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Speaker 2: listener lines today at Little Miami Brewery, where you will
Speaker 2: meet and see Jack Atherton, who was on the program earlier,
Speaker 2: along with his beautiful wife Ainsley, and everybody else that
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Speaker 2: five krc Morning Show and thank God for your service
Speaker 2: for our country. Dan Claire, he is the chief Communications
Speaker 2: and Outreach Officer for the Disabled American Veterans. You can
Speaker 2: find them in line at DAV dot org. He's got
Speaker 2: an amazing background. Marine Corps veteran of the Persian Golf
Speaker 2: and an Air Force veteran of the War in Iraq.
Speaker 2: He's been with the he's been the Communications and Outreach
Speaker 2: Officer for the DAV since August twenty nineteen, but he's
Speaker 2: got a long history with the DVAV. Welcome Dan Claire.
Speaker 2: If I went through your resume and your CV, we
Speaker 2: wouldn't have any time to talk about this boot camp
Speaker 2: that we're going to be. You're giving us a details
Speaker 2: on Good to have you on the fifty five Carse
Speaker 2: Morning Show.
Speaker 1: Sir, hey Brian, thanks for having me, and thank you
Speaker 1: for your support for veterans. You have quite a reputation
Speaker 1: for supporting our cause, so thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I it's the least I can do. I tell people
Speaker 2: every single time that's brought up. I did not enlist,
Speaker 2: and I have such profound respect for those who just
Speaker 2: threw the dice by enlisting, not knowing where they were
Speaker 2: going to end up or what they were going to
Speaker 2: be doing. And real quick on that note, as your
Speaker 2: CV notes, you're a Marine Corps veteran of the Persian
Speaker 2: Gulf and an Air Force veteran of the war in Iraq.
Speaker 2: How does that happened?
Speaker 1: Well, you spent four years in the Marine Corps and
Speaker 1: I got out right before nine to eleven. So I
Speaker 1: got out and came back in right before nine to
Speaker 1: eleven just to keep my military service going in the
Speaker 1: Air National Guard. And then nine to eleven happened, so
Speaker 1: I deployed on nine to eleven to help FEMA teams
Speaker 1: and here we are.
Speaker 2: Wow. Well, okay, let's begin with the Disabled American Veterans
Speaker 2: Program again DAV dot org. What's the organization all about?
Speaker 2: What is the purpose of its existence?
Speaker 1: You know, we're trying to keep promises to veterans. We're
Speaker 1: trying to make sure that if a veteran was changed
Speaker 1: in service, that we're doing everything we can to help
Speaker 1: them meet their maximum potential. And that's what DAV Patriot
Speaker 1: boot Camp, this entrepreneur program that we have this morning
Speaker 1: is all about. It's a three day cohort. We're going
Speaker 1: to be helping about fifty five we expect entrepreneurs and
Speaker 1: the veteran and military connected community. We're going to give
Speaker 1: them the building blocks that they need so that they
Speaker 1: can be company owners, so that they can be benefits providers,
Speaker 1: so they can continue to contribute to our country. It's
Speaker 1: an amazing program and it wouldn't be possible, you know,
Speaker 1: talking about people who did not serve. This program would
Speaker 1: not be possible without the many, many local CEOs here
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati who contribute. We have more than twenty mentors
Speaker 1: who are coming from the CEO ranks here locally. It's
Speaker 1: a great program and they bring tremendous value to these
Speaker 1: veterans who just want the chance to have business to
Speaker 1: be more accessible to them.
Speaker 2: Well, there's nothing like a successful person in business that
Speaker 2: has all those you know, has experience, been there, done that,
Speaker 2: build those and knows about those foundational building blocks that
Speaker 2: inevitably lead to this to success. Now, the folks that
Speaker 2: are going to be attending this boot camp, are they
Speaker 2: want to be future entrepreneurs or do they already have
Speaker 2: businesses of some sort and are leaking and seeking to
Speaker 2: expand and learn more about how that happens. Who qualifies
Speaker 2: to be a part of this group.
