Your Next Objective

Your Next Objective podcast: Round 8, offers practical guidance and career readiness for military members, law enforcement, firefighters, organized based on how far out your transition is. In this episode: don’t wait to be told to do something In the military and first responder worlds, we’re trained to be the ultimate responders. We wait for the call, wait for the orders, and then we execute. But...

Your Next Objective podcast: Round 7, offers practical guidance and career readiness for military members, law enforcement, firefighters, organized based on how far out your transition is. In this episode: ask more, tell less. If you’re still in uniform, this episode is a gut check on something that probably helped you succeed and might also hurt you later. In military and first responder work, be...

Your Next Objective podcast: Round 6, offers practical guidance and career readiness for military members, law enforcement, firefighters, organized based on how far out your transition is. In this episode: square away your home. Your career has probably trained you to think about transition in terms of jobs, resumes, money, and what comes next professionally. But this episode asks you to look some...

Your Next Objective podcast: Round 5, offers practical guidance and career readiness for military members, law enforcement, firefighters, organized based on how far out your transition is. In this episode: you need to ask better questions. In this episode of Your Next Objective, we get into a part of transition prep that most people don’t spend enough time on: the quality of the questions you’re a...

Your Next Objective podcast: Round 4, offers practical guidance and career readiness for military members, law enforcement, firefighters, organized based on how far out your transition is. In this episode: Stop Protecting Your Ego and Start Protecting Your Future You've built your entire career on being the person who moves toward the pressure. You're the one who figures things out when everyone e...

Your Next Objective podcast: Round 3, offers practical guidance and career readiness for military members, law enforcement, firefighters, organized based on how far out your transition is. In this episode, high standards might be a plateau You’ve spent years, maybe even decades, operating in a world where "high standards" aren't just a goal. They're the baseline for staying alive and getting the j...

Your Next Objective podcast: Round 2, offers practical guidance and career readiness for military members, law enforcement, firefighters, organized based on how far out your transition is. In this episode, Did what you did actually make a difference? \ When you look back on your career so far, what are you actually measuring? For most of us in the military or first responder communities, the answe...

Your Next Objective podcast: Round 1, offers practical guidance and career readiness for military members, law enforcement, firefighters, organized based on how far out your transition is. In this episode, make sure your life is taking you where you want. Most people don’t sit down one day and design what life after the uniform will look like. It usually forms the other way around, slowly, through...

Welcome to Your Next Objective, the podcast built for military members and first responders who already know the day’s coming. Maybe it’s ten years out. Maybe it’s closer than you’d planned. Either way, the uniform doesn’t stay on forever, and these careers don’t usually end with a gold watch and a clean goodbye. Most of the time, you’re stepping out with a lot of working years ahead of you. If yo...