Latest Veterans in business Podcast Episodes
Episode 30: Veterans Have an Employment Edge With or Without a College; Jason Marchant of FineTune
Boots About Business - June 16, 2021 14:00 - 30 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/bab_030_jason_marchant.jpg Jason Marchant won’t tell you to not get a degree, but he will tell you don’t let not having one prevent you from applying for a job. That’s how he did it. And in a couple years, he went from a veteran in tra...
Episode 29: One Step Back to Go Many Steps Forward; Army Veteran Starr Corbin of Diligent Robotics on Building a Career in Tech
Boots About Business - June 02, 2021 10:15 - 33 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/bab_029_starr_corbin.jpg After leaving the Army Starr Corbin took a job for which she felt she was overqualified. But she took it anyway and excelled. In few years, she was running the shop that eventually led opportunities with compani...
Episode 28: This Army Vet Applied to 400 Jobs with Zero Callbacks, but Here’s How He Finally Landed His Dream Job; Chuck Kluball, Military Relations for Home Depot
Boots About Business - May 19, 2021 10:00 - 39 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/bab_028_chuck_kluball_home_depot-scaled.jpg After Chuck Kluball transitioned out of the Army, he spent months applying for jobs and sending out resumes. In fact, he says he submitted about 400 applications and received no responses. Ze...
Episode 27: This Veteran Started a Landscaping Business with Work Ethic and Organizational Skills Acquired in the Army; Michael Winters of ThirtySeasons LLC
Boots About Business - May 05, 2021 10:00 - 23 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/bab_027_michael_winters.jpg Many of the lessons Michael Winters applies to his small business, he learned in the Army. He and a buddy started researching what it take to open a landscaping business while he was still wearing the uniform...
Episode 26: Former Navy SEAL Shares How Broke into Business; DJ Faldowski on How he Moved from One Elite Team to Another
Boots About Business - April 21, 2021 10:00 - 24 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/bab_026_dj_faldowski.jpeg It was 9/11. That’s what gave him the motivation to join the service. DJ Faldowski went on to graduate from Annapolis and serve in the Navy SEALs. He spent nine years in the Navy and multiple deployments before...
Episode 25: This Former Marine Landed in Cybersecurity Almost by Accident; Christopher Kennedy with Career Tips for Veterans
Boots About Business - April 07, 2021 10:00 - 37 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/bab_025_chris_kennedy.jpeg Christopher Kennedy joined the Marines as a communications officer, and almost by accident wound up in cybersecurity. Cybersecurity was still a nascent industry then, but the experience served him well over hi...
Episode 24: Veterans Make “Savagely Loyal” Employees; Air Force Veteran Adam Braatz of the Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce
Boots About Business - March 17, 2021 10:00 - 30 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/bab_024_adam_braatz.jpeg Adam Braatz joined the Air Force to play the piano. A professional trained musician, he was among the few that audition and selected for the Air Force band. That experience took him around the world – before tra...
Episode 23: Finding a Purpose in Business After Military Service; Army Veteran Kent Wilson of Network Security Provider Bricata
Boots About Business - March 03, 2021 11:00 - 26 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/bab_023_kent_wilson.jpeg Some veterans struggle with finding purpose after military service. It’s hard to match the idealism of uniformed service – that is being part of something bigger than oneself. Kent Wilson, however, found purpos...
Episode 22: This Air Force Veteran is Building out a New Food Delivery Service; Timothy Dance of Dancin' Delivery
Boots About Business - February 17, 2021 11:00 - 23 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/bab_022_timothy_dance.jpeg Some of the conventional popular food delivery services are missing important elements: tamper proof measures, temperature control technology and other food safety issues. That’s a big part of where Timothy Da...
Episode 21: Operating in Chaos translates to a [Business] Bias for Action; Beau Higgins a Retired Marine Colonel Turned Senior Manager of Military Talent Acquisition for Amazon
Boots About Business - February 03, 2021 11:00 - 26 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/bab_021_beau_higgins.jpg One of the skills Beau Higgins says veterans bring to business is an ability to operate in chaos. That is when things are chaotic – veterans learn to focus on getting things done. For 25 years, Beau got things ...
Episode 20: Balancing Work and Life between Google and the Army National Guard; Googler and Intel Officer Nathan Iglesias
Boots About Business - January 20, 2021 11:00 - 36 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/bab_020_nathan_iglesias.jpeg Nathan Iglesias joined the California Army National Guard right after 9/11 – and after graduating college he essentially spent the next six years on active duty. He was trained as an intelligence officer, at...
Episode 19: She Left the Army, Married a Soldier and then Discovered Military Spouses Need Career Help too; Jaime Chapman on Careers for the Spousal Community
Boots About Business - January 06, 2021 11:00 - 26 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/bab_019_Jaime_Chapman.jpg When Jaime Chapman married into the Army, she experienced firsthand how difficult it is to find a job or maintain a career. While she did find work as a DoD contractor running programs for veterans in transitio...
Episode 18: How a Nuclear Machinist Mate got into Real Estate; Navy Veteran Craig Hatcher of Georgia Residential Realty
Boots About Business - December 16, 2020 11:00 - 35 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/bab_018_craig_hatcher.jpg Craig Hatcher joined the Navy as a Nuclear Machinist Mate looking after the reactors and associated equipment that powered the nuclear ship to which he was assigned. He later got out, and worked for UPS, until ...
Episode 17: How a Special Forces Soldier Deployed to Corporate America; Former Green Beret turned Management Consultant Herb Thompson and The Transition Mission
Boots About Business - December 02, 2020 11:00 - 26 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bab_17_herb_thompson.jpg When Herb Thompson was getting ready to retire from the Army, he had no idea what he would do next in his career. However, the uncertainty is something he was trained to deal with, and he used those skills to st...
Episode 16: A Business Incubator and Support Network for Military Veteran Entrepreneurs; Business Author and Navy Vet Todd Connor on the Third Shift Entrepreneur
Boots About Business - November 18, 2020 11:00 - 32 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/bab_016_todd_connor.png Todd Connor is a Navy veteran that has really done some interesting things. He’s worked for big companies like Booz Allen, he’s run his own consulting firm, and he’s even run for elected office. However, two of t...
Dear Veterans: Strive to be a Better Veteran this Veteran's Day {special message}
Boots About Business - November 10, 2020 21:15 - 4 minutesMy friend Tom Deierlein posted an update to LinkedI (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6732017553482235905/)n that reads: To all my Veteran friends: When people thank you for your service tomorrow and all days. Don’t say "you’re welcome." Tell them how you really feel: "It w...
Episode 15: How to Identify those Transferable Skills: Retired Sergeant Major Turned High-Tech Business Recruiter with Tips for Veterans in Transition
Boots About Business - November 04, 2020 11:00 - 31 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/bab_015_elliot_marks_.jpg Veterans are quick learners that are loyal and perform well under pressure. They have a sense of integrity, selflessness, teamwork and resiliency. However, articulating these things and other transferable skill...
Episode 14: Setting Up Military Affairs Programs in Business; Former Marine and Public Defender, Joshua Wilson Now Advocates for America’s Warrior Partnership
Boots About Business - October 21, 2020 10:00 - 29 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/bab_014_josh_wilson.jpg Joshua Wilson is a Corporate Relationship Manager at America's Warrior Partnership. The organization is a non-profit aimed at empowering communities to empower veterans. That involves many different things, but J...
Episode 13: This Former “8th & I” Marine Once Tried to Open a Dominoes Franchise; Today He’s an Entrepreneur with a Wearable Stylus that Might Help Protect Us from COVID
Boots About Business - October 07, 2020 10:00 - 25 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/bab_013_gable_eaton.jpg When Gable Eaton saw how many pizzas his peers assigned to Marine Barracks at 8th & I ordered, he saw an opportunity. The (then) young Marine came up a plan to open a Dominoes Franchise nearby…but there was one b...
Episode 12: Uncommon Route to Self-Employment: How Army Vet Ruthie Bowles Turned Her MI Experience into a Marketing Career
Boots About Business - September 16, 2020 10:00 - 33 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/bab_012_ruthie_bowles.jpeg Sometimes veterans struggle to translate what they did in uniform into skills that make sense in the civilian world. Ruthie Bowls spent eight years in the Army working in intelligence. When she got out of the ...
Episode 11: Veterans as a Source of Cybersecurity Talent; Tim Callahan, Air Force Vet and Aflac SVP and Global CISO
Boots About Business - September 02, 2020 10:00 - 25 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/bab_011_tim_callahan.jpg There’s a talent shortage in cybersecurity and it’s been that way for several years. Because of that shortage, some analysts forecast millions of cybersecurity roles will go vacant over the next few years. One s...
Episode 10: Entrepreneurship with Training Wheels: Bill Williams on Helping Veterans with Franchise Ownership
Boots About Business - August 19, 2020 10:00 - 26 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/bab_010_bill_williams.jpg He was certain he’d drafted for Vietnam in the next 90 days. Rather than wait for the notification, he decided to shape his destiny and volunteered to join the Army. That was many years ago, but today, Bill Wil...
Episode 9: Thinking of a Judge as the General; How Pair of Army Veterans Turned Lawyers – Husband and Wife – Opened their Own Practice
Boots About Business - August 05, 2020 10:00 - 26 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/bab_009_steve_patty_shewmaker.jpg She went West Point and he went ROTC at the University of Alabama. They both wound up as military intelligence officers that first met at a pizza shop where they were stationed. Over time, that meeting ...
Episode 8: Leaving the Army and Starting a Business During a Recession: Brian Butler of Vistra Communications
Boots About Business - July 15, 2020 10:00 - 20 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/bab_008_brian_butler-scaled.jpg By any measure, Brian Butler was having a successful career in the Army. He served in Desert Storm, was chosen to work on the Homeland Security Council in The White House (where he worked on preparing for...
Episode 7: Unbreakable Excellence: Army Vet Bob Eisiminger on Building and Selling a Company for $250 Million
Boots About Business - July 01, 2020 10:00 - 22 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/bab_007_bob_eisiminger.jpg How do all great things start? Over a beverage. How do you execute on big ideas? You “out-work” folks. So says Bob Eisiminger who describes how he and a friend (and fellow veteran) were sitting on a porch ha...
Episode 6: Tossing the Resume – a Match Making App for Employers and Veterans; Robyn Grable of Veteran’s ACSEND
Boots About Business - June 17, 2020 10:00 - 26 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/bab_006_robyn_grable_-scaled.jpg About: Robyn Grable spent just shy of a decade as a sailor in the U.S. Navy – with tours in Iceland and Hawaii – before transitioning to the business world. Among her business assignment was a 15-year st...
Episode 5: How to Come Back from a Kick in the Teeth; Dianne Falk an MI Officer Turned Management Consultant
Boots About Business - June 03, 2020 10:00 - 21 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bab_005_dianne-falk-scaled.jpg Dianne Falk was as hard-charging as any Army officer, but when she was assigned to be the S2, a primary staff position for a cavalry squadron, her new commander didn’t want her, because she was a woman. So...
Episode 4: Flying with G-Force: How an Army MP turned Air Force Pilot Built a Franchise Business to Employ Veterans
Boots About Business - May 20, 2020 10:00 - 20 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Jack-Child-and-Gordon-Logan.jpg Jack Child started his career first as an MP in the Army and he later became a pilot and instructor pilot in the Air Force. He left the military for a long career as a pilot with a major airline – a job h...
Episode 3: Business is also about Mission and Troop Welfare; BJ Schaknowski, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at Vertafore
Boots About Business - May 06, 2020 10:00 - 21 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bab_003_bj_schaknowski.jpg There are three things the Marine Corps taught BJ Schaknowski that he says are still true in business. First, highly diverse teams that are well organized are among the most successful. Second, the priorities ...
Episode 2: The Subtle Things you Learn in Uniform; Fred Wellman on Entrepreneurship and Veteran’s Advocacy
Boots About Business - April 22, 2020 10:00 - 25 minuteshttps://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/fred-wellman-veteran-advocate-scaled.jpg By his own admission Fred Wellman has had an “unusual career.” He flew helicopters in both Desert Storm and in Operation Iraqi Freedom too. His second campaign was unique because “one day you are...
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