Speaker 1: Well, we're making a big investment in these folks. So
Speaker 1: we were looking for people who have made some concrete
Speaker 1: steps to show that they're serious, that they have a
Speaker 1: business idea that they usually have websites, they have NEI
Speaker 1: in you know, they're they're they're raising some funds, they're
Speaker 1: hiring some people. Because those are the people, you know,
Speaker 1: who we're taking a risk on and we think that
Speaker 1: they're going to excel and so we want to get
Speaker 1: them in the program so that they can grow. It's
Speaker 1: taken that next sleep for their companies from.
Speaker 2: What areas of business do the mentors come from, because
Speaker 2: I'm certain of my listening audience. So someone out there
Speaker 2: has got their ears perked up. One, Hey, that sounds
Speaker 2: like something I would like to help out with.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's awesome. They're CEOs, they're folks in marketing, their
Speaker 1: attorneys founders. I mean the list locally. We just have
Speaker 1: actually an attorney from Dinsmore and he is donating Brett
Speaker 1: Renzenbrink is donating five thousand dollars worth of legal services
Speaker 1: to support these vetteran entrepreneurs. These are just people who've
Speaker 1: been there, done that kind of in terms of their careers,
Speaker 1: and they want to give back. They want to help
Speaker 1: veterans avoid those early mistakes that they might have made
Speaker 1: in their careers and their businesses so that they can
Speaker 1: get the trajectory they need to succeed.
Speaker 2: Right, So I guess in terms of the legal services
Speaker 2: that are being volunteered there and salute to those who've
Speaker 2: done that. What a great thing, because I know how
Speaker 2: much it costs to hire a lawyer. It ain't cheap, ever,
Speaker 2: but setting up, for example, the appropriate corporate structure for
Speaker 2: any given business.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's incredibly important. And that's one of those services
Speaker 1: as we were at a cohort in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: And we had two lawyers there that would have cost
Speaker 1: a veteran for an hour. You know, we're talking about
Speaker 1: thirteen hundred dollars an hour apiece. And these folks are
Speaker 1: thrilled to come in and give veterans their services.
Speaker 2: You know what I was when I was in house
Speaker 2: with Anthem Blue Cross a blue ship. We're going back
Speaker 2: nineteen years now because it is my nineteenth year in radio.
Speaker 2: I remember the first time because I was in charge
Speaker 2: of managing litigation that we had outsourced in certain times,
Speaker 2: and I remember the first time I got a four
Speaker 2: figure per hour a bill out of some New York
Speaker 2: law firm and had soiled myself just looking at that
Speaker 2: going I cannot believe how much money these guys cost.
Speaker 2: But you just hit the nail on the head on
Speaker 2: that one. So lawyers out there help out the disabled
Speaker 2: American veterans with these programs. Now, you mentioned it's that
Speaker 2: the boot camp is starting today. So this I presume
Speaker 2: that this is not an appeal for folks to sign
Speaker 2: up for this particular boot camp. Do you do you
Speaker 2: do them throughout the year, Dan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, we're back in May and we you know,
Speaker 1: this is a program it sources nationally, but we have
Speaker 1: a handful of great local companies who are participating. We
Speaker 1: have a Remodel It Right company, James Hannen, Air Force veteran,
Speaker 1: is trying to help remodel homes here locally. We have
Speaker 1: a branding company, Stephen Easley's Easily Blessed Media and they're
Speaker 1: just helping companies get their branding down straight. We even
Speaker 1: have a taekwondo company from Wilder representing the cohort. So
Speaker 1: it's a fun group. They're they're they're a little bit
Speaker 1: spread out in terms of the types of services, the
Speaker 1: types of products they offer, but they're veterans who we
Speaker 1: think are going to be extremely successful down the road.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, speaking of extremely successful, Dan Claire, chief
Speaker 2: Occasions Officer for the da V, can you share maybe
Speaker 2: a couple of success stories about the results of the
Speaker 2: Patriot boot Camp some of the alumni success stories.
