Warriors, fall in! It’s time for formation. Today we’re joined with an exciting marketing strategist , international business coach, and speaker. In 2018, this military spouse started her own business called “Trend Lab,” which is a marketing, coaching, and consulting company that helps guide businesses get unstuck to progress in their business goals. She’s been a facilitator for Bunker Labs and current operates as an advisor for Act Now Education, which as you might know from listening to the sh...

We are calling our shot! It’s the military spouse takeover where Act Now Education is helping 1,000 military spouses launch their careers…This is a podcast special. I have an active-duty military spouse who's an extremely active member of the military engagement community. She’s volunteered for Hiring Our Heroes, served as the director of Service2Software, served again as a Director for Vets2Industry, and is now the Vice President of American Corporate Partners (ACP). Join me on this podcast to ...

Warriors, Fall In! Today, we're joined with the founder of a Veteran owned physical fitness challenge that brings the battleground of the course to some of America's heroic, mechanized and historic ships across the Nation. Cliff Walker is not just a Navy Gulf War Veteran, but also a retired firefighter, so fitness is the top priority for this highly motivated business owner. His business is called "The USS Battle Series and is described as such on their website: "USS BATTLE SERIES is a functiona...

Warriors, Fall In! Today, we are joined with a Veteran who served several years in the United States Navy after living most of her life in rural Wisconsin, where her graduating class was a total of 36 people. Upon separating from the Navy, this Veteran began feeling very distant when and during the overall transition back to civilian life. After visiting an American Legion and recognizing the vast differences in age at the club, she decided to get online and create a group called "Millennial Vet...

Warriors, Fall in! Today we’re joined with a mental health professional who’s a Licensed Clinical Therapist-Candidate and has earned many other higher levels of education. More impressively, our guest today, Jacquelin Buckley, served in the Canadian Armed Forces for 20 years. She’s worked with the Canadian military, Veterans from both the United States and Canada, various law enforcement departments, dealt with situations in domestic violence, Post Traumatic Stress, Parenting, and issues with mo...

Warriors, Fall In! Today, we are joined with a professional author who joined the Coast Guard during the recession and sought to become an intel analyst. Over time, our guest Caroline Walsh gained skills in critical thinking, team work, strategy development, leadership, and project management, but along the way, she had to overcome malicious obstacles to reach her goals. She’s currently studying to obtain her Phd in leadership and also authored a book called “Fairly Smooth Operator-My Life at th...

Warriors, Fall In! Today, I am welcoming a special guest who is an Afghanistan Operation Enduring Freedom combat veteran. Like many of us, he experienced the tragedy of war, but also took on a tragedy within the ranks of his own family- His dear brother was killed in Afghanistan on the same deployment in 2010. Overcoming this heartbreak was one of our guest’s greatest obstacles and today he is driven to reach back and help out our Veteran community with understanding resiliency to meet triumph. ...

Warriors, Fall In! Today we are bringing in a military warrior who served 3 years as an Infantryman, earned Ft Benning’s Non-Commissioned Officer of the Year, and now is the founder and President of Boots to Books, which is an organization that seeks to empower transitioning service members, veterans, and military spouses with assistance through every facet of their education and employment journey. To my military warriors, listening right now, there are GREAT organizations like Boots to Books, ...

Warriors, Fall In! This week, we’re joined with a 24-year Navy combat veteran who worked his military career in various positions and was deployed to Afghanistan as a military intelligence analyst. Now, as a civilian, our guest today has worked for a number of highly successful businesses such as Carnival Cruise Line, Verizon, and IBM Cloud. We’re joined today with Tim Dickey, who’s going to talking with us today about Scrum, which is the framework for agile software development. Some of you lis...

Warriors, Fall-In! Today, we’re joined with a Air Force Veteran who decided to take control of his life and mental health to become an up-and-coming brand strategist. After spending 5 years in the Air Force as a mechanic working for a test squadron, our guest today Irving Gil transitioned out and began to feel the mental health strains of being alone and the with the war within himself. Irving decided to pick himself up to build his own business and today’s he’s going to share some helpful tips ...

