Veteran On the Move

94: Kirk Coco is a native of New Orleans, who spent 11 years in the United States Navy serving as a Surface Warfare Officer.  During his commission he served as the Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer of the USS CHOSIN, Chief Engineer of the USS PELICAN, Operations Officer of the USS CAMDEN and served onboard the USS RONALD REAGAN as Tactical Action Officer/Readiness Officer for Destroyer Squadron Seven.  Kirk chose to leave the Navy in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to return to New Orleans and help in the rebuilding and renewal of the city. After a short career with Capital One Bank, Kirk began his initial dream of bringing production and manufacturing back to New Orleans, founding NOLA Brewing Company in 2008. Since Dixie's departure from the city in 2005, NOLA Brewing is the only operating production brewery in Orleans Parish. In May 2015 Kirk began work on NOLA Distilling Company, a craft distillery located just 8 blocks from NOLA Brewery which will produce Vodka, Gin and Whiskeys for the New Orleans cocktail scene.

Kirk is a founding member of the Louisiana Beer Board, a group whose mission is to bring the best craft brewed beers into Louisiana and increase the knowledge and availability of craft brewed beers to New Orleans, as well as the State of Louisiana. He is also a founding member of the LA Brewer’s Guild, organizing brewers in the state for the first time, and ensuring a strong commitment from government for the burgeoning craft beer movement.

 

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93: Is Donald Trump's hair real?  Army Veteran Kelly Perdew tells all about how he made it onto the Apprentice.  Competing on the set of the apprentice.  Dealing with adversity, competition and drama to pull a team together and succeed.  Kelly reveals what it was like working for Donald Trump.  How Kelly's Army experience helped him win the apprentice.  How Kelly used his success on the Apprentice to launch successful businesses after working for Donald Trump. 

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Army veteran Kelly Perdew is the father of Twins, Co-founder and CEO - Targetclose, Winner of the Apprentice Season 2, Author, Entrepreneur and Angel Investor.

Prior to co-founding TargetClose, Kelly was CEO of Fastpoint Games, a venture-backed software development company that created live data-driven games for Fortune 500 brands including the NBA, NASCAR, Fox Television and Sony Online Entertainment. Kelly was previously President of ProElite.com, an online social network for combat sports enthusiasts. As President, Kelly helped raise over $40M, and signed Showtime and CBS to televise their mixed martial arts fights. He was also a manager at Deloitte Consulting in the Braxton Strategy Practice.

Kelly acts as a board member or advisor for TroopSwap.com, Ustream, Scopely, GatherGreen, and was previously an advisor or board member for LinkedIn (LNKD), Pandora (P) and eteamz (ACTV).

Kelly is a nationally recognized speaker on leadership, technology, career development and entrepreneurship.

He earned a BS from the US Military Academy at West Point, a JD from the UCLA School of Law and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. He served in the US Army as a Military Intelligence Officer and Airborne Ranger.

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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.

92: Angela Cody-Rouget is the founder and owner of Major Mom® and one of three Certified Professional Organizers in Arizona. She is also a certified Family Manager. She moved with her family and the military over 27 times. As a result, she learned to keep her load light and not get attached to stuff. Angela spent 14 years dedicated to serving her country in the US Air Force. She attained the rank of Major in the USAF and her husband nicknamed her Major Mom after their first child was born. After her son was born in 2005, she resigned her commission to be a better wife and mother to her two children. She worked as a corporate sale representative for five years and then started her organizing company in 2006. She earned a BA in Speech Communication at Indiana University and an MBA from University of Colorado.

http://www.majormom.biz/

Wish your home was clutter-free and organized?

You are not alone. In fact, there is a major problem of disorder affecting American households. 75 million Americans report the need to have more order in their homes and home offices.There is no need to be embarrassed if you need help. Wise people reach out for help when they get stuck. Major Mom has liberated over a thousand households. We work in small studio apartments up to 6,500 sq feet home. You may be feeling overwhelmed right now, but we are here to save the day.

Why Hire Professional Organizers?

