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VetVoiceAI.live | Victor & Valor: Veteran Entrepreneurs, Project Die Hard & Combat Brain Training · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  The uniform comes off, but the voice doesn't.
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  We are connected. Veterans.
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  Find Connect support. Hey I'm ace, welcome to vet
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  voice AI 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.
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  And organizations 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. I welcome and of course it's not
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  a show unless there's a coach in the house.
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  Coach, welcome to the floor. Thanks BJ.
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  Here we are. Let's do it again.
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  Let's do it again, all right, He says.
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  So this is a show about real conversations, real veterans,
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  real inspirational stories. So what we're going to do is
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  we're going to start First off with the one and only coach.
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  And coach, do you have anything that might inspire us before we
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  kick off tonight's show? Well, in December or I'm sorry,
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  in September of 2001, we all know what happened.
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  In September of 2002, I was asked to present a poem and I
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  wrote this. It says the king was over taxing
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  his subjects far away. Things were really getting ugly
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  until that fateful day when the colonists dressed as Indians
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  descended upon the ships and toss the tea into the sea as a
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  cry rose from their lips. You can no longer overtax us.
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  We have no more to give. So take your laws and leave our
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  land. We choose to govern where we
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  live. Things have gotten bad before,
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  but this time was a first that saw America at its best when
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  things were at the worst and it started their tradition, a way
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  of life so to say, that has affected all Americans from then
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  until today. Every time we get complacent and
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  start bickering among ourselves, someone comes and tries to break
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  us, to cast our paradise into hell.
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  But every time they do it, they find out like the rest.
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  It's when things are at their worst that America is at its
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  best. Now this latest interruption
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  that is known as 911 as they toppled the twin towers and sent
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  thousands into heaven is just one more reminder to those
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  beyond our shore that we can be your greatest friend or you can
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  be no more. So take this as a warning.
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  Those who would put us to the test.
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  If you want to try to break us, you will find America and
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  Americans their best. So let's be at our best tonight.
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  All right, all right, well, so if you happen to catch the intro
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  to this, so tonight is about veterans and more importantly,
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  it's about a couple organizations that have been
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  doing amazing work because that's what we're here to do is.
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  So if you got the first show, we highlighted not only the till
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  the hell a project that who's remember everyone deployed shirt
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  I wear on Friday nights, but we also highlighted the hero
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  company. We highlighted together we
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  served. And tonight we're going to
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  continue highlighting amazing organizations.
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  And we're also going to take later in the second-half of the
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  show, we're going to take a a deeper dive with coach into amp
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  or combat brain training, because that's what we would
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  love to do. So tonight, let's go jump right
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  into Victor and Valor and what they do and why they're doing it
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  and what makes them so unique because again, we want to share
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  real stories, real entrepreneurs making a difference in the
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  veteran eco space. So with that, let's jump over
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  and coach, you ready? I'm ready.
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  All right, we're going to bring that up.
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  Let's switch our look here and get us over and out of the way.
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  So and we're going to switch our banner all at the same time
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  because that's just what we do. We do lots right O there they
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  go. So this is Victor and valor.
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  Now they the story behind them was actually introduced to me
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  when I was already meeting with a different entrepreneur, an
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  incredible woman who's connected to all of these amazing
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  nonprofits, so much so she even served on different boards of
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  nonprofits. Well, my friend introduced me to
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  this amazing organization and in doing so, they had some
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  incredible speakers that I have had a chance to speak with, many
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  of whom I've invited to come back on this show.
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  So the first of that is let's go ahead and bring up Dave and this
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  is Dave. So we're going to have Dave.
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  I spoke to him earlier today. He is with Trifecta Credit
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  Solutions and he was a guest on the Victor and Valor mind or
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  membership that they do where they do a live stream and they
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  get entrepreneurs teaching entrepreneurs.
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  So we're going to have Dave in one of our future episodes.
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  So he has agreed to come on and talk about the incredible things
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  that they do because they know only with Trifecta credit
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  solutions. And what Dave is doing is they
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  don't just help you fix your credit.
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  As an entrepreneur, a lot of it falls on you and your family and
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  your resources. They also coach you and how to
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  get set up for funding, whether that's government funding,
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  whether it's a micro loan A7, you know, what is it that the
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  Micro 7 AI think it is through the SBA.
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  So they help you to get all those things in order.
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  And one of the other ones that we spoke to just the other day
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  is Keyshawn. Now Keyshawn is a storyteller.
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  Where'd he go? There he is.
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  So Keyshawn is a storyteller and he was again having an amazing
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  building with grit show and he shared exactly what he's done
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  now. This guy is now a phenomenal,
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  phenomenal story in what he's doing in terms of filming, in
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  terms of documentary, in terms of the entertainment, in terms
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  of, you know, this is a guy who just went after it.
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  He didn't necessarily have all of the training, all of the
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  tools, but yet he found a way to get and go after it.
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  And that is we'll let him tell his story in greater detail when
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  we bring him in. But Victor and Valor, So what
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  makes them unique? Well, I am going to get my mouse
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  up so I can actually share so real quick.
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  When Ali and her team created Victor and Valor, she was
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  looking for an organization that operated on the fundamental
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  philosophy that branding, marketing, leadership, and
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  communication are all about the interconnected expressions of
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  human relationship. See, Ally Craig, the founder,
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  has a whole theory that she calls human choice theory.
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  And so her idea was how can we kind of as a nonprofit bridge
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  the systematic resource gap that very a lot of military families
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  and entrepreneurs face when they're trying to navigate the
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  small business marketing and especially when you consider
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  that many of the military gets relocated all the time.
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  So she set out to support entirely by private donations.
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  Victor and Valor provides elite agency caliber services
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  completely free of charge and they help connect entrepreneurs.
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  Remember, that's what we're all about is connecting the
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  entrepreneurs. Not only do they help connect
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  the entrepreneurs, but they help them to grow until they, as an
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  entrepreneurial business, a veteran preneur, are now at
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  $1,000,000 in annual revenue. They help with the marketing,
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  they help with all the branding, the story, the creative, all of
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  the things that you as an entrepreneur would go and have
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  to spend money to get up and get launched.
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  How amazing is that? Well, not only do they do that,
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  but they also do lectures. As I mentioned, we have these
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  masterminds that that was the word I was looking for earlier
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  with the two gentlemen I spoke with, Keyshawn and Dave, and
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  they are incredible and they're going to bring them in and
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  they're always looking for stories worth sharing because
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  they know Victor and Valor Alley and all the incredible people
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  that work with them know that behind every organization that
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  they serve, there is a founder who chose to continue serving
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  after the military Coach, what do you think?
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  Well, you know, we've had this discussion several times that
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  the reason we went in the military in the 1st place is we
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  at some point have learned how to serve others.
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  As we got that down to a skill, it almost became a habit or
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  maybe even an addiction to serve people.
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  So when you be a military guy and he's looking for something
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  to do, just give him an opportunity to serve and you'll
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  be amazed at what could happen. But Victor and Valor, they're
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  doing a great job of, you know, just pairing people up and, and
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  making life better. Absolutely, absolutely.
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  So one of the things that Coach brings to the table is he has at
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  least a year of entrepreneurial journeys.
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  And as he smiles, do you have an entrepreneurial story on why
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  when we're highlighting these success stories, why it's
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  impactful and important for veterans, for entrepreneurs?
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  Because you've been on a lot of sides, you've been employed and
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  you've been an entrepreneur and you've seen it from also the
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  military side of it. So what in your vast wisdom can
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  you bring to the? Well, as I've always said, I
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  used to. Couldn't even spell entrepreneur
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  now or one but you know, being an entrepreneur is is it's
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  basically you don't fit in a little little cubicle, a little
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  square box. And it it seems kind of odd to
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  people who have never served in the military that military could
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  people could be such successful entrepreneurs.
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  But the truth is, once you're done with basic training, your
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  advanced individual training, whatever what each branch of the
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  service calls it, you have a very entrepreneurial spirit
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  because you got to figure out how to do things without a lot
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  of guidance right when you're out in the middle of the
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  battlefield, you can't say, hey, Sarge, should I stand up or put
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  my head down? And as an entrepreneur, when you
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  get out there and what are the things we found out that I found
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  out a long time ago, loyalty is we're struggling with loyalty in
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  this society today. You know, the people are they're
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  getting a job and a year later they're already got the resume
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  out looking for their next job there.
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  You know, the the story of the, you know, 30 years with one
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  company, the gold watch and the retirement just doesn't exist
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  anymore. But if you want somebody who's
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  loyal, you want somebody who is going to, you know, work through
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  the program, work through the problems, I'll find a veteran.
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  And if you can find a veteran who's in business for himself, a
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  veteran who's maybe a plumber, electrician, a veteran who's a
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  inspirational speaker, a veteran who's, you know, creating an
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  opportunity for other veterans through, you know, the veterans
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  directory or Vet voice AI, you're going to have a friend
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  for life, whether you want it or not.
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  And, you know, we're connected. You know, you, you can talk
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  about that all the time. We are veterans connected.
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  I was at breakfast with a friend of mine this morning.
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  He didn't serve, but he should have at some point.
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  He's got the right heart for it. And there's an Army guy and a
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  Navy guy having breakfast. And I, you know, I stopped by
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  him on the way out. And of course now we double
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  teamed the Navy guy because we had two Army guys.
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  But I said, you know, we all did the same thing.
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  And the Navy guy says, no, we didn't.
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  I said yes, we did. We all served our country.
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  We all stood up for the, the people who either didn't have
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  the, the courage to stand up or didn't have the opportunity.
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  But we, we served. Didn't matter if you rode on a
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  boat, if you walked on the ground, if you flew in a
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  helicopter, didn't matter where, where or how you served, you
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  served. And you know, I get people all
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  the time who, you know, they want to complain about the, the
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  politics, they want to complain about this or complain about
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  that and they go, well, what do you think about it?
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  They said, well, I swore an office to uphold and defend the
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  Constitution of the United States of America and to obey
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  the orders of the officers appointed over me, specifically
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  all the way up to the President of the United States.
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  I swear an office to uphold and stand for that office.
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  Now, I don't care who's in it. I don't care if I like him.
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  I don't care if I voted for him. He is my president and I'm sworn
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  to take care of it. And you know, we all have that
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  in common. And entrepreneurs, when they're
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  out here, when you buy, hire a veteran owned businessman to
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  come in and you know, do whatever it is.
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  If it's drywalling, if it's doesn't matter, you're going to
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  have a darn good person working for you and he'll, he'll be
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  worth it. He's not, you know, he's not
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  going to break you over to Kohl's either.
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  He's going to be fair. It's price is going to be fair
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  is service is going to be good, good to great and at the end of
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  the day you're going to be glad you did.
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  I absolutely agree. And as you said, you know the,
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  the motto that I'll say multiple times, you'll see it on the
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  screen and you'll see it on, on everything is the connected
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  Veterans mission, if you will. And that is we are you and I and
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  anybody watching anybody who's ever served, we are connected
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  veterans. We measure our success as true
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  veteran entrepreneurs as true. Whether you're a founder of a
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  nonprofit or a for profit, you're measuring success by the
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  lives that you touch and improve and the trust you earn and the
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  connections you create. And, you know, all I say it and
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  I'll say it at the end of this show is, you know, we're always
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  just one connection away. And that's why we're trying to
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  highlight these amazing organizations.
