The Transition by Bunker Labs

I respond to a listener’s question requesting advice as he prepares for his transition in 2024. 

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In this episode of the Transition, I’m joined by Army Veteran and Executive Coach Charlie Gilkey, Founder of Productive Flourishing, which helps creators, business owners, and leaders thrive, through award-winning tools and services. Additionally, Charlies is also the author of “The Small Business Lifecycle: A Guide for Taking the Right Steps at the Right Time” and “Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done.” On the show, Charlie opens up about the reality of building a sustainable business for the long haul, including navigating the ebbs and flows, avoiding shiny object syndrome, and making sure you take care of yourself along the way. This is a powerful conversation to remind you what lies ahead, especially for those of you early in your journey.

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On this episode of The Transition, I share a framework to help you drive revenue now. There’s no magic pill for revenue, but what you can do is build a repeatable process that puts you in the best possible position to get it. 

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On this episode of the Transition, I’m joined by Bunker Labs Ambassador Courtney Zaugg, Founder & CEO of Plaka Associates, an Indiana based economic developing consulting firm that collaborates with innovators in economic development to design entrepreneurship-led strategies that shape talent, community, and industry ecosystems. She’s also the Co-Founder of Zinc Contractors, a commercial and residential general contracting firm, she runs alongside her husband. Those of us that live in major metropolitan areas like New York City, San Francisco, and Austin, just to name a few, are accustomed to world class ecosystems and resources. Outside of them, what does economic development actually look like? Courtney and I discuss this and so much more on today’s show. 

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Do you know your brands category? Specifically how customers are positioning you in their mind? If not, this is an episode you don’t want to miss.

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We’re kicking off the New Year with Army Veteran and Bunker Labs Ambassador, Vic Hill, CEO of Hillvision, a boutique, family-owned holding firm that features a diverse portfolio of companies, including real estate, technology, and media, just to name a few. Vic recently secured a 100k pre-seed investment for his tech startup, My Ruck, an API service that enables corporate partners to provide their customers with real time analysis of their military benefits profile. On the show, Vic discusses My Ruck , his long term plan for HillVision,and how he manages to keep things running smoothly, while running multiple businesses. 

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Find out more about MyRuck at: https://www.myruck.ai/

Today, we’re celebrating a huge accomplishment here at Bunker Labs, and that’s 100 Episodes in the book for The Transition. I’d like to personally thank each and everyone of you for tuning into this show, and supporting our efforts to build the next generation of veteran military spouse entrepreneurs. I’d also like to give a special shoutout to our audio engineer, CJ Hughes, who works hard behind the scenes to make this show possible and who has been with me from the very beginning. 

So for today, I thought I would celebrate 100 episodes by flipping the Mike and allowing myself to be interviewed, by one of my closest friends, Glenn Moyer. Glenn reached out to interview me for his MBA class at The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, earlier this summer, in order to discuss my entrepreneurial journey. As the saying goes, “the path to success isn’t a straight line. There’s been a lot of pivots, along with  bumps and bruises, to get to where I am now, so I thought I’d lift the veil for everyone, by sharing my story. 

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On this episode of the Transition, I talk about why spreading yourself too thin is holding you back and what to do about it. 

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Today on the Transition, I sit down with Army Veteran and Expert EOS Implementer, Chris Hallberg, Author of The Business Sergeant’s Field Manual: Military Grade Business Execution Without The Yelling and Pushups. Although we’ve already done a crash course on EOS in a previous episode, which is short for The Entrepreneurs Operating System first coined by Gino Wickman, I wanted to revisit it with Chris to share his insights, as someone who helped companies implement EOS for over a decade. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, a business without an operating system is like an undisciplined baby. To get a grip on it and make it run for you, not the other way around, you need an operating system. On the show, Chris walks us through each step of the Traction Framework and how to implement it in your own business. 

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On this episode of the Transition, I’m joined by Army Veteran and CEO Circle Alumni, Miles Murray, Co-Founder of  Locoal Charcoal Company, A Waste to Energy climate technology company with a mission to change the way the world looks at waste. Utilizing their proprietary mobile containerized fluidized gasifier, Locoal positively impacts the world by diverting waste, converting it to clean energy while capturing carbon in value-added co-products.

On the show,  Miles discusses his die-hard passion for sustainability, what led him to eventually make the entrepreneurial leap and go all in his venture full-time, and the realities of Hard Tech Entrepreneurship, something we haven’t covered on The Transition, until now. 

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