Mark Haney: And now from the Marquee Media Studio
Mark Haney: inside Mark Tank.
Mark Haney: It's the Mark Haney.
Marcus Haney: Show.
Mark Haney: Today is the Marine Corps birthday, so it's
Mark Haney: only befitting that we bring on a Marine,
Mark Haney: once Marine, always Marine.
Mark Haney: We brought on Marcus Haney and we're going
Mark Haney: to be talking about Allegiant Vets and the
Mark Haney: work he is doing.
Mark Haney: He is the CEO of Allegiant Giving and
Mark Haney: Allegiant Vets and he's building this
Mark Haney: incredible business, but they're doing
Mark Haney: impactful work, so we're going to talk
Mark Haney: about that today.
Mark Haney: But I think today is going to be more fun
Mark Haney: because I got a chance to sort of reminisce
Mark Haney: a bit with Marcus, because some of you may
Mark Haney: not know this, but Marcus actually helped
Mark Haney: me launch the show back in the day, and so
Mark Haney: I want to take a little trip down memory
Mark Haney: lane with my son, marcus, who was really
Mark Haney: the driving force behind launching this
Mark Haney: thing, and so we'll get to talk a little
Mark Haney: bit about that as well.
Mark Haney: But just a reminder to anybody who's
Mark Haney: listening this really is about winning.
Mark Haney: This is around winning an entrepreneurship.
Mark Haney: We're building the backyard advantage,
Mark Haney: which is the most connected community in
Mark Haney: the world for local entrepreneurs, and it's
Mark Haney: centered around a culture of love, helping
Mark Haney: one another.
Mark Haney: Engineering wins, and through our show, you
Mark Haney: get access to people that can inspire,
Mark Haney: educate and connect you, and so if these
Mark Haney: people are people that you want to support,
Mark Haney: then you need to subscribe to our podcast,
Mark Haney: subscribe to YouTube and really be a part
Mark Haney: of this community.
Mark Haney: Get involved.
Mark Haney: We live here, and I think it's incumbent on
Mark Haney: us, as people that believe in
Mark Haney: entrepreneurship, to support this kind of
Mark Haney: cause, support one another and get involved,
Mark Haney: and so I'm inviting you to be a part of
Mark Haney: this journey with me.
Mark Haney: But now, with no further ado, let me
Mark Haney: introduce to you my son, the Marine, my
Mark Haney: hero, marcus Annie.
Mark Haney: Welcome, marcus man, you're getting pretty
Mark Haney: good at this.
Mark Haney: I've been practicing, I've been failing for
Mark Haney: like seven years?
Mark Haney: I don't think so.
Marcus Haney: I think you've been doing a lot of great
Marcus Haney: stuff Shoot well I appreciate it.
Mark Haney: Well, as I mentioned, I wouldn't be doing
Mark Haney: this without you.
Mark Haney: I can remember when we first started the
Mark Haney: show how nervous I was and we sat 15 feet
Mark Haney: over there at my table and we knew that our
Mark Haney: first guest was going to be Uriah Faber.
Mark Haney: And I was like, oh wow, Uriah's come on the
Mark Haney: show.
Mark Haney: He's a buddy of mine, but still I'd never
Mark Haney: been on the radio before and how do I?
Mark Haney: We were on Sports 1140, KHTK at the time
Mark Haney: and I knew I was going to have to cut, to
Mark Haney: break and do commercials and there was all
Mark Haney: this logistics.
Mark Haney: It wasn't just getting on here and
Mark Haney: bullshitting with the buddy or talking to
Mark Haney: somebody I care about and telling stories.
Mark Haney: It was scary.
Mark Haney: And so you, I remember rehearsing.
Mark Haney: We do no rehearsal now.
Mark Haney: I don't even have show notes right now for
Mark Haney: this show.
Mark Haney: This is like off the cuff, but I was so
Mark Haney: nervous.
Mark Haney: Of course I overprepared to the point where
Mark Haney: I needed to rehearse.
Mark Haney: You were my rehearsal partner.
Mark Haney: You were Uriah Faber.
Mark Haney: I didn't have the good hair, though, and I
Mark Haney: remember you doing your impressions of
Mark Haney: Uriah Faber right there.
Mark Haney: So you're impersonating Uriah and I'm
Mark Haney: impersonating what's supposed to be a radio
Mark Haney: guy, and you helped me get through a lot of
Mark Haney: that.
Marcus Haney: So you were there.
Marcus Haney: Look how far you have come.
Marcus Haney: Now we don't have to go down to the Sports
Marcus Haney: 1140 studios on Saturday mornings.
Marcus Haney: God it's so.
Marcus Haney: How fun was that.
Mark Haney: You know what it was at nine o'clock in the
Mark Haney: morning and I can remember driving down
Mark Haney: there nervous, so I had to put on music.
Mark Haney: You knew my playlist.
Mark Haney: That got me in the right mode, got over my
Mark Haney: nervousness, got me psyched up to do the
Mark Haney: show and so I walked into the studio, still
Mark Haney: a little nervous.
Mark Haney: We had our little pregame rap and all that.
Mark Haney: Now it's just me and Scott and we just wing
Mark Haney: it and we rock and roll.
Marcus Haney: He actually helps me prepare a little bit.
Marcus Haney: I listened to the song Sentries before I
Marcus Haney: came up here, just to get myself in the
Marcus Haney: headspace.
Marcus Haney: That's right, that was the intro music back
Marcus Haney: in those days until we got hit with a
Marcus Haney: little bit of SEC stuff over there, you're
Marcus Haney: gonna bring a tear to your eyes.
Marcus Haney: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
Mark Haney: Okay, so enough about me and my show,
Mark Haney: because this is really our show and, even
Mark Haney: more than that, it's our community show and
Mark Haney: you are doing so much for our community and
Mark Haney: so I want to talk about that.
Mark Haney: So much for our country and so much for the
Mark Haney: people who really are the heroes of our
Mark Haney: country through Allegiant Vets.
Mark Haney: You are helping Allegiant Vets no excuse me,
Mark Haney: you are helping the veterans of America.
Mark Haney: I'm really transition to that next part of
Mark Haney: life and so maybe share with us a little
Mark Haney: bit about the work that you're doing and
Mark Haney: what inspires you to do this work.
Marcus Haney: Yeah, great question.
Marcus Haney: Appreciate the opportunity.
