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Mark Haney: And now from the Marquee Media Studio
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Mark Haney: inside Mark Tank.
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Mark Haney: It's the Mark Haney.
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Marcus Haney: Show.
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Mark Haney: Today is the Marine Corps birthday, so it's
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Mark Haney: only befitting that we bring on a Marine,
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Mark Haney: once Marine, always Marine.
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Mark Haney: We brought on Marcus Haney and we're going
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Mark Haney: to be talking about Allegiant Vets and the
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Mark Haney: work he is doing.
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Mark Haney: He is the CEO of Allegiant Giving and
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Mark Haney: Allegiant Vets and he's building this
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Mark Haney: incredible business, but they're doing
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Mark Haney: impactful work, so we're going to talk
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Mark Haney: about that today.
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Mark Haney: But I think today is going to be more fun
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Mark Haney: because I got a chance to sort of reminisce
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Mark Haney: a bit with Marcus, because some of you may
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Mark Haney: not know this, but Marcus actually helped
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Mark Haney: me launch the show back in the day, and so
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Mark Haney: I want to take a little trip down memory
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Mark Haney: lane with my son, marcus, who was really
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Mark Haney: the driving force behind launching this
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Mark Haney: thing, and so we'll get to talk a little
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Mark Haney: bit about that as well.
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Mark Haney: But just a reminder to anybody who's
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Mark Haney: listening this really is about winning.
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Mark Haney: This is around winning an entrepreneurship.
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Mark Haney: We're building the backyard advantage,
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Mark Haney: which is the most connected community in
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Mark Haney: the world for local entrepreneurs, and it's
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Mark Haney: centered around a culture of love, helping
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Mark Haney: one another.
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Mark Haney: Engineering wins, and through our show, you
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Mark Haney: get access to people that can inspire,
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Mark Haney: educate and connect you, and so if these
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Mark Haney: people are people that you want to support,
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Mark Haney: then you need to subscribe to our podcast,
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Mark Haney: subscribe to YouTube and really be a part
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Mark Haney: of this community.
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Mark Haney: Get involved.
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Mark Haney: We live here, and I think it's incumbent on
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Mark Haney: us, as people that believe in
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Mark Haney: entrepreneurship, to support this kind of
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Mark Haney: cause, support one another and get involved,
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Mark Haney: and so I'm inviting you to be a part of
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Mark Haney: this journey with me.
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Mark Haney: But now, with no further ado, let me
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Mark Haney: introduce to you my son, the Marine, my
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Mark Haney: hero, marcus Annie.
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Mark Haney: Welcome, marcus man, you're getting pretty
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Mark Haney: good at this.
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Mark Haney: I've been practicing, I've been failing for
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Mark Haney: like seven years?
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Mark Haney: I don't think so.
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Marcus Haney: I think you've been doing a lot of great
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Marcus Haney: stuff Shoot well I appreciate it.
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Mark Haney: Well, as I mentioned, I wouldn't be doing
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Mark Haney: this without you.
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Mark Haney: I can remember when we first started the
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Mark Haney: show how nervous I was and we sat 15 feet
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Mark Haney: over there at my table and we knew that our
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Mark Haney: first guest was going to be Uriah Faber.
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Mark Haney: And I was like, oh wow, Uriah's come on the
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Mark Haney: He's a buddy of mine, but still I'd never
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Mark Haney: been on the radio before and how do I?
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Mark Haney: We were on Sports 1140, KHTK at the time
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Mark Haney: and I knew I was going to have to cut, to
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Mark Haney: break and do commercials and there was all
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Mark Haney: It wasn't just getting on here and
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Mark Haney: bullshitting with the buddy or talking to
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Mark Haney: somebody I care about and telling stories.
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Mark Haney: It was scary.
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Mark Haney: And so you, I remember rehearsing.
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Mark Haney: We do no rehearsal now.
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Mark Haney: I don't even have show notes right now for
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Mark Haney: this show.
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Mark Haney: This is like off the cuff, but I was so
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Mark Haney: Of course I overprepared to the point where
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Mark Haney: I needed to rehearse.
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Mark Haney: You were my rehearsal partner.
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Mark Haney: You were Uriah Faber.
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Mark Haney: I didn't have the good hair, though, and I
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Mark Haney: remember you doing your impressions of
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Mark Haney: So you're impersonating Uriah and I'm
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Mark Haney: impersonating what's supposed to be a radio
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Mark Haney: guy, and you helped me get through a lot of
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Mark Haney: that.
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Marcus Haney: So you were there.
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Marcus Haney: Look how far you have come.
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Marcus Haney: Now we don't have to go down to the Sports
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Marcus Haney: 1140 studios on Saturday mornings.
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Marcus Haney: God it's so.
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Marcus Haney: How fun was that.
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Mark Haney: You know what it was at nine o'clock in the
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Mark Haney: You knew my playlist.
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Mark Haney: That got me in the right mode, got over my
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Mark Haney: We had our little pregame rap and all that.
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Mark Haney: Now it's just me and Scott and we just wing
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Mark Haney: it and we rock and roll.
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Marcus Haney: He actually helps me prepare a little bit.
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Marcus Haney: I listened to the song Sentries before I
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Marcus Haney: came up here, just to get myself in the
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Marcus Haney: headspace.
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Marcus Haney: That's right, that was the intro music back
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Marcus Haney: in those days until we got hit with a
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Marcus Haney: little bit of SEC stuff over there, you're
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Marcus Haney: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
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Mark Haney: Okay, so enough about me and my show,
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Mark Haney: because this is really our show and, even
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Mark Haney: more than that, it's our community show and
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Mark Haney: you are doing so much for our community and
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Mark Haney: so I want to talk about that.
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Mark Haney: So much for our country and so much for the
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Mark Haney: people who really are the heroes of our
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Mark Haney: country through Allegiant Vets.
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Mark Haney: You are helping Allegiant Vets no excuse me,
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Mark Haney: you are helping the veterans of America.
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Mark Haney: I'm really transition to that next part of
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Mark Haney: life and so maybe share with us a little
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Mark Haney: bit about the work that you're doing and
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Mark Haney: what inspires you to do this work.
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Marcus Haney: Yeah, great question.
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Marcus Haney: Appreciate the opportunity.