Speaker 1: Sure. I mean, one one that sticks out to me
Speaker 1: is Alvin Allan Parvis. He's the CEO of Go Faster
Speaker 1: Alan's company that's here and since Cincinnti based company, he's
Speaker 1: making running shoes that are kind of a hybrid trail
Speaker 1: and walking shoe or a trail and street shoe. He's
Speaker 1: an example of a company that's done great. We have
Speaker 1: people with just amazing ideas, amazing solutions. One of the
Speaker 1: one of the founders we had, had developed a reservoir
Speaker 1: that collected water for to refill your windshield. So you know,
Speaker 1: you've ever been in the rain and mud and you
Speaker 1: run out of windshield wipe or fluid and you're in
Speaker 1: big trouble and you're like, oh my god, it's raining outside.
Speaker 1: But he had he'd developed the way that you could
Speaker 1: take in rain water with a detergent and then clean
Speaker 1: your windshields. And of course now cars are kind of
Speaker 1: all over. It's just they're amazing ideas. You see with veterans,
Speaker 1: they want to change the world, they want to be
Speaker 1: involved in something that's meaningful, and that's what we see
Speaker 1: with these entrepreneurs' new missions.
Speaker 2: How about that, it's one of those things you're surprised
Speaker 2: that nobody ever thought of that before. So I guess
Speaker 2: are there and I have. I think I maybe seen
Speaker 2: a whole all of fifteen or twenty minutes of shark Tank,
Speaker 2: where you know, they show off products and try to
Speaker 2: get executives to buy into them or thumbs up and
Speaker 2: thumbs down kind of thing. Are is there certain elements
Speaker 2: of that involved.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. We have a pitch contest that goes into every
Speaker 1: cohort and it's very much dav Shark Tank without the
Speaker 1: intellectual property theft. It's a great it's a great thing,
Speaker 1: you know, and that follows up on the digital side.
Speaker 1: So if you sign up to get information, we'll let
Speaker 1: you know when that contest is going to be held.
Speaker 1: We've had folks from this program compete in Shark Tank
Speaker 1: and even win. So we're we're rolled with the types
Speaker 1: of companies that we have.
Speaker 2: Wow. And it's over the course of how many.
Speaker 1: Days, it's three full days we start off. This morning,
Speaker 1: we just had a bustload of people come in. This
Speaker 1: program also introduces veterans and entrepreneurs to Northern Kentucky. We're
Speaker 1: supported by Meet NKY, Blue North. I mean just the
Speaker 1: business community in Northern Kentucky, Cincinnati, and Indiana have just
Speaker 1: coalesced around this program. We couldn't do it without them.
Speaker 1: They offer great advice and they're doing this all ot
Speaker 1: just because they know it's the right thing to do.
Speaker 2: It is the right thing to do. It's like my
Speaker 2: support of the American veterans the right thing to do
Speaker 2: for me, because you know it's worthy sho support them,
Speaker 2: because it's just a quality group of people. I mean,
Speaker 2: you already sung their praises and you can only double
Speaker 2: down on that. I mean, I know there's some outliers
Speaker 2: and some bad eggs out in the world, but that's
Speaker 2: the case with literally everybody. But I don't think you
Speaker 2: can find a better class of people than those folks
Speaker 2: who have served their country and served them, served proudly.
Speaker 2: And I'm glad this program is out there. When's the
Speaker 2: next boot camp?
Speaker 1: The next boot camp is coming up the first week
Speaker 1: of May. You can sign on. You can actually visit
Speaker 1: Patriot boot Camp dot org to get specifically into this program.
Speaker 1: Always visit dav dot org for benefits, help for volunteerism,
Speaker 1: for transportation, things like that. But but this our next
Speaker 1: cohort is May five through seven. Here locally, we want
Speaker 1: people to sign up. We want mentors, we need mentors,
Speaker 1: we need speakers. So we encourage everyone to get involved.
Speaker 1: Sign up, we'll start to send you information and uh
Speaker 1: and we'll make you part of our community.
Speaker 2: At the risk of having you repeat yourself. I just
Speaker 2: want to make sure I understand. You're looking for folks
Speaker 2: who already have you know, their their their toes in
Speaker 2: the water of business, have something to show for their
Speaker 2: entrepreneurial direction, not just someone who's got a great idea
Speaker 2: but it hasn't come to any measure of fruition. I
Speaker 2: got that right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, We're looking for people who've made a serious
Speaker 1: step because it's you know, this is a program. It
Speaker 1: brings thousands of dollars worth of value, and we want
Speaker 1: to make it make sure that our mentors time is
Speaker 1: being dedicated to people who are going to go out
Speaker 1: there and use it, you know, really put it to work.
