From Breakdown to Reboot: Bryan Bush’s Journey to Purpose and Community

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They not even fucking record, dude.
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That's the crazy part.
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Thanks to AWS being so good at everything, everybody uses them.
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And today's the day that it decides to dick us down.
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So first thing I looked at was uh um, you know, I think everybody, why?
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Why is it down?
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Yeah.
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Um, but yeah, it it affects the list of apps that it affects government, yeah, social media, you name it.
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Yeah, dude.
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So yeah.
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Bro, it was and it it it's I think it fucked me on my upload on YouTube.
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Um so yeah, it's it's awesome.
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It's it's it's it's just dicking me down all day.
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Thank you.
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Oh, shout out to uh soft HD.
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Thank you guys for the sweet swag and belt buckle.
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It's uh very appreciative.
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So uh this episode's for you.
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So we're gonna make it a good one.
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Brian, what's up, man?
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What's going on, Denny?
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Long turns.
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It's been a minute.
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We've been trying to make this happen, and finally, the man behind reboot is here.
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We got a lot to talk about, dude.
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Like, let's start it off with where it all began, man.
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How did how did this life of uh helping others find their way become a reality?
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Yeah.
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Um, well, I think uh after you help yourself, you run out of things to help.
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That's a that's a quote.
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Um, and so you either are selfish or you go back to the community with your treasures and you find others that can benefit from those.
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And I think that's a good segue into the creation of the reboot project.
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So um, yeah.
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So before the reboot project, I was uh uh an HR leader for Goodwill and had done that for 17 years.
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And uh so got to work from everybody with disabilities to felons, pretty much uh military.
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Describe the military.
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So absolutely.
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Right.
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And uh um, and then uh in 2022, um, I left Goodwill and uh went about uh just really my own self-discovery journey.
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Did a lot of skiing, hiking, uh ran out of things to do.
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I did so many of the things I wanted to do and kind of got back to the mirror and was like, damn, this is it.
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And uh um had to recreate what my purpose in life was going to be for myself.
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And um, so uh I uh, you know, I I evoked on my own little journey and essentially built the reboot project.
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And that's what the reboot project is.
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It is exactly what I did um for myself, and then I just packaged it up with better people actually walking people through the program than me.
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I'm worthy evangelist.
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Um, and uh um and and now we're changing lives uh one person at a time.
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Yeah, dude.
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It's um incredibly admirable to see what you're taking on.
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It's not an easy thing to help others.
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It's not, especially when you're starting this endeavor all on your own, trying to change a life, trying to save another person.
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Like, take us through the first couple years, man.
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What was it like getting this thing off the ro off the ground?
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Yes, we're just in year two.
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So luckily I have a little bit of an entrepreneurial background.
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So I had a bit of a cool team around me that I could call and say, hey, I've got this idea and uh come work in my soup kitchen.
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I've been paying you guys all money for my whole life, and now I need you to help me for free because we're broke.
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And uh uh I think I think they saw how my support team saw how much my heart was actually into this work.
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I mean, I'm a Marine.
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Um we all have stories of our brothers and sisters.
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Uh there are we're all in different shapes and sizes, both physically and mentally, right?
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And uh so for me, it was uh a little bit about, you know, my journey was when I got out of the Marine Corps, I gained a ton of weight and a ton, 80 pounds.
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Uh and so I was uh a mean six foot 260, did not look like an NFL player, look like six foot and two six.
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Um, and so I really struggled with a lot of bad behaviors and such to uh really uh you know to be thinking clearly, and I was able to finally get rid of that, but I'd always kind of struggled and and went back and forth with weight, and a lot of that was just dealing with the the all of the you know the bags of stuff you bring with you through life.
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Um and so this in 2022 was my restart button.
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The reboot project didn't have a name at that point in time.
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It was just I need to lose weight, I need to change my behaviors, I need to start thinking clearly, I need to set some goals.
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I really needed to find out who I was again.
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And uh, after leaving the corporate world, a lot of your identity, just like in the military, you've got this rank, you've got a team, you've got all these things that you're proud of, and so much ego in all of that, whether you think there is or not, there's a completely, you know, a set of that.
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And so for me, it was like, how do I strip all this away and figure out like what really matters in life?
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And that's what I wanted to focus on.
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And so I explored a lot of different opportunities with joining other boards or am I gonna go back and work in another corporate environment?
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And, you know, I think what I came down to myself was I'm gonna build my own variation of what helped me refine myself, which was macronutrients, physical fitness, and the intentional change theory.
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Three things I didn't create.
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So, which, you know, um the the cool part about being in the military too is if you blast a bunch of stuff on social media and pretend to be somebody you're not, your boys will call you out.
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So I that was 100% of the back of my head.
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And I was like, okay, I can't come across as like I'm a thought leader.
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I gotta come across as I'm Brian Bush.
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I changed my own life through physical fitness, nutrition, and the intentional change theory.
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And um, and then I like to do things like climb mountains and deep sea diving and and things like that.
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And so I figured like, how do we put all this together and put a very like high-level nonprofit spin to this?
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Uh, working for Goodwill, I got to see it scale what a billion dollar nonprofit actually looks like.
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And um, you know, there's 160,000 other veteran service organizations out there.
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Uh and then there's other ones for for first responders as well.
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And uh, you know, how do I fit in to that mix?
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I'm not your weekend warrior club.
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Um, I don't have infinite amount of money.
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Um, I I went out and got enough cash to set up a trust to endow all the admin fees for this.
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So our donations are dollar for dollar, 100% to program services, doesn't buy me a car.
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Um, it actually goes towards supporting these individuals that uh we hand pick because there's so little cash resource um to put this on that um I think those are you know, those are the things and that I was thinking of when we built the reboot project.
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And um, so today it's October 20th, and we just had our 2025 graduation, which takes place up at the top of a uh Colorado 14,000 foot mountain.
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Um, and uh we got you know seven graduates that have gone through already, so not bad in few years.
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No, dude, that's not bad at all.
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Uh yeah, I want to there's there's there's a lot to unpack already, man.
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Like let's let's break this down, man, um and and reflect on your journey.
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Yeah.
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You know, it's not unlike a lot of the stories I've heard.
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We can quickly go from being top of the food chain, the fittest dudes, jacked, friggin' shredded, to being overweight in in the danger zone for developing heart disease, diabetes, all these, all these horrible things because we're dealing with so much.
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And sometimes maybe we're we're comfort eaters, man.
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That food comes out and we just want to friggin' relax and and enjoy a couple extra so uh servings of food.
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And it it happens to the best of us, man.
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There's no shame.
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If you're listening to this and this is striking a chord, you're not alone, man.
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We're gonna dive into this.
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So buckle up, man, and understand that it's part of human nature, dude.
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We can get uh we can get into that lull and just seek comfort.
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But when we start looking at the nutrition aspect, what were you looking at?
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What are the sub what are the things that you honed in on?
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Yeah, so uh I'm a guy that thought cardio and calorie deficit was just gonna do it.
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And so like I ended up losing all that weight.
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I went from 260 to 180 through Marlboro lights, um not eating because I was marliting and um ellipticaling.
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So I think I lost all that in a period of like eight months, once I finally said I gotta lose this weight, and I was just hardcore.
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And um, much like Jelly Roll's physical trainer, you know how he'll like smoke a marble red after he ran 26 miles, right?
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That's what I was doing.
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And uh um it then I now I'm older, so I can't not smoking the lung darts anymore.
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Um but uh um you know for me it was I didn't understand nutrition.
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And so I actually hired a bodybuilding coach uh that worked with females.
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Um and I chose that specifically when I started my journey because I consistently I know nothing very little about females anyway.
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So, but I do know that I hear that it's harder for them to change their body as they get older than men.
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And I've literally was sitting looking in the mirror, feeling like my body was broken.
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And so I wanted to find somebody that already had a track record of helping, you know, women change their body.
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And I saw the before and afters and knew that this person wasn't snake oil or trash.
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But then what I found out was that, you know, thermodynamics.
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Um, there is something to eating the right proteins, fats, and carbs and not overeating your calories and burning enough calories during the day.
