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Veteran Made

Veteran Made

De: Carey Kight
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I help veterans build ⚡️SKILLS⚡️ to successfully transition from service to civilian.Copyright 2021 All rights reserved. Desarrollo Personal Economía Exito Profesional Gestión y Liderazgo Liderazgo Éxito Personal
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  • From the Battlefield to the Archery Range: A TAC-P Veteran Builds Community Through Business
    Jul 7 2025

    In episode 153, I sat down (again) with my friend, Dan Horgan, USAF TAC-P veteran and founder of Arrow and Honor Co., to talk about what it really takes to build a community-driven business from scratch with our own resources. We talked about how the only thing that keeps us moving forward is the network we build through genuine honesty and real relationships with other human beings.

    Arrow and Honor Co. isn’t just about selling t-shirts or archery gear; it’s about forging a tribe where every handshake, every story, every honest conversation matters more than any marketing funnel or digital ad spend. We dove into the reality that creative services and marketing only work when we’re brutally transparent about our challenges, ourr wins, and our failures because that’s what attracts real partners and lifelong friends, not just customers.

    I pushed Dan — and myself — to get specific about how community isn’t some abstract buzzword. It is the product. It’s built by showing up, being vulnerable, and leveraging every authentic connection we’ve made, whether it’s a vendor, a client, or a fellow veteran. We talked about the necessity of owning our story, sharing it honestly, and refusing to hide behind corporate polish.

    The truth is, business is personal, and the only way to scale anything meaningful is by being aggressively open, direct, and unafraid to ask for help or admit what we don’t know.

    Use code: veteranmade10 for 10% a purchase at Arrow and Honor Co.

    Episode Sponsors:

    • VM Merch
    • Go Pills -- use "VM15" at checkout for 15% off your order.
    • BUBS Naturals -- use "veteranmade" at checkout for 20% off your order.
    • True Made Foods -- use "VET" at checkout for 15% off your order.
    • Ruck Sox -- use "VETERANMADE15" at checkout for 15% off your order.
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    Intro Song composed and produced by Cleod9.

    SOCIALS:

    https://www.instagram.com/veteranmade.ck/

    http://x.com/veteranmade.ck

    https://www.instagram.com/dan_horgan_/

    https://www.instagram.com/arrowandhonor.co/

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    1 h y 4 m
  • All of Your Friends are Imaginary w/ Gary Stevens
    Jun 30 2025

    Creativity is not a gentle muse that visits the idle; it’s a relentless force that demands your full engagement, discipline, and honesty. In episode 152, Gary Stevens strips away the romantic myths surrounding creative work and expose its true nature: ideas are raw materials mined from the grind of lived experience, relentless questioning, and the courage to confront failure head-on.

    Stevens, a visual artist and the author of All of Your Friends are Imaginary, reveals that creativity flows from the friction of real-world challenges and that the spark of an idea is only the beginning. The real test is in execution: the willingness to distill complex insights into their core components, to pare down the noise, and to shape raw intuition into something others can learn from and use.

    The conversation is a masterclass in creative rigor. Stevens describes his process of ruthlessly editing his work, soliciting brutally honest feedback across industries and generations, and refusing to let past failures die unused — salvaging frameworks and lessons from abandoned projects and transforming them into new successes. We emphasize that the work of creativity is not just about having ideas, but about refining them through iteration, feedback, and the humility to recognize what we don’t know. We argue that true creative value comes from making your insights accessible and actionable for others, using our own hard-won lessons as blueprints and warnings. If we want to create work that matters, we must be willing to thicken both our skill and our skin, distill our experience down to their essence, and share it with clarity and conviction.

    No shortcuts, no excuses, just relentless execution.

    Episode Sponsors:

    • VM Merch
    • Go Pills -- use "VM15" at checkout for 15% off your order.
    • BUBS Naturals -- use "veteranmade" at checkout for 20% off your order.
    • True Made Foods -- use "VET" at checkout for 15% off your order.
    • Ruck Sox -- use "VETERANMADE15" at checkout for 15% off your order.
    • Bravo Actual -- use "Veteran Made" at checkout for 15% off your order.

    Intro Song composed and produced by Cleod9.

    SOCIALS:

    https://www.instagram.com/veteranmade.ck/

    http://x.com/veteranmade.ck

    https://www.instagram.com/gary_stevens_art/

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    54 m
  • sometimes i go away w/ Steve Callahan | Author at Dead Reckoning Collective
    Jun 23 2025

    Episode 151 with Steve Callahan, author of sometimes I go away, Dead Reckoning Collective’s latest collection of poetry is a relentless exploration of creativity — not as a gentle muse that occasionally visits, but as a force that demands engagement, discipline, and honest labor.

    The conversation explores how ideas arrive, asserting that creativity is a process of dictation and translation: ideas may flash into the mind from mysterious, — even mystical sources — but it is the maker’s responsibility to wrestle them onto the page, to shape and refine them through persistent work. We dissect the mechanics of creativity, drawing parallels between poetry, film, and military service, and emphasizing that the act of making — whether it’s a poem, a screenplay, or a new life after service — requires not just inspiration but the courage to execute, to risk failure, and to keep pushing until the work stands on its own legs.

    We challenge listeners to consider the transcendentals — goodness, truth, and beauty — as the pillars that must anchor any creative act. Art is not just self-expression but a responsibility: to communicate with clarity, to wrestle honestly with one’s own moral injuries, and to offer the audience something that is not only aesthetically compelling but ethically resonant. Through candid discussion of military transition, moral injury, and the ongoing challenge of contextualizing painful experiences, the episode insists that our duty as artists is to bridge the gap between the ineffable and the tangible, to translate private wounds into universal language, and to do so with integrity, humility, and a relentless commitment to the good, the true, and the beautiful.

    Episode Sponsors:

    • VM Merch
    • Go Pills -- use "VM15" at checkout for 15% off your order.
    • BUBS Naturals -- use "veteranmade" at checkout for 20% off your order.
    • True Made Foods -- use "VET" at checkout for 15% off your order.
    • Ruck Sox -- use "VETERANMADE15" at checkout for 15% off your order.
    • Bravo Actual -- use "Veteran Made" at checkout for 15% off your order.

    Intro Song composed and produced by Cleod9.

    SOCIALS:

    https://www.instagram.com/veteranmade.ck/

    http://x.com/veteranmade.ck

    https://www.instagram.com/uneven_steven03/

    https://www.instagram.com/deadreckoningcollective/

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    1 h y 21 m
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