Marcus Haney: The mission started back in the day when I
Marcus Haney: was actually active duty in the Marine
Marcus Haney: Corps right and you have just sold your
Marcus Haney: businesses and started Allegiant Giving and
Marcus Haney: our original mission was to help out my
Marcus Haney: friends actually ones who were severely
Marcus Haney: wounded in action and weren't good fits for
Marcus Haney: prosthetics and we went out and found
Marcus Haney: solutions that helped give them some
Marcus Haney: freedom so they didn't go down the negative
Marcus Haney: path of taking their own life or something
Marcus Haney: like that Right, these people that had lost
Marcus Haney: their limbs and they needed to be in
Marcus Haney: wheelchairs Helped.
Marcus Haney: Yeah, they needed some help.
Marcus Haney: Right, they needed somebody to feel like
Marcus Haney: they could lean on.
Marcus Haney: Fast forward, I transitioned out of the
Marcus Haney: military Marine Corps, URA Happy Birthday
Marcus Haney: Marines With a bullet in my leg and I
Marcus Haney: didn't know what I was going to do.
Marcus Haney: Luckily I had a nice landing back here in
Marcus Haney: home in Sacramento.
Marcus Haney: But not most veterans have that opportunity,
Marcus Haney: and so I put a little pin in my transition
Marcus Haney: story for myself.
Marcus Haney: And actually my first job out of the
Marcus Haney: Marines was working at a technology and
Marcus Haney: staffing company, learned a new business,
Marcus Haney: had to parlay my skills like I teach my
Marcus Haney: skill bridgers weekly to use what they
Marcus Haney: learned in the military and help parlay
Marcus Haney: that into the next phase.
Marcus Haney: I didn't really have much to parlay.
Marcus Haney: I was an infantry guy.
Marcus Haney: I could shoot guns well, blow stuff up
Marcus Haney: pretty good.
Marcus Haney: You know, people break things, I was all
Marcus Haney: right at that stuff, but I needed to get
Marcus Haney: into the business world and luckily I had
Marcus Haney: the opportunity to work over at Direct
Marcus Haney: Technology Rick Nelson, also a fellow
Marcus Haney: veteran, veteran-owned company, great
Marcus Haney: organization here locally and they gave me
Marcus Haney: an opportunity to jump back in to the
Marcus Haney: veteran network and we started helping
Marcus Haney: Microsoft and other large organizations
Marcus Haney: identify veterans who were a good fit for
Marcus Haney: their training programs.
Marcus Haney: And so I spent a few years in building out
Marcus Haney: that infrastructure for them and help them
Marcus Haney: attract veterans into Microsoft training
Marcus Haney: programs.
Marcus Haney: And then I saw what transpired from that
Marcus Haney: was not a lot of hires from these training
Marcus Haney: programs and it really made me upset that I
Marcus Haney: was putting in all this effort and
Marcus Haney: promising these service members all this
Marcus Haney: opportunity.
Marcus Haney: They got an interview, no doubt, and
Marcus Haney: Microsoft held their end of the bargain in
Marcus Haney: that regard, so no negative.
Marcus Haney: I just thought there was a better way, and
Marcus Haney: so I, with my entrepreneurial mindset right
Marcus Haney: being your son, I guess I decided to come
Marcus Haney: to you and the board of directors and say I
Marcus Haney: think that we could change the direction of
Marcus Haney: the way Allegiant Giving is going and I see
Marcus Haney: an opportunity out there and it's called
Marcus Haney: the Skill Bridge Program, and for those of
Marcus Haney: you that don't know Skill Bridge.
Marcus Haney: It is a DOD approved program that allows
Marcus Haney: active duty service members to spend their
Marcus Haney: last three to six months really gathering
Marcus Haney: themselves to get out into the civilian
Marcus Haney: workforce.
Marcus Haney: And so we started out in 2016 with our
Marcus Haney: first Skill Bridger and, as of today, we've
Marcus Haney: scaled it to around 950 active Skill
Marcus Haney: Bridgers.
Marcus Haney: We'll end up helping about 2,500 service
Marcus Haney: members transition out of the military this
Marcus Haney: year about the scale to 2024, around 5,000
Marcus Haney: will end up coming through our program and
Marcus Haney: we're building a community.
Marcus Haney: I've got a fantastic team behind me that's
Marcus Haney: rallied around all these service members.
Marcus Haney: A lot of them are actually products of our
Marcus Haney: Skill Bridge Program.
Marcus Haney: They raise their hand deering their program
Marcus Haney: and say I see what you're doing, I
Marcus Haney: understand the mission and I wanna jump in
Marcus Haney: and help, and they've helped me take it to
Marcus Haney: where we are today.
Mark Haney: Okay, so let's talk about that in a little
Mark Haney: more detail.
Mark Haney: So let's say I'm an active duty military
Mark Haney: person, I'm about to get out, I've done my
Mark Haney: four years or my 20 years or whatever it is,
Mark Haney: and now I'm on the last three to six months
Mark Haney: and I haven't decided what I want to do.
Mark Haney: Or I'm in the process of deciding what I
Mark Haney: want to do and I'm still in the military,
Mark Haney: and that's when I enter the Allegiant
Mark Haney: Program, correct?
Marcus Haney: Yeah, so we try to get folks that are
Marcus Haney: looking at transitioning at least a year
Marcus Haney: out Okay, because it's a process, right,
Marcus Haney: and when it the day hits that you're
Marcus Haney: getting out, it is an oh shit moment.
Marcus Haney: What am I gonna do now?
Marcus Haney: Did I prepare?
Marcus Haney: What is my next opportunity?
Marcus Haney: Where am I gonna live?
Marcus Haney: All these things start coming at you really
Marcus Haney: fast, and so we try to prepare them as
Marcus Haney: early as possible.
Marcus Haney: You know we start off by providing them
Marcus Haney: with a transition workbook so they can set
Marcus Haney: goals and look at what their transition is
Marcus Haney: going to look like.
Marcus Haney: It is our goal for them to think about it
Marcus Haney: and plan ahead of time, right, accordingly,
Marcus Haney: so that they can leave the military with
Marcus Haney: success.
Marcus Haney: So, yeah, we try to get them as early in
Marcus Haney: the active duty process as possible so they
Marcus Haney: can start thinking about who they wanna be
Marcus Haney: when they get older.
Mark Haney: Well, you think about it reminds me a
Mark Haney: little bit of the Brock Purdy story, a
Mark Haney: little bit, you know.
Mark Haney: I like to say be ready, don't get ready.
Mark Haney: And Brock Purdy as we know, I'm wearing my
Mark Haney: nine-or shirt.
Marcus Haney: This is a shirt.
Mark Haney: I threw this on just because for you,
Mark Haney: because this is the shirt that I wore, I
Mark Haney: think, on our first show together, and it's
Mark Haney: a nine-or, it's a red nine-or shirt.
Mark Haney: But when it comes to being ready, think
Mark Haney: about Brock Purdy, right, the last guy
Mark Haney: picked in the draft, mr Irrelevant.
