The Veteran (Semi) Professional

Send us Fan Mail Lisa Forrest works with Live Oak Bank  - a lender that specializes in funding entrepreneurs through the acquisition of a business. She has worked with a number of veterans and knows what makes veterans a special fit for entrepreneurship through acquisition. 

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Kristin Saboe and Dr. Nathan Ainspan wrote: Military Veteran Employment: A Guide for the Data-Driven Leader We dig into what the data says about the military transition journey.  Dr. Saboe works for Boeing in talent acquisition.  She is a veteran herself and has worked extensively in veteran-related issues.  Dr. Ainspan is the Senior Research Psychologist on Veterans Transitio...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Veterans Day!  Thank you for your service.  You filthy degenerates. Topics discussed today: - China building mock US aircraft carriers - Army cutting who gets an email - Elon's tax maneuver  - Social work degrees with huge debt - GE breaks up the band - This podcast is now 6.2% higher...just like inflation - How the new infrastructure bill affects crypto

Send us Fan Mail Paul Rieckhoff is a legend in the veteran community: Host, Independent Americans podcast Author, Chasing Ghosts Founder and President, Righteous Media Founder, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America We talk: - Current problems facing the veteran community and what can be done - Why we need more independent voices in media - The importance of veterans continuing to lead and serve...

Send us Fan Mail Clearance Jobs is the premier way for people with a security clearance to connect with employers who need cleared individuals.  The best part about this market?  There are way more jobs than candidates so it's a good place to be as a job seeker.   Katie joins us to talk about how Clearance Jobs can connect you with the right employer and their upcoming virtual career fair on...

Send us Fan Mail Topics Discussed: - Congress wants to know where that missing M9 is - Fighter pilots have higher rates of cancer - Carvana getting complaints - Democrats' tax plan - Why Dune is brilliant - Truth Social -3D houses are getting printed - Why Hertz bought so many Teslas

Send us Fan Mail Freddie spent over 10 years in the army, finishing his career as a Special Forces officer.  He left and started working in manufacturing and eventually worked on his MBA from Northwestern along the way.  After a failed attempt at a small business, he started another focused on recruiting top-level veteran talent.   This episode has a lot of great conversation about being honest wi...

Send us Fan Mail The best news source for veterans thinking about their life after the military.  Topics Discussed In This Episode: - China's fancy new missile - RIP Colin Powell - Boozing on Air Force One - PayPal to buy Pinterest?  - $1 mm bounty for info on Tether - Bitcoin to the moon - Select Senate Democrats blocking the bill of bills - Tesla making $$$ - The artist formerly known as Fa...

Send us Fan Mail Amanda has done A LOT of fun stuff after the Navy.  From being a sports writer to climbing mountains, and traveling like a pro.  She's done a lot.  But underlying a lot of her experience was a brain injury she received in the military. We talk about how this affected her and how she's had to learn to be her best advocate in navigating the healthcare system. 

Send us Fan Mail Big thanks to all of you for listening to the show! This is an overvoew of the top 10 lessons I've learned about the military transition from 100 episodes. 

Send us Fan Mail Jerry left the army and worked a few odd jobs, noticing that the business owner was getting paid very well while he had to do a lot of the hard work.  This started him down an entrepreneurial path with multiple businesses and lots of ups and downs.  He was in his 40s and none of the businesses had panned out.  While searching for a job, he started hauling junk with his Jeep and a...

Send us Fan Mail Topics Discussed: - Chinese bombers buzz the tower in Taiwan - Iran finds a way to build drones - Why financial advisors are pitching Bitcoin to investors - Inflation (and how it affects Mark's chicken wings) - Natural gas shortage - Seaweed instead of shrimp? - Tesla pays out $137 million to an employee

Send us Fan Mail John Hynds found that he was always a tinkerer.  From his time working on avionics in the military, he knew he liked to fiddle with things and learn how they work.  So he started a path in engineering and now working on his own business and looking to disrupt how water heaters are used in the home. 

Send us Fan Mail Topics Discussed: - Israeli A.I.-assisted sniper kills Iranian scientist - Leaders owning up to Afghanistan - Joe Manchin's Alamo - School endowments make BILLIONS on VC investments  - The skinny on insider trading  - COVID treatment pill - What's going to happen with stablecoins?

Send us Fan Mail Grant left the Navy knowing that he wanted to go into the financial industry.  He hustled his way into a boutique (yet prestigious) firm and built a career on hustle and providing results.  After spending some time working with early-stage ventures, he found his way to the Veteran's Future Lab at NYU where he is helping military-affiliated entrepreneurs crush it. 

Send us Fan Mail Topics Discussed: - Who's got the better submarines?  The US or France?  Australia says America.  - Reporters backtrack on accusations against GEN Milley - Turns out the Clinton campaign paid a lawyer to dig up dirt on Trump....to literally no one's surprise - Fed tapering bond purchases - Freshworks and Toast IPO this week - Who is Evergrande and why do things that star...

Send us Fan Mail Eric Dean is a Darden MBA who started his own digital marketing firm which was recently acquired by Blackrock.  What is digital marketing?  Advertising that is delivered through digital channels such as search engines, websites, social media, email, and mobile apps. Using these online media channels, digital marketing is the method by which companies endorse goods, services, and b...

Send us Fan Mail Jeff Lax got his MBA from Darden then spent a career leading organizations while serving as GM, COO, President, and CEO.  He's spent most of his career in mergers and acquisitions as well as corporate development.  Additionally, he's the  Board Chair for the Greater Carolinas Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Send us Fan Mail Topics Discussed: - Air Force Chief of Software  - Taliban is using our hardware to locate people - Bitcoin and El Salvador - Wallets are dead.  Long live the wallet.  - Wall Street looking to fund house flips - Top MBA employers - LOTS less men going to college - The Supreme Court making life hard in Oklahoma https://gooseandwillow.com/ https://www.gofundme.com/f/steel-hearts-x-p...

Send us Fan Mail John Crowley is currently working on a Joint Degree from Harvard Business School and  Harvard Kennedy School.  We talk about going after a power degree combo like this as well as his work with Steel Hearts- memorializing the fallen service academy graduates of the Global War on Terror.  Contribute to their current campaign to have all the fallen memorialized in a portrait here:  h...

Send us Fan Mail Topics Discussed: Last service member leaves Afghanistan Amazon to hire 55,000 corporate/tech jobs Gamestop going to the S&P 500? Theranos and the Elizabeth Holmes trial The biggest changes in college football in the last 10 years

Send us Fan Mail First- hope you all like the new intro for the show.   Brendan is awesome.  A former Marine, he went to Wharton (back to back Wharton episodes on this show...they should pay me for recruiting) and started Paintru- a service that delivers custom portraits.   We also have a special addendum to this episode where Brendan comes back on and discusses a collaboration with Steel Hearts F...

Send us Fan Mail Alec is a seeming wonder man.  He's done so much it's astounding sometimes.   USNA to industry to Wharton to a top consulting firm...that just scratches the surface.  To top it off- he's massively supportive of helping his fellow veterans crush it. 

Send us Fan Mail Topics Discussed: - Afghanistan (duh), but focusing on what veterans are doing - People starting to work two jobs -Carvana and their real money maker - Vaccine boosters - The Taliban, international sanctions, and how will they have an economy? 

Send us Fan Mail James King did multiple tours overseas with the Marines before returning to his family farm in Crozet, VA to run King Family Vineyards.  Fun fact: this was the first podcast recorded on location (spoiler alert: it's beautiful).