The current crisis caused by COVD-19 is wreaking havoc on the physical, emotional, and financial health of people around the world. It's easy to let the uncertainty, fear, and frustration lead to overwhelming depression, but our guest on this episode wants you to know how to combat depression before it becomes overwhelming. Noah Galloway lost his left arm and leg in military service, and spent years living under the weight of the resulting depression. He became the first veteran and amputee to b...
Apr 17, 2020•52 min•Ep. 139
David Webb is Host of the David Webb Show on Sirius XM Patriot 125 and he's the host of Reality Check with David on Fox Nation. He's a Fox News Contributor, The Hill Columnist and Breitbart News Contributor. David has been on radio for over 25 years and is a dedicated political activist as well as an active Board Member of more than one Non-profit, including The Young Marines. In this episode, which also ran as a live interview on our American Snippets Facebook page, David gets real on things li...
Apr 10, 2020•34 min•Ep. 138
You can call former Navy SEAL Ray Care many things, but you can't call him a quitter. Ray "Cash" Care learned from a young age that life isn't fair, and pain is powerful. After years of being dominated by the constant pain in his life, Ray figured out how to harness that power to propel him into a life packed with fulfillment. First as a Navy SEAL and now as a fitness expert, speaker, team-builder and personal development leader, Ray teaches individuals, audiences, and corporations how to embrac...
Apr 03, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 137
Robyn Benincasa is an expert on leadership and team building. Her expertise comes not as a result of classroom education or a lucrative corporate career, but through decades of extreme challenges and relying on teamwork. She was part of America's first all- female fire crew, and has spent years battling blazes alongside a team. She's completed numerous adventure races around the world. From the jungles of Borneo to remote locations in Tibet, there are few places Robyn has not conquered. But just...
Mar 27, 2020•47 min•Ep. 136
Professional stuntwoman Sara Holden moved to LA with nothing but determination and a dream. Relying only on her own tenacity, talent, and determination, Sara earned an invitation to an exclusive training academy run by renowned stuntman Bob Yerkes. For two years, Sara trained regularly while pursuing an acting career, working to pay bills, building a network, and maintaining a long distance relationship with the man she loves. Today she is a wife, a mom, and successful Hollywood stuntwoman who h...
Mar 13, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 135
Evan Vourazeris could have let himself believe being born with Downs Syndrome meant he’d be less able to achieve his dreams than other people. He could have let the taunts and cruelty of his peers break him. Instead, he became a valued and loved member of his high school football team, and went on to build a career as an actor and anti-bullying advocate. Evan has worked with stars like Jason Bateman and speaks to students around the country, encouraging kindness and confidence. Listen in to this...
Mar 06, 2020•43 min•Ep. 134
Jeff Bradford spent over twenty years serving his country. He gave all of himself to service, including ten years in Special Forces. But rather than sit back and relax after such an intense career, Jeff went all-in again. This time he's traveling the globe, connecting cultures through the art of alcohol. Jeff sold all of his possessions and worked on a strict budget to visit one special location after another, in places most people only dream of visiting, so he could meet the people behind craft...
Feb 27, 2020•56 min•Ep. 133
Shuntella Richardson spent 24 years working her way up in the IT field. She left that field as CEO of a prestigious company to launch her own company in a completely different field, and has grown that company to its own level of success. She's also the Regional Director of the Global Woman Club in Chicago and an advocate for children's safety. Shuntella is living her own version of the American Dream, full of purpose and success - but it hasn't always been that way. Listen in as Shuntella share...
Feb 19, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 132
Eric Post proudly served his country as a Marine and he continues to serve by providing jobs and a positive outlook on the direction of this country. Eric Post lost a million dollars of his net worth in the first months of the 2008 crash. Still, he and his company not only survived that economic crash - they thrived. He has personally been involved in more than 700 residential and commercial real estate transactions and his team of real estate agents has closed over 10,000 transactions totaling ...
Feb 06, 2020•58 min•Ep. 131
Flossie Hall built a multi-million dollar company. Moni Jefferson built and runs her own massively successful company. Each of those achievements is noteworthy but what makes these even more so is that both women created their success while married to active duty members of the military. Having navigated the gauntlet of deployments, regular moves, and all the other uncertainty and challenges attached to life in the military, Flossie and Moni know firsthand how difficult it is to maintain a caree...