Mark Haney: Mr Irrelevant, not expecting to play all
Mark Haney: that.
Mark Haney: Probably didn't know quite what he was
Mark Haney: gonna do when he, if and when he got in,
Mark Haney: probably wasn't even expecting to get in.
Mark Haney: Or was he Because he got in and he sure
Mark Haney: looked ready.
Mark Haney: He sure looked like he had prepped himself.
Mark Haney: He looked like he had gone through Skill
Mark Haney: Bridge and came out ready to rock when the
Mark Haney: moment was called for him to get in the
Mark Haney: game.
Mark Haney: But I mean, I'm thinking about after
Mark Haney: selling my companies.
Mark Haney: I didn't know what I was gonna do.
Mark Haney: I was not expecting to leave.
Mark Haney: I had time to prepare, but not time to
Mark Haney: really craft a career for myself, right?
Mark Haney: Because it's more like, well, I guess I'm
Mark Haney: gonna be trying some stuff.
Mark Haney: Didn't know quite how that was gonna play
Mark Haney: out, but it's sure a heck of a lot better
Mark Haney: when you've already gotten yourself, at
Mark Haney: least at Compass.
Mark Haney: At least you know the direction you're
Mark Haney: going, and sometimes a program like Skill
Mark Haney: Bridge.
Mark Haney: It can't tell you everything about how to
Mark Haney: be an employee at Microsoft, but it can
Mark Haney: make it make it.
Mark Haney: It can help you decide whether it's I wanna
Mark Haney: go to work for a big company like Microsoft,
Mark Haney: whether I even wanna go to work for a tech
Mark Haney: company, or maybe it's something completely
Mark Haney: different and until you've gone through
Mark Haney: some training and some processes to help
Mark Haney: put you in that position, you don't even
Mark Haney: know which direction you're going.
Marcus Haney: You don't even know where the opportunity
Marcus Haney: lives, right.
Marcus Haney: Opportunity is all around you, and when
Marcus Haney: you're in the military, every day is told
Marcus Haney: when you're gonna wake up, what time Chow
Marcus Haney: is where your job is, what time you're off.
Marcus Haney: There's no room for creativity, right, and
Marcus Haney: so that's what we try to embark in our
Marcus Haney: Skill Bridge program is try to break off
Marcus Haney: some of that rust right, and say, look, you
Marcus Haney: guys need to maybe open up your mind
Marcus Haney: Remember back when you could make whatever
Marcus Haney: decisions that you wanted to do.
Marcus Haney: Exactly right, and so that's the reality,
Marcus Haney: and I think that plagues veterans when
Marcus Haney: they're not.
Mark Haney: There's almost like more freedom.
Marcus Haney: Right, it's like you have to.
Marcus Haney: That's challenging, though, right?
Marcus Haney: Imagine spending 20 years building a
Marcus Haney: company.
Marcus Haney: You get out transition time.
Marcus Haney: What am I gonna do?
Marcus Haney: Right?
Marcus Haney: It's the same scenario like oh man, I only
Marcus Haney: know what I'm good at, I only know this
Marcus Haney: uniform, I only know this rank, I only know
Marcus Haney: this sort of protocols, and now I have to
Marcus Haney: learn an entire new set of issues and
Marcus Haney: problems and I have to navigate them in a
Marcus Haney: short amount of time.
Marcus Haney: And it's really challenging for folks and
Marcus Haney: they don't have any other program like ours.
Marcus Haney: There's other folks who have Skill Bridge
Marcus Haney: programs, but ours is an employment skills
Marcus Haney: training Skill Bridge.
Marcus Haney: So we don't expect folks to come in day one
Marcus Haney: knowing what they wanna be.
Marcus Haney: We give them the opportunity to decide on
Marcus Haney: 12 different training tracks, from IT to
Marcus Haney: human resources, on what they want to learn,
Marcus Haney: who they want to be, what tools they wanna
Marcus Haney: put in their tool belt when they get out,
Marcus Haney: and we give them that opportunity and what
Marcus Haney: we really give them is the opportunity for,
Marcus Haney: like you said before, that freedom, the
Marcus Haney: autonomy to try to decide that it is okay
Marcus Haney: to be something different than what they
Marcus Haney: thought they were before, and that becomes
Marcus Haney: scary, but with the community behind you
Marcus Haney: that we've created with thousands of other
Marcus Haney: service members that have gone down the
Marcus Haney: same walk of life.
Marcus Haney: It becomes a lot less daunting.
Marcus Haney: Take it one bite at a time, one day at a
Marcus Haney: time, and that's what we really try to
Marcus Haney: provide for these folks is an opportunity
Marcus Haney: to see that.
Marcus Haney: See the opportunity is there and then look
Marcus Haney: at it on the forefront of how they are
Marcus Haney: going to attack Right.
Marcus Haney: And I don't try to let this time be for our
Marcus Haney: service members a time where they let off
Marcus Haney: the gas, because I think this is time where
Marcus Haney: they need to push on the gas, shift into
Marcus Haney: that next gear and decide what they want to
Marcus Haney: do and how they're going to do it with a
Marcus Haney: plan Right, write down that plan, revisit
Marcus Haney: it and put it into action on a daily basis.
Marcus Haney: And this is the time there they probably
Marcus Haney: need to accelerate into an opportunity to
Marcus Haney: catch up with the rest of the group, right?
Marcus Haney: So if you can accelerate like you're
Marcus Haney: getting on the freeway, you got to
Marcus Haney: accelerate when you're, when you're getting
Marcus Haney: on the freeway a little bit.
Marcus Haney: So I tell people take your time, parlay and
Marcus Haney: learn how to accelerate into something new.
Marcus Haney: And last month, 100 jobs were created out
Marcus Haney: of our program.
Marcus Haney: So, wow, we're having a lot of impact and a
Marcus Haney: lot of great results.
Mark Haney: When you think about that.
Mark Haney: I'm going to touch on what you just said a
Mark Haney: little bit, but you guys are building
Mark Haney: America's finest workforce.
Mark Haney: You think about the people.
Mark Haney: For any employer out there that has a lot
Mark Haney: of employees or maybe you only have a few
Mark Haney: Some of the best employees teammates that
Mark Haney: you can have are people coming out of the
Mark Haney: military.
Mark Haney: You look at the team that you've built,
Mark Haney: marcus.
Mark Haney: These are people that have been in the
Mark Haney: military and these are the finest teammates
Mark Haney: that that one would want to have, and so
Mark Haney: you're building 100 of the America's finest,
Mark Haney: which is really interesting.