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And it it really reframed my mindset that I'm not broken.
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I don't believe that anybody's broken nutrition-wise.
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Um, and once I got on board about two months in, I you know, I was able to, I felt better, I thought clearer, I drank less, I did all those things that would come along, which um when you start working on your body nutritiously uh and and through the nutrients, then it fuels your workouts and those get better.
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And then so I started working out five days a week and I started walking 10,000 steps a day.
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And all those anecdotal things that we are so tired of seeing on social media, dude, there's no other way.
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That is whether whether you're this guy, Dan Gogh on Twitter or you're Huberman or you're uh uh, you know, anybody that's out there saying that they're changing lives, it's like and you're doing it through the nutrition and physical fitness.
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There's only a couple really ways to do it.
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And then you can pump the croat the protein, and then you can have the creatine, and then you make sure you get your sleep and make sure that you're working out for mobility and not for bulk or you're gonna lose.
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There's all these other fine-tunings, but for the basic of what I was trying to do, honestly, I was just trying to gain confidence back in my life that at 42 years old, I wasn't broken.
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Yeah, because I think when you walk alone, and I'm gonna speak for my friends, the men that I've spoken to about this.
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We all kind of feel the same way.
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Nobody wants to talk about it.
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Uh, we all feel a little self-conscious.
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Um, you know, and ment's health is different today.
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I mean, I sat around a table, guys are talking about testosterone replacement therapy, and they're talking about some of the you know the details that men would never share with other men.
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And it blows my mind because I'm like, wow, look how authentic the conversation's gotten.
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You know, we're talking about what it's like when you wake up in the morning.
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Kind of, you know, you don't understand, man.
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So how strong are you when you wake up?
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So um, those kind of conversations.
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So I think men's health has come full circle.
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And a lot of that I think is Huberman, Rogan, and and and all these folks that have really brought these things out to the front line.
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And so I found myself wanting to live that life, but I didn't know what my baseline was.
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And so that's how I got into nutrition.
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I'm not a nutritionist.
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Um, and uh uh so I don't make any medical claims.
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I'm not a therapist, I'm practical.
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Um, and we've got the right resources that we bring around, Denny, because someone else needs to be telling our heroes this information other than me.
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Um, but I do believe in that the science is the science.
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So 100%, man.
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You you you you're 100% correct.
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Like we listen to it all the time.
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Our favorite frigging podcasts talk about it all the time, but then we don't listen to it.
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It's only when we're at our absolute worst and somebody like yourself comes around, like, hey man, I'm not the guy, but I got the people for you.
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And then we can listen, then we can be receptive, and then we can say, okay, can you help me build a plan?
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Can you help me put it together so we can put it into action?
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And that's the greatest thing, man.
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I think some people lose so much hope and they can hear all the right advice, and they're just like, fuck it, dude.
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I don't want to move.
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I'm just I'm out, I'm done.
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They check out.
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That's like that's the heartbreaking part of it.
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You lose so much hope that you're just not willing to try, man.
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It's hard.
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And I mean, the the the aspect of feeling hopeless is I mean, that's real and it sucks.
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One of the things that I like to do, and I kind of get a kick out of it, is uh I like removing barriers for people.
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Like our program's ten thousand dollars a person, it's a lot of cash.
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Yeah, right.
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So it's like, what do you need?
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What do you need to be successful?
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We'll do it for you.
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Nobody does that.
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I mean, that this isn't this isn't like, hey, come fish with us on the weekend.
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There's a place for all that, or we're gonna do this for a quarter.
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No, it's like we get up and we do life together in a way that I don't think I know this.
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Some of our participants are shocked that even after I tell them what this is, and then once they get in, they're like, I've never been around such a vulnerable group of supporters in my life.
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Um, and uh, it's like if we're gonna spend this money, let's fucking make it work.
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Let's run.
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I mean, it's hard to get somebody to give you money to do anything, bad or good.
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And so every dollar that we get, it's like just boom.
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Okay, what else do we need to do?
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How else do we make this happen?
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Um back to your comment about all the answers.
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I had a we had one of the heroes that we sponsored this year.
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He's like, Man, Brian, I've heard all this stuff you told me.
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I've heard it all.
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He goes, but he goes, again, it it took a messenger like you for me to actually listen to it and I believe it, but you're just saying the same stuff everybody else is saying.
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He goes, but none of those people even got through.
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You you're you were like the nexus, the connection between all that.
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And I think that's the beauty of it.
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Because I'm not a scientist, I'm just a guy who lived in Indiana, who built a program on his couch and had enough belief in it that I could find somebody that I could help with the program.
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And you know, that's and then I just meet other people and other people, and you know, we're doing our 2026 enrollment right now.
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I've got two open seats.
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That's it.
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Oh shit.
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So it's like um I'm getting seven applications a week right now.
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And um some people are vanilla, some people are deep.
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It's interesting to see what they put.
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So I've had to go back to the board and I'm like, what's our selection process like for this year?
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Yeah.
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And um, you know, we've got uh we got 30 grand.
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That's how much money we have right now.
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And so that's about three heroes, give or take.
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And uh so it's it's exciting, but it's I'll give the same information to anybody that applies that isn't accepted into the program.
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You could still change your life.
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Everything I use is freeware from meal planning, calorie counts to workout plans to intentional change theory.
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Like, I I don't I know I own no patent on any of that, which is interesting too.
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So it's like the only thing that they won't get is our hardcore support, like around like in the circle.
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But I can give you the outline to how everyone else is affecting change in their life.
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And then the other side of me is that I love this so much.
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No one's done this yet.
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But if someone actually did the program on the side without being in the program, I'd go out and find a way to get this person in the program.
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Like that, there would be so much self-directed change and energy in that that there's uh probably a hundred other business people I could call and be like, look, I just met this guy.
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This is what's going on.
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He needs to be in the program.
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We don't have cash, and somebody would sponsor him.
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I'm certain of that.
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So it's like I'm I'm out here trying to take this really good energy and put it in the right places.
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So those that have been failing with their running shoes on, someone that's been failing in the kitchen and they're repetitively going through these things and understand that you know, we don't fight homelessness, we don't fight drug addiction, we we we're not medical for PTSD, but we do help you find community and purpose.
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And we're a year-long ticket into we're a year-long ticket into a lifelong program.
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And the currency once you're in our program is to have goals, have them written down, be willing to discuss them with others in our group that are like seriously like working as hard as you work to get selected.
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Yeah.
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And not just in the gym, but in the kitchen and at their work, and it becomes a part of you.
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You know, it's that it's that success measure.
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I just got so tired of being around apathetic anything that it's like I want the real.
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If we're gonna spend my time selling for anything or trying to work towards anything, I want it to be authentic.
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Yeah.
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Dude, the thing that strikes me about this is there's there's something to be said.
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Like, we we want to take care of the veterans who are on the street.
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We want to take care of the veterans are actively in crisis and drugs.
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But what about the guy that's he's not there?
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He's working, he's got a full-time job, he's got a wife, he's present in his family, but he's not living the optimized best version of himself.
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Yeah.
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He's let he's he's constantly trying and failing and pushing.
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It's like he's pushing that rock over and over, up and up that hill every day, and it slides all the way back down.
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There's so many of us like that that just need that one person.
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It's like, hey, no, dude, you're doing a lot of work.
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Yeah, we curated the process.
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The intentional change theory is built by a Harvard psychologist.
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He's a professor at Case Western University.
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His name's Dr.
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Richard Boyatsis.
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He just dive, let's dive into that real quick.
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I haven't I've never I've never heard of that.
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Like, take us through that.
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So the intentional change theory.
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So I got a master's degree at Case Western in um writing this down.
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Yeah, that's fine.
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Organizational uh development, but it was uh positive organizational development.
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So we focused a lot on appreciative inquiry and positive emotional attractors versus negative.
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Basically, it's like a master's degree to grow an organization using growth mindset techniques, and not looking at deficit base, but looking at you know what what the growth opportunity is and a lot of that psychology in your mindset, where it's scientifically proven where they've put EKGs up and they can show mere neurons firing more in the PEA space versus the NEA's NEA space.