Jan 30, 2020•49 min•Ep. 130
Tony Whatley was living one version of the American Dream for over 20 years. He had a successful and lucrative career in the oil industry - but at some point he realized he had untapped passions, and decided to create an online community centered on one of those passions. LS1Tech is an online automotive community that Tony and a partner launched while Tony was still working in the oil industry. His side hustle community grew into one he and his partner eventually sold for millions of dollars, an...
Jan 22, 2020•54 min•Ep. 129
Alec Lace was just in the 8th grade when he began down a path it would take him years to recover from. His addictions to drugs, alcohol, and gambling brought his marriage to the brink of collapse and nearly cost him the chance to be a father to his four children. Today, Alec is basking in the joy of a clean lifestyle, a restored love to his marriage and the gift of being a father, which he cherishes above all else. He's taken his own experience and used it as fuel to mentor other men on being a ...
Jan 15, 2020•51 min•Ep. 128
SSG Travis Mills may have lost both arms and both legs in Afghanistan, but one thing that IED could not take from him was the spirit with which he lives his life. In the wake of a near-death incident that robbed him of his limbs, Travis Mills has achieved more than many people do in a lifetime, let alone in a handful of years - all while struggling to rebuild his own strength and forge his own path in a body that was completely different to him. With the love and partnership of his wife and an i...
Jan 08, 2020•54 min•Ep. 127
Bedros Keuilian may have been among the most unlikely candidates to live anything like the life he’s living now. Born in communist Armenia and victimized as a child, Bedros was a lifetime and half a world away from the country he now calls home and dominates his industry in. His story of how he fled that home and became a massive success in America would already be extraordinary if those were the only challenges he’d ever had to face - but those were just the beginning of Bedros’s struggles. Lis...
Dec 31, 2019•50 min•Ep. 126
You can change your life in a year but you can also change your life in a day. That's one of the lessons Mike Fallat talks about in this episode of American Snippets. Mike Fallat is an entrepreneur, a risk-taker, and a man who loves true stories. He slashed a gaping hole in his safety net and took the entrepreneurial leap when he was 23 years old, and he's never looked back. After years of ups, downs, and everything in between, Mike discovered a unique approach to creating his own success, and t...
Dec 24, 2019•58 min•Ep. 125
Michael Bernoff has spent over 20 years expanding his expertise in understanding the unconscious mind, and he is now among the leading American experts in communication and influence. He's worked with clients as young as 14 years old, and as old as 96, to help them excel far beyond their own expectations in life, and he's on a mission to help every person who is committed to their own fulfillment do the same. In this episode Michael shares his own invisible challenge and how he ignored all the n...
Dec 17, 2019•48 min•Ep. 124
People don't usually like to be deceived but when Ken Hartley does it, they love it. That's because Ken has spent years mastering the art of illusion and uses his talent to make an impact on audiences all over the world. Ken's story of rising from the once-bullied child to the international illusionist and speaker is packed with powerful insight on personal growth and well-crafted lessons on leadership, as well as fun stories about the art of magic. In this episode of American Snippets, Ken shar...
Dec 10, 2019•50 min•Ep. 123
Brandon Busch, known as "The Candy Man" to his fellow Marines, is the culinary artist and veteran entrepreneur who owns Lift Chocolates. Still in its infancy, Lift is already available in retail outlets and manages to give back to support the military, law enforcement, and first responder communities. Between serving his country, earning a culinary degree, and launching a business, Brandon has learned a strong work ethic, risk management, and how to seize upon opportunity. Listen in as he shares...
Dec 04, 2019•42 min•Ep. 122
Jeff Bezos may be among the most famous well-known garage-startup success stories, but he's far from the only one. Don Buckner also launched a multi-million dollar company from a garage, and overcame enormous personal and professional challenges along the way - all without any formal education. In the process, his innate commitment to American made products and the American manufacturing business grew and today, Don is all about supporting and promoting American made companies. Don is now the CE...
Nov 21, 2019•54 min•Ep. 121
Brian Fleming is a combat-wounded Afghanistan war veteran, international speaker, and resilience trainer who helps people be more resilient in tough, turbulent situations. He was severely wounded in action by a suicide bomber who exploded 3-feet away from him in Kandahar, Afghanistan and now he teaches strategies for overcoming unexpected challenges. Brian believes there’s a way around everything and it’s a person’s responsibility to go get the outcomes they want in life. He's spent the past dec...