Mark Haney: But one of the things that you mentioned is
Mark Haney: you're getting on your on ramp and I think
Mark Haney: this is kind of an interesting metaphor
Mark Haney: because you use the term scary and
Mark Haney: confidence is fragile If you're afraid to
Mark Haney: get on the freeway.
Mark Haney: You're stopping and starting as you're
Mark Haney: going to the gas, You're like ah right,
Mark Haney: you're not going to be a super successful
Mark Haney: getting on the freeway and that confidence
Mark Haney: is so fragile.
Mark Haney: You might have it one day and the next day
Mark Haney: you don't seem to have it as much.
Mark Haney: But if you have a plan and you're working
Mark Haney: with a compass, you at least know whether
Mark Haney: you're going towards San Francisco or
Mark Haney: you're going toward Reno right, you know
Mark Haney: I'm going east or west right, and you, you
Mark Haney: can work toward a plan, knowing that you
Mark Haney: might not have everything figured out yet,
Mark Haney: but you can get yourself in the game.
Mark Haney: And that confidence, really, because now
Mark Haney: you're on the freeway, now you're in the
Mark Haney: game, now you're able to create
Mark Haney: opportunities and bring the best you to a
Mark Haney: job and really create.
Mark Haney: Now you're working on creating a new set of
Mark Haney: freedom for yourself, yeah, courage is
Mark Haney: contagious, right.
Marcus Haney: And then, when we have our community, see
Marcus Haney: other people winning and they're like, oh
Marcus Haney: man, john can do it, I can do it, mary's
Marcus Haney: winning, I can win.
Marcus Haney: And that creates an interesting intangible
Marcus Haney: thing that's brewing in our midst every day.
Marcus Haney: We have a discord channel where our
Marcus Haney: community gets on and talks to each other
Marcus Haney: and there is just so many back and forth.
Marcus Haney: Let me help you.
Marcus Haney: I'm from your same town, we're doing the
Marcus Haney: same thing.
Marcus Haney: Let's get together and collaborate and,
Marcus Haney: honestly, that's not something I envisioned
Marcus Haney: happening for a lot longer, right.
Marcus Haney: But the community is just all bought in for
Marcus Haney: each other and that's what the military
Marcus Haney: represents.
Marcus Haney: They step into the breach because they feel
Marcus Haney: like they're doing the right thing for the
Marcus Haney: person to their left and the right, just
Marcus Haney: like they were in the military.
Marcus Haney: So this is the best case scenario for a lot
Marcus Haney: of folks getting out, and the testimonials
Marcus Haney: that we get and the wins of the week we
Marcus Haney: celebrate are are robust and really
Marcus Haney: exciting to hear about.
Mark Haney: Whereas as a civilian I look at all
Mark Haney: military people as heroes and appreciate
Mark Haney: your service and its Veterans Day weekend,
Mark Haney: so thank you.
Mark Haney: But I've often been around you and other
Mark Haney: military people and I hear the Marine Corps
Mark Haney: people jabbing at the people in the army or
Mark Haney: the Air Force or these jabbing and stuff.
Mark Haney: But you're talking about this community
Mark Haney: coming together, regardless of whether
Mark Haney: you're in the Navy or the Air Force or the
Mark Haney: Marine Corps or what have you.
Mark Haney: It's like, hey look, we're all brothers and
Mark Haney: sisters that have done some sacrificing.
Mark Haney: When we're all kind of in the same boat
Mark Haney: trying to make that transition to the new
Mark Haney: thing, let's just help each other.
Marcus Haney: Absolutely, and it's all good and fun.
Marcus Haney: You know, call the names.
Marcus Haney: And I even got sent a package anonymously
Marcus Haney: yesterday in the mail and they say that
Marcus Haney: Marines are dumb, that we eat crayons.
Marcus Haney: So I got this package yesterday of edible
Marcus Haney: crayons and guess what?
Marcus Haney: I ate them All right.
Mark Haney: I tried it out.
Marcus Haney: I gave it a chance and it was not bad.
Marcus Haney: I ate red.
Marcus Haney: It wasn't like the active duty crayons.
Marcus Haney: I got the.
Marcus Haney: But yeah, the community comes together, no
Marcus Haney: matter the banter, no matter the thing.
Marcus Haney: We always tell everybody drop your rank at
Marcus Haney: the door.
Mark Haney: Oh, drop your rank to right because you
Mark Haney: have people that are coming in there, maybe
Mark Haney: like Capri or Colonel, okay, or you have
Mark Haney: grunts or people that are maybe four years
Mark Haney: in infantry.
Mark Haney: Yeah, no, high school education, Right.
Marcus Haney: So there's levels of this thing are so
Marcus Haney: obfuscated, right, there's too many people
Marcus Haney: that are in the same rank and then there's
Marcus Haney: a lot lower level people, and those
Marcus Haney: individuals have to be able to communicate
Marcus Haney: and be on the same wavelength and be able
Marcus Haney: to realize that person, whether they may be
Marcus Haney: done four years and you did 20 can still
Marcus Haney: support you.
Marcus Haney: You guys can still be in the same community.
Marcus Haney: And so, yeah, drop your rank at the door,
Marcus Haney: kind of keep your pride to the side a
Marcus Haney: little bit.
Marcus Haney: That doesn't matter.
Marcus Haney: In the next phase and getting into the out
Marcus Haney: of the military, nobody really knows, like
Marcus Haney: you said, as a civilian, what the
Marcus Haney: difference between a Colonel or a corporal
Marcus Haney: or a sergeant really is.
Marcus Haney: Right.
Marcus Haney: So if you just come into the world as
Marcus Haney: somebody who's eager to jump into their
Marcus Haney: next opportunity with, with vigor, right,
Marcus Haney: if you have the grit and the intensity to
Marcus Haney: jump into something, that's really what the
Marcus Haney: corporate world wants to see.
Marcus Haney: As somebody who's willing just to come in
Marcus Haney: and be a team player and not need to flex
Marcus Haney: who they've been in the past, because it
Marcus Haney: doesn't really matter.
Mark Haney: Yeah well, you've called it first Civ Div.
Mark Haney: I've never heard that term until you have
Mark Haney: brought that up to me.
Mark Haney: Describe with that.
Mark Haney: Okay, how did you?
Mark Haney: What is that a common term in the military?
Marcus Haney: Well, I guess it was for me.
Marcus Haney: I would say most military members when you
Marcus Haney: are getting out.
Marcus Haney: It's a joke, if you will, where were you
Marcus Haney: going to be?
Marcus Haney: Oh, I'm going to be in the first civilian
Marcus Haney: division, so I'm going to be out in the
Marcus Haney: civilian world doing my thing.