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Marcus Haney: The mission started back in the day when I
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Marcus Haney: was actually active duty in the Marine
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Marcus Haney: Corps right and you have just sold your
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Marcus Haney: businesses and started Allegiant Giving and
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Marcus Haney: our original mission was to help out my
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Marcus Haney: friends actually ones who were severely
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Marcus Haney: prosthetics and we went out and found
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Marcus Haney: solutions that helped give them some
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Marcus Haney: freedom so they didn't go down the negative
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Marcus Haney: path of taking their own life or something
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Marcus Haney: like that Right, these people that had lost
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Marcus Haney: their limbs and they needed to be in
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Marcus Haney: Yeah, they needed some help.
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Marcus Haney: Right, they needed somebody to feel like
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Marcus Haney: they could lean on.
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Marcus Haney: Fast forward, I transitioned out of the
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Marcus Haney: military Marine Corps, URA Happy Birthday
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Marcus Haney: Marines With a bullet in my leg and I
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Marcus Haney: didn't know what I was going to do.
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Marcus Haney: Luckily I had a nice landing back here in
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Marcus Haney: home in Sacramento.
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Marcus Haney: But not most veterans have that opportunity,
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Marcus Haney: and so I put a little pin in my transition
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Marcus Haney: story for myself.
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Marcus Haney: And actually my first job out of the
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Marcus Haney: Marines was working at a technology and
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Marcus Haney: staffing company, learned a new business,
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Marcus Haney: I didn't really have much to parlay.
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Marcus Haney: I was an infantry guy.
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Marcus Haney: I could shoot guns well, blow stuff up
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Marcus Haney: You know, people break things, I was all
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Marcus Haney: right at that stuff, but I needed to get
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Marcus Haney: into the business world and luckily I had
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Marcus Haney: Technology Rick Nelson, also a fellow
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Marcus Haney: veteran, veteran-owned company, great
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Marcus Haney: organization here locally and they gave me
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Marcus Haney: an opportunity to jump back in to the
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Marcus Haney: veteran network and we started helping
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Marcus Haney: Microsoft and other large organizations
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Marcus Haney: identify veterans who were a good fit for
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Marcus Haney: And so I spent a few years in building out
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Marcus Haney: And then I saw what transpired from that
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Marcus Haney: programs and it really made me upset that I
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Marcus Haney: was putting in all this effort and
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Marcus Haney: promising these service members all this
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Marcus Haney: They got an interview, no doubt, and
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Marcus Haney: Microsoft held their end of the bargain in
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Marcus Haney: I just thought there was a better way, and
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Marcus Haney: being your son, I guess I decided to come
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Marcus Haney: to you and the board of directors and say I
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Marcus Haney: think that we could change the direction of
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Marcus Haney: the way Allegiant Giving is going and I see
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Marcus Haney: an opportunity out there and it's called
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Marcus Haney: the Skill Bridge Program, and for those of
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Marcus Haney: It is a DOD approved program that allows
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Marcus Haney: active duty service members to spend their
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Marcus Haney: last three to six months really gathering
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Marcus Haney: themselves to get out into the civilian
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Marcus Haney: And so we started out in 2016 with our
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Marcus Haney: scaled it to around 950 active Skill
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Marcus Haney: We'll end up helping about 2,500 service
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Marcus Haney: members transition out of the military this
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Marcus Haney: year about the scale to 2024, around 5,000
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Marcus Haney: will end up coming through our program and
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Marcus Haney: we're building a community.
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Marcus Haney: I've got a fantastic team behind me that's
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Marcus Haney: A lot of them are actually products of our
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Marcus Haney: They raise their hand deering their program
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Marcus Haney: and say I see what you're doing, I
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Marcus Haney: understand the mission and I wanna jump in
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Marcus Haney: and help, and they've helped me take it to
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Marcus Haney: where we are today.
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Mark Haney: more detail.
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Mark Haney: So let's say I'm an active duty military
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Mark Haney: person, I'm about to get out, I've done my
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Mark Haney: four years or my 20 years or whatever it is,
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Mark Haney: and now I'm on the last three to six months
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Mark Haney: and I haven't decided what I want to do.
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Marcus Haney: And last month, 100 jobs were created out
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Mark Haney: When you think about that.
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Marcus Haney: celebrate are are robust and really
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Marcus Haney: exciting to hear about.
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Mark Haney: Whereas as a civilian I look at all
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Mark Haney: military people as heroes and appreciate
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Mark Haney: your service and its Veterans Day weekend,
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Mark Haney: so thank you.
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Mark Haney: But I've often been around you and other
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Mark Haney: military people and I hear the Marine Corps
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Mark Haney: people jabbing at the people in the army or
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Mark Haney: the Air Force or these jabbing and stuff.
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Mark Haney: But you're talking about this community
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Mark Haney: coming together, regardless of whether
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Mark Haney: you're in the Navy or the Air Force or the
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Mark Haney: Marine Corps or what have you.
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Mark Haney: It's like, hey look, we're all brothers and
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Mark Haney: sisters that have done some sacrificing.
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Mark Haney: When we're all kind of in the same boat
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Mark Haney: trying to make that transition to the new
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Mark Haney: thing, let's just help each other.
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Marcus Haney: Absolutely, and it's all good and fun.
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Marcus Haney: You know, call the names.
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Marcus Haney: And I even got sent a package anonymously
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Marcus Haney: yesterday in the mail and they say that
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Marcus Haney: Marines are dumb, that we eat crayons.
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Marcus Haney: So I got this package yesterday of edible
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Marcus Haney: crayons and guess what?
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Marcus Haney: I ate them All right.
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Mark Haney: I tried it out.
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Marcus Haney: I gave it a chance and it was not bad.
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Marcus Haney: I ate red.
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Marcus Haney: It wasn't like the active duty crayons.
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Marcus Haney: I got the.
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Marcus Haney: But yeah, the community comes together, no
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Marcus Haney: matter the banter, no matter the thing.
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Marcus Haney: We always tell everybody drop your rank at
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Marcus Haney: the door.
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Mark Haney: Oh, drop your rank to right because you
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Mark Haney: have people that are coming in there, maybe
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Mark Haney: like Capri or Colonel, okay, or you have
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Mark Haney: grunts or people that are maybe four years
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Mark Haney: in infantry.
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Mark Haney: Yeah, no, high school education, Right.
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Marcus Haney: So there's levels of this thing are so
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Marcus Haney: obfuscated, right, there's too many people
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Marcus Haney: that are in the same rank and then there's
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Marcus Haney: a lot lower level people, and those
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Marcus Haney: individuals have to be able to communicate
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Marcus Haney: and be on the same wavelength and be able
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Marcus Haney: to realize that person, whether they may be
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Marcus Haney: done four years and you did 20 can still
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Marcus Haney: support you.
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Marcus Haney: You guys can still be in the same community.
