The Decision Hour

Excited to bring this episode to you as I sit down with the one and only David “Vegas” Shuman!  WE sit down and get to know David a little better.   He is a fellow podcast host, with his podcast “Because Bikers Matter Podcast” (can find it on Heroes Media Group or where you listen to podcasts), He is the CMO (Chief Motorcycle Officer) of the Motorcycle Safety Lawyers® (MSL) which is a division of...

More and more veterans are starting to turn to psychedelic plant-based medicine to help with Anger, TBI and PTSD, because the VA’s way of treatments, don’t always work.  So this week we are continuing on with the psychedelic healing series.  In this episode I have my close friend Tom Kapstrom on the show. Tom shares his experience that he recently had with a Ibogaine treatment. You will hear the p...

Adam Zaffuto is a Husband, Father, Jiu Jitsu evangelist, Veteran, and proponent of Psychedelic healing. After serving as an Infantryman in Iraq and Afghanistan Adam returned home with a diagnosis of PTSD and began the process of seeking healing from the Moral Injury he sustained during his combat tours. After years of counseling he felt like he was doing well until the collapse of Afghanistan reop...

This weeks episode will have you laughing and thinking about your life in its present moment.   Nick Devlin (https://www.nickdevlincoaching.com) is a mission to uplift humanity and wage peace through transformational adventures. Nick shares some of his many adventures in life thus far from being an Army Ranger, to Ivy League MBA student, to engineer just to name a few.  Nick has found his purpose...

Patti Katter joins me in this special episode and we sit down to discuss One More Mission and what their goal is to help save America’s election. For more information on One More Mission visit: https://onemoremission.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of The Decision Hour, your host Adam Bird sits down with the three amigos, Mike,Melon, and Raf, from the Pushing Back Chaos podcast.l (also a Heroes Media Group show.) As long time friends, the four open up and peel back the layers on why they have pursued podcasting and name some of the main life events that have guided them to find purpose in helping others while helping themselv...

How can you possible combat climate Change with regenerative Agriculture?  It’s a question that most people wouldn’t know to ask.  In this episode I sit down with longtime friend Mr. AJ Richards.  AJ has been hard at work with some new projects and educates us on what climate change really is and what is regenerative agriculture. This conversation gets really deep on what going on with agriculture...

What does God’s word have to do with the food we consume? Join me for this week’s episode as I sit down with the founder of God’s Good Table, Maureen Diaz.  For years she watched family struggle with health issues and delt when some of her own, when one day she said, enough!  She started on a journey to learn and study traditional healing and cooking. She shares her journey with us, what she has l...

What can wartime leaders throughout history teach us about effective leadership? In this episode I had the honor of sitting down with Retired U.S. Army Colonel, Christopher D. Kolenda, Ph. D. We get into a deep discussion about the three perspectives that are vital to have when learning about leadership. We talk about how leaders can help inspire their people to be their best for the teams success...

In this episode I sit down with Singer/Songwriter Hannah Pralle.  Hannah grew up on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. She is a veteran of the Armed Forces and has spent most of her working years in commercial driving, CDL education/training, and/or wildland fire suppression contracting operations.  She holds a bachelor's in music performance, a master's in creative writing (creative nonfiction)....

On this episode of The Decision Hour Host Adam Bird sits down with Nic Gray who is the CEO of Uniformed Services Justice & Advocacy Group - USJAG (https://www.usjag.org) and the Executive Producer of Abandoned. Sit back and listen to this chilling interview as Nic takes you deep into this new documentary called ABANDONED. It exposes the abusive discharge practices of injured active-duty service me...

Don Martin was a an elite level performing Baseball player who after college played some pro ball until an injury forced him into a different path in life, or was it faith? He felt a calling to help others, because of his upbringing and having family members that have served in the military, Don knew he wanted to give back to those who have severed our great nation.  We kick off the show with Don...

More than 1Million people visit the Pentagon Memorial each year, but unlike the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania and the 9/11 Memorial in NYC, the 9/11 National Pentagon Memorial does not have a visitors center where people can be educated and learn about more about what happen at the Pentagon on that day in our nations history. This episode it down with the Chair and President of the P...