Marcus Haney: So everybody that gets out of the military
Marcus Haney: kind of rolls into this new division.
Marcus Haney: Right, it's not the first battalion seventh
Marcus Haney: Marines like I was in right, it's the first
Marcus Haney: Civ Div, so that's sort of the transition
Marcus Haney: world in which folks roll into through our
Marcus Haney: program.
Marcus Haney: And I even write a newsletter weekly on
Marcus Haney: LinkedIn helping folks to get a couple tips
Marcus Haney: and tricks and use some shout outs and
Marcus Haney: things like that.
Marcus Haney: But it's called the the first Civ Div
Marcus Haney: safety brief, because every week in the
Marcus Haney: military your commanding officer gets in
Marcus Haney: front of you and gives you a weekly wrap up
Marcus Haney: for the weekends.
Marcus Haney: Don't do anything stupid this weekend.
Marcus Haney: You know it's Veterans Day, right, happy
Marcus Haney: birthday, marines, but don't go out and get
Marcus Haney: a DUI and make us look bad.
Marcus Haney: So this is my way of continuing that sort
Marcus Haney: of way of communicating with my teammates
Marcus Haney: out in the world and bringing a little
Marcus Haney: humor to it.
Marcus Haney: Right, because when stuff gets tough, in my
Marcus Haney: opinion a little humor there now and then
Marcus Haney: is good for the soul, right?
Marcus Haney: And then it gives me the opportunity to
Marcus Haney: realize that it's not so serious, right,
Marcus Haney: you're gonna get through it.
Marcus Haney: There is trough of sorrow, just like being
Marcus Haney: an entrepreneur, just like any transition,
Marcus Haney: but with a little bit of humility and a
Marcus Haney: little bit of humor, I think that can go a
Marcus Haney: lot of way to helping you be successful.
Marcus Haney: Well, what are you?
Mark Haney: seeing out there on the landscape of
Mark Haney: opportunity.
Mark Haney: What are the biggest opportunities now for
Mark Haney: people entering the workforce?
Mark Haney: Obviously, I'm focused on TAC, for the most
Mark Haney: part, small business and startups and
Mark Haney: technology companies, and that's one kind
Mark Haney: of job and but what other?
Mark Haney: What are the good jobs out there that
Mark Haney: you're seeing?
Mark Haney: What are the openings?
Mark Haney: Where are people leaning?
Mark Haney: Artificial intelligence oh, over the place.
Marcus Haney: AI is obviously a new frontier in which
Marcus Haney: everybody's sort of interested in.
Marcus Haney: I think a lot of people that come into our
Marcus Haney: program we have 12 training verticals and
Marcus Haney: are too.
Marcus Haney: Largest are cybersecurity and project
Marcus Haney: management.
Marcus Haney: So I think that there's a lot of people who
Marcus Haney: want to evolve themselves into a technology
Marcus Haney: professional and cybersecurity seems to be
Marcus Haney: a really robust job market.
Marcus Haney: Our program got a young lady with zero
Marcus Haney: cybersecurity experience had a six month
Marcus Haney: skill bridge program with us and ended up
Marcus Haney: getting a junior level cybersecurity job at
Marcus Haney: Lidos, which is a really large company.
Marcus Haney: So from zero to job, cybersecurity that's
Marcus Haney: what we kind of offer, and so we see the
Marcus Haney: opportunities out.
Marcus Haney: There are the ones that our veterans want
Marcus Haney: to go attack right, because everybody's
Marcus Haney: moving to a new state, a new county, a new
Marcus Haney: situation and maybe it's not what they did
Marcus Haney: in the military.
Marcus Haney: So it's tough for us to go identify exactly
Marcus Haney: where the opportunity is for every
Marcus Haney: individual.
Marcus Haney: But what we do go out and do is talk to
Marcus Haney: companies and say, hey, if you have racks
Marcus Haney: or if you have openings that maybe align
Marcus Haney: with our veteran community, come and talk
Marcus Haney: to them.
Marcus Haney: So we host virtual career fairs for these
Marcus Haney: companies to come in and present their
Marcus Haney: opportunities to our veterans and we see a
Marcus Haney: lot of good jobs coming out of that, and a
Marcus Haney: lot of our folks, interestingly enough,
Marcus Haney: have been asking, and so I delivered.
Marcus Haney: We now have a entrepreneurship program in
Marcus Haney: our skill bridge.
Marcus Haney: It's not a skill bridge track, but it's a
Marcus Haney: group that we started, so I am teaching
Marcus Haney: entrepreneurship yes, sir, the
Marcus Haney: Entrepreneurs Club.
Marcus Haney: That happens Tuesday in our skill bridge,
Marcus Haney: and so we were talking about Ikegai last
Marcus Haney: week and creating a big, hairy, audacious
Marcus Haney: goal and all the different things that I've
Marcus Haney: learned throughout this and throughout my
Marcus Haney: business career right Of building
Marcus Haney: businesses and being on here and learning
Marcus Haney: from all the people that have come through
Marcus Haney: the Marconi show.
Mark Haney: Yeah, that's interesting.
Mark Haney: So you've been on this show.
Mark Haney: So, going back in the memory lane thing, so
Mark Haney: you sat on so for our audience, marcus
Mark Haney: helped me launch the show from behind the
Mark Haney: scenes and then I'd say, a year or two in,
Mark Haney: you took on you and I started doing the
Mark Haney: show together.
Mark Haney: Yeah, and then you found some other
Mark Haney: opportunities and you abandoned me.
Mark Haney: You got too good for me and you went on to
Mark Haney: do some other things.
Mark Haney: But you, we even have a book always by your
Mark Haney: side and because you had it was written by
Mark Haney: Richard Bakken but it's a story, told
Mark Haney: through your eyes, of what it was like to
Mark Haney: help launch this show and using kind of
Mark Haney: your memory of being in the military, your
Mark Haney: experience of the military, and kind of
Mark Haney: comparing and contrasting what it was like
Mark Haney: to be you in the military and seeing the
Mark Haney: heroic journeys of a lot of the guests on
Mark Haney: the show, so you were able to, I guess,
Mark Haney: digest from the best and the brightest in
Mark Haney: Sacramento and help.
Mark Haney: I mean, it's been almost like getting a
Mark Haney: master's degree in entrepreneurship just
Mark Haney: being a part of this show 100%.
Marcus Haney: I say that all the time and at the time I
Marcus Haney: was building my own business right.
Marcus Haney: So I was hearing, listening, implementing,
Marcus Haney: changing, hearing, listening, tweaking
Marcus Haney: right, and I think that that's the
Marcus Haney: entrepreneurial spirit is continuously
Marcus Haney: growing and looking for that next
Marcus Haney: opportunity.
