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Hosted by Mark · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 261 episodes
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Honesty and advice to help veterans crush it at grad school, in entrepreneurship, and in professional careers. Humor and language often not as professional.
Mark hosts The Veteran (Semi) Professional, a business show with 261 episodes published.

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Send us a text Finance expert Doug Lynam offers a groundbreaking exploration of our complex relationship with money, budgeting, and finances through the transformative lens of the Enneagram. Confront financial fears, eng

Send us a text Will Van Derveer, MD is a leader in the adoption of integrative psychiatry practices globally. After discovering that his conventional psychiatric training was inadequate to answer many of the challenges f

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Send us a text Vivek took his kids to a Sharky's Hair Cuts and thought, "Wow, this place is awesome." So he bought a few with the help of some investors. He learned a ton and made a bunch of mistakes, but glad he did it.

Send us a text Sharif is a good friend and I've enjoyed watching his career. He had a job at a prestigious law firm and was there 3 months before he looked around and realized that was not where he wanted to be. So he qu

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Send us a text John is a former MARSOC operator and we talk about his new book and leadership after the military.

Send us a text Dan retired from Special Forces and went into working in support of his same unit, as a contractor We also talk about his upcoming book.

Send us a text William is a former enlisted Marine who hustled his way into Stanford (danced, actually….it’s a whole story) and then started a business that is doing super well. He is a truly smart guy and very plugged i

Send us a text Nick is a fascinating guy. He was born in Iran and had an American dad, then fled the country during the Islamic Revolution. He came to the US and had along career in Special Operations. Since then, he has

Send us a text Alex is one of the most impressive entrepreneurs I've had the chance to speak with. Before launching Franzy, Alex co-founded 2ULaundry and LaundroLab, where he helped scale the business from a college side

Send us a text Robert is a former Marine who found his way into corporate M&A through grit and bit of luck. He now runs a firm providing financial advisory services to small and medium-sized businesses.

Send us a text Gabe and Lindsey are both Army veterans with impressive backgrounds, he an infantry officer and she was one of the first women in the 160th. After leaving the Army, Gabe started a fire/water/mold remediati

Send us a text Lisa is one of the few 2x guests on the show. She is the head of Search Fund lending at Live Oak Bank, one of the top SBA lenders in the country, and a premier expert on loans for buying small businesses.

Send us a text Matthew talks about transitioning from the Navy to the VA and then ending up in software sales.
Doug Lynam
money manager, monk, Marine
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Will Van Derveer
veteran psychiatrist, co-founder of the Integrative Psychiatry Institute, author of Psychedelic Therapy · Integrative Psychiatry Institute
1 appearance on this show
Vivek Shah
CEO · Capermint Technologies
1 appearance on this show
Sharif Gray
former Army JAG and prosecutor · Broughton Injury Law
1 appearance on this show
John Dailey
Author; Keynote Speaker; Performance Coach; SOF Veteran
1 appearance on this show
Nick Berg
1 appearance on this show
Alex Smereczniak
co-founder and CEO · 2ULaundry
1 appearance on this show
Lindsey Chrismon
CEO · Oply
1 appearance on this show
Lisa Forrest
Lecturer in Occupational Therapy · Northwest Bank
1 appearance on this show
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