Veteran’s PATH

Veteran’s PATH

By Jon MacaskillHealth & FitnessMental Health
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Veteran’s PATH episodes

  • Retiring Army Lieutenant Colonel Andy Riise

    Andy is a soon to be retired Army LTC and is currently serving as a Mental Performance Coach for the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball team, a Professor of Practice at Texas A&M University’s Coaching Academy, and a Management Consultant with several companies. His expertise is in the evidence based best practices of Sport and Performance Psychology and applied Behavioral Science Disciplines. Over his 20 year career he’s served in a variety of leadership positions highlighted by multiple combat tours, five years with two Special Forces units and teaching Psychology and leadership at West Point and the Air Force Academy. He has been married to his wife Katie for over 17 years and they have four children. He also contributes to several VSOs that help Veterans and their families successfully reintegrate and transition to the civilian sector and he is a published author. On this episode we discuss: 

    • the difference and overlap of mental health and mental performance 

    • Army vs Navy!! 

    • sports psychology 

    • military transition 

    • bouncing back and growing from adversity 

    • coaching academy at Texas A&M 

    • The book he coauthored, Deliberate Discomfort 

    Find Andy by checking out the hashtag #coachingmatters, connect with him on LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/in/andyriise, and on www.mission6zero.com.

    54 min
  • Air Force Veteran turned Corporate and Sports Marketing Expert Tim Klund
    Tim was in the Air Force and after he left, was in a major car accident giving him a traumatic brain injury but also, setting his life onto a new path!
    He became a sports marketing expert and now has his fingers in so many pots. He is the CEO and founder of Verve Systems, LLC, focused on health and performance enhancement products (www.verveforever.com offering 50% off for veterans using the code Vet50 or Verve50).
    He’s the author of Stop Whining and Start Winning and he also founded the Memorial Day Celebrity Softball Classic, a fundraising game benefiting veteran service organizations.
    In this episode we discuss
    • sports marketing and personal branding
    • Developing your network and leveraging the network you already have through military transition
    • traumatic brain injury
    • health and performance
    • importance of getting involved with your community for your own mental health
    • his work with veteran nonprofits
    • and YOU are here for a REASON!!
    1 hr 7 min
  • Retired Navy SEAL, Intelligence Expert, and Author Rob DuBois
    My guest today is Rob Dubois. Robert is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL, a career intelligence and national security professional. He is founder of Impact Actual, the elite whole-person personal development firm (http://www.impactactual.com)
    Through keynote presentations, executive coaching, seminars/retreats and online training, Rob and the Impact team execute on their mission: to train people to destroy self-limiting beliefs and behaviors so they can perform at maximum potential.
    Rob is also the author of Powerful Peace; a Navy SEAL's Lessons on Peace from a Lifetime at War, which has received enthusiastic praise from leadership icons including Tony Robbins and former Secretary of Defense, James Mattis. Link to his book here: Powerful Peace: A Navy SEAL's Lessons on Peace from a Lifetime at War https://www.amazon.com/dp/1614481881/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_j.czEbCEJDKBV
    Also he was On the National Geographic show “Mygrations” where he and a group crossed the Serengeti! Check it out on Prime Video.
    46 min
  • Human Resources Expert Brenda Neckvatal
    my guest today is Brenda Neckvatal. Brenda is a practicing Human Resource professional and business consultant. She has worked for five Fortune 500 corporations, consulted to over 450 c-suite executives, and led the reformation of HR infrastructure within 400 small businesses.
    In 2016 she became a volunteer as an Executive Coach with The Honor Foundation, establishing a solid reputation in the Special Operations community, and developed a deep understanding of the Special Operator mindset. She discovered that many Operators did not possess basic business acumen upon exiting their naval career. In January 2017 she started Phase II, a small 501(c)(3) organization that provides pro bono business consulting and wellness support to the SEAL community.
    Her exposure to the varying physical and neurological needs of these elite combat veterans allows her the opportunity to educate all veterans of their rights under Americans with Disabilities Act (post military career), as well as alternative naturopathic treatments to the Naval Special Warfare community.
    50 min
  • Heart and Lung Surgery Physician Assistant Sabrina Runbeck
    My guest today is Sabrina Runbeck. Sabrina is a surgical advanced practice provider with a background in public health and neuroscience. She is also a peak performance expert. Sabrina noticed that there are people in the healthcare arena who love their work AND are able to always make to their workout class, go to brunch or happy hour with family and friends, while the rest of the professionals are grinding day by day, barely getting enough sleep, and regretting their years of hard work to only to find themselves exhausted and unfulfilled.
    She learned to say NO to 80+ hour workweeks where she felt worn out, underappreciated, and misunderstood and now says YES to a life and career that elevates her energy and passion without compromising her health and sanity.