Marcus Haney: But I would say that the guests that have
Marcus Haney: been on this show that I reflect on all the
Marcus Haney: time are like the Dell Carlson's of the
Marcus Haney: world and just his total impact and his
Marcus Haney: humility and the ability for him to reflect
Marcus Haney: into somebody like myself of what it's like
Marcus Haney: to be an entrepreneur and what it's like to
Marcus Haney: win right.
Marcus Haney: And he does it with such grace and what's
Marcus Haney: such humility that it's like man.
Mark Haney: I wanna be like that guy, yeah, yeah well,
Mark Haney: you're making an impact in a really
Mark Haney: interesting way in a niche where, I mean,
Mark Haney: one of the things that we've talked about
Mark Haney: over the years is narrowing your niche, and
Mark Haney: you're focused on military excuse me, I
Mark Haney: call them veterans military service
Mark Haney: personnel that are still in the military.
Mark Haney: So it is really a niche and we've talked
Mark Haney: about narrowing your niche so you can be
Mark Haney: number one and I think right now your
Mark Haney: program ranks at the top or among the top
Mark Haney: of people who are focused in this niche.
Mark Haney: You're damn right.
Marcus Haney: Yeah, I mean, we self say that.
Marcus Haney: Right, there's no scoreboard out there
Marcus Haney: except for that.
Marcus Haney: We have the name of our organization being
Marcus Haney: touted to every branch of service, every
Marcus Haney: base in the country, every base in the
Marcus Haney: world.
Marcus Haney: We have folks transitioning from South
Marcus Haney: Korea and Germany and Japan and we just see
Marcus Haney: ourselves as the only people out there that
Marcus Haney: are looking to change the transition.
Marcus Haney: Entirely right, because this our skill
Marcus Haney: bridge is one byproduct of our organization.
Marcus Haney: Right, it's our training platform to help
Marcus Haney: people get out, but ultimately, we're a
Marcus Haney: transition success program.
Marcus Haney: Right, we want to help folks get out with
Marcus Haney: success.
Marcus Haney: If they choose to come to our skill bridge
Marcus Haney: and through our modules, great, we love
Marcus Haney: that.
Marcus Haney: But only about 30% of the transitioning
Marcus Haney: service members actually get authorized a
Marcus Haney: skill bridge.
Marcus Haney: So out of the 200 that get out 200,000
Marcus Haney: every year that get out of the military
Marcus Haney: only 30% of those people get authorized to
Marcus Haney: a skill bridge.
Marcus Haney: So there's an entire group of people that
Marcus Haney: we are looking to affect that don't even
Marcus Haney: come through our doors in a skill bridge
Marcus Haney: capacity, but they are the ones, in my
Marcus Haney: opinion, that need the most support.
Marcus Haney: So that is what our daily conversations as
Marcus Haney: a company and an organization are Is how do
Marcus Haney: we go touch those people.
Marcus Haney: How do we get out there?
Marcus Haney: And that has turned into us going out to
Marcus Haney: these bases and getting in front of
Marcus Haney: everybody.
Marcus Haney: And hey, we're here.
Marcus Haney: We are here to help you, so use us as you
Marcus Haney: see fit.
Marcus Haney: If you are 12 months, 18 months out from
Marcus Haney: getting out of the military and you need a
Marcus Haney: community to roll into, look at Allegiant.
Marcus Haney: Allegiant Vets is here for you and we are
Marcus Haney: here to stay.
Marcus Haney: And ultimately, it is our goal to create
Marcus Haney: the gold standard of veteran success
Marcus Haney: programs for the future generations.
Marcus Haney: Right, you say it a lot with future
Marcus Haney: generations in mind.
Marcus Haney: This is I'm out of the military, the people
Marcus Haney: in my skill bridge, they're going to be
Marcus Haney: done, but the reason why we are here is
Marcus Haney: because there are going to be 200,000
Marcus Haney: individuals that get out of the military
Marcus Haney: every single year, year in and year out,
Marcus Haney: and we need to be there for them.
Marcus Haney: We are here to step in the breach for those
Marcus Haney: folks.
Mark Haney: Yeah, you think about the people that get
Mark Haney: out, let's say, without a plan, right, and
Mark Haney: it's easy to lose confidence.
Mark Haney: We talked about it being fragile, but maybe
Mark Haney: never even get the confidence and maybe
Mark Haney: feel pretty lonely.
Marcus Haney: I mean, that's how I felt when I got out.
Mark Haney: Right.
Marcus Haney: There was no community for me and I was
Marcus Haney: wounded weird right.
Marcus Haney: Move back my hometown had some friends,
Marcus Haney: great, but still long for that veteran
Marcus Haney: camaraderie.
Marcus Haney: Try to go to the American Legion.
Marcus Haney: They're doing great stuff but not my fit.
Mark Haney: They're trying to go to the American
Mark Haney: Legion's older bond by and large is
Mark Haney: probably not my demographic.
Marcus Haney: Not saying they're doing anything bad,
Marcus Haney: there's not where I wanted to spend my time
Marcus Haney: VFW, same thing and went around trying to
Marcus Haney: identify my community and I came up short
Marcus Haney: time and again and that is ultimately what
Marcus Haney: spawned me to say we need to do something
Marcus Haney: different.
Marcus Haney: There is a opportunity to create a
Marcus Haney: community for my age, my mindset, my kind
Marcus Haney: of people.
Marcus Haney: Right, where are my people?
Marcus Haney: I don't know.
Marcus Haney: We're all looking for each other.
Marcus Haney: We're all looking internally.
Marcus Haney: And so I took it upon myself to say I'm
Marcus Haney: going to put foot ass in this regard and
Marcus Haney: it's paid off in dividends and, yeah, we're
Marcus Haney: building something great here and honestly,
Marcus Haney: it's it's legacy at this point.
Marcus Haney: So it gives me the chills to think about
Marcus Haney: because it's sort of something that is out
Marcus Haney: there running on its own In the world and
Marcus Haney: the ether and we're just trying to make it
Marcus Haney: the best thing possible for every service
Marcus Haney: member.
Marcus Haney: And that's our, that's our day in and day
Marcus Haney: out goal right Is to do the right thing by
Marcus Haney: every service member bring them the right
Marcus Haney: resources, provide them with the right
Marcus Haney: connections and really give them the time
Marcus Haney: and space to be successful.
Marcus Haney: And really that's, that's what they're
Marcus Haney: looking for when they get out.
Mark Haney: And anything that I say or refer to that,
Mark Haney: about any organization, whether it be the
Mark Haney: VFW, american Legion, northrop Grumman or
Mark Haney: whatever.
