July 17, 2025 • 12 mins
Conrad shares the digital strategy that helped him build professional influence and empower veterans to use social media not just for branding — but for healing and community.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is an absolute pleasure to be here. I'm excited
to be a part of the part of the show,
and I'm a huge fan of what you do. So
well to you and your audience. I appreciate the time,
and I'm going to do my best to make sure
that you guys are well educated and entertained.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Thank you so much. I appreciate We definitely need to
education sure, and I can always use some entertainment. I
know how story it's can be extremely entertained.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
But it's so crazy.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Because like there's so much going on right now in
this space where there are so many fathers who are
being ripped away from families and children just because the
boards are favoring, you know, custody with the mother and
in some cases when putting them back in custody.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
With their mother is dangerous.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Now, now, as the founder of War and Mindset Academy,
can you tell us little bit about what you do
and how often we're seeing this problem play out in society.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Statistics vary from state to state, what overall, the national
average shows that more than eighty percent of cases heavily
favor the mothers. And when I say heavily favor what
we're talking about. Isn't hey, the mother gets an extra
overnight or an extra weekend. What I'm talking about is
if the mother says, I want to leave the state
(01:14):
with the children because I can get a better job
in this state, or I can get better education in
this state, then the courts tend to lean in the
favor of the mother. So what the courts are expected
to do is consider what they call the best interest
to the children.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
So what that best interest to the children is, and
it's kind of pre faith in the title right there,
but the courts more often than not fail to adequately
address those best interests. What they're supposed to look at
is the amount of family that the children have in
that one area, the connection that those children have to
their immediate family. Immediate family being brothers, sisters, and mother
(01:52):
and father right and then secondary family or grandparents, cousins,
things like that. So the courts have more often than
not more than eighty percent is what my research has
shown me of the court case is in the last
ten years, tend to lean in the favor of the
mother relocating the children, despite without adequately addressing the children's
(02:13):
best interest, right, despite the fact that the children may
have siblings, have siblings that end up staying in their
home state while the children are uprooted and moved to
another state to start over. Now, a lot of times,
if that's an older sibling, those older siblings have the
same role as the mother as the father. Right, they're
there when that child takes their first step, Right, they're
(02:36):
there when that child says its first words. They're encouraging
that child, and that child develops a strong emotional bond.
But because the mother says she can get better employment
in another state, or she wants to look for a
job in another state, becaurts a lot of times tend
to lean in the favor of the mother because well,
I mean, in my own personal experience, in the thousands
(02:58):
of other fathers that I've spoken with, the females, the
mothers tend to get up there, and they have a
lot more emotional appeal to their story. Fathers are a
lot more direct. Straight to the point, while the mothers
tend to be able to cry, they tend to get
more emotionally not more emotionally invested, so much as being
able to display their emotions at a different level than
(03:21):
the fathers. Right, Not all fathers want to get up
there and cry. We want to stay strong, we want
to be firm in our stance, while the court's tender
lying towards the mothers when they're more emotional. And in fact,
the attorneys, more than ninety percent of attorneys that were
that were interviewed by bar associations and things like that,
(03:43):
stated that they understand the bias in the system. Right,
So a lot of times if they're representing the mother
in the case, instead of putting the petitioner or the respondent,
which helps the court stay impartial, they'll put the mother
or the father, And I mean, why else would they
do that unless they are in fact trying to tell
(04:04):
the courts, hey, this one's the mob, right. So, I mean,
the core paperwork is going to have that in there anyhow,
but it helps with the narrative when they're trying to
persuade the judge to look in the favor of the mother.
