Veteran On the Move

105: Marine Veteran Laurie Sayles Artis worked her way through Corporate America for over 20 years after getting out of the Marine Corps in the early 90's, before discovering her entrepreneurial opportunity in government contracting.  The government likes to do business with those they know, like and trust.

Laurie S. Artis is the President & CEO of Civility Management Solutions, providing professional services as SBA (8a), SD Veteran, and ED/Woman Owned Small Business. She served 10 years as a Woman Marine during Grenada, Lebanon and Desert Storm and has won the SBA SCORE 2015 Award for Services and the 2015 Resiliency Award with the Women Veteran Campaign. She testified to the U.S. Senate Small Business Committee on Veteran Entrepreneurship and serve as 1st elected Woman Officer on the Veteran Entrepreneurship Task Force Committee. Ms. Artis received a degree from UMUC and have attended many entrepreneur trainings.

Civility Management Solutions

Veteran entrepreneurship programs discussed in this episode:

Veterans Institute for Procurement

Women Veterans Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship

Service Corps of Retired Executives

Kauffman Fasttrac

The Veteran On the Move podcast has published over 100 episodes giving listeners the opportunity to hear in-depth interviews conducted by host Joe Crane featuring the people, programs and resources to assist veterans in their transition to entrepreneurship:  Marine Corps, Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard veterans, DOD, entrepreneurship, business, success, military spouse, transition, education, programs and resources.  Veteran On the Move has garnered over 500,000 listens verified through Stitcher Radio, Sound Cloud, Itunes and RSS Feed Syndication making it one of the most popular Military Entrepreneur Shows on the Internet Today.

104: Translating military skills to the corporate world and using the power of stories to relate military experience to adding value.  Veterans have great soft skills.  Chad is the author of two books: (1) Combat Leader to Corporate Leader and (2) Battlefield to Business Success. Chads brand message is that organizations & individuals need to translate and apply military skills to business because they immediately produce results and are cost effective. Chad is a retired US Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel with 20+ years of Active and Reserve service in infantry, Special Forces, and joint headquarters units. He served in Iraq, Bosnia, Korea, and throughout the United States. He was awarded the Bronze Star, the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Special Forces Tab, and the Ranger Tab. Chad is an adjunct Lecturer of Marketing at Creighton University in Omaha, NE. In addition to teaching, he is a mid-level marketing executive and has worked in marketing and sales roles for various companies, including General Electric, Comcast, and Manugistics. He has been published in over 80 publications including The Harvard Business Review blog, Business Week Online, Forbes, Christian Science Monitor, and USA Today. He has a BA from Northwestern University and an MBA from Georgetown University.

The Veteran On the Move podcast has published over 100 episodes giving listeners the opportunity to hear in-depth interviews conducted by host Joe Crane featuring the people, programs and resources to assist veterans in their transition to entrepreneurship:  Marine Corps, Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard veterans, DOD, entrepreneurship, business, success, military spouse, transition, education, programs and resources.  Veteran On the Move has garnered over 500,000 listens verified through Stitcher Radio, Sound Cloud, Itunes and RSS Feed Syndication making it one of the most popular Military Entrepreneur Shows on the Internet Today.

103: Veteran workforce readiness and how employers can better understand veteran skills sets

- How large and small businesses can hire and retain veterans and help them succeed in the workforce

Work After Service: Developing Workforce Readiness and Veteran Talent for the Future.

Navy Spouse and Clinical Psychologist Debbie Bradbard, PH.D is a Senior Research Associate at IVMF at Syracuse University focused on veteran and military spouse employment and military financial readiness and transition. She served as the Director of Research and Policy at Blue Star Families and one of the primary authors of the 2013 and 2014 Blue Star Families Annual Lifestyle Survey. Her work on military families and military financial literacy have been cited by the White House, members of Congress, CNN, the Center for Deployment Psychology, and the Defense Center of Excellence (DCoE). Dr. Bradbard previously worked as a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton developing products focused on military mental health issues including PTSD, suicide, substance abuse, and traumatic brain injury. Dr. Bradbard received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Auburn University.The Institute for Veterans and Military Families, with the generous financial support and collaboration of USAA, is exploring the topic of workforce readiness as it relates to transitioning service members and veterans in the civilian labor force.  This research is a valuable resource for any transitioning service member and their spouse and much of it directly relates to why Veteran make great entrepreneurs.

Upon military separation, veterans often enter the civilian workforce to either extend their career in a similar civilian role or embark on an entirely new and unrelated career path. The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) with the generous financial support and collaboration of USAA, is exploring the topic of workforce readiness as it relates to transitioning service members and veterans in the civilian labor force.

