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Fossone, the podcoast host here. 00:03:42.449 --> 00:03:44.449 National Veteran Business Development Council, 00:03:44.650 --> 00:03:47.349 NVBDC, is the nation's leading third -party authority 00:03:47.349 --> 00:03:49.370 for certification of veteran -owned businesses 00:03:49.370 --> 00:03:54.789 of all sizes. This 501c3 nonprofit is established 00:03:54.789 --> 00:03:59.610 12 years ago, 2013, I believe. It addresses the 00:03:59.610 --> 00:04:03.270 growing need to identify and certify both service 00:04:03.270 --> 00:04:06.580 -disabled and veteran -owned businesses. in the 00:04:06.580 --> 00:04:10.699 commercial or corporate marketplace. NVBDC administers 00:04:10.699 --> 00:04:13.319 a rigorous certification process designed to 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:15.520 withstand the scrutiny of governmental and corporate 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:18.600 entities seeking to utilize certified veteran 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:21.839 -owned businesses. And we're fortunate to have 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:26.079 with us again its founder, CEO, Keith King. Keith, 00:04:26.100 --> 00:04:29.740 welcome back to Veterans Radio. Thank you, Jim. 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:33.279 It's always good to be with you and your audience. 00:04:34.410 --> 00:04:38.490 I always enjoy sharing new things and new activities 00:04:38.490 --> 00:04:44.029 that NVBDC is featuring and launching. So this 00:04:44.029 --> 00:04:47.470 is hot off the presses, so to speak, and I wanted 00:04:47.470 --> 00:04:50.810 to make sure that you and your audience heard 00:04:50.810 --> 00:04:53.629 it first. Well, that's great. We generally get 00:04:53.629 --> 00:04:57.389 to talk to veteran -owned business owners that 00:04:57.389 --> 00:05:00.329 you certify or maybe members, corporate members 00:05:00.329 --> 00:05:05.079 of NVBDC. And if you go to nvbdc .org, you can 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:09.220 figure out how your company maybe could get certified 00:05:09.220 --> 00:05:11.779 as a veteran owned business. But Keith, what's 00:05:11.779 --> 00:05:16.000 new? Tell us what's going on. Well, what we have 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:20.279 been working on for years and, you know, sometimes 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:23.980 I know I, you know, as a founder, I come up with 00:05:23.980 --> 00:05:26.980 a lot of strange ideas and I'm the first to admit 00:05:26.980 --> 00:05:29.920 some of them are really bad. What every once 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:32.199 in a while you know you come up with a good one 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:37.879 so what i have been working on. What seems like 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:46.279 three years is this idea that we have a lot of 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:53.300 american veterans. Who live work in frankly owned 00:05:53.300 --> 00:05:58.160 businesses overseas. And i always thought there. 00:05:58.350 --> 00:06:02.649 So two -way street in this way. One, we have 00:06:02.649 --> 00:06:05.730 a lot of veterans here in America who would love 00:06:05.730 --> 00:06:10.230 to be involved in exporting and or importing 00:06:10.230 --> 00:06:15.430 frankly. And we have obviously a lot of veterans 00:06:15.430 --> 00:06:19.889 overseas who are not only directly importing 00:06:19.889 --> 00:06:24.290 back here, but more important to me in many ways 00:06:24.290 --> 00:06:29.680 is there already working with many. The corporate 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:34.319 members that we have who are international size 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:38.120 and scope. One of our corporate members asked 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:41.500 me about when you gonna watch internationally 00:06:41.500 --> 00:06:46.439 that company was in a hundred and twenty three 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:52.819 company countries. Around the world well wait 00:06:52.819 --> 00:06:58.379 a minute. Okay and then you know as things happen. 00:06:59.139 --> 00:07:03.060 I've had many of you know we're in detroit many 00:07:03.060 --> 00:07:07.000 of the other most no secret about working overseas 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:10.339 and all the things and then under our current 00:07:10.339 --> 00:07:14.620 administration this whole remanufacturing if 00:07:14.620 --> 00:07:18.259 you will or the idea of trying to bring manufacturing 00:07:18.259 --> 00:07:21.759 back here to detroit i know they used to call 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:25.879 it reshoring. But anyways that whole idea came 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:29.339 up and i got a slew of calls from our corporation 00:07:29.339 --> 00:07:33.319 saying i'll walk you know we have a lot of veteran 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:37.180 companies if they're coming back we want to make 00:07:37.180 --> 00:07:39.959 sure they get certified but in the meantime. 