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Do you get an opportunity to go back to you know, where your your last the people that you were with

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You know in the military and and talk to them. Have you gotten an opportunity to tell them what you're doing?

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I mean, I know

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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

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I read the emails. I know we're supposed to keep things short

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But in the interest of explaining the whole thing I was challenged to start something on linkedin in november

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Late october early november of last year and I was just supposed to every day and engage with five people

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And through that process I developed everything that I have now the strategic veteran was born through that

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so, um what really gave me my break was I got a chance through thomas mckenzie who is

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Uh, allegiant vets. He's uh, one of the c-suite guys at allegiant vets and and they have a skill bridge program

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And he asked me to come present as a presenter on one of their tuesdays because he liked what I was doing

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From that I had in a breakout room. I had like 400 people come I ended up with like 300 followers

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booked several meetings and that really

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Drove home that I had a good idea and that this was needed and solving an actual problem

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and so everything has just evolved from that so

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Yes, kind of i've had a chance to get in front of veterans

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Um, but most of this has been bootstrapped by me building my following. Uh, you might find this interesting

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I started with 93 followers in linkedin in november. I'm over 2600 now, so

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So shut up. I know that's not like super impressive growth

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But it's still just a testament that if you put your head down take massive action and follow

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Your your intuition that you will actually build something meaningful