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Um, and for me, when I went to case, um the the thing that I stepped out of there with more than anything was a firm understanding of the intentional change theory.
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Um, which basically it's uh it's a transformational change model, which means long lasting.
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It's not, hey, I'm gonna do keto for 90 days.
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It's no for the next rest of my life I'm gonna work on becoming this next version of myself.
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It's also self-directed, and that's the the beauty of it is the self-direction is what makes something actually capable of being lasted.
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Like they've shown, like if I give you a goal, Denny, you may work that goal for a little bit, but you're not gonna work that.
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I want you to come up with the goal.
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And you know, and with the reboot project, we have we ask what's your goals?
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And we you set those goals with our team members, who that's all they do is help people set goals.
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Like, that's not what you're here for.
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You're here to set your world on fire and live the most intentional, badass life you can.
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And so that's uh um, so the intentional change theory is a change model that focuses on unpacking uh where you want to be in the future, who you are today.
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So your odd self, your real self, um, your strengths, your weaknesses, your aspirations, then basically a uh a gap analysis between your real and who you want to be, and then goal setting, you move into the experimental stage, and you also surround yourself with a community that can help to support, and that's the discovery stage.
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Um, it's so simplistic that it's beautiful.
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Um, and it's been well studied through the VA.
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I mean, anybody that wants to look at this, they can tell they can learn more about it on YouTube than I could ever tell you.
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Uh his name is Richard, Dr.
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Richard Boyatsis.
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He's got a lot of information out there.
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Um, but that's what we use.
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And um, and because I don't need anything that's difficult.
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I got enough difficult stuff in my life.
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So a great example, Denny, would be like, all right, Denny, uh, you know, who are you trying to, who, who are you trying to become in the future, in your legacy, with your spiritual, with your environment, with your uh, you know, your financial goals, with your health goals, with your physical fitness.
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And so we unpack it through 12 characteristics of life.
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And then what our motivators do, our mental motivators, are they walk you through those processes, through hour-long sessions with them, um, and help you really unpack.
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So our participants have a firm understanding of who they are, where they want to go, what the path is to get there.
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And then they've got a great support system of people that follow up with them inside of this ecosystem we developed where it's not uncommon to sit and talk about what we're out trying to achieve.
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Yeah.
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That on itself is uncommon though.
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So it is.
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It is because we we don't even if we're surrounded physically by friends and we engage, very few of us have relationships where we're sharing and goal setting and we're we're visualizing things.
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For the vast majority of us, like we got time to hang out with our friends, we're not focused on that.
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And we don't put a priority on that.
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Yeah.
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A lot of us are just looking to hang out, numb out.
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100%.
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You still need that in life.
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That's just not what the reboot project is.
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It's a place of this is a place of work instead of.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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So our our our chats and stuff, they stay professional.
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Um, we we don't get in mixed up into politics, we don't get mixed up into uh religion, we don't get mixed up into sexual orientation or any of that shit.
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Like I that's it none of that shit matters.
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The only thing that matters in your ticket is are you willing to really double down on yourself time and time and time again to build the most impactful life you can?
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And if you're not, then kudos for you because you must be living the greatest life ever.
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But as the leader of this, I've got my goals, I share, I rely on others, I have accountability partners.
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Um, I have to.
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I have to stay sharp, I have to stay in the gym, I have to stay doing these things because I don't I want I'm I'm I I gotta kind of you know lead the lead that life.
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And so Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, it's important to understand that if you want greatness, if you want something big in life, like you can't just wish.
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You can't just sit idly or and and and just think it's gonna manifest itself.
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Like that's that's something that I've seen a lot.
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Oh, storyboard it or wish board, put it on your your your dream board and and and think about it.
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I'm like, you gotta do something.
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You you have to be active and willing participant in your life.
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Yeah.
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Chat GPT has made like plans.
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I've seen more plans in these last in this last year from other people, albeit business plans or uh whatever kind of plan.
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And you know what I hear next most of the time is I'm gonna.
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I'm gonna.
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Because I'll follow up with people randomly during the day and be like, hey, how's this going?
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What are you doing?
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I'm gonna.
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And I'm like, ah, you're you're you're the 99%.
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I'm gonna give her the 1%.
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I call out my friends and I'm like, so the we're every time I ask you this, you're gonna.
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Like, are you really gonna do that?
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I didn't just sit here and say, I'm gonna build this nonprofit.
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I don't have it hardly any of the answers.
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I was talking to one of our mental motivators today, and she was like, Well, what's this gonna look like?
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I have no idea.
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We finally have outcomes, they're favorable.
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We knew the process was good, but I didn't know exactly what the stories would be.
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Um, you know, I had a guy that we posted out on LinkedIn today.
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Um, and uh uh it's one of the first, it is the first result I've ever shared publicly.
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His story was so great.
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Um, I called him, yeah, I served with this guy in the Marine Corps.
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He was on um a VA, uh he was at a VA meeting, he had a mini stroke.
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And um two weeks ago, that that was a year ago, two weeks ago today, he was up on top of that 14er with me, 50 pounds lighter, um, with the gym regiment of five days a week and goals that he set and a new lease on life completely, like ready to whoop it on.
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And uh those speak for themselves, man.
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And so it's like that's to to to see the outcome of this.
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Um, the only thing I told the this person on our team was, you know, whatever we do, let's just make it a little bit incrementally better.
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Um, but at the same time, it's like it takes a strong this guy, the doctor said, Hey, you're gonna be dead in a year.
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So I told this guy I had a program and he was like, I'm in.
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He didn't even care what it was.
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The kind of intention that I'm looking for.
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He's like, or or something new, and I don't know what to do.
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I've tried it all.
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I tried all these things, and we said, Hey, don't worry.
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You know, still check in with your doctor because of the medical advisors, but I'm telling you, man, just let's start eating right, let's start working out, get in our group, and this guy motivates the crap out of me.
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And what's really cool is he he came back around and he's like, This is so weird that you're the guy that helped me.
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I served with you.
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You were kind of an asshole back in the early 2000s, and now you're over here helping me live my life and save my life, you know?
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And um, and uh I've learned so much from him, and it's just it's so motivating to be a part of somebody's life like that.
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So yeah, man.
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It it I I love the the fitness focus as uh aspect of this because like I started a whoop community, and when I first started it for the the Special Force Foundation, it's like, oh, why why are we trying to put emphasis on this?
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Like, why is this something that we want to focus on?
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I'm like, I don't care if we get two people or three people.
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You don't realize like there's a connective tissue to our mental health and our physical health.
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If we can just get that one guy off the couch to try a workout, yeah, to just get back in the gym, to offer him a little bit of incentive, a little brother, a little bit of brotherhood to just go out there and go for a walk, go for a jog, do some body weight at work.
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Workouts.
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Like, often enough, like that'll spark a fire within somebody to go back and just think of like the person they they used to be.
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Like, fuck, I was a man of action before.
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I used to be able to do this all the time.
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Like, dude, if you've fallen out of love with fitness, I get it.
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But I'm challenging you right now, if you're listening to this, find your passion for it again.
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Even if it's starting all the way to just doing a walk, doing a lap around the neighborhood.
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There's no shame in that, man.
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Start.
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Start somewhere.
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Start today.
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Like it's it's a great catalyst for putting everything else in action, man.
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Like getting your goals for the day written down.
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Everybody shits on that when I bring it up.
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But it's important, man.
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At the end of the day, looking at that little task, that list of things you were going to do.
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It's like, fuck yeah.
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I didn't get everything, but I got most of it.
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And then all the things I didn't get done, I'm gonna put on the next day and the next day.
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And then you quickly s realize how big of a like snowball effect it gets because then you start throwing some wazoo shit on there for something that you dreamt of a long time ago.
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And you're like, yeah, I'm gonna start that business.
00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:30.960
Like it's important to dream, it's important to put things out there, but you have to be a person of action.
00:31:31.039 --> 00:31:34.640
And that's a great thing about having people around you that can keep you accountable.
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Because you're never gonna climb that mountain if you just say to yourself, I'm gonna climb that mountain.
00:31:39.440 --> 00:31:44.640
When you get that group of brothers and sisters, they're like, Yeah, uh, doing a workout for it.