This paper marks the first in a series of short Workforce Readiness Briefs that will cover several related topics such as: · understanding how the concept of workforce readiness applies to transitioning service members and veterans; · examining interactions between career preferences, job matching, performance, and retention; · exploring the links between financial readiness, spouse employment, and workforce readiness; and · employer perspectives on workforce readiness and key factors and practices that influence retention and job satisfaction among veteran employees

Veteran workforce readiness and how employers can better understand veteran skills sets, and prepare for a civilian career. This is the first in a series of four papers that will discuss several veteran workforce readiness topics including, financial readiness, job matching and workplace performance among others.

How large and small businesses can hire and retain veterans and help them succeed in the workforce.

Key findings from the first paper“Work After Service: Developing Workforce Readiness and Veteran Talent for the Future.”

What initiatives large and small business owners can put in place to understand, attract, and develop veteran talent in their workforce.

What knowledge, skills, and abilities veterans can bring to the civilian workplaces; specifically, to small businesses.

The Veteran On the Move podcast has published over 100 episodes giving listeners the opportunity to hear in-depth interviews conducted by host Joe Crane featuring the people, programs and resources to assist veterans in their transition to entrepreneurship:  Marine Corps, Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard veterans, DOD, entrepreneurship, business, success, military spouse, transition, education, programs and resources.  Veteran On the Move has garnered over 500,

102: $100,000 a month selling private label products on Amazon with Marine Veteran and Amazon seller Paul Miller.

Marine veteran Paul Miller was originally on Episode 47 of Veteran On the Move and is now back to tell us about his entrepreneurial struggles and how tough  times eventually led him to success as he managed to sell $100,000 worth of products on Amazon in one month.  Paul has been a long time entrepreneur and had many successes and failures over the years.  Today he tells us about his most recent successful venture into the exciting world of private label selling on Amazon.

Paul is the producer of The Private Label Podcast with Kevin Rizer.  Check out the podcast here and learn how to start your Amazon business.

https://privatelabelpodcast.com/

The Veteran On the Move podcast has published over 100 episodes giving listeners the opportunity to hear in-depth interviews conducted by host Joe Crane featuring the people, programs and resources to assist veterans in their transition to entrepreneurship:  Marine Corps, Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard veterans, DOD, entrepreneurship, business, success, military spouse, transition, education, programs and resources.  Veteran On the Move has garnered over 500,000 listens verified through Stitcher Radio, Sound Cloud, Itunes and RSS Feed Syndication making it one of the most popular Military Entrepreneur Shows on the Internet Today.

101: Jenn Pilcher started Military One Click to provide information and resources to military families on the issues of PCS, jobs and moving.  Jenn wanted to create one place to go for all issues related to military relocation that aggregated the vast amount of information, made it easy to navigate and easy to find.  Military One Click also brings military families in touch with the services and resources of the local civilian community.  In just 5 years, Jenn grew her idea into a vibrant and successful business that she eventually sold to a large company that hired her back to still run the business.

Strategic Military Communications, LLC, provides firsthand expertise in communication strategies, social business and technology for the public and private military space. Founded in 2012, SMC is a woman-owned small business led by Jennifer Pilcher, one of the nation’s foremost experts on military families. Ms. Pilcher combined her personal background as a military spouse for over 18 years with her professional experiences in communication, and launched SMC. Ms. Pilcher developed SMC as the solution for organizations looking to work with a company that understands the military community demographic, the military consumer and the military lifestyle. Ms. Pilcher is also the Founder of MilitaryOneClick.com, a premier online resource for active duty military, reservists, veterans, and their families connecting them to companies in the civilian sector such as; The U.S. Chamber Hiring Our Heroes Program, MetLife TriCare Dental Program, The Amazon Military Talent Program, La Quinta Inns & Suites, The Sittercity Department of Defense Program, USAA and more.

The Veteran On the Move podcast has published over 100 episodes giving listeners the opportunity to hear in-depth interviews conducted by host Joe Crane featuring the people, programs and resources to assist veterans in their transition to entrepreneurship:  Marine Corps, Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard veterans, DOD, entrepreneurship, business, success, military spouse, transition, education, programs and resources.  Veteran On the Move has garnered over 500,000 listens verified through Stitcher Radio, Sound Cloud, itunes and RSS Feed Syndication making it one of the most popular Military Entrepreneur Shows on the Internet Today.

100: Girl Smarts.  Instilling confidence in our young women is one of the most dramatic ways we can make a positive impact on the next generation.  Army Veteran Dianna Flett created Girl Smarts after hearing from her sons about the challenges young teenage girls are facing in the middle school.

