Mentors for Military Podcast

EP-139 | A Green Beret Helps You Find Your True North

People often make excuses for why they have found the right group to connect with, or the right person in their life, or why their military transition wasn't successful. Chris Schmitt discusses the reasons why people struggle and identifies ways for you to connect.
Chris Schmitt recently retired from 30 years of service as a United States Army Special Forces “Green Beret.” During the past three decades, Chris has gained extensive experience commanding, planning and executing special operations missions around the world. Through facilitating the success of Partner Nation leaders, both General Officers and Government Leaders, in Afghanistan, Europe, Northwest Africa and Canada, he learned that we excel when we all work together. His career allowed him to serve as a mentor, trainer and coach both in combat and uncertain environments at the strategic, operational and tactical level in Afghanistan, the Sahara and the Balkans.
Holding a Master of Science in Organizational Development from Central Washington University, a Bachelor of Science in International Relations from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and pursuing Executive Certification for Coaching from Columbia University, Chris is uniquely qualified to executive coach, conduct cross-cultural mentoring, facilitate self-discovery, and assist others to attain success. Inspiring high achievers to achieve heroic aspirations is his purpose as he works to become a corporate “Green Beret.”
Since retirement, Chris has conducted face-to-face coaching and advising with leaders from Fortune 500 Companies like Starbucks, Hudson Bay Company, Nike, Intel, Western Union, and Costco Wholesale. He has facilitated leadership workshops and led non-traditional, adventure-based, outdoor, leadership development. Chris founded the Azimuth Consulting Group, teaches in the MBA Program at City University in Seattle, and remains connected to the U.S. Special Operations Community through special projects. Mastering his own transition, he is passionate about support to the Veteran Community and serves as the Chapter Captain for the Seattle Chapter of Team Red, White and Blue. In turn, Team Red, White and Blue is supporting his development as a Team RWB Eagle Leadership Fellow.
Christopher is a certified Birkman Method coach and possess a US Government Top Secret clearance. Regularly, Christopher, Kristina, and their two children can be found hiking, biking, skiing and kayaking the mountains, logging roads and rivers near their home in the Snoqualmie Valley, Washington.
In this episode he joins Robert Gowin, Alejandra Gill, and Scott Johnson to talk about finding your true north.
Robert is a retired US Army Armor and Recruiter/Retention MSG turned Fortune 50 executive; Scott Johnson is a former British Army Engineer and EOD NCO; Alejandra Gill ("AJ") is a Security Forces NCO in the USAF.
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EP-138 | Becoming a Learning Leader | Ryan Hawk

Ryan Hawk runs the Leadership Advisory team at Brixey & Meyer. Ryan has been a student, teacher, and practitioner of leadership and performance excellence most of his life. First as a collegiate and professional quarterback, and now in the business world. He joined Robert Gowin and Scott Johnson and shares what he’s learned from his own experience as well as from interviewing more than 250 of the most thoughtful leaders in the world.
Robert is a retired US Army Armor and Recruiter/Retention MSG turned Fortune 50 executive; Scott Johnson is a former British Army Engineer and EOD NCO.
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EP-137 | You Control Your Destiny | Alejandra

You are the master of your own destiny. There are coaches and mentors who can help guide you toward developing a plan, but you must be the one who determines what you will do, the timing, and be responsible for the execution. Alejandra is an active duty Security Forces non-commissioned officer (NCO) with over seven years of service. On this episode she joins Robert, Erich Martin, and Scott Johnson to discuss this topic.
Robert is a retired US Army Armor and Recruiter/Retention MSG turned Fortune 50 executive; Erich Martin is an active duty U.S. Army Special Forces NCO; Scott Johnson is a former British Army Engineer and EOD NCO.
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EP-136 | Learn How to Recognize Stress and Identify Its Source

People deal with stress and life's difficulties in different ways. Coping skills are methods a person uses to deal with stressful situations. Obtaining and maintaining good coping skills does take practice. However utilizing these skills becomes easier over time. Most importantly, good coping skills make for good mental health wellness. In this episode Robert and Erich tackle the topic of how to recognize when someone close to you is dealing with a hard time and how to help them through it.
Robert is a retired US Army Armor and Recruiter/Retention MSG turned Fortune 50 executive; Erich Martin is an active duty U.S. Army Special Forces NCO.
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EP-135 | A U.S. Army Ranger Conquers Naked and Afraid | Chance Davis

