US Navy Veteran, Speaker, Live video marketing expert, Founder of 5 Minute Lives
Trish Leto
QUIN: Today we have another special guest. She is a US Navy veteran, a speaker, live video marketing expert and the founder of the 5 Minute Lives. With us today, we have Trish Leto. How’s it going, Trish?
TRISH LETO: Oh that was awesome. Thank you so much. Yes, it
is going fantastic. How are you doing today?
QUIN: I’m doing very good. So spring has arrived and how
beautiful is it where you are?
TRISH LETO: Oh my god. So I’m in Tampa Florida and the
weather is beautiful. However with the spring season in Tampa comes like just
sheets and sheets of pollen on our cars and in our sinuses. So my poor children
are just like, it’s just mucus everywhere. And as you know, you’ve got little
ones as well, when your little kids are running around with like that cold or
the allergies whatever, they’re just walking little Petri dishes. So the
weather is lovely but then everybody gets a cold.
QUIN: You know what, that bothers me so much when the little
ones are having a hard time breathing.
TRISH LETO: Oh it’s the worst because you like you can’t do
anything and they fight you, right? And for me, and my son he wakes and he
sneezes and I’m constantly having to wipe his nose. And then, you know the
little saline spray that you can put up their nose and like help flush it out.
He hates that. He hates it. So yeah we just went directly into parenting life
but yeah that’s what’s going on.
QUIN: Very good. Trish, so you’re a US Navy veteran. How
long were you in the Navy for?
TRISH LETO: I was in the Navy for 4 years. I was a
helicopter mechanic.
QUIN: Really.
TRISH LETO: Yeah, ’96 to 2000.
QUIN: Helicopter mechanic. Nice. So you actually worked on
helicopters, fixed them. Hammers and wrenches and all that kind of stuff?
TRISH LETO: Oh yeah, wrenches and hammers and power tools.
Yeah. I loved it. I really did. I was a Structural Mechanic, so I did sheet
metal repair, fiberglass repair, hydraulic system troubleshooting. But I was a
part of a detachment, so it was like all the different MOS’s basically like all
different people who you had… I worked with avionics people and the mechanic
people and you know, like all different specialties. So we all kind of work
together because you know, one helicopter everything kind of comes together,
right. So yeah, three years and then I got out.
QUIN: It’s fantastic that two days, ago I aired a podcast
where I interviewed the Crew Chief of the F16 for the US Air Force, Sean
Romero. And man, it is so exciting like you guys were working on some equipment
that is very expensive and like millions of dollars.
TRISH LETO: Oh my god yeah. Like even the hunks of junk that
I worked on, and I have to say it that way because we used to just… I mean,
they’re still around too, they’re still flying those damn things. CH-46 Deltas.
I mean it was like $33 Million aircraft. And then not to mention all the tools
that went into that too. But yeah I mean, I look back on that and think to
myself, “Geez, god almighty. I still can’t believe Uncle Sam put me responsible
to work on those damn things.” But I’m glad he did.
QUIN: You know what’s funny? I find that if army helicopter
compared to any other one,