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On this episode of Winning with Winans features, Lester Lumbad, Air Force veteran and founder of the Veterans Community & Founders Exchange (VCFX). The conversation explores how Nevada has become one of America's most veteran-friendly states, highlighting the importance of military service, entrepreneurship, and community collaboration.
Lester shares his family's military background and explains how his wife's Air Force medical career brought them to Las Vegas after assignments in Japan and the United Kingdom. After struggling to find business networking resources for veterans, he founded what became the Southern Nevada Veterans Chamber of Commerce, now rebranded as Veterans Community & Founders Exchange (VCFX) with a vision of expanding the successful Nevada model nationwide.
Host Ken Winans and Lester discuss why Southern Nevada has become a magnet for veterans, emphasizing its strong military presence through Nellis Air Force Base, Creech Air Force Base, and Nevada's growing aerospace and defense industries. They explain how VCFX connects veterans, entrepreneurs, public safety professionals, and community supporters to business opportunities, mentorship, and valuable networking relationships.
The conversation also explores Nevada's economic diversification beyond tourism, highlighting opportunities in aerospace, defense, STEM education, financial services, and entrepreneurship. Both emphasize that veterans possess leadership, discipline, and problem-solving skills that make them ideal business owners and contributors to Nevada's growing economy.
The episode concludes with an invitation for veterans, military families, first responders, and community supporters to join VCFX and help strengthen veteran entrepreneurship across the country while continuing to make Nevada a destination for innovation, leadership, and opportunity.
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