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  Because who knows if one of the things that we highlight, one of
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  the things that we bring to to bear, you know, whether it's
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  till the hollow project and the plaques that they give as a
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  memorial, a living legacy to a fallen soldier.
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  You know, to the family member of that fallen soldier.
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  Whether it's, you know, something like Victor and Valor
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  where you have an entrepreneur who has a great idea but doesn't
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  really know how to market themselves right, doesn't know
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  how to get out there. That's what we want to help.
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  That's what the show is about. And while it has a title of AI
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  in the title, it's not about the tech, it's about what the tech
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  can do to empower you. Because at the end of the day,
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  we're here to make a difference in each other's lives.
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  And as veterans, we know that because we've been in foxholes
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  with each other. And you know the the saying is
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  we've got your six. And that really is true because
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  that's exactly what it's about. It's about covering and taking
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  care of each other as as a team. Well, let's explain what that
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  that we got your 6 means everything directionally.
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  We do by the clock, right? If we're saying 12:00, that
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  means we're walking straight ahead, 12:00 straight ahead.
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  That means 6 is straight behind you.
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  So we got your six. It's not talking about a six
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  back, right? It's not talking about a six
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  gun. It's talking about we got your
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  back, right? So we got your six.
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  It's all about the direction you're moving.
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  And that is, you know, it's powerful piece to understand
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  that when veterans come together, watch out.
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  You know what? You know, BJ's a Marine, I'm a
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  Army. Not let him know that they can't
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  call Marines jarheads anymore because jars contain things.
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  And we'll banter back and forth. You'll say Army ain't ready to
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  be a Marine yet, right? We'll go back and forth and we
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  can do that. But any of you pick on either of
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  us, you're going to have to deal with both of us.
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  So you're going to have to deal with all of this because, you
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  know, it's less than 1% of the population have ever put on the
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  uniform and, and stood watch over this country.
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  And the people who, you know, they've got rough things to say
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  about them. You don't know what you're
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  talking about. Occasionally there'll be a bad
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  apple shows up, but it's a lot less here than it is in the rest
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  of the world. Exactly.
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  And. You know, to that point, I
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  continue to wear my dog tags and I have for the last 30 years.
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  That's how long I've been out. And the reason it is black is
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  those are layers of electrical tape wrapped around it in honor
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  of every single one of the brothers and sisters that I
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  served with and or am aware of that.
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  Maybe I didn't serve with them. Maybe they came, you know, after
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  me. But I was a part of an
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  organization, a veterans organization and I got to meet
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  them and or maybe they're friends of a veteran or family
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  members. And so that's this is my
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  personal reminder to myself that just like it's Friday and
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  everybody, we remember everybody deployed.
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  It's my personal reminder to myself to remember everybody.
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  Whoever stepped up and said, I'm willing to serve something
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  greater than myself. All right, so as this is AAI,
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  let's bring it to AI for a second.
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  So you mentioned we've got R6, right?
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  The, The, the saying is we've got your six.
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  So what does that mean? Is it going to change?
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  We'll sign out there. They are all right.
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  So that's the honor team. One of the things that this in
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  the future we will be actually having, these guys are real.
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  They are AI agents. That is if you will, what we do
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  with the Pep Boys is AI and so forth, but couldn't resist.
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  So one of the things that is interesting is what AI says.
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  What does AI say? Well, let's go.
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  All right, So we're having fun with the the slides.
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  Here I am not AI. You are not AI coach.
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  I'm, I'm HI, I'm human intelligence sitting here, so
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  let's all right. So one of the things, if you've
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  never, I wanted to do something a little different.
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  I'm trying to change my banner. So give me one second there.
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  We do have a comment. All right, and we got to go on.
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  I'm going to show that one. Bam, look at that.
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  There it is, the H train one and only.
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  So let's go to Dun Dun Dun. Just look at that VR radio dot
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  US. All right, so real quick, coach,
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  I'm playing with the the graphics here while I'm having
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  fun. Let's go ahead and jump into the
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  next thing. Coach, I got to ask you, you
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  know, you mentioned Jarhead, so let's get back to our side by
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  side. Where is that?
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  There we go. Change.
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  Did it work? It did work.
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  All right, So you mentioned that jarheads, I had to have the lid
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  of a jar just for that. All right, but in all
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  seriousness, coach, have you ever had the opportunity to read
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  this? Yeah.
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  I haven't read that particular one, but I have read the
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  synopsis of it and as a company commander.
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  My first. Sergeant and I would always
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  battle about who ate last. He said, I'm the first Sergeant,
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  I'm the senior enlisted. I eat last.
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  And I said I'm the company commander.
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  I have the final say. I'll eat last.
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  And we would quite often go back to the serving line to make sure
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  that our, our servers that are KP individuals would get out and
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  eat their meal before either one of us would eat.
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  So that is, you know, liters eat last is a is a very real thing
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  in my life Well. If you've never looked it up
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  now, because this is AI, you know, voice that voice AI.
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  So what I'm going to do is let me get our faces over to the
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  side. If you give me one second, if
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  anybody asks, yes, I've got monitors all around and multiple
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  mouses. So if you see me moving around
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  like a crazy person now, you know, so, and one of the things
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  I do is I always want to know what does AI say, right?
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  And so I go out and I literally go into whether it's Google or
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  whatever the case is, but I'll go out and I'll look to see what
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  is it that AI is saying, whether it's about a business, whether
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  it is about, you know, entrepreneurs.
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  And in this case, like I asked, you know, and all I put in was
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  liters eat last the book, right? And so it came up with book
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  reviews and it actually summarizes this.
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  If you've never used that as a research tool, you can go to
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  Google just like you used to Google.
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  Well, now Google has Gemini and when you go there, you can do
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  that as a research tool. It is phenomenal.
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  Now I will tell you AI will hallucinate in the hallucination
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  comes from how they get their information.
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  You'll notice in the summary over on there where it says see
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  all and you see the book and so forth, those are summaries that
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  AI is pulling in the information.
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  So double check your sources. Always recommend that.
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  And if you're using Gemini from Google, you can take the output
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  from that. So you could take the document,
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  you can copy paste, or you could have it give you a PDF summary
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  and then take that over to ChatGPT and have it verify the
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  sources and or vice versa. You can go either way, but
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  that's a handy dandy way to leverage AI.
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  So Speaking of this book, let's jump.
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  I've got one or two things. If you've ever gone into
• 24:10
  YouTube, I'd love you to go to YouTube and look up Simon
• 24:14
  Shenek. I can't.
• 24:15
  How do you pronounce his last name?
• 24:16
  By the way? Coach Cynic Simon Cynic.
• 24:19
  Simon Cynic. So go to YouTube, Google on
• 24:22
  YouTube, look, do a search for eaters leaders eat last Simon
• 24:27
  Sinek and look at him. He's on stage with a woman and
• 24:31
  he explains what is right here on the back.
• 24:35
  So I'm just going to read it. He does a much better job by the
• 24:37
  way. I'm just going to read it again.
• 24:41
  He the idea came to him. I won't I don't want to take you
• 24:45
  know, 'cause obviously coaches army and they follow the same
• 24:47
  rules. But he was introduced to this
• 24:50
  concept of Eaters leaders eat last by a Marine Corps general.
• 24:56
  When he asked the general what makes the Marines cover your
• 25:00
  ears coach, what makes Marines so good, One of the things he
• 25:05
  brought out was officers eat last, the general replied.
• 25:10
  And you know Simon had a chance to see it first hand.
• 25:14
  He would see the most junior Marines eating first, while the
• 25:18
  most senior Marines would sit in the back of the line.
• 25:22
  And what was symbolic in the chow hall also goes forth in the
• 25:26
  battlefield. Great leaders sacrifice and will
• 25:29
  sacrifice for the interests of the cause.
• 25:33
  So if you've never checked it out, I highly recommend the
• 25:36
  book. I'm going to leave a one final
• 25:39
  quote in that let me get to my bookmark.
• 25:43
  And it's talking about value. Coach brought up value in
• 25:47
  entrepreneurs and how and that will lead us to our next segment
• 25:51
  before we take a quick break and come back with the coach and
• 25:56
  combat brain training. But one of the things that
• 26:00
  entrepreneurs when you're an entrepreneur, you have a
• 26:03
  purpose. When you're in the service, you
• 26:07
  have a purpose, you have a mission, right?
• 26:10
  Well, one of the things that he found when he was talking to all
• 26:14
  these different military folks in all different branches is
• 26:17
  Simon. This is quoting from the book
• 26:19
  here and he's talking about the value of purpose.
• 26:23
  And in it he gives a very specific quote and he goes into
• 26:28
  other companies and so forth, like Costco, where he talked to
• 26:31
  the owner James or the VP or CEO, I think at the time CEO
• 26:36
  James single. And he talked about the, that,
• 26:40
  that same mindset, much like the Marines, much like coach in the
• 26:44
  army of leaders eat last, right? So the quote is human beings
• 26:52
  have thrived for 50,000 years not because we are driven to
• 26:58
  serve ourselves, but because we are inspired to serve others.
• 27:06
  Along that that line, BJI was. I was.
• 27:10
  As I signed a contract for 15 speaking engagements for a
• 27:15
  company in the oil and gas industry in Texas, Oklahoma and
• 27:19
  Louisiana, there were five sites and and in June I visited each
• 27:24
  of the five sites. In July I went back to each of
• 27:27
  them and then in August I went back to each of them one more
• 27:30
  time. About 60,000 air miles I
• 27:32
  traveled during that. You know, those three months I
• 27:36
  did that What I sat down for the initial contract.
• 27:40
  She said, I'm hiring you to talk on servant leadership.
• 27:44
  And I said, well, I appreciate that, but I've got it.
• 27:46
  I've got to correct you. And she said, what do you mean?
• 27:49
  I said there is no such thing as servant leadership.
• 27:53
  There is only leadership. Leadership by definition, is a
• 27:56
  servant to the people. And when the leaders begin to
• 28:00
  understand that, you know, you, you start climbing the ranks,
• 28:03
  they can all you know, the higher I get, the more people
• 28:06
  are going to wait on the hand and foot, they're going to serve
• 28:09
  me. And, and those aren't leaders.
• 28:10
  Those are managers. Those are people who who want to
• 28:13
  be served. But the true leaders, they're
• 28:15
  the ones who make sure, in the case of the military, that your
• 28:18
  soldiers, your Marines, your sailors, German, they make sure
• 28:22
  they have everything they need to complete the mission of the
• 28:25
  true leaders. In the industrial world, in the
• 28:28
  school systems and the families, the leaders break their backside
• 28:33
  to make sure that their people have everything they need to be
• 28:37
  successful. Leaders are servants, right?
• 28:40
  Leaders are not somebody that want to be bowed down to.
• 28:44
  They're not somebody you want to be, you know.
• 28:46
  Oh, yes, Sir. Yes, Sir.