Nov 14, 2019•58 min•Ep. 120
Kim Rhodenbaugh Lewallen was 13 years old when she competed in national swim meets. The young athlete was poised for some of the best years of her life, but within the year her optimism and happiness would be stolen from her when she was sexually assaulted by a fellow athlete. As Kim's athletic career rose all the way to the 1984 Olympics, the sexual assaults continued at the hands of several fellow athletes from some of this country's top teams. Kim kept the abuse a secret and spiraled downward...
Nov 07, 2019•51 min•Ep. 119
Country music artist Ryan Weaver is that "overnight success" that's been 13 years in the making. Today he's the patriotic voice of the PBR, and travels around the world performing on legendary stages and in iconic studios. From Madison Square Garden to Australia, he's living his version of the American Dream. On the surface he's the picture of success loving the experience of his star rising. But underneath, he's an intensely driven man who's been through immense tragedy and paid an enormous pri...
Oct 30, 2019•59 min•Ep. 118
At age 5 his father died. At age 16 he quit school. At age 17 he had already lost four jobs. At age 18 he got married. Between ages 18 and 22, he was a railroad conductor and failed. He joined the army and washed out there. He applied for law school, he was rejected. He became an insurance sales man and failed again. At age 19 he became a father. At age 20 his wife left him and took their baby daughter. He became a cook and dishwasher in a small cafe. He failed in an attempt to kidnap his own da...
Oct 25, 2019•6 min•Ep. 117
American Snippets co-founder Barb Allen suffered a devastating loss when her husband, Lt Louis Allen, was murdered by a fellow soldier. For years she struggled to find her way through trauma while raising her four boys, but could not seem to break the cycle of pain in her life. In this episode, Barb shares her story of the moment it all came crashing down on her one last time, talks about how she learned how to truly rebuild her life, and shares lessons learned from hundreds of interviews about ...
Oct 16, 2019•19 min•Ep. 116
It seems like running into burning buildings to rescue people, rushing to administer first aid and life-saving care to victims, and risking your life for others is more than enough service to your fellow man. But for people like Luke Schneider and Jason Patton that's not enough. Luke and Jason are firefighters. They are dedicated to their work and have directly saved and impacted countless lives. It is rewarding work but also demanding and exhausting. The men rely on camaraderie and coffee to ba...
Oct 10, 2019•49 min•Ep. 115
Marine Corps veteran Chris White got tired of being attacked for his patriotism. The divisiveness in this country ate away at him to the point that he felt it was time to defend his patriotism and do his part to restore the platform that once served to unite the people in this country. When a video he made went viral, Chris used that surge in visibility to launch Freedom Hard, an unapologetically patriotic brand that focuses on humor to convey its love of America. Freedom Hard" is a Lifestyle Br...
Oct 02, 2019•41 min•Ep. 114
Behind every person who serves this country is another person who loves them. They are husbands or wives, parents, children, friends and family. For the spouses of our military members, life is often packed with uncertainty and the ever-present threat of that knock on the door. While the service member shares the camaraderie of those they serve alongside, for the spouse at home it is much different. The isolation, the constant moving, and all that goes along with being married into the military ...
Sep 25, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 113
Adam Davis is a former law enforcement officer and hostage negotiator. With a personal past packed with pain, and a career that presented a seemingly constant onslaught of death, danger, and tragedy, Adam's faith and will collapsed simultaneously, and he headed into a downward spiral. Convinced his wife and children were better off without him, Adam was moments away from ending his life when he had an experience that helped him push through his hopelessness and pain, and recommit to life. Today ...
Sep 18, 2019•56 min•Ep. 112
Human potential is limitless, or so we should be taught. Instead, people like Chris Costa are told there are limits to their potential. Too many people accept those limits placed upon them by others. For years, Chris did too - until he realized he was either going to have to find a way past those limits, or settle into a life lived beneath them. Chris chose to find his own way through. Listen in as the patriotic entrepreneur shares his story of rejecting limits, serving his country, and creating...
Sep 12, 2019•47 min•Ep. 111
Before you are able to build the life that truly fulfills you, you must first overcome all those obstacles that are in your way. Some of these are self-imposed. Others have been unfairly placed upon you or are simply part of the process. Regardless, it takes hefty amounts of motivation and inspiration to maintain the dedication and commitment necessary when building and maintaining that life you've always dreamed of having. This is why we feel so strongly about the value of motivational or inspi...
Sep 04, 2019•20 min•Ep. 110