And as far as why it's done, I mean, naturally,
our society has thousands of years of pre programming that
we've been protecting women, and unfortunately the children in today's
(04:30):
society are suffering for it because as divorce rates and
separation go up, custody battles become more common, and they're
more and more father more and more children in this
world that are growing up without their fathers. And that's
just kind of one of the inspirational things behind why
we've done the things that we've done with the Father's
(04:50):
under Fire Movement and the other programs that we've developed
through the Warriors' Mindset Academy.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Well, thank you so much for bringing up to and
helping us to really understand issue. It does make sense,
you know, even after hearing you explain it, it actually makes
perfect sense.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I think that there is a solution. I mean, in
most cases, In most cases, if enough of us stand
together and we tell the system that we know you're
broken and we're not going to be silenced by this,
We're not going to be oppressed by the math. Is
what tends to happen is they start doing things to
(05:30):
appease the maths of the groups. Right, So that's the
whole purpose behind it. Just silent protest and things like that,
little things that make a big difference in us just
standing up and saying hey, you need to fix this,
and and doing things like that. I mean, we start
to we start to encourage the powers to be to
(05:53):
actually take action. We start encouraging them to sit down
and rewrite these laws that have been written for fifty
sixty years, to stand by and actually enforce the laws.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Because just like.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
There's corrupt cops and corrupt politicians, there's also corruption in
the legal systems. Right there are people that have taken
these oaths that are expected to know the laws, and
they're expected to apply them fairly, and they just they
make excuses, Hey, well we're bogged down. We have too
many cases and things like that that just go unhurt.
(06:25):
So the best thing that I think, in my opinion,
could happen is to start demanding justice and accountability to
those individuals that have taken that oath to protect these
children and to protect the relationships of the children and
the father. And when they decide they're not going to
rule with impartiality, when they decide they're going to start
taking advantage of the powers that they have within their titles,
(06:50):
we script those titles and we do things that are
that our country, our constitution entitles us to be able
to do, to demand account ability and proper justice, And
just like any other law, when people start seeing those
laws being enforced, they're going to start wanting to adhere
to them more adequately. They're going to want to start
(07:11):
actually following them better. And I mean, I think that
that's probably the only way that we're really going to
ever be able to make a difference. Otherwise we just
continue to be oppressed, and we continue to have handfuls
of us step up and step forward. But the masses
are much larger and much louder than we are right now.
So until we start to group up and we start
(07:34):
to step forward on these issues together, they won't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
There's so many different things that motivate people in life,
right A lot of times, like you had mentioned, a
personal story, A lot of times people will use their
personal stories as motivation.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
But the problem when that is the buyer burns out.
So I may disabled.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Betteran I started Warrior's Mindset Academy to help other disabled veterans,
and as we've grown, we've expanded that to law enforcement,
other first responders, people that have these jobs that just
establish the beer amount of press on a day to
day basis. Some days may be peachy, but the others
are going to be just I mean tremendously coatous, like
(08:20):
just unspeakable things, right, And I started to I started
to kind of apply my passion from my time in
the military. So in special Forces we have a saying
day oppresso labert, which means to free the oppressed when
it's loosely translated, right. So what I started to realize
is that the world has a lot of oppressure in it,
(08:42):
not just in America, but in a lot of other countries.
In fact, most countries are a lot worse than outers.
