained for.
• 1:16:40
  I had the the honor of serving as a backup to a, you know,
• 1:16:48
  Marine Corps Force Recon, doing radio and doing training for
• 1:16:51
  those guys, doing what became MARSOC as a radio guy.
• 1:16:56
  And it was just, I was in shape and you know, the their regular
• 1:17:01
  guy broke his ankle. So my Gunny being a Force Recon
• 1:17:04
  Gunny said, well, you're in the best shape and you know the most
• 1:17:07
  about the communication and all the different encryption tools
• 1:17:11
  that we needed to use for TACP tactical air support.
• 1:17:15
  So he says, I need you to go with these guys and just try to
• 1:17:19
  keep up. That was his message to me.
• 1:17:22
  And so we got to do some really cool stuff.
• 1:17:25
  And I was like, this is it, I'm going to be doing this forever.
• 1:17:29
  And then I had an accident and that went and that changed
• 1:17:33
  things. So I had a lot of what they call
• 1:17:36
  survivor guilt. And it happens at night when I
• 1:17:39
  go to sleep and my brain doesn't turn off.
• 1:17:42
  It turned. It goes into this, what if, what
• 1:17:44
  if, what if, what if, what if? And not just what if for me, but
• 1:17:48
  it's more of how many of these brothers like Julian, who I
• 1:17:52
  would absolutely give my life for, did I let down because I
• 1:17:56
  wasn't there when they went to Desert Storm, when they went
• 1:17:59
  into combat, because I had trained to be that guy.
• 1:18:04
  And then I wasn't able to be that guy.
• 1:18:08
  And so it took a lot of time at the VA.
• 1:18:11
  And finally one doc said, let's do a study.
• 1:18:14
  And they did a sleep study. And it wasn't for sleep apnea.
• 1:18:17
  It was to see what went on. And I had a dog at that point,
• 1:18:22
  not the one I have now, not Hannah, but a different one,
• 1:18:25
  Mikey. And my sleep study completely
• 1:18:28
  changed when Mikey would get in bed and either wake me up when I
• 1:18:32
  started to have one of those nightmares or would, you know,
• 1:18:38
  interrupt it if you will. So he'd be like, hey, let's go
• 1:18:41
  outside, even if you didn't have to go outside.
• 1:18:43
  And it would interrupt me. So when I fell back asleep,
• 1:18:47
  would actually go back into REM sleep.
• 1:18:48
  And it's the interruption of REM sleep that causes the arrhythmia
• 1:18:52
  and the heart and so. They're simply amazing.
• 1:18:55
  So thank you for sharing, not just the stories about the dog
• 1:18:59
  and and the hope, but you know, be a little bit vulnerable and
• 1:19:03
  sharing your own story because I as well as I thought I'd do you.
• 1:19:06
  You hadn't gone that that deep before.
• 1:19:08
  So I do appreciate you put that out there.
• 1:19:12
  Well, you know, it's, it's, it's the truth.
• 1:19:17
  And it is a big reason of why when I got together with my
• 1:19:21
  brothers and the Marines that I served with and even Army guys
• 1:19:25
  and so forth, and Navy guys and Air Force guys and you name it,
• 1:19:28
  just veterans in general. And I kept hearing all of these
• 1:19:31
  stories about how they needed to really get the word out and how
• 1:19:36
  a lot of them had had great success.
• 1:19:38
  And at the same time, a lot of them had got stuck in the system
• 1:19:43
  looking at all the red tape. And I thought, gosh, there's got
• 1:19:48
  to be a way to correct that, right?
• 1:19:50
  So we are connected veterans and it's one connection begins here.
• 1:19:56
  And that is actually the change it right this second.
• 1:20:04
  So our background, that is the directory that we are building,
• 1:20:07
  it is a fully enabled, so AI enabled, hence split voice AI.
• 1:20:12
  That voice AI is the AI that powers it.
• 1:20:15
  And that directory is where I get my stories.
• 1:20:17
  It's all these businesses and nonprofits and organizations.
• 1:20:20
  Cause the directory is going to be able to house everything.
• 1:20:24
  So we're going to have veteran business owners on one side,
• 1:20:28
  veteran organizations in the middle, veteran nonprofits, and
• 1:20:32
  then the government resources all in one directory.
• 1:20:36
  And it will be fully AI enabled. So you can actually go, hey, I
• 1:20:40
  want to learn about Coach and you can talk to a voice AI that
• 1:20:44
  Coach has, right. So in this case, Coach's voice
• 1:20:47
  AI is Michelle. If you call that you can
• 1:20:51
  interact with it, that is Michelle.