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Yeah, and you I think once you start even tippy toeing into that community, you'll see that there's a lot more people in the community than you'd realize.
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Yeah, there's a lot of people like I like I have a friend that took breath work and um integrated this staff into it, um, where it's this crazy core workout, like this wooden staff this guy curates.
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Uh, it's called so he he created his own business and variation called breath tone.
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And um so I was telling my wife about the breath work, and she's like, Oh, yeah, I do yoga every morning.
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I was like, What?
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Denny, this is a woman I spend every morning with.
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I spend all day with my wife.
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And I'm like, You do yoga?
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She's like, Yeah, you're normally out on your walk or doing something.
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And I was like, Oh, for real?
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And so um, there's as you start getting aware of these different modalities out there that people use to find their center and and and things like that, it's not, it doesn't just have to be in the gym.
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Um, yeah, and uh it the the resets are nice.
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Um, but for me, they're definitely, you know, I'm a Midwestern, middle-aged guy.
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And they're, you know, I was like, breath work?
00:32:58.799 --> 00:32:59.200
What's that?
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:01.440
And they're like, oh, you got to work on breathing.
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I'm like, don't, don't we?
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I've been doing this my whole life.
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What kind of stuff is this, right?
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Um but uh, but believe it or not, like I even with him, I had a moment out in Colorado on a mountain where uh something was really bothering me.
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And I asked him, I said, here's the time, I can't get this out of my head.
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And as we were walking down the mountain, um, he ran me through a little three-minute exercise where like I visualized the activity of releasing that from my body and then did some of his breath work affirmation.
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And I promise, I until right now, I hadn't talked about it again, and I've never thought about the problem.
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It I literally saw it in my body leave, and I was like, this is I don't know how I feel about this voodoo, this voodoo life.
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Now I'm a believer too, so I'm like, that's even weirder for me, to be honest.
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I mean, it's just I can understand calories and push-ups and squats and how all that works, but I was like, this the yoga stuff, man.
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That yeah, man, uh, it's a it's a real thing.
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And so there is a small community of people out there doing it.
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And I think uh for us, it's it's been the feedback I've gotten with the reboot project is that individuals have a hard time wrapping around their head that somebody would care this much to focus this much on them.
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Um and that's why this is so special, it's the golden ticket.
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Um, you can go to the VA, you can go to a hundred other different iterations and get these services.
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Uh, this is built upon the total self.
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Like we totally unpack the things that you want and need and have probably never told anybody, and get you to a lever of vulnerability with just us, and we sign NDAs and all these other things because we want to create this space.
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Um, and it's truly valuing somebody for who they are, and uh, and then helping them feel like they can be who they are.
00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:17.519
Because the other thing is we all have these titles, whether in corporate America or and the work uh, you know, the the the military workforce or you know, whatever the whatever the title somebody has given us, um eventually you won't have that title anymore, and you'll just be left with I'm I'm Brian.
00:35:17.599 --> 00:35:21.119
And when I tell people I used to do this, do people really care?
00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:28.960
No, you know, and and I see it all the time with um, you know, the it I call it's like Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamo.
00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:33.039
I used to be on a throw, it's like go tell your kid how you used to be tough.
00:35:33.280 --> 00:35:34.639
And that's what I'm talking about.
00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:36.000
They're gonna go, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:39.119
You know, and that's how it is in the business sector.
00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:40.800
It's like I used to be this and that.
00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:42.880
And I'm like, eventually nobody cares.
00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:47.440
And if they do, they only care because they want something from you, and that's the care, right?
00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:52.320
And so it's like kind of like how do you shed yourself from that to be comfortable with yourself?
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:59.360
And that's what that's what transformation out of the military service or even the business sector or the pro sports.
00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:02.960
I've talked to tons of pro athletes, business people, military folks.
00:36:03.119 --> 00:36:04.159
We're all the same.
00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:16.480
We all had these titles because we're people, and these titles meant something, and we carried around, and some of us were saluted, and some of us were you know bowed to, or whatever the case may be, but that time doesn't last forever.
00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:17.599
Not at all, man.
00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:20.000
Who are you when you're sitting on the couch, Denny?
00:36:20.079 --> 00:36:20.320
You know?
00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:20.800
Yeah.
00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:32.159
Yeah, that that purpose and identity so so wrapped around and such a painful part of the transition process, man, for so many guys.
00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:41.679
Because they're they get the idea that who they were when when they served was the best version of themselves.
00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:53.920
Now they're on the outside and they don't have that fancy beret, that cool trident, you know, that that physical thing that says, I'm elite, I'm worthy of your attention.
00:36:54.480 --> 00:37:02.480
Like how do we incentivize people that to realize that everything that they had is still with them?
00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:12.960
How do we how do we break that this this constant chain of identity issues with our military service members and let them know that like man, like you're still that great human being.
00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:14.960
All those assets are still yours.
00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:21.360
Like you're just walking into a new chapter and be grateful for it, be happy, be excited about it, man.
00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:24.639
Like you just you just prestige on a whole different level.
00:37:24.719 --> 00:37:27.039
Now you get to be you, just you.
00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:34.239
But it it's so difficult to try to tell people like nah, man, like this is a bonus, this is an exciting chapter of your life.
00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:34.719
Yeah.
00:37:34.880 --> 00:37:36.800
Like you get to be you.
00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:37.360
Yeah.
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:41.280
And it's it's scary, uh, but it's cool.
00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:41.760
Yeah.
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:43.760
Because you really get to lean into that.
00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:47.599
You know, my my my best friend right now, he just graduated or graduated.
00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:49.199
I keep saying graduated, he retired.
00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:51.119
Graduated, retired, same thing.
00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:58.239
He'd been in the army his whole life, and he just got out sergeant major, and uh, you know, he's kicking the dirt around right now.
00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:01.840
We played golf a couple days in a row, and he's like, Who am I becoming?
00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:02.800
And what do I do?
00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:05.199
Do I get another job and do I do all these things?
00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:09.280
And we talked a lot about the reboot project, and is it right for him right now?
00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:12.480
And the answer is no, which may be shocking.
00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:24.559
But I found that the sweet spot thus far is somebody who has when you get out of the military, the first thing you need to do is either find a job or address your mental health.
00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:26.960
That's my absolute.
00:38:27.679 --> 00:38:28.320
So we're not there.
00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:31.039
I'm not, I'm not at that bottom of the pyramid.
00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:34.079
I'm for someone that's got a little bit of escape velocity.
00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:36.639
They've got some room for growth in their life.
00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:41.519
And I think to understand that, um, we don't find you a job.
00:38:41.760 --> 00:38:48.239
Um, we can help you optimize your job through our network, but I can't help you put food on the table.
00:38:48.400 --> 00:38:54.320
Um, I can't, I can't help you deal with your demons uh if they need that level of dealing.
00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:56.239
I can't help you find a house.
00:38:56.480 --> 00:39:01.360
And so there are a lot of good VSOs out there that are focused on employment.
00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:02.480
Lots of them are.
00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:06.559
And they need to be because don't call me right when you're getting out.
00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:09.440
I'm just gonna have to send you to a referral partner.
00:39:09.679 --> 00:39:13.039
So, you know, for me, I'm I'm for up for you, Daddy.
00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:15.119
We've been out, we're we're for us.
00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:21.440
And everybody we both know together who are looking in the mirror and we're like, is this all that's here?
00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:23.199
Is this all that I've got?
00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:24.639
Who have I become, right?
00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:27.199
And it's like, yeah, that's who we're that's who we're for.
00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:28.159
So it's a weird little nick.
00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:31.199
I think it's the the the second crisis is what I like to call it.
00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:41.760
Like you you made it through transition, you you got into that job, you've been going at it, and you wake up and you look at yourself like, what the fuck?
00:39:42.159 --> 00:39:43.440
What the fuck?
00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:44.639
100%.
00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:46.800
100%, man.
00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:56.960
And and it's uh but it's it's that crisis that whether you whether you you don't have a hero tied to your tag or not, your parents went through it.
00:39:57.199 --> 00:39:59.199
Your your wife's parents went through it.