Mark Haney: Everybody's got an agenda and they're all
Mark Haney: doing something in their best interest and
Mark Haney: for positive reasons.
Mark Haney: But this community piece I talked about it
Mark Haney: a second ago narrowing the niche, I mean
Mark Haney: this, this market, if you will, you know,
Mark Haney: in terms of thinking about it as business,
Mark Haney: this niche it's.
Mark Haney: It's been underserved for forever.
Mark Haney: Okay, well it's.
Mark Haney: You're solving a huge problem and you're
Mark Haney: not varying into all these other things
Mark Haney: like a lot of people are.
Mark Haney: You're still, you're focused on that group
Mark Haney: of people.
Mark Haney: These people that are still in the military,
Mark Haney: getting out, need a compass and have to
Mark Haney: make some tough decisions in our life and
Mark Haney: which direction they're going to take it.
Marcus Haney: Well, there's 22 veterans a day that take
Marcus Haney: their own life, which is a terrible
Marcus Haney: statistic, and I have friends,
Marcus Haney: unfortunately, that have fallen into that
Marcus Haney: path, and I think that this time, this
Marcus Haney: transition time, it's a small window of
Marcus Haney: time, it's not something they can get back,
Marcus Haney: and I think that this is where the rubber
Marcus Haney: meets the road, and I think that if we put
Marcus Haney: the right resources, the right oomph behind
Marcus Haney: these folks getting out of the military the
Marcus Haney: same amount of oomph as it took to get them
Marcus Haney: in Then we can eliminate the veteran
Marcus Haney: suicide rate.
Marcus Haney: And that is the overall goal.
Marcus Haney: For me is to not get another phone call
Marcus Haney: saying that one of my friends took their
Marcus Haney: lives, or knowing that one of my people is
Marcus Haney: suffering and hurting, and that, to me, is
Marcus Haney: unsatisfactory, and so that is what keeps
Marcus Haney: me up at night, that's what wakes me up in
Marcus Haney: the morning to drive and make sure that we
Marcus Haney: are stepping in the breach for everybody.
Marcus Haney: That's why we are doing the things we're
Marcus Haney: doing and the team we have.
Marcus Haney: They're all sacrificing other opportunities.
Marcus Haney: I'm sure they could all get bigger and
Marcus Haney: better jobs somewhere else, but they're
Marcus Haney: here for the mission.
Marcus Haney: Our team is all dedicated for the people
Marcus Haney: that are stepping into this program and I'm
Marcus Haney: so grateful.
Marcus Haney: My heart is full of gratitude just knowing
Marcus Haney: that what we are doing is impactful.
Marcus Haney: But there are other people behind me that
Marcus Haney: believe in what we're doing as well, and
Marcus Haney: that's why we've gotten to where we are
Marcus Haney: today, and that's why I know that this team
Marcus Haney: can help us get to the next phase of our
Marcus Haney: life as a business as well, because we do
Marcus Haney: have a lot of work to do.
Marcus Haney: We have a big project to accomplish, and
Marcus Haney: it's going to take a lot of work and it's
Marcus Haney: going to take a lot of support, and we are
Marcus Haney: the group of people that have signed up to
Marcus Haney: do it, and I don't think there's any, but
Marcus Haney: that's going to stop us.
Mark Haney: Well, you talked about your team a little
Mark Haney: bit and kind of having that why behind what
Mark Haney: you do, it's not necessarily for the
Mark Haney: paycheck.
Mark Haney: Tom and Danny and Oscar and Tanisha and
Mark Haney: Stephanie and Garrett and all of them.
Mark Haney: But you think about why they're doing it,
Mark Haney: why you are doing it, and I think that's an
Mark Haney: important part of so.
Mark Haney: Anybody listening out there that is maybe
Mark Haney: where I was after selling my company or
Mark Haney: maybe you're a skill bridge, or somebody
Mark Haney: getting out of the military, I should say,
Mark Haney: or somebody getting out of college or out
Mark Haney: of high school and you're trying to decide
Mark Haney: what you want to be when you grow up or
Mark Haney: what you want to do at that next part of
Mark Haney: your life, I think, doing something that
Mark Haney: ties to why you want to be on this earth,
Mark Haney: what's important to you.
Mark Haney: You know that's purpose driven.
Mark Haney: I mean, if that can be part of your compass,
Mark Haney: think about what's important to you and why.
Mark Haney: That can sometimes you to nail down exactly
Mark Haney: what you want to do while you're still in
Mark Haney: the military.
Mark Haney: Might be, you know, might be, you know, it
Mark Haney: might be possible for some, probably not
Mark Haney: possible for most, but if you can at least
Mark Haney: begin to decide what's important to you,
Mark Haney: why you might want to do what you want to
Mark Haney: do, and if it is all about the money, well
Mark Haney: great, okay, no problem.
Mark Haney: There's nothing wrong with doing it for the
Mark Haney: money, but really take inside what's
Mark Haney: important to you, and it might not be all
Mark Haney: about the money.
Mark Haney: It might be doing something that's right
Mark Haney: for our world and feels like the right
Mark Haney: thing to do.
Marcus Haney: It feels good to do the right thing right,
Marcus Haney: and I I love my job right, and I get the
Marcus Haney: opportunity to talk to service members
Marcus Haney: every day and hear what they're going
Marcus Haney: through, and then we position ourselves to
Marcus Haney: make sure that the next guy doesn't go
Marcus Haney: through that same issue, and so we're
Marcus Haney: constantly putting out fires.
Marcus Haney: But, yeah, like, the mission for us is the
Marcus Haney: most important thing, right, and as we ends
Marcus Haney: this show, right, we always talk about our.
Marcus Haney: Our mantra, right is going out to the
Marcus Haney: masses in the military.
Marcus Haney: Right, our always by your side mantra is
Marcus Haney: something that I live by.
Marcus Haney: I told it to you.
Marcus Haney: We end the show with it every time, right,
Marcus Haney: or you do now.
Marcus Haney: That is what I put into every day into this
Marcus Haney: organization, so that these veterans know
Marcus Haney: that there is a group behind them.
Marcus Haney: There is a person, a group, a persona that
Marcus Haney: is there.
Marcus Haney: It's not the American Legion, which is a
Marcus Haney: big name, like you said, doing great things,
Marcus Haney: but sometimes you need a person that can
Marcus Haney: talk to you, somebody who will pick up the
Marcus Haney: phone, somebody that will return a text,
Marcus Haney: somebody that will just take the extra
Marcus Haney: little second to do that, and that's what
Marcus Haney: our team personifies day in and day out.
Mark Haney: One of the things, too, that I want to make
Mark Haney: sure that we remind ourselves and remind
Mark Haney: all our listeners.