00:07:41.100 --> 00:07:43.839 It would hurt to reach out and start working 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:49.720 with them and that has now more if you will. 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:53.579 into what we're referring to as our international 00:07:53.579 --> 00:07:58.740 initiatives. We have been working with the import, 00:07:59.420 --> 00:08:02.319 or actually it's called the Export -Import Bank, 00:08:03.060 --> 00:08:06.920 and we have been working with the Department 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:10.680 of Commerce. We've been working with ITA, the 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:13.459 International Trade Association, and I know, 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:17.639 Jim, you were there when I signed our national 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:23.019 agreement with them. And that itself also now 00:08:23.019 --> 00:08:26.300 open the door to the apartment of commerce to 00:08:26.300 --> 00:08:34.500 the sba to just a long list if you will of organizations 00:08:34.500 --> 00:08:39.759 and i laugh about it but some of them like the 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:44.120 us trade and development agency. I've never heard 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:51.620 of what. What do you do and actually i'm kind 00:08:51.620 --> 00:08:55.039 of cheating a little bit but i'm looking at the 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:59.519 card business card. What are the young ladies 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:04.320 i'm at dc couple weeks back and her business 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:10.840 card reads that she is the country manager of 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:17.649 europe and eurasia. That's a huge geographic 00:09:17.649 --> 00:09:21.769 territory opportunity. And I started telling 00:09:21.769 --> 00:09:25.850 her what we do with certification. And she said, 00:09:26.070 --> 00:09:29.649 well, then you're really going to like me. And 00:09:29.649 --> 00:09:31.350 I said, well, I like you already. Why will I 00:09:31.350 --> 00:09:33.269 like you more? She said, well, we'll actually 00:09:33.269 --> 00:09:38.429 help your veterans write the bid to and in the 00:09:38.429 --> 00:09:42.789 language of the country that they want to export 00:09:42.789 --> 00:09:46.440 with. Sure. And I said, you all of a sudden moved 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:50.039 up way high. I'm keeping this contact information. 00:09:52.539 --> 00:09:55.620 And I have to admit that, you know, the Export 00:09:55.620 --> 00:10:01.279 -Import Bank has somebody that I had been working 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:05.220 with directly and indirectly for a number of 00:10:05.220 --> 00:10:09.019 years. Trying to see what we could do and it's 00:10:09.019 --> 00:10:11.419 really what has happened and why I wanted to 00:10:11.419 --> 00:10:13.399 make sure I had a chance to talk with you and 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:18.000 share all this what we are with your audience 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:23.840 is the fact that we are already moving to put 00:10:23.840 --> 00:10:29.460 together some seminars webinars if you will. 00:10:29.870 --> 00:10:33.929 that we're looking at doing in the sense of being 00:10:33.929 --> 00:10:36.690 able to have your listeners are better in business 00:10:36.690 --> 00:10:43.210 is actually here from. The corporations are the 00:10:43.210 --> 00:10:45.929 people that i'm talking about the you know xm 00:10:45.929 --> 00:10:51.090 bank the sba the ita and when we start looking 00:10:51.090 --> 00:10:55.129 at these things are going to be in many ways 00:10:55.129 --> 00:11:00.110 limited only because we're believing that. As 00:11:00.110 --> 00:11:03.850 we put this together the number of people who 00:11:03.850 --> 00:11:07.570 will want to get in on these and i wanted to 00:11:07.570 --> 00:11:11.129 at least announce. You know what i would call 00:11:11.129 --> 00:11:15.070 you know save the date kind of things the first 00:11:15.070 --> 00:11:21.169 one we look expected to be hosted. I'm july twenty 00:11:21.169 --> 00:11:24.590 fourth and the second one on september ninth. 00:11:24.929 --> 00:11:27.909 Welcome will be from eleven a .m. to twelve thirty 00:11:27.909 --> 00:11:32.919 eastern time. And yeah i know what that's long 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:35.919 but the more that we sat down and start working 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.039 on the agenda or working on the information. 