Robert Woods transitioned from the Air Force using the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill to earn an education and launch his career. He is now the founder of Banneret Career Consulting , focused on helping other veterans do the same. He also hosts his own podcast called The Knight’s Tale Podcast where he interviews other veterans, employers, and talks about how companies can work with veterans to create on the job training programs. We discuss how he was able to increase his income by relocating, earning more...
Oct 02, 2019•34 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Anthony DeToto's career is in private wealth management and in today’s conversation we hear about his transition as an Army officer, but the reason why we were introduced and the focus of this podcast is on 1836Veterans , an organization he founded to help veterans in the Houston area create small businesses in the lower-middle market. His group at 1836 believes that veterans have a competitive advantage in business due to their leadership, work-ethic, and character and that they have a natural ...
Sep 24, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Bill Kieffer is the President and Chief Advisor for Kieffer & Associates, LTD . He is also a TEDx speaker, former U.S. Army officer, and Ohio native. His career has focused on training, leading, and shaping organizations from within the talent management and human capital department of the companies he has worked for. I was excited to have Bill on to talk about how decisions are made at the front lines of talent management in corporate America as it relates to hiring, training, and retaining...
Aug 21, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Josh Duntz is a Navy EOD Master Technician experienced in leading small, high performing and dynamic teams of special operations personnel. Josh has done seemingly everything possible to engage proactively with his military-to-civilian transition. Over the last couple of years he has finished his bachelor’s degree, completed the 6-month transition fellowship with The Honor Foundation , worked with Elite Meet to network with other veterans, and is jumping into a DoD SkillBridge internship with a ...
Aug 15, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Today's conversation is with John Boerstler CEO of Combined Arms , an organization helping veterans transition to Houston and the greater Texas market after their military service. John and I discuss how he is approaching this mission and the unique way his team is creating a bridge for service members looking to network, go back to school, and generally get connected to the Texas economy after their service. We also discuss briefly how the lessons learned developing regional resources like comb...
Jul 31, 2019•32 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Today's conversation is with Naval Academy graduate and former nuclear-trained naval officer Tom Schwab . Tom transitioned to corporate America after his service and leads a media marketing business called Interview Valet . His focus is on making introductions between guests and podcasters to help clients tell their story and share their ideas with new audiences in a popular, high-converting medium. Their slogan is, "You are the guest, we take care of the rest." Tom's career began in the early 9...
Jul 24, 2019•55 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Jon Macaskill is a U.S. Navy SEAL, Mindfulness Practitioner, Expert Monotasker, and Certified Wrong Thinker. After 20+ years as both an enlisted sailor and a commissioned officer, he is transitioning out of the military and launching a mindfulness and emotional intelligence coaching company - Macaskill Consulting , aiming to bring meditation, mindfulness, and EQ to organizations and creating a strategic advantage within high-performing teams. In this conversation Jon defines terms like meditatio...
Jul 17, 2019•50 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Claude Burns is the CEO and founder of Office Libations . After exiting the Navy following six years as an Information Professional Officer, Claude attended the MIT Sloan School of Management where he earned his MBA, taking the plunge directly into entrepreneurship after graduation. In 2014 he founded Noble Brewer by scaling-up specialty craft beer recipes created by homebrewers and delivered them by mail to consumers across the country in gift boxes. Although this business was showing signs of ...
Jul 11, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 36
John Cordle , Dr. Eng, leads a 12 person team at Huntington Ingalls Industries teaching Maintenance Management to over 12,000 U. S. Navy personnel, including all officer pipeline training across the waterfront. He is the USNI Proceedings Author of the Year and Surface Navy Literary Award winner for 2018, having written about implementing a Circadian Rhythm watch rotation while serving as CO of the USS San Jacinto (CG-56). His crew was awarded the 2010 Vice Admiral Bulkeley Safety Award for impro...
Jun 27, 2019•57 min•Season 1Ep. 35
If you are an active-duty member of the U.S. Armed Forces with 12-18 months before the end of your service commitment, you have to check out this episode! Today's conversation is with Tyler Bloecher , one of our newest Recruiting Managers and the first-ever DoD SkillBridge Fellow that we've had here at Bradley-Morris. This program is relatively new and is designed to connect active-duty service members with fellowship opportunities at companies during their final six months of service to expose ...