• 28:47
  Yes, Sir. They may be that in other
• 28:50
  militaries in other countries, but the the the true definition
• 28:54
  of a leader is to be a servant of the people.
• 28:57
  Absolutely, Absolutely. Speaking of.
• 29:02
  Leading one of the organizations that has been leading the
• 29:06
  charge. And better than my voice,
• 29:09
  apparently, yes, if you're watching this is live.
• 29:15
  So that has been leading the charge.
• 29:18
  And that actually introduced me, as I said earlier, to Victor and
• 29:22
  Balor is warrior rising warrior risings over a decade old.
• 29:28
  And I thought that the really better than listening to me flap
• 29:33
  my gums about them. They're an amazing organization.
• 29:36
  They work with the SBA, they work with the veteran business
• 29:38
  outreach centers, They work with a lot of incredible, incredible
• 29:42
  organizations around the veteran community.
• 29:44
  But one of the best ways to highlight what they do is coach
• 29:52
  is going to talk for 30 seconds while I click on buttons.
• 29:56
  Go get your bed, get that easy button, get that great big just
• 29:59
  to slap that nothing. Now you know, as we as we move
• 30:03
  through, we're going to do the best we can all the time.
• 30:05
  And you're going to find we're going to be very transparent on
• 30:09
  the show, right? If something we don't know,
• 30:11
  we're going to let you know we don't know it.
• 30:13
  And as we're working our way through, we'll figure it out.
• 30:16
  And as we as we get there, looks like you figured it out.
• 30:21
  BJ, you ready to hit that button?
• 30:24
  I'm just finding the share screen so I can bring it up and
• 30:32
  I'm gonna go entire screen. I'm gonna go that one and.
• 30:39
  Ready. To share and I'm going to jump
• 30:46
  in and hit start. As we listen to.
• 30:50
  It right from the founder. You do the sounds, not on.
• 31:06
  Let me pause. Let's go.
• 31:09
  Come on, dude, pause for a second.
• 31:11
  So yes, you know, this is live. I'm going to crank up my sound.
• 31:19
  All right, let. Me turn up the sound and
• 31:22
  attempting to click the button. And let me make.
• 31:26
  Sure. Over.
• 31:30
  Here, let me make sure over here.
• 31:33
  Give me one second and there we go.
• 31:43
  All right, so I'm going to back it up, ladies and gentlemen.
• 31:46
  So if you're listening on the audio side of things, you're
• 31:48
  going to hear, hopefully hear this.
• 31:51
  I'm going to share my computers all the way up and the sound on
• 31:58
  the video is all the way up, so let's see what we have now, see
• 32:01
  if it will come through. I'm not sure what's going on,
• 32:13
  but you may have to. PJ that it's it is putting the
• 32:47
  words across the stream, but I I can't hear it at all.
• 32:51
  OK, we did practices, folks. I'm not quite sure what's going
• 32:57
  on here, but. We got.
• 33:02
  One or two options here. You can go ahead and talk about
• 33:05
  it or we can bring it out on the next one.
• 33:20
  All right. So right there, that is Jason.
• 33:23
  Jason started when you're wounded or warrior rising.
• 33:28
  Let's try that and get that correct here.
• 33:30
  All right, so give me one second.
• 33:32
  I'm going to flip over to my banners and graphics and we're
• 33:35
  going to get bring in their stuff because apparently.
• 33:42
  Can you? Hear me and.
• 33:49
  Or you're. Rising and show all right, so.
• 34:02
  We're going. To apparently we were going to
• 34:05
  play the video, but for whatever reason I must have clicked the
• 34:08
  wrong button, so it did not like to do that.
• 34:11
  So I'm going to stop my share. By the way, hang on one second,
• 34:14
  coach, and then I'm going to read.
• 34:17
  I do have the transcript of it right up above, so I'm gonna
• 34:20
  actually read it. So and let.
• 34:27
  Me bring it up. Yes, folks, this is live.
• 34:36
  Yeah, absolutely. So, Warrior Rising, First off,
• 34:41
  pardon me for looking up. Actually, let me see if I can
• 34:44
  just bring it right down here 100% live.
• 34:49
  Yes, I'm gonna actually drag it right over my face, and then
• 34:53
  I'll look at you as I read. How about that?
• 34:55
  Does that sound a little better? All right, so Warrior Rising is
• 34:59
  a highly prominent 5O13C. So it is a nonprofit.
• 35:03
  It was started in 2015. And what you were seeing in the
• 35:07
  video and reading was it was started by a group of military
• 35:11
  veterans led by the executive director, the gentleman on the
• 35:15
  video there, Jason Van Camp. He's headquartered out of Utah.
• 35:19
  The organization is entirely dedicated to transforming U.S.
• 35:24
  military veterans service disabled veterans and their
• 35:28
  immediate family members, including the military spouses,
• 35:31
  into successful entrepreneurship affectionately termed
• 35:36
  veteraners. Unlike standard charity
• 35:39
  initiatives, the Warrior Rising operates a capability over
• 35:45
  charity, so their framework is focusing on giving veterans the
• 35:50
  tools and the structure so they can earn not just a little bit
• 35:54
  of a handout, but instead they can have a hand up and own their
• 36:00
  long term economic independence. Since its inception, the
• 36:04
  organization has assisted more than 30,000 military connected
• 36:10
  entrepreneurs, vet preneurs and help launch and fund hundreds of
• 36:15
  veteran owned small businesses and nonprofits, educational and
• 36:19
  acceleration programs that they specify.
• 36:22
  In one of those, I went through two of them, actually three of
• 36:25
  them, come to think of it. So three different programs.
• 36:28
  So many of the people you're going to hear about and the
• 36:31
  organizations that you're going to learn about through Vet voice
• 36:34
  AI are cohorts from the Warrior Rising and Warrior University
• 36:40
  and the activator that I was a part of them.
• 36:43
  So let me just give you a quick breakdown.
• 36:46
  Warrior, they, they have a couple different programs.
• 36:49
  I highly recommend going to Warrior rising.org and looking
• 36:53
  at all of them. First is Launch Point.
• 36:55
  It's an introductory concept stage program tailored for
• 36:59
  service disabled veterans to validate business ideas and map
• 37:04
  out the initial steps. Activator.
• 37:07
  It's an intensive 8 week pre accelerator cohort opened up in
• 37:13
  conjunction and in partnership with the Boeing Center at
• 37:16
  Virginia Tech. And I went through that one.
• 37:18
  It is, it is a phenomenal course and it is grueling and they make
• 37:22
  you jump and, and do some stuff that you wouldn't normally have
• 37:26
  thought to do. You know, I've been around for a
• 37:29
  long time and I got to tell you I, I learned so much in the
• 37:33
  intensive in the activator as well as in Warrior University
• 37:36
  that I feel like I got an MBA in the short window of time.
• 37:40
  I mean, it's just absolutely incredible, which is why I'm a
• 37:43
  raving fan of them. So with that, again, the
• 37:48
  activator, it's an intensive 8 week pre accelerator cohort
• 37:52
  operated in partnership with Virginia Tech and Boeing Center.
• 37:55
  It is tailored specifically for tech.
• 37:58
  That's why I was in there. And SAS veteran founders looking
• 38:01
  to connect a MVP or minimal viable product.
• 38:05
  We're your Academy. That is the their main thing
• 38:08
  that is a self-paced. So if you, you know, you're
• 38:12
  like, I don't have time to do stuff, I highly recommend
• 38:15
  jumping in and doing the Warrior Academy as a great place to
• 38:18
  start because it's self-paced, it's comprehensive and it's a
• 38:22
  curriculum that guides you through advanced marketing
• 38:26
  analysis, economic modelling, operational legalities and full
• 38:31
  business plan development. Now, if you've never thought of
• 38:33
  those things and yet you're like, Hey, I got a website, I'm
• 38:36
  going to go do this. This is my business.
• 38:38
  I'm cutting loans, I'm doing hair, I'm doing nails, I'm doing
• 38:41
  whatever you're doing. You want to find out about
• 38:44
  operational legalities and the full business plan because makes
• 38:47
  a heck of a difference when you go out to actually get funding
• 38:51
  and other things. So last but not least is where
• 38:54
  your university, where your university is like their full on
• 38:57
  training. That is the advanced stage of
• 38:59
  their training and it passes Warriors through the Warrior
• 39:03
  University bridges the gap between the traditional or
• 39:07
  foundational business development and real world
• 39:11
  capital acquisition. In other words, this is the
• 39:14
  gateway that gets you to funding membership signature events.
• 39:19
  And again, Warrior Rising doesn't just blindly hand out
• 39:23
  grants, right? If you look on their site,
• 39:24
  they're very or watch them on YouTube, Jason and the rest of
• 39:28
  them, Reggie and everybody else is very honest about that.
• 39:31
  Instead, it distributes non dilutive capital.
• 39:35
  It means they're not taking ownership in your company.
• 39:37
  That's what a fancy word for that is and foundational
• 39:41
  research through interactive and merit based milestones.
• 39:44
  They have things called business showers.
• 39:47
  That's where they're it's kind of like a baby shower, but for
• 39:49
  startups. These are their live pitch
• 39:52
  events. What is a live pitch event?
• 39:55
  Think Shark Tank, right? And they help you if you've
• 39:58
  never pitched, they're going to help you.
• 40:00
  They're going to coach you. They were going to give you an
• 40:02
  opportunity to really present like the.
• 40:07
  Amazing veteran entrepreneur you are to present to companies and
• 40:11
  networks of top tier investors in corporate execs so that these
• 40:15
  founders who get the opportunity to pitch, then get to pitch and
• 40:19
  compete for up to $20,000 in grant funding.
• 40:23
  How often is that? I mean free $20,000.
• 40:27
  Great when you're launching a business cuz you know there's an
• 40:30
  expense or two that comes up. They also give one-on-one,
• 40:34
  one-on-one mentorship and they have amazing events, right?
• 40:40
  I mean, they're right now they've got 1 going on for
• 40:42
  tailgating for this Army Navy game.
• 40:44
  You've probably heard of of Army, right Coach?
• 40:48
  The winners? This year.
• 40:52
  Right, so those are just some of the amazing highlights and maybe
• 40:58
  eventually we'll get that video to to go.
• 41:00
  We'll get that figured out. But that's why this is live,
• 41:04
  Coach. You're a.
• 41:06
  Warrior and we know you're cheering for Army, but before we
• 41:10
  take a break in, before we come back, we want them to come back.
• 41:14
  We want them to learn about what you're going to be talking about
• 41:19
  after the break before. When When was the last time you
• 41:27
  upgraded your cell phone and how much did that cost you?
• 41:29
  When was the last time you upgraded your computer?
• 41:32
  How much did that cost you, your car, your house, your spouse?
• 41:37
  How much did that cost you? When was the last time you
• 41:40
  upgraded you? And that's what we do at combat
• 41:44
  Brain training. We give your brain an upgrade
• 41:47
  that makes everything else work a little bit better.
• 41:49
  So we're going to talk about combat brain training, where it
• 41:52
  came from, what the foundation is and how it can maybe support
• 41:55
  you and your life going forward. So come on back after the break.
• 42:00
  Let's let's talk about combat brain training or it's other, it
• 42:04
  is accelerated mental performance.
