The Victory Podcast

Sean Matson is the CEO and co-founder of MATBOCK. Sean, a former Navy SEAL, and his team of former SEALS & other military members are working to revolutionize and innovate all kinds of products and gear; His company creates products that can be used by people in the military while at war, or simply just for hunting, camping or hiking.

How Successful is Sean Matson:

Sean describes himself as very successful; however, he views success in a different way than others. He explains his point of view by telling us that success is not a destination and hence, does not have an endpoint. He goes on to say that a homeless man who successfully gets himself a job is successful. He explains that having a goal in your mind and achieving it is a success.

He believes his successful transition from a career as a Navy SEAL spanning 13 years to a business owner is one of his most outstanding achievements. He also mentions his beautiful wife and declares their marriage a success as well. (paraphrased - https://bornrealist.com/sean-matson-is-innovating-military-products-other-gear/ 
by- Maryam Khan September 9, 2020

https://www.cardomax.com/
https://www.matbock.com/

Donald Vincent “Don” Davey (born April 8, 1968 in Scottsville, New York) is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the third round of the 1991 NFL Draft. He attended Manitowoc Lincoln High School where he played football. He played college football at Wisconsin. He currently owns Firehouse Subs restaurants in Wisconsin and Florida.

Disciplined Equity Management - https://www.demgt.com/
Senior Portfolio Manager Don Davey is the first and only four-time Academic All-American in NCAA history. After graduating with honors with both Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Don went on to play for nine seasons in the NFL with the Green Bay Packers and Jacksonville Jaguars. During his NFL career, he relied upon his extensive background in statistics to develop the firm's unique philosophy of Portfolio Engineering. Don launched DEM in July of 1998 in response to requests from investors seeking to duplicate his disciplined approach.

Don and his wife Kristen live in Atlantic Beach, Florida with their five daughters Livy, Carly, Kuki, Chloe, and Kasey. He is an avid triathlete and has completed eleven Ironman distance triathlons.

Kim Campbell is a retired Air Force Colonel who served in the Air Force for over 24 years as a fighter pilot and senior military leader. She has flown 1,800 hours in the A-10 Warthog, including more than 100 combat missions protecting troops on the ground in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2003, Kim was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for Heroism after successfully recovering her battle-damaged airplane after an intense close air support mission in Baghdad. 

As a senior military leader, Kim has led hundreds of Airmen both at home and abroad in deployed locations and enabled them to succeed in their missions. She has experience leading complex organizations and driving cultural change. Kim knows what it takes to be a successful leader, to inspire and empower high performing teams to achieve success. Kim is passionate about leadership and feels strongly that leaders earn trust by leading with courage and connecting with their team. 

Kim is a distinguished graduate from the United States Air Force Academy. As a Marshall Scholar, she earned an MBA from the University of London and a Master of Arts in International Security Studies from the University of Reading in England. 

Kim’s Air Force assignments include leadership roles as a Group Commander, responsible for over 1,000 Air Force personnel in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Kim also served as the Military Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, advising the number three civilian official in the Department of Defense on national security and defense policy formulation. She has also served as the Air Force Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a pre-eminent think tank promoting international leadership and engagement. During her time as a fellow, Kim participated in strategy sessions with ministers of defense, military leaders, and CEOs. Most recently, Kim served as the Director, Center for Character and Leadership Development at the Air Force Academy, responsible for the professional development of faculty and staff and reinforcing character and leadership programs within the 4,000-member Cadet Wing.

Kim resides in Colorado with her husband and two sons.

Episode 047:  Corinna Coffin, MS, RD, CSSD is a world class professional Obstacle Course Athlete and a physical phenom  in any category.  Corinna will be featured in the upcoming Spartan Games series airing in March 2022! 

Corinna Coffin is a sports dietitian, coach and hybrid athlete on a mission to help people lead healthier lives through nutrition and fitness. Corinna’s interest in nutrition started off as a personal pursuit to improve health and performance as a multi-sport athlete at Virginia Tech, where she received degrees in both Nutrition, Food & Exercise and Spanish. After graduating, Corinna competed professionally in the sport of obstacle course racing for 2 years before pursuing a master’s degree in sports nutrition at the University of Utah and becoming a licensed registered dietitian. 

Corinna’s affinity for sport and competition has remained steadfast over the last 7 years. During this time, she has podiumed at over 15 Spartan Races including the Spartan Race and Obstacle Course Racing World Championships, competed on a team at the CrossFit Games, been the Tough Mudder X and Spartan Stadion Series Champ, won the final season of Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge, and took second at last year’s inaugural Spartan Games. Despite her love for competing, Corinna’s top priority and passion is helping others through her remote nutrition coaching practice, RD Athlete Nutrition. Corinna currently lives in San Diego, CA with her husband.

