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Honesty and advice to help veterans crush it at grad school, in entrepreneurship, and in professional careers. Humor and language often not as professional.
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Send us a text Finance expert Doug Lynam offers a groundbreaking exploration of our complex relationship with money, budgeting, and finances through the transformative lens of the Enneagram. Confront financial fears, engage with money habits and behaviors, and develop a personal understanding of how the mind and personality affect money decisions. With compassion, wisdom, and humor, Lynam will guide readers on a journey to financial health and personal growth.
Send us a text Will Van Derveer, MD is a leader in the adoption of integrative psychiatry practices globally. After discovering that his conventional psychiatric training was inadequate to answer many of the challenges facing his patients, Dr. Van Derveer began to learn how to resolve the root causes of common psychiatric problems such as depression, anxiety, and insomnia.
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Send us a text Vivek took his kids to a Sharky's Hair Cuts and thought, "Wow, this place is awesome." So he bought a few with the help of some investors. He learned a ton and made a bunch of mistakes, but glad he did it.
Send us a text Sharif is a good friend and I've enjoyed watching his career. He had a job at a prestigious law firm and was there 3 months before he looked around and realized that was not where he wanted to be. So he quit and does his own legal work, taking on big corporations. And he loves it.
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Send us a text John is a former MARSOC operator and we talk about his new book and leadership after the military.
Send us a text Dan retired from Special Forces and went into working in support of his same unit, as a contractor We also talk about his upcoming book.
Send us a text William is a former enlisted Marine who hustled his way into Stanford (danced, actually….it’s a whole story) and then started a business that is doing super well. He is a truly smart guy and very plugged into the veteran entrepreneurial community. He took everything he has learned about startups and why he thinks prior enlisted are especially great in them into a new book, Startup NCO.
Send us a text Nick is a fascinating guy. He was born in Iran and had an American dad, then fled the country during the Islamic Revolution. He came to the US and had along career in Special Operations. Since then, he has worked in IT consulting.
Send us a text Alex is one of the most impressive entrepreneurs I've had the chance to speak with. Before launching Franzy, Alex co-founded 2ULaundry and LaundroLab, where he helped scale the business from a college side hustle into a multi-unit franchise brand with over 100 franchise licenses sold and a rapidly growing network of stores. He then started Franzy, basically "Zillow for franchises". It's a super impressive product, much needed, and he is the guy to do it. Tun...
Send us a text Robert is a former Marine who found his way into corporate M&A through grit and bit of luck. He now runs a firm providing financial advisory services to small and medium-sized businesses.
Send us a text Gabe and Lindsey are both Army veterans with impressive backgrounds, he an infantry officer and she was one of the first women in the 160th. After leaving the Army, Gabe started a fire/water/mold remediation business, scaled it to $1 million in a few years and then sold it, while Lindsey is an MBA student at HBS. Oh, and they are married. Power couple. Right now, they are building Oply. Here is the pitch: "Just like your car tells you when to cha...
Send us a text Lisa is one of the few 2x guests on the show. She is the head of Search Fund lending at Live Oak Bank, one of the top SBA lenders in the country, and a premier expert on loans for buying small businesses. She also loves to work with veterans and I had her on the show to talk about why.
Send us a text Matthew talks about transitioning from the Navy to the VA and then ending up in software sales.
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