• 1:20:54
  So that is the complete reason is we want to highlight all
• 1:21:01
  these amazing veteran owned businesses and nonprofits that
• 1:21:04
  I'm interacting with. They have amazing stories and I
• 1:21:08
  know one of the best ways to do that is to get them on and we
• 1:21:11
  will have various guests. I've already got lined up four
• 1:21:14
  different guests that want to come on and join Coach and I in
• 1:21:17
  sharing this as coaches, we the people show the show the shirt
• 1:21:22
  proudly, Coach. I'm actually just standing up
• 1:21:24
  because I've been sitting a little bit too long, but I got
• 1:21:28
  you. I appreciate you putting this
• 1:21:30
  together and, and every piece that you're doing, every one of
• 1:21:33
  these veterans have so much talent and they're out here, you
• 1:21:38
  know, serving and we and we just, it isn't all veterans
• 1:21:42
  serving other veterans. We're serving our communities
• 1:21:45
  where we're at. You know, I, I gladly serve and
• 1:21:48
  support veterans and what I do with the brain training and, and
• 1:21:52
  my inspirational speaking and my stories, But at the same time,
• 1:21:58
  it's the other ones that pay the bills.
• 1:22:00
  So I'm able to do you know, the work for our veterans and the
• 1:22:05
  the people who really, really count to us who were connected
• 1:22:09
  heart to heart. I'm going to adjust my camera
• 1:22:11
  just a bit here. So I.
• 1:22:13
  Do you have a closing thing for us, Coach?
• 1:22:17
  Well, of course, what are you thinking?
• 1:22:21
  We there's a a couple of things to do, but in recovering from my
• 1:22:25
  last knee surgery, I put this one together and it says when I
• 1:22:30
  wake with purpose, clear and true, and I greet the dawn with
• 1:22:34
  a brighter view. When fear no longer holds my
• 1:22:37
  hand and I have the strength to take a stand.
• 1:22:40
  When kindness flows from heart to speech and patience guides
• 1:22:44
  the truth. I teach.
• 1:22:46
  When I can listen and really hear and offer love instead of
• 1:22:50
  fear. When mistakes are lessons and
• 1:22:52
  not my chains and growth is worth the growing pains.
• 1:22:57
  When I forgive and let anger go and let my inner wisdom show.
• 1:23:01
  When I embrace both loss and gain and find the joy inside the
• 1:23:05
  ring. When I stand tall and who I am
• 1:23:07
  yet humbly serve my fellow man. When I choose courage over pride
• 1:23:12
  and lift another to my side. When I become a better me, then
• 1:23:16
  we become a better we. And when we become a better we,
• 1:23:20
  then we become better neighbors. When we become better neighbors
• 1:23:23
  and we have a better neighborhood.
• 1:23:25
  When we have a better neighborhood, then we have a
• 1:23:27
  better community. And when we have a better
• 1:23:29
  community, that we have a better state, when we have a better
• 1:23:32
  state and we have a better country, and when we have a
• 1:23:34
  better country than we have a better world.
• 1:23:37
  But it all begins with me, and it all begins with you.
• 1:23:40
  What have you done today to become the best version of you?
• 1:23:43
  So I'll do you the official. Clap not just the the automated.
• 1:23:52
  Clap. Yeah.
• 1:23:53
  So, well, there's so much, so much truth.
• 1:23:56
  And that's everything. Yeah, well, their closing
• 1:23:59
  thought is this, We're coming back every Friday.
• 1:24:03
  So, you know, not everybody can watch us on Friday.
• 1:24:07
  Some of y'all partying and enjoying yourself.
• 1:24:09
  But you can, you can always find us and you can always come back
• 1:24:13
  and you can always share it with another veteran.
• 1:24:16
  If you know somebody is going through PTS and they're they're
• 1:24:19
  deep into it, reach out to us. It's it's combat brain
• 1:24:22
  training.com or just coach Papa Tim dot com.
• 1:24:27
  You know, and we'll find a way to help.
• 1:24:29
  We can do it over the Internet, we can do it in person, we can
• 1:24:33
  do it wherever, but we're here to help.
• 1:24:35
  Allow us to help you. That's Part 1 of the that's part
• 1:24:41
  of the issue with service members is we we think we can do
• 1:24:46
  this all by yourself. We think that we're tough.
• 1:24:49
  We think that we're men and that's why we wind up with so
• 1:24:51
  many of our young men and women who wind up taking their own
• 1:24:54
  life because they don't reach out and they don't ask for help.
• 1:24:57
  Keep your eyes open, keep your ears open and look for somebody.
