Command Your Business - Military Veterans Entrepreneurs

David Grega talks about going from upper middle class Northern California upbringing to enlisting in the Army, Serving in Iraq, and then getting into the wine business and becoming a winemaker

Ron Adams took the skills he learned as a Drill Sergeant and Senior Noncomissioned Officer in the United States Army and applied them to becoming a Franchise Owner

Craig Candelore founder of Honoring Our Troops talks Veteran Entrepreneurship and his 32 year Army career

Powerful Interview with Army Veteran Bill McNeely on how he struggled with PTSD, refused to be a victim, and started Delivr to Me

Benjamin Kohlmann is a Combat tested F/A-18 naval aviator , Creator of Disruptive Thinkers and Chairman of the Defense Entrepreneurs Forum. Find out how he is bringing Entrepreneurship to the United States Navy

Tom Morkes is a World Traveling Online Entrepreneur. He is an Author and Founder of Insurgent Publishing as well as the Co-Founder of HighSpeedLowDrag.org. He is a West Point Graduate and an Iraq War Veteran. Tom gives great insight into getting started.

Matt Theriault, USMC Veteran, Real Estate Investor, Author, Success Coach and Host of the Epic Real Estate Investing Podcast and Do Over podcast.

Tim Lawson, Tim AKA LAWDOG is a former United States Marine, he is the Founder of Lawson Entertainment and is an award nominated podcast host with the Veteran Empire Podcast, and is the Founder of the 1,2 Many Project

Interview with U.S. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander Rorke Denver. Rorke is the New York Times Bestselling Author of the book Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior, Star of the hit movie Act of Valor while on Active Duty and has led special-forces missions in the Middle East to include Iraq and Afghanistan, Africa, Latin America and other international hot spots.

Interview with Mark Rockefeller. Mark is an Air Force Veteran and currently he is Co-Founder/CEO at StreetShares.com, a platform where select investors compete to invest in high-growth Veteran-owned and Main Street businesses.

Interview with U.S. Navy Officer Josh Steinman. Josh is currently serving on Active Duty and also serves as Founder of Penance Hall. Penance Hall recently completed a successful Kickstarter Campaign to produce premium quality, American Made, socks. Josh gives some great advice on how to be successful on Kickstarter.

Interview with Carl Churchill. Carl is a combat vet who served in the United States Army for over 21 years on Active Duty and in the Reserves going from Private to Lieutenant Colonel. Carl has a BA and MBA from the University of Utah and is a Graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College. He is currently the President and Co-Founder of Lock-n-Load Java – a Veteran Owned – No Compromise – Premium Coffee

Interview with USMC Veteran Eric Rine. Eric served 21 years in the Marine Corps and left to pursue his passion of brewing great beer. He is the President of Veteran Beer Company. Their Mission: The Veteran Beer Company is dedicated to providing lives of quality for military Veterans through the creation of meaningful post-service careers. The company will produce, sell, and deliver beers of superior quality, striving to employ Veterans in every role within the organization and the supply chain while adhering to the highest principles of military service, conducting business with integrity, courage, and loyalty.

Interview with Justen Garrity, United States Army Veteran and Founder of Veteran Compost. Justen talks about his journey from ROTC, to Sapper School to Korea and Iraq to the sacrifices he made to found Veteran Compost.

How I got started in 2013, and what I learned about Taking Action, Networking, and Seizing Opportunity 

Interview with Angela Cody-Rouget. Angela attended Indiana University, and upon graduation was commissioned as an Officer in the Air Force. Angela served for over 14 years on active duty and in the US Air Force Reserves. She has an MBA from University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.  Angela is the founder of Major Mom, which helps people live clutter-free and clean by clearing out their space and giving them a system that works for them.

Interview with Dan Brillman, Air Force Pilot, Yale and Columbia Business School Graduate, and CEO-Founder of Unite Us  a hyper-local community management platform that connects military veteran communities to peers, supporters, and all resources through interactive mapping technology.

In Episode 19, I interviewed former USMC Officer Zach Iscol. Zach is the Founder and CEO of  HirePurpose, an online career and staffing company that matches military vet talent with civilian career opportunity. He is also the executive director of The Headstrong Project, a non-profit partnered with Weill Cornell Medical Center to fund and develop comprehensive mental healthcare programs to treat Iraq and Afghanistan veterans free of cost, stigma, and bureaucracy.

Interview with Aaron Kletzing, Co-Founder RallyPoint. Aaron began his career as a US Army officer and served 5 years on active duty. Aaron is a veteran of OIF 07-09 and as of 2010, is also a survivor of Iraq-related cancer. Aaron holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from West Point,. After completing his first year at Harvard Business School in June 2012, Aaron was selected as a Fellow at HBS’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. He is currently postponing his final year in the MBA program to help lead RallyPoint.

Interview with David Young. David is Co-Founder of Bounce Imaging, which is developing low-cost throwable cameras, and sensors that transmit panoramic images and data to your mobile device. He is a graduate of University of Michigan with a BS in Statistics. He is a former Army Officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne Division and 3rd Ranger Battalion.  David earned his MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management