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Marcus Haney: And so, yeah, drop your rank at the door,
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Marcus Haney: kind of keep your pride to the side a
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Marcus Haney: little bit.
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Marcus Haney: That doesn't matter.
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Marcus Haney: In the next phase and getting into the out
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Marcus Haney: of the military, nobody really knows, like
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Marcus Haney: you said, as a civilian, what the
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Marcus Haney: difference between a Colonel or a corporal
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Marcus Haney: or a sergeant really is.
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Marcus Haney: Right.
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Marcus Haney: So if you just come into the world as
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Marcus Haney: somebody who's eager to jump into their
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Marcus Haney: next opportunity with, with vigor, right,
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Marcus Haney: if you have the grit and the intensity to
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Marcus Haney: jump into something, that's really what the
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Marcus Haney: corporate world wants to see.
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Marcus Haney: As somebody who's willing just to come in
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Marcus Haney: and be a team player and not need to flex
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Marcus Haney: who they've been in the past, because it
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Marcus Haney: doesn't really matter.
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Mark Haney: Yeah well, you've called it first Civ Div.
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Mark Haney: I've never heard that term until you have
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Mark Haney: brought that up to me.
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Mark Haney: Describe with that.
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Mark Haney: Okay, how did you?
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Mark Haney: What is that a common term in the military?
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Marcus Haney: Well, I guess it was for me.
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Marcus Haney: I would say most military members when you
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Marcus Haney: are getting out.
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Marcus Haney: It's a joke, if you will, where were you
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Marcus Haney: going to be?
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Marcus Haney: Oh, I'm going to be in the first civilian
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Marcus Haney: division, so I'm going to be out in the
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Marcus Haney: civilian world doing my thing.
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Marcus Haney: So everybody that gets out of the military
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Marcus Haney: kind of rolls into this new division.
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Marcus Haney: Right, it's not the first battalion seventh
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Marcus Haney: Marines like I was in right, it's the first
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Marcus Haney: Civ Div, so that's sort of the transition
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Marcus Haney: world in which folks roll into through our
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Marcus Haney: program.
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Marcus Haney: And I even write a newsletter weekly on
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Marcus Haney: LinkedIn helping folks to get a couple tips
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Marcus Haney: and tricks and use some shout outs and
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Marcus Haney: things like that.
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Marcus Haney: But it's called the the first Civ Div
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Marcus Haney: safety brief, because every week in the
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Marcus Haney: military your commanding officer gets in
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Marcus Haney: front of you and gives you a weekly wrap up
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Marcus Haney: for the weekends.
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Marcus Haney: Don't do anything stupid this weekend.
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Marcus Haney: You know it's Veterans Day, right, happy
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Marcus Haney: birthday, marines, but don't go out and get
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Marcus Haney: a DUI and make us look bad.
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Marcus Haney: So this is my way of continuing that sort
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Marcus Haney: of way of communicating with my teammates
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Marcus Haney: out in the world and bringing a little
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Marcus Haney: humor to it.
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Marcus Haney: Right, because when stuff gets tough, in my
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Marcus Haney: opinion a little humor there now and then
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Marcus Haney: is good for the soul, right?
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Marcus Haney: And then it gives me the opportunity to
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Marcus Haney: realize that it's not so serious, right,
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Marcus Haney: you're gonna get through it.
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Marcus Haney: There is trough of sorrow, just like being
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Marcus Haney: an entrepreneur, just like any transition,
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Marcus Haney: but with a little bit of humility and a
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Marcus Haney: little bit of humor, I think that can go a
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Marcus Haney: lot of way to helping you be successful.
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Marcus Haney: Well, what are you?
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Mark Haney: seeing out there on the landscape of
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Mark Haney: opportunity.
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Mark Haney: What are the biggest opportunities now for
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Mark Haney: people entering the workforce?
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Mark Haney: Obviously, I'm focused on TAC, for the most
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Mark Haney: part, small business and startups and
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Mark Haney: technology companies, and that's one kind
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Mark Haney: of job and but what other?
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Mark Haney: What are the good jobs out there that
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Mark Haney: you're seeing?
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Mark Haney: What are the openings?
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Mark Haney: Where are people leaning?
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Mark Haney: Artificial intelligence oh, over the place.
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Marcus Haney: AI is obviously a new frontier in which
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Marcus Haney: everybody's sort of interested in.
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Marcus Haney: I think a lot of people that come into our
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Marcus Haney: program we have 12 training verticals and
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Marcus Haney: are too.
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Marcus Haney: Largest are cybersecurity and project
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Marcus Haney: management.
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Marcus Haney: So I think that there's a lot of people who
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Marcus Haney: want to evolve themselves into a technology
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Marcus Haney: professional and cybersecurity seems to be
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Marcus Haney: a really robust job market.
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Marcus Haney: Our program got a young lady with zero
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Marcus Haney: cybersecurity experience had a six month
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Marcus Haney: skill bridge program with us and ended up
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Marcus Haney: getting a junior level cybersecurity job at
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Marcus Haney: Lidos, which is a really large company.
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Marcus Haney: So from zero to job, cybersecurity that's
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Marcus Haney: what we kind of offer, and so we see the
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Marcus Haney: opportunities out.
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Marcus Haney: There are the ones that our veterans want
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Marcus Haney: to go attack right, because everybody's
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Marcus Haney: moving to a new state, a new county, a new
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Marcus Haney: situation and maybe it's not what they did
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Marcus Haney: in the military.
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Marcus Haney: So it's tough for us to go identify exactly
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Marcus Haney: where the opportunity is for every
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Marcus Haney: individual.
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Marcus Haney: But what we do go out and do is talk to
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Marcus Haney: companies and say, hey, if you have racks
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Marcus Haney: or if you have openings that maybe align
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Marcus Haney: with our veteran community, come and talk
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Marcus Haney: to them.
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Marcus Haney: So we host virtual career fairs for these
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Marcus Haney: companies to come in and present their
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Marcus Haney: opportunities to our veterans and we see a
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Marcus Haney: lot of good jobs coming out of that, and a
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Marcus Haney: lot of our folks, interestingly enough,
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Marcus Haney: have been asking, and so I delivered.
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Marcus Haney: We now have a entrepreneurship program in
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Marcus Haney: our skill bridge.
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Marcus Haney: It's not a skill bridge track, but it's a
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Marcus Haney: group that we started, so I am teaching
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Marcus Haney: entrepreneurship yes, sir, the
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Marcus Haney: Entrepreneurs Club.