Speaker 1: And they're serious companies. They're serious people. They're you know, veterans,
Speaker 1: are resilient people. They know how to scale, they know discipline,
Speaker 1: they understand how to adjust in changing environments. They're just
Speaker 1: great people. And this gives them the opportunity. You know,
Speaker 1: just a lot of these guys, when when most people
Speaker 1: were going to college or starting their first business, they
Speaker 1: were serving their country. Now we're able to just level
Speaker 1: the playing field a little bit for them, give them
Speaker 1: some of those building blocks so they can go on
Speaker 1: and really conquer the world.
Speaker 2: Wow, what a great concept this is and how long
Speaker 2: have you been doing this?
Speaker 1: We've been doing this. This became a DAV program. It
Speaker 1: was a separate charity founded by civilians to help veterans
Speaker 1: get into the tech center. We've had it a DV
Speaker 1: it's been a DV program for three years, but overall
Speaker 1: it's been going on for about twelve years that the
Speaker 1: programs existed. It was started by you know, some very
Speaker 1: Governor Jared Poulis was one one of the people who
Speaker 1: is one of the original founders of the program. It's
Speaker 1: just it's an exceptional community that DAV was able to inherit.
Speaker 1: When we brought on DAV Patriot boot.
Speaker 2: Camp, Well, it comes through loud and clear in your voice,
Speaker 2: the enthusiasm you have and how proud you are of
Speaker 2: this program and the work that you're doing for the
Speaker 2: American veterans. So I'm I'm just pleased to sponge to
Speaker 2: have you on the program to support it. Patriot Bootcamp
Speaker 2: dot org for the information and let's see here. I
Speaker 2: know there was one more thing I wanted to ask you. Oh,
Speaker 2: sometimes I have a brain bubble on the morning show,
Speaker 2: Sir and apologies for that. Oh yeah, I just it. Also,
Speaker 2: I mean, in addition to this, it sounds like there
Speaker 2: could be a parallel sort of networking function among the
Speaker 2: young entrepreneurs of the veteran entrepreneurs as well as the
Speaker 2: mentors in the program.
Speaker 1: Oh it's huge. We've had Honey Baked Hams. One of
Speaker 1: the family members of Honey Baked Hams has donated legal services,
Speaker 1: his attorney, his retainer, he's donated that to help more
Speaker 1: in the North are Dton area entrepreneur with a company
Speaker 1: called Whiskerman he's donated legal time. I mean, these the
Speaker 1: people who get involved, they usually stay involved, stay in contact,
Speaker 1: and they're ongoing mentors. And we need about forty to
Speaker 1: fifty mentors if we have forty to fifty participants for
Speaker 1: every cohort. So there are always opportunities to help. If
Speaker 1: you have a skill you think you can bring to
Speaker 1: the table, please volunteer, Please get involved. We'll make it
Speaker 1: worth your time, all right.
Speaker 2: Now, for that group of people, those interested entrepreneurs that
Speaker 2: have been there and done that want to help out,
Speaker 2: do they go to Patriot Bootcamp dot org or do
Speaker 2: they go to the dav dot org.
Speaker 1: Site Patriot boot camp dot org is the fastest way
Speaker 1: to get there.
Speaker 2: Fastest way to get there will be linked online blog
Speaker 2: and podcast pages. My friend Jostrecker's edit it already, so
Speaker 2: click right there. If you can't remember Patriot Bootcamp dot org,
Speaker 2: just remember fifty five KRC dot com. You know, Dan
Speaker 2: on behalf of all of my listeners who all support
Speaker 2: the American veterans. Danclaire, thank you so much for what
Speaker 2: you're doing with the DAV and keep up the great work.
Speaker 2: And anytime you want to talk about something going on
Speaker 2: with the DAV or remind folks about the boot camp
Speaker 2: down the road. You got to welcome opportunity here in
Speaker 2: the fifty five Cars Morning Show.
Speaker 1: Oh, Brian, thank you so much. Thank you Joe, and
Speaker 1: thanks Todd for helping get this thing together. God bless
Speaker 1: you guys.
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