And whenas as I started my own journey the Lawyer's
Mindset Academy, I came in with the intention of helping
free those people that are being oppressed, fighting for those
that can't speak, those that are oppressed by the masses,
(09:04):
those that are oppressed by laws, those people that couldn't
be being god or ridiculed or held down. Instead they
should be standing up and speaking, but they may not
be able to because they don't have the financial resources,
they don't have the courage, they don't have the understanding,
(09:25):
the knowledge. Maybe sometimes they're not well enough articulated to
step forward and apply for a position with job like
we do a lot of different things for other individuals,
and it's all based on my desire to help other
people stop being afraid to live their lives. I think
that's the best way that I can explain it. And
as far as the drive that keeps me moving forward,
(09:47):
in all honesty, it's just the tenacity and the knowledge
knowing that there are people behind you that are counting
on me to continue moving forward. Every step that I
take means a step that they can take, and that's
how legacies are built, that's how famis are, that's how
(10:08):
users are created, by having leadership that can encourage others
to step forward and step into that role. And I
know that if I fail or I plate, if I stop,
every single one of them is now just stop. They
can't move forward because I'm not moving forward. So failure
is really not an option for me. I'm fighting for
(10:28):
a mission, I'm fighting for a cause, and that's what
keeps me doing so. The Warrior's Mindset Academy has our
own website. It's Warriors Mindset Academy dot bard. We have
several movements we're really working on becoming a part of
a lot of civil liberty groups and barter groups that
are that are promoting the veteran culture better sociding within
(10:50):
our country.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Right, So, Warriors Mindset Academy dot org is.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
The best place to go if you want to learn
what we're doing, what we're working on, and like you said,
if you know somebody that needs help, if you want
to find out if we can help, that homepage is
going to get you all the information you need to
know whether or not we're going to be able to
help them at this time.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Even if it's not on there, I would always encourage
you to bring your friends and things like that if
if they're veterans, there's always resources that we can help
them find.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Right. So, different areas, different counties have a lot of
different things, and our team is just I mean, we're here,
we got your six So Warriors Mindset Academy dot organs
where you're going to find the majority of information about
our organization and what we can do to help or
what you can do to help us make an impact
in more lives veterans, first responders, and our nation's heroes.
(11:45):
As far as the other question that you'd ask, if
we've recently started a movement called Fathers under Fire and
that movement is also going to be something you can
learn about on our homepage.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
But if you're a father, or if you know a.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Father that's experiencing custody is used, they need guidance, they
need assistance. There's a lot of information both in our blogs,
and as we continue to increase our network and our research,
our outreach is going to bring in more attorneys. So
if you're a father, if you know a father that's
fighting for custody of their children, and if you're trying
(12:22):
to make sure that their children aren't deprived of that
meaningful relationship with that man, then please reach out to us.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Even if they're not veterans. We may have resources that
we can use that's under Warriors Mindset, Academy dot org,
Forward slash Fire. You can always reach us through email
as well
It is an absolute pleasure to be here. I'm excited
to be a part of the part of the show,
and I'm a huge fan of what you do. So
well to you and your audience. I appreciate the time,
and I'm going to do my best to make sure
that you guys are well educated and entertained.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Thank you so much. I appreciate We definitely need to
education sure, and I can always use some entertainment. I
know how story it's can be extremely entertained.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
But it's so crazy.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Because like there's so much going on right now in
this space where there are so many fathers who are
being ripped away from families and children just because the
boards are favoring, you know, custody with the mother and
in some cases when putting them back in custody.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
With their mother is dangerous.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Now, now, as the founder of War and Mindset Academy,
can you tell us little bit about what you do
and how often we're seeing this problem play out in society.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Statistics vary from state to state, what overall, the national
average shows that more than eighty percent of cases heavily
favor the mothers. And when I say heavily favor what
we're talking about. Isn't hey, the mother gets an extra
overnight or an extra weekend. What I'm talking about is
if the mother says, I want to leave the state
(01:14):
with the children because I can get a better job
in this state, or I can get better education in
this state, then the courts tend to lean in the
favor of the mother. So what the courts are expected
to do is consider what they call the best interest
to the children.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
So what that best interest to the children is, and
it's kind of pre faith in the title right there,
but the courts more often than not fail to adequately
address those best interests. What they're supposed to look at
is the amount of family that the children have in
that one area, the connection that those children have to
their immediate family. Immediate family being brothers, sisters, and mother
(01:52):
and father right and then secondary family or grandparents, cousins,
things like that. So the courts have more often than
not more than eighty percent is what my research has
shown me of the court case is in the last
ten years, tend to lean in the favor of the
mother relocating the children, despite without adequately addressing the children's
(02:13):
best interest, right, despite the fact that the children may
have siblings, have siblings that end up staying in their
home state while the children are uprooted and moved to
another state to start over. Now, a lot of times,
if that's an older sibling, those older siblings have the
same role as the mother as the father. Right, they're
there when that child takes their first step, Right, they're
(02:36):
there when that child says its first words. They're encouraging
that child, and that child develops a strong emotional bond.