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Marcus Haney: That happens Tuesday in our skill bridge,
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Marcus Haney: and so we were talking about Ikegai last
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Marcus Haney: week and creating a big, hairy, audacious
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Marcus Haney: goal and all the different things that I've
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Marcus Haney: learned throughout this and throughout my
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Marcus Haney: business career right Of building
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Marcus Haney: businesses and being on here and learning
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Marcus Haney: from all the people that have come through
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Marcus Haney: the Marconi show.
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Mark Haney: Yeah, that's interesting.
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Mark Haney: So you've been on this show.
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Mark Haney: So, going back in the memory lane thing, so
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Mark Haney: you sat on so for our audience, marcus
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Mark Haney: helped me launch the show from behind the
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Mark Haney: scenes and then I'd say, a year or two in,
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Mark Haney: you took on you and I started doing the
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Mark Haney: show together.
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Mark Haney: Yeah, and then you found some other
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Mark Haney: opportunities and you abandoned me.
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Mark Haney: You got too good for me and you went on to
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Mark Haney: do some other things.
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Mark Haney: But you, we even have a book always by your
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Mark Haney: side and because you had it was written by
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Mark Haney: Richard Bakken but it's a story, told
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Mark Haney: through your eyes, of what it was like to
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Mark Haney: help launch this show and using kind of
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Mark Haney: your memory of being in the military, your
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Mark Haney: experience of the military, and kind of
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Mark Haney: comparing and contrasting what it was like
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Mark Haney: to be you in the military and seeing the
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Mark Haney: heroic journeys of a lot of the guests on
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Mark Haney: the show, so you were able to, I guess,
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Mark Haney: digest from the best and the brightest in
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Mark Haney: Sacramento and help.
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Mark Haney: I mean, it's been almost like getting a
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Mark Haney: master's degree in entrepreneurship just
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Mark Haney: being a part of this show 100%.
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Marcus Haney: I say that all the time and at the time I
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Marcus Haney: was building my own business right.
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Marcus Haney: So I was hearing, listening, implementing,
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Marcus Haney: right, and I think that that's the
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Marcus Haney: entrepreneurial spirit is continuously
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Marcus Haney: growing and looking for that next
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Marcus Haney: opportunity.
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Marcus Haney: But I would say that the guests that have
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Marcus Haney: been on this show that I reflect on all the
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Marcus Haney: time are like the Dell Carlson's of the
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Marcus Haney: world and just his total impact and his
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Marcus Haney: humility and the ability for him to reflect
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Marcus Haney: into somebody like myself of what it's like
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Marcus Haney: to be an entrepreneur and what it's like to
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Marcus Haney: win right.
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Marcus Haney: And he does it with such grace and what's
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Mark Haney: I wanna be like that guy, yeah, yeah well,
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Mark Haney: you're making an impact in a really
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Mark Haney: interesting way in a niche where, I mean,
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Mark Haney: one of the things that we've talked about
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Mark Haney: over the years is narrowing your niche, and
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Mark Haney: you're focused on military excuse me, I
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Mark Haney: call them veterans military service
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Mark Haney: personnel that are still in the military.
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Mark Haney: So it is really a niche and we've talked
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Mark Haney: about narrowing your niche so you can be
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Mark Haney: number one and I think right now your
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Mark Haney: program ranks at the top or among the top
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Mark Haney: of people who are focused in this niche.
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Mark Haney: You're damn right.
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Marcus Haney: Yeah, I mean, we self say that.
718
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Marcus Haney: Right, there's no scoreboard out there
719
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Marcus Haney: except for that.
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Marcus Haney: We have the name of our organization being
721
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Marcus Haney: touted to every branch of service, every
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Marcus Haney: base in the country, every base in the
723
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Marcus Haney: world.
724
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Marcus Haney: We have folks transitioning from South
725
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Marcus Haney: Korea and Germany and Japan and we just see
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Marcus Haney: ourselves as the only people out there that
727
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Marcus Haney: are looking to change the transition.
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Marcus Haney: Entirely right, because this our skill
729
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Marcus Haney: bridge is one byproduct of our organization.
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Marcus Haney: Right, it's our training platform to help
731
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Marcus Haney: people get out, but ultimately, we're a
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Marcus Haney: transition success program.
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Marcus Haney: Right, we want to help folks get out with
734
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Marcus Haney: success.
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Marcus Haney: If they choose to come to our skill bridge
736
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Marcus Haney: and through our modules, great, we love
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Marcus Haney: that.
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Marcus Haney: But only about 30% of the transitioning
739
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Marcus Haney: service members actually get authorized a
740
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Marcus Haney: skill bridge.
741
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Marcus Haney: So out of the 200 that get out 200,000
742
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Marcus Haney: every year that get out of the military
743
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Marcus Haney: only 30% of those people get authorized to
744
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Marcus Haney: a skill bridge.
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Marcus Haney: So there's an entire group of people that
746
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Marcus Haney: we are looking to affect that don't even
747
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Marcus Haney: come through our doors in a skill bridge
748
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Marcus Haney: capacity, but they are the ones, in my
749
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Marcus Haney: opinion, that need the most support.
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Marcus Haney: So that is what our daily conversations as
751
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Marcus Haney: a company and an organization are Is how do
752
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Marcus Haney: we go touch those people.
753
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Marcus Haney: How do we get out there?
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Marcus Haney: And that has turned into us going out to
755
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Marcus Haney: these bases and getting in front of
756
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Marcus Haney: everybody.
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Marcus Haney: And hey, we're here.
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Marcus Haney: We are here to help you, so use us as you
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Marcus Haney: see fit.
760
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Marcus Haney: If you are 12 months, 18 months out from
761
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Marcus Haney: getting out of the military and you need a
762
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Marcus Haney: community to roll into, look at Allegiant.
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Marcus Haney: Allegiant Vets is here for you and we are
764
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Marcus Haney: here to stay.
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Marcus Haney: And ultimately, it is our goal to create
766
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Marcus Haney: the gold standard of veteran success
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Marcus Haney: programs for the future generations.
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Marcus Haney: Right, you say it a lot with future
769
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Marcus Haney: generations in mind.
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Marcus Haney: This is I'm out of the military, the people
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Marcus Haney: in my skill bridge, they're going to be
772
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Marcus Haney: done, but the reason why we are here is
773
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Marcus Haney: because there are going to be 200,000
774
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Marcus Haney: individuals that get out of the military
775
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Marcus Haney: every single year, year in and year out,
776
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Marcus Haney: and we need to be there for them.
