Making Motivation with Dr. Drill
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Brotherhood Ambush Patrol with Shawn Gates, Robert Nunn and Adron Presley
April 23, 2024 17:40 - 1 hour - 91.5 MBMaking my motivational rounds, I invited West Virginia's, Shawn Gates onto the podcast to catch up on old times and discuss our service in the USMC. Thought it would be a nice touch to surprise Gates with our 1/6 brothers, Robert Nunn and Adron Presley. It was smiles all around, as we reminsiced. We enjoyed a great conversation today, as Gates shared his post-USMC service in the WV Nation Guard, deployments to Afghanistan and ultimately, his retirement following 20 years of honorable servi...
Wings Level with Air Force Veteran, Rick Sands
April 23, 2024 17:34 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBRick grew up in Philadelphia native and enlisted in the Air Force, serving in Viet Nam at Phu Cat Air Base. This is his story.
Marcos Gonzalez, Transformers Collector
April 17, 2024 12:08 - 53 minutes - 49 MBMy neighbor, Marcos Gonzalez has been collecting Transformers since the 80's when, as a little boy he stared into the television watching Optimus Prime and Megatron fight it out in an epic battle between good and evil! "Roll out" with us as Marcos gives us a personal tour of his vast collection. It truly is, more than meets the eye! Intro music: Transformers theme
Healing and Hospice with Gar Webb
April 14, 2024 17:53 - 1 hour - 59 MBAn extraordinary account of a life well-lived, the bond between mother and son and how all the love comes back to us in the end. Rush, Time Stand Still "I turn my back to the windTo catch my breath before I start off againDriven on without a moment to spendTo pass an evening with a drink and a friend I let my skin get too thin I'd like to pause, no matter what I pretend Like some pilgrim who learns to transcend Learns to live as if each step was the end (Time stand still) I'm not look...
Guest Lineup and Motivational Thoughts, Weekend of April 13
April 13, 2024 21:50 - 16 minutes - 8.01 MB.
Sue O'Sullivan, My Chainsaw Sensei
April 13, 2024 21:20 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBSue O’Sullivan, My Chainsaw Sensei!Making Motivation Podcast mission: honor authentic people and tell their motivating stories. In the process, we aim to inspire and inform, put smiles on faces and a little fire under the asses of the masses. Date and Time: Saturday, April 13, 2024 @ 1100Context: A unique hobby of mine is chainsaw carving, not a lot of people pursue this pastime and I’m not here to encourage it. But while it might sound dangerous and downright crazy to sculpt wood with a cha...
Semper Fi With C1/6 Squad Leader, Erik Watson
April 09, 2024 20:27 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBMusical Intro: Beck, Where It's At Erik Watson grew up in Long Island, NY and from a very young age he dreamed of being a United States Marine. Manifesting this ambition in the early 90s, Erik shipped off to recruit training in Parris Island, SC and was soon out serving in the Fleet Marine Force, with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Platoon. Upon my arrival at 1/6 in 1993, Watson was among the seasoned Marines tasked with bringing us new guys up to speed. He was a ...
Jim Valentin, Esq - Air Force Chief Master Sergeant (Ret), Lawyer and Firearms Instructor
April 05, 2024 23:16 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBJim Valentin served in the Air Force for twenty years, operating in Vietnam, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He flew in various aircraft, such as the C-150 Spectre Gunship and has a great many stories to tell. His resume: Enlisted in Air Force December 1968 Motivation: Vietnam war, draft, older brother was already in AF AFSC/MOS jet engine/ helicopter mechanic February 1970 Vietnam, MACV SOG, C-130 Gunships --Commando Hunt, Cambodian Campaign 1971 Back to US, Dover AFB, DE ...
The Lineup, Week of April 1, 2024
April 05, 2024 01:52 - 18 minutes - 8.64 MBGuests include Deirdre Callaghan, Jim Valentin, Erik Watson
Life as Art with Deirdre Callaghan
April 03, 2024 12:03 - 1 hour - 78.6 MBMusical intro: These Are The Days. 10,000 Maniacs Context: I grew up with Deirdre in the Pine Barrens of NJ. She is a gifted artist and has always been an outstanding human being and friend. Bio: My name is Deirdre Callaghan and I am originally from Jersey City, NJ I attended Saint Peters grammar school in Paulus Hook section of Jersey City. The school t. Peters Grammar School was built in 1861 and St. Peters Hall, also known as the auditorium building, was constructed in 1898. My great g...
Making Motivation With Jay Houle: Lifelong Friend, USMC Helicopter Mechanic and Devildog Dad
March 24, 2024 21:59 - 1 hour - 75.9 MBSunday, March 22, 2024 Context: I grew up with Jay Houle in the Pine Barrens of NJ. We were part of a tight knit group of friends who were always together - surfing, drinking beer and otherwise carrying on. We remain great friends to this day, though our busy lives don’t offer the freedom of jumping in the truck and heading down to LBI as often. Following high school graduation, Jay, myself and several other friends joined the Marine Corps. This is Jay’s account of his USMC service and up ...
