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Speaker 2: Love the Marias, and I know that my next guest,
Speaker 2: Dan Claire, who's chief communications officer for Disabled American Veterans,
Speaker 2: does as well. They've got a Patriot boot camp. He's
Speaker 2: gonna tell us all about it. Welcome to the program,
Speaker 2: Chief Communications Officer Dan Claire.
Speaker 1: Hey, good morning. I am a huge fan. I'm surprised
Speaker 1: I'm not singing the fifty five KRC Tri State weather
Speaker 1: jingle right now.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you listen to the program. I certainly appreciate it,
Speaker 2: and I very very merry christ What.
Speaker 1: You care deeply about veterans and we're big fans.
Speaker 2: Oh well, I absolutely do, and I will admit readily
Speaker 2: a lot of it has to do with personal guilt
Speaker 2: for not having signing it out a lot of myself
Speaker 2: and serve my country in the American military. But I'm
Speaker 2: trying my best for the last eighteen years to make
Speaker 2: up for that by celebrating the American veteran, thanking them
Speaker 2: for their service to our country, having the huevos to
Speaker 2: sign that that form and serve their country, not knowing
Speaker 2: anything about where they're going to go and what corner
Speaker 2: of the universe they're going to land. But I just
Speaker 2: just I love the veterans, and the veterans I met
Speaker 2: are just such quality, awesome human beings. I mean, just
Speaker 2: collectively across the board, you're you're great people. So it
Speaker 2: is a privilege to be in a position to support
Speaker 2: the work that you're doing. So let us you're it's
Speaker 2: Patriot boot Camp dot org is your website? Do I
Speaker 2: have that right?
Speaker 1: That is? That is the website for entrepreneur program at
Speaker 1: dav Okay.
Speaker 2: Now tell that my listeners about the boot camp. I
Speaker 2: understand it's being held this February in the Greater Cincinnati area.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, February five through seven. We're going to have a
Speaker 1: cohort come through thirty five to fifty veterans and we're
Speaker 1: going to give them the building blocks to build their businesses.
Speaker 1: These are all entrepreneurs, their spouses, they're veterans, some of
Speaker 1: them are military veterans, some of them are active duty spouses.
Speaker 1: And we're getting them in and we're giving them of
Speaker 1: building blocks to make business successful for him. I just
Speaker 1: heard earlier this morning you were talking about how important
Speaker 1: small businesses to America. We believe veterans have the resilience,
Speaker 1: the discipline, the creativity to really contribute to our society
Speaker 1: this way, and we're just thrilled to invest in veterans
Speaker 1: and believe in their potential.
Speaker 2: Dan Claire, I'm going to pause right now because I
Speaker 2: went a little along with my prior guests, and I
Speaker 2: want you to be able to develop or at least
Speaker 2: offer some additional information about how you go about helping
Speaker 2: these veterans develop businesses. So we'll pause and again it's
Speaker 2: Patriot boot Camp dot RG. But we'll bring Dan back
Speaker 2: in just a moment after I mentioned my friends at
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Speaker 2: I know. The owners are just absolutely wonderful people. Ray
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Speaker 2: years now, and he's been in the roofing business for
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Speaker 2: roof doing the free inspection and free quote if you
Speaker 2: need the work now. Eerck'son honest young man. That's one
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Speaker 2: artists out there and every time I mentioned that, and
Speaker 2: they have been for years. It just irks me that
Speaker 2: there's these businesses out there that would take advantage of
Speaker 2: a senior or someone who doesn't want to get on
Speaker 2: the roof or really know anything about looking at what,
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Speaker 2: A thirty nine coun eight forty fifty five KRCD talk
Speaker 2: station or a Happy Friday eve to you love helping
Speaker 2: the American Veterans out, insaid of Dan Claire with the
Speaker 2: he's the chief communications officer for disabled American Veterans. Can
Speaker 2: find them online at what did I say was Patriot
Speaker 2: boot Camp dot coms, which we're talking about. So the
Speaker 2: Patriot boot Camp you are providing training and information about
Speaker 2: starting small businesses. I know veterans are really kind of,
Speaker 2: you know, out of the box extincters. You know, they
Speaker 2: got to, you know, do a lot of things on
Speaker 2: the fly, and it seems to me like they're the
Speaker 2: ideal small business. They have the resources and intellectual capacity
Speaker 2: or wherethal and go get her kind of tendencies to
Speaker 2: be wonderful small business owners. But you know what, I
Speaker 2: don't know Jack squat about business as my friend. I
Speaker 2: have always been a W two employee and people can
Speaker 2: make fun of me for that. But it just seems
Speaker 2: like such a challenge Dan to start a business and
Speaker 2: run it, Like I mean, is this the kind of thing?
Speaker 2: Are they going to be working with people who've been
Speaker 2: there and done that kind of thing?
Speaker 1: Oh? Absolutely, this is a program and DAV was founded
Speaker 1: here in Cincinnati. We're nationally headquarter here in Cincinnati and
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati community, the entire region. CEOs have made this
Speaker 1: a priority, getting veterans up to speed, helping them with
Speaker 1: helping them as mentors. We're gonna have thirty five to
Speaker 1: fifty veterans participate stat in February. That means that we're
Speaker 1: going to have thirty five to fifty mentors. And those
Speaker 1: folks are coming right from our community, our CEOs, our
Speaker 1: local folks just coalescing around these folks to give them
Speaker 1: the startup education that they need, the mentorship, access to resources,
Speaker 1: talking about funding, branding, all the things that they need
Speaker 1: to know. Some of the things that they lost that
Speaker 1: other business owners were kind of acquiring as they went.