But because the mother says she can get better employment
in another state, or she wants to look for a
job in another state, becaurts a lot of times tend
to lean in the favor of the mother because well,
I mean, in my own personal experience, in the thousands
(02:58):
of other fathers that I've spoken with, the females, the
mothers tend to get up there, and they have a
lot more emotional appeal to their story. Fathers are a
lot more direct. Straight to the point, while the mothers
tend to be able to cry, they tend to get
more emotionally not more emotionally invested, so much as being
able to display their emotions at a different level than
(03:21):
the fathers. Right, Not all fathers want to get up
there and cry. We want to stay strong, we want
to be firm in our stance, while the court's tender
lying towards the mothers when they're more emotional. And in fact,
the attorneys, more than ninety percent of attorneys that were
that were interviewed by bar associations and things like that,
(03:43):
stated that they understand the bias in the system. Right,
So a lot of times if they're representing the mother
in the case, instead of putting the petitioner or the respondent,
which helps the court stay impartial, they'll put the mother
or the father, And I mean, why else would they
do that unless they are in fact trying to tell
(04:04):
the courts, hey, this one's the mob, right. So, I mean,
the core paperwork is going to have that in there anyhow,
but it helps with the narrative when they're trying to
persuade the judge to look in the favor of the mother.
And as far as why it's done, I mean, naturally,
our society has thousands of years of pre programming that
we've been protecting women, and unfortunately the children in today's
(04:30):
society are suffering for it because as divorce rates and
separation go up, custody battles become more common, and they're
more and more father more and more children in this
world that are growing up without their fathers. And that's
just kind of one of the inspirational things behind why
we've done the things that we've done with the Father's
(04:50):
under Fire Movement and the other programs that we've developed
through the Warriors' Mindset Academy.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Well, thank you so much for bringing up to and
helping us to really understand issue. It does make sense,
you know, even after hearing you explain it, it actually makes
perfect sense.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I think that there is a solution. I mean, in
most cases, In most cases, if enough of us stand
together and we tell the system that we know you're
broken and we're not going to be silenced by this,
We're not going to be oppressed by the math. Is
what tends to happen is they start doing things to
(05:30):
appease the maths of the groups. Right, So that's the
whole purpose behind it. Just silent protest and things like that,
little things that make a big difference in us just
standing up and saying hey, you need to fix this,
and and doing things like that. I mean, we start
to we start to encourage the powers to be to
(05:53):
actually take action. We start encouraging them to sit down
and rewrite these laws that have been written for fifty
sixty years, to stand by and actually enforce the laws.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Because just like.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
There's corrupt cops and corrupt politicians, there's also corruption in
the legal systems. Right there are people that have taken
these oaths that are expected to know the laws, and
they're expected to apply them fairly, and they just they
make excuses, Hey, well we're bogged down. We have too
many cases and things like that that just go unhurt.
(06:25):
So the best thing that I think, in my opinion,
could happen is to start demanding justice and accountability to
those individuals that have taken that oath to protect these
children and to protect the relationships of the children and
the father. And when they decide they're not going to
rule with impartiality, when they decide they're going to start
taking advantage of the powers that they have within their titles,
(06:50):
we script those titles and we do things that are
that our country, our constitution entitles us to be able
to do, to demand account ability and proper justice, And
just like any other law, when people start seeing those
laws being enforced, they're going to start wanting to adhere
to them more adequately. They're going to want to start
(07:11):
actually following them better. And I mean, I think that
that's probably the only way that we're really going to
ever be able to make a difference. Otherwise we just
continue to be oppressed, and we continue to have handfuls
of us step up and step forward. But the masses
are much larger and much louder than we are right now.