00:11:39.980 --> 00:11:44.379 What do we want our veteran businesses to know 00:11:44.379 --> 00:11:48.559 and it's really one of those kind of things where. 00:11:49.659 --> 00:11:53.799 The idea that this import export really does 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:58.590 work both ways in the sense of. Inbound and outbound 00:11:58.590 --> 00:12:02.330 from the united states and we have met what i 00:12:02.330 --> 00:12:06.070 call. The proper government people to help our 00:12:06.070 --> 00:12:08.649 veterans and that's the other thing i want to 00:12:08.649 --> 00:12:12.610 share. Let me let me make sure folks know where 00:12:12.610 --> 00:12:15.389 to go get more information and i'm assuming that 00:12:15.389 --> 00:12:17.649 they can learn more about how they might sign 00:12:17.649 --> 00:12:23.169 up for this woman are. Import exporting for july 00:12:23.169 --> 00:12:26.600 twenty fourth or september ninth. by going to 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:30.340 nvbdc .org and clicking and registering. Is that 00:12:30.340 --> 00:12:33.759 how it would work? Yep, absolutely. Thank you 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:38.320 for that. And you know, we're already working 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:41.840 on the web page and the registration pages. So 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:45.500 you might get there and say, okay, I got to the 00:12:45.500 --> 00:12:47.559 right place, but we're not ready yet. But I wanted 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:50.320 to give you a heads up because it's coming. But 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:52.879 yeah, it's exactly right. Come to my website, 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:58.919 you know, nvbdc .org. And you'll see your event 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:02.519 and under that event page then you will see this 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:07.679 webinar and our export initiatives it's so yeah 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:12.320 it will also. Give me an idea of who is going 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:17.840 to be speaking their backgrounds you know it's 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:22.200 amazing when you get somebody who wants to help 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:26.220 you. And all of a sudden people who are considered 00:13:26.220 --> 00:13:31.759 expert in this industry and knowing how to do 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:36.899 this. I talked to a guy as an example who has 00:13:36.899 --> 00:13:42.039 this. What's the million dollar contract to build 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:48.159 airport in Thailand. And as soon as he knew what 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:51.710 I was doing he said. You had a bunch of veterans 00:13:51.710 --> 00:13:56.090 who served in town for years absolutely you said 00:13:56.090 --> 00:13:58.370 you think you got anybody might be interested 00:13:58.370 --> 00:14:02.470 in coming back. I want to know where most of 00:14:02.470 --> 00:14:06.029 us are pretty old by now is it well. If you can 00:14:06.029 --> 00:14:08.549 find guys who are interested in helping me build 00:14:08.549 --> 00:14:11.990 airports and know what they're doing i don't 00:14:11.990 --> 00:14:15.269 care how old they are let's talk and i thought 00:14:15.269 --> 00:14:19.129 you know here's the guy just called me i don't 00:14:19.129 --> 00:14:23.070 know who. He was before this meeting who just 00:14:23.070 --> 00:14:25.029 come up and said if you got veterans and have 00:14:25.029 --> 00:14:28.090 this knowledge i wanna so i think that you know 00:14:28.090 --> 00:14:31.769 this is kind of part of the enthusiasm that i 00:14:31.769 --> 00:14:35.830 have for this because i want other that meeting 00:14:35.830 --> 00:14:40.269 in dc the three days we were there what the impression 00:14:40.269 --> 00:14:44.750 that okay. I'm talking to the right people finally 00:14:44.750 --> 00:14:48.509 i'm talking to people care. And honestly, people 00:14:48.509 --> 00:14:51.049 who want to help our veterans either import or 00:14:51.049 --> 00:14:54.250 export or both. And that was kind of an exciting 00:14:54.250 --> 00:14:57.610 thing to the people I talked to who said, how 00:14:57.610 --> 00:14:59.649 many of you guys are manufacturing? I said, I'm 00:14:59.649 --> 00:15:02.250 from Detroit. A lot of them are manufacturing. 