• 42:08
  All right, all right. Now Coach is going to talk for
• 42:11
  one more moment while I click on some buttons to make us go into
• 42:14
  break. How about that?
• 42:16
  That works. What lays at the?
• 42:17
  Bottom of the ocean and shakes. Well, that's a nervous wreck,
• 42:21
  you know, Have you ever been a nervous wreck?
• 42:23
  Have you ever been a little bit anxious about something going on
• 42:26
  in your life? Well, when your brains work a
• 42:28
  little bit better, that anxiety that, that depression, whatever
• 42:32
  that issue is, that's, that's cloud your judgment, that'll
• 42:35
  start filtering away. We're not a, a medically
• 42:39
  prescribed program. We don't profess to fix every
• 42:43
  problem. But if your brain works a little
• 42:45
  bit better than your life is going to get a little bit
• 42:48
  better. And we'll talk about exactly how
• 42:50
  that works and now the basis behind it in a few minutes.
• 42:55
  All right, all. Right, so we're going to go
• 42:57
  ahead and jump into our Dun, Dun, Dun.
• 43:01
  And this is a military broadcast worth fighting for.
• 43:08
  Video from Scott Frazier. Here we go.
• 48:10
  All right, Yeah. And we're.
• 48:12
  Back. We are back.
• 48:14
  Coach so guess. What I just got?
• 48:18
  Notified of? What did you just get notified
• 48:22
  of? Well.
• 48:24
  I've got a friend. Who I talked to through vet
• 48:28
  social and his name is Brian and he started his.
• 48:33
  Amazing. Organization Project Die Hard
• 48:39
  and it's all about Mission 22 and I had invited him last week
• 48:44
  to come on the show and he missed it, but he's available
• 48:48
  right now. Would you have 15 or so minutes
• 48:53
  of. I know it's uninterrupted, but
• 48:55
  it is live. And would you like to hear
• 48:59
  Brian's story and how he started Project Die Hard and more
• 49:02
  importantly, how it's helping veterans in his local area and
• 49:06
  his vision for the future? Well, that's the.
• 49:11
  You know, we we have to say it's called rigidly flexible.
• 49:15
  Have a plan but be flexible. So let's be flexible, bring him
• 49:18
  in. Let's you know as soon as we can
• 49:21
  get him in the green room here. All right, if you.
• 49:24
  Watch the green room. I'm going to upload the graphic
• 49:27
  you just sent me and. We will get so.
• 49:33
  For those of you who don't know, it is.
• 49:37
  Bring it in. Bring it in here I'm going to
• 49:39
  add the file. I'm also going to add the banner
• 49:41
  so that we'll be able to see there it is so that you can be
• 49:48
  able to see our special guest and he should be popping in in a
• 49:55
  second. And as he does that, we'll go
• 49:58
  ahead and we'll be introducing. He's got a really I I had a
• 50:02
  great time to basically get a great connection with him.
• 50:08
  Now we're both a part of that social and that social, if
• 50:11
  you've never looked at it, they're one of our future
• 50:13
  versions. And we're going to have one of
• 50:15
  their founders on the show as well.
• 50:17
  And it's actually how I found military broadcast radio is
• 50:21
  through that social. And ironically, I saw these guys
• 50:26
  MBR in that one of their I think it was a comment that maybe Joel
• 50:32
  had made to Ryan, who's the founder for vet social.
• 50:35
  And I said, God, you know what? I want to look at this military
• 50:38
  broadcast radio and find out a little bit more about Joel and
• 50:41
  just fascinated. And so I have sent out I'll did
• 50:47
  it. Upload.
• 50:47
  It did upload. OK, so we've got that.
• 50:49
  Let me add the banner real quick so we can actually see his
• 50:52
  website, give him some props and so.
• 50:55
  This is all live. Folks, we are doing it on the
• 50:57
  fly. And coach if.
• 51:04
  You could keep an eye on the green room for me.
• 51:06
  He should be popping in as. Which eye would you like?
• 51:13
  My left. Eye or my right eye?
• 51:15
  I can I can work with either one of them.
• 51:19
  We so folks, military broadcast radio.
• 51:26
  It's been around since I believe 2005.
• 51:29
  Is that right, DJ? It's.
• 51:32
  Yeah, it's been. Around for, I think Jules said
• 51:34
  that the other day, Yeah, yeah, 21.
• 51:37
  Years. So this isn't something that's
• 51:39
  that's brand new We appreciate everybody who's been you know
• 51:43
  stepping in it's it it's new for me.
• 51:46
  But they're they're housed out of a little, little office in
• 51:52
  Colorado and that Colorado's near and dear to my heart.
• 51:56
  It's where I was stationed. It's where I met my wife on
• 51:59
  active duty. She was a medic.
• 52:01
  I was a military policeman And I met her on May 6th, 1974.
• 52:07
  And I asked her to marry me six weeks later and we just
• 52:10
  celebrated our 51st wedding anniversary.
• 52:12
  So Colorado's always been near and dear.
• 52:15
  My sister still lives up in Golden, Co.
• 52:18
  So I found out, Joel, and the military broadcast radio is
• 52:22
  centered out of Colorado. Here we go.
• 52:25
  Sounds like I got some applause in the background or you're just
• 52:28
  cheering for me, one of the other.
• 52:30
  But it's it it it's been a journey.
• 52:34
  And to wind up back here connected this way, if you
• 52:38
  notice a banner scrolling across the bottom, we are veterans
• 52:43
  connected. And we're all just one
• 52:45
  connection away from each other. If you've got something in your
• 52:49
  life. OK, Sergeant Jerry Cods, Are you
• 52:52
  ready to bring him in? Whether you're ready or not, you
• 52:58
  said. Hey, SAP, how are you?
• 53:00
  Hey I. Would be better, brothers.
• 53:02
  I would be better. But yesterday I gave a tour to
• 53:10
  our first facility, to a ministry that came from Texas
• 53:16
  and an Reese Real. Excuse me, resource partner that
• 53:22
  came from Wisconsin and they have both agreed to come and
• 53:27
  help veterans. Very nice.
• 53:32
  You know what part? Of Wisconsin, they're from.
• 53:35
  The Dells. OK.
• 53:37
  I was just through there a couple of days ago.
• 53:39
  I, I was a head soccer coach at a high school of Wisconsin.
• 53:43
  My son lives in Texas. So we got the, we got the
• 53:45
  connections. Oh, wow.
• 53:46
  There's my, there's the. The post we did.
• 53:51
  Wow, you're good. So.
• 53:57
  But yeah. Guys look for.
• 53:58
  Veterans, guys, all I'm asking veterans to do is find our
• 54:03
  mission on social media. Like it, follow it, share it,
• 54:10
  tell people we're real. We're doing this the right way.
• 54:17
  So, Brian? Yes.
• 54:21
  Why don't? You fill us in.
• 54:23
  For we have folks that are all over the world that are viewing
• 54:26
  on this right now. So why don't you fill us in on a
• 54:28
  little bit of your back story and the reason behind starting
• 54:33
  project Die Hard and where your what your vision is for the
• 54:37
  future of it as well. OK, my story.
• 54:41
  I was born into a Navy family. I'm sorry.
• 54:46
  I know. But.
• 54:48
  I didn't have a. Choice.
• 54:53
  I grew up around the world, right?
• 54:56
  Every Navy base you can think of, that's where I lived my.
• 55:01
  Father's last duty. Station was the Ghost fleet in
• 55:06
  Bremerton, WA. He was a command Master Chief.
• 55:12
  You know those guys that walk on the water?
• 55:17
  And. I grew up.
• 55:18
  Playing on the Missouri before it got reactivated the first
• 55:22
  time. You know, Mom said.
• 55:26
  Take these boys to work and my dad would just put us in a
• 55:29
  little lawn to take us out to a ship, throw us on with a lunch
• 55:32
  bag and say I'll be back at 4:00.
• 55:36
  So. During high school, I was part
• 55:41
  of a Tiger cruise and I. Realized.
• 55:45
  I'm not joining the Navy. I don't swim that well, so I
• 55:53
  joined. The army that.
• 55:54
  Was 1985 back then? We were 91 alphas combat medics.
• 56:04
  Went up to desert. Storm.
• 56:07
  During that time, my first wife and my daughter left, so I came
• 56:12
  back, took a break in service. And my current wife.
• 56:18
  Said when you are cut you bleed green.
• 56:22
  So are we enlisted? Finished out in 20. 17.
• 56:33
  Deployments. Here and there, you know, You
• 56:36
  know how we were all. And then?
• 56:43
  In 2017, the wife of one of my best combat brothers, Sergeant
• 56:48
  First Class Tim Pinsky, calls. Me in a panic.
• 56:52
  Going doc, what do I do? What do I do?
• 56:56
  I go take a break. What's going on?
• 56:59
  She goes. Eric is hanging in the garage.
• 57:04
  That's when I knew something better.
• 57:06
  Had to be done. Now.
• 57:12
  During all that time, you know, I'm retiring out of the
• 57:15
  military, my wife said you need a hobby.
• 57:19
  So I brought a a bike, motorcycle.
• 57:25
  Couple of my buddies came down. One was, Hey doc man, if you're
• 57:31
  for if your shop was bigger, right, I'm like.
• 57:36
  Yeah. Brothers like I'm a dude.
• 57:39
  Let's think. Little bed big.
• 57:43
  Shop OK. And then my other brother.
• 57:49
  That came down another veteran. He goes, hey.
• 57:53
  Doc man, you got. A spare bedroom.
• 57:54
  If I hung out here for about 3 months, we could get this thing
• 57:58
  totally built I. Went brother the last time.
• 58:01
  You and I hung out. There was bail money involved.
• 58:07
  I said if you can clear that. Through wife unit.
• 58:13
  OK, she wasn't having it. But that's where the premise.
• 58:20
  Of project Die Hard came from. Now the name.
• 58:27
  That came from my time with the First Timetry Division.
• 58:30
  I was with the First engineers, the die hard battalion, right?
• 58:37
  No mission to difficult, no sacrifice to great duty.
• 58:41
  First. The project part of it is we're
• 58:45
  always going to be building. The goal of Project Die.
• 58:52
  Hard is to put a facility in every state.
• 58:56
  Where a veteran can. Come without judgment, without.
• 59:02
  The stress. Without the red tape, Without
• 59:05
  the bureaucracy and get skill training, counseling, therapies,
• 59:13
  transitional housing, all at no. Cost to the.
• 59:17
  Veteran. So we started in two. 1018 we
• 59:25
  started out small with our fellowship breakfast.
• 59:29
  You know, try to get the. Mission out.
• 59:34
  And then we all know what happened in. 2020.
• 59:39
  But during that time. I had a organization reach out
• 59:46
  the haven of love, Christian Daycares, right?
• 59:51
  And said, can you tell? Us more about.
• 59:54
  Your mission and. We were talking and then.
• 59:58
  They invited me up to Mckanda, Illinois to talk.
• 1:00:04
  I said OK, I'll go anywhere and talk about this mission.
