Do you get an opportunity to go back to you know, where your your last the people that you were with
You know in the military and and talk to them. Have you gotten an opportunity to tell them what you're doing?
I mean, I know
It's a funny story to answer your question. Um, I have a pretty unique journey and I don't know how much time we have
I read the emails. I know we're supposed to keep things short
But in the interest of explaining the whole thing I was challenged to start something on linkedin in november
Late october early november of last year and I was just supposed to every day and engage with five people
And through that process I developed everything that I have now the strategic veteran was born through that
so, um what really gave me my break was I got a chance through thomas mckenzie who is
Uh, allegiant vets. He's uh, one of the c-suite guys at allegiant vets and and they have a skill bridge program
And he asked me to come present as a presenter on one of their tuesdays because he liked what I was doing
From that I had in a breakout room. I had like 400 people come I ended up with like 300 followers
booked several meetings and that really
Drove home that I had a good idea and that this was needed and solving an actual problem
and so everything has just evolved from that so
Yes, kind of i've had a chance to get in front of veterans
Um, but most of this has been bootstrapped by me building my following. Uh, you might find this interesting
I started with 93 followers in linkedin in november. I'm over 2600 now, so
So shut up. I know that's not like super impressive growth
But it's still just a testament that if you put your head down take massive action and follow
Your your intuition that you will actually build something meaningful