00:15:03.610 --> 00:15:07.279 Oh my God. We need to talk to them. Yeah, and 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:09.980 then you talk to guys. Well, let me jump in here 00:15:09.980 --> 00:15:12.200 because I want to get this point across to our 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:14.980 veteran radio listeners and those veteran business 00:15:14.980 --> 00:15:18.179 owners who have been certified or should get 00:15:18.179 --> 00:15:22.639 certified by MVBDC. You start out with this idea 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:24.620 of export -import and you go, ah, it's too scary. 00:15:24.620 --> 00:15:27.960 I don't know what I'm doing. But through an organization 00:15:27.960 --> 00:15:31.960 like MVBDC with these other contacts with corporate 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:34.200 members who are international who are there to 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:37.340 help, Once you start networking and get that 00:15:37.340 --> 00:15:40.600 help, it's no longer scary, right? It becomes 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:43.139 an opportunity. And that's really what you're 00:15:43.139 --> 00:15:46.580 creating is the chance to, hey, maybe you ought 00:15:46.580 --> 00:15:49.379 to be playing on a bigger field. You ought to 00:15:49.379 --> 00:15:52.179 seize this opportunity or at least explore it 00:15:52.179 --> 00:15:55.299 to see if it's right for your company. Well, 00:15:55.299 --> 00:15:57.120 thank you, Jim. And you're absolutely right, 00:15:57.220 --> 00:16:01.779 as you probably know or remember when a group 00:16:01.779 --> 00:16:05.500 of our corporate members Did their own financial 00:16:05.500 --> 00:16:11.440 analysis. Those members, those corporate members 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:16.379 came out with an economic study that said that 00:16:16.379 --> 00:16:22.960 they had collectively issued $4 .3 billion in 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:27.799 contracts to our certified vets. And it was like 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:30.940 oh my god okay this is a long way from you know 00:16:30.940 --> 00:16:36.220 forty bucks. Where my back pocket is what i used 00:16:36.220 --> 00:16:39.580 to say and you know when you start looking at 00:16:39.580 --> 00:16:43.080 that kind of help and support. That really was 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:45.460 one of the things i know i mentioned but i think 00:16:45.460 --> 00:16:49.639 it's worth repeating is when you have as we do. 00:16:50.019 --> 00:16:53.679 The kind of corporations or international size 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:58.360 and scope call you. And say hey if you guys guys 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:02.519 who you know i wanna be in the export business 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:05.079 we wanna help me and we got guys overseas that 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:08.380 we want you to get certified. Help them come 00:17:08.380 --> 00:17:11.200 back if they wanna bring their company back and 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:14.859 i was gonna mention that some of the people again 00:17:14.859 --> 00:17:20.299 i was talking to you were very aware of the lack 00:17:20.299 --> 00:17:24.759 of money. Yeah in the sense of capital and expenses 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:29.359 and you know i swore i would not mention names 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:33.059 or phone numbers i actually have it sitting here 00:17:33.059 --> 00:17:37.599 in front of me. Another part of our government 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:41.599 operations that literally have no money in the 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:45.000 sense of loans button some of them at point blank 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:48.059 said look depending on the situation and what 00:17:48.059 --> 00:17:51.799 we're looking at. we may be able to work a grant 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:54.720 and i would grant all anytime you talk grant 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:58.480 i'm interested that's right that's right and 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:00.819 if you're talking grants to me i wanna make sure 00:18:00.819 --> 00:18:05.180 my best understand what's a great you know and 00:18:05.180 --> 00:18:08.140 again the money that you're talking about. It's 00:18:08.140 --> 00:18:10.819 like oh okay this isn't you know two fifty you 00:18:10.819 --> 00:18:12.940 know two thousand fifty cents this is serious 00:18:12.940 --> 00:18:16.359 money well i think i think one of the points 00:18:16.359 --> 00:18:19.210 to get across to is. We mentioned the corporate 00:18:19.210 --> 00:18:22.890 support you have, but what I'm hearing now on 00:18:22.890 --> 00:18:25.029 the export import side, not only do you have 00:18:25.029 --> 00:18:27.849 corporate member support to help veteran owned 00:18:27.849 --> 00:18:31.950 businesses, you've now made connections and networking 