Join us for this episode where Lauren shares her story of competitive passion that led her to the path of competing for the U.S. for three Olympics and serving as team captain for the 2012&2016 Women's Field Hockey Team!

We are proud to call Lauren a Victory Strategies Teammate. Her competitive drive and standards fro success fit right in with our team, and she also has completed 5, yes 5, SEAL Team "Challenges" (3-5 day workshops) learning to develop the SEAL Team Mindset. 

Lauren is one of our key partners leading Victory Strategies Team Building workshops.  I

If you would like to set up a discovery call about  our Team Building offerings. Please mail us [email protected]

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Lauren is a 3-time Olympian who has taken her lessons from the athletic field into the business world to earn success in a new industry.  She was a member of the U.S. Women’s National Field Hockey Team from 2005-2016 where she competed in the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Olympic Games.  She captained the team from 2011 - 2016 until she retired after the Rio Olympic Games.  

In her playing career she competed in 2 Pan American Games, winning gold in both the 2011 and 2015 Games, the 2014 World Cup where her team achieved a historic 4th place finish, was a gold medalist at the 2014 Champions Challenge, and won bronze at the 2016 Champions Trophy.  In 2014 Lauren was named an FIH Player of the Year nominee and twice selected to the All-Pan American Team.  While training for the Olympics, Lauren earned her Masters in Public Administration with an emphasis in Non-Profit Management from the Keller Graduate School of Management at DeVry University.

Before joining the National Team, Crandall attended Wake Forest University where she was a two-time National Champion, two-time ACC Champion, and 3-time All American.  In 2006 she was a Finalist for the Honda Award, the collegiate sport specific top honor. 

However, beyond the championships, honors and awards that show up in a biography, Lauren has navigated her learnings through the losses and failures that have defined her athletic career.  As a young captain asked to lead a team into an Olympic Games there were many failed moments that created opportunities for immense growth, many conflicts that developed emotional intelligence to better serve her team, and innumerable losses that forced her to transcend beyond the score board to learn about long-term winning from a leadership perspective.

Since retiring from her athletic career, Lauren has found value in sharing her stories of failure by teaching people how to evaluate losing as a normal process and apply the lessons learned into the next “game”.  Growth and development can be a painfully slow process but necessary to master in order to achieve high performance.  Everybody wants to win - but the hard part is putting in the time to understand the processes and mindset behind winning and that is the foundation of Lauren’s learnings.

Lauren now works in the insurance industry where she applies the parallels between succeeding as a team athlete and succeeding as part of a sales team. 

Rod Fox is the Managing Partner and Executive Chairman of TigerRisk Partners.  TigerRisk is a global reinsurance and capital advisory firm, working with a high-end group of insurers.

Prior to founding TigerRisk, Rod served as the Chief Executive Officer of Praetorian Financial Group where he led the re-structuring, re-branding, and successful sale of the $2B specialty property and casualty insurer to QBE the Americas.

Prior to PFG, Rod was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Benfield Group’s US reinsurance platform where he oversaw the profitable growth of the business while delivering industry leading trading margins.  He was a member of the Board of Benfield and was instrumental in their initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange.  He was also involved in numerous industry transactions, including the growth of Benfield’s capital markets advisory business, the first Florida JUA depopulation, a restructuring of Allstate Group’s catastrophe exposure, and the formation of Montpelier Re.

Rod started his career at E.W. Blanch Co., a privately held reinsurance intermediary.  He was involved in EWB’s initial public offering and enjoyed various positions within EWB; ultimately becoming President and Chief Operating Officer.

In conjunction with Jim Stanard, the former CEO of RenaissanceRe, Rod formed F&S Ventures in 2008, a privately-held insurance investment firm.

Rod holds the CPCU designation and is a graduate of Middlebury College and the Executive Risk Management Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  He serves on numerous industry boards and is active with the Navy SEAL Foundation.  He has also completed the half and full IRONMAN endurance races.

On this episode we dive into "Loco's" journey in the SEAL Teams, his passion for life and the year long out and back journey via RV that Loco and his family took after his retirement from the SEAL Teams.

Loco's Three H's
Hungry - Humble - Hard

Loco's Social media:
Travel Blog: https://loconani.com
Instagram: locofit24.7
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-uyboco-b3032311?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3B%2BZs%2FwFDtSGmlsv4rMiSzUA%3D%3D

Nikki's new business : Teamo Therapy 

Loco's Bio:
Mike completed a 20-year career as a Navy SEAL leading high performing teams in dynamic environments. He began his leadership journey just after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, garnering experience from the battlefields of the Middle East to the jungles of the Pacific. Throughout his military career he was mentored by some of America’s finest leaders which helped develop his own unique style of servant leadership.