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Marcus Haney: We are here to step in the breach for those
778
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Marcus Haney: folks.
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Mark Haney: Yeah, you think about the people that get
780
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Mark Haney: out, let's say, without a plan, right, and
781
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Mark Haney: it's easy to lose confidence.
782
0:28:53,580 --> 0:28:55,610
Mark Haney: We talked about it being fragile, but maybe
783
0:28:55,710 --> 0:28:59,971
Mark Haney: never even get the confidence and maybe
784
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Mark Haney: feel pretty lonely.
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Marcus Haney: I mean, that's how I felt when I got out.
786
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Mark Haney: Right.
787
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Marcus Haney: There was no community for me and I was
788
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Marcus Haney: wounded weird right.
789
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Marcus Haney: Move back my hometown had some friends,
790
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Marcus Haney: great, but still long for that veteran
791
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Marcus Haney: camaraderie.
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Marcus Haney: Try to go to the American Legion.
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Marcus Haney: They're doing great stuff but not my fit.
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Mark Haney: They're trying to go to the American
795
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Mark Haney: Legion's older bond by and large is
796
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Mark Haney: probably not my demographic.
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Marcus Haney: Not saying they're doing anything bad,
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Marcus Haney: there's not where I wanted to spend my time
799
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Marcus Haney: VFW, same thing and went around trying to
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Marcus Haney: identify my community and I came up short
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Marcus Haney: time and again and that is ultimately what
802
0:29:42,187 --> 0:29:44,454
Marcus Haney: spawned me to say we need to do something
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Marcus Haney: different.
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Marcus Haney: There is a opportunity to create a
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Marcus Haney: community for my age, my mindset, my kind
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Marcus Haney: of people.
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Marcus Haney: Right, where are my people?
808
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Marcus Haney: I don't know.
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0:29:54,736 --> 0:29:55,402
Marcus Haney: We're all looking for each other.
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Marcus Haney: We're all looking internally.
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Marcus Haney: And so I took it upon myself to say I'm
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Marcus Haney: going to put foot ass in this regard and
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Marcus Haney: it's paid off in dividends and, yeah, we're
814
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Marcus Haney: building something great here and honestly,
815
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Marcus Haney: it's it's legacy at this point.
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Marcus Haney: So it gives me the chills to think about
817
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Marcus Haney: because it's sort of something that is out
818
0:30:12,173 --> 0:30:15,602
Marcus Haney: there running on its own In the world and
819
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Marcus Haney: the ether and we're just trying to make it
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Marcus Haney: the best thing possible for every service
821
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Marcus Haney: member.
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Marcus Haney: And that's our, that's our day in and day
823
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Marcus Haney: out goal right Is to do the right thing by
824
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Marcus Haney: every service member bring them the right
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Marcus Haney: resources, provide them with the right
826
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Marcus Haney: connections and really give them the time
827
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Marcus Haney: and space to be successful.
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Marcus Haney: And really that's, that's what they're
829
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Marcus Haney: looking for when they get out.
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Mark Haney: And anything that I say or refer to that,
831
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Mark Haney: about any organization, whether it be the
832
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Mark Haney: VFW, american Legion, northrop Grumman or
833
0:30:44,666 --> 0:30:44,906
Mark Haney: whatever.
834
0:30:45,247 --> 0:30:47,529
Mark Haney: Everybody's got an agenda and they're all
835
0:30:47,810 --> 0:30:50,733
Mark Haney: doing something in their best interest and
836
0:30:50,753 --> 0:30:52,054
Mark Haney: for positive reasons.
837
0:30:53,781 --> 0:30:55,409
Mark Haney: But this community piece I talked about it
838
0:30:55,469 --> 0:30:57,377
Mark Haney: a second ago narrowing the niche, I mean
839
0:30:57,558 --> 0:31:00,688
Mark Haney: this, this market, if you will, you know,
840
0:31:00,769 --> 0:31:02,193
Mark Haney: in terms of thinking about it as business,
841
0:31:02,254 --> 0:31:04,524
Mark Haney: this niche it's.
842
0:31:04,725 --> 0:31:06,574
Mark Haney: It's been underserved for forever.
843
0:31:07,816 --> 0:31:08,697
Mark Haney: Okay, well it's.
844
0:31:09,798 --> 0:31:12,221
Mark Haney: You're solving a huge problem and you're
845
0:31:12,261 --> 0:31:14,963
Mark Haney: not varying into all these other things
846
0:31:14,983 --> 0:31:16,064
Mark Haney: like a lot of people are.
847
0:31:16,425 --> 0:31:18,807
Mark Haney: You're still, you're focused on that group
848
0:31:18,867 --> 0:31:19,288
Mark Haney: of people.
849
0:31:19,328 --> 0:31:21,330
Mark Haney: These people that are still in the military,
850
0:31:21,490 --> 0:31:24,152
Mark Haney: getting out, need a compass and have to
851
0:31:24,193 --> 0:31:25,654
Mark Haney: make some tough decisions in our life and
852
0:31:25,714 --> 0:31:26,675
Mark Haney: which direction they're going to take it.
853
0:31:27,196 --> 0:31:28,777
Marcus Haney: Well, there's 22 veterans a day that take
854
0:31:28,818 --> 0:31:31,180
Marcus Haney: their own life, which is a terrible
855
0:31:31,220 --> 0:31:32,502
Marcus Haney: statistic, and I have friends,
856
0:31:32,582 --> 0:31:35,025
Marcus Haney: unfortunately, that have fallen into that
857
0:31:35,085 --> 0:31:37,808
Marcus Haney: path, and I think that this time, this
858
0:31:38,229 --> 0:31:40,331
Marcus Haney: transition time, it's a small window of
859
0:31:40,371 --> 0:31:42,437
Marcus Haney: time, it's not something they can get back,
860
0:31:42,477 --> 0:31:45,802
Marcus Haney: and I think that this is where the rubber
861
0:31:45,842 --> 0:31:48,926
Marcus Haney: meets the road, and I think that if we put
862
0:31:48,946 --> 0:31:52,371
Marcus Haney: the right resources, the right oomph behind
863
0:31:52,431 --> 0:31:54,113
Marcus Haney: these folks getting out of the military the
864
0:31:54,153 --> 0:31:55,575
Marcus Haney: same amount of oomph as it took to get them
865
0:31:55,595 --> 0:31:59,120
Marcus Haney: in Then we can eliminate the veteran
866
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Marcus Haney: suicide rate.
867
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Marcus Haney: And that is the overall goal.