00:18:31.950 --> 00:18:36.650 with federal government agencies that can support 00:18:36.650 --> 00:18:40.160 that effort as well. Exactly right. And it's 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:43.299 only taken me 12 years to do it. Well, you're 00:18:43.299 --> 00:18:48.420 saving the veteran business owner 12 years. If 00:18:48.420 --> 00:18:51.660 you get involved, business owner, with NVBDC, 00:18:51.799 --> 00:18:54.940 you're going to skip through a lot of those growing 00:18:54.940 --> 00:18:57.619 pains because they're going to be able to put 00:18:57.619 --> 00:19:00.740 you in touch with maybe the right folks in that 00:19:00.740 --> 00:19:05.059 right country for the right project. appreciate 00:19:05.059 --> 00:19:07.960 that because I know when you were at my last 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:12.819 national event, you know, you begin to see the 00:19:12.819 --> 00:19:17.319 corporations that are there and people, I mean, 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:20.619 I can't tell you how many the veterans have come 00:19:20.619 --> 00:19:23.400 up to me and said, you know, I hear you talking 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:26.039 about all this stuff, but oh my God, I can't 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:29.720 believe over here is, you know, Amazon over here 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:33.099 is Walmart over here is whatever or whoever. 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:36.819 It's like yeah well these are the corporations 00:19:36.819 --> 00:19:40.980 that you don't think i'd care about us being 00:19:40.980 --> 00:19:44.640 better and care about veteran businesses and 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:48.059 you know obviously i knowledge them and credit 00:19:48.059 --> 00:19:52.420 them whenever i can but that's the facts of it 00:19:52.420 --> 00:19:56.700 and when i went into finally to sit down and 00:19:56.700 --> 00:20:02.539 talk to these various. You know what about five 00:20:02.539 --> 00:20:04.960 different government agencies but they were all 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:08.200 together at one place at one time and all five 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:12.359 of them said okay bring this to us you know we're 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:15.059 here and we would definitely put this together 00:20:15.059 --> 00:20:18.579 you know with you so i want to give you know 00:20:18.579 --> 00:20:23.220 you would you know the radio audience opportunity 00:20:23.220 --> 00:20:26.240 to get a head start on this and the heads up 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:29.289 on it. You know we've been working together for 00:20:29.289 --> 00:20:32.829 a long time as well so want to make sure that 00:20:32.829 --> 00:20:35.789 they know that if you get certified with us you 00:20:35.789 --> 00:20:40.529 start working with us this is. One thing here 00:20:40.529 --> 00:20:42.890 in the sense of doing local business and doing 00:20:42.890 --> 00:20:46.910 business with our corporations but we are also 00:20:46.910 --> 00:20:52.009 now seriously headlong into our international 00:20:52.009 --> 00:20:57.240 expansion effort and. The one thing i would love 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:00.759 to be able to do is make sure that next time 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:03.720 i go to dc or the next time i sit down and talk 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:07.279 to any of these elements of our federal government 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:10.940 i can say yeah i got you know hundred i got two 00:21:10.940 --> 00:21:13.559 hundred i got whatever veteran businesses who 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:16.980 are interested in learning more about exporting 00:21:16.980 --> 00:21:22.599 and or importing so i'm gonna plug it again nvbdc 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:26.799 .org. go to that page at the top bar, there's 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:29.900 something called global initiatives and that'll 00:21:29.900 --> 00:21:33.920 track you back to the various agencies and the 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:36.920 Export -Import Bank and that sort of thing. Now 00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:41.640 one more, I always say one more but there's never, 00:21:41.980 --> 00:21:45.200 there's always another. So you've got a big program 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:49.859 coming up in October in Spartansburg, South Carolina. 