Episode #9: "You are NOT the Hero in the STORY; the HERO is the customer YOU SERVE" [West Point Officer / Digital Media Company Founder / CEO / Storyteller - Samuel P.N. Cook]

Welcome to Episode #9 with Sam Cook.

In this episode, Sam shares his powerful journey from growing up in Belfast, N. Ireland to attending one of the world's most elite universities, the United States Military Academy at West Point.  After 13 years serving as a combat Army Officer, he made an incredible career pivot into the world of entrepreneurship.

This conversation is packed with so many seeds of risk, courage and the steadfast belief in becoming who you were meant to be:  Innovator, Creator, Storyteller...anything you want to become!!

Sam will remind you that the greatest tragedy in LIFE is your unrealized potential.  Never stop...never quit...just FORWARD.

Sam's Summary Bio:

1.  Graduated from West Point in 2000.  He went on to become a U.S. Armored Cavalry Officer where he served as the Regimental Adjutant for Colonel H.R. McMaster in the Battle of Tal Afar in 2005-2006 that was cited by President Bush as a turning point in the war. With a front row seat to history, Sam was responsible for the media messaging and writing the history of this campaign.

2.  In 2007, Sam returned to Iraq as the commander of Crazyhorse Troop, 1st Squadron, 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment where he was cited in the Washington Post and Tom Rick’s best-selling book on Iraq for his novel counterinsurgency strategy that combined tribal negotiations and police trained parole system for a mass surrender.

3.  When he returned from Iraq in 2008, Sam went on to get a Masters in Russian and Ukrainian history at New York University’s Jordan Center for Slavic Studies. He then went on to teach history at West Point from 2010-2013.

4.  Sam founded James Cook Media in 2013 after leaving the army. The company is a storytelling marketing agency that focuses on growing then brands of authors and experts around the world. Here he created the StoryMatters mini-course with over 100,000 subscribers as well as the StoryMatters Podcast.

5.  In 2019, he founded SanityDesk, a full stack software solution for experts and small service businesses to launch and manage their business online. SanityDesk is funded by Angel investors and is rapidly becoming an innovative solutions for savvy marketing professionals who help smalL business owners grow their brand online.

GUEST Contact Details:

Website: https://jamescookmedia.com/reinvent

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelpncook/

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