American Heroes Radio

The June 25, 2015, episode of American Heroes Radio features a conversation with Erica Trejo the Director of Military Families are Resilient at Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services.  Erica Trejo is a Licenses Family Marriage Therapist and the Director of Military Families are Resilient at Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services.  She is also a recent recipient of the National Council for Behavior Health’s Rising Star Award.

The May 28, 2015, episode of American Heroes Radio features a conversation with retired Marine Corps General John Admire.

Major General John Admire, USMC (ret.)  "is a Vietnam and Gulf War Marine. His 43-year United States Marine Corps career includes 33 years of active duty and 5 combat tours as an Infantry Marine, plus 10 years as a consultant and advisor with the US Joint Forces Command and Military Academy Headmaster. He commanded units world-wide at every level from an Infantry Platoon Leader in Vietnam to the Commanding General, 1st Marine Division in California. He served as the Senior Military Social Aide to the President of the United States at the White House, as the Marine Corps' Legislative Liaison to the United States Congress on Capitol Hill, and as a member of General Colin Powell's Joint Staff in the Pentagon. John is an Oklahoman, born and reared in Tulsa. He is a Phi Beta Kappa and Honors graduate of the University of Oklahoma with one Bachelor's and four Master's degrees."  Major General John Admire is the author of Darker than Dark.

The May 21, 2015, episode of American Heroes Radio features a conversation with Captain Chris DiGiuseppi, Saint Louis Lake Police Department, and Mike Wilkerson, the creators of the podcast What Cops Watch.

About the Guests

What Cops Watch is a podcast that provides reviews and a law enforcement perspective on popular film and television.

Chris DiGiuseppi is an award winning and local bestselling author from his first novel, The Light Bringer and has been traditionally published five times.  Chris has over 20 years in Law Enforcement at various levels up to and including Assistant Chief of Police. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and Northwestern University School of Police Staff Command. He is trained in various aspects of Law Enforcement and holds degrees in Human Resources and Business Administration.  Chris lives with his wife and children in Missouri.

Mike Wilkerson has been creating podcast content for over a decade. In that time, he has provided the capture, edit, and promotion for all manner of skill sets, perspectives and more that inform, education and create legacies. After creating one of the most prolific podcast networks online, Mike continues to look for people with unique perspectives to share their stories with audiences that number more than 4 million annually. Mike, originally from the great white north of Wisconsin, now resides in St. Louis Missouri where he and his family enjoy Cardinal baseball, toasted ravioli, and all things cinematic.

The May 14, 2015, episode of American Heroes Radio features a conversation with Josh Weddell, police officer, military veteran and motivational speaker.

 

Program Date:  May 14, 2015

Program Time: 1500 hours, PACIFIC

Topic: Becoming an Effective and Powerful Public Speaker

About the Guest

Josh Weddell as 19 years of experience in public service.  He has been a volunteer firefighter, is a military veteran and now a police officer.  Josh is also the owner ofNever Give Up Solutions, providing “speeches to motivate, encourage, inspire, team work and stress management to all types of audiences.”

Paul McFadden is Chief Operations Officer and Co-Founder of Zero Point Leadership™, a science-based leadership development & coaching firm with foundations in neuroscience, intelligent stress management and social intelligence. He co-developed the neuroLeader System™ and is Co-Founder of neuroLeader University™, a virtual brain-based leadership development academy. He is also Adjunct Faculty with OPM's Center for Leadership Development (OPM-CLD), the Federal Executive Institute (FEI) and the Eastern Management Development Center (EMDC) where he teaches mid – executive level government leaders the Neuroscience of Leadership & the Science of Resilience.

Paul has been exemplifying leadership excellence for over (20) years in the Private, Public and Volunteer sectors. He is recognized in the leadership development community for his innate ability to help leaders, teams and organizations solve their most challenging problems through the integration of strategies and techniques grounded in science-based research from the fields of social cognitive & affective neuroscience, stress resilience, and social intelligence with cutting-edge coaching, leadership development and change management capacities and best practices.

Paul earned his Bachelor of Science degree at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, NY, one of the (5) US Federal Service Academies and was honorably discharged from the US Navy Reserve/Merchant Marine Reserve in 1992 after (4) years of military service.

He earned his Result Professional Coach Certification (RPCC) from the NeuroLeadership Group, earned his Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credentials from the International Coach Federation (ICF) and is a HeartMath® Certified Trainer through the Institute of HeartMath®. Paul also holds active PMP® and ITIL® Expert certifications as well as has been trained in Black Belt Six Sigma Methodologies.

The February 19, 2015, episode of American Heroes Radio features a conversation with former United States Marine, and Founder and Managing Director for Budget Blinds of Fulshear, Texas, Cedric Cook.