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Girl Smarts is a series of workshops designed to give our young girls motivation and skills to move forward with confidence and strength in the years ahead.

The Girl Smarts approach combines straight talk and fun activities to bring home the reality of being in control and staying in control as our youth face the challenges of today's world.

http://www.girlsmarts.com

Our workshops focus on the types of issues our young ladies are facing RIGHT NOW in their lives. We look at topics like body image, bullying, relationships, self image, leadership goal setting and more; our seminar leaders work with your girls to help them understand things of importance they face today and will certainly face tomorrow. Please explore our pages and learn what our program is all about!

Dianna Flett is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel having served for 21 years in various positions of increasing responsibility as a military intelligence officer. The majority of her time in the Army was spent in the tactical arena. She has lived all over the world and travelled extensively in the Middle East. Dianna is a combat veteran of Desert Shield/Desert Storm receiving several awards during her service including the Bronze Star for her work with deployed units in the desert in the 90's. After the birth of her fourth son, Dianna decided to leave active duty service after 21 years, and focus her energies on her family as her children's PTO President. She then worked with the FBI as the team leader of a group of professionals teaching leadership and management strategies to supervisory intelligence analysts as part of a training team based in Quantico. In 2009 she and an elementary school counselor started a program to support the strengthening and motivation of 4th an 5th grade girls prior to the start of their middle school years. The program, Girl Smarts is designed to elevate, motivate and strengthen the girls sense of self. The program has grown from it's original 24 girls in one public school and is now in several counties in Virginia reaching hundreds of girls each school year. Dianna's goal is to get every school girl the skills Girl Smarts offers making them everyday leaders in today's world.

The Veteran On the Move podcast has published over 100 episodes giving listeners the opportunity to hear in-depth interviews conducted by host Joe Crane featuring the people, programs and resources to assist veterans in their transition to entrepreneurship:  Marine Corps, Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard veterans, DOD, entrepreneurship, business, success, military spouse, transition, education, programs and resources.  Veteran On the Move has garnered over 500,000 listens verified through Stitcher Radio, Sound Cloud, itunes and RSS Feed Syndication making it one of the most popular Military Entrepreneur Shows on the Internet Today.

98: Joey Williams opens up about his struggles with the Veterans Administration after a serious injury and his quest to get back on track after a long fight with prescription pain medications. Joey got involved in art as a form of therapy and discovered that other veterans were in need of services to help them explore their artistic abilities. Joey Williams is a former Sergeant in the Marine Corps, now artist, and CEO and founder of The Endowment for Veterans' Art Campaign and the non-profit Operation: Art. Since leaving the Marine Corps, Joe has found new purpose in helping veterans achieve their aspirations in art by helping provide resources and services to those in need. Whether that be to use art as a means of self-therapy or for more professional practices.

The Veteran On the Move podcast has published over 100 episodes giving listeners the opportunity to hear in-depth interviews conducted by host Joe Crane featuring the people, programs and resources to assist veterans in their transition to entrepreneurship:  Marine Corps, Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard veterans, DOD, entrepreneurship, business, success, military spouse, transition, education, programs and resources. Veteran On the Move has garnered over 500,000 listens verified through Stitcher Radio, Sound Cloud, Itunes and RSS Feed Syndication making it one of the most popular Military Entrepreneur Shows on the Internet Today.

97: Alex has always been driven to the ocean. He is an active duty Senior Chief in the Navy and has started San Diego's highest Yelp rated private Stand Up Paddle Board instructional company: Liquid Stand Up Paddle. Recently in March of 2015 he founded the 501(c)(3) non-profit: One More Wave Surf Corp. The Mission of One More Wave is to provide wounded or injured veterans with surfboards customized to their injury. Alex lives in San Diego with his wife Brittney and their dog Chico.

https://www.facebook.com/1MWave/

http://www.onemw.org/

96: Danny Rubin is a communications expert and author of the new book, Wait, How Do I Write This Email, a collection of 100+ templates for networking, the job search and LinkedIn. For more of Danny's insights and sample templates from the book, visit his blog, News To Live By (newstoliveby.net), which highlights the career advice and the latest headlines. Follow him on Twitter at @DannyHRubin

95: Byron was a Captain in the United States Marine Corps and a graduate of the United States Naval Academy. His six years of active duty included one deployment to Iraq and two company commands. After the military, he started SuccessVets.com to provide resources to service members through articles, videos, and podcasts covering career transitions, entrepreneurship, and personal development. His book, Barracks To Boardrooms, teaches veterans how to negotiate their salaries in their careers after the military.

Get Byron Chen's Book Barracks to Boardrooms