Jun 19, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 34
John Hawley is a Naval Officer, Nuclear Engineer by training, Building Construction major, and has been improving high performance/high stress teams as a design thinking expert. He has created and facilitated course work to 7,000+ people via intimate workshops and off-site events across the Navy, DoD, and now increasingly within civilian organizations and companies. He has received numerous accolades in human centered design including recognition as THE premier course for the Navy and considered...
Jun 12, 2019•46 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Matthew J. Louis is an expert in career transition for veterans and public service professionals. He coaches individuals on their transition efforts and advises employers on hiring programs designed to successfully assimilate these valuable talent pools. He is the author of the forthcoming book Mission Transition, a practical guide for veterans in transition and their employers . In this conversation, we had a chance to hear some of his advice from the book, through the lens of his own transitio...
Jun 04, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Chandra Adusei is a 2005 graduate of the US Naval Academy, former Surface Warfare Officer, and Senior Managing Partner at Veteran Wealth Partners, a firm dedicated to helping Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners discover innovative and alternative solutions to the traditional model of planning, scaling, and protecting a business. After serving aboard a Frigate and a Cruiser, as well as spending a year deployed overseas to Afghanistan, she transitioned to the civilian sector as a Systems Engin...
May 28, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Defense Health Agency’s Connected Health Branch is the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) innovative provider of behavioral health technologies, supporting DoD’s goals for increasing access to care, establishing best practices and standards and reducing the stigma associated with seeking mental health services. Dr. Julie Kinn works for Defense Health Agency’s Connected Health Branch to help develop mobile apps and online resources to improve the lives of service members, veterans, and their fami...
May 16, 2019•48 min•Season 1Ep. 30
In this episode I was excited to talk to Kirk Petty , a candidate Bradley-Morris placed about 12 years ago as he transitioned from the Marine Corps to a career in the power-generation industry. Kirk's time at Capstone Turbine has exposed him to a variety of roles and functions, leading to his current title as Senior Vice President of Manufacturing. Capstone manufactures a comprehensive lineup of clean-and-green microturbines that are able to run on a variety of gaseous or liquid fuels ranging fr...
May 07, 2019•31 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Today I spoke with Lieutenant Colonel Robin Johnson, Employment Director with the Army's Soldier for Life (SFL) program. Recently completed with Battalion command, Robin has joined the SFL team with the goals of raising awareness of the program and developing a culture of life-long engagement beyond merely the transition assistance program. In this episode we discuss her career and approach to the program, what the Army is doing to bridge the gap with employers and create a more opportunities fo...
May 01, 2019•43 min•Season 1Ep. 28
David Gutierrez is an active duty naval officer and co-founder of Storehouse 3:10 Ventures, a turnkey real estate business focused on offering cash-flowing real estate investment opportunities to the military and veterans, while upholding the ideals of honesty, integrity, and giving back to the community. In this episode we speak about his company, how he and his Naval Academy room mate made the decision to go into business as partners, and how he's managing these responsibilities while also ser...
Apr 17, 2019•55 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Today's guest is an alumnus of the Bradley-Morris placement process. Barrett Scruggs graduated from West Point and served in the Army as an officer for 5 years before making the transition to corporate banking via the Military Officer Leadership Program at Citi. He is now the Director of the Workforce Management Department at leading investment and banking firm Sofi based in Salt Lake City, UT. Barrett began his journey working with another recruiter and made his way to Bradley-Morris during his...
Apr 03, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 26
I had an opportunity to interview Chris Moreira , US Marine Corps Aviator and the CEO of TeleDrip - a platform that uses AI to connect consumers and businesses. Chris and I met a few weeks ago at the LeadsCon 2019 trade show for marketing and technology where he was a panelist discussing how companies are keeping pace with advancements in marketing technology. Chris was gracious enough to offer to share his time and his transition story on the podcast, as well as his advice about how to create a...
Mar 26, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Today's guest is Tom Kent - CEO and Founder of CareerNerds.com , a professional coaching and networking strategy site aimed at offering insights and strategy to those in career transition. Tom began his military career after graduating from West Point in the mid 90's, serving as an Intelligence Officer stationed in Europe and Asia. After transitioning to a civilian career in Project Management, Tom pursued and earned his MBA from the University of Texas Austin with a focus in Marketing. Followin...