• 1:00:09
  Well, they walked. Me through 20 acres in the
• 1:00:12
  10,000 square foot building. And at the end of that they
• 1:00:18
  said. Can you use this for your
• 1:00:20
  mission? I went of course, but there's no
• 1:00:24
  way. We can afford this.
• 1:00:28
  Good, we're giving. It to you?
• 1:00:31
  Wow. So since 20. 20 I've been trying
• 1:00:39
  to gain the support. You know.
• 1:00:45
  To get it built out, you know it.
• 1:00:52
  That's what it's going to take. It's going to take the community
• 1:00:55
  support. Our fellowship breakfast has
• 1:00:59
  still been going on the first Wednesday of the month in
• 1:01:03
  Paducah, KY. That's our outreach.
• 1:01:06
  I want to put that breakfast in every city.
• 1:01:13
  Can't do that without support. What channels have you been?
• 1:01:18
  Using obviously social media, obviously the breakfast.
• 1:01:22
  What channels have you been using to really get your your
• 1:01:26
  mission out to the veteran community?
• 1:01:29
  Since there's so many different opportunities to connect, I use.
• 1:01:35
  LinkedIn, all the socials, right?
• 1:01:39
  Ryan Hunt, I'm sure you all heard his name.
• 1:01:41
  That veteran social, right? Great guy.
• 1:01:46
  He helps as. Much as he can.
• 1:01:50
  Him and I've been in. Talks.
• 1:01:52
  You know how he does the veteran social virtually, right?
• 1:01:57
  I want to host the. Veteran social, in person, in
• 1:02:02
  the veteran resource centers that I'm going to be building.
• 1:02:09
  Can you imagine that we do, He does the virtual.
• 1:02:12
  I got places all around the US where veterans can come, they
• 1:02:17
  can hang out in the retreat center.
• 1:02:21
  You know, let's, let's do this big thing.
• 1:02:25
  But that's why I asked. Veterans share the mission.
• 1:02:31
  Tell somebody about us. Yeah.
• 1:02:34
  Look, guys, I don't take a salary.
• 1:02:38
  None of my leadership will ever get paid.
• 1:02:44
  You want transparency? Ask My accountant has orders.
• 1:02:54
  Send them the books. I don't give a flying flip.
• 1:03:00
  Well, and so. You're transparent.
• 1:03:03
  You're doing the right thing. Your Army coach would like that.
• 1:03:06
  You're somewhat familiar with the Illinois coach would like
• 1:03:10
  that. What?
• 1:03:14
  What do you see? As where do you have momentum
• 1:03:18
  and obviously talking with Ryan is always a great step where do
• 1:03:22
  you have momentum and where do you think that would you would
• 1:03:28
  like additional resources to besides what you're already
• 1:03:32
  working on to maybe help maybe somebody watching can see this
• 1:03:36
  and go oh, I got somebody who could really help Brian with
• 1:03:39
  this Oh again, brother, we. Have a community support program
• 1:03:45
  right are. You a ministry partner?
• 1:03:50
  Are you a resource partner? Are you an outreach partner, a
• 1:03:58
  mission supplier of this facility supplier or an
• 1:04:03
  affiliate partner? Where do you fit in?
• 1:04:09
  Anybody can say, hey, I want to help but I got this thing guys.
• 1:04:14
  I only take the best because veterans deserve only the best.
• 1:04:24
  I I've been doing this since 2:00. 1018 I have ran people
• 1:04:28
  away from this mission because they want to come in here and
• 1:04:33
  use veterans as a political toy or a fundraising scheme or no,
• 1:04:40
  that's not going to happen. We do a podcast.
• 1:04:46
  Every Monday, I invite veterans, especially veterans, if you have
• 1:04:53
  information veterans need, if you have a program veterans
• 1:04:59
  need, reach out to us. Let's get you booked in.
• 1:05:05
  OK? Everybody asked me for, well,
• 1:05:08
  what's your numbers? I personally do not care.
• 1:05:13
  About numbers, I got a marketing team that.
• 1:05:18
  Does. Well, and and, you know, like
• 1:05:23
  it. Says on the bottom and you know
• 1:05:25
  that's kind of the the mission of the motto from even I shared
• 1:05:28
  that with you when we first connected.
• 1:05:29
  We are connected veterans. We're one connection away
• 1:05:33
  because literally how did all of this transpire So you I military
• 1:05:38
  broadcast radio all came through vet social and Ryan Hunt.
• 1:05:42
  That's one connection, one connection, man, this rabbit
• 1:05:47
  hole and all of us got connected right?
• 1:05:49
  Well, since that that connected me to things like warrior
• 1:05:53
  rising. That's connected me to things
• 1:05:55
  like victor and valor. That's connected me to things
• 1:05:57
  like till Valhalla project. It just keeps that connection
• 1:06:01
  keeps going on because of the brothers and sisters who made
• 1:06:04
  that commitment to each other, who made that commitment as
• 1:06:07
  coach, as the both the flag on and behind him, right?
• 1:06:13
  Who made that commitment to something beyond themselves,
• 1:06:17
  right. Coach, what do you think?
• 1:06:21
  Well, I, I, I think there's a. Couple things that I see here
• 1:06:24
  and now, now #1 if you, if you want to get anything done, don't
• 1:06:28
  look to your first Sergeant, don't look to your E sixes, go
• 1:06:30
  to your staff sergeants or your certain first classes, your SFS,
• 1:06:34
  the SFS, they're connected, but they're not.
• 1:06:37
  They haven't entered that political realm of the first
• 1:06:39
  Sergeant, Sergeant majors yet. So I know you, you're at a,
• 1:06:42
  you're at a place, I'm a, I'm a retired company commander,
• 1:06:45
  right? We're retired captain, but I was
• 1:06:47
  10 years enlisted, 11 years as an officer.
• 1:06:50
  So I, you know, I knew where to go.
• 1:06:51
  So number one, you got to thrive to get her done #2.
• 1:06:56
  I, you know, like to think there's a lot more people who
• 1:07:02
  think similarly to what you think.
• 1:07:06
  And we're talking about that earlier.
• 1:07:07
  If you want a loyal, if you want a loyal person on your side, you
• 1:07:12
  know, pick a veteran and the veterans will, will show up.
• 1:07:18
  There's, there's other people who are doing similar things to
• 1:07:22
  you, maybe not the same things, but there's a lot of us out here
• 1:07:25
  trying to to work and, and we just want to make sure we're not
• 1:07:29
  duplicating efforts. So what have you done to connect
• 1:07:33
  with other people to find other people who have that same drive
• 1:07:37
  as you do to, you know, expand this.
• 1:07:41
  I admire your, you know what you're doing.
• 1:07:45
  You know, the definition of a volunteer is somebody who's good
• 1:07:47
  for nothing. And we're all, you know, a
• 1:07:50
  little bit good for nothing. But when we can serve a veteran.
• 1:07:54
  So the VAC if if you connected to local veterans assistance
• 1:07:59
  commissions to let them know that you exist.
• 1:08:01
  I just checked and I believe there's one in Paducah.
• 1:08:04
  Yes, we have. Reached out to everybody
• 1:08:08
  brother. Every.
• 1:08:11
  Month at our fellowship breakfast, I say, do you serve
• 1:08:18
  veterans? Why don't you come join us?
• 1:08:22
  I had a great. VSO.
• 1:08:26
  That was with the. DAV here in Paducah.
• 1:08:31
  She retired out right. She used to.
• 1:08:37
  Every month right there passing out her card get helping
• 1:08:42
  veterans she retired her replacement.
• 1:08:48
  I don't speak I'll of anybody, but within our local veteran
• 1:08:52
  community we're. Already planning on how to.
• 1:08:57
  Tar and feather her. I hear you.
• 1:09:02
  OK. Let's all work together well as.
• 1:09:08
  You know, BJ and I were talking earlier, I'm the senior vice of
• 1:09:11
  our local American Legion. And the, the, the problem with
• 1:09:14
  the Legion, the, the, the other veterans groups, VFW, they all
• 1:09:18
  do great things. All their missions are a little
• 1:09:20
  bit different. But the problem is a lot of the
• 1:09:23
  people who have taken leadership roles in these organizations,
• 1:09:27
  we're never a qualified leader during their time in the
• 1:09:30
  military. And their perception of
• 1:09:33
  leadership as they're, you know, projecting it in these
• 1:09:36
  organizations, screwing them up, it's not helping them.
• 1:09:40
  And, you know, we got we got to continue to pull together.
• 1:09:44
  I went to the state convention for the American Legion because
• 1:09:47
  I'm supposed to be the commander of our our post next year.
• 1:09:51
  And man, these guys, you know, in the pomp and circumstance and
• 1:09:55
  they got all these people walking around like they had
• 1:09:57
  general. That's like, stop it.
• 1:09:59
  This is a volunteer organization.
• 1:10:00
  More than that. These are people who pay to
• 1:10:03
  play. You know, they pay a dues to be
• 1:10:06
  part of this organization. You can't treat them like that.
• 1:10:09
  Stop it, right. Let's organize each other and
• 1:10:13
  let's bring it together. If you missed a few minutes ago,
• 1:10:15
  we were talking about leadership and leadership by definition as
• 1:10:19
  a servant of the people, right? Let's serve the people.
• 1:10:22
  Let's stop trying to trying to be served.
• 1:10:25
  So, you know, I admire what you're doing 100%.
• 1:10:28
  And if I ever get to the Duke of Brother, I'm going to look you
• 1:10:30
  up. Hey brother, check this out.
• 1:10:33
  My leadership team hates me because they want me to wear the
• 1:10:41
  collared shirts in the right, and 9 out of 10 times when you
• 1:10:48
  see me at one of our events, I'm wearing a volunteer shirt.
• 1:10:55
  I have I. I want no fame, no fortune out
• 1:10:59
  of this so. Yesterday that.
• 1:11:02
  Ministry asked. Well, what do you see?
• 1:11:05
  Where do you where do you fit into this?
• 1:11:08
  If it when it goes nationwide, I went I get to travel to every
• 1:11:13
  facility and no veteran knows who or what I am.
• 1:11:21
  I get to sit around with a cup. Of coffee and go hey guys,
• 1:11:25
  what's going on? Yeah.
• 1:11:27
  There's there's so much you know, but Jesus was was the
• 1:11:31
  greatest undercover boss of the world.
• 1:11:33
  So you know it's let's let's we need a little more people like
• 1:11:38
  you in here do appreciate you stopping by man this is this
• 1:11:43
  been fun. If there's one thing that
• 1:11:46
  somebody out there listening can do for you, I know you already
• 1:11:49
  said get on my social media share and I've already joined
• 1:11:52
  your social media and I'm looking at your podcast right
• 1:11:54
  now and you know, get it out there.
• 1:11:58
  And it's just project Die hard. Go to Apple podcast, go to
• 1:12:01
  wherever you listen to podcast and listen to what these guys
• 1:12:04
  have to say because you know what, we're out here.
• 1:12:07
  We're in this together. Well, again, brother.
• 1:12:12
  Since I got this platform. National.
• 1:12:17
  America Legion National VFW. We have been reaching out.
• 1:12:24
  Reply to us. Let's talk.
• 1:12:29
  I'm not asking everybody to deliver millions of dollars.
• 1:12:35
  I'm. Asking how can?