868
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Marcus Haney: For me is to not get another phone call
869
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Marcus Haney: saying that one of my friends took their
870
0:32:06,469 --> 0:32:09,654
Marcus Haney: lives, or knowing that one of my people is
871
0:32:10,094 --> 0:32:12,258
Marcus Haney: suffering and hurting, and that, to me, is
872
0:32:12,699 --> 0:32:15,585
Marcus Haney: unsatisfactory, and so that is what keeps
873
0:32:15,645 --> 0:32:17,649
Marcus Haney: me up at night, that's what wakes me up in
874
0:32:17,669 --> 0:32:19,853
Marcus Haney: the morning to drive and make sure that we
875
0:32:19,873 --> 0:32:20,675
Marcus Haney: are stepping in the breach for everybody.
876
0:32:21,657 --> 0:32:23,559
Marcus Haney: That's why we are doing the things we're
877
0:32:23,579 --> 0:32:24,841
Marcus Haney: doing and the team we have.
878
0:32:25,342 --> 0:32:29,128
Marcus Haney: They're all sacrificing other opportunities.
879
0:32:29,228 --> 0:32:31,652
Marcus Haney: I'm sure they could all get bigger and
880
0:32:31,732 --> 0:32:32,954
Marcus Haney: better jobs somewhere else, but they're
881
0:32:32,974 --> 0:32:33,595
Marcus Haney: here for the mission.
882
0:32:34,737 --> 0:32:38,162
Marcus Haney: Our team is all dedicated for the people
883
0:32:38,203 --> 0:32:41,107
Marcus Haney: that are stepping into this program and I'm
884
0:32:41,167 --> 0:32:42,109
Marcus Haney: so grateful.
885
0:32:42,189 --> 0:32:44,814
Marcus Haney: My heart is full of gratitude just knowing
886
0:32:44,874 --> 0:32:45,675
Marcus Haney: that what we are doing is impactful.
887
0:32:47,139 --> 0:32:49,364
Marcus Haney: But there are other people behind me that
888
0:32:49,444 --> 0:32:51,369
Marcus Haney: believe in what we're doing as well, and
889
0:32:51,409 --> 0:32:53,434
Marcus Haney: that's why we've gotten to where we are
890
0:32:53,555 --> 0:32:55,280
Marcus Haney: today, and that's why I know that this team
891
0:32:55,300 --> 0:32:57,747
Marcus Haney: can help us get to the next phase of our
892
0:32:58,188 --> 0:33:00,073
Marcus Haney: life as a business as well, because we do
893
0:33:00,093 --> 0:33:00,675
Marcus Haney: have a lot of work to do.
894
0:33:01,658 --> 0:33:03,765
Marcus Haney: We have a big project to accomplish, and
895
0:33:03,826 --> 0:33:05,993
Marcus Haney: it's going to take a lot of work and it's
896
0:33:06,013 --> 0:33:08,800
Marcus Haney: going to take a lot of support, and we are
897
0:33:08,840 --> 0:33:10,524
Marcus Haney: the group of people that have signed up to
898
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Marcus Haney: do it, and I don't think there's any, but
899
0:33:11,947 --> 0:33:12,668
Marcus Haney: that's going to stop us.
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Mark Haney: Well, you talked about your team a little
901
0:33:15,620 --> 0:33:19,505
Mark Haney: bit and kind of having that why behind what
902
0:33:19,546 --> 0:33:21,328
Mark Haney: you do, it's not necessarily for the
903
0:33:21,408 --> 0:33:22,029
Mark Haney: paycheck.
904
0:33:23,497 --> 0:33:27,865
Mark Haney: Tom and Danny and Oscar and Tanisha and
905
0:33:27,986 --> 0:33:29,368
Mark Haney: Stephanie and Garrett and all of them.
906
0:33:30,356 --> 0:33:32,617
Mark Haney: But you think about why they're doing it,
907
0:33:32,717 --> 0:33:35,459
Mark Haney: why you are doing it, and I think that's an
908
0:33:35,519 --> 0:33:37,421
Mark Haney: important part of so.
909
0:33:37,461 --> 0:33:39,923
Mark Haney: Anybody listening out there that is maybe
910
0:33:39,943 --> 0:33:42,044
Mark Haney: where I was after selling my company or
911
0:33:42,064 --> 0:33:44,886
Mark Haney: maybe you're a skill bridge, or somebody
912
0:33:44,906 --> 0:33:46,788
Mark Haney: getting out of the military, I should say,
913
0:33:47,068 --> 0:33:48,409
Mark Haney: or somebody getting out of college or out
914
0:33:48,429 --> 0:33:50,130
Mark Haney: of high school and you're trying to decide
915
0:33:50,851 --> 0:33:52,672
Mark Haney: what you want to be when you grow up or
916
0:33:53,012 --> 0:33:56,215
Mark Haney: what you want to do at that next part of
917
0:33:56,235 --> 0:33:59,478
Mark Haney: your life, I think, doing something that
918
0:33:59,538 --> 0:34:03,581
Mark Haney: ties to why you want to be on this earth,
919
0:34:04,262 --> 0:34:05,783
Mark Haney: what's important to you.
920
0:34:06,023 --> 0:34:07,525
Mark Haney: You know that's purpose driven.
921
0:34:07,845 --> 0:34:09,847
Mark Haney: I mean, if that can be part of your compass,
922
0:34:10,628 --> 0:34:12,650
Mark Haney: think about what's important to you and why.
923
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Mark Haney: That can sometimes you to nail down exactly
924
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Mark Haney: what you want to do while you're still in
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Mark Haney: the military.
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Mark Haney: Might be, you know, might be, you know, it
927
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Mark Haney: might be possible for some, probably not
928
0:34:21,339 --> 0:34:23,982
Mark Haney: possible for most, but if you can at least
929
0:34:24,062 --> 0:34:26,966
Mark Haney: begin to decide what's important to you,
930
0:34:27,447 --> 0:34:29,890
Mark Haney: why you might want to do what you want to
931
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Mark Haney: do, and if it is all about the money, well
932
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Mark Haney: great, okay, no problem.
933
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Mark Haney: There's nothing wrong with doing it for the
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Mark Haney: money, but really take inside what's
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Mark Haney: important to you, and it might not be all
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Mark Haney: about the money.
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Mark Haney: It might be doing something that's right
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Mark Haney: for our world and feels like the right
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Mark Haney: thing to do.
