Helping Our Great American Heroes

Isaiah Moskowitz, Host Great American Heroes Podcast, stops by to share his experiences working with the DAV, why he feels so compelled supporting veterans, and why he started the Great American Heroes Podcast.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Join us now is Isaiah Muskowitz.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
He's the DAV Media manager, host of the Great American
Heroes podcast, joins us now to talk about his partnership
with the Disabled American Veterans Department of Messages.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Isaiah, thanks for coming on, appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Hey, Mike, thanks for having me. You guys are doing
a great job today. Thank you for all your support
for the DAV Department of mass.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
So I want to I want to talk first about
the podcast, Great American Heroes Podcast.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
I've appeared on it and want to talk about.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Just what it is, who you feature, who you talk to,
and how people can listen to it.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
Sure listen. You know, years of working on the radio
doing shows like yourself, you know when I started working
with the DAV years and years ago. As time went on,
you know, I was like, well, why don't we do
a podcast where we can talk to veterans, we can
talk to partners, we can talk to sponsors, friends and family.
The whole point, just like with your radio show, right
your job is to get the financial word out there

(12:12):
to the world and make people understand the world of
finance and business. Same exact thing with the podcast here.
We want to do the very best we can to
educate people about what the dav Department of Massachusetts does
for veterans and for families. And it's been a nice run.
We've got some amazing guests and people that come on.
They tell tremendous stories. And you understand radio better than anybody.

(12:35):
You're a host. It's all about storytelling.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Sure, any of those particular storytelling experiences stick with you.
I mean, I'm sure there's been a lot of great ones,
but anything you'd care to share.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Sure, there are so many, you know, I've you know,
and Paul's gonna hate me on this because he hates
being brought to the forefront. But Paul Wahlberg is such
a great supporter of the dav Department of Massachusetts. He's
so humble, never wants to recognition, but he just he's
a humble man who just likes to get on and
do very good things for the veterans. And when you

(13:06):
hear people like that and you look at the success
they have, and they're just they're they're rooted back to
the simple fact that we should be doing this stuff
for our veterans, Okay, And that's he always tells great stories.
There have been so many veterans on the Great American
Heroes podcast that you know, I didn't serve this country.
But I'll tell you what listening to the stories and

(13:26):
being able to share the stories of what they went
through in combat, what they've gone through when they come home,
it's and what the dav Massachusetts does to help those
folks that'll stick with you. Those those stories stick with you.
So you can find all the episodes that Mike's talking
about a dav M a dot org, da v M
a dot org and you can just drop down the

(13:48):
podcast page and they're all right there.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
So Isaiah talked to us a little bit about your
history with the DAV of Massachusetts. I know it goes
back several years. You've been doing the podcast for years,
but how did you get started with the organization and
what about it is meaningful to you.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
After about twenty five years of working in radio, I
started my own marketing firm and I was doing a
lot of business with the Veterans Administration in New England,
so via New England Healthcare, I was helping them with
radio and television and sports marketing so we could get
the word out there to veterans and families about the
health benefits that veterans have available to them. And that's

(14:23):
a very important message that moved over into the DAV.
One of my friends who worked at the VA said, Isaiah,
I want you to meet Dan stack Over at the
DAV Department of Masks. They're trying to reach a younger audience,
they're trying to reach more veterans. And I sat with
Dan and said, look, this is what I do for
the VA, and the two go hand in hand because

(14:45):
if a veteran's looking for their benefits, they have to
go and deal with the VA. And that's not an
easy ask. It's a tough thing to it's tough wall
to climb over. But that's what the DAV Massachusetts does.
They help veterans. They sit down, they help you with
your paperwork, they help you with everything you may need,
whether it's a ride to a doctor's appointment, whether it's housing.

(15:06):
You know. So that's where it all started when I
sat with them. That might have been about seven years ago, Mike,
and I'll tell you what it's It's grown and it's
going to continue to grow. And let me just say
it's growing because of people like you. It's growing because
of the Financial Exchange Radio Network, and congratulations on the
XM Channel one thirty two that just takes this show
and puts it global as it should be. You guys

(15:28):
do great work, and you've been such a huge supporter
of ours, and I really really appreciate that, so I
wanted to highlight you guys before we kept going on.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Isaiah, thank you very much. I mean, look, we all
have these personal stories about our experience with the DAV
and maybe you can share a bit of yours. I mean,
for me, I continue to think about the complexity of
all the VA benefits, mainly because you know, I work
as a financial advisor on my day job and I

(15:56):
have seen people struggle with this exact challenge before. What
else sticks out to you, just in terms of the
work the DAV of Massachusetts is doing these days.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
People have to understand and people don't People know what
they know, and people don't see all the pieces to
every puzzle they're looking at. Right, the DAV Massachusetts does
everything for veterans. So think about a veteran who's gone
to war is coming home from war. Think about what
that man or woman is going to need the reacclimation
into life. Let's be serious. How we get back to

(16:27):
going from what they saw where they sought to coming
back here to the States and getting a job, having housing,
making sure you're okay mentally and physically. There are so
many aspects. What health benefs do you have? You know,
the work that the dav Massachusetts does is just so
it's so incredible for the veteran and it's so incredible

(16:47):
for the veteran family. Again, I didn't serve this country,
but as a civilian, it's the least I can do
to try to help, you know, with the media side
of things. Again, we've all been in media. I've been
in media for a long time. I'll do everything I
can do to try to help spread spread that word.
And every day and every year we do this. Every
day I do this, I see different things and it

(17:08):
just it makes me really proud to be involved. It's
the least I can do as a civilian.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Isaiah Moskowitz, he is the media manager for the DAV
of Massachusetts, host of the Great American Heroes podcast, and
joins today talk about his work and support for the
disabled American veterans of Massachusetts. Isaiah, thanks for coming on.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Appreciate it, Mike, we appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
We'll see you tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
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