Living in a disorderly household or office negatively impacts you and everyone around you in four major ways: Time, Money, Health and Safety. A highly-trained professional organizer can liberate you from the burdens of your clutter and disorganization in a matter of days.You will no longer spend time looking for things you know you own, nor will you go out and buy things you already own. Your time and money savings will start immediately. 

Major Mom® is the Solution.

Many people think to call a cleaning service and discover that a maid can make counters sparkle and floors shine, but they are not trained to declutter your home or create organizing systems in your home. The skills used to organize are much different than the skills used to clean.

91: Ranjani Mohana is the founder and CEO of RMO LLC, she helps veterans get their business veteran and disabled owned status to better compete in government contracting.

People know how great it is to have the Certifications to apply for government contracts, but they also know how much work it can be to prepare an application.  It becomes too easy to put certification off, and soon yet another uncertified year has passed while other people continue to make money through the programs.

Well, that is where we come in.  At R Mo LLC, we have the experience to make the Certification process painless. While you attend to your business we work on getting you certified.

Getting you certified is only the start, we further assist in researching and directing you the contracts available in your line of business. This is our value add to your business to expand and increase your win-rate.

If there is a time to be thinking of Government as a customer, it is now. This year Federal spending is expected to increase its highest levels.  The Federal government will award contracts with an aggregate value of over $85 billion in 2012 to small businesses.

The U.S. government is the world’s largest buyer of goods and services. Government agencies buy just about every category of commodity and service available, from paper clips to janitorial services to vehicles used in space exploration. In addition, the federal government seeks to contract with small businesses in order to ensure that small-business owners are thriving throughout the country. If you are a small-business owner seeking government work opportunities, all you need is a little guidance and you are well on your way to securing contracts with the federal government.

Under the Small Business Reauthorization Act of 1997, the federal government has a goal of awarding at least 23% of contracting dollars to small businesses each fiscal year. Within the 23% goal there are several smaller goals focused on different types of businesses as follows:

Small Disadvantaged Businesses – 5%

Women-Owned Businesses – 5%

Disabled Veteran-Owned Businesses – 5%

HUBZone Businesses – 3%

In order to be able to take advantage of contracts that are “set-aside” for these types of businesses you need to be qualified.

Certification is an effective marketing tool for accessing contracting opportunities with corporate and public agencies, supply chains and for becoming a provider to supply chains, diversity and procurement divisions.

R-Mo LLC is owned by experienced professionals assisting small and medium companies across United States to be certified. The certifications empower companies to compete on Bids and RFPs to sell their services and products to the State and Federal government agencies.

Here are the lists of certifications that R MO LLC professionals have gained expertise.

Government Certifications:

MBE – Minority Owned Business Certification

WBE – Women Owned Business Certification

DBE – Disadvantaged Business

Green – Green Certification

SBA – Small Business Administration Certification

WOSB – Women Owned Small Business Certification

8A – Small Business Disadvantaged Business Certification

HubZone – Certification

CMAS -

GSA – General Administration Services

If you are looking for other certifications not listed above, R Mo LLC professionals can still guide you through proper channels. We have grown to have expertise for smoothly navigating through process and channels with government agencies. This assists the small businesses to do what they do best concentrate o...

90: Dan Evans is the Social Marketing Director for Marine Corps Recruiting, West. Dan is responsible for developing and rolling out a comprehensive social media strategy for over 1,000 recruiters across the Western U.S. In addition to being a Marine, Dan is a fellow podcaster, a husband, and father of three."

89: Dan Sheehan served twelve years in the Marine Corps. He flew helicopter gunships during the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003 and returned for a second tour with Marine Corps Special Operations Command, Detachment One in 2004. His personal decorations include the Bronze Star and two Individual Action Air Medals for actions taken in combat. After leaving active duty,Dan turned to writing to help him process his experiences in Iraq. His first book, After Action: The True Story of a Cobra Pilot's Journey, won multiple awards and continues to inform readers about the human costs of war. His newly released second book, Continuing Actions: A Warrior's Guide to Coming Home, identifies the challenges returning warriors have always faced, shows how gaps in our training leave us ill prepared to face them, and offers pragmatic solutions for how individual veterans can close these gaps themselves. When he's not writing,Dan can be found surfing, spearfishing, flying a vintage OH-6A LOACH, or otherwise enjoying southern California with his wife, their two kids, and two pitbull mutts.