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Marcus Haney: It feels good to do the right thing right,
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Marcus Haney: and I I love my job right, and I get the
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Marcus Haney: opportunity to talk to service members
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Marcus Haney: every day and hear what they're going
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Marcus Haney: through, and then we position ourselves to
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Marcus Haney: make sure that the next guy doesn't go
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Marcus Haney: through that same issue, and so we're
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Marcus Haney: constantly putting out fires.
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Marcus Haney: But, yeah, like, the mission for us is the
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Marcus Haney: most important thing, right, and as we ends
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Marcus Haney: this show, right, we always talk about our.
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Marcus Haney: Our mantra, right is going out to the
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Marcus Haney: masses in the military.
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Marcus Haney: Right, our always by your side mantra is
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Marcus Haney: something that I live by.
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Marcus Haney: I told it to you.
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Marcus Haney: We end the show with it every time, right,
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Marcus Haney: or you do now.
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Marcus Haney: That is what I put into every day into this
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Marcus Haney: organization, so that these veterans know
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Marcus Haney: that there is a group behind them.
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Marcus Haney: There is a person, a group, a persona that
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Marcus Haney: is there.
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Marcus Haney: It's not the American Legion, which is a
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Marcus Haney: big name, like you said, doing great things,
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Marcus Haney: but sometimes you need a person that can
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Marcus Haney: talk to you, somebody who will pick up the
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Marcus Haney: phone, somebody that will return a text,
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Marcus Haney: somebody that will just take the extra
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Marcus Haney: little second to do that, and that's what
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Marcus Haney: our team personifies day in and day out.
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Mark Haney: One of the things, too, that I want to make
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Mark Haney: sure that we remind ourselves and remind
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Mark Haney: all our listeners.
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Mark Haney: I deal a lot with startups and you're
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0:36:10,372 --> 0:36:12,399
Mark Haney: dealing with, you're working with people
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Mark Haney: who want to be entrepreneurs and become
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Mark Haney: employees and build businesses.
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Mark Haney: I think you should expect to pivot.
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Mark Haney: So every company I've invested into
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0:36:23,259 --> 0:36:25,837
Mark Haney: everything, every business I've launched, I
981
0:36:25,897 --> 0:36:27,994
Mark Haney: come in thinking this is how it's going to
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Mark Haney: be, and, lo and behold, it doesn't go that
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Mark Haney: way.
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Mark Haney: Right, it always is more difficult, doesn't
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Mark Haney: work the way I thought it was going to work,
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Mark Haney: whatever, and I end up needing to pivot,
987
0:36:39,770 --> 0:36:41,377
Mark Haney: need to attack from a different direction,
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Mark Haney: as we like to say, and so I think you can
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Mark Haney: expect that.
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Mark Haney: But if we wait to begin to get on the
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Mark Haney: freeway if you will, then we'll never know
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Mark Haney: what it's like.
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0:36:55,270 --> 0:36:57,658
Mark Haney: And so, just to everybody out there that's
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0:36:58,159 --> 0:37:00,255
Mark Haney: thinking about what I want to do, there's
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0:37:00,315 --> 0:37:02,421
Mark Haney: probably not a wrong answer.
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0:37:02,730 --> 0:37:06,981
Mark Haney: It's get in, get a compass, get in, make
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Mark Haney: the adjustments.
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Mark Haney: If it's not for you, don't feel bad about
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Mark Haney: changing.
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Mark Haney: It's tough to make some of those decisions.
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Mark Haney: For example, I see you wearing your shirt
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Mark Haney: right now says Allegiant Vets.
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Mark Haney: When your mother and I launched the
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0:37:20,876 --> 0:37:22,934
Mark Haney: organization right, you mentioned it
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0:37:22,994 --> 0:37:25,232
Mark Haney: earlier it was Allegiant Giving, which the
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0:37:25,252 --> 0:37:26,918
Mark Haney: parent company name is Allegiant Giving,
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0:37:27,830 --> 0:37:31,340
Mark Haney: and we didn't know exactly how it would
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Mark Haney: play out.
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Mark Haney: But we wanted to do something.
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0:37:34,312 --> 0:37:36,259
Mark Haney: We had a general purpose for what we wanted
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Mark Haney: to do, but how to turn it into a business
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Mark Haney: that could be sustainable.
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Mark Haney: We didn't know that until you came on and
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Mark Haney: it began changing the way that we attacked,
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Mark Haney: and so you've recently changed the name to
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Mark Haney: Allegiant Vets, which I think is a better
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0:37:52,635 --> 0:37:53,579
Mark Haney: name Allegiant Giving.
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0:37:53,610 --> 0:37:54,575
Mark Haney: It's like what the heck is that?
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Mark Haney: I've always thought I like the word
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Mark Haney: Allegiant, but the Giving piece always
1021
0:38:00,176 --> 0:38:02,202
Mark Haney: sounded like what?
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Mark Haney: And it didn't really tie to veterans.
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Mark Haney: It didn't tie to the work we're doing.
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Mark Haney: It's almost like I'm asking for something.
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Mark Haney: Now that you're saying Allegiant Vets,
1026
0:38:12,370 --> 0:38:13,676
Mark Haney: that's like that's bad ass, right.
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Mark Haney: That's telling me where I'm focused and who
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0:38:17,513 --> 0:38:18,316
Mark Haney: I'm about helping.
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0:38:19,091 --> 0:38:20,337
Marcus Haney: Yeah, clarity of mission, right?
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Marcus Haney: Yes, what a good pivot.
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Marcus Haney: Well, it took a long time.
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Marcus Haney: Luckily, we had some great marketing ladies
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0:38:27,650 --> 0:38:29,852
Marcus Haney: to help us out at the Porter Co Marketing
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Marcus Haney: company down there.
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Marcus Haney: They actually work out of our building, so
1036
0:38:32,631 --> 0:38:33,233
Marcus Haney: shout out to them.
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Marcus Haney: But it took a lot of brainstorming and
1038
0:38:36,230 --> 0:38:38,157
Marcus Haney: figuring out who we were and who we wanted
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0:38:38,198 --> 0:38:39,936
Marcus Haney: to be and who we are for the future.
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Marcus Haney: And I think Allegiant Vets stands with
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0:38:42,518 --> 0:38:45,417
Marcus Haney: clarity, it stands bold and it stands with
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0:38:45,778 --> 0:38:47,554
Marcus Haney: a personification of who we're affecting.
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Marcus Haney: And I think when people hear that name Vice
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0:38:50,836 --> 0:38:52,814
Marcus Haney: Allegiant Giving they're like okay, I know
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0:38:53,236 --> 0:38:55,396
Marcus Haney: what that is, I know what you're trying to
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0:38:55,457 --> 0:38:56,915
Marcus Haney: do, and that makes it easier for us to
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0:38:56,935 --> 0:38:58,672
Marcus Haney: communicate, obviously, and, like you said,
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0:38:58,813 --> 0:39:00,318
Marcus Haney: it's a little bit more badass as well.