Mike spent the last six years of his Naval career in a COO-equivalent role, helping senior leaders navigate complex decisions, developing actionable processes and procedures to ensure performance in crisis conditions, developing strategic partnerships within DOD, and managing the day-to-day operations of diverse 400-person organizations. The techniques he developed can be utilized to help any individual or organization achieve their full potential.

Mike excels in coaching for peak performance. As the top graduate in his SEAL training class, he understands the mindset required to achieve physical and mental mastery. Additionally, he spent over four years at the SEAL training center applying his hard-won knowledge to the assessment, selection and training of the next generation of elite warriors. He is passionate about sharing these best practices with individuals and teams from every fabric of society.

Today, he is determined to improve the lives of others by utilizing the tools he developed through his naval career. Since retiring, Mike has kept himself busy with personal training and serving on the board of a local non-profit. He is currently planning a one-year RV trip around the country to learn from the stories of others.

Michael is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and received his MBA at the University of San Diego.

In this episode Michael and I talk about his Race Across America  (RAAM) endeavor. (he is the first above-elbow amputee to complete RAAM )

We discuss racial issues in America and overcoming adversity through cooperation and unity with the non-profit he founded Run Bike Swim 4 Equality, where their mission is simple and straight forward: At Swim Bike Run 4 Equality Foundation we strive to increase diversity and inclusion in the sport of triathlon.
https://www.swimbikerun4equality.com/

Michael ask if you wish to contact or follow him on Social media that you do so through his foundation pages on:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/569332837056757
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swimbikerun4equality/

Michael "Dreamchaser" Smith's bio:

Michael first joined the military in September 1998. While working as a station commander stationed in Nashville, Tennessee, he was involved in a hit and run accident that left me with an above elbow amputation. Facing medical retirement, Michael made the 12 decision to fight for what he knew he wanted, which was to remain on active duty with the United States Army. 
After a lengthy rehabilitation, Michael fought his way to stay an active duty member despite having lost his arm by completing all physical agility and marksmanship assessments, often outperforming able-bodied soldiers. After a board review, Michael was allowed to remain on active duty, making him the first above-elbow amputee to return to active duty in the United States Army. 
It was during the process of fighting his way back to active duty that Michael discovered endurance sports. He was an athlete before joining the Army, so he was always very physically fit and competitive. Losing his arm, while difficult to process and maneuver, was not going to be something that would keep Michael from continuing to compete. He began with Spartan obstacle races, then moved into cycling and eventually triathlon. 
As an Elite Athlete Team Captain For USAT Ambassadorship Program, Michael is training to land a spot on the 2024 Paris Paralympic Team. Understanding that minorities (specifically black Americans) are underrepresented athletes in the sport of triathlon, Michael founded Swim Bike Run 4 Equality to bring more diversity to the sport. 
Michael is currently retired from the United States Armed Forces. Still, he will continue to pursue his dream of landing a spot on the United States Paralympic Triathlon Team with the assistance of PlayTri DFW and Coach Morgan Hoffman. 

On episode 042 of The Victory Podcast, I have the privilege and honor to host Colonel Matt Weinshel, US Army, Retired! Join us for a #real and #raw conversation about #life, #leadership, and #journey. Matt takes us on his journey from loosing his college fund  to joining the military through #ROTC to becoming an elite Pilot for the illustrious 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (AKA - TF-160), Matt walks us through the dynamics of leadership in new and austere environments and his development of "Leadership Through Empowerment".




Learn More and Connect with Matt:
https://www.victory-strategies.com/weinshel
linkedin.com/in/matt-weinshel-000a143

#leadershipdevelopment #leadershipcoaching #combatavation #pilot #ROTC #USAaviator #empoweredleader #empowerment #victorypodcast #victorystrategies 

Operation Sacred Promise! 

On episode 041 of The Victory Podcast, we have a conversation with Brigadier General Dave "Trashman" Hicks, US Air Force, Retired! Join us for a #real and #raw conversation about #life, #leadership, and #journey. Trashman and I dive into the veteran-directed effort that rose like a Phoenix out of the ashes of the U.S. hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan. General Hicks led immediately and took action to help get the hundreds of Afghanistan Air-Force Pilots and their families safely out of the country and resettled in the U.S. and other safe-havens. 65-minute episode.

#Accelerating-Leadership #afghanistan #veteranshelingveterans #opsacredpromise #operationpineapple 

https://opsacredpromise.org

https://www.reactdc.org

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