This is a follow-up with Jason to continue discussing his life and career. We talk about preparing for his first deployment, just a few years out of high school, and deploying to Lebanon and Afghanistan. 

Jason's Contact Information:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/witbeck/
• Email: [email protected]

Happy 4th of July!! This is a special episode with a fellow Tigard High School alum, Jason Witbeck. He was a Navy SEAL for over 10 years, part of legendary Team 3. We talk about his introduction to the SEAL teams at a young age, playing the video game SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs growing up, training for BUD/S in high school, and eventually his experience at the grueling selection process.  

Jason deployed to the middle east several times. Later in his career he was a BUD/S and CQB (Close Quarters Combat) instructor, while going to school for his MBA at USC. After he left the teams, he was part of a  variety of entrepreneurial opportunities, and eventually ended up working at the tech giant Amazon. 

Jason's Contact Information:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/witbeck/
Email: [email protected]

Kennard was born in Athens, Georgia and grew up in the Atlanta area. Kennard was raised by his father, who stepped up after being made aware of his birth. Sports and academics came natural to him, leading to several opportunities to play football at the college level. Kennard enrolled at Vanderbilt, but almost went to East Carolina after being hosted by Chris Johnson (CJ2K). He had an incredible welcome to college football moment at Michigan in the Big House . We talk about playing with and against many of the elite homegrown Georgia and SEC players of the late 2000s, such as Percy Harvin, Patrick Willis, Julio Jones, Tim Tebow, Cam Newton, and many more. Kennard and I met while working together as consultants at KPMG and talked about the transition from athletics to the corporate world. 

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kereeves28/
• IG: @nardo_atl

Born and raised in Baltimore, Chris had a humble childhood being exposed to substance abuse and death at an early age. The former high school quarterback always aspired to be a lawyer but didn’t focus on grades in high school and found himself at Baltimore City Community College after graduation. While there, he began to take his future seriously and transferred to the University of Maryland and later ended up receiving a partial scholarship to the Georgetown University Law School, after rigorously studying for the LSAT. After working in congress and at a few government agencies, he decided to pivot to real estate and moved to New York City to pursue a 100% commissions job.

• Chris' bio and contact: https://www.marcusmillichap.com/advisors/christopher-pappas
• Chris' book: https://www.nnn1031nyc.com/perfect-1031-book

Episode 001, Nick Hooyman. We are starting off deep. Nick is one of the nicest human beings you will ever meet and already has enough stories for two lifetimes. After attending 9 different colleges, he received a JD and LLM from two top-20 Law Schools, and is off to the races.  He started working in Tax Law in NYC, but his interest faded and found a partner to help build a Hedge Fund.  It did not take off as expected and with $450K+ of mounting law school debt, he moved back to Oregon. While experiencing his darkest times, he found a solution for his student loans, and established a six figure side hustle in real estate.

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Links for Nick:

• IG: nhooyman
• Email: [email protected]
• Nick's Preschool wholesale deal (+$133K): https://youtu.be/VUw0AO2S-YU
• Episode 1 of Nick's quick flip series ($134K):  https://youtu.be/628NkEAVpxs

The No Perfect Path Podcast sheds light on the various decisions and journeys that several high performing individuals have taken to find success and happiness in their life.

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