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0:39:00,370 --> 0:39:01,172
Marcus Haney: So we got some swag.
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Marcus Haney: We got a swag shop up on the new website,
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Marcus Haney: allegiantvetsorg, if you're interested in
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0:39:06,598 --> 0:39:07,260
Marcus Haney: checking that out.
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Marcus Haney: But yeah, we're over here trying to change
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Marcus Haney: the world for veterans, one day at a time.
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Mark Haney: Yeah now, allegiant Vets.
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Mark Haney: Obviously we know what a veteran is, but
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Mark Haney: it's also an acronym that I don't know.
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0:39:19,491 --> 0:39:21,697
Mark Haney: If people understand the acronym that,
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0:39:21,778 --> 0:39:22,801
Mark Haney: v-e-t-s.
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Mark Haney: What is?
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Marcus Haney: Yeah, veterans, employment, training and
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0:39:26,277 --> 0:39:29,311
Marcus Haney: Success is what VET stands for for me, and
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0:39:29,351 --> 0:39:31,958
Marcus Haney: so obviously, veterans oftentimes get
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Marcus Haney: called VETs, but what we do and what we
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Marcus Haney: provide is a community.
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Marcus Haney: We provide skills and we provide the
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Marcus Haney: opportunity to be a part of something.
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Marcus Haney: So veteran employment, training and success,
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Marcus Haney: and so that's what we really stand for
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0:39:43,830 --> 0:39:44,898
Marcus Haney: Ultimately it's about that success?
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Mark Haney: huh, Absolutely.
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Mark Haney: Well, it's Veterans Day, Veterans Day
1073
0:39:48,658 --> 0:39:50,435
Mark Haney: weekend, it's the Marine Corps birthday
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Mark Haney: today, November 10th.
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Mark Haney: Yeah, you know just, I don't know what I
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0:39:56,475 --> 0:39:58,454
Mark Haney: didn't ask you, but maybe just let you have
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0:39:58,514 --> 0:40:00,500
Mark Haney: the last word on the show.
1078
0:40:00,730 --> 0:40:02,056
Mark Haney: What did I not ask you?
1079
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Mark Haney: What would you like to communicate out
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0:40:04,577 --> 0:40:07,976
Mark Haney: there to the world about what you're
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0:40:08,016 --> 0:40:11,979
Mark Haney: working on or what the world needs from the
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0:40:11,999 --> 0:40:12,661
Mark Haney: veteran community?
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Marcus Haney: Just happy to be here back in the saddle,
1084
0:40:16,770 --> 0:40:17,895
Marcus Haney: love chatting with you, love the
1085
0:40:17,955 --> 0:40:20,017
Marcus Haney: opportunity to get asked questions.
1086
0:40:20,131 --> 0:40:22,047
Marcus Haney: I'm probably doing a lot of that question
1087
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Marcus Haney: asking in my daily job, so I like getting
1088
0:40:24,714 --> 0:40:27,351
Marcus Haney: the opportunity to really really say about
1089
0:40:27,391 --> 0:40:28,054
Marcus Haney: what we're up to.
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Marcus Haney: And what I would say is there are people
1091
0:40:31,398 --> 0:40:34,517
Marcus Haney: out there that are not sure what they want
1092
0:40:34,537 --> 0:40:37,537
Marcus Haney: to do and, as you alluded to, everybody's
1093
0:40:37,577 --> 0:40:39,473
Marcus Haney: gone through that and that's okay.
1094
0:40:39,890 --> 0:40:42,871
Marcus Haney: And if you are going through something that
1095
0:40:43,253 --> 0:40:45,973
Marcus Haney: is challenging in your life and you need to
1096
0:40:46,054 --> 0:40:48,371
Marcus Haney: reach out to an organization that's got
1097
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Marcus Haney: your back and you are a veteran, a spouse,
1098
0:40:51,530 --> 0:40:54,259
Marcus Haney: a family member of a service member, reach
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0:40:54,339 --> 0:40:54,720
Marcus Haney: out to us.
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Marcus Haney: We want to talk to you.
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Marcus Haney: And if you're looking to kick names and
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0:40:57,590 --> 0:40:59,611
Marcus Haney: take some ass out there in the world and
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Marcus Haney: you want to change the world, like Steve
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0:41:01,918 --> 0:41:04,818
Marcus Haney: Jobs says, the ones who are crazy enough to
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0:41:04,878 --> 0:41:06,771
Marcus Haney: think that they can change the world are
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Marcus Haney: the ones that actually do.
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Marcus Haney: And that's what we are doing on a daily
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Marcus Haney: basis at Allegiant Vets and if you're
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0:41:12,173 --> 0:41:13,819
Marcus Haney: interested in being a part of that ride,
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Marcus Haney: then look us up.
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Mark Haney: I love it.
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Mark Haney: I love, cassaney.
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Mark Haney: Love what you're doing.
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0:41:19,011 --> 0:41:21,559
Mark Haney: My only word for today is gratitude.
1115
0:41:21,690 --> 0:41:24,679
Mark Haney: Thank you to you personally for what you've
1116
0:41:24,719 --> 0:41:25,301
Mark Haney: sacrificed.
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0:41:25,370 --> 0:41:27,010
Mark Haney: Thank you for helping me launch a show and
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0:41:27,050 --> 0:41:29,893
Mark Haney: launch my new career when I was trying to
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Mark Haney: figure out what I wanted to do, and thank
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Mark Haney: you for how you're impacting the people
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0:41:34,671 --> 0:41:37,219
Mark Haney: that make business possible for any of us.
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Mark Haney: I mean to all those out there fighting the
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Mark Haney: good fight for our freedom, our security
1124
0:41:42,002 --> 0:41:43,090
Mark Haney: and our way of life right.
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Mark Haney: Never above you, never below you, always by
1126
0:41:45,752 --> 0:41:46,053
Mark Haney: your side.
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Mark Haney: This segment includes the personal
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Mark Haney: knowledge, experiences and opinions about
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Mark Haney: angel investing by seasoned angel investors.
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Mark Haney: This content is for informational purposes
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Mark Haney: only and should not be considered as legal,
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Mark Haney: tax, investment or financial advice.
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Mark Haney: Nothing in this segment constitutes a
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Mark Haney: solicitation, recommendation or endorsement.
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