Panning for Gold with Andrew Von Hack!
March 20, 2024 01:33 - 2 hours - 143 MBAndrew Von Hack, AKA "Hack" and I served together in 1st Battalion 6th Marines in the 90's. Hack is a larger-than-life fellow, with a variety of interests and experiences to share. Join us as we compare notes, flashing back to our time in service. Thereafter, Hack is generous enough to provide us a tour of his gold nugget cache, 600+bourbon bottle and decanter collection, lunchbox and model care collection, as well as assorted military surplus and swords. We also philosophize about such im...
Forensic Scientist Mandi Mohr!
March 18, 2024 00:32 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBWow! How interesting it was to Make Motivation with Forensic Scientist, Mandi Mohr! Mandi Mohr is a Montana native that transplanted to Pennsylvania in 2010 for graduate school. She holds a Masters Degree in Forensic Science from Arcadia University. Mandi is a board certified forensic toxicologist, and currently serves as a Director at the Center for Forensic Science Research and Education, which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to research, education and outreach in the forensic sci...
C1/6 HARD, SSgt. Jeff Grant
March 18, 2024 00:22 - 1 hour - 93.5 MBGrant and I served out our entire enlistment together, from boot camp in summer of 1993 to honorable discharge from active duty in 1997. We discuss our exploits at length in this episode. Grant would later rejoin the USMC reserves, serving in the air wing and a stinger missile unit, deploying to Iraq. Today, Jeff is a family man living down in Florida. He works for Amazon and remains active in a number of veteran organizations where he puts to use his JJDIDTIEBUCKLE to continue to make a di...
Kip Tillman: C1/6 Devildog and French Foreign Legionnaire
March 13, 2024 00:24 - 1 hour - 105 MBMaking Motivation Podcast mission: honor authentic people and tell their motivating stories. In the process, we aim to inspire and inform, put smiles on faces and a little fire under the asses of the masses. Sunday, 10 March 2024 @ time 2pm Context: I served with Kip Tillman from the time of boot camp, through our infantry schooling and for the entirety of our time in 1st Bn 6th Marines. Though Tillman was in 3rd Platoon, I would see him all the time and he was always a stellar Marine, P...
Anchors Aweigh with Navy Veteran and Irish Tenor Daniel O Hara
March 13, 2024 00:23 - 1 hour - 68.1 MBAnchors Aweigh with Dan O’Hara Making Motivation Podcast mission: honor authentic people and tell their motivating stories. In the process, we aim to inspire and inform, put smiles on faces and a little fire under the asses of the masses. Context: Daniel O’Hara is an old school Philadelphia native who served in the Navy from 1966 to 1969 Vietnam War era......on LPH Helicopter carrier, USS Guam...loaded 3,000 marines on board at Onslow Beach (Camp Lejeune) for jungle warfare training on V...
Kip Tillman: C1/6 Teufelhunden and French Foreign Legionnaire
March 11, 2024 00:22 - 1 hour - 105 MBMaking Motivation Podcast mission: honor authentic people and tell their motivating stories. In the process, we aim to inspire and inform, put smiles on faces and a little fire under the asses of the masses. Sunday, 10 March 2024 @ time 2pm Context: I served with Kip Tillman from the time of boot camp, through our infantry schooling and for the entirety of our time in 1st Bn 6th Marines. Though Tillman was in 3rd Platoon, I would see him all the time and he was always a stellar Marine, PT...
Surf, Skate and Motivate with Fellow Piney and Recon Marine, Shawn Wujack
March 10, 2024 17:07 - 1 hour - 105 MBMaking Motivation Podcast mission: honor authentic people and tell their motivating stories. In the process, we aim to inspire and inform, put smiles on faces and a little fire under the asses of the masses. Sunday, 10 March 2024 @ time 1000 Context: I grew up with Shawn, we met in the 6th grade and remain great friends to this day. For the majority of the tremendous and sometimes crazy memories from my youth, Shawn was on the scene. Upon high school graduation, Shawn would also join the ...
C1/6 Stone and Beck
March 03, 2024 18:17 - 1 hour - 99.4 MBThe mission of the Making Motivation Podcast is to honor interesting and authentic people and tell their motivating stories. In the process, we aim to inspire and inform, put smiles on faces and a little fire under the asses of the masses. I served with Beck and Stone between 1994-97 in 1st Bn 6th Marines C company. We trained hard and had many adventures working up to several deployments: Float w 22 MEU, Okinawa and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Beck and Stone are two special Marines, among so ma...
Drew Sack, Cannabis Industry Expert
March 02, 2024 03:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBMy friend Drew has worked in the medical cannabis industry for many years and knows it inside and out. I have had many interesting conversations with him on this topic and find him a genuine person with a story to tell. In this podcast, Drew shares some of his experiences in the medical and recreational marijuana industries, grow operation management, industry regulations and the evolution of legal weed. For a scientific appreciation of cannabis, consider the following: The Effects of Ca...