Feb 12, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Todd Crevier is the founder and President of New England Adventures, a not-for-profit organization which hosts all-expense-paid outdoor sporting and therapeutic outdoor activities for New England veterans, current service members, and their families. Todd is a retired Sergeant First Class with the US Army and a disabled combat veteran. After being medically retired from the Army Todd wanted to reignite the sense of purpose and community he felt while he was on active duty. After a trip to Yellow...
Jan 17, 2019•50 min•Season 1Ep. 23
This Employee Spotlight is on Anthony Ordway, Marine Aviation Crew Chief and Account Executive with RecruitMilitary.com. Anthony left the service a few months ago, working with Bradley-Morris as a candidate when we approached him about considering joining the team. In our conversation, we share some of his thoughts having recently become a civilian and what he's seen since coming to RecruitMiltiary to help other veterans find employment. He shares the story of one of his first placements, and hi...
Nov 13, 2018•32 min•Season 1Ep. 22
My guest today has followed a bit of a unique path out of uniform, Michael Saukulak is the founder of Composure Fitness, a personal fitness and nutritional consulting practice which specializes in progressive overload programming and nutrition optimization. Michael started his career in the Marine Corps as an intelligence officer after graduating from the Villanova ROTC program in 2012, he spent over three years stationed abroad in Japan supporting operations across seven Asian countries and var...
Nov 06, 2018•43 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Today I had an opportunity to interview Jesse Grothaus, the Dreamforce 2018 Veteran Entrepreneur of the Year. Jesse is the Founder and CEO of Cloud Pathfinder Consulting, a Salesforce consultancy dedicated to hiring veterans to solve clients’ problems within their software and database infrastructure. He is also a graduate of the Vetforce program, a free self-paced learning environment designed to give veterans job skills and certifications to begin a career within the Salesforce ecosystem. In t...
Oct 30, 2018•27 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Justine and Jason are both former military officers, currently working within different teams at The McChrystal Group, an advisory services and leadership development firm with a unique and diverse group of professionals. Their networked "Team of Teams" approach enables clients to adapt to their complex operating environments. In today's conversation, we discuss their service as officers within the United States Marine Corps, Justine in Logistics having graduated from the US Naval Academy and Ja...
Oct 23, 2018•52 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Today’s guest is Nic Chang, 2011 VMI graduate and former Army medical officer. Nic spent a lot of his career in Korea and at Fort Bragg in North Carolina before being medically retired due to an injury in training. Nic’s first experience with Bradley-Morris was as a candidate, attending our hiring conferences to network with employers to discover what role would be the best fit for his skills and interests. Nic is now a Consultant with the Bradley-Morris Recruit Military team, helping companies ...
Oct 16, 2018•38 min•Season 1Ep. 20
This episode profiles the transition of Jon Ferrell. Jon is a Senior Product Manager with an RF technology company in Greensboro, North Carolina. He works in the mobile device space, dealing with manufacturing, design, and optimization issues for a lot of the technology we take for granted every day. We dive into the idea of stress, how he handled large projects with lots of moving pieces in the military, and how that experience brought value to his post-military career in high tech manufacturin...
Aug 21, 2018•31 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Today's episode is a conversation with another podcast host, Justin Nassiri, host of the Beyond the Uniform podcast. Justin is also a Naval Academy alum and spent 5 years on submarines before heading to business school on the west coast at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. After finishing his MBA, he started a company and joined the ranks of other bay area entrepreneurs, developing solutions that blend the disciplines of photography, digital marketing and ecommerce, and social media. Jus...
Aug 14, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 17
This is my first guest who is also a veteran-oriented podcast host. Robert Graves, host of The Year of the Vet and author of How to Grow A Beard: A Military Transition Guide Back Into Civilian Life , sat down to talk to me not only about his transition process while leaving the Marine Corps 8 years ago, but also his experience talking and interacting with veterans on his own journey through civilian life and his academic career. Robert is currently completing an internship at West Point, focusin...
Jul 31, 2018•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Today's episode is with Vishal Amin, former Marine F/A-18 Aviator and current Microsoft Cloud Technology consultant with the Patriot Consulting Technology Group. Vishal focuses on securing data for organizations, ensuring their private and sensitive business information doesn't end up in the hands of the wrong people. Vishal's passion for data security and cloud systems comes from a very personal experience he went through on the active duty following a major data breach with the Office of Perso...
Jul 24, 2018•48 min•Season 1Ep. 15