• 1:25:00
  And if they need a hand, call us in.
• 1:25:02
  We'd love to help out. Absolutely, absolutely, really,
• 1:25:08
  truly. It is as a as a kid who
• 1:25:12
  struggled to speak and who had to find his voice with Superman
• 1:25:17
  comics. And I'll tell the full story
• 1:25:22
  coming up, but a little bit of was entered on the introduction.
• 1:25:27
  So as somebody who really, when I signed up to the be the Marine
• 1:25:31
  Corps, I actually thought I was going to get onto the military
• 1:25:36
  radio like Good Morning Vietnam, Robin Williams and.
• 1:25:41
  So the Marine Corps recruiter. And the Marine Corps recruiter
• 1:25:45
  says, yeah, no, I got to. I get you on the radio.
• 1:25:48
  Turned out it was carrying a radio on my back into combat
• 1:25:51
  where I have a 1.2 second life spanned.
• 1:25:55
  Because they see that antenna and they know that's
• 1:25:57
  communication, so they take it out and that's probably part of
• 1:26:00
  why they changed all those radios.
• 1:26:03
  So we don't have the big 10 foot antenna off of our back anymore.
• 1:26:06
  You know, that's kind of a little bit of a waving flag.
• 1:26:08
  Literally hello here I am aim here.
• 1:26:12
  Just minus, you know, the length of the antenna.
• 1:26:15
  So literally guys and gals and all of the amazing veterans, I
• 1:26:20
  absolutely thank you from, you know, the bottom of my heart.
• 1:26:24
  And yes, and you know, I still wear my dog tags.
• 1:26:30
  The only difference is now it has black tape.
• 1:26:32
  And each one of those rings of black tape I've added over the
• 1:26:34
  years is because it honors those who are no longer here.
• 1:26:38
  And so I am bringing this, that voice AI, that is why I bring
• 1:26:43
  voice AI to those nonprofits, to those small businesses so that
• 1:26:48
  they can get found, get connected and be like coach.
• 1:26:52
  So and we will eventually we'll actually roll out.
• 1:26:56
  I've got a whole landing page and all kinds of cool stuff
• 1:26:59
  where you'll actually get to experience it.
• 1:27:01
  But if you want to experience it now, you can go and try the demo
• 1:27:05
  line. If you never tried it, you can
• 1:27:07
  have a conversation. Every one of those conversations
• 1:27:10
  will get into me. So if you do want to connect and
• 1:27:12
  you have a great story for us, again, we're not experts.
• 1:27:17
  Coach is an expert storyteller. Let's be honest.
• 1:27:19
  He's a great speaker. I, I love you, daddy.
• 1:27:22
  I brought him in because he's a better speaker than I am.
• 1:27:25
  My daddy used to hit me for it, now they pay me for it.
• 1:27:28
  So that's a. So if you've got a great story,
• 1:27:31
  seriously call Angela. That's the voice who you'll hear
• 1:27:34
  on that voice AI demo line and call Angela and leave us the
• 1:27:40
  information so that we can follow up and connect.
• 1:27:42
  You can also connect with me. You can see me on that's my link
• 1:27:47
  tree and I've got a full website.
• 1:27:50
  And then all the AI stuff that's coming.
• 1:27:52
  We just have a little bit of compliance stuff to make sure
• 1:27:54
  that our SMS text messaging A2P compliance is up to snuff
• 1:27:59
  because they changed all the the rules about that.
• 1:28:02
  And I am in Texas, which means there's a whole little little
• 1:28:06
  bit more regulations that I have to take care of.
• 1:28:08
  So that's where we're at. But all of this is just coming
• 1:28:13
  at you and it, So we want to hear your stories.
• 1:28:15
  I mean, it's all about your voice, your stories.
• 1:28:18
  So that is the deal and thank you very much.
• 1:28:24
  We thank you for watching episode #0 or episode #1
• 1:28:29
  depending on how you look at it. And I'm sure Joel will have in
• 1:28:32
  military broadcast radio TV on the YouTube, on the LinkedIn, on
• 1:28:36
  the TikTok on. So this will be broadcast if you
• 1:28:39
  like some of the stories or you want to honor or circle back to
• 1:28:42
  see some of who we honored, whether it's the Honor Company
• 1:28:46
  or the Till Valhalla Project or Combat Brain Training and Coach
• 1:28:50
  Tim Papa. You can find all of that online.
• 1:28:55
  Well my my sign off goes the same every time.
• 1:28:58
  My name. Is hi, I'm Beaker with Miller.
• 1:29:01
  I am Coach Papa and I do approve this message.
• 1:29:05
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• 1:29:08
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