It’s time to get outdoors and reboot!  This episode I sit down with the founder of Operation Reboot Mr. Dan Waite & Board Member Mr. Ken Blaisdell. “Operation ReBoot Outdoors is a 501c3 non-profit organization that concentrates on getting Veterans, LEOs, and service members out of the house and into nature, providing healing through hunting, fishing, and other outdoor recreational activities. We d...

Tim Klund – CEO/Founder VERVE Systems LCC. U.S. Air Force Veteran, Serial Entrepreneur, Author of “Stop Whining, Start Winning 2.0 (The Workbook Edition), A Top Corporate & Sports Relationship Specialist, A Godly Man and an Inspiration to many. This is one of the most motivating and influential Decision Hour episodes to date so strap in! In this episode I sit down with Mr. Tim Klund, we get a chan...

This week I set down with Author and Veteran, Betsy Ross. Betsy shares her story of transitioning out of the military and what it was like to writing.  We talk about how she started writing and why.  She has a series of books called FIGHT.  FIGHT is a short book series with a mission to promote the importance of veterans awareness in general and mental health. Many question why 22+ veterans commit...

Tax season is upon us, are you ready?  We welcome back our good friend Mr. Anthony Mauriello, EA (a.k.a. My Tax Fella).  Anthony is an expert in his craft with over 20 years of experience.  We sit down and discuss how he started his business (https://www.mytaxfella.com), the difference between an EA and a CPA, and common mistakes people and business make when doing their own taxes. Anthony also sh...

This week we are talking with Serial Entrepreneur Judy Mark.  We start the show off learning about Judy as she shares how she became an entrepreneur at the age of 19 and where that journey has taken her.  Then we fast-forward to the present and discuss the Freedom Riders and the Freedom Convoy that took place in Canada, why it happened, how it started and why.  Judy takes us to the front of it all...

You all better buckle up and turn the volume up because you don’t want to miss this one!  This week’s guest is my friend, Air Force Veteran, Mother, and serial entrepreneur, Charlynda Scales.  Tune in and find out how this “Country girl from Tennessee” took a family recipe from 1956 and turned it into a business.  Charlynda is making America taste better one bite at a time.  Just wait to you hear...

This was such a great time talking with Daniel Tolson. We start the show off with Daniel sharing a funny story about his time working in the family Pawn Business. When then go back in time and listen his story from growing up with a learning disability, to realizing at a young age that he wanted to help people, which lead into coaching people how to wakeboard, that would eventually lead to him tra...

Get ready for this episode as you will hear from U.S. Army Veteran, Author and Busines owner Annette Whittenberger.  Listen to her story as she shares the why for writing her book “The Wall Between Two Lives” and hear how a car accident made her make a “decision” that would forever impact her life and the lives of others. “So I'll tell you, when you guys get the book, you're worried a little bit a...

We are forced to make Decisions in our lives every day.  We are faced with situations that we have no control over, however we can control our reactions to those situations.  Before you can do that, you must be in the right mindset.  Mindset is a conscious decision that requires a choice: positive or negative. In this episode, I was lucky enough to sit down with the guys from Not Your Average Oper...

 Being Civil.  Seem easy enough, right? Than why do so many people have trouble doing it? We are wrapping up on the series of “Let’s have a conversation” with this week’s episode called “Being Civil”.  Adam and John recap the series and the overall goal of bring people together to have to conversations all while being civil to each other.  Remember, you don’t have to agree with someone’s belief’s...

We are talking about free speech with a bit of a twist.  When we talk say, free speech, is it, people can say what they want to say… right?  In this episode, we also discuss when free speech isn’t free.  We use a few examples such as the Lieutenant Colonel of the Marine Corps that called out senior leaders not being held accountable.  We also mention a former Fox reporter who was fired for calling...

How many of you think that we are on the verge of losing all of our God given freedoms? We expand this series of “Let’s have a Conversation” with the topic this week of “Goodbye Freedom”, Why you ask?  LOOK! Your GOD given freedoms are being taking from you.  You no longer have the freedom to say what you can put in your body, you no longer have the freedom of religion, you no longer have the free...