Mark Haney: I deal a lot with startups and you're
Mark Haney: dealing with, you're working with people
Mark Haney: who want to be entrepreneurs and become
Mark Haney: employees and build businesses.
Mark Haney: I think you should expect to pivot.
Mark Haney: So every company I've invested into
Mark Haney: everything, every business I've launched, I
Mark Haney: come in thinking this is how it's going to
Mark Haney: be, and, lo and behold, it doesn't go that
Mark Haney: way.
Mark Haney: Right, it always is more difficult, doesn't
Mark Haney: work the way I thought it was going to work,
Mark Haney: whatever, and I end up needing to pivot,
Mark Haney: need to attack from a different direction,
Mark Haney: as we like to say, and so I think you can
Mark Haney: expect that.
Mark Haney: But if we wait to begin to get on the
Mark Haney: freeway if you will, then we'll never know
Mark Haney: what it's like.
Mark Haney: And so, just to everybody out there that's
Mark Haney: thinking about what I want to do, there's
Mark Haney: probably not a wrong answer.
Mark Haney: It's get in, get a compass, get in, make
Mark Haney: the adjustments.
Mark Haney: If it's not for you, don't feel bad about
Mark Haney: changing.
Mark Haney: It's tough to make some of those decisions.
Mark Haney: For example, I see you wearing your shirt
Mark Haney: right now says Allegiant Vets.
Mark Haney: When your mother and I launched the
Mark Haney: organization right, you mentioned it
Mark Haney: earlier it was Allegiant Giving, which the
Mark Haney: parent company name is Allegiant Giving,
Mark Haney: and we didn't know exactly how it would
Mark Haney: play out.
Mark Haney: But we wanted to do something.
Mark Haney: We had a general purpose for what we wanted
Mark Haney: to do, but how to turn it into a business
Mark Haney: that could be sustainable.
Mark Haney: We didn't know that until you came on and
Mark Haney: it began changing the way that we attacked,
Mark Haney: and so you've recently changed the name to
Mark Haney: Allegiant Vets, which I think is a better
Mark Haney: name Allegiant Giving.
Mark Haney: It's like what the heck is that?
Mark Haney: I've always thought I like the word
Mark Haney: Allegiant, but the Giving piece always
Mark Haney: sounded like what?
Mark Haney: And it didn't really tie to veterans.
Mark Haney: It didn't tie to the work we're doing.
Mark Haney: It's almost like I'm asking for something.
Mark Haney: Now that you're saying Allegiant Vets,
Mark Haney: that's like that's bad ass, right.
Mark Haney: That's telling me where I'm focused and who
Mark Haney: I'm about helping.
Marcus Haney: Yeah, clarity of mission, right?
Marcus Haney: Yes, what a good pivot.
Marcus Haney: Well, it took a long time.
Marcus Haney: Luckily, we had some great marketing ladies
Marcus Haney: to help us out at the Porter Co Marketing
Marcus Haney: company down there.
Marcus Haney: They actually work out of our building, so
Marcus Haney: shout out to them.
Marcus Haney: But it took a lot of brainstorming and
Marcus Haney: figuring out who we were and who we wanted
Marcus Haney: to be and who we are for the future.
Marcus Haney: And I think Allegiant Vets stands with
Marcus Haney: clarity, it stands bold and it stands with
Marcus Haney: a personification of who we're affecting.
Marcus Haney: And I think when people hear that name Vice
Marcus Haney: Allegiant Giving they're like okay, I know
Marcus Haney: what that is, I know what you're trying to
Marcus Haney: do, and that makes it easier for us to
Marcus Haney: communicate, obviously, and, like you said,
Marcus Haney: it's a little bit more badass as well.
Marcus Haney: So we got some swag.
Marcus Haney: We got a swag shop up on the new website,
Marcus Haney: allegiantvetsorg, if you're interested in
Marcus Haney: checking that out.
Marcus Haney: But yeah, we're over here trying to change
Marcus Haney: the world for veterans, one day at a time.
Mark Haney: Yeah now, allegiant Vets.
Mark Haney: Obviously we know what a veteran is, but
Mark Haney: it's also an acronym that I don't know.
Mark Haney: If people understand the acronym that,
Mark Haney: v-e-t-s.
Mark Haney: What is?
Marcus Haney: Yeah, veterans, employment, training and
Marcus Haney: Success is what VET stands for for me, and
Marcus Haney: so obviously, veterans oftentimes get
Marcus Haney: called VETs, but what we do and what we
Marcus Haney: provide is a community.
Marcus Haney: We provide skills and we provide the
Marcus Haney: opportunity to be a part of something.
Marcus Haney: So veteran employment, training and success,
Marcus Haney: and so that's what we really stand for
Marcus Haney: Ultimately it's about that success?
Mark Haney: huh, Absolutely.
Mark Haney: Well, it's Veterans Day, Veterans Day
Mark Haney: weekend, it's the Marine Corps birthday
Mark Haney: today, November 10th.
Mark Haney: Yeah, you know just, I don't know what I
Mark Haney: didn't ask you, but maybe just let you have
Mark Haney: the last word on the show.
Mark Haney: What did I not ask you?
Mark Haney: What would you like to communicate out
Mark Haney: there to the world about what you're
Mark Haney: working on or what the world needs from the
Mark Haney: veteran community?
Marcus Haney: Just happy to be here back in the saddle,
Marcus Haney: love chatting with you, love the
Marcus Haney: opportunity to get asked questions.
Marcus Haney: I'm probably doing a lot of that question
Marcus Haney: asking in my daily job, so I like getting
Marcus Haney: the opportunity to really really say about
Marcus Haney: what we're up to.
Marcus Haney: And what I would say is there are people
Marcus Haney: out there that are not sure what they want
Marcus Haney: to do and, as you alluded to, everybody's
Marcus Haney: gone through that and that's okay.
Marcus Haney: And if you are going through something that
Marcus Haney: is challenging in your life and you need to
Marcus Haney: reach out to an organization that's got
Marcus Haney: your back and you are a veteran, a spouse,
Marcus Haney: a family member of a service member, reach
Marcus Haney: out to us.
Marcus Haney: We want to talk to you.
Marcus Haney: And if you're looking to kick names and
Marcus Haney: take some ass out there in the world and
Marcus Haney: you want to change the world, like Steve
Marcus Haney: Jobs says, the ones who are crazy enough to
Marcus Haney: think that they can change the world are
Marcus Haney: the ones that actually do.
Marcus Haney: And that's what we are doing on a daily
Marcus Haney: basis at Allegiant Vets and if you're
Marcus Haney: interested in being a part of that ride,
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