• 1:12:37
  We work together, what can we? Do.
• 1:12:42
  Together I got a bunch of blessings sitting in right here
• 1:12:48
  in this folder. In this screen I have a bunch of
• 1:12:52
  blessings. I have a 10,000 square foot
• 1:12:58
  venue from a veteran owned restaurant, a Club 22 member who
• 1:13:10
  says we can use it at no cost anytime.
• 1:13:17
  If I don't get volunteers. I'm not going to pull that
• 1:13:20
  trigger. Well.
• 1:13:22
  I. I I hear you.
• 1:13:25
  So we'll you got our support and you know you got this right.
• 1:13:32
  Here is a. Great support, BJ.
• 1:13:34
  We've been talking. This is this is a step now that
• 1:13:39
  I didn't have yesterday. Well, and that's.
• 1:13:43
  The whole idea this. Platform is is pardon me for my
• 1:13:47
  service dog just came in and said hi.
• 1:13:51
  But one of the things that this platform is designed to is
• 1:13:55
  exactly why I wanted to start this show is and it says it in
• 1:13:59
  the title description, it's not about the tech, it's about the
• 1:14:02
  people. It is about the people and it is
• 1:14:04
  about that connection and it is about exactly what you are
• 1:14:09
  bringing forth winning outcomes. As we coach put it up there work
• 1:14:13
  stands for winning outcomes of resilient knowledgeable veteran
• 1:14:17
  entrepreneurs, which you certainly are my friend.
• 1:14:19
  So thank you for the short notice jumping in and let's.
• 1:14:25
  Come on back. Brother.
• 1:14:27
  You know I want. You on my podcast, coach, you're
• 1:14:30
  welcome too look well the more. Voices.
• 1:14:35
  You get. Tell you what if?
• 1:14:38
  If you want to stick. Around a little bit, we're
• 1:14:40
  getting ready to go into a little bit of combat brain turn.
• 1:14:42
  How much time we got left each. I haven't even looked at the
• 1:14:44
  clock we got. You know, a little bit of time,
• 1:14:48
  1520 minutes. Perfect if we.
• 1:14:50
  Keep it on we could. Extend it past, but yeah, we got
• 1:14:53
  1520 minutes on the the slot. Well, I could, you know, I, I
• 1:14:56
  can talk. About what what we need to talk
• 1:14:58
  about here in a few minutes, but stick around and listen to what
• 1:15:01
  I do and let me know. Then after a while we'll we'll
• 1:15:05
  connect offline and see how we can support your mission.
• 1:15:10
  So with that, with that said, BJ, what's your first question?
• 1:15:16
  Well, first question in terms. Of the you have so.
• 1:15:21
  Many amazing. Success stories with combat
• 1:15:23
  brain training, right? So and what is the for those who
• 1:15:28
  haven't gone to the website from last time when we talked about
• 1:15:31
  it and those who aren't familiar with that, what is the just
• 1:15:38
  kind? Of the back story about.
• 1:15:39
  How I know how it is and was created, but a lot of the
• 1:15:43
  viewing audience and a listening audience doesn't know that
• 1:15:46
  because keep in mind. We have a listening audience.
• 1:15:50
  A listening only. So if you could share some of
• 1:15:54
  that, absolutely. In 2007, the United States
• 1:15:59
  Marine Corps was trying to solve the problem of why does 1 Marine
• 1:16:04
  walk into an area and and since something is wrong and skirt
• 1:16:09
  around it and the next Marine walks in and gets blown up.
• 1:16:12
  How can we improve the intuition, the anticipation
• 1:16:18
  level of all Marines? They brought together a group of
• 1:16:20
  neuroscientist, neurologist, psychologist, psychiatrist, war
• 1:16:25
  game and and brainstorm this problem.
• 1:16:29
  John Kennedy's brother was part of the command staff who was
• 1:16:33
  organizing this and he called John.
• 1:16:34
  And now John is none of the above.
• 1:16:36
  John was a or is a consulting engineer.
• 1:16:41
  He's worked with companies like Motorola and and Abbott to
• 1:16:45
  troubleshoot and and create problems or problem solving and,
• 1:16:50
  and they called him in Canada. Interpret what all the smart
• 1:16:53
  people were saying. Well, at the end of the day,
• 1:16:56
  John said, I don't understand anything.
• 1:16:57
  They're going. But he took a look at the brain
• 1:16:59
  as if it was a mechanical process and he created a program
• 1:17:05
  that we now know is combat brain training.
• 1:17:07
  Now all the smart people said, well, that'll never work.
• 1:17:11
  And he said, well, let's give it a try.
• 1:17:13
  And they embedded him with the lowest performing platoon of
• 1:17:17
  Marines at 29 Palms in 2007. He was there with him for two
• 1:17:21
  months. Now there's a control group also
• 1:17:24
  that they were both getting, both platoons were getting the
• 1:17:26
  same Marine Corps training, but his group was getting the brain
• 1:17:30
  training for 1520 minutes a day on top of it.
• 1:17:34
  At the end of two months, not only were they the best
• 1:17:36
  performing platoon in the battalion, the brigade, the
• 1:17:39
  post, they're getting national recognition.
• 1:17:42
  John went on to train Marine Corps pilot, sniper teams, Navy
• 1:17:46
  Seals and and others over over 100 DoD assignments he had where
• 1:17:52
  the brain training was supplied. But what they found out was the
• 1:17:57
  Marines returning from deployment with PTS and
• 1:18:00
  traumatic brain energy and other issues.
• 1:18:02
  Their recovery time was cut in half.
• 1:18:04
  So along that light, things are moving pretty well.
• 1:18:07
  When the Obama budget cuts came out and some general took a look
• 1:18:11
  at it. So that's a sheet full of
• 1:18:12
  colored arrows and that's costing me hundreds of thousands
• 1:18:15
  of dollars. Slash and he found himself out
• 1:18:18
  in the civilian world when he had been supporting only the DoD
• 1:18:21
  for the last four years. Well, it came out of the DoD as
• 1:18:25
  peak performance athletic training.
• 1:18:27
  The military brain, the athletic brain very similar the need to
• 1:18:31
  make rapid decisions and stressful environments carry
• 1:18:34
  them out with confidence. So he came out and started
• 1:18:37
  training athletes, very high level athletes at the same.
• 1:18:40
  Time started working people. With with mental and
• 1:18:43
  neurological issues, essentially what we do is applied
• 1:18:47
  neuroplasticity. We give the brain the tools it
• 1:18:50
  needs to rewire itself. Now a Doctor Kara Yoshi out of
• 1:18:54
  MIT, doctor Christine Grind Burger out of Rochester
• 1:18:57
  University both done a lot of research on this and while we
• 1:19:01
  haven't worked together directly, what we do satisfies
• 1:19:05
  all the research that they have done.
• 1:19:07
  We are helping people operate at a faster level.
• 1:19:13
  We we time the brain, we give a few steps and then we time the
• 1:19:18
  brain again and we send in just 15 to 20 minutes.
• 1:19:21
  We're improving the operating speed in the human brain by
• 1:19:24
  about 15 to 20%. We've actually measured it.
• 1:19:29
  It's about 250 milliseconds. And if you put that in
• 1:19:31
  perspective, an improvement of 250 milliseconds in reaction
• 1:19:36
  speed for a Major League Baseball player is a difference
• 1:19:39
  between seeing 100 mile an hour fastball has an 89 mile an hour
• 1:19:44
  fastball. And imagine what that's going to
• 1:19:47
  do to his batting average. But at the same time, we're
• 1:19:50
  helping kids with ADHD, we're helping people with the flexi
• 1:19:54
  offered has had some success with this.
• 1:19:58
  Well, that's with PTS. It's helping them discern the
• 1:20:04
  difference between the dream and reality, right for PTS?
• 1:20:09
  Right. They're living the dream, which
• 1:20:11
  is why it, we hear stories all the time with some guy stabbing
• 1:20:14
  his wife or his children or, or shooting his way out of Walmart
• 1:20:19
  and he's he's stuck back in the war.
• 1:20:21
  He can't get out of it. Well, when he can tell the
• 1:20:23
  difference between the dream, the dream loses the power over
• 1:20:27
  him and the dreams begin to fade away and he begins to get his
• 1:20:29
  life back or her life back. So at the website which BJ has
• 1:20:36
  posted at the bottom there, Combat Brain training.com, if
• 1:20:39
  you, if you go out and look at our testimonies and, and just
• 1:20:42
  scream down and we've, we've separate them out by military,
• 1:20:45
  by students, by different issues.
• 1:20:49
  These are real people and these are real results of what's
• 1:20:52
  happened. Now I've had the opportunity to
• 1:20:54
  work with a lot of different people and I get to see these
• 1:20:57
  miracles. Personally, one of the things I
• 1:21:00
  ask all the time, especially for my my memory patience, is what
• 1:21:07
  lays at the bottom of the ocean and shakes and the answer is a
• 1:21:10
  nervous wreck, right? And I'll I'll ask it and then
• 1:21:13
  I'll give him a couple of steps and then I'll ask a question
• 1:21:16
  again. 2 minutes later I'll say what lays at the bottom of the
• 1:21:19
  ocean and shakes and they won't know the answer.
• 1:21:21
  I figured out if I want to be a comedian get a lot of glass.
• 1:21:24
  I just start working at memory care units and assisted living
• 1:21:27
  because I only need 2 jokes to make it through 1/2 hour set.
• 1:21:31
  Now the other day as I was leaving, I told the ladies, I
• 1:21:34
  have about 8 ladies and this is one who come to the sessions and
• 1:21:38
  I said I'll bring back some new jokes next time.
• 1:21:40
  And the one let me dead now. And she said just bring the same
• 1:21:43
  ones. We won't, we won't remember
• 1:21:45
  them. Now there's an element of humor
• 1:21:47
  there, but also a, a bigger element of sadness.
• 1:21:51
  As I walked out, I felt like crying all the way out because
• 1:21:54
  they know that there's something going on, but they don't have
• 1:21:57
  any control over it. And that's where I bring just a
• 1:22:00
  little bit of hope to people. I, I, you know, we don't profess
• 1:22:04
  to be, you know, that the answer to all these problems, we don't
• 1:22:09
  say that, you know, hey, this will cure whatever ails you.
• 1:22:13
  But if we can make your life a little bit better, if we can
• 1:22:16
  give you a little bit better, higher quality of life, if we
• 1:22:19
  can help a guy who's had dyslexia for 53 years read a
• 1:22:22
  page out of a book like it's a normally if you see the smile on
• 1:22:26
  BJ, he's the guy who, you know, when we went through this
• 1:22:31
  training, it was painful. Watching him get.
• 1:22:34
  Through it the first time and I said you got a little bit of
• 1:22:37
  dyslexia going on there, pal, he says.
• 1:22:39
  Well, I think so, but never been officially diagnosed.
• 1:22:42
  But we switched from directions to colors for him.
• 1:22:44
  And then over the course of the next three sessions, all of a
• 1:22:47
  sudden his, his mind or brain just started working.