00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:00.320
Humans go through it.
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:06.719
It's that midlife crisis thing, but you know, it doesn't necessarily have to happen midlife, and you don't have to buy a Corvette.
00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:09.679
And it doesn't have to be a man, it could be a woman.
00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:19.039
And it there's there's there's all these different things that uh are gonna affect us during the life span.
00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:26.400
And um, you know, I can't fix them all, and you can't either, but you can have somewhat of a plan.
00:40:26.960 --> 00:40:37.920
Um and uh I like what you said though, is it you know, if we all had that warrior in us at some point in time, we were all that younger version of ourselves at one point in time.
00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:52.159
That's why I like working with veterans and first responders, is because I know what the characteristics are underneath the clothes and whatever they have to say, especially it's different when I get on the phone with another Marine.
00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:59.119
I'm sure with you, when it's when it's a team guy to team guy, operator to operator, and you're having those conversations, it's different.
00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:03.519
When I talk to a Marine, it's like, dude, the gloves are way off, way different.
00:41:03.679 --> 00:41:04.079
Yep.
00:41:04.239 --> 00:41:06.800
And whether you're an officer, don't care.
00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:11.679
Like, you know, and uh and and it's it's reciprocated that way.
00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:14.079
And I think it's just it's no bullshit.
00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:16.079
It's like what you get one life.
00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:21.920
Do you want to make it the best you can, or do you just want to go through the way you're going through it?
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:22.639
That's on you.
00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:24.320
You get to answer that question.
00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:25.599
I don't have to answer it.
00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:29.840
I'm just out there saying, I've got something that can help if you want that.
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:33.039
And if we don't ever find anybody, I'll just go surf.
00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:34.639
That's that's okay.
00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:39.119
But if some if there is somebody that calls later and says they want it, I'm there.
00:41:39.199 --> 00:41:45.599
And I that's what I just kind of built it, and then the universe is gonna decide you know what the what the value is.
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:52.239
And so the meaning of the gesture is in the response, and uh that's where I'm seeing the response right now.
00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:56.960
People are vibant on this and want to live a better life, and it and it's cool.
00:41:57.039 --> 00:42:01.679
So you either people either support it financially or they ask to enroll.
00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:08.559
Some people do both, and um you know, and so it's a it's a neat little matrix there for sure.
00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:12.880
Yeah, it it's um dude.
00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:19.440
They uh they're out there in in large numbers, the people that need this.
00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:26.239
More often than not, like we we focus, we hyper focus on, like I said earlier, the the individuals in crisis.
00:42:26.320 --> 00:42:29.199
The individuals are struggling, they're really bad.
00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:32.880
But man, there's something to be said for the guy or gal that's in there.
00:42:33.039 --> 00:42:38.800
They're taking care of their family, they got their career, and at the end of the day, they're like, fuck, I just need a win.
00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:45.119
I gotta get my weight under control, or I wish I could just fucking break this plateau, get out of this funk.
00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:45.599
Yeah.
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:59.360
And I think that's a larger demographic of people that are left out of the discussion because we're so we're so worried about the guy, and rightly so, we're so worried about the guy or gal who we're we're trying to get him into tomorrow.
00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:04.159
We're trying to get him to stay in the fight, but we can't forget about everybody else.
00:43:04.320 --> 00:43:07.920
And I think this is something that I haven't seen anybody else address.
00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:10.079
I because it it resonates with me, man.
00:43:10.239 --> 00:43:13.039
I gotta tell you, it resonates with a lot of my friends.
00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:17.039
The individuals are out there, they're functioning, they're keeping it together.
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:18.719
They just want that win, man.
00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:28.559
They just want to be able to focus and and and get back from that goal-setting mindset, be able to get that win, get that that next feeling of like, fuck, okay, I can do this.
00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:32.159
I've been fucking batting zeros, zeros, zeros.
00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:39.440
I just want to hit that home run, get back in that best shape, get back into that achieving something that's meaningful.
00:43:39.760 --> 00:43:45.519
And so what what you guys are building, what you've built, is very much needed.
00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:47.440
So, how do people get access to it?
00:43:47.519 --> 00:43:49.199
How do how are people applying?
00:43:49.440 --> 00:43:53.519
Yeah, so um, I'll I'll back up and say it's a very much us.
00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:56.480
So like I threw this thing together.
00:43:56.639 --> 00:44:01.199
I went out and found the money to get this thing out and rolling, and it's rolling.
00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:04.000
Uh, and uh it's not going anywhere.
00:44:04.079 --> 00:44:05.920
So that's the other thing I can promise.
00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:10.400
Whether anybody gives us money ever again or not, it's not going anywhere.
00:44:10.480 --> 00:44:16.880
It's already been endowed for a couple people a year until you and I won't even live on this earth any longer.
00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:27.920
I I took my son up at uh Grey's Peak um on fall break uh Latin and gave him a little taste of what you know our summit, our hero summits like.
00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:35.760
And so I'm already building the next leaders of it if something happens to me because it's it's gonna be here that long, Denny.
00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:43.119
No, you can't take us out and uh and you can't steal what we're doing because it's already free.
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:48.960
So I'm the most free I've ever felt in my life and happy at the same time.
00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:52.719
Um, so our application process is just through our website, man.
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:54.719
The rebootproject.org.
00:44:54.880 --> 00:44:56.000
There's a button.
00:44:56.159 --> 00:45:00.559
Um my my phone number is printed out there, all my social media.
00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:02.400
I'm so easy to be found.
00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:03.760
Um, I want to.
00:45:04.320 --> 00:45:11.840
Um those that get in have to make an incredibly compelling argument to why they're the one.
00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:15.760
Um hats off to the community, though.
00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:19.840
Everybody understands because they get asked, are you sure you're the one?
00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:22.239
Do you do you need this ticket?
00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:28.480
And I've had plenty of individuals say, you know what, I'm not, I don't think I'm the one.
00:45:28.639 --> 00:45:31.199
I am one of them, but I don't think I'm the one.
00:45:31.599 --> 00:45:37.599
And uh so a little stupid saying, everyone will be heard, but not everybody can join.
00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:58.079
Um, and uh, and it's definitely uh um even if somebody gave us$10 million, it's we're small batch, super limited bottle count a year, um, because we want to put that much time and attention on our heroes to we we want success stories.
00:45:58.239 --> 00:46:01.199
After a year of something, you better have some results, right?
00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:01.519
Absolutely.
00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:03.519
I mean, otherwise, what are we doing?
00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:14.239
And um, and so yeah, so just through you know, our Instagram, Facebook, or um, you know, my LinkedIn account or the website, it's like I can definitely be reached.
00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:18.320
And um I have real conversations with everybody that applies.
00:46:18.400 --> 00:46:19.760
So everybody gets a phone call.
00:46:19.920 --> 00:46:21.119
It's not a text or this.
00:46:21.199 --> 00:46:22.079
I don't farm it out.
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:24.239
No, I you get you get to talk to me.
00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:24.880
Woo.
00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:27.039
As cheating as that is.
00:46:28.000 --> 00:46:28.800
Sorry.
00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:32.079
No, I mean, that's important too, man.
00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:32.800
That's important.
00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:42.800
We've all heard the stories of those nonprofits that get so big and it doesn't even feel like you're connected with a human being on the other end of the line when you need a resource, when you need help.
00:46:42.960 --> 00:46:43.119
Yeah.
00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:50.559
Uh, when you keep it like this, you know you're connecting with a real human being that really cares because Brian was there.
00:46:50.800 --> 00:46:51.679
He went through this.
00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:52.880
Yeah, 100%.
00:46:53.360 --> 00:46:59.679
And uh, you know, a great little story on how this, you know, even how I intertwined the mountain with this.
00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:01.039
So I don't know, man.
00:47:01.119 --> 00:47:04.400
In early 2000s, I saw a 60-minute episode.
00:47:04.559 --> 00:47:19.760
Uh, a gentleman named Tim, he was an XL Hells Angels guy, got in a motorcycle accident, broke all his bones, ended up in the hospital on September 11th, woke up, the bott, the the bottom just fell out of the United States when the you know the towers got hit.