So until we start to group up and we start
(07:34):
to step forward on these issues together, they won't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
There's so many different things that motivate people in life,
right A lot of times, like you had mentioned, a
personal story, A lot of times people will use their
personal stories as motivation.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
But the problem when that is the buyer burns out.
So I may disabled.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Betteran I started Warrior's Mindset Academy to help other disabled veterans,
and as we've grown, we've expanded that to law enforcement,
other first responders, people that have these jobs that just
establish the beer amount of press on a day to
day basis. Some days may be peachy, but the others
are going to be just I mean tremendously coatous, like
(08:20):
just unspeakable things, right, And I started to I started
to kind of apply my passion from my time in
the military. So in special Forces we have a saying
day oppresso labert, which means to free the oppressed when
it's loosely translated, right. So what I started to realize
is that the world has a lot of oppressure in it,
(08:42):
not just in America, but in a lot of other countries.
In fact, most countries are a lot worse than outers.
And whenas as I started my own journey the Lawyer's
Mindset Academy, I came in with the intention of helping
free those people that are being oppressed, fighting for those
that can't speak, those that are oppressed by the masses,
(09:04):
those that are oppressed by laws, those people that couldn't
be being god or ridiculed or held down. Instead they
should be standing up and speaking, but they may not
be able to because they don't have the financial resources,
they don't have the courage, they don't have the understanding,
(09:25):
the knowledge. Maybe sometimes they're not well enough articulated to
step forward and apply for a position with job like
we do a lot of different things for other individuals,
and it's all based on my desire to help other
people stop being afraid to live their lives. I think
that's the best way that I can explain it. And
as far as the drive that keeps me moving forward,
(09:47):
in all honesty, it's just the tenacity and the knowledge
knowing that there are people behind you that are counting
on me to continue moving forward. Every step that I
take means a step that they can take, and that's
how legacies are built, that's how famis are, that's how
(10:08):
users are created, by having leadership that can encourage others
to step forward and step into that role. And I
know that if I fail or I plate, if I stop,
every single one of them is now just stop. They
can't move forward because I'm not moving forward. So failure
is really not an option for me. I'm fighting for
(10:28):
a mission, I'm fighting for a cause, and that's what
keeps me doing so. The Warrior's Mindset Academy has our
own website. It's Warriors Mindset Academy dot bard. We have
several movements we're really working on becoming a part of
a lot of civil liberty groups and barter groups that
are that are promoting the veteran culture better sociding within
(10:50):
our country.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Right, So, Warriors Mindset Academy dot org is.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
The best place to go if you want to learn
what we're doing, what we're working on, and like you said,
if you know somebody that needs help, if you want
to find out if we can help, that homepage is
going to get you all the information you need to
know whether or not we're going to be able to
help them at this time.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Even if it's not on there, I would always encourage
you to bring your friends and things like that if
if they're veterans, there's always resources that we can help
them find.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Right. So, different areas, different counties have a lot of
different things, and our team is just I mean, we're here,
we got your six So Warriors Mindset Academy dot organs
where you're going to find the majority of information about
our organization and what we can do to help or
what you can do to help us make an impact
in more lives veterans, first responders, and our nation's heroes.
(11:45):
As far as the other question that you'd ask, if
we've recently started a movement called Fathers under Fire and
that movement is also going to be something you can
learn about on our homepage.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
But if you're a father, or if you know a.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Father that's experiencing custody is used, they need guidance, they
need assistance. There's a lot of information both in our blogs,
and as we continue to increase our network and our research,
our outreach is going to bring in more attorneys. So
if you're a father, if you know a father that's
fighting for custody of their children, and if you're trying
(12:22):
to make sure that their children aren't deprived of that
meaningful relationship with that man, then please reach out to us.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Even if they're not veterans. We may have resources that
we can use that's under Warriors Mindset, Academy dot org,
Forward slash Fire. You can always reach us through email
as well
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