Rally Point 78

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Rally pointers fall in. Good morning everyone.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
For this next segment, we have myself Justin Ledford, James
Hemingway Book and Paul POLECCHI Morning.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
And this morning our guest.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
We're gonna do some positively caffeinated with mister Dane boyle Are.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Good morning everyone, Good morning.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
Coach morning.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
What do you got going on over there?

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Well, I said in the green room again. I always
like to refer to the green room because we don't
really have them, but like to pretend we do because
we grew up before the internet. At leap, I did no.
Life is good. I've already got my work at end.
You got a short ruck in made a second cup
of coffee, and you can't smell me, but I'm freshly.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
Showered to yummy.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh see, I came here straight from my rock and
you also can't smell me. But well, I don't know.
Big Sargs might be able to smell me. He's sitting
right next to me, so it's hard to say.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
We're good.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Okay, Before we get into our current conversation, guys, I
want to kind of share with our listeners a little
thing that we're trying to work on and in America.
Before go any further. Let's not forget our co or
our producer here Zaying the brain behind the mic making
to make music happen. First of all, one of the

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things that we here at a Rally Point Media is
proud of is our host that we have on our show.
And we're thankful, especially for our co host here Justin Lefford,
for the legacy rout Club of Southwest Florida and the
information that the Coach provides us every day and every

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mom they're on the air. As such, we entered in
a little little project we have and based on the
same premises of the rout Club and our coach. The
pursuit of happiness inside Job is a little piece of
resources that we're trying to put together to give you
guys kind of a basis of the spirit of what
we do here. And I am thankful to have the

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collaboration with the two individuals to provide our listeners these things.
And hopefully down the road when we had this product
to complete it, we'll have it present to our future
ruckers of America in Southwest Florida and in Texas. And
I want to say thank you both for providing us
the opportunity to prod that to our.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Listeners, and we're actually growing more than that. We've got
a location in Kentucky. Where else are we reaching out.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
To right now? Those are the three current locations in
real life. But we are global. So although yes, we
want to connect in real life in person and have
those conversations, we can connect apart, if that makes sense.
So when you put on your rock packs, you put
on your ball cap, you wear your sunscreen at summertime

(02:37):
as we record this, all you have to do is
let us know you're doing it. We're going to comment,
we're going to support, we're going to connect. So location
is not a barrier. But in real life is like Sigving, Kentucky,
Southwest Florida, and in Sagine, Texas between Austin and San Antonio.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
And for our listeners, guys, can you give them a
way to contact you both in your respective states.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Justin justin well, okay.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
So we have our Facebook page, So Legacy Rock Club
SWFL on Facebook and then Dane Danes is the same
except for its Legacy Rock Club sagein.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Gean, Texas s E g U I N. So that
that's the easiest way to get information about in person
real life rocks the virtual rocks. I think we're going
to talk about a challenges months that's also in person
and real life. But that's probably the easiest one, not probably,
it is the easiest way to get in touch with
that's when it comes to getting up, getting out and getting.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Rocky, most definitely. And folks just remember, even though the
pursuit of happiness is an inside job, it's not done alone.
In that journey, you can be shared with the coach
and here justin contact them to their at their local
locations and begin that journey with a friend and with
that coach we have for us today.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
So today we were going to talk a little bit
about goal setting. So we're going to talk about if
we had any goals in the last month and how
to set goals for the future month. And I try
to challenge everybody to go so far out into the
future that they got to come back and wear shade
and start today. So manifestation doesn't happen just because you

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randomly falls out of the sky. It happens because you
see the future before it happened. So we'll talk about
that a little bit, But did any of you and
feel free to share or jump in. Did you have
a goal for the month, whether it was rocking, whether
it was health finances, you tell me what it was about.
Did you have any and if so, how well did
you achieve them or move to them move toward them?

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Well, So, my goal for the month of May, which
you had put out on your site, also was to
do thirty miles in the month of May. So try
to hit at least a mile a day. It's what
I was encouraging folks to do over here on my
end and.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
I barely.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
But I'm made, but you did.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
I did so, So my goal for June is going
to be to double that. And it just kind of
forces that accountability, you know. You you put it out
into out into the world, and then you got to
challenge yourself to make sure you make it happen, especially
if you're trying to lead from the front, you know.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Absolutely, So when I send messages out because my first
name is Dane, I call it my daily dane Ish.
Aren't I too like it? But daily Danish. But one
of them is goal oriented people find ways and to
go with goal oriented people. Again, goal oriented people find
ways and go with goal oriented people. So when justin

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when myself when our global community chose last month to
get a minimum of one mile every day. They are
goal oriented and they will find a way, whether it's
at eleven forty pm and they've got a twenty minute
rock to get it in for the night, or they
start the day before they go to work, or they
have a cup of coffee or whatever it is. And
then when you surround yourself with like minded people, they're

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going to be just there to support you in the good,
the bad, the trouble and life is a four letter
word and sometimes it's going to knock you down, and
sometimes you're just not going to want to freaking do it.
But again, when you are goal oriented and you find
people and surround yourself with him, we're more likely to
succeed in that mile a day. So congratulations, by the way,
justin on your mile a day.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Oh thank you.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Congratulations, you're welcome. And also congratulation on what we call
habit stacking. So you created a habit one mile a day,
and you're going to stack that habit of one mile
onto the next mile, and potentially this month you're going
to get sixty miles correct.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Right, and then eventually your habits just become your lifestyle
and then you're good to go in theory.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
And well, I always have Paul out there with me too.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
I don't know about sixty miles, but at my age,
I'm just happy to be out there and it keeps
me going. So that's my personal drive is to make
sure that I'm there doing it.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
Which we love, right Sarge, Almost definitely, most definitely. And
I want to say, well, I'm on Facebook looking at
the pictures from the rucks. I have to say that
I have a sense of pride seeing Paul and Amanda
and adjusted out there rucking because sometimes they're not by
themselves and they have like eleven people with them, and
I'm not going, wow, they're connected with our community and

