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Real people. Real stories. Real growth. Not Special is a leadership podcast built around honest, in-person conversations with interesting people from across America. Herb and Corrie Thompson explore personal growth, purpose, and the experiences that shaped who their guests are: the wins, failures, wrong turns, hard lessons, and moments that changed everything. Some served in the military. Others built businesses, led organizations, or followed unconventional paths. Their title isn’t the story. The person is.
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Average audio length:
63 minutes
Guest interviews
Video podcast
English
United States
50 episodes
since Sept. 11, 2025
episodic
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Green Beret Dave Kenney survived more than two decades in U.S. Army Special Forces, including deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. But the fight that nearly killed him came after the uniform.
After years of combat, traumatic brain injuries, PTSD, and struggling with alcohol…
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The Army botched Cameron Cushman’s surgery. What followed changed nearly every part of his life.
Cameron Cushman is an Army veteran, Afghanistan veteran, filmmaker, and documentary producer whose life changed after a surgery at Fort Hood led to years of serious medical complicatio…
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Andy Stumpf spent more than 17 years as a Navy SEAL, served with SEAL Team Six, became a record-setting wingsuit pilot, entrepreneur, author and host of the Cleared Hot podcast.
But those are things he’s done. They aren’t who he is.
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They called her the “Angel of Death.”
Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Allison Black spent more than 32 years serving her country, but her path to becoming a special operations aviator was anything but planned.
She began her career as an enlisted SERE specialist before becoming an of…
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We came to Montana to share five great stories. We ended up getting a lot more.
The Americana Series: Montana takes Not Special on the road for five conversations with Andy Stumpf, Cameron Cushman, Dave Kenney, Nic McKinley, and Aaron Todd.
These are stories about service, identity…
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Harrison Bernstein left a path in the NFL to build Soldiers To Sidelines, a nonprofit helping veterans, service members, military spouses, and Gold Star families find purpose and community through coaching.
But Harrison's story didn't start with the military.
Long befor…
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Vic Minella was a Navy intelligence officer assigned to the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. His office, the Navy Command Center, was directly hit in the 9/11 terrorist attack. Vic wasn't there that morning. Several of his shipmates were.That day changed the course of his life …
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JoAnne Bass, the 19th Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force and the first woman to serve as the U.S. Air Force’s highest-ranking enlisted leader, never planned on making the military a career. She joined for the GI Bill, expected to serve four years, and jokes that she reenlisted …
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Marc Andersen, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller, helps oversee roughly $200 billion in U.S. Army resources with one overriding mission: making sure America’s warfighters have what they need to fight and win.In this episode of the Not Special …
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What does it mean to become a Gold Star Family? How do you move forward after losing a Navy SEAL son in combat? In this powerful episode of The Not Special Show, former Navy pilot Tom Feeks and registered nurse Ginny Feeks share the story of their son, Navy SEAL Patrick "Pat&q…
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