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:54.569 Why don't you tell us about that? Our national 00:21:54.569 --> 00:22:01.509 convention and all I can tell you is as we have 00:22:01.509 --> 00:22:05.670 grown over the years, not only do the corporations, 00:22:06.309 --> 00:22:10.450 you know, our book coming in and support that 00:22:10.450 --> 00:22:14.529 event constantly every year. What we know is 00:22:14.529 --> 00:22:18.230 the veterans, which one of the things that we 00:22:18.230 --> 00:22:20.809 have done now for years has had what we call 00:22:20.809 --> 00:22:24.829 a veteran panel. What that panel does is talk 00:22:24.829 --> 00:22:28.609 about how those individual veteran companies 00:22:28.609 --> 00:22:32.130 have done with the certification, what they're 00:22:32.130 --> 00:22:34.990 doing, their marketing, their sales, their advertising, 00:22:35.109 --> 00:22:38.750 whatever, and their success. And one of the ones 00:22:38.750 --> 00:22:45.210 that we had always said is, look, I don't know 00:22:45.210 --> 00:22:47.390 what you buy out of your company, but who are 00:22:47.390 --> 00:22:51.289 you buying that from? What we support, what we 00:22:51.289 --> 00:22:54.630 push. is better and helping veteran veteran buying 00:22:54.630 --> 00:22:58.829 from veteran and one of the time in the panel. 00:22:59.390 --> 00:23:02.690 Hey look guys this guy over here this guy over 00:23:02.690 --> 00:23:04.910 here and this guy over here and all of us are 00:23:04.910 --> 00:23:07.869 working together and last year i did about forty 00:23:07.869 --> 00:23:15.029 million with a mall. Can you hear the room. What 00:23:15.029 --> 00:23:19.759 did he say you did what. And you know so you 00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:23.220 start looking at that potential in the sense 00:23:23.220 --> 00:23:25.720 of just doing business with each other and then 00:23:25.720 --> 00:23:28.720 you look at the corporations only did i mention 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:31.279 but one of the things that is really happened 00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:36.559 over the years. We have what we call basically 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:40.980 an rfp rfq program with our corporate members 00:23:40.980 --> 00:23:44.259 who will come to us and say hey i'm looking for 00:23:44.259 --> 00:23:48.940 a veteran business that does whatever. What we 00:23:48.940 --> 00:23:52.799 then do is take that it turn that around send 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:55.660 it out to our certified that saying hey if you 00:23:55.660 --> 00:23:58.119 do you know what this corporate members looking 00:23:58.119 --> 00:24:01.819 for. Please go to this link or come back and 00:24:01.819 --> 00:24:04.140 tell us what you're doing will put you in contact 00:24:04.140 --> 00:24:07.220 whatever they're comfortable they been corporation 00:24:07.220 --> 00:24:10.740 however they want us to administer it do the 00:24:10.740 --> 00:24:16.869 admin on it. I want to encourage folks to. Again, 00:24:16.890 --> 00:24:19.910 go to the website, click on the link for this 00:24:19.910 --> 00:24:23.269 upcoming event in October. Now's the time to 00:24:23.269 --> 00:24:27.750 plan for that sort of stuff. Having been at NVBDC's 00:24:27.750 --> 00:24:31.289 Detroit event last year in 2024, you're going 00:24:31.289 --> 00:24:34.970 to walk out with all kinds of contacts and business 00:24:34.970 --> 00:24:38.049 cards with people you want to stay in touch with 00:24:38.049 --> 00:24:41.369 and do work with and be inspired by. Honestly, 00:24:41.549 --> 00:24:44.920 some of these guys are so inspirational. Again, 00:24:45.099 --> 00:24:49.140 this is a way that NVBDC helps its certified 00:24:49.140 --> 00:24:52.059 members. This isn't just a rubber stamp, you 00:24:52.059 --> 00:24:55.180 stamp it on your stuff and go. These events, 00:24:55.579 --> 00:24:57.839 these initiatives, like the Goalball initiatives, 00:24:58.180 --> 00:25:01.299 really make this a worthwhile certification to 00:25:01.299 --> 00:25:04.940 obtain. If you're, you know, if you're entitled 00:25:04.940 --> 00:25:06.880 to it, because it's going to be a rigorous process. 00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:12.039 Well, if I may, Jim, one thing I do want to address, 00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:16.920 and I hear this Is this whole thing about all 00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:20.119 work too small and the corporations are never 00:25:20.119 --> 00:25:24.119 going to hire us. I usually say yeah but that 00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:30.279 attitude i wouldn't hire people say hey you should 00:25:30.279 --> 00:25:32.519 be saying those kind of things but the truth 00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:39.599 is. We have had to person to be able to man companies 00:25:39.599 --> 00:25:45.359 hired. I mean, you know, major, largest corporations 00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:48.559 in the world. I tell the story of a little four 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:50.680 -man crew that I had done a lot of nurturing 00:25:50.680 --> 00:25:54.240 with and a lot of mentoring with. With that, 00:25:54.480 --> 00:25:57.720 one of the events that we were working with, 00:25:57.720 --> 00:26:01.480 you know, one of our corporate members, it just 00:26:01.480 --> 00:26:06.079 happened. And, you know, I even tell people, 00:26:06.079 --> 00:26:08.779 I don't know if it'll ever happen again. you 00:26:08.779 --> 00:26:11.359 know what it happened and that to me was what 00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:17.380 was important because a buyer was there who was 00:26:17.380 --> 00:26:20.920 talking with these four members of the company 00:26:20.920 --> 00:26:27.980 and they told her what they do. Hey she says 00:26:27.980 --> 00:26:31.039 oh my god i have been looking for two years for 00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:35.460 a company does exactly this. And they ended up 00:26:35.460 --> 00:26:38.240 not only talking but ended up signing a five 00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:41.920 -year contract. Again with you know one of the 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:44.319 major corporations in the world because they 00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:47.500 have a specific skill and that's the kind of 00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:49.299 things that we'd like to talk about what do you 00:26:49.299 --> 00:26:53.380 do. Why would a company hire you can you do it 00:26:53.380 --> 00:26:56.299 bigger better faster smarter right what is it 00:26:56.299 --> 00:26:59.799 that you do and so those are the kind of things 00:26:59.799 --> 00:27:04.390 that you know like i just said when. We can have 00:27:04.390 --> 00:27:07.190 the corporations and we didn't do it they did 00:27:07.190 --> 00:27:09.470 it you know economic impact study and come back 00:27:09.470 --> 00:27:13.089 and say yeah by the way you know we issued four 00:27:13.089 --> 00:27:16.789 point three billion in contracts. Well you know 00:27:16.789 --> 00:27:20.470 to me it's like look if you're going to work 00:27:20.470 --> 00:27:24.349 in the arena you know now's the time you know 00:27:24.349 --> 00:27:28.369 the stuff up. I guess it's like your manufacturing 00:27:28.369 --> 00:27:32.359 in the old demand you have an ISO rating. Or 00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:36.559 you've passed some ISO program and have that 00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:39.140 badge, if you will. Well, that's pretty much 00:27:39.140 --> 00:27:42.559 what we do at the NVBDC. Yeah, and you do it 00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:45.059 better than anybody else in the country. It's 00:27:45.059 --> 00:27:47.960 absolutely the gold standard. We want to, again, 00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:51.700 encourage people to think about maybe export 00:27:51.700 --> 00:27:55.940 import. Participate in the webinar on July 24th 00:27:55.940 --> 00:27:59.420 or September 9th. You can sign up by going to 00:27:59.420 --> 00:28:03.309 NVBDC .org. think about, hey, maybe it's time 00:28:03.309 --> 00:28:06.490 to get out of the shop, out of the office, go 00:28:06.490 --> 00:28:11.150 to South Carolina, meet up with all these interesting 00:28:11.150 --> 00:28:14.670 corporate members and other veteran -owned businesses 00:28:14.670 --> 00:28:18.430 and get fired up and networked some. Again, go 00:28:18.430 --> 00:28:21.410 to the website. You're going to find how to do 00:28:21.410 --> 00:28:24.759 that. Keith, as always, we appreciate the update. 00:28:25.079 --> 00:28:29.599 We're thrilled to hear about the worldwide expansion 00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:34.700 of NBDC. And we look forward to the next time 00:28:34.700 --> 00:28:37.059 we get to talk and see where it all leads to. 00:28:37.619 --> 00:28:40.599 Thank you, Buddy. And I appreciate the work that 00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:43.940 you do in letting our veterans and veteran businesses 00:28:43.940 --> 00:28:47.819 know about not only what we do, but all the different 00:28:47.819 --> 00:28:51.440 elements of being a veteran in a veteran community. 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:54.940 Jim, I know I'll see you soon. And again, thanks 00:28:54.940 --> 00:28:57.079 for all your help and support. You got it, brother. 00:28:57.180 --> 00:29:00.880 Take care. All right. You too. Bye. And I want 00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:02.640 to thank everybody for listening to Veterans 00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:06.460 Radio today. I am Jim Fossone. It's been a pleasure 00:29:06.460 --> 00:29:09.039 to be your host. I'm a Veterans disability lawyer 00:29:09.039 --> 00:29:11.859 at Legal Help for Veterans. 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