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it's all about in the doing. And I'll say Paul
is a young sport here and I'm inspired to see that.
When people see him doing, they're like going, oh, I
can do that too. So other young sports get out
there and they're going, can I do that too? I said, yes,
do it inch at a time. I mean, by the
time you're done, you'd be doing a mile. But you
know what, you got to start somewhere. And I want

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to say thank you. Paul for embracing the philosophy.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
Well, you know, when I was walking alone before all
this started, and I thought, gee, I did half a
mile today, I did maybe three quarters of a mile today.
But now I'm looking at it saying I got to
get over three miles. So the progress happens, and that's
because of the group, and that's why you really need

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to come out and join us.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
No, uh, we we did four miles one day last Monday.

Speaker 5 (08:19):
He's knuck that one in on me.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh see, that's how Paul tells we're going to do that. Yeah,
that's how Paul tells it. But that is inaccurate. He
he We were walking and talking. I didn't want to
interrupt him. So next thing, you know, before I could
get a sentence in, we were at four miles.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
So but hey, that's that's the good.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Part of it, is, uh, you know, telling those stories,
building the camaraderie, building those relationships, and you know, you
don't always have time to to just say I mean,
even if even if you would tell your your spouse things,
you don't always have time to You don't always have
just an hour just to talk about anything that pops

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into the so so Yeah, we just walk and talk,
and it's it's a really good way to just build relationships,
you know, just outside and just just have an outlet
to uh, to just have those conversations and just and
just talk about whatever.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Yeah, and and a cool part of it. And from
a I guess I call it this stands perspective far
away that is from me, I see people having conversations,
getting to the habit of basically having conversations, where as
opposed you wouldn't having those conversations. They'd be isolated and
having that positive habit of having that walk for a
mile or half a mile, having conversations. Like you said,

(09:40):
we're building positive habits and again again and hopefully they'll
come to like that and go, I gotta go do
my mile and a half of my three miles because
I got stories to tell from last week.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
It's probably the longest time, it's probably the longest time
in the day that I'm not on my phone.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
If I'm being honest.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, so uh, and I just one big sarge to
know that you don't have to just see us on Facebook.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
You can come out and see it in personal as well.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
I will promise when I'm fully retired in about two months,
I will be there, fucking trust you me.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Okay, you realize I have a retort for that, because
the best aid to plant a tree was ten years ago.
The second best day is today.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Exactly. Wow, I got served.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
So here's the scoop. That one mile at a dog
walking pace is twenty minutes in your day. Twenty minutes. Yeah, absolutely,
twenty minute twenty minutes. It takes you longer to go
to Dutch Brothers, wait in line for a freaking over
priced cup of coffee probably or Chick fil A, which
does it pretty fast, and literally get up, get out

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and get moving with you, grab your ruck pack where
you can join Amanda, Paul and Justin. Or you walk
out your front door, you turn left and you walk
for ten minutes. You come back and you come back
into your house. You get showered, and you get shaved,
and you go to work. Funny minutes. Well, change your life.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
See, all I'm thinking about is the fact that you
mentioned Dutch Bros. Right now, because there's not a Dutch
Bros down in this area yet, and they were everywhere.
That saddens me. We went to uh we went to
a concert in Daytona. A couple of weeks ago, and
that that was one of the stops that we had
to make every day was Dutch Bros.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Okay, well, if you mean you, I'll take you there,
although I have to be going in the north Found
lane because you cannot cross the traffic to go south.
Does that make sense? Like it's just so freaking busy
on that side of the street. But either way, I'm sorry.
Then go to your favorite coffee shop.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
I'm gon't pull the ignorant card. What is Dutch Bros?

Speaker 3 (11:38):
Oh man, it gets just a coffee shop. That's all
pretty much. It's like Starbucks. It's just a newer version.
It's you know, like it's but anyway, it's just a.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
Coffee shoul got it?

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (11:51):
All right, So maybe they need to sponsor us so
that they can go in all fifty states, in all
Brazilion cities. I don't know. Now, I am like, right, hey,
can we go all let's be kind rewind from my
Blockbuster fans in anybody, if you read any of you
read James Clear's Book of Timic Habits. No, no, if not,

(12:15):
I recommend it. It's not a book I wanted to
read way back in the day. But once it sold
a million copies, I figured it had some grit to it.
But he says, to identify yourself as the person you
want to be. So if a connected person in a
community is somebody you want to be, then identify yourself
that and then join the community. It's a healthy person

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is somebody you want to identify as and make choices
and decisions as a healthy person. Again, whether you begin
walking today, whether it's mobility in your living room, whatever
that looks like, or choosing better food today, or drinking
water or getting rest. And we have to see ourselves
as the person we want to become and then start

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taking action as that person. Nobody said it had to
be perfect, and I've said over and over and over again.
I never I did not make one hundred percent on
all of the exams I ever took. I graduated high school,
I graduated college. I didn't get recycled in the boot camp,
but if I had, it would have give me an
opportunity to do it again.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
And what was the name of the what was the
name of that book?