This Week on the Making Motivation Podcast
February 28, 2024 12:52 - 13 minutes - 6.52 MBYou rundown of podcast guests for the week of February 26, 2024
C1/6 2nd Platoon_Pudge and Rumpler
February 25, 2024 18:39 - 2 hours - 138 MBAs I continue to reflect upon our service in C1/6 2nd platoon, I am joined by two of my closest buddies from back in the day. Pudge, Rumpler and I were among a tight crew of individuals who shipped down to Parris Island in June of 1993, remained together throughout our schooling and the entirety of our time in Charlie Company 1/6, 2nd Platoon. Stripped of our civilian lives, we reflexively formed a surrogate family and leaned on one another to make it through times, both good and bad. Th...
Making Connections
February 25, 2024 03:12 - 42 minutes - 16 MBRising early and working out. Three hour podcast with Marin buddies. Visiting my home of record for a friends 50th birthday. Celebrating connections
Crawling the Tunnel with Peru Gringa Pastor Mariann Lucas
February 23, 2024 22:25 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBMariann Lucas, AKA "10" is a friend of mine from back in the DDIP (Dr Drill Instructor Program) day. She was always an outstanding human being, a hard worker and cherished member of our community. Then one day she embarked on a missions trip to South America, fell in love with Peruvian culture and developed a passion for missionary work. There she remains. On a recent visit to the US, Mariann came in for a well-needed chiropractic adjustment (traversing bumpy Peruvian roads on a motorcycle)...
Started Something Special
February 20, 2024 13:56 - 37 minutes - 35.2 MBHow else to embark on Making Motivation than by interviewing Marines from my old unit, C1/6 2nd Platoon! It was during this four year enlistment as an active duty USMC Grunt that my motivational story began - the people I met, the training, the brotherhood, along with a little suffering and sacrifice - it made me who I am and for that I am forever grateful. Each week I will be interviewing some hard chargers from back in the USMC day. I can't wait for these virtual reunions, to tell some stor...
Making Motivation With C1/6 Devildogs, Nunn and Oster
February 18, 2024 20:55 - 2 hours - 124 MBI have embarked on a mission to interview every Marine from the Charlie Company 1/6 sphere. Nunn and Oster are two Marines with whom I served daily between 1993-97. I remember them well and we've kept in touch over the years, periodically getting together for the Marine Corps Birthday. In this podcast, my brothers and I discuss the early days of C1/6 2nd Platoon as we approached deployment to the Mediterranean with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). Topics covered include the leaders...
Making Motivation with Tom "Hard Times" Foresman
February 11, 2024 18:22 - 2 hours - 145 MBI often say that I met some of the best people in my life in the Marine Corps, as well as the worst. Tom Foresman is without a doubt, in the former category. It was 1996, when Staff Sergeant Foresman came over from the battalion Scout Sniper platoon to lead us in C1/6 2nd Platoon. The early days were rocky, as coming from more elite units we were not up to his standards. But as the months passed on our work-up to deployment to Okinawa, the platoon learned much and developed a cohesiveness ...
Making Motivation with Friends: Motivational Precedent, Going Into Nature To Find That Healthy Balance
February 05, 2024 00:20 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBToday was our debut in the new podcast studio using all the new equipment - Podtrak P4, microphones with boom, headphones etc. Guests were my pal Bryan and the Emster. Topics dicussed: - What motivates us - Maintaining precedent - Going into nature to find peace and balance
Not Down With the Sickness
January 28, 2024 02:39 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBThere are times when you feel sick, weak, frail, and vulnerable. That’s when you need to suck it. The fuck up and drive on.
Marine Corps Solicitation for My Son
January 28, 2024 02:34 - 29 minutes - 27.6 MBUSMC packet received in the mail. As me reflecting upon my teenage years and the decision to enlist. I love and I’m proud of a few things more than my service to my country but our nation being currently a shit show, I would be reluctant to endorse military service.
Upping My Podcast Game - 30 min
January 14, 2024 22:08 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBAfter a holiday hiatus, we are once again Making Motivation. I ordered a bunch of serious podcasting equipment so this represents my soundcheck. Once we are ready for showtime, expect an increase in the frequency and quality of episodes. Very excited to be back at it! This podcast is a mere 30 minutes because that is the time limit using a pc for some reason.
Making Motivation with Former Marine, Christopher Martinelli
August 27, 2023 18:11 - 59 minutes - 27.6 MBI thoroughly enjoyed some USMC banter with this hard charger. We shared recollections of, “The Suck.” Terminology, leadership traits and other isms that we remember fondly. Lessons learned in the Corps that are worth extrapolating to the civilian sector. Semper Fidelis, Martinelli!
Drywall Rescue. DDIP Deciduous. Pending Podcast Guests
August 24, 2023 22:46 - 21 minutes - 9.87 MB.
Facing Our Fears. When you focus on the good, the good gets better.
August 17, 2023 00:40 - 31 minutes - 14.7 MB.
When Our Efforts To Find Breathing Room Leave Us Breathless
August 04, 2023 00:10 - 48 minutes - 22.4 MB.
Responding to the Call. Mischief and Betrayal. Self Improvement
July 13, 2023 22:56 - 30 minutes - 11.4 MB.