Mentors for Military Podcast
Mentors4mil is a conversational formatted podcast that dives into real, unfiltered conversations with professionals from all backgrounds. While founded by veterans, the insights go far beyond the military—offering practical advice, inspiring stories, and proven strategies to help anyone navigate work, life, and growth with purpose and confidence.
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Episodes

Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
EP-274 | Amber Bonds - JSOC
Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
Amber is a gentle soul and someone who many, including those in the SOF community, have leaned on and gained support from during her US Army career. We take a dive into a career field, and more importantly the person behind it, who has made a difference in many lives, but she is also someone who deals with her own demons left from the scars of this war._______________If you enjoy our content and you want to help support our show, visit https://www.patreon.com/join/Mentors4mil to become a donor of our podcast for as little as $2.
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Monday Mar 08, 2021
EP-273 | Lee Busby - Tip of the Spear
Monday Mar 08, 2021
Monday Mar 08, 2021
Lee Busby is a retired 20+ year Special Operations Veteran with service in the 75th Ranger Regiment and 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (Delta Force). Busby’s service includes 12 combat deployments as both a Team Member and Team Leader in Delta Force. Lee joins Robert, Paul, and Chris VanSant on this episode.
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Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
EP-272 | AJ Powell
Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
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Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
EP-271 | Uriah Popp - SOF Medic
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Uriah Popp is a retired Command Sergeant Major in the US Army who served a total of 23 years of active service with time as a SOF Medic with multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and as the non-commissioned officer in charge at a brigade level at Womack Army Medical Center._______________If you enjoy our content and you want to help support our show, visit https://www.patreon.com/join/Mentors4mil to become a donor of our podcast for as little as $2.
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Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
EP-270 | Phil Sussman
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Before joining the US Army, Phil Sussman was a photojournalistwhere he spent time overseas, and shortly after an Army contractor. He joined the Army within the Armor Corps as a platoon leader, executive officer, and operations officer before attending special operations civil affairs selection and deploying multiple times as a Civil Affairs officer. Phil is currently going through the medical evaluation board. He's helped many discover a way to help ease their mental and physical pain, including mindfulness._______________If you enjoy our content and you want to help support our show, visit https://www.patreon.com/join/Mentors4mil to become a donor of our podcast for as little as $2.
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Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
EP-269 | Jim Reese - 1st SFOD-D Officer
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Jim Reese served 25 years in the Army and distinguished himself in the 75th Ranger Regiment and “Delta Force,” the U.S. elite counter-terrorist force. He has advised international leaders on six continents and served in contingency operations in the Balkans and Colombia and combat operations in both Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Immediately following 9/11, the U.S. Secretary of Defense selected Reese to serve as the lead advisor for Special Operations to the Director of the CIA for operational planning and integration of CIA and military special operation elements in the invasion of Afghanistan and Operation Enduring Freedom. In 2003, the U.S. General designated as the Combined Forces Coalition Commander personally requested Reese to be his primary advisor for the integration of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) for the Iraq invasion.Reese retired from “Delta Force” in 2007._______________If you enjoy our content and you want to help support our show, visit https://www.patreon.com/join/Mentors4mil to become a donor of our podcast for as little as $2.
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Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
EP-268 | US Army Apache Fighter Pilot - Rachael Jackson
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Rachael Jackson began her Army career as an enlisted soldier and was then selected and graduated from the United States Military Academy. She is a former Army Captain and Apache helicopter pilot who was medically discharged not long after her deployment. She is now the cofounder and CEO of a community and relationship-building platform that helps people harness the power of storytelling to build stronger, more inclusive, and resilient tribes through empowering resources and stories of hope, help and purpose.
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Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
EP-267 | Doug Kiesewetter - SOFlete
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Doug Kiesewetter is the content director at SOFLETE, a company of human performance specialists helping tactical athletes realize their full potential, but he's also an Engineer and Weapons Sergeant in the National Guard's Special Forces with deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Africa._______________If you enjoy our content and you want to help support our show, visit https://www.patreon.com/join/Mentors4mil to become a donor of our podcast for as little as $2.
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Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
EP-266 | Green Berets pay tribute to the French Resistance
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Three former US Army Special Forces (Green Beret's) along with George Luz Jr., the son of the legendary Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division portrayed in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers", pay tribute and talk about the role the French Resistance played in WWII.We also share an audio clip of George Luz Sr. sharing a personal story of jumping into D-Day.
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Monday Jan 11, 2021
EP-265 | Catching up with Kyle Neal - Combating "Fight or Flight"
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Kyle Neal was recently on Episode 252 and returns to discuss a procedure, an injection of a long-acting local anesthetic, using ultrasound or fluorpscopic guidance, is made in the right side of the neck around the main nerve that controls the “fight or flight” response (the sympathetic nervous system), that he had performed to help him with his traumatic brain injury._______________If you enjoy our content and you want to help support our show, visit https://www.patreon.com/join/Mentors4mil to become a donor of our podcast for as little as $2.
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Monday Jan 04, 2021
EP-264 | Afterburn - John "Rain" Waters
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Monday Jan 04, 2021
John "Rain" Waters is a seasoned fighter pilot with more than 960 combat hours in the MC-12W and the F-16 flying combat missions as part of both Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Inherent Resolve. He joined Robert and Paul on this episode.
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Monday Dec 14, 2020
EP-263 | Chris VanSant, 1st SFOD-D Operator
Monday Dec 14, 2020
Monday Dec 14, 2020
Chris VanSant served at the tip of the spear as an operator in the U.S. Army's 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (aka "The Unit", "Delta Force", "CAG", "Task Force Green") with over 500 combat operations, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, and taking part in eleven combat deployments over his 20+ year career in special operations.
Chris sat down with Robert and Paul to discuss the path to him becoming an operator with The Unit and the toll combat and the loss of teammates had on him over time.
He is currently the chief operating officer of Tyr Tactical, creating products that push the standards of today’s tactical equipment, define modularity and scalability and are custom made for the warrior._______________If you enjoy our content and you want to help support our show, visit https://www.patreon.com/join/Mentors4mil to become a donor of our podcast.
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