Speaker 3 (13:17):
I'm sorry, Atomic Habits by James Clear.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, I'm gonna look that up.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah, And if you have Spotify premium another drop, you
get fifteen hours of free audio. Two.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
By the way, Oh, they have it as an audiobook. Yes,
even better the way.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
I typically have done it. I get the audiobook and
end up buying the book, and then I ended up
getting the Kindle version so I can copy and paste
certain pieces of it, make and formulate into my Danish thought.
That's really how it really works.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
You know what, every time you're on the show, I
come back with more knowledge. And I walked in with
and I'm energized for like the next three days, and
I'm like, we're referring back to this moment, and I
wonder why we want to do a series with you
kind of leading the way, because Wow, I am pretty
sure I can guarantee our listeners veteran and or not,

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or would be inspired by just just your Danish isms.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
The quick scoop and I I'll be quiet on how
Danish came about. Way back when Twitter X I guess
it is now started My sister work in mobile technology
at the end of the nineties early two thousand, most
of us didn't even know what the heck that was,
and she said, yay, you need to figure out what
Twitter is. And I didn't know what a hashtag was,
and I invented that. I'm not even on Twitter or
x now, but that hasn't gone away in twenty five

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or twenty six years. That's the way.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
Wow, only you know Danish is in Man hashtag Danish?

Speaker 3 (14:48):
Hashtag Danish and by the way, I always capitalize d
an e. And I also want to share. Guess what,
I was not voted the most likely to succeed in
my high school class, but I was voted the most
spirits nice and that that hasn't changed it all. That
doesn't changed at all. Okay, so now we have Justin

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setting a goal of sixty miles this month. But I
also want to put out there that if for some reason,
Justin doesn't make the goal, Justin, will you be a
failure if you don't make the goal?

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Absolutely because absolutely not, because I'll never tell.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
But seriously, if you make fifty four miles, you've got
a ninety percent In my books, that's a day.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh yeah, No, I don't want to say you set
unrealistic goals. You set anievable goals and then you just
strive for them, you know, and as long as you're
out there doing something you know. I mean, I I
do plan on achieving said goal, but you know, as
long as you're just out there striving and pushing yourself,

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I mean, that's really what matters, is that you set
a goal and that you strive.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
For it, you know, right.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Another Danish is it doesn't matter what you do. What
matters is that you do it right. So you don't
have to do a burpie, you don't have to do
a cartwheel, you don't have to do a backflip. What
you have to do is determine what you're going to
do and then literally follow through on the promise you
made yourself. If you're hitting this news button in the morning,
it's the first lie of the day.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah. Oh absolutely, most definitely.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
And one of the things I do appreciate and on
setting realistic goals or for me anyway, is like sometimes
like you're not going to make it, and it's the
fact that you made it out they made the attempt
is what counts. I have found that sometimes I give
myself an impossible task and just to see how far
I'll go or how how I will respond to the

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to my situation and or if I can complete the
impossible task, well, I can say, well, oh, I guess
I've gotten strong last time I tried this. So it's
a matter of I think that's how to find people
getting stronger in life. One time you failed, two times
you failed the third times to charm or not. But
when you break through that that that event or that

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mind block. I'll say this, it's happy times for me
for about a half a day and then you know
what's the next challenge I got to put put towards
myself and uh, I will say that. I will go
on record that my my new goal is to make
a ruck with Justin in the month of ju the
morning that in the afternoon. Like I said, it's it's

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the fact of making the I have the agenda, I
have the goal. I just got to make the plan
to get there and make it achievable because all you
gotta do is show up. Because I can't get there
at five o'clock in the morning, because I've done that already.
So I've been I've been around at five o'clock in
the morning. So that's that's that's been done before. So
that's my intent. The mission has been set, So that's
my goal for this month.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
So actually one of my goals. One of my goals
is to have less goal. So what I've noticed about myself,
you know, just peel the curtain back a little bit.
Is I measure self worth on like how many things
that are on my plate. So I measure self worth
by by my output. And what I've noticed is that

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I'll sign up for a bunch of things and then
I'm like, okay, well I can't finish all of these,
so let me just not do any of these.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
And so.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
My new goal is to set realistic expectations and you know,
be great at a couple of things instead of you know,
letting a few things fall apart.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
You know, yeah, I mean I think that we get
analysis paralysis, so we see it. We sign up for
everything and then we get overwhelmed and we don't do
anything right. And that's not unusual at all. So self
preservation is learning to say no if it doesn't serve you. Again,
remember at the beginning of today's show, I said to
go so far out into the future and see it

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and come back and live it. So if something in
your life isn't serving you, it's time to let it go.
It's time to bless and release. And so if you are,
are the one that has a hard time saying no,
and learn to say no for yourself and self preservation,
to create the life that you love and begin living
it today.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Absolutely, that's that's that's where I'm at.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
There you go, I'm with you when I will fool
to support you, and I have your phone number and
I'm sure you'll get a few random tasks asking about
that as well. It's just about that accountability in that mirror, right,
being able to see yourself in the mirror.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
Oh goodness, awesome.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
I look forward to Thank you very much. Do you
have a goal for this month? Paul, Yeah, they get
back on Yeah. I wasn't going to say anything. I
was going to talk about it.

Speaker 5 (19:49):
It's been a tough week. I threw my back out,
so but I'm getting I'm back. I'll be back on Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Okay, thank you.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Well, my next question to take a time and day
because of we don't put a time in day to it.
It's just really a wish and it's arbitrary and it's
easy not to follow through. So obviously, Paul, we want
you to heal first. We don't want to exacerbate anything,
make it worse, so healing and rest is good and
then hopefully you'll be good enough to do something on Tuesday.

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Feel more power to you.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Well, I was given Paul a hard time, but he's
had family in town, and that's that takes priority over everything.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Invite the family.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
And for those who haven't figured out that family takes
priority over everything, like, figure that out because you know
you only get one.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
So I agree, I agree, I do want to invite
the family. And typically when family's over, they're probably not
even awake by the time you guys are done rocking,
just saying.

Speaker 5 (20:40):
That they're from Nevada, so there're on Nevada time. So
by the time I get back awake yet.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Right right, See, So we don't want to use the
family as an excuse. I do really always say please
and to bite them. They may not say yes, but
at least you invited them. Secondly, the question is not
will you die for your family or for your children?
So you do where everything you can to live the
best life for your children and your families in my opinion,
and that's what rocking is also going to help with.
We're getting up and moving or exercising or sleeping or

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eating better.

Speaker 4 (21:09):
Like I said, it's amazing here, Coach that when you're
on our show man you have these insights and I
don't know what you guys, I just feel a lot
better when I and coaches on and the day maybe
jerrymy walk out a lot of sunshine and rainbows for me.
What do you think?

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Oh, yeah, no, absolutely, I mean he always motivates me.
Sometimes he talks a little more more than other times.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
You know, we were talking.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
We were talking about that earlier in the green rooms.
As we say, sometimes yeah, sometimes he'll lead the whole
conversation and then sometimes he'll throw it back to me
and I'm like, I don't have words right now, pick
up the slack.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
So I would say that I've heard a lot of
motivational speakers on my day, but it's very few for
me to be moved by them to the point where
you'll walk away. I need to write a book about
this because what people need to know this answer, especially
in the military and Coach, I want to say on
behalf of a rally Point Media and network, You're a
valuable member of our team.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
The work I've seen do on your projects in Texas
is nothing less but phenomenal. We want to say thank
you for being on our show and every other show,
and can you please tell our listeners where they can
contact you directly if they want to have any questions
outside of this our of our conversation.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Absoletely, thank you for your kind words. By the way,
the easiest way to learn a little bit more and
maybe not be intimidated is to go to Daneboil dot com.
That's d A N E. The O Y L E
dot com. You can literally text me directly on WhatsApp.
I will give you my phone. Bob Goff writes his
phone number every book he's ever written. He's got some
great stories, so I hope someday I'll have the same
amount of stories. But you can literally text me directly,

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and I don't farm this out. I do have a VA,
a virtual assistant that helps me do some things, but
I will answer it. And it's eight three to zero
eight three seven, eight zero four or five. You have
a question com and a concern, just hit me up
there and put rally points so I know where you
heard it, so I know it's not spam. And I
would absolutely love to start a healthy conversation. One of

(23:10):
the goals I said about ten years ago is to
have a million healthy conversations before I die. I don't
really have any idea man I have had right, No,
I haven't reached a million yet.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Awesome.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Well, hopefully you get there eventually, and I know that
you will. We're all going to keep pushing and just
keep moving forward together. But that's going to wrap up
our segment for right now. So Coach, thank you for
joining us this morning.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
Again, always my pleasure.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
I look forward to it already. And yeah, you have
a great day.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
Thank you very much, coach.

Speaker 6 (23:40):
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Speaker 4 (23:59):
Okay, America. On this segment, we have Paul Poleshi back
on our show. Hello Paul, good morning. Glad to be
here is a pleasure. Paul winch Er, we introduce yourself
to zom are some of our new listeners, and tell
America about yourself.

Speaker 5 (24:13):
Well, I'm an ex military Army of the spec for
in Vietnam and through you guys, I've got to make
more connections with the old troops that I was with.
So it's a fantastic organization to be with.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
Well, it's a pleasure for us to have you in America.
We met Paul almost a year and a half ago,
and we have on our show. We were talking about
his experiences in Vietnam, and since that time, Paul has
been a rally Point media correspondent with other veterans in
our area and in throughout the United States. And like

(24:55):
our core mission is to make connections with other veterans
nationwide and locally, Paul is taken in that like a
fish to water. He's a natural folks and we're a
thank for the many guests he's actually allowed us to
find an interview on our show. So he's part of
our rally Point family. So we've been up to Faul.

Speaker 5 (25:16):
Well, just lately we did a rock walk which had
you guys have been really covering for the last about
the month last month or so.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
Yeah, So and our producers Zany and I think you're
on that same rock walk.

Speaker 6 (25:30):
Yes. I decided to come out because Amanda sent me
a text and reminded me because I forgot and I said, yeah,
I wanted to go to this. So we did. And
it was yesterday afternoon at about one thirty yep. And
we started out and the weather was wonderful. As everybody knows,
it was pretty hot out there, and if we didn't
have the breeze, it would have been really hard. But
you know what, it was an easy walk. And for

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those who don't know what rucking is, rocking is when
you take a backpack and it can be a Barbie backpack,
it doesn't matter, could be your military backpack that you
had in service if you're a veteran and you put
a weight in there. It could be five pounds, ten pounds,
forty pounds if you want, or no backpack at all.
That's what. But rucking is a chance to not only
get some great exercise, but also to share stories about

(26:18):
your service and about you know, just whenever. It's a
really great bonding experience. So it was me, Paul, Paul's wife, Amanda,
Amanda's dog, and my dog. So we had a great time.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
Definitely, one of these days I'll get out there. I
still have my old I may issue you come and
dear my rook from the army. Even though I had
to pay for it down the road. But that's fine
for me. I had that ruck for about ten years
and it was going to go into but no one else,
so I sucked it up and said, here's your eighteen
hundred dollars. Not a problem in United States government. I'll

(26:53):
pay for my ruck. That's my ruck. But one of
the things I do, and I believe you can correct
me on this, guys, I think the Southwest Rot Club.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
I think it's called Legacy Rock Club.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
Legacy Rot Club, and I believe that's on Facebook America
if you want to look it up. It was initiated
by a Dane Dane Boil Dane.

Speaker 6 (27:16):
Yeah, it's our positively caffeinated.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
Guy, another Alley Pointer, folks, and he.

Speaker 6 (27:21):
Does it in Texas. Yes, yes, yes, and it inspired
us to do too, definitely.

Speaker 4 (27:27):
And I want to ask you to kind of an
open question. It's not just the walking. You have conversations
and you make connections. Is that about about the right atmosphere?

Speaker 5 (27:36):
Oh yeah, it's one of the nice parts about it.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
From what I'm sitting here reading. Basically, the rock club
is basically an opportunity to reconnect with people and to
yourself and folks, one of the things that we kind
of kind of talk about on our show is that
you need to be active throughout your entire life and
if you don't, if you're not active, whether you're in
a military or not, we don't use it, you lose it.

(28:01):
Your muscle me at yourophe. You know it is. It's
a healthy experience to be walking at your own pace,
you know, catching a nice breeze of air. And we're
fortunate enough here in southwest Florida that's every day of
the week practically, and as we hit the summer months,
it's the rainy season for us. It rains during the
day once or twice and it dries up by an
hour or two later. So I'm thankful for that. And well,

(28:23):
he says, he'll catch me on one of those rocks,
and that being the case, Paul, one of our last questions,
would you recommend this for some of your veteran friends
and why?

Speaker 5 (28:34):
But it's great because we had at the first one,
we had what I call the you young guys, and
but we had both military and non military. We had
some people that just wanted to do the walk get
to meet the military people that were on there. So
it's it's yeah, So you don't have to be in

(28:54):
the military, you just have to want to and you
go at your own pace. What's nice about it. You
can walk as far as you want, or go a
little further. There's no there's no you don't have to
check in at any spot. We just go and then
when everybody gets back, we sit down and just have

(29:17):
a little more social time.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Good.

Speaker 5 (29:20):
This one was I this one, I brought my Vietnam rucksack.
I took it out of the display and I brought
it with me just to show to show off. So
that one's I guess about sixty.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
Years old now, God bless it.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
And it was fun to put it on. I did
have to loosen the belt up a little bit, okay,
so that's why I'm on these walkses so I can
tighten that belt up again.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
There you go, And folks, that tends to be an
issue with US veterans. We live a very meticulous life
in service, and once we get out, we kind of
fall off a little A couple of pounds. Find the
way around the waist.

Speaker 5 (29:56):
Absolutely, But if you're interested in getting some not necessarily
casual exercise, but you can do whatever you'd like to
do and build up from just a casual walk to
a really building up the way if you have a
rocksack or if you don't want to use one. So
that's the neat part about it, as everybody does as

(30:18):
a group what they want to do, and it's just
a wonderful opportunity to meet and to.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
Talk outstanding and not to misquote Dane Boyle, it's not
about the walking, it's about getting there, making their choices
to be there is what kind of the spirit of
the walk is about reconnect with yourself and kind of
one with nature and your fellow community citizens allows us

(30:49):
to kind of, you know, have that internal moment of
walking and thinking and becoming one with nature. Well, guys
want to say thank you on this segment, and Paul
thank you. As always, folks, you'll be seeing a whole
lot of Paul in here, a whole lot of Paul.
He's part of our Rally Point crew and hopefully one
day might be behind the microphone on his own segment.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Good morning, everybody, and welcome back to our next segment,
which is going to be with Helping Hearts for Heroes.
We have Kim Spencer here to talk about all the
wonderful things that they're doing.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Good morning, Kim, Good morning Justin.

Speaker 7 (31:23):
How are you today?

Speaker 1 (31:24):
I'm doing great. We got Paul over there with us. Still.

Speaker 5 (31:27):
Yeah, we're going to continue on.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
That's right. So what kind of things do you have
coming up?

Speaker 7 (31:32):
No, the first thing we've got coming up is July twentieth,
and it is from one to five. It's going to
be held at the Wyburn And that's actually for you, Justin,
is for the Warrior Wellness. We're asking for donations and
with your donations you get two drink tickets and some
wonderful orders and time to celebrate our veterans.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Right.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
So, I'm actually on the board for Helping Hearts for
Heroes and the Wyvern Hotel here in Pointa Gorda, Florida
gave them the opportunity to host a fundra there and
Shanna and Heidi and Kim were nice enough to pass
it off to Warrior Wellness, which I'm extremely grateful for.
And so, like she was saying, on July twentieth, from

(32:12):
one pm to five pm fundraiser, what that's going to
provide for the community is going to be one lessons,
personal training, gym memberships for veterans. So the veterans that
don't get out, won't get out, whatever the case may be,
This is going to help get them out the door.
So the purpose behind Warrior Wellness is to get people

(32:34):
active in their community, help them stay active.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
So the idea is that.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
If they don't have the means to get out and
do things on their own, or they don't want to, basically,
then Warrior Wellness steps in. We take that burden away
from them and we basically provide them coaching along the
way way, a little camaraderie, a little mentorship, and yeah,

(33:05):
just helping people stay fit.

Speaker 7 (33:08):
And what I like about Justin is you don't have
an age limit on it.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
No, absolutely not. So my goal is for the older generation,
the ones that don't feel they need to do things anymore,
is to let them know, like, hey, you do, your
mobility gets a little worse. You know all the time.

(33:36):
You guys are a little older than I am, so
you know exactly what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
So so uh yeah, so you know, getting people out
and keeping them active.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
What do we think about that, Paul?

Speaker 5 (33:48):
But moving memorial, keep moving. So we need to give
them the incentive or to help to make those things happen,
and it's a vicious circle that you have to get
out of.

Speaker 7 (34:01):
Why work in the senior living industry almost twenty nine
years will between ine years July fifth, And one of
the things I've always said, if you don't use it.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
You lose it right exactly. And it's not just the
health aspect.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
I mean it is physical health, but it's mental health
as well.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
So once you.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
Are no longer in the military service, you start to
shut down quite a bit, so you don't have the
conversations like you used to when you were with your
military friends. You start to withdraw because people don't understand
the things.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
You're talking about.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
So you start to keep to yourself, and so no
matter how many people you're around, you start to feel
more alone than you ever did, because you're just kind
of like a shell of the person that you were.
I want to get people out, let them know that
they're not by themselves, that other people have been through

(35:06):
the same things that they have. Other people have been
through hard times, difficulties, deployments, war basically, and they don't
have to just bury that. They can get out, they
can be with like with other veterans who have been

(35:26):
through the same things and just share those experiences. And
if they don't want to talk about things, they don't
have to. But they're in that environment where everyone has
experienced something, so you don't have to talk about it
because you just kind of know that everyone has been
through something, and we.

Speaker 5 (35:48):
Keep our language alive. You learned a language in the
military that when you continue to be with other members
of the military, understand what you're talking about and we
can add to the conversation or it goes wherever it goes.
But we understand that it doesn't necessarily have a direction.

(36:11):
It's just a direction that we get used.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
To, right exactly, kind of like with the Legacy Rock Club,
which we do here as part of Warrior wellness. We
get out there on rock marches or hikes, walks, whatever
you want to refer to them as. And so, for example,
we have a couple of artillery officers that just got

(36:34):
out of the army. Paul was artillery in Vietnam, and
they just walk and talk and then the next thing
you know, we've went like three or four miles.

Speaker 5 (36:43):
Absolutely, it goes very quickly, and it's kind of interesting
to see how the changes have taken place in both
the military and what we've gone through after a military
what we're going through, we could share that and it's
a change that we all do, just very subtle, but
we need that help to make that change.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
So yeah, so wrapping that piece up in a nutshell.
So warrior wellness, it's basically physical mental health, just to
get people in the fight, get the veterans to stay
in the fight and to stay with us and keep
them moving forward. So Kim also as part of helping
Hearts for Heroes, it first started out as Home Goods

(37:26):
for Heroes, didn't it.

Speaker 7 (37:27):
Yes, we started Home Goods for Heroes to assist the
homeless veterans that were living in the Veterans Homeless Village
in Punta Gorda. So when they graduate from the program,
they leave there going into a new place to live,
but they had nothing for their home. So we were
collecting all new product for the bathroom, bedroom, and kitchen,
which you know, the storms hit, so we didn't think

(37:48):
it was going to be, you know, the best turnout,
but we ended up with probably over twelve thousand dollars
worth of product. And so the veterans when they're ready
to leave, they technically shop for their new place. We
met a veteran day that we delivered everything to the
Veterans Village, which is managed by Volunteers of America. Or
was a gentleman who had served our country and had
been living in a car for six hundred days. That

(38:11):
shouldn't be allowed. So thankfully we do have that. The
Homeless Coalition, which is now overseen by Saint Vincent de Paul.
They have a special area set aside for our veterans,
and then I believe it's called Hudbash. So again, so
there's many resources out there in the community that unfortunately
a lot of people don't know about. So one of
the things that we are involved with is Charlotte County
Veterans Council, So we're trying to put all those resources together.

(38:34):
But from that Home Goods for Heroes, we created a
five oh one C three so we could take monetary donations,
so that again, yes, we had the product, but what
if you needed help with your deposit for Florida Parentlite
or the water company or whatever. We weren't able to
give you any cash to assist in that manner. So
with the five oh one C three that we've created,

(38:54):
we are able to do that we talked about the
July twentieth event October third, which will be for helping
Hearts for Heroes broadly, is going to be a golf tournament,
so we need some golfers. It will be held out
at one of the golf courses in Rotunda, and that
is October the twenty fifth. It's a Saturday, so if
you're interested, you can certainly reach out to me at

(39:15):
nine four one seven seven nine six six three five
or to Shauna at nine four one two one four
zero two five eight. Shawna is my partner in crime
who helped me get started with us, or we started
it together, i should say, but she is not here today.
She works for Right at Home and is the business
development director for Right at Home, which is an in

(39:35):
home care company. Shawna's husband served seventeen years as her
reason for doing all this, and of course my reason
is my stepdad served in the Korean War and was
an MP.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
So Home Goods for Heroes.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
As it gets closer to the holidays, you guys are
going to start putting out donation boxes and things like that.

Speaker 7 (39:55):
Yeah, so we'll start the collection again on towards the fall.
Hopefully we won't get hit by the storms on which
was what happened this last time, but still was very
very successful. So look around. We had boxes at some restaurants,
We had them out the Elks Lodge, the Moose Lodge,
a lot of different places in town, Army Navy Store.
What they look like is kind of the toys for

(40:16):
top boxes, but these are home Goods for Hero boxes.
And again we will be doing that collection.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
Yeah, and as we get closer to the fall, we'll
start talking about that more and more.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
And like Kim was saying, we have the.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
Golf tournament on October twenty fifth, which is going to
be kind of the unofficial kickoff to our fundraising for
Home Goods for Heroes for the holiday season.

Speaker 7 (40:38):
We did have a BINGO fundraiser back in September, so
thank you to all who participated because we did raise
quite a bit of money. So to help us support
our veterans out there. And one of the things I
will say, yeah, I'm proud to live here in Charlotte
County because Charlotte County is all about our veterans, which
you can't say for a lot of areas that I've
lived in, right.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
So actually, yeah, so that was at the end of April,
and it was pretty successful. It was very successful, but wow,
I didn't realize that bingo was as serious as it is.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
Bingo players are. They can be mean well.

Speaker 7 (41:11):
And what was interesting the Bengo really was not to
start till six o'clock. I got there at four point
thirty to start setting up and they were waiting to
come in and take their table. So yes, it's a
very serious game.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
So I don't think it would surprise anyone that was
there for them to find out.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
That it was our first Bingo event.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
I think they figured it out pretty quickly. However, it
was very successful. It was a lot of fun, and
we know what our shortcomings were. And when we plan one,
hopefully in the fall, it'll be a lot better.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
It's going to go a lot smoother, I think.

Speaker 7 (41:45):
Yeah, And thanks for setting me straight on the date
justin it is the fall that we are supposed to
be planning the next one more because the first one
was held out in ningle was we want to do
one more here in the Port Charlotte area, right.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Oh, and while we're talking about events, this we're just
kind of on that vibe.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
So last week and at the.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
Franz Ross YMCA, which was May twenty fourth, we had
the Veterans Resource Fare. We had twenty seven vendors set up,
including yourself, Yes, and Paul had his Vietnam display.

Speaker 5 (42:13):
That was a busy day. I was very pleased with
the turnout. It was well received. So, well, we need
to keep something like that always on the burner.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Yeah, absolutely so I plan on doing one of those
about once a quarter. It may be at the Frans
Ross YMCA, or we may move it around a little bit.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Share of the wealth.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
But we probably had between one hundred and fifty and
two hundred veterans come through there. The VA was doing
toxic exposure screenings. That was a big success. I saw
a lot of veterans go in there. They had a
map at the front door, so if you were in
these locations and you had these symptoms, come talk to us.
And a lot of people went in there and took
advantage of that, and I think it was very beneficial.
So yeah, that was a highly successful event as well.

(42:55):
So I'm very grateful for everyone that came out to
that event, and you know, be on the lookout for
the next Veteran Resource Fair here in Charlotte County.

Speaker 7 (43:01):
It was absolutely well received, and I thought, you know,
a good turnout. And again, you know, some of our
veterans don't know we're afraid to kind of reach out
to one person for resources. Of having everybody there where
they could economy andander through and see who they felt
comfortable talking to, makes a huge difference for them, right.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
And that's one of the things about Warrior Wellness, the
legacy Rock Club is when you get out there and
you start talking to people, this is my disability rating
with the VA. Oh well, this is my disability rating
for the VA. Oh well, let's get you to where
this person is and help them in that process, get
them talking to a Vso a lot of veterans they
got out in the sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties even and

(43:40):
whenever they exited the military, whatever the VA told them
is just the information that they have. However, but we've
learned about Gulf War syndrome, and we've learned about agent orange,
and even when I was in Iraq and Katar and Kuwait,
we've found out about toxic exposure from burn pits and
things like that. So even Campbell June with the water,
all these things that have had happened in the time

(44:01):
since people ETSD or got out of the military that
could affect them. They need to talk to the VA
and find out what they're entitled to, and you don't
have to be a lot of people are like, well,
I don't want to take that money from another veteran. Well,
you're not taking that money from another veteran. That it's
there for us, And if veterans aren't using their benefits,

(44:21):
then the way that's looked at is, well, next year,
maybe we don't need that much. That maybe that pot
of money needs to shrink a little bit since since
we're not using that pot of money. And so you
owe it to yourself to get out there and see
what you're entitled to. And a lot of veterans, you're right,
don't take advantage of that. They don't know what they're
entitled to.

Speaker 7 (44:41):
It's sad, You're absolutely right. Some of them don't feel
like they are entitled to it or they need to
leave it for the other veteran. You know, I work
for Brookdale Port Charlotte, and you know I've got a
veteran sitting across from you and say, well, you know
you've got you know, these services that you can apply for,
and I'll say, oh, well, I don't think I deserve that.
You know, all of our veterans deserve it. Yes, Unfortunately
there's some stipulation since you guys serve at least one
day during wartime. I personally feel it doesn't matter. If

(45:04):
you served our country, you deserve anything you can get
from our country.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
Well, and there's a lot of things that you did
not have to serve during wartime, and if you didn't deploy,
that is perfectly fine with me. Like when I was
a Masters sergeant in the Army, I might have looked
at a slick sleeve different, somebody that didn't have a
combat patch different. You know, I'll admit that. However, we're

(45:28):
not at a time of war right now like we
were like when I came in in nineteen ninety eight.
You know, people weren't going anywhere like since a desert storm,
so a lot of people didn't have combat patches. And
then two thousand and one, for the next twenty years,
if you didn't have a combat patch, it's like, well,

(45:48):
where you've been hiding, what's your excuse? But it doesn't
matter because it's really like a luck of the draw thing.
So if you raised your hand like you sacrificed something.
I always say, you can't measure other people's trauma and
you can't measure other people's sacrifice. So if you were
never in a war situation on the receiving end or

(46:11):
the giving end, you know, that doesn't mean that that
you didn't sacrifice for steps or birthdays or anniversaries or
you know, funerals or you know. Everyone who raises their
hand gambles with you know you're losing something.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
You know.

Speaker 5 (46:26):
Well. The other thing, too, is is that just because
you weren't in combat doesn't mean you weren't exposed to
the same chemicals the same situations that everybody else was.
Whether you were stateside or deployed anywhere in the world,
you still were exposed to those same hazards. So just
because you were not a combat vet doesn't mean you

(46:46):
you weren't in that situation.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Yeah, in your line of work, So you said you've
been doing this for twenty.

Speaker 7 (46:51):
Nine years, Yes, twenty nine years in July.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
So have you experienced kind of like the not necessarily
the fallout, but I'm sure, I'm sure you've had many
many veterans yes, that from the time that they exited
the military to the time that they came to you
probably declined quite a bit. And in your line of work,
you're able to see the effects of the things that
I'm talking about.

Speaker 7 (47:13):
Absolutely. You know, I've had people come in that you know,
were affected by Agent Orange, and especially our Vietnam bets
are the worst of the ones that come in and
needing help. And unfortunately, we weren't very kind to our
Vietnam bets, and so that makes it even harder because
they I had one gentleman who sat across from me
who said, I don't want to talk about it, and

(47:35):
that makes it hard, but we need to let them
know that they are loved and cared for and deserve
everything that they can possibly get. When I first started
in the industry, I had no idea that there was
even anything out there for our veterans, and so the
first five years that I was doing this, veterans would
come in, they have X amount of dollars. I'm sorry,
you know, I can't help you. You know, where do

(47:56):
I send them? I had no idea. Luckily enough, after
five years heard about the program aid in Attendance and
some of the other resources out there. You know, we
didn't even have a VIA clinic here in Port Charlotte.
They either went to Bay Pines, well pretty much at
that point it was Bay Pines because we didn't even
have Cape Coral. So it's just trying to get them
the resources that they need and everything. But yeah, because

(48:17):
they were declining, and how do you get all the
way to Bay Pines, you know, if you can't drive.
So luckily enough, you know we've got the local one
and which we'll be moving up to the Northport area
in the next few years.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
But but no, it's what they say.

Speaker 7 (48:30):
Yeah, but it's it is sad to see some of
the ones that come in. And I think I said
this probably on the last show, I don't remember, but
I had a gentleman that served in Vietnam and all
he wanted to.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
Do was die.

Speaker 7 (48:43):
He couldn't take the pain anymore, not physical pain, but
it was the emotional pain. And he used to beg
me to let him die. And that's what is how
hard to deal with when you have somebody that comes
back from a war and we weren't supporting them, not
just financially but emotionally and physically.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
So once again, wearor Wellness Helping Hearts for Heroes, Legacy
Rock Clubs Southwest Florida. Don't wither away, come out. Let
us help you get the benefits that you need. Let's
get you physically well, let's get you mentally well. If
I don't have the answers, if Kim doesn't have the answers,

(49:21):
if Paul doesn't have the answers, then we'll point you
in the right direction.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
It's a continuum of care.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
So whereas before, like Kim was saying, when she first
started out, it was like, well I can't help you, Well,
now we know that someone can help you. So if
it's if it's not us, we're going to point you.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
In the right direction.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
We're going to get you where you need to go.
So on July twentieth at the Wyvern in Pointa Gorda,
please come out for the Warrior Wellness fundraiser. We want
to make these things happen for veterans, but it doesn't
happen for free. You know, we've got to have fun
to pay for the resources. I've already been told that

(50:04):
it will not come out of my personal bank account.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
I've been warned, so no, but a lot of things do,
some things do, but it's.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
Important to sponsor these programs, make donations these programs so
we can get people to help that they need and
get them back on the right track and empower veterans
to stay.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
In the fight.

Speaker 7 (50:29):
If you have any questions regarding any of the things
we talked about, especially the Helping Hearts for Heroes, you
can contact me at nine four one seven seven nine
sixty six three five and Shauna at nine four one
two one four zero two five eight. Both have a
lot of knowledge and like Justin said, certainly are not
afraid to research it and find those resources that you need.

(50:53):
If you want to know anything about our hero hoping
Hearts for Heroes, just go to Helping heartsfourhroes dot com.
It will have any events that are coming up on
there and any of the resources that you might need.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
All right, So for producers Zay and Paul Pallecchi and
Kim Spencer from Helping Hearts for Heroes, this is justin
Rally Pointers fall out