88: Paul A. Dillon is the president and CEO of Dillon Consulting Services LLC, a U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs certified Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, based in Durham, NC and Chicago, IL. He created and co-taught the highly successful course “Law and Veterans’ Issues: Policy Challenges and Best Practices” at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Paul's client engagements include a research assignment for Crain’s Chicago Business, for the widely acclaimed “Veterans in the Workplace” Focus section that was published in November, 2011.Paul is also the creator of the concept for a successful and widely adapted veteran’s startup incubator in Chicago, called Bunker Labs, as well as the creator of the concept for a veteran entrepreneur support organization in North Carolina, called VetStart. He represented our nation's veterans on the opening plenary session of the Kennedy Forum on Mental Health in Boston this past June, and is on the Leadership Council for the Kennedy Forum of Illinois, where he represents the veteran community.Paul holds an A.B. degree from John Carroll University (Cleveland, OH), a M.S. from Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL). He has been quoted in numerous publications about veterans issues, such as Forbes, the National Federation of Independent Businesses newsletter, eLearners.com, and USAA Magazine.A U.S. Army Reserve veteran, he served in Vietnam as a 1st Lieut., and was awarded 2 Bronze Star Medals

87: Blake Hall is the Co-Founder and CEO of ID.me, a digital identity wallet designed to empower consumers to prove their identity online while controlling how their personal data is shared. ID.me was selected by the United States Department of Commerce as one five companies to participate in the President's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace in 2013. A Finalist for Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year in 2013, ID.me was also included in the June 2014 issue of Entrepreneur Magazine as one of 100 Brilliant Companies for 2014. A veteran of the Iraq war, Blake led a platoon of scouts and snipers hunting high value targets in Iraq for fifteen months from July 2006 - September 2007. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor for heroism during a firefight against Al-Qaida affiliated insurgents attacking an American hospital in Mosul, Iraq in an action senior commanders credited with saving twenty American lives. Blake has written for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and Forbes. Thanks to The Economist, Blake holds the distinction of being the first Google result for the phrase 'muscly entrepreneur.' Blake attained a Bachelor of Science magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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ID.me began as a tool that allowed members of the military to securely submit and prove their identity online. This new capability gave military members access to the thousands of discounts and exclusive savings they could previously only receive in-store because merchants had no way to check a physical ID card online. Soon after, we began to issue digital ID cards for students, first responders, and teachers as well.

The success of those projects led us to wonder: why doesn't digital identity work like identity in the physical world where people have ID cards they can easily display to prove their identity?

To make trusted online interactions more convenient, we built ID.me, a secure digital wallet, to store all of your digital ID cards so that you can easily prove your identity and group statuses online. Your ID.me wallet login – the e-mail and password you create when you sign up with ID.me – will always remain the same even as you add more and more digital ID cards to your wallet.

One thing that hasn't changed is our promise to our members: your personal information belongs to you. You, and only you, control how your information is shared while ID.me deploys bank-grade encryption to keep your data safe at all times.

86: Rick Yost is a former Army Cavalry Officer and Airborne Ranger. He is a father, entrepreneur, consultant, author, and attorney. His current venture is VeteransList.US which helps connect consumers, government contracting officers, and other veterans with Veteran Owned Businesses. Their Goal is to drive $1 billion in value over the next 5 years.

http://veteranslist.us/

85:  Scott Levy has starred in film, television, video games and music videos following his service as a Stinger missile gunner in the United States Marine Corps during the Persian Gulf War.On film, Scott played the lead role alongside Vanilla Ice in The Helix… Loaded, a parody of The Matrix. He has also acted in The Dentros with Mariette Hartley and John Saxon, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? and as a Marine in Afghanistan in The Submarine Kid with Finn Wittrock (Unbroken).On television, Scott has had roles in, Sniper: Inside the Crosshairs, The Eric André Show, Crisis: New York Under Water and many others.Scott has also lent his motion capture and vocal talents to video games including, Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel, Battlefield 4, Battlefield Hardline, Devil’s Third and Medal of Honor: Warfighter which led to starring in Linkin Park’s Castle of Glass music video.