00:47:20.480 --> 00:47:29.440
And uh Tim had to reteach himself how to walk, and then he decided he was gonna help our blown-up heroes learn how to walk too.
00:47:29.599 --> 00:47:35.840
And so Tim was doing an interview on 60 Minutes, um, his nonprofits, the heroes project.
00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:46.559
And uh um Tim uh was uh uh he taking double amputees and you know, single amputees and blown up guys and gals.
00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:51.119
Um he took the first double amputee up Mount Everest, big mountain, right?
00:47:51.280 --> 00:47:52.239
High alpinist.
00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:54.800
Tim's a wild man, he's way more of a rock star.
00:47:54.880 --> 00:47:58.079
I I like to remind him I'm the little brother.
00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:00.159
I take people up the little mountains.
00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:05.280
We still do a lot of big work, but I'm not going all the way up there to do the big climbs like that.
00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:08.320
So Tim's been up those big mountains time after time.
00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:18.639
Um so there's a community of of other individuals out there doing stuff like we're doing, but I think it's important to say that we uh we do them together.
00:48:18.880 --> 00:48:30.239
So I I talked to Tim and Stephanie there, who works with Tim, and um uh they're opening up a veterans uh um uh retreat in Mount Baldi.
00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:33.119
It's the first veterans retreat in California.
00:48:33.360 --> 00:48:35.920
And so it's on Mount Baldi up in Upland.
00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:42.559
And uh um, you know, hopefully we get to do the reboot project there, like have a place.
00:48:42.639 --> 00:48:45.280
Like we're trying to figure out like how can we work together?
00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:47.280
It's definitely one team, one fight.
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:52.480
So even you know, I say everything we've got can be stolen because it I stole it.
00:48:52.639 --> 00:48:58.639
Let's yeah, I took some guys' process and a bunch of other stuff and put it together, and then I marketed it.
00:48:58.880 --> 00:49:05.920
Um, and uh uh what you can't still is that we're cool ass people and we're empathetic.
00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:10.320
Um we like to work hard and we hold each other accountable.
00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:18.719
Um so if you're not that person and you're trying to attract a group of people to be that way, and then you you have to find somebody that can really bring that together.
00:49:18.880 --> 00:49:23.840
Um, but I just think it's important to know that we work together with a ton of nonprofits, man.
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:27.519
And yeah, there's bad actors out there, and I've met some.
00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:33.599
Um, but believe it or not, I've met better, I've met good people more than I've met bad people.
00:49:33.760 --> 00:49:41.519
So even with all the VSOs out there and all the heat I've ever heard, it's like I'm not here to, I'm looking for more good ones to talk to.
00:49:41.599 --> 00:49:52.079
So I would also say if you're a good nonprofit out there, hit me up because I mean, this is this isn't just about me walking down the street carrying my flag.
00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:56.320
I definitely want to be able to help other people that are doing great stuff at the same way.
00:49:56.400 --> 00:50:00.880
Yeah, so I got a few I can connect you with uh that I'm I'm pretty partial to.
00:50:01.119 --> 00:50:01.360
Cool.
00:50:01.519 --> 00:50:05.840
So that'd be a great, great uh conversation after the episode wraps.
00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:12.079
But uh I I do think that we need more synergy and more connection between good nonprofits, man.
00:50:12.320 --> 00:50:14.719
I think everybody has a piece of the puzzle.
00:50:15.039 --> 00:50:27.039
And when we partner up and we engage, and like look, if if somebody shows up at your door and you're not the right resource, why turn them away when you can just direct them to the next person, the right person?
00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:38.880
And I think that needs to happen because some of the stories I've heard, it's like within special operations, we have some great, great spotlights shining on us to help our brothers and sisters.
00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:40.719
But what about our paratroopers?
00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:41.760
What about our infantrymen?
00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:50.960
Yeah, what about the uh 0311 that was friggin' in the fucking in the fight in Fallujah, getting after it?
00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:52.320
Where's the support for him?
00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:54.880
Yeah, where's the support that that he deserves?
00:50:55.039 --> 00:51:07.280
And I think we need to be more aware of how we can impact and support our entire community, not just focus on the the guys that got the fancy hats and and the cool tridents, but everybody.
00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:10.719
So it really pisses people off when I don't even know.
00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:15.679
Like I just walk like rock walked back into the veteran space in 2023.
00:51:16.079 --> 00:51:25.519
People are talking about teams and 10th mountain and 10th group and CAG and all this stuff, and I I'm like, I don't even know what that means.
00:51:27.039 --> 00:51:32.400
None of you are special because I don't have any IQ around any of that cool stuff, man.
00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:43.440
I was an Amtracker in the Marine Corps, and so we carried grunts in the back, we were combat support, but um, you know, and and so like I have definitely no ego around that.
00:51:43.519 --> 00:51:46.400
And somebody asked me once, like, do you help disabled vets?
00:51:46.480 --> 00:51:48.400
And I was like, I've never met one that isn't.
00:51:48.639 --> 00:51:52.400
So true, man.
00:51:52.559 --> 00:51:52.880
Have you?
00:51:53.039 --> 00:51:53.599
So true.
00:51:53.840 --> 00:52:01.519
So so the the answer, we're we're all disabled vets helping disabled vets, because it's like there's I don't know anybody that doesn't have a rating.
00:52:01.679 --> 00:52:07.199
So and it actually, no, I I do know a few, but they're they got screwed over.
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:12.159
They didn't file, and I'm constantly telling people, like, dude, go get your VA benefits.
00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:14.000
Like, yeah, no, no, I mean I don't deserve it.
00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:19.199
And I'm like, you're literally missing two fingers in one hand from a combat-related incident.
00:52:19.280 --> 00:52:24.400
Yeah, yeah, I know, but and it's everybody always comparing their their situation, man.
00:52:24.639 --> 00:52:28.000
And it's like, dude, no, they're your benefits, you heard them.
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100%.
00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:31.280
It's like JG Wentworth, it's your money, get it now.
00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:34.639
Oh man, that's so true.
00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:35.360
So true.
00:52:35.519 --> 00:52:39.519
But dude, before we wrap this up, man, how's life for you lately?
00:52:39.679 --> 00:52:47.760
Now that you're you know, you turn the spotlight on serving and and being there for others, how's it affected you?
00:52:47.920 --> 00:52:50.000
Are you able to still pour back into your cup?
00:52:50.079 --> 00:52:54.719
Are you like a lot of the people that I met that uh are constantly running on empty?
00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:56.480
Yeah, this is my cup.
00:52:56.639 --> 00:53:00.079
Um so part of this was Machiavellian.
00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:05.199
Um, I wanted to wear a black hat for the rest of my life backwards.
00:53:05.440 --> 00:53:07.440
I wanted to grow my hair long.
00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:16.400
Um, I just want to wear a black t-shirt and preferably never a collared shirt again, and um be able to talk eye to eye to folks.
00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:16.960
Yeah.
00:53:17.119 --> 00:53:20.719
Um, and uh this is my boardroom.
00:53:20.880 --> 00:53:25.119
I've been in the other boardrooms, those people didn't really want me in the boardroom.
00:53:25.280 --> 00:53:26.719
Yeah, trust me.
00:53:27.039 --> 00:53:36.880
So and that's cool because I've you know, I learned a lot in their boardrooms, and uh, and that's good, but but this is really my boardroom now.
00:53:37.039 --> 00:53:40.880
And um I've met more great people.
00:53:41.039 --> 00:53:44.639
Shout out to Brian Ray, reality media.
00:53:44.719 --> 00:53:56.639
I mean, that guy, if he's not my younger doppelganger, um, you know, like he'd like in so many ways, uh, that guy uh he affects me in a way that he has no idea.
00:53:56.800 --> 00:53:59.440
He's probably always wondering, like, what what is this guy?
00:53:59.599 --> 00:54:02.960
He's always calling me, like, I just show up in this guy's life already.
00:54:03.199 --> 00:54:07.199
Um the that contact came through Chad Conley, though, through 50 of the fall.
00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:07.440
Yeah.
00:54:07.679 --> 00:54:07.840
Okay.