Cedric Cook is the Founder and Managing Director for Budget Blinds of Fulshear serving areas West of Houston Texas. Cedric is supported by wife (Rita) who also serves as a Managing Director and they have two children (Tiara and Bryson). Cedric founded Budget Blinds of Fulshear in October 2014 after spending more than 19 years working in Information Technology.  Prior to launching a Budget Blinds franchise, he has maintained a thriving career with IBM Corporation for more than 11 years and also spent 2 years with Dell Computers, just to name a few.  Cedric’s excitement for entrepreneurialism was induced by his experiences in the corporate workforce and foundation in military leadership principals.

Throughout his career, Cedric has always maintained close ties with Military service members as recognition of his own personal journey to succeed in life. Cedric attributes his success to the sound leadership principals which were fostered through his service in the U.S. Marine Corps and a strong work-ethic which was instilled by his parents.

Cedric believes that his military experience enabled him to achieve his goal of leading and managing cross-functional and geographically dispersed organizations in Fortune 500 companies.   Cedric is confident that this experience will also translate into operating a very successful Budget Blinds franchise.

Cedric holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems and a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA). In 2006, Cedric was named, “Modern Day Technology Leader” by Career Communications Group, Inc. In 2010, Cedric was featured in a news story on WRAL, Raleigh, NC for his involvement with Veteran’s mentorship programs.

Paul Avallone, USA "spent three-plus years in Afghanistan as a Green Beret then an embedded civilian journalist." Paul Avallone is the author of Tattoo Zoo: A Novel of the Afghan War.

According to the book description Tattoo Zoo "is a novel that could only have been written by a veteran of more than three years in the Afghan War -- as a Green Beret then a civilian embedded journalist. America's longest war is compressed into a charged forty-six hours with the GIs of the Tattoo Zoo platoon trapped fighting a fierce Taliban in a nowhere piece of picturesque real estate called Wajma Valley, as they are left hung out to dry by a politically correct four-star command hell-bent on prosecuting them for war crimes or just letting them die in place.

You will be taken into the heart and soul of the American soldier -- from private to general. You will be with the soldiers, you will be with the command, and you will be swept into the Afghan War on a visceral level of extreme verisimilitude.  If you've been in the war, you will recognize and feel those hours and days and months, and you will want others to read this to understand what you lived.

If you haven't been to the war and only know Afghanistan from blips you've seen on TV news, It will put you there, and you'll know it.  No need here to detail the characters, but you can count on remembering Wolfe and Doc Eberly and Redcloud and St Claire and Dove and Finkle and Victoria Marshall and a whole slew more. This is a big novel, and not meant for the casual reader expecting some throw-away weekend-read thriller. There is nothing pretentious or artificially artistic or overly intellectual about the language here; just the opposite, the reading is easy. In fact, there's enough character and story and conflict here that there's no need for false literary styling meant to impress other writers and professors of hoity-toity MFA programs."

The January 15, 2015, episode of American Heroes Radio features a conversation with former Marine Captain and Afghanistan War Veteran, Brad Jones the author of Black Walls Turn Gray.

Brad Jones is a "former captain and a Marine veteran of the Afghanistan War. Born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, he grew up in Salt Lick, a small town in Northeast Kentucky. He graduated from Morehead State University, University of Louisville and Sullivan University with degrees in Political Science and Business. Joining the service in October 2000, he served in the 1st Battalion 6th Marines and in the 6th Marine Regiment, and was deployed to Okinawa, South Korea, Japan, Liberia and, in 2004, Afghanistan. He is a member of a local Marine Corps League detachment. Today, he resides in Lexington and is the father of a 7-year-old daughter. Writing this book was a transformative experience for him, and he hopes to help other veterans and their families by using this novel to spread awareness and support for PTSD. He is available for interviews and events."  Brad Jones is the author of Black Walls Turn Gray.

The January 8, 2015, episode of American Heroes Radio features a conversation with Rear Admiral Dave Oliver, United States Navy (ret.), the author of Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy.

Rear Admiral Dave Oliver, USN (Ret.) is "a 1963 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who spent thirty-two years in the Navy, served at sea on board both diesel-electric and nuclear submarines, commanded a nuclear submarine, and served as chief of staff of the Seventh Fleet. His final military tour was as principal deputy to the civilian Navy acquisition executive. During the Clinton administration he was Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics and in the Bush administration he was the director of management and budget for the Coalition Forces in Iraq. After leaving the Navy he was the CEO of the EADS, North America Defense Company as well as an executive at Northrop Grumman and Westinghouse. He now lives in Northern California."   Rear Admiral Dave Oliver is the author of Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy.