Rally Point Radio 43

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Rally pointers full.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
In, good afternoon and morning wherever you're going to be
in the world today across the world. This is James
the Sartimway with Amena Machiato Micano here with you at
the rally point. And of course we have the man
behind the microphone, Zane the Brain. How are we doing today, folks.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
I'm good, loving life and folks, we have an outstaying
show today and ladies and gentlemen, for this segment of
our show, we have a guest on that I have
known for quite a while, probably about six years. He
is the president CEO PMBA pretty much badass, Dane Boyle. So, Dane,

(00:40):
good morning, thanks for being on the show.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Good morning. It's a pleasure. It's great to wake up
and be amazing with y'all.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Absolutely, so, we wanted to have you on the show
to talk today about obviously you're an Air Force veteran,
so we have you on the air with Jay the
Sarge Hemingway. He's my host and also our producer Zaane,
So you can imagine how interesting that is talking about
Dane and Zane.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Are the cool names?

Speaker 1 (01:09):
What do you want exactly? So, yeah, so we just
kind of wanted to talk to you about your time
in the Air Force and how that has kind of
helped you know shape where you are today. So if
you would just tell our listeners about, you know, your
service in the Air Force, what years you served, what
was your AFSC, where you were stationed, all.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
That good stuff thatunds good. So, yes, I'm the Air Force veteran.
I'm actually a fourth generation veteran. My father serving both
the Army and Air Force. My granddad was an Army
Air Corps, was a pilot and then ran the RITC
program at Saint Joe's University for decades, and my great
grandfather served during World War One. Although that being said,

(01:53):
I didn't really wake up and decide I wanted to
be in the military. That's the truth.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Does anybody ever really do think what any of them
did at one point? Very few people that actually say
they're going to be in the military from an early age.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
I might have played Army as a little boy, but
I certainly didn't say I was going to join. But
I graduated high school early, I went to college. I
just wanted to make money. It was zero skill set.
Got on his truths, like how do I make money?
Came home and realized that making me in my age
probably wasn't going to get me very far in the world.

(02:28):
And my girlfriend at the time, who then became my wife, said,
you know, you're thank you. Your dad, your granddad, et cetera.
All got their education through the service, and we all
had pretty good lives, right, And so my dad was
actually still active duty. My dad went back. The Air
Force paid for college through ROTC, and then Army paid

(02:50):
for medical school. My dad was actually still active duty.
When I was went to MET I'd go, well, yeah,
when I went to MEPs. So when I went to
the recruiter and I came home and I said, I
think I'm going to join the service. Of course, he said,
I think that's a great idea young man. And he
just he just suggested that I go in the Navy
or the Air Force. He just thought that those were

(03:11):
the two branches that would serve me best. And I
knew I didn't want to be on a ship, so
I joined.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
My dad broke it down to me, like, you can
join any branch you want, except the Marine Corps. The Army,
the Navy, and the Coast Guard don't count. But yes,
you do count. Yeah, I will put down any of
the ones.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
You want, except for except for those so join the
Air Force. I went from basic training at Lachlan to
Wichita Falls the Shepherd Air Force Base, right in the
heat of the summer, which is always pleasant, joy, and
then you I was stationed in Fairbanks, Alaska and Aisle
Send Air Force Base WOW for three and three and

(03:51):
a half years. And let me tell you what you
really learn when you're there is you learn how to
make babies.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
You gotta do something to keep warm, right, right, So
that's the truth.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
You literally don't see anybody in the winter, and then
by the time spring comes, all the girls are in
their second trimester. So my oldest two, my oldest two
children were born there. My youngest was actually born in
San Antonio. But my affc was I was a five.
I three was an engineering assistant. I didn't really have
a clue what I wanted to do in the world,
but I had been pretty good in math and high

(04:25):
school and then some of my college courses, and I
knew I wanted some sort of education that I could
then parlay into the civilian world if that's what I
wanted to do. And a engineering assistant I did drafting surveying,
literally worked side by side the civil engineers every day
built roads and bridges. The one thing I certainly learned

(04:45):
there was I had zero desire to sit at a
drafting table, which would now would be CAD, which is
computer in and drafting every day. I wanted to be outside.
I wanted to be mobile. I wanted to I literally
didn't want to sit at a desk all day. And
I did that from eighty seven to ninety one. I
got out right after desert storm, came home to San Antonio, Texas,

(05:08):
and my dad was then a practicing medical doctor physician
in San Antonio. Civilian took me to lunch one day
and said, all right, boy, you've got three kids, now
you've got a wife. What are you going to do?
I go I think I'm going to go to school.
I wasn't really completely sure, but he offered me a job.
It is medical practice. I'm going to school as a
massage therapist. And I was like, that's awesome. How much

(05:30):
does it pay now this is nineteen ninety one, and
he said it's ten dollars an hour. I was like,
I'm in and I'm like, what the hell is massage therapy.
I little had no idea, but I knew it paid
me more than I was going to get paid at
what job I had, And watching my going to school,
passing the test and then working for my father for
almost ten years really has set the groundwork for seeing

(05:51):
the person in front of me that I work with
before I see the paycheck. So it's always people of
our profits in my world. Now, I hopefully that answered
your question absolutely.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
I was going to say, so with all of that
and all of those events kind of shaping it, sounds
like those were kind of some of the crossroads or
turning points if you will, that kind of put you
on the trajectory to your current mission in life as
a life coach. So how did that come to be?

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Like?

Speaker 1 (06:19):
How did you go from massage therapist helping out with
your dad's practice to becoming a life coach?

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Right? So it's decades of work, to be honest with you,
And I'll give you for those that old enough to remember, readers,
I just I'll give you the reader's iis version. I
worked for dad and a dad overpaid us big time,
and I literally told him that, I said, you realize
you are overpaying us? And I can't leave, and he goes.
I know, but when the time comes, I'm going to
tell you it's time to go. So in the late nineties,

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I had three younger sisters. He took one of my
sisters and myself to launch. She said, Okay, you guys
have a year to figure it out because of the
medical practice with isn't going to be able to afford
to pay anymore, and I'm going to take care of
your mom rightfully. So I literally enrolled in community college
in San Antonio, and in my scrubs, I went to
a seven am, eight am and a noon class until

(07:11):
I enough credits to go to a four year university.
And perhaps that mindset came from being in the military,
because the one thing I certainly learned was you got
to show up to succeed. So under preat and so
I didn't really still really I don't know it. Just
what do I do? What is my passion? Well? I
knew I love to teach and I always loved sports,

(07:31):
and so I went back to school to be a
teacher and a coach, and I also wanted to be marketable.
And here I am twenty seven, twenty eight years old.
Kids are obviously getting older, got a mortgage, got a
car payment, and I went to school and I got
certified as a biology teacher. I also taught integrated physics
and chemistry, and I was got my first teaching jobs.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Well that's a course load. Oh my goodness, biology, chemistry,
and physics.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
It's so funny. It's what's funny you say that, because
literally yesterday I talked to one of the airmen that
I was actively do with. We haven't talked in decades probably,
and I was telling him about that, and he goes,
how did you do it? I don't know. What you
do is you set the alarm and you get your
ass up and you go, and then you go and
you go and you go, and you you just do
what you got to do. So I did that for

(08:20):
about ten years and then I actually because gas got again.
I live in Texas. I still live in Texas. I
drove a pickup truck and gas got to two dollars
a gallon for the first time.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
And I couldn't and I didn't. I made crap for money.
I work in a rural Texas town. I really like
the people. I'm still blessed today to coach some of
those kids who are now in their late thirties in
my life coaching program, which to me are those are
those are kind of my favorite clients. I don't ever
call them clients, but people to work with because I

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knew them as kids and we built a relationship for
more than the football field of the basketball court.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
That's awesome when a connection transcends that.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah, hey, you could be an uber driver make a
friendship too, you know. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
I was going to say, that's actually how we met.
So in twenty eighteen, I was TD why to San
Antonio for a conference and I had stayed the night
with a girlfriend of mine who lived in Oh gosh,
where did she live? I want to say Sibilo, but
I don't think that sounds right. No, it's started with

(09:23):
an S, not Segura. Where did she live? Start with
an S? And it was near Randolph anyways, So she
lived out in the middle of nowhere, like the very
end of kind of the bedroom communities of San Antonio.
So I had about an hour long drive to the airport,
so I booked an uber to get me there. Well,

(09:45):
Dane ended up being my Uber driver. So we were
kind of talking about stuff and he told me. You know,
I obviously he asked why I was in town. I
was like, I'm an Air Force I'm TDY and he's like, oh,
I'm an Air Force veteran and we're like, oh cool.
So then he was coach and that has been a
goal of mine that I've kind of really put to
the back burner over the last couple of years, but

(10:08):
it's still kind of there. So I was like, I
would love to be a life coach when I retire
from the Air Force, and so that's how our connection
actually began. So he for a while was doing like
personal training kind of stuff, and so I was able
to work out virtually with him and his folks in Texas,
even though I was in Georgia because you know, by

(10:31):
the power of zoom and everything else, and it was COVID,
so everybody was having to work out virtually. So that's
kind of how we met and it just developed from
there as far as you know, the life coaching aspect,
the fitness aspect, and Dane just has such an infectiously
positive attitude that and it's so genuine that it just

(10:54):
kind of I think it draws people to him because
of the fact that he is he is authentically himself.
So there you go, which is really cool. So if
you didn't know that, now you know.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah, you never know.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
You know.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
At the same time, when I was driving Uber and
creating my business because I still had to pay the bills,
and I was, you know, just because I am blessed,
I'm passionate about life. I believe every day we should
never waste a heart beat because you're not guaranteed another.
And I truly live that way. But just because I
had that fire and passion doesn't mean that people are
going to come and join you. And I did Uber,
I did Lift and at that time I landed my

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highest paying speaking gig. Because I had a woman in
my car too, and we were talking and she said,
do you do this, this and this? I'm like, yeah,
I mean I had a very small YouTube channel at
the time. And she said, would you mind I don't
know saying X, I'm like, I figured it in my head. Well,
if it's BS, I'll get a five dollar tip, that's fine,
so I'll be the monkey, so to speak. And I

(11:56):
got out at the local grocery store and it was
a Starbucks actually that she went to, and I did
a little video senate to her, and then on that
following Monday, her secretary from the University of Southern Florida
called and said, we'd like to book you to come
speak at our events. And I had literally in the car.
I gave her a price, and then FedEx showed up
on my door with fifty percent payment and I booked

(12:18):
my flight to Tampa, Florida. So no, what was gonna Yeah,
that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, that's only about one hundred miles north of where
we are, So again kind of an interesting intersecting point there.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Right, So if we go back to school, and I
did at public education for about ten years, gas got expensive.
I happened to run across a job posting at a
local hospital to run their what they call the Wellness center,
so hospital based fitness center. And I was like, because
I worked for my dad and ran a multimillion dollar business,
plus I've been a teatern of coach, and my degree,

(12:54):
my master's degree is in mythology exercise science, I was like,
I could do that job, and so I bugged hr
like every day, put on my app put on my application.
When are you going to close it out? When you're
going to close it out why I did get the interview,
and then they offered me the job. And then I
had to make a decision. Well, because I thought I
was going to go be a teacher and a coach

(13:14):
the rest of my adult life. And I was like,
but I did old school. My dad used to teach
us to take a piece of paper and fold it
in half and put pros and cons. Yeah, and the
time I still teach that today. By the way, I
still teach that today.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
That is the easiest way to visualize a decision.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
It's exactly and that There are two pieces that ultimately
made me make the decision that put me on this
year deck to become a life coach. And one was
I didn't have to work on Sundays, right ex High
schools football coach, Guess what you're gonna work on Sundays.
And then I also realized that I had never seen
my daughter do a damn thing in high school because

(13:59):
I was alls coaching somebody else's kid, and I had
my son was a senior in high school and he
was going to play high school varsity football. He's six
foot tall at the time, one hundred and fifty thousand.
He's never going to play another out of football the
rest of his life, and I could sit in the
stands and I could cheer him on, and I wasn't
and the people always wanted me to critique the coaches,

(14:20):
like I don't really care. I hope they win. The
kid is never going to go play for the Dallas
Cowboys or Houston Texans or whoever, but he's going to
make great memories and to learn a lot about life
in general by playing football. I just wanted to sit there,
and that ultimately allowed me to then go finish my
graduate degree. And then because of who I am, Amanda,
people said you should be a life coach. You do

(14:40):
it anyway, and so I decided to go take a
course and it sat kind of in my vault for
my tool belts for a long time, but it wasn't
specifically the title I hung. I had on until, like
you said, till the pandemic game and I started really
teaching online. I was doing a little bit, and I
realized I absolutely love the like we're down this call

(15:01):
today and it's x o'clock. I'm at home at x
o'clock oh one, and I can do what I want
and I really truly learn the value of time. So
even driving to work for fifteen minutes, driving home for
fifteen minutes, or when I was doing fitness, you know
you got to set up all the equipment and clean
it all up. How much time are you not doing
what you truly need to and want to do? If

(15:24):
I do it online, I'm at home and then I create.
I'm blessed now that we create four global events a
year where we get to meet in real life and
give high five thugs, handshakes and connect.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
I'll us more about the global events because I really
think the Sarge would love to hear about that.

Speaker 5 (15:44):
Okay, okay, So one of the things we do. And
if you join us in aging with Awesoeness, you are
a trailblazer. You're going to blaze a trail that's never
been there before, and then we're going to invite people
to join us. The average age of my community is
forty eight.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
They are in transition, kids are grown, they've been doing
the same job for twenty years. Maybe they don't really
know the person laying next to them in debt anymore.
And they also know that they potentially have thirty forty
fifty years of a hopefully a healthy life ahead. So
one of the first things we do is we remember
and challenge people to what brings them joy, what are

(16:19):
their values, whether their non negotiables in life, and then
we create a three year vivid vision and we get
fed up. So it's based on your family, your friends,
your fitness, your finances, and your faith. So my wife
and I did this in twenty twenty twenty one, twenty one,
and one of the things we realized was that. And

(16:39):
so the second one I said, as friends, as adults,
if we don't purposefully create deep, meaningful friendship, we will
have none. Because I was a high school athlete, I
hung around with the guys at the Cafetira. We yucked
it up, right, But guess what, I'm not going to
the cafeteria now. So we have to be per right.
So we decide I did that. If I invite you, sorry,

(17:03):
if we go have a beer, or we just go
to lunch, We're always going to the next thing. Got
to get back to work. My wife needs me. I
gotta you know, maybe you have aging parents and you've
got to go check on your parents. So it's never
you're never fully in the moment, in my opinion, So
we decided that we were going to create two events
a year with our friends that were not in our hometown.

(17:27):
So I live about three hours from the Texas Golf Coast.
My last name is Boyle. So we host an annual
shrimp boil at the coast. And but that does so
we cater it, so I don't even have to I'd
like to do it, but I don't have to sit
there and do it. I get to talk to my friends.
I get to day pictures. I get to catch up.
But you're not in a hurry because you came down

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on our Friday. It's now Saturday night. We've got a
bondfire even though it's eight thousand freaking degrees in Texas
and the summer. But we create memories, we create experiences.
So that's how it started. And then I was like,
you know what, what if we added this to the business.
And when I was a life coach, If you go
back and I find my actual life coaching book, it

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says create half day, full day, weekend seminars. I didn't
know what that looked like, but it was something I
wanted to do. It took a decade or more to
get them. So because I lived outside of San Antonio, Texas.
I decided to create an event in San Antonio, and
really I had wanted to do it in Colorado. I
have a really good friend who I have attendant her
events over the years, and she's like, I think going

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to Colorado or Montana or Utah or whatever's great. But
as you know and all of us no hosting a
party and being a guest that the party is completely different,
and if it goes to crap, at least in San Antonio,
it's got friends and family to help you. Well. Thankfully
it didn't go to crap. It was a magical event.

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I had friends of mine who do life coaching, etc.
At the CAAM as guest speakers. That was in twenty
the fall of twenty two, and when we host I
host my event in November, which will be in the
Texas Hill Country. It'll be our seventh event a retreat
or Experience, and we've also hosted two of them in Italy.
We're going back to Sardini, Italy and July. We're going

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to Oklahoma City in April. I've hosted one there before.
First of all, it's pretty much the center of the
United States, and I want to do things differently. I
can go to la I can go to New York,
I could go to Miami. By the way, we can
tell that story one day about that's ultimately how I
decided to go out on my own. I was sitting
at a coffee shop in Miami. But Oklahoma City is

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a city with an NBA team, It's got culture, it's
got all concept most people don't know about it, and
I have still love the city. So we're doing another one,
and that one, our team of Trailways are rocking the
Oklahoma City Half Marathon.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Nice. Wow, that's awesome. If it Ain does a lot
of really cool stuff for he'll like challenge you to
maybe walk a mile a day or rock so many
miles in a month or so. Dan's very You're very
engaged with your following and with the people that are
you know, subscribed to maybe your emails or on social

(20:09):
media or whatever the case might be. So there's it's
really cool. Whoever's listening, if you're interested, you can absolutely
get involved with this wherever you are. What if you
have social media or an email address, So it's kind
of a cool way to you know, get inspired, engage

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and maybe kind of help you rekindle something that you
know might be kind of hang in there, way back
in the back of your closet or whatever the case
might be, your mental closet. But yeah, it's it's pretty neat.
I love how you do this, and the trips sound amazing.
I've seen some of that through social media and email,

(20:50):
but yeah, it definitely seems like a good time of
just being mindfully present.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Definitely, Dane. I have to say, I want to say
thank you for one your sacrifice in your service, first
time speaking today, and I want to ask you from
a perspective from you being a life coach. I'm sitting

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here like a little bit in awe between how you
kind of engage like spontaneous engagement i'll call it, and
you get people involved, and I'm like thinking to myself, hmmm,
if you could arrange something for our veterans of this
type of nature, that'd be very proactive. And my question is,
I guess that whole ramble is how'd you inspire FAY

(21:36):
veterans to take that same journey, journey or a similar
journey like your own.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
That's a it's a great question, right. So one of
the things I asked people to literally do is you
got to I think you've got to find some time
and be quiet, be quiet enough where you hear God
whispers to what you want to do. It's not about
what your mom, your dad, your brother's sister. And again
I live outside of sant Antonia. It's not your or
your deal, which is your aunt or uncle. About what
brings you hope and brings you joy. It's going to

(22:04):
get you to get out of bed every single day
like a child on Christmas morning. Take your experiences and
see what you want to do. Now. I didn't talk
about time. I didn't talk about money. I didn't talk
about effort. It's what drives you every day. And if
you can then make money, that's even better. But Mark
Twain says the two more. I'm sorry, I just ramble

(22:24):
on the most important days of your life and the
day you are born, in the day you find out why. Right,
so again the day you're born and the day you
find out why. Somebody asked me just yesterday, how do
you stay fired up every single day? Part of it,
to be honest with you, I think is an eight.
I think I was born with a lot of that.
I was not voted and most likely to succeed him.
I senior class, but I was those that voted the

(22:47):
most enthusiastic. You've got to just start. And I know
that sounds right and it sounds easy, but momentum is real.
If you and I go to push the boulder of
life and it's stationary, it's really hard to push. But
once you push that rock, push that boulder and it
starts to gain momentum, it's way easier to keep going.

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And consistency in everything you do is the most important
thing you can do. Like I said earlier, the military
showed me that my duty day started at seven thirty.
My ass had to be there, and really I was
there at oh seven twenty, pouring my cup of coffee,
taking off my parkat, taking off my bunny boots, and
going to work. So the action step literally is to

(23:29):
either figure out if you can take two pieces of
flint and start your own fire, or find somebody that
will let you take their fire.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Wow, that's profound.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
And he has let me take some of his fire
on more than one occasion, which I appreciate.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
That's always my pleasureize but that's truly it's what gets
me to get out of bed. Still at oh four
hundred Monday through Friday. I don't have a first call
or climb till like nine o'clock or a nine hundred
go ahead.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
I know you're up so early. It's crazy. It's like
you said, you get up at three, right.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
I get at four o'clock.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
I also go to bed before nine. Like I didn't
stay up to watch the last football game last night,
that's for sure. And I'm a Philadelphia Eagles fan. I
was born in Philadelphia, Eve though I've lived in Texas
most of my life. I won't watch most of Monday
night football tonight either, right.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
No, I get that, but I mean you're right. It's
all about consistency and making yourself find a groove. I
know that's that's something honestly, I think when a lot
of veterans transition from the military, I think that's probably
one of the hardest things because some of them stick
to it and they just stay on that course, or
maybe they can't sleep past a certain hour, and then
some of us are kind of like I can do

(24:47):
whatever I want now, like hold on a minute, wait,
you know what I mean, And then it gets into
this kind of course of like pseudo semi inconsistency. And
now that I'm retired and by the grace of God,
I don't I don't have to work like a full time,
you know job or whatever, and I don't want to.
If I don't have to, I have so much time

(25:09):
that it's kind of like, well, what do I do
with it? Right now? I think it's my younger son
that keeps me getting out of bed early because he
has to be at the bus stop at six point fifteen,
so that gets me to get up early. But yeah, sometimes,
like left to our own devices, you know, some veterans
will kind of the consistency can kind of go out
the window. And I know I've seen that for myself.

(25:29):
So so what would you say to people who are
kind of struggling with that aspect of consistency and maintaining
it once they get out of a structured environment where
they kind of have to.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
You know, it's interesting you said that because I have
won a baseball This is people learn best by telling stories.
So I'll tell you two stories here about and then
building consistency, about creating what how A Rod would call
creating your own miracle morning. So I've worn a baseball
hat since I was a little kid. But when I
got out of the service, I refused to wear a
hat for a long time because I had to wear

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a hat. I'm sitting here today, my hat's on backwards.
My dad always hated it. He's been gone for about
ten years. I look up to Heaven, tell my love
mom still or my hat backwards. But anyway, because I
had to write, I had to have my duty day
bet and I had to be either. And I was
in a readiness unit. We were in the field all
the time, and you had to do why whatever that was?

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yep, I was going to say. For almost a year
after I retired, sometimes it was the weirdest thing. I'd
be walking toward a door, getting ready to exit, and
I'd be reaching in my side pocket for my hat,
and I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. It's crazy. Yeah,
So that is funny how much that becomes a part
of you, For sure.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
It really does. I'm going to go back to when
I actually owned and created my own sitness studio in
the town I live, and I just didn't know what
I didn't know, and I didn't create boundaries on my chime.
And if you don't create boundaries on anything, like somebody
will create those boundaries for you. Right, So Amanda might say, hey,

(27:08):
can you come to the studio and train me at
four four hundred? Absolutely, Sarage would say, hey, can you
do on Sunday at X o'clock? And I would say,
of course. And I would literally sit at the edge
of my bed every single night kind of debating and
doing math in my head as to what time I
needed to get up. Look, I shave my head. I
have no hair ie. It's not like I gotta watch
my damn head, right, all you gotta do is take

(27:29):
a leak. I gotta brush my teeth, and I got
to get to the studio and probably turn on the
air conditioner. But I would negotiate day in and day
out to grab a coffee of power bar and then
at the end of night maybe biked eating a beer.
And I'm like, that's not a healthy habit. Those aren't
healthy habits or what healthy habits that I wanted. And
I read the book in the Miracle Morning by Rod

(27:50):
and it was the right time at the right place,
and he talked about creating non negotiables, which I use
today with yourself. And I literally looked at my schedule
and said four am was the time to get up
and don't hit the snooze button. It's Jocko says, it's
the first lie of the day.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
It is. Oh my goodness, yes it is.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
It is if you want to get up at four
eleven or seven, look, your morning is your morning. Please,
you don't have to get up at four am. I
have created silence in my day every day. I believe
in the power of prayer. I did lose my dad
about ten years ago. I worked for my dad and
I had private conversations with my old man every day,

(28:33):
and I at the end of that moment, at moments
and I say that I'm going to make him prop
I read every day, literally every day, because I number one,
you're more interesting if you read number two. It gives
me something to talk about and share. So that first
thing is like, go ahead, Randa.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
No, I was just agreeing with you exactly. Like the
more you read, it's like you can contribute so much
more to a conversation, you know, depending on what you
read or depending on the nature of the conversation for sure.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
So that morning time is what I also call a
commitment free zone. I'm going to ask each one of you,
and then i'll act let you speak, because I don't
do very well. Do you have more commitment free time
in AM or the PM PM H.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Mine's kind of tricky. Mine's probably more like the AM
because then the PM is when kids are home, dinner's
got to be made, clean everything up, you know, make
sure everybody's on track for their stuff, probably throw some
laundry and whatever.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Like.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
The evenings are busier for me. The mornings it's like
nothing to do, nowhere to be really, I have to
wait for the sun to come up to take the
dog out for his walk. So you know, that's kind
of where I'm at. I have time to, like enjoy
my coffee. I have time to you know, read or
you know, do a devotional if I want to, or
whatever the case might be. Yeah, though my times in

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the morning.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
So whether you answered PM or AM is ultimately irrelevant.
It's the fact that you have a commitment free zone.
You get to make an appointment with yourself. If you
were going to the doctor, my guess is you probably
would not cancel. You might want to, but you shouldn't
if you're going to the dentist, right you need to

(30:23):
go get your teeth clean or get a crown fix
or whatever. That commitment free zone is the most important
time of your day because it's one hundred for you.
And again you've probably heard it before. You cannot pour
from an empty cup, so what do you want to
pour into your cup? So that then you can go
and love those you love without thought and unconditional to

(30:47):
find that commitment free zone.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Absolutely well. For our listeners who are really liking what
they hear and want to learn more, how can they
contact you? You can share whatever information you want, phone number, email, website,
if you have a YouTube channel, still your Facebook page,
go ahead and lay all that out for our listeners
so that if they want to follow you and get

(31:09):
on the daytrain if you will, but they can do that.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
What's so funny. I used to have a virtual assistant
that calls it the day train too, so maybe that's
what somethings that it should brand. Everything I do is
Dane Boiled dn b o y Elie, whether it's a
YouTube channel, Dan Boil Coaching, whether it's Instagram which is
Dane Boil Coaching. My personal Facebook page is Danboil Gameboil

(31:35):
dot com it's just going to direct your right now
to YouTube because it's being revamped. Most of my clients,
most of the Trailblazers because they're forty eight over, are
really on Facebook. But Daneboil dot com that's my direct email.
Look Bob Goff, who I highly recommend reading by the way,
if your manner was creating dreams. But he puts his

(31:57):
phone number in every single book. He's got some great
stories about random people that have called them. So if
you want to go on What's app Today and you
want to text me and tell me that you heard
about me on the show, it's eight trio eight three
seven eight zero four five excuse me eight trioh eight
three seven eight zero four or five. I promise you,

(32:18):
I guarantee you. But that is not automated. The person
answering you is me. So if you want to connect
and have a conversation about out of age with awesness,
dream big, dream often, and dream out loud, to never
waste a heartbeat to know that today's you're tomorrow, Let's
have a conversation.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
That's awesome. Definitely, Well, thank you so much for being
on the show, Dane. We really appreciate you. Taking the
time to share your insight, share your story about your
time in the Air Force and kind of how that
helped propel you into life coaching. So hopefully we'll have
you on the show again in the future. We would
love to have you and kind to have you as

(32:55):
a partner of sorts with the Rally Point Show. So
until next time, thanks for being on the show. We
appreciate you so much.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Quest absolutely my pleasure.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
That would be a blast, Actually it would.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
I would say it definitely opens up a lot of possibilities.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Okay, folks, were back here on the show right now,
we have Casey Ladford here in our studios. She's a
community outreach case manager in.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Venice and an Army veteran.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
An Army veteran, and before we get started, thank you
for your sacrifice and America. This is Casey. Casey, tell
America about your little your history in the military.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
Okay, sure, hey everyone, so glad to be here. So
I was in the Army for nine years. I was
forty two Alpha. I spent a little bit. What is
a forty two Saturday Army?

Speaker 1 (33:47):
You know, the the Marine Corps, the Navy's probably.

Speaker 6 (33:50):
Yeah, eye for again. So that is an admin specialist.

Speaker 4 (33:54):
So you know, all your leave paperwork, all your any
promotion paperwork, awards, all.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
That kind of stuf, your best friend and.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
Yeah, even though there's always that joke that we lose
your leave paperwork if we don't like you. I mean,
you know, it might end up in.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
The yeah charge, yeah joke.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
But so I spent a little time on Secretary of
General Staff back when I was at Mannheim, Germany, worked
for a one star for a couple of years, ended
up at Fort Rucker, was at the flight school at
Fort Rucker, and then I did three years in the
Army Reserve at Fort Levenworth where my husband.

Speaker 6 (34:37):
Was actually active studio.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
So so yeah, so nine years and then had to
make a life decision and got out.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Well again, thank you for your sacrifice. What was your
time in like I mean, first of all, folks, we
have a tangent sorry in the military for you that
are still serving. There are two people you need to
take care of your quartermaster in admin around Christmas time, birthdays.
Memory isn't well because these people can make your break
in a pinch. Back to the story, now, so what

(35:10):
brought you? What brought you here to Florida?

Speaker 4 (35:13):
Okay, so my husband he is actually he was army
for twenty two years. He retired, so after I got out,
I kind of followed him around. But then we just
decided we wanted to be beachy people, which we never.

Speaker 6 (35:27):
Go to the beach. It's not like we really did
what we wanted.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
When you live here, yeah, you just barely get to go.

Speaker 6 (35:36):
Yeah, so we wanted to be beachy people, so we
came down to Florida and never go to the beach.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
So yeah, well, you know, it's that thing. It looks great,
we're not living in the state that has the beach
in it, but when you're there, it's like going.

Speaker 6 (35:49):
Eh, yeah, I got there.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
But life takes over and die. You don't really get
a chance to make the most of it. You almost
have to like deliberately build time to do it. We
have friends that they make a date, like at least
one Saturday a month, they go to the beach and
watch a sunset, yeah, rank beer, whatever, and enjoy themselves.
So it's like you really do almost have to like
build time into it. But I want to back up

(36:13):
for a second, because I heard that when you were
in Germany that you attained something that's kind of rare
and kind of prestigious. Do you know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 6 (36:25):
I talk about the shoots and snare.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yeah, ok So tell America about that, because I had
no idea that that was something you could do. To
be fair, I was never stationed overseas. I deployed, that
was it. I vacationed overseas, but never was a sign there.
So my Air Force friends will probably be laughing like, yeah,
that's the thing. But America about it, because I had
no idea and I just thought it was really cool.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
Well, okay, so the shoots and steer metal is when
you qualify on German weapons, so you kind of do
like a day or two of just hiring all the
weapons and like an obstacle course kind of thing, and
if you're proficient enough, if you qualify, you gotta shoot
sincetear metal.

Speaker 6 (37:07):
So then I get to wear that or I did get.

Speaker 4 (37:10):
To wear that on my uniform after that. Yeah, so
it's kind of like a rope. It's similar looking to
the eleven Bravo to the infantry rope.

Speaker 6 (37:19):
It's kind of like that. But yeah, so it's really cool.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
I was gonna say as an admin persons like I.

Speaker 6 (37:24):
Don't know that many admin people that had it.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
That's what I was gonna say. I'm like, you can
process leap, but you can also you know, take care
of business if you have a weapon, a.

Speaker 6 (37:35):
Good shot that folks exactly.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
So yeah, So I thought that was a really cool,
like highlight of your career. But are there other like
highlights of your career that you just you fondly remember
or that you kind of I guess, particularly poignant moments
in your career that you can elaborate on.

Speaker 4 (37:57):
I mean, I had a fantastic family, between leadership and
just other soldiers that were with me every day. I
think that would be the best part about the army
to me, because I mean, of course I had a family,
but I left home for a reason, like you know,
small town don't want to stay there, don't want to

(38:17):
be stuck there.

Speaker 6 (38:18):
So building that family in the military.

Speaker 4 (38:22):
That was the best part of it with me, or
to me, I think living overseas at the age of eighteen.

Speaker 6 (38:30):
That was.

Speaker 4 (38:31):
Yes, Yes, there was a lot of things.

Speaker 6 (38:36):
I had so much fun.

Speaker 4 (38:38):
I was there from eighteen to twenty one, I think.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
Nice. So I have to come back to this exactly
go out in Germany.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
I literally actually I turned twenty one a couple of
weeks after I came back to the States, I think,
and I was just like, Eh, this is boring.

Speaker 6 (38:54):
I've already done it, like every day of my life.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
Yeah, so yeah, I mean again, just that family and
getting to experience what a lot of people don't.

Speaker 6 (39:04):
Get to experience at the age of eighteen was fantastic.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Right, So how oh sorry.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Did you have that experience of when you came home
from being in service it never changed? Is like, oh,
this place is small, yes, and like the same people
doing the same things, like r.

Speaker 6 (39:19):
Yes, yes, thank god. Yes. And I hate to say this,
but I kind of.

Speaker 4 (39:27):
Migrated away from the friends that I had in high
school because I left right after high school because I
was a completely different person. But they weren't, Like I
was grown up, even though I was twenty years old
at twenty one, but they weren't. So so yeah, everything
was the exact same. So I was like, I'm really

(39:47):
glad I left.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
Yep, you can definitely see things from that different plane
that you're on compared to where everything and everyone else
kind of still is absolutely when you come back. I agree, Yeah, yeah,
so then with your career, you had a fantastic career
in the army, which is wonderful to hear, But how
did your career in the army kind of help propel

(40:10):
you or how did it kind of help prepare you
for what you're doing now as a community outreach manager.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
Yeah, so I think it has helped me prepare because
being in the military you work with people from literally
every walk of life. I grew up in a smaller
town in Alabama, so.

Speaker 6 (40:29):
I didn't get to.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
Interact with different a lot of different cultures and a
lot of different people. So being in the military, you
get that like you're just shoved into it because everybody's
from a different walk of life in the military. So
that prepared me in the aspect that now as because
I have I was a therapist before I was became
a mental health I mean, I was a therapist before

(40:52):
I became a community outreach worker. So like just having
someone literally every walk of life, it doesn't matter where
you came from, you all, we all have substance and
mental health issues the regardless of who you are and
where you came from.

Speaker 6 (41:10):
I think.

Speaker 4 (41:12):
Knowing that where you grew up and how you grew
up has a huge effect on who you become as
a person. So just I know, I keep kind of
going off in like a.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Little fun no, yeah, following it's just.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
Being able to see so many different people in the military, Like,
it's created a much easier and better way for me
to help people that I work with now because I'm
not stuck in that oh well, this is who you are,
because this is what you look.

Speaker 6 (41:46):
Like, or this is where you're from. So it's just
people kind of broadened your dead Thank you for those words.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Yeah, Well, that being said, how do you feel that
that's I believe you? For the Venice Police Department too, Yes, yes,
what's your role with them? Pretty much?

Speaker 4 (42:06):
So okay, so we are the community Outreach team. It
is myself and one officer. He and I usually go
into like homeless camps that are in Venice and try
to resource those individuals, or we just kind of go
where we know homeless individuals kind of hang out or
sleep to try to resource them and get help get

(42:28):
them back on their feet. But we also have part
of our outreach is we resource for mental health and
substance abuse because there is such a prevalent need for it.
In the Venice community, we don't have a huge homeless population,
but we do have a lot of mental health and
substance abuse calls, like service calls to the PD. So

(42:51):
it's us going in after people have been Baker acted
or Marchmen acted, which if you don't know what that means,
it's a Baker act is where you essentially, for some
mental health reason, you are unable to care for yourself,
so you have to go to It's like a crisis,
so you have to go to the hospital for like
seventy two hours usually unless the doctor deems it necessary

(43:13):
for you to stay longer. A Marchman act is the
equivalent or is the substance equivalent of a Baker act,
So you're so under the influence of either drugs or
alcohol that you can't care for yourself. So it's protective
custody pretty much. So anyways, we go in after those
two things happen and try to resource individuals into either

(43:34):
additional treatment if they need help, figuring out if they
need additional treatment, who to go to, if they need
like support groups, anything like that, because a lot of
the times, if you've ever had one of.

Speaker 6 (43:47):
Those crisis crisises I guess that's the right word.

Speaker 4 (43:55):
You might know that you're just kind of discharged with
a pack of paper and say, here's some resources in
your area. Feel free to check them out if you
feel like you need it.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
And that's going to go right in the track.

Speaker 4 (44:08):
It does, absolutely, because realistically, if you were in a
crisis like that and now you're supposed to get back
to normal, that's not really always possible for a lot
of people.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
Definitely not on your own, Like I think, some people
just need a helping hand or even just some accountability
from a phone call or a text message an email
to be like, yes, Hi, how are you doing?

Speaker 6 (44:31):
Exactly?

Speaker 1 (44:31):
You need help? So exactly, that to me was kind
of what it sounded like. Is a part a very
oversimplified version of what you do.

Speaker 4 (44:39):
It is exactly we just go in and say, hey,
would you like a helping hand? Is this a good
If you want to find AA groups, can I help you?
If you want to find in a groups, if you
want to find a therapist, can I help you? Just
that kind of thing, because you just don't get back
to normal all by yourself.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
Immediately, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Sometimes left to your own devices, you might actually spiral
further down.

Speaker 4 (45:04):
Yes, yes, and our hope is to prevent that absolutely.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
I had a question in that respect. In your travels,
have you run into veterans and if you have, is
there a particular protocol to handle them? Yes?

Speaker 4 (45:16):
Us, Yes, So we do actually have quite a few
homeless veterans in the Sarasota area, which Venice is a
part of Sarasota County.

Speaker 6 (45:26):
So there are organizations.

Speaker 4 (45:28):
Like say it's a DePaul, they have like a CARES
program that they work specifically for veterans. There's Jewish Family Services,
there's a couple of others that it's actually kind of
easier to get veterans into a housing program than it
is people that aren't veterans because there's extra stuff for us.

(45:51):
So there's extra housing. Sometimes there's extra financial assistance, just
depending on who you are and what you already bring
in financially.

Speaker 6 (46:00):
But it's kind of easy on.

Speaker 4 (46:02):
My part as long as the veteran is trusting, and
we all know that not all veterans are very trusting,
so sometimes it takes us getting out with that veteran
multiple multiple times so that we can build that relationship
with them and then try to get them into the system.

Speaker 6 (46:19):
So it's.

Speaker 4 (46:23):
Thankfully it's a little bit easier for veterans. You just
have to get hooked up with either like it's Zerostota
County specifically, there's hot teams, homeless outreach teams, and they
all have the ability to get you hooked up with
those services. So they're there, it's just not everybody knows
about them exactly.

Speaker 6 (46:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
Interesting. In a follow up question of that, do you
feel that there is an off percentage of homeless women
veterans or women at all currently in the area or
is it basically fifty to fifty.

Speaker 6 (46:55):
I would say it's fifty to fifty.

Speaker 4 (46:58):
I've had quite a few ways and quite a few
men as that were homeless veterans.

Speaker 6 (47:04):
I will say that the women tend to be less trusting.

Speaker 4 (47:08):
Yes, So that is one, I guess obstacle. So in
that case, again, just going out where we know that
person is, like where they hang out, whether it's a camp,
whether it's a bus station, whether it's a park, whatever
it is, and just continuing to go back and say, hey,

(47:30):
miss Sally, how you doing today? Is there anything I
can help you with today?

Speaker 2 (47:34):
No?

Speaker 6 (47:34):
Okay, well I'll see you in a week.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
Or two.

Speaker 4 (47:36):
It's just coming back and coming back, So I'd say
fifty to fifty fair enough.

Speaker 6 (47:41):
Yea enough.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
Are there any success stories per se that you have
from working in the homeless community that you can share?

Speaker 4 (47:49):
I do, Yeah, it's actually a veteran in particular, So
it was a female veteran. She had been homeless for
ten years. She was Air Force veteran, and I do
know that she had some sexual trauma from the military,
which is why she was untrusting of anything military and
untrusting of any male.

Speaker 6 (48:11):
So a lot of the work happened.

Speaker 4 (48:14):
Before I came along, because I've only been working for
this team for a year. However, after that continued contact,
like I was talking about, we were actually able to
get her into the hospital up in Sarasota, like Sara Soda, Maine,
because her legs were severely infected. Because she had been

(48:37):
living on the street for so long and she was
just kind of hanging out in one bus station, we
always knew she'd be there, so we actually got her
to the hospital and she from there. She was able
to build a better relationship with a medical system, and
she's in a physical rehab right now until the VA

(48:57):
can get her into a permanent supportive housing program because
she does still need help moving around because of her
legs they were so infected. So she's still there, she's
doing really well. I check on her every couple of
weeks to go I go up there and see her.
But so she is our greatest success so far. There's

(49:18):
another veteran, a male.

Speaker 6 (49:20):
Actually his wife passed away.

Speaker 4 (49:23):
And they were living in a trailer and the trailer
had to be condemned because of unsafe living conditions. So
we were actually able to hook him up with Saint
Miths De Paul Cares like I talked about earlier, and
they helped get him move an assistance to another rental
in the area. But he brings that enough money from

(49:46):
disability and pension and everything so that he's able to
pay that rent by himself. However, they still help do
the move in. And so, I mean, I always love
having veteran success stories just because again, no one really
knows about those programs or not everybody knows about those programs,
So it's great to hear those.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Absolutely, it seems like a lot of veteran programs and
I hope that we can help impact some change with
this through the rally point show. But it seems like
there are a lot of veterans programs that kind of
go unutilized or underutilized, and just out of curiosity if
there are any you can think of? Are there programs

(50:25):
that you come to find that a lot of veterans
don't know exists to help them, whether they're in crisis
or maybe just looking for, you know, an extra resource
to kind of tuck in their toolbox should they come
into a situation where somebody needs that help.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
I mean, I know as far as like housing specific,
there's quite a few that are in like the Inglewood
area and Sarasota County area there. And now that you
asked me that, I cannot think of.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
What it's I was going to say, I know there's
epic in Inglewood. There is that's empowering people in Christ's
Community Center.

Speaker 6 (51:02):
Yes, but there's an actual housing I would have to
get the info for you. I'm sorry, that's literally went
out of my brain.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
It seems like there are so many programs, and I
apologize you're putting you on some, but it just seems
like there are so many programs that go underutilized or
altogether unutilized. And so if we have these resources made
available to us by virtue of the fact that we're veterans,
we should be trying to use them or find a
way that, you know, find a pathway for somebody to

(51:34):
be able to utilize that blessing, because that's pretty much
what it is, whether it's housing, whether it's financial assistance,
whether it's you know, mobility assistance, if they need a scooter,
if they need a car, you know, whatever the case
might be. Just making sure that we're kind of aware
of what these programs are in our Southwest Florida community
so that we can maybe share that information with people

(51:55):
who might need it or contact them for whatever reason,
if they want more information or if they want to volunteer,
or whatever the case might be. It just seems like
there's kind of a thing out there where I don't
feel like everything's being utilized to its full and maximum potential,
and I would love to see that kind of change.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Well. One of the things that I work with the
State of Florida in the Health Department, and we ran
into a similar issue. There's so many organizations out there,
but if you don't know who they are, you know
who to ask in that end, we create a community
resource guide, and I had an epiphany about two weeks
ago that why don't we create a veteran resource guide?

(52:39):
Same process, and the intent is to list every single price,
state organization that there is pertaining to veterans and what's
out there and how you do it and contact information.
And one of the things that we kind of ran
into is that all we need to do is create
a number one, number two. Make sure it's a curate.

(53:00):
One thing I despise is inaccurate or outdates.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, not to poke a high try care,
but there are a list of providers in our area.
Oh my gosh. It's like going through an outdated phone book.
Like I'll call and they'll be like that person retired
ten years ago and I'm like, holy moly. Or they'll
be like, dude, what another you have reached is no
longer in service And you're just like, oh my gosh.

(53:24):
So yeah, so it's okay that you weren't able to
remember that one resource today, because it sounds like you'll
get an opportunity to contribute for our community resources now.

Speaker 6 (53:33):
Would be fantastic. I would love to people need to reach.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
Out to you where can they find you? How does
that work out?

Speaker 4 (53:39):
So I would rather give my personal instead of my
work email, but it is K A S E Y
L E D F O R D K C. Ludford
three at gmail dot com. You can call I mean,
you can email me anytime with any questions and I
would love to talk about anything with you.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
And remember, folks, it's not a hand it's not a handout,
it's a hand up. Absolutely every person on the planet
needs help. And the first prayer as a veteran, we
need to realize our pridings be put to the side
step and get the assistance that you may or may
not need, so that we can make our community stronger
with you being a part of it. And the work

(54:20):
that cases here is doing as a godsend and all
is our job here at the rally point is to
corral these resources for us to use us being veterans
home and abroad. So that case is a matter of
we're going to take someone that workout and you can
just find it here. And well, a good note is
we have a new person for our website. I think

(54:42):
you Lord, so we can actually start putting these things
on our website on a resource guide, which will actually
mirror the actual Veteran resource book, So if you can't
find in a book or on our website, Hopefully starting
in October, we'll have a resource page up and running
and we'll take it.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
From the We are super excited to have you as
a community partner, so I know a lot more goodness
will come out of it. We have a lot of
stuff in Charlotte County, but we have so many people
who like parts of this area kind of straddle multiple counties.
I live right around the corner from Inglewood, and depending
on which part of Inglewood you're in, you're either in
Charlotte or Sarasota County, which can kind of create a

(55:21):
little bit of bureau crazy and a little bit of mania.
But at the same time, it's nice to know that
we have folks on both sides of that line that
can provide resources, information, and it's wonderful to see veterans
taking care of veterans. So that's kind of near and
dear to me. Plus, on the Rally Point Show, we're

(55:41):
very big on women veterans, so we are super excited
to have you on the show and share your story
of how you join the army. You freaking rocked at it,
shot some German guns, pretty cool and.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
Got an award for it.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
Yes, thank you on the broadside of a barn. That's
probably why I'm like, I'm so excited. Well I can,
I've gotten a lot better go to the range now,
a lot more. When you're in the Air Force and
your medical they only send you when they have to.

Speaker 6 (56:08):
I mean, I was gonna make a joke about chair Force, but.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
I chose not to. On one hand, how many times
I went into the firing rangels in the air Wow,
I've got multiple more times since even out. But I
think that's cool. And then seeing your journey go into
community outreaching and passion for other people, it's just it's awesome.
And so we are truly excited to have you as
part of the rally Point team of community resources and partners.

(56:33):
So thanks for being on the show and thank you
just looking forward to more.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
Thank you for being a strong mentor female military veteran model.
And from my perspective, there are many strong veteran women
out there that need to see and hear from you
guys all because I could sit here and blah blah
blah blah my military experience, but it's definitely a different
dichomy from your experience. Sure, and sometimes it was good,

(57:02):
sometimes it was horrible. But they need to have that
support just like everyone else does. And God bless you
guys for being a part this endeavor.

Speaker 6 (57:09):
Thank you, thanks so much for having me here. I
really appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Well, folks, we have another guest and another addition to
our resource guide, our resource supply for our rally point
show and listeners. God bless you all, and we'll take
it from there and anything else I forget.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
Out I think so. Just thanks to our sponsors. Thanks
to one hundred point nine WCCFFM, thank you to reach
across America radio as well. We're having us on their
radio broadcasts. Appreciate all the opportunities to put visibility on
organizations that are veteran centric. You don't have to be
a veteran to listen to this show or to be

(57:47):
on this show. If you support us, if you love us,
so just thanks, and please continue telling people about our
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(58:09):
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