Veterans In Business Show with James Van Prooyen

Faizun Kamal is an author, speaker, and coach! She is the CEO and founder of the Franchise Consulting Company. Faizun is driven to create significant life changes through entrepreneurship, specifically franchising. This stems from her own personal experience as what she calls, a corporate refugee. She loves working with military and veterans and has so much value to offer Veteran Business Community! 

Mike grew up around the military as his dad was involved in the Army for 41 years. Mike was a great athlete from a young age and could have tried both baseball or football. He chose to pursue football and played college football before realizing that his dream of playing professional football was not to be. After trying college after returning home, he quickly realized he wanted something else. Mike joined the Army and served eight years as a combat medic. After getting out Mike went back to school and got a business degree. In 2015 he founded Heroes Sports as a non profit. Heroes Sports wants to be an example for others going through issues transitioning from the combat zone to civilian life and show ways that would assist in their transition. 

John is a Marine veteran who served twenty three years as a pilot. He currently is serving now in a different capacity as he works for the State Department in Iraq. He has a great life story and it was such an honor to get to hear John tell about what he has taken with him and all he has given to others in his service to date. His love for great salad dressing and his finding there just wasn't very good options for good salad dressing led him to create his own. Semper Savage was born. John says he is on a global crusade to bring great tasting, homemade salad dressing to the World.

Greg, a West Point Army graduate and veteran, discovered his aha moment in business when he found an idea around his own product in the area of promotional products. His story is one of persistence and determination. Greg founded Lunar Branding LLC to provide quality and unique promotional products and services for any companies target market.

Laura retired from the United States Air Force at the rank of CMSgt after almost 28 years! Shortly before leaving the Air Force, Laura started preparing to both a leadership and personal growth coach. She has done so much in her life already and used her background and experience to move into business for herself. She is a certified Proctor Gallagher Coach, and has helped over a 100 CEO's, Executives, and Entreprenuer's live a more focused life.

Heather, an Army veteran is a very self motivated action taker! After leaving the Army, she took a few different jobs that were sales related. She started thinking about doing her own business while at a marketing event put on by ClickFunnels founder, Russel Brunson. Heather around this time started getting used to being on video by getting help from her daughter on the social media app, Tic Toc. She has really enjoyed learning how and helping others create and implement sales funnels and growth hacking for business. She is someone who just kind of figures it out. She created the community around this she calls Digital Warrior HQ.

William is a Marine veteran who started off in business by opening a Martial Arts Gym in Southern California. He credits his work ethic and strong desire to learn anything fast and then quickly implement to his business success. William then moved into understanding marketing and opened up his own business helping other small businesses with both their Search Engine Optimization as well as other marketing practices. There are a lot of lessons we talk about that he has and continues to learn to make a difference in business and life.

David is an Active Duty Marine, and is also the founder of From Military to Millionaire. From Military to Millionaire is all about helping provide training and resources for military and veterans to be able to build wealth through real estate investing, entrepreneurship, and understanding personal finance. David has bought and sold over 50 rental units since 2015. He has purchased a house hack, apartment, mixed-use building, house flip(s), raw land, and is working on his first apartment syndication! 

Zack served in Atlanta as a police officer. He later decided he wanted to join the Army National Guard and further serve. Through a situation that happened as a police officer, Zack decided to start a business to solve a problem that he saw. The business he founded in 2017, Knight Protection Services LLC, was started out of seeing the need to protect personal property and do a better job at serving personal security and home protection services. Zack was sent to Afghanistan shortly after starting the business and has learned a lot through managing a business while serving the country at the same time.