To all the brave men and women out there still protecting our freedom 🇺🇸 🫡     
Retired COL Ray Kimball from the United States Military Academy West Point joins me to talk about his retirement, starting a business, a ton of books (some he wrote and others he is just reading), and relentless gratitude toward others.  
⌚ 0:00 - Intro 
⌚ 2:31 - Morning Routines - NY Times Crosswords 
⌚ 7:50 - Throwing out all the obligations and doing what you want 
⌚ 10:24 - How I joined the military - traveling the world as an Army brat 
⌚ 13:50 - The retirement process 
⌚ 17:25 - How I created my own exit from the military and what I wanted to leave behind - The magical continuity book - Microsoft OneNote 
⌚ 23:22 - what is your legacy? 
⌚ 25:34 - Thoughts on Space A 
⌚ 27:37 - My retirement gift to myself - World Scout Moot and the gift of gratitude 
⌚ 31:21 - IAVA - BDD 
⌚ 33:42 - Benefits Delivery at Discharge issues 
⌚ 35:00 - Planning for after retirement - How do you get started with educational games? 
⌚ 43:16 - Retirement re-integration 
⌚ 44:10 - Chatting with my 16 year old self 
⌚ 47:26 - Navigating the muddy waters of life at 16 
⌚ 49:042 - Thoughts on Mentoring - from steely eyed killer to loggie and working with Obama Whitehouse staff 
⌚ 54:19 - A Ted Talk to transitioning members of the military 
⌚ 1:02:37 - What message would you want put out into the world? The rule of 33% 
⌚ 1:03:37 - What do you think about personal branding? 
⌚ 1:07:44 - What is your hourly rate? and Anything you want 
⌚ 1:08:32 - What is 42edgames? 
⌚ 1:11:11 - Games for mentorship - The Reacting Consortium 
⌚ 1:13:06 - What exactly is editing? 
⌚ 1:16:47 - How would you spend 10 million dollars? 
⌚ 1:21:27 - The gift of gratitude - giving back 
⌚ 1:22:50 - Success in scouting 
⌚ 1:23:55 - Closing comments - find people who don't look like you 
⌚ 1:25:29 - How to find Ray online 
⌚ 1:26:28 - Outro 
Books: 
📚 Army Guides to Mentoring - https://juniorofficer.army.mil/the-guides-to-army-mentoring/
📚 Good to Great - https://www.jimcollins.com/books.html
📚 how people learn - https://www.amazon.com/How-People-Learn-Experience-Expanded/
📚 making history - https://www.amazon.com/Making-History-Storytellers-Shaped-Past/
📚 Rank Absurity - https://www.amazon.com/Rank-Absurdity-Irreverent-Military-Memoir-ebook/
📚 Anything You want - https://sive.rs/a
📚 Teaching and Learning the West Point Way - https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780367685867/  
📚 British Journal for Military History - https://bjmh.gold.ac.uk/index 
Links: 
🔗 NY Times Crossword Site - https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords
🔗 calculate your hourly rate - https://www.neilstrauss.com/neil/every-second-counts/
🔗 Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Sherwood-Randall
🔗 Microsoft Onenote - https://www.onenote.com
🔗 World Scout Moot - https://www.scouting.org/international/world-scout-moot/
🔗 Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America - https://iava.org/
🔗 The Reacting Consortium - https://reacting.barnard.edu/about-reacting 🔗 The British Journal for Military History - https://bjmh.gold.ac.uk/🔗 what is a Dramaturge? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramaturge🔗 Grand Canyon Council - https://www.grandcanyonbsa.org/🔗 Scouting USA - https://beascout.scouting.org/ The Reahttps://42ed.games@edgames @armymentoring     Thanks to my recording platform of choice: Riverside.fm #riversidefm for their amazing software https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_2&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=john-mcconnell   All of my recording/editing equipment can be found here: https://kit.co/Chief_McConnell/john-mcconnell   some links may result in commissions for the site