I’m joined with an Army Combat Veteran today, who is not only an influencer for our women veterans, but she is also a mother of five. She was stationed in Germany and served a nine-month deployment in Afghanistan as aviation operations specialist. While serving in the military, our guest today suffered a major setback when she was involved in a terrible accident that caused Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) that would eventually end her military career. Today, we are joined with Althea Willliams, who...

Warriors, Fall In! Today, we are joined with a guest who entered the Air Force during the early 80’s, when finding a job was rather difficult and then retired just after the housing market busted in 2009, so career transitioning and timing is very familiar territory for our guest today, Don Gleason. Aside from being a retired 27-year Air Force Veteran, Don is also an Executive Director for the John Maxwell Team, which helps folks further develop their skills for professional advancement. LinkedI...

Warriors, Fall In…It’s time for our Act Now & Execute Edition. I enjoy highlight folks in our military community who are out there taking advantage of the educational opportunities and today, I am joined with a military spouse, Danielle, who is a member of Act Now Education and was recently presented and took a job opportunity with Intuit and it was all in part to a certification that was exclusively offered through Act Now Education. For more military community education opportunities: www.actn...

Today, we are very fortunate to be join with a Medal of Honor recipient who began his military career by joining the Oklahoma Army National Guard, while he was still in high school. Shortly after his high school graduation, he joined the United States Marine Corps from the year 2000 to 2008, which included many assignments all over the world as well as deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2005 and again in 2008. After his last deployment, as a US Marine, our guest today decided t...

Warriors Fall In! It's Time for formation. Today’s guest is a military spouse who serves as a life coach and a resume writer. She strives to be a guiding light for those of us who need life mentoring and better vision when things seem cornered. I can tell you from personal experience, when I moderated the Military Mix-Up in The Clubhouse App, our guest was an authentic mainstay who provided a countless number of folks solid advice and support. Today, I am honored to have LaPora Lindsey on The Mo...

Today, we have a Super Bowl special! I’m joined with a 15-year combat Army Veteran, who was selected this season’s as “THE Fan of the Year for the Los Angeles Rams,” who are obviously in the Super Bowl playing against the Cincinnati Bengals on 13 February. In addition, our military Veteran guest is in the running to become “THE Ultimate NFL Fan of the Year,” which will be announced at NFL Honors. We’re joined with Amanda Filimon today and she was recognized by the NFL for not only her outstandin...

Warriors, Fall in! It’s time for Formation… Today, I have a guest whose educational motives involve breaking the status quo of a certification that has gone unopposed for over 20 years. Not only has this certification gone unopposed, but this certification across boundaries from the military to the civilian workforce is universally recognized to better your task efficiency, fully assures work completion, and relates work experience between the military and civilian professions. The certification...

The Ultimate Fighting Championship, Bellator MMA, and many other organizations have a stage in the shape of an octagon where warriors live, eat, and breath the sport known as Mixed Martial Arts. Behind the scenes, a group of judges sit in the dimly lit area, front and center of the action. The back-story of one of those judges, Cardo Urso, includes an impressive military career, holds over five martial art black belts, and is known as a subject matter expert in combatives. Today, I am honored to...

Today, I am honored to have a guest who’s going to share some very important tips that’ll help our military community create better resumes and complete online application to take that next step in the hiring process. Here on The Morning Formation, we are laser focused providing you the best tips from Veterans who have paved the path to help you make better decisions. Our guest today is Jon Morgan and he’s the Work for Warriors Georgia Employment Coordinator. And today we’re going to learn about...

Fall in, it’s time for formation! Thank you for joining us today, warriors. Today we have a guest who’s an Army Veteran, a published author, a proclaimed veteran mentor, an actor, and is currently serving as a Senior Director of Veterans Services for his company. Most importantly and the reason we have him here today is to discuss the trends and the pulse of what is happening in the career transition market with our military veterans. So, we have John Lehmann joining us today and he is positione...