    Now, she is on a mission to help millennials professionals, especially women in healthcare, to reduce stress, restore wellness, and reboot productivity so they can do BOTH - be powerhouses in their careers and live a meaningful and exciting life. She believes everyone has the inner ability to gain more control and find life's satisfactions. She says They just need to say NO to almost everything, so they can live a life full of Heck YES! Links to Promote:
    Instagram.com/SabrinaRunbeck
    Linkedin.com/in/SabrinaRunbeck
    SabrinaRunbeck.com
    Free gift for our audiences:
    Having a life full of Heck Yeah requires conscious intentions and all starts with knowing your strengths and weaknesses. Take this FREE 3-minute quiz to “Discover Your Hidden Roadblocks.” Go to SabrinaRunbeck.com/assessment
    36 min
  • Retired Air Force PJ and Combat Rescue Officer Lieutenant Colonel Joe Barnard
    My guest today is retired Air Force PJ and Combat Rescue Officer (CRO) Joe Barnard. 
    Joe had a 33 military career with 4 years in the Army then he transitioned to the Air Force and spent half of the rest of his career as an enlisted PJ and the other as a CRO with 9 combat deployments and 3 Humanitarian deployments. Joe retired as a Lt Col in 2016.  During his career, Joe faced multiple traumatic experiences.  In the show he discusses how he dealt with those professionally and personally.
    He’s been married for 28 and he and his wife Meghan have 2 boys 24 and 22. Meghan is a former broadway style dancer and has been a Yoga instructor for the last decade. They traveled to South East Asia for 5 months after he retired and they settled in Jacksonville Fla. Joe was COO of a $32M, 120 person wireless construction company in Atlanta 2018-19 but decided to leave because it lacked fulfillment. He has applied to Jacksonville University for acceptance into MS program (Summer 2020) for Mental Health Counseling.
    1 hr 26 min
  • Retired Navy SEAL - Mike Day - shot 27 times and lived to tell about it!
    My guest today is fellow Navy SEAL Mike Day. Mike is a Navy Cross recipient and was in a fire fight in 2007 where he was shot 27 times... 16 rounds found his legs, arms, and abdomen. The last 11 lodged into his body armor. Day remained in the fight, neutralizing all four enemy combatants, securing two prisoners and rescued six women and children before walking himself to the medevac helicopter located close by. While that’s an incredible story and we will definitely discuss that today, there’s a lot more to Mike than this... After serving in the Navy for over 20 years, Day now serves as a wounded warrior advocate for the special operations community. https://www.perfectlywounded.com.
    52 min
  • Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and mindfulness expert Dr. Janell MacAulay
    My guest today is Dr Jannell MacAulay. Jannell is a combat veteran who served 20 years in the US Air Force as a pilot, commander, special operations consultant, and professionalism instructor.
    With her innovative leadership style, she was the first leader to introduce mindfulness as a proactive performance strategy within the US military. She continues to consult within the DoD, DoJ, and corporate America delivering keynotes and a high-performance warrior mindset training program, called Warrior’s Edge, which she developed with Pete Carroll of the Seattle Seahawks and Dr Michael Gervais.
    She is a TEDx speaker and mother of two, who is on a mission to help individuals excel in high-stress and rugged environments, by showing them how to lean into each moment to find their best selves. https://competetocreate.net/
    58 min
  • VaynerX Chief Heart Officer Claude Silver
    Claude is the Chief Heart Officer of VaynerX (the parent company for VaynerMedia). Claude has an awesome story of what brought her to the CHO position. On the episode we discuss her ups and downs, her challenges with self-sabotaging behaviors and what got her out of that, her time with Outward Bound, and of course her leading with her heart an organization of over 800 people. Claude is just awesome - you’re going to want to listen to her and learn from her! Enjoy!!
    39 min
  • Yoga Therapist for US House of Representatives Samantha Parker
    Sam holds a B.S in sports and exercise science, and a M.S. in Kinesiology. As a C-IAYT (Certified Yoga Therapist) and certified personal trainer, she has taught over 7,000 hours of yoga around the globe. She served as the first Chief Yoga Therapist for the DoD at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center treating U.S. and NATO Special Forces suffering from Polytruama, TBIs and PTSD. She developed, managed, and researched the first yoga program addressing Kinesiophobia to reduce chronic pain, opioid medications, improve soldier function, readiness, and return to active duty status. In addition to working with Special Forces and active duty military, she has also worked with professional athletes from football players to elite ballet dancers. CEO of NMS®, creator of YoMo® and bestselling author of Yoga for Chronic Pain…WTF?... that’s actually the title of the book... I didn’t throw that in there!! she speaks, trains and develops yoga based movement programs to address Kinesiophobia. She advises fitness, yoga and medical providers, along with leading military and government officials on the newest emerging yoga therapy and functional movement practices. She currently resides in Washington, D.C. still working for the U.S. government.
    1 hr 1 min

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Veteran’s PATH - helping veterans find Peace, Acceptance, Transformation and Honor through practical tools like meditation and mindfulness, physical and outdoor experiences, and a community of…