• 1:22:50
  I won't say like a normal brain because I don't even know what a
• 1:22:53
  normal brain is that he's holding up a kind of example of
• 1:22:56
  that. But for people who are
• 1:22:57
  struggling, especially in this world, you know, our, our
• 1:23:01
  American Legion unit 3 years ago, we did it in May, we did a
• 1:23:05
  22 mile Rd. March for the 22 veterans.
• 1:23:08
  And I just come off a knee surgery.
• 1:23:10
  So I was a knee replacement. So I wasn't able to walk the
• 1:23:13
  whole thing, but I followed along in a car with water and,
• 1:23:17
  you know, snacks and food for and my house was about 5 miles
• 1:23:22
  from the, from the end. And so we're getting close to my
• 1:23:27
  house. I drove up, I pulled my driveway
• 1:23:29
  and I walked that last five miles on 2 artificial knees that
• 1:23:33
  were within three months of being replaced.
• 1:23:37
  I said, you know, I'm not letting them do this by
• 1:23:39
  themselves. And I was struggling a little
• 1:23:42
  bit and guess who came up and got on either side of me and
• 1:23:46
  help me along to make sure I made it?
• 1:23:49
  Veterans right now, we're in this together and, and we know
• 1:23:54
  this right, that these guys I met at, at breakfast here, the
• 1:23:57
  morning one was Army, one was Navy and, and a lot of bickering
• 1:24:00
  going back and forth. I said we all did the same
• 1:24:02
  thing. I, the Navy guys said, no, we
• 1:24:04
  didn't. I said, yes, we did.
• 1:24:06
  We served our country and we continue to serve and we can
• 1:24:09
  serve each other. We serve our communities.
• 1:24:12
  We're, we're not discriminatory. You need help.
• 1:24:14
  We're going to help you. Now we will, we will put a
• 1:24:18
  veteran first. There's no question about it.
• 1:24:21
  But once the veterans are taken care of, we will dive in the
• 1:24:23
  community and see where they need us.
• 1:24:25
  So with brain training, we this is this is my AI assistant.
• 1:24:30
  The BJ has he's I guess he's her father and her mother because
• 1:24:38
  he's. A developer, but if.
• 1:24:39
  You want to find out how these that voice AI, how it works.
• 1:24:43
  Give Michelle a call, ask her how a combat brain training can
• 1:24:48
  help you. And once it gets down to it,
• 1:24:52
  she's going to put you, she's going to send you my booking
• 1:24:55
  link. And once she sent you my booking
• 1:24:57
  link, you can get on my calendar and we can have a discussion to
• 1:25:01
  see how we can help and support you.
• 1:25:05
  You got a question there, Brian? No, brother, I got a statement.
• 1:25:09
  This last Monday I had somebody talking about your program on my
• 1:25:12
  podcast. Really.
• 1:25:14
  Did you have John? No this.
• 1:25:17
  Was a Sandra? Was her name Oh Sandra?
• 1:25:22
  Yeah, she's fairly. She's fairly new with her.
• 1:25:24
  I haven't. I haven't met her personally,
• 1:25:26
  but John talks very highly of her well, publicly.
• 1:25:30
  And I had, if you looked at our social, we had a little hiccup
• 1:25:36
  between one of our ministry partners and her.
• 1:25:40
  OK, it's fixed. It's all I'm going to say.
• 1:25:43
  It's fixed. But.
• 1:25:45
  I need you to come back to my podcast to explain that program
• 1:25:52
  because I don't know if if Sandra would be willing to come
• 1:25:56
  back. My team's talking to her, but
• 1:25:59
  well, I really want her back. Yeah, I have.
• 1:26:03
  No problem with that. John's a powerful Christian.
• 1:26:06
  I am Romans 12/2 is our guiding verse in the IT is in the
• 1:26:10
  renewing of the mind that we begin to understand the true
• 1:26:14
  will of God and that's where the rule #1 in my.
• 1:26:17
  Organization. God will never leave the
• 1:26:20
  mission. Don't ask.
• 1:26:23
  Amen. Amen.
• 1:26:24
  I, you know, I talked to people and see if you ever kind of had
• 1:26:26
  somebody come up and jab you on the ribs from behind and go
• 1:26:28
  boot, you know? Well, yeah, I have.
• 1:26:30
  Well, that's where that's where God is.
• 1:26:32
  This is. But you're walking the other
• 1:26:33
  way. Stop, turn around and brace him.
• 1:26:37
  We could we. Could get into that that talk a
• 1:26:40
  whole lot but my you know, combat brain training is up
• 1:26:45
  there. Emma is the original AI that I
• 1:26:50
  mean, she had me from hello when I first first talked to her.
• 1:26:56
  But Emma Michelle both about the combat brain training and they
• 1:27:01
  can answer any question you have about it.
• 1:27:04
  They can give you the research and the data to support it.
• 1:27:07
  And then, you know, get your scheduling links so we can get
• 1:27:11
  on a conversation. But at the end of the day, as I
• 1:27:14
  said in, you know, right before the, the, the intro, if you're
• 1:27:21
  ready to, you know, do an upgrade, your phone sends you a
• 1:27:23
  reminder. Hey, it's time for an upgrade.
• 1:27:26
  Your computer sends you a reminder.
• 1:27:28
  If you don't update Windows, it's it's not going to be
• 1:27:30
  supported anymore. Your car will send you a
• 1:27:32
  flashing nose. Update your software.
• 1:27:35
  Your brain's not telling you anything.
• 1:27:37
  Dude, I'm working on a 1955 agricultural software system up
• 1:27:41
  between these ears. And it takes me a while
• 1:27:43
  sometimes to, you know, I grew up in a small town of western
• 1:27:48
  Nebraska. I graduated 5th of my high.
• 1:27:53
  School class and I didn't make the top 30%.
• 1:27:56
  So you know when I I said my farm boys kicking in, you need
• 1:28:00
  to slow down just a little bit for me.
• 1:28:02
  But I'll tell you since I've gotten involved in this
• 1:28:04
  organization, combat brain training, I've, I've witnessed,
• 1:28:08
  you know, miracles happen for people.
• 1:28:11
  You know it's not going to be perfect.
• 1:28:13
  You know, you're not going to go back out and run a half mile,
• 1:28:16
  but you aren't going to be able to walk right.
• 1:28:19
  So it's, it's just matters. We say staying connected,
• 1:28:25
  working with each other and, and, and just helping and
• 1:28:30
  supporting. We're we're going to push as
• 1:28:33
  many people as we can to you. At the same token, I all I
• 1:28:36
  wanted you to do is it's give me enough people that I can make a
• 1:28:39
  difference in the world. So.
• 1:28:42
  What else you want out of it, BJ?
• 1:28:44
  What? What can I?
• 1:28:46
  What can I tell you? Do you have any?
• 1:28:51
  You. You're.
• 1:28:52
  An. Amazing speaker but do you have
• 1:28:55
  any examples of somebody who's not a veteran or maybe a veteran
• 1:29:00
  without the, you know, the combat side of things for those
• 1:29:05
  sensitive viewers, do you have something that is, you know,
• 1:29:10
  whether it's sports or kids or or one of those scenarios we
• 1:29:15
  laugh, but. When we were asked to speak at
• 1:29:17
  the Construction Safety Council down at Hillside, Illinois, they
• 1:29:20
  had a problem with the word combat brain in the name Combat
• 1:29:23
  brain training. They're South side of Chicago
• 1:29:26
  and they didn't think. That's all the CBT became
• 1:29:28
  Construction brain training, right?
• 1:29:31
  But then it morphed into AB accelerated mental performance.
• 1:29:34
  So, you know, if there are those who want a, a more diplomatic
• 1:29:38
  name, we'll give it to him. We don't have a problem with
• 1:29:41
  that because that's exactly what we're doing.
• 1:29:42
  We are accelerating the the, the mind, the brain.
• 1:29:47
  I was working with the local high school volleyball program.
• 1:29:50
  I had the freshman, sophomore JV1JV2 at varsity and all the
• 1:29:56
  girls it, it was interesting because I always ask him what
• 1:29:59
  have you noticed it's any different?
• 1:30:00
  Oh, I can tell my right from my left. 80% of the girls said my
• 1:30:05
  handwriting writing has gotten better.
• 1:30:07
  I can read my own right handwriting now.
• 1:30:10
  But one girl specifically came up to me.
• 1:30:12
  She's a sophomore and she said coach.
• 1:30:14
  She says in 8th grade I was diagnosed with severe anxiety.
• 1:30:19
  I've I've been medicated since 8th grade.
• 1:30:21
  I go to weekly counseling sessions.
• 1:30:24
  By the 5th session, I do 5 sessions with them.
• 1:30:27
  By the 5th session, she said I I had convinced my psychiatrist to
• 1:30:34
  stop the medication. I didn't need it anymore.
• 1:30:36
  And she's down to an annual counseling session.
• 1:30:40
  I, you know, you see this. Yeah.
• 1:30:43
  The volleyball team, they won the conference for the first
• 1:30:45
  time in 27 years. But the most important thing to
• 1:30:48
  me is that one girl who lost the anxiety that was was clotting
• 1:30:52
  her life. I'm working with a guy with
• 1:30:56
  Guillain Barre syndrome. Guillain Barre syndrome.
• 1:30:59
  I call it Guillain bar again, Nebraska farm boy.
• 1:31:02
  But it's a an autoimmune disease for the body attacks the myelin
• 1:31:08
  coating on the on the nerves. And essentially it's like having
• 1:31:13
  a leaky water hose. You turn on the faucet, but the
• 1:31:15
  water never gets to the sprinkler right.
• 1:31:17
  It's spitting out all along the hose.
• 1:31:20
  So is it goes to pick things up, the energy never gets to his
• 1:31:23
  fingers. So he winds up picking things up
• 1:31:26
  like a seal with both hands and and moving it up and then the
• 1:31:30
  neurologist has told him he's never going to get any better
• 1:31:33
  than as well. After the first session, I I
• 1:31:35
  said to your fingers ever moved independently and his hands
• 1:31:38
  laying on the table and and they're doing this.
• 1:31:41
  It's like they're waking up after the third session.
• 1:31:44
  I called him on a Sunday. It's the day before Memorial
• 1:31:46
  Day. The next day I was reciting the
• 1:31:48
  regular flag on Memorial Day and I invited them to come to the
• 1:31:51
  talk and they said I had 9:00. It's kind of early for us to get
• 1:31:56
  up and get going, but, you know, thank you.
• 1:31:58
  But would you like to see what Bob's doing right now is talking
• 1:32:00
  to him on face tag? And it said sure.
• 1:32:03
  And she turned her phone around. He was fishing.
• 1:32:05
  His daughter had used Velcro to put the improve his grip on his
• 1:32:10
  left hand, but he's able to flip the Bale, cast the pole and reel
• 1:32:15
  right. Fishing's important to this man
• 1:32:17
  and he hadn't been able to do it in over three years.
• 1:32:19
  So I, you know, I get with this miracles every day when when
• 1:32:25
  we're out there, I used to get upset with people when they come
• 1:32:29
  into networking meetings with the skin care line and they'd be
• 1:32:32
  like, if you have skin, you are in my target market.
