Don't Play Small with Marcus Barnes
About seven percent of Americans have served in the military. The number who actually make it from a uniform into a career that fits is smaller than it should be, and the people who fall through the cracks most often are not the officers with MBAs. They’re the junior enlisted.
That’s the gap Marc...
How a Marine Lands in Energy Policy
Most service members start thinking seriously about life after the uniform six months out. Jim Purekal started two years out. He networked, he sat down with people who had nothing in common with his career, and he treated the whole thing like a mission with a deadline.
That discipline is how a re...
This Week in Cleantech (06/04/2026) - Why are some Democratic governors backing Trump's gas pipelines?
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From Geopolitics to the Kitchen Table with Andy Davis
When Andy Davis first heard “energy security,” he thought what most people think. Oil. Nuclear. Geopolitics. A problem that lived somewhere far away, between governments.
He had more reason than most to think that way. As an Army Ranger, he parachuted into Iraq on the night of the invasion and la...
More projects than people to build them
I sat down with Jim Sardonia, who just won the first PowerVets Veterans Leadership Award from ACP, a program they run with us. When I asked him about it he barely talked about himself. He called it a team award and started telling me about his guys in the field, the ones out at two and three in t...
The Sitreps Guys on Hiring Done Right
I sat down with Max Cormier and Wyatt Frasier, the guys behind Sitreps. If you’re a veteran in business you already know the meme page. What you might not know is that they turned that community into a recruiting firm that places vets into leadership roles at defense tech startups and private equ...
Why Vets Undersell Their Service
I sat down with Megan Glancey. She spent about ten years in the Navy, most of it flying in Growlers, which are the electronic attack jets, and she develops utility-scale wind projects for Steelhead now. On her way out in 2022 she cut her own footage into one video and posted it with no plan attac...
Where Veteran Policy Gets Written
I sat down with Zach Federico, who runs the veterans task force at ALEC. He got there sideways. A commander walked into his rehearsal at Liberty University and offered to pay him to play music, which is how he wound up in the Virginia National Guard Band. He was a brand new executive assistant wh...
From Artillery Officer to Business Owner
I sat down with Dan Maxwell, one of four Army veterans who own Summit Point Leadership. Most of their work is training frontline leaders at rural electric co-ops, and Dan says you couldn’t ask for a better customer. I met Dan at Rice and pushed him into Al Danto’s acquisition class.
Dan doesn’t s...
Power Is the New Supply Line
I sat down with Ryan Lamke, who runs the Atlantic Council’s Veterans Advanced Energy Fellowship, a program that helps mid-career veterans in energy navigate federal policy. Ryan enlisted as a Marine infantryman and was in Fallujah within six months of leaving for boot camp. Years later, six month...