Listen to this episode and hear from a U.S. Army Ranger as he talks about teamwork, the importance of teamwork as Rangers, and how he is now using the traits and knowledge the earned from being an Army Ranger to help him in his current role in the private sector.
Chance Davis is a former U.S. Army 75th Ranger Regiment medic with two deployments who shares how teamwork was critical to his role as an Army Ranger and in helping him conquer the popular television show "Naked and Afraid" where he spent over 40 days in the jungle.
Robert is a retired US Army Armor and Recruiter/Retention MSG turned Fortune 50 executive; Scott Johnson is a former British Army Engineer/Sapper and EOD Technician; Erich Martin is an active duty U.S. Army Special Forces NCO.
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EP-134 | Two is One, One is None | A Green Beret's Contingency Plan

EP-134: Erich Martin - Two is One, One is None
Without a contingency plan, you may never reach the mission. Erich shares what he learned in Special Forces and the saying of "Two is One, One is None" to focus on contingencies in life, work, and in combat. You can apply those same steps to your everyday life.
Erich Martin is a current Special Forces NCO (Green Beret) as an engineer. He often shares his knowledge via a video blog through his LinkedIn account.
Robert is a retired US Army Armor and Recruiter/Retention MSG turned Fortune 50 executive; Scott Johnson is a former British Army Engineer/Sapper and EOD Technician.
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EP-133 | You Gotta Know Yourself | From the Weapons Range To The Boardroom

Excellence and success are dependent upon the individuals willingness to put in the hard work to achieve it. A person has to know their strengths and their weaknesses before they can move forward. Even when on the firing range, every person has different ability levels and it's important that the right level of guidance is given before a person can make an improvement.
Drew Estell is the owner of BaerSolutionsllc.com, and is a former Green Beret and current weapons instructor. As Drew has often said: "the more experienced shooter they are, the less feedback they should be given. Too much info, and it will hurt their progress instead of help. Less experienced shooters can have a little more feedback because they are essentially a blank canvas without as many bad habits learned. [Training each is] a balancing act and their success is going to be based off of how well you read their performance and interpret their frustrations."
In this episode, Drew joins Robert, Otis McGregor, and Scott Johnson to talk about achieving excellence on a weapons range and achieving excellence in the board room - there are several similarities with both.
Robert is a retired US Army Armor and Recruiter/Retention MSG turned Fortune 50 executive; Drew Estell is a former US Army Special Forces NCO; Otis McGregor is a former US Army Special Forces Officer; Scott Johnson is a former British Army Engineer/Sapper and EOD Technician.
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EP-132 | A Danish Army Medic Makes History | Sabina Hogh

Sabina Hogh accomplished something that no international female medic had done 53 years prior. Spend time with a Danish Army medic as Sabina shares her story firsthand of learning to speak English so that she could become the first international female to ever earn a special U.S. Army award. She takes you inside the Danish Army and in the struggles of returning from a combat deployment.
Robert is a retired US Army Armor and Recruiter/Retention MSG turned Fortune 50 executive; Scott Johnson is a former British Army Engineer (Sapper) and EOD technician; Brian Cole is a former USAF Pararescueman (PJ) NCO.
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EP-131 | From Green Beret... to Wanting to Change the World | Bryan Myers

Bryan Myers talks about how he came into the U.S. Army under a Ranger contract and was recruited while at Airborne School to go to Special Forces Assessment Selection (SFAS). He boldly went to a promotion board in ranger panties and flip flops! After earning 5 Purple Hearts from serving many tours in Iraq and Afghanistan training the Iraqi Special Operations Forces, he now works toward changing the world.
Visit https://raisethe.black/ to learn more about what Bryan is doing and to help.
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EP-130 | Four Veterans - 2600 Miles With A Ruck | MOAR

Four veterans decided to pick up a ruck and hump from San Diego to Washington D.C.. Why? Listen in to find out.
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MOAR Team:
Paul "Anvil" O'Keefe
JR "Goat" Conkright
Victor "V" Vincelette
Ralph "No-Show" Cook
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EP-129 | Making of a Night Stalker | 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment | David Burnett

Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a member of the elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne)? Making A Nightstalker: The Triumph and Near Tragedy of a Special Operations Aviator. Guest: David Burnett
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Robert is a retired US Army Armor and Recruiter/Retention MSG turned Fortune 50 executive and Scott Johnson is a former British Army EOD and SAPPER.
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