Speaker 1: These folks were in military service, so this is just
Speaker 1: making business accessful to them. It's giving them the building
Speaker 1: blocks they need, solving some of the initial problems they
Speaker 1: have so that they can succeed.
Speaker 2: How long you been doing this, We have been doing
Speaker 2: the program.
Speaker 1: It was actually founded by tech entrepreneurs and they said,
Speaker 1: can we be doing more to get veterans into tech?
Speaker 1: Can we get them? Can we make them job creators?
Speaker 1: And for dav you know, we help with benefits all
Speaker 1: the time. You're a big proponent I know of veterans
Speaker 1: getting help with their benefits because it's such a challenge
Speaker 1: to go through that process. This is a chance terns
Speaker 1: and to job creators, benefits providers, and like you said,
Speaker 1: it takes a special special kind of courage to put,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of start over in the world and
Speaker 1: say I'm going to invest in myself. I'm going to
Speaker 1: invest in this business idea. What we see with these
Speaker 1: veterans are they're mission oriented people. They're doing there, They're
Speaker 1: going into businesses that help their communities. It's an amazing
Speaker 1: program and I want to thank the entire I want
Speaker 1: to thank you in the entire Cincinnati area because we
Speaker 1: couldn't do it without so many great business leaders who participate.
Speaker 2: Well, and you know, thank you for your service to
Speaker 2: our country. I know you're a Marine Corps veteran of
Speaker 2: the Persian golf and Air Force veteran of the war
Speaker 2: in Iraq and you probably served your country. You continue
Speaker 2: service to the American veteran with this, And so now
Speaker 2: all the ears perked up, and I got a lot
Speaker 2: of veterans out in the audience are going, hmm. That
Speaker 2: sounds something that I'm very interested in. So how can
Speaker 2: interested entrepreneurial minded veterans apply.
Speaker 1: You know, we have the thirty five to fifty people
Speaker 1: we've only had, you know, we only usually have a
Speaker 1: couple from the area. So it's really easy to get
Speaker 1: in on Patriot boot Camp. Visit Patriot boot camp dot
Speaker 1: org if you want to mentor and help these veterans.
Speaker 1: If you have a skill, a talent, a subject matter
Speaker 1: expertise that helps entrepreneurs, we want you to sign up
Speaker 1: as well. You can visit us at Patriot boot Camp
Speaker 1: dot org. Our next cohort, like I said, it's February
Speaker 1: five through seven, and we'll be back in the spring
Speaker 1: May fourteen through sixteen. This is a free program. Everything
Speaker 1: DAV does we provide at no obligation or costs to
Speaker 1: veterans of all generations. Spouses are included in that. People
Speaker 1: just have to get here, and for people in this area,
Speaker 1: there's no excuse not to. You know, there's no hotel,
Speaker 1: no airfare. Just come on in and we're going to
Speaker 1: take care of you.
Speaker 2: Oh that's that's awesome. I'm really glad you pointed that out,
Speaker 2: because quite often the costs associated with some of these
Speaker 2: things can be the one stumbling block for someone who's
Speaker 2: otherwise very motivated to do it. So on behalf of
Speaker 2: all the veterans and those you've helped. Thank you very
Speaker 2: much for that. Now, speak of those you've helped. Why
Speaker 2: don't you give my listeners before we part company today
Speaker 2: a success story. I know there's somebody, some you know,
Speaker 2: some person out there who really made a go of
Speaker 2: this and has proven how wonderful this this boot camp
Speaker 2: turned out to be for them. Can you give us
Speaker 2: one of the success stories?
Speaker 1: Oh? Absolutely. When I think of success stories and I
Speaker 1: think of Cincinnati, I think of Alan Parvis. He has
Speaker 1: a company called Go Faster in the Marine Corps. You know,
Speaker 1: you you they rename everything. You know, your bathroom's ahead,
Speaker 1: now you're you know, they rename everything. Well, they call
Speaker 1: tennis shoes for running. They call him go Faster, So
Speaker 1: he calls his company Go Faster Athletic. You can visit
Speaker 1: it at go Fasterathletic dot com. He's a Marine veteran.
Speaker 1: He's creating a shoe that is a hybrid road shoe
Speaker 1: running shoe, so it has the comfort trail shoe, so
Speaker 1: it has the comfort of a road shoe, but you
Speaker 1: can take it off trail. Really helpful for veterans who
Speaker 1: like to get out there and run. And there's another person.
Speaker 1: He's looking to give back. He's looking to build shoes
Speaker 1: in America, give back to our economy, create jobs, and contribute.
Speaker 1: He's here in Cincinnati. Amazing company, great product.
Speaker 2: Just one of our great success stories hel On Parvus
Speaker 2: that is fantastic. So that's another little ounce of motivation
Speaker 2: for folks to get in touch with the at Patriot
Speaker 2: boot Camp dot org against February fifty seventh. It's free.
Speaker 2: You're going to learn a lot of skills from people
Speaker 2: that are in the know. Again, doubling down on your
Speaker 2: point earlier. If you are an entrepreneur, has been successful
Speaker 2: and you know how these things work, help out the
Speaker 2: American veteran, join the program and teach these folks the
Speaker 2: skills they need to be successful in the private world,
Speaker 2: because sometimes transitioning from the military into this private sector
Speaker 2: is not an easy thing to do, