Snipers And Shotguns Now those two words would not necessarily be connected to marketing oneself, but here in HSLD, we know that these are two words that many if not most of our military peers can relate to. Besides being weapons and artillery, snipers and shotguns are an excellent way to describe what you really want to be and do in life. Click here to listen to the 2 Most Effective Ways … [Read more...]
Charlie Gilkey, Founder of Productive Flourishing and Author of The Small Business Lifecycle : High Speed Low Drag Podcast 7:
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Charlie Gilkey is the Founder of Productive Flourishing and Author of The Small Business Life Cycle, a best selling book on small business planning. His speeches, classes and planning systems and body of work helps change makers start finishing the stuff that matters. Charlie lives with his wife Angela in Portland, Oregon. HSLD: Besides the little background that we’ve give about you … [Read more...]
Four Things Veterans Need To Do To Build A Business
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The focus on today’s post will be on a few questions that the High Speed Low Drag group got on a recent live event. After presenting on the topic of transition success and how to succeed financially in the civilian world, we were bombarded with so many questions on the topic. The main thing that everyone pretty much wanted to know were the specific things that veterans needed to do in orde … [Read more...]
Gavin McCulley, Angel Investor and Founder of Twin River Holdings : High Speed Low Drag Podcast
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Gavin McCulley is a former army logistics officer who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Gavin left the service in late 2008 to become an entrepreneur only to find himself in a tumultuous economy. In search of capital for his own business, he learned first hand the game of Angel investing. Over the last 6 years, founded his own Angel investing partnership which is one of the nation’ … [Read more...]
Pink Slips And Military Downsizing: How to Prepare In Case You Get The Boot
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The recent news tell of downsizing in the army. Even if it is just the army (for now), we feel that this is a topic worth discussing. As everything is starting to wind down it is only natural that downsizing happens in the military. Pink Slips are being given to thousands of military soldiers who have just served from Afghanistan. This will mean that there will be about 70,000 men and … [Read more...]
High Speed Low Drag Podcast 10: Chad Grills Entrepreneur and Author of “Future Proof”
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Chad Grills is an army infantry veteran, entrepreneur and the author of “Future Proof”. He is currently finishing his second book entitled “Veterans, Don’t Reintegrate, Rebuild America”. He also just launched collegeornot.org and serves on the board of directors at the non-profit Higher Hour Heroes. Click here to listen to the Stitcher version of the HSLD podcast featuring … [Read more...]
Military Tribes – Connecting Veterans
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Seth Godin, in his book “Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us” really gives that word a deeper more profound meaning. It is especially profound because to us, the military is a tribe. Veterans are also a tribe within ourselves. We are a special group that is connected to a leader, connected to one another and connected to an idea. Click here to listen to the iTunes version of Milit … [Read more...]
Timothy Lawson, Founder of Lawson Entertainment : High Speed Low Drag Podcast #8
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Timothy Lawson has served five years in the United States Marine Corps. He is also the founder of Lawson Entertainment. He hosts four weekly podcasts- The Capitol Experience, Tim and Brandon’s Bromantic Comedy, One Two Many: Veteran Suicide and The Veteran Empire. The last one was actually nominated for a 2013 podcast award in the culture and arts category. Click here to listen to th … [Read more...]
7 Myths People Have About Veterans And What To Do About Them
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There are all sorts of myths and false beliefs that persist about every single group, tribe and organizations out there. The military is no different. A huge majority of the population seem to believe certain things about the military and following that about veterans. Now these myths can have both positive and negative effects but what should veterans do when the latter … [Read more...]
Interview With Dan Auito; Business, Marketing and Technology Master : High Speed Low Drag Podcast #6
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Business, marketing and technology are where Dan?s skills, talents and ability is focused. He is responsible for starting up and running 6 businesses and have a couple more on the way. Entrepreneurship really is the core of everything that Dan does. HSLD: Besides the little background that we?ve give about you, could you tell us a little more about yourself? Dan: I am an entrepreneur to the … [Read more...]
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