• 1:32:37
  And I feel like no, find a niche lady, find a specific group to
• 1:32:43
  work with. But today I walk in, I've gone
• 1:32:45
  Now, if you have a brain and your brain overwhelmed, you may
• 1:32:50
  be in my target market. But if you've ever walked into a
• 1:32:54
  room and wondered why you're there, you may need brain
• 1:32:57
  training. If you've ever turned left and
• 1:32:59
  when you should have turned right, you may need combat brain
• 1:33:02
  training. I got a whole jazz box where the
• 1:33:04
  line on on these things. But the bottom line is we all
• 1:33:07
  need a little bit. All of us are slightly
• 1:33:10
  overwhelmed. We're, we're loaded up with
• 1:33:12
  cortisol from all the conflicts, internal conflicts, external
• 1:33:16
  conflicts were mired in and we just need to be a little bit
• 1:33:20
  happier. We need to live life a little
• 1:33:22
  bit stronger and we need to be able to make decisions a little
• 1:33:26
  bit faster and carry them out with a little more confidence.
• 1:33:29
  And when we can do those things, life, life just gets better.
• 1:33:33
  So absolutely, absolutely. Brian is our honored guest
• 1:33:38
  jumping in here. What do you why you got him here
• 1:33:42
  and while you're live do you have combat brain related
• 1:33:46
  questions or amp accelerated mental performance or even just
• 1:33:49
  coach Papa Tim with his wise wisdom of 1700 years on the
• 1:33:55
  planet as a one Well our. Discussion we had on Monday was
• 1:34:02
  I was a combat medic, right? And we talked, by the way.
• 1:34:07
  We talked about. The mechanism of injury to the
• 1:34:11
  brain OK in. The brain pan.
• 1:34:17
  Your. Brain is surrounded by.
• 1:34:19
  Fluid. OK and I put this.
• 1:34:22
  Analogy out. You ever took a glass of water
• 1:34:26
  and put a drop in it and you saw the little ripples, right?
• 1:34:30
  Well, every time an explosion goes off, that shockwave hits
• 1:34:36
  that water. And it sloshes the brain.
• 1:34:40
  Around that, you're not getting a a headache, you're not getting
• 1:34:44
  concussion, but you're getting micro injuries to the brain.
• 1:34:50
  Right. Yeah, again.
• 1:34:53
  Guys, education is the biggest thing.
• 1:34:55
  Yeah, Coach, I'm on your website right now.
• 1:34:58
  I already sent the request to let's contact.
• 1:35:03
  Oh, perfect. I appreciate that.
• 1:35:05
  OK, Yeah, this is. This is Yeah, guys, this is
• 1:35:09
  serious. Well, with with.
• 1:35:12
  Traditional physical therapy, and not just on the brain.
• 1:35:16
  Let's just say you got a elbow that's out.
• 1:35:20
  The physical therapists are amazing what they do and
• 1:35:22
  rebuilding the muscles and getting everything working.
• 1:35:25
  But the bigger problem is reconnecting the brain to the
• 1:35:29
  elbow. Because when the body begins to
• 1:35:32
  sense that the there's a problem, it begins to actually
• 1:35:35
  pull back on the energy. And let's just say it's one of
• 1:35:38
  your legs, right? The brain pulls the energy from
• 1:35:42
  the damaged leg and feeds it into the healthy leg.
• 1:35:45
  And so it's not getting everything it needs.
• 1:35:47
  So while they're doing a great job, it's got to be reconnected.
• 1:35:51
  And that's what we do it, you know, the area of just for
• 1:35:56
  example, I have my right knee replaced.
• 1:35:58
  It took me 12 weeks to meet all the physical therapist required
• 1:36:03
  foundations that they wanted me to make.
• 1:36:05
  I had my left knee replaced. I started doing the brain
• 1:36:09
  training as a with my left knee to see if it would recover a
• 1:36:13
  little bit quicker in seven weeks.
• 1:36:16
  It it was, it had been all the physical therapy requirements,
• 1:36:19
  but my right knee still wasn't doing any good.
• 1:36:22
  So I had them tested and found out I had a staph infection
• 1:36:25
  inside my right knee and they had to redo my right knee again.
• 1:36:29
  They had to do a second full knee replacement.
• 1:36:31
  Well, this time I started doing the brain training three times a
• 1:36:34
  day before 2 weeks before the surgery.
• 1:36:38
  And again, I kept it up 3, three to five times a day after the
• 1:36:42
  surgery and I hit all of my physical therapy goals in four
• 1:36:46
  weeks and four weeks as back on a bicycle after a full knee
• 1:36:50
  replacement, right, I reconnected the brain well, the.
• 1:36:55
  Injured part. Again.
• 1:36:56
  Brother. The brain, yeah, This is for the
• 1:37:00
  veterans, guys. You're not stuck in the loop.
• 1:37:03
  You just have to connect new synapses in your head.
• 1:37:08
  And that's where coach's job is in, right?
• 1:37:13
  He's going to teach you how to do that.
• 1:37:17
  Well. Well.
• 1:37:19
  I'm going to correct one, one piece of your word.
• 1:37:22
  I'm not going to teach you how to do it.
• 1:37:23
  I'm going to train the brain to do it.
• 1:37:25
  See, a lot of people mix up what we do with mindset training.
• 1:37:28
  I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and talk out of people
• 1:37:30
  like me. I'm going to, I'm going to think
• 1:37:32
  my way out of it. I'm going to no, we physically
• 1:37:35
  train the brain. We rewire the brain.
• 1:37:38
  We give the brain the tools to rewire itself.
• 1:37:41
  I I don't go inside your brain. I'm not a neurosurgeon.
• 1:37:44
  I got it. Well, this is what I'm trying to
• 1:37:47
  put out. I get you.
• 1:37:48
  I appreciate. You there is a physical.
• 1:37:51
  Thing that happens when you receive this training yes, it's.
• 1:37:56
  Not brain surgery, but there's a.
• 1:37:58
  Physical thing that happens in your body when you get this
• 1:38:01
  training guide so. I look forward to connecting
• 1:38:06
  with you on the next few days. Yeah, I just I.
• 1:38:10
  Just hit the button, brother. We'll talk, but I do got to run
• 1:38:13
  because I got a veteran reaching out right now.
• 1:38:16
  You take care. Thank you again for.
• 1:38:18
  Coming on, Brian, I really appreciate the short notice and
• 1:38:21
  appreciate you stopping in. Thank you, brother.
• 1:38:24
  Bye. We'll start soon.
• 1:38:28
  All right, Coach. Yeah, we.
• 1:38:31
  Have we're in overtime here? Does that mean I get paid time
• 1:38:34
  and a half? Maybe I don't.
• 1:38:36
  Know. I don't know, do you?
• 1:38:40
  Is. There a time and 1/2 in the
• 1:38:42
  talking. I don't know.
• 1:38:45
  Now for the listening only audience, if you're curious
• 1:38:48
  about combat brain training, you can talk to the voice AI, the
• 1:38:52
  original Emma. You call 1-877-832-3732 and if
• 1:39:01
  you don't get through, that's probably because maybe one or
• 1:39:03
  two other people are calling at the exact same moment.
• 1:39:05
  There is a limit. I think right now at 10 could go
• 1:39:08
  up to 100, but right now I think it's set at 10.
• 1:39:11
  So 18778323732. Coach, what do you think for the
• 1:39:19
  evening's final poem of the night?
• 1:39:23
  Since you We'd love to start with your poems and end with
• 1:39:26
  your poems because you've got a few in in your under your hat
• 1:39:29
  there roses are red violets are. Blue, I've had a good time
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  talking with you, but that's let's go back with if by Richard
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  Kipling. Roger Kipling wrote this in
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  1897. It says if you can keep your
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  head on, all about you are losing theirs and blame it on
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  you. If you can trust yourself when
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  all men doubt you, yet make allowance for their doubting
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  too. If you can wait, not be tired by
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  waiting or being lied to. Don't give in to lies or being
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  hated. Don't give way to hating and yet
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  don't look too good nor talk too wise.
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  If you can dream and not make dreams your master.
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  If you can think and not make thoughts your aim.
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  If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat these two
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  imposters both the same. If you can bear to hear the
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  truth you've spoken. Twisted by knaves to make a trap
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  for fools. Or watch the things you gave
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  your life to broken and stupid. Build them up with worn out
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  tools. If you can make one heap of all
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  your wedding's and risk it all on one turn of pitch and toss
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  and lose and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a
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  word about the loss. If you can talk with crowds and
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  keep your virtue, or walk with kings, nor lose the common
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  touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, if
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  all men count with you but none too much, if you can fill the
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  unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance, run.
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  Then yours is the earth and everything that's in it.
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  And which is more? You'll be a man, my son, a
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  woman, my daughter. He was not politically correct
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  in 1897, but you know, that poem does speak about all the
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  challenges we face in life and, and if it well, thank you, thank
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  you. And if you do compare it with,
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  you know, my poem when I become a better me, there's a lot of
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  elements that exist in both of those.
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  You know, life's hard. Nobody ever said it's going to
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  be easy. But if you'll stand up, if
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  you'll reach out, the the biggest problem with most
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  veterans is we're self-sufficient, right?
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  And, and we're self-sufficient even when we're not and when we
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  forget that there are others out there who willing to help us.
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  So if you got something going on, if you got a hitch in the
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  giddy up, if you got a, you know, a lump in your throat, if
• 1:41:44
  you got a pain in your chest, don't be a fool.
• 1:41:47
  Reach out to somebody and, and get some help or reach out to
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  the, the VA. Reach out to a, a veteran and
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  he'll show up to doorstep and he'll make sure you're taken
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  care of. So my name is Tim Stewart.
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  I am Coach Papa, and I do approve this message.
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  All right, Coach. Well.
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  Thank you as always for being my extra special guest and Co host
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  on this thing and thanks Brian Gibson for projectdiehard.org
• 1:42:14
  for coming in and joining us and sharing his unscripted straight
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  from the heart Deacon. It is absolutely a real and raw
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  conversation and just, you know, that's, that's what we're here
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  for. We're here to have veterans go,
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  ah, there is more than just me out here and let's make a
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  difference in the world, shall we?
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  So, all right, well, we're one connection away, so.
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  You may be that. Connection for that veteran and
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  let's go ahead and bring on Beaker to close this out.
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  Thank you very much for paying attention.
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  Thanks for coming in. Thanks for saying hi and we'll
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  see you next week. And next week we may have an
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  extra special guest in video. Who did we talk with today,
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  Coach? Travis.
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  Travis. Travis.
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  Johnson, Travis. One of the.
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  The top podcasters and nonprofits in the in the world
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  for that matter. And it it, it was a it was a
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  great session and it's let's hope I can do it justice while
• 1:43:23
  I'm editing it. Absolutely.
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  And we've. Got and as I mentioned earlier
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  in the show, Victor and Valor and and they're from credit, our
• 1:43:31
  trifecta credit solutions. Dave wants to join in and
• 1:43:35
  several others. So we've got we've got some
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  things coming up, so just check us out.
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  You can also find out the YouTube channel Veteran.
• 1:43:43
  Just look for a vet voice AI on YouTube and you'll see a
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  rebroadcast of this very same message.
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