00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:08.480
Hell yeah.
00:54:08.639 --> 00:54:09.920
So shout out to Chad.
00:54:10.000 --> 00:54:17.440
He was the first guy after I left corporate America that actually made me believe more in myself than I've ever believed in myself in life.
00:54:17.679 --> 00:54:20.239
That guy's just had that effect, right?
00:54:20.480 --> 00:54:23.599
Um on I personally support 50.
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I'm a donor.
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Uh I believe in I believe in Chad and what they're doing.
00:54:28.480 --> 00:54:31.039
Um, I do you know Johans Bolden?
00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:32.960
Uh, We Are Warpath?
00:54:33.519 --> 00:54:33.679
No.
00:54:34.239 --> 00:54:35.119
Okay, another guy.
00:54:35.199 --> 00:54:39.199
Basically, Chad was my six six degrees of separation from Chad Conley.
00:54:39.440 --> 00:54:43.519
Chad Conley introduced me to so many individuals, um good individuals.
00:54:43.760 --> 00:54:59.199
And um, and so uh my uh my ecosystem of people that are walking the same life as me, we all have our different needs, but it's like if I can help B-Ray do whatever I can do, I'm there.
00:54:59.360 --> 00:55:05.920
Um, and then all I ask of him is if I'm helping him, that he helps me, and then we help we, somebody else in the group.
00:55:06.159 --> 00:55:09.199
And so it's just it's just passing it on.
00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:12.719
So I'm like, you know, how you know, how can I help you build a business, Brian?
00:55:12.880 --> 00:55:27.119
How can I help you do this, that, you know, and and you know, remind each other to call each other's wives and be like, hey, you know, really appreciate you allowing this individual to leave your life to come hang out with me and your A while I climb an ice mountain, right?
00:55:27.760 --> 00:55:29.440
Things like things like that, right?
00:55:29.519 --> 00:55:33.519
And so it's um for my bucket's been amazing from that perspective.
00:55:33.760 --> 00:55:38.320
Um and then my kids, I have older kids, uh 20-year-old and a 17-year-old.
00:55:38.559 --> 00:55:38.960
What?
00:55:39.199 --> 00:55:39.760
Yeah, man.
00:55:39.920 --> 00:55:42.159
So I've been married for 23 years.
00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:43.519
Uh how old are you?
00:55:43.599 --> 00:55:44.719
Because you look younger than me.
00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:45.760
45.
00:55:46.239 --> 00:55:47.119
Oh, fuck.
00:55:47.280 --> 00:55:48.079
What am I doing?
00:55:48.719 --> 00:55:49.280
What am I doing?
00:55:49.599 --> 00:55:50.559
My skincare routine.
00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:51.519
No, I'm kidding.
00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:53.599
It's the silk pillow.
00:55:53.760 --> 00:55:54.320
You look great.
00:55:54.559 --> 00:55:57.679
The silk pillowcase and the collagen and my coffee.
00:55:57.840 --> 00:55:59.280
Oh my god.
00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:08.079
Yeah, so um, you know, getting to my son does um our graphic design work for the reboot project, which is really cool.
00:56:08.239 --> 00:56:09.360
So he helps out with that.
00:56:09.440 --> 00:56:12.079
He helps set up uh so many different things.
00:56:12.239 --> 00:56:17.760
Um, and then um, you know, I have a uh another son who's 19 and he's in Purdue.
00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:19.199
He's a junior in Purdue.
00:56:19.440 --> 00:56:22.159
They get to see dad in this new iteration.
00:56:22.320 --> 00:56:27.840
I had I my transition, nobody got to see when I left the Marine Corps, it was so long ago, it was 2005.
00:56:28.079 --> 00:56:32.400
When I came home and told my wife, hey, I quit my day job, and she said, What?
00:56:33.199 --> 00:56:42.639
Everyone was like, this guy's either gonna become a junkie or uh we don't I don't they didn't know what was gonna happen.
00:56:42.800 --> 00:56:44.400
I didn't know it was gonna happen.
00:56:45.039 --> 00:56:45.519
Yeah.
00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:47.039
And so this is what happened.
00:56:47.119 --> 00:56:50.480
So they they get to see dad's rebirth and my reboot.
00:56:50.559 --> 00:56:51.599
This was my reboot.
00:56:51.760 --> 00:56:57.119
And when I told the marketing guy, Chris, I said, hey man, I need you to help me bring this brand to life.
00:56:57.360 --> 00:57:02.239
We didn't even have a name, but we knew that the Brian Bush project was stupid.
00:57:02.400 --> 00:57:03.599
That sounded dumb.
00:57:03.920 --> 00:57:06.159
But off the bat, this is dumb.
00:57:06.480 --> 00:57:06.880
Don't do that.
00:57:07.199 --> 00:57:07.840
That was gone.
00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:22.960
But the reboot project made sense in so many ways, um, because it it allows me to show up day or night as myself, and I can always represent the reboot project because this is me, man.
00:57:23.039 --> 00:57:27.440
Like this is I'm only talking about this because I've been talking about this my whole life.
00:57:27.599 --> 00:57:33.039
This is when I worked at Goodwill helping it all those individuals we talked about earlier, that's my heart.
00:57:33.199 --> 00:57:34.400
That's what I'm doing.
00:57:34.639 --> 00:57:42.000
And whether I do it in honestly, Goodwill Sandbox was uh was a great place for me to really hone and learn my skills.
00:57:42.159 --> 00:57:58.000
And then, you know, as I got really good and sharp, for me to come and and take 17 years of worth of doing this inside of their organization to build my own and run it the way I want to and help the population I want to help specifically, that's an ace in the hole.
00:57:58.079 --> 00:57:59.039
I'm a happy guy right now.
00:57:59.199 --> 00:57:59.519
Oh, yeah.
00:57:59.679 --> 00:58:01.760
So dude, you're crushing it, man.
00:58:01.840 --> 00:58:14.159
And then the the thing that I love is finding individuals that not only come to you willingly with like asking, like just for support, but being able to give that support right back to you.
00:58:14.320 --> 00:58:17.679
That's something that like that's that's needed more.
00:58:17.840 --> 00:58:21.360
Like, don't just take but give back and be willing to work for each other.
00:58:21.519 --> 00:58:25.039
Like, that's one thing that I'm constantly, constantly running into.
00:58:25.119 --> 00:58:29.519
And I'm like, dude, like be willing to give back as much as you receive, dude.
00:58:29.599 --> 00:58:35.039
Yeah, don't just be that person that's constantly asking and asking and never giving back.
00:58:35.199 --> 00:58:35.360
Yeah.
00:58:35.519 --> 00:58:36.880
Like, dude, it's gone a long way.
00:58:37.039 --> 00:58:38.320
And I would tell you too, there's someone else.
00:58:38.400 --> 00:58:41.679
We have a mutual friend, uh, Courtney Zog.
00:58:42.400 --> 00:58:44.719
Yes! Right?
00:58:45.039 --> 00:58:47.280
Six degrees of separation of Courtney.
00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:48.159
You know, right?
00:58:48.719 --> 00:58:58.400
Dude, let me tell you, man, like there was a lot of times in this endeavor where you're like, fuck, man, I just need one fucking person to believe.
00:58:58.559 --> 00:59:03.360
That woman's been a backer of Security Halt since I went fucking public with it, man.
00:59:03.440 --> 00:59:06.639
When I the first big thing I ever did was go to MIC.
00:59:06.719 --> 00:59:12.239
And that that woman, her family, I have always had my back.
00:59:12.320 --> 00:59:12.639
Yeah.
00:59:12.800 --> 00:59:14.880
Like professionally and personally, man.
00:59:14.960 --> 00:59:22.639
Like one of the first people to set us a baby gift, one of the first people that the celebrate when I finish my bachelor's degree.
00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:24.480
Talk about an amazing human being.
00:59:24.559 --> 00:59:25.360
Yeah, it's Courtney.
00:59:25.679 --> 00:59:28.639
Well, and I bring that up because we talked about supporting others, right?
00:59:28.719 --> 00:59:39.360
And then the vet to vet space where everyone's all wigged out about funding, and and I that's why people don't help each other is because they're all afraid someone's gonna take their money because it it's probably a well-worn path, right?
00:59:39.519 --> 00:59:44.719
Yeah, and uh um and with Courtney, it was interesting.
00:59:44.960 --> 00:59:47.440
Um, you know, I met her.
00:59:48.079 --> 00:59:59.519
I don't even know how I met Courtney, um, but I've only actually sat across from her once, and uh um that's all it took.
00:59:59.599 --> 01:00:01.920
We Had tons of conversations after that.
01:00:02.079 --> 01:00:03.760
She introduced me to Notre Dame.
01:00:03.920 --> 01:00:06.400
So I'm working with their Steam program right now.
01:00:06.480 --> 01:00:14.320
I've got an intern from Notre Dame because Courtney called the director of the school and they reached out to me and asked if I'd like to participate in the program, right?
01:00:14.639 --> 01:00:23.199
And so there's a lot of these heartfelt connections where it's like, and then she even sits on the board for another nonprofit.
01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:26.719
So she's running her own thing and then sits on a board for another nonprofit.
01:00:26.880 --> 01:00:29.440
I'm always like, dude, how do you have time for all these nonprofits?
01:00:29.519 --> 01:00:29.760
Right.
01:00:29.920 --> 01:00:34.000
And I think uh one team, one fight is what comes to mind.
01:00:34.159 --> 01:00:43.199
And so always try to drop venture vets if I can uh in the conversation because um I definitely think that she's a real one.
01:00:43.360 --> 01:00:47.679
There's been other ones too, Marta from Marine Corps Association MCA.
01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:53.440
Um she's the VP of uh Spouses um and does uh modern day marine.
01:00:53.519 --> 01:00:54.639
She puts that on.
01:00:54.800 --> 01:00:58.320
Um she's been a huge supporter to talk to me.
01:00:58.559 --> 01:01:11.280
Um and um yeah, it's it's you know, those are the individuals that come to mind that uh even even Timothy Heroes project when I contacted him and go, you don't know me, but I'm coming to LA.
01:01:11.360 --> 01:01:13.360
And he's like, come to Hollywood and see us.
01:01:13.440 --> 01:01:22.480
And so, you know, we went and had a long conversation, and you know, the I support, you know, I I you know I support these other nonprofits monetarily too.
01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:29.280
Like I write checks out of my own bank account to them because I want my money to speak where my mouth is.
01:01:29.440 --> 01:01:37.039
Like I believe in them and they need to know that too, because what I've learned is no matter how big you are when you're out there, it's very lonely.
01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:46.239
And everybody says they support, and everybody does this, and everybody likes, but you know, I I really if I say I support, I do.
01:01:46.559 --> 01:01:50.960
Like, you know, you get you get a little something from JP Morgan and Chase.
01:01:51.280 --> 01:01:54.159
So oh man.
01:01:54.320 --> 01:01:55.519
Yeah, yeah, dude.
01:01:55.679 --> 01:01:57.679
That's absolutely man.
01:01:57.760 --> 01:02:00.960
That's uh that's one thing that always bugs the shit out of me.
01:02:01.440 --> 01:02:14.159
Like, don't don't be the person that is quick to ask for resources and for help and for getting your stuff off the ground and never turning back around and helping everybody else.
01:02:14.320 --> 01:02:24.880
Yeah, when you have resources, when you can help somebody, never feel bad about helping people, no matter how much the other person takes and how little they give back.
01:02:25.119 --> 01:02:26.639
Always be willing to help.
01:02:26.880 --> 01:02:30.400
You can go to bed, sleep on, and feel good about yourself.
01:02:30.639 --> 01:02:34.400
Brian, I can't thank you enough for being here, man, and for doing what you're doing.
01:02:34.559 --> 01:02:40.000
Staying in the fight like this takes a lot of time, effort, but a lot of love, man.
01:02:40.320 --> 01:02:43.840
And when you sit across, even in this, like I can feel it.
01:02:44.000 --> 01:02:49.920
I can feel how much you want people to succeed and be there by 100% the best version of themselves.
01:02:50.079 --> 01:02:52.559
Dude, I cannot wait to see how far you guys get along.
01:02:52.639 --> 01:02:56.159
And I can't wait to see the next group of people climb that fucking mountain, man.
01:02:56.400 --> 01:02:57.119
What's the next one?
01:02:57.840 --> 01:03:00.880
If any of your listeners are like, yo, I think I'm that guy.
01:03:01.119 --> 01:03:02.880
Oh, like I got people for you.
01:03:03.119 --> 01:03:08.639
I got the buttons because, like I said, we've got it's we've got I've got a lot of people apply.
01:03:09.039 --> 01:03:14.880
I haven't seen anything inside of the apps that make me, you know, a lot of the details come out in the conversation.
01:03:15.199 --> 01:03:17.199
Most of us are of little words.
01:03:17.440 --> 01:03:19.760
Um, but we're also for females, too.
01:03:19.840 --> 01:03:21.760
We we this isn't out of bro club.
01:03:22.079 --> 01:03:34.320
So um, you know, the ticket to entry is have been a uh the American military member or a first responder, which most of the the first responders are not just thrown in there.
01:03:34.400 --> 01:03:38.079
Like the the first responders are what I like to call our local Gs, man.
01:03:38.159 --> 01:03:44.079
They're the ones that are right down the street from your house dealing with the fight every single day.
01:03:44.239 --> 01:03:57.440
And as I've gotten to know these individuals, um, it really resonated that I was like, holy shit, and they get absolutely like less than 5% of what we get as American military.
01:03:57.679 --> 01:03:58.000
Yep.
01:03:58.239 --> 01:04:09.039
And so when I hear how little their resources are, but know what they're going through on a daily basis, it's like, man, I would, you know, I I definitely a big portion of my heart goes to those guys.
01:04:09.199 --> 01:04:12.159
Even though I'm not one, I still like want to help out.
01:04:12.239 --> 01:04:14.239
So any of those contacts, man.
01:04:14.320 --> 01:04:16.719
Um I appreciate you giving me a platform.
01:04:16.800 --> 01:04:22.320
And uh, I know we tried to do this a couple times, and um, this is the first of many, bro.
01:04:22.400 --> 01:04:23.760
Yeah, this is the first of many, man.
01:04:23.920 --> 01:04:24.320
I appreciate it.
01:04:24.559 --> 01:04:30.400
Anytime, anytime, any place, you have an open invite security hall podcast, brother.
01:04:30.639 --> 01:04:30.880
Thank you.
01:04:31.119 --> 01:04:36.960
So whenever you need it, whenever it was just a fucking dude, I will blow an hour just hanging out with you, man.
01:04:37.119 --> 01:04:39.360
I don't give a fuck if you gotta like if you guys like it or not.
01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:40.159
I don't give a shit.
01:04:40.239 --> 01:04:40.880
It's my show.
01:04:40.960 --> 01:04:42.000
I can do what I want.
01:04:42.239 --> 01:04:43.199
I appreciate that.
01:04:43.360 --> 01:04:49.199
Although, although I think my sponsors may want me to focus on audience retention.
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There you go.
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So stand by for that.
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I got my writing fingers back to work because uh who knew that the government shutdown would affect my master's program, but it did.
01:05:16.079 --> 01:05:18.159
So now I've got all this time to write.
01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:20.239
And uh, so the writing is back.
01:05:20.320 --> 01:05:25.920
The blog is back, first episode, or first piece, I should say, dropping this week, maybe tomorrow.
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I gotta see where I want to fit it in.
01:05:27.760 --> 01:05:30.079
Brian, again, thank you so much for being here, brother.
01:05:30.239 --> 01:05:31.199
Absolute fucking blast.
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One more time, where can people sign up to be part of the Reboot Project?
01:05:34.480 --> 01:05:35.920
The reboot project.org.
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There's a button that I think says apply.
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Hell yeah.
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Hit that.
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Go to the episode description, the link's right there, and there's going to be a link to their Instagram.
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So click on both of those, support them, support the show, most of all, support each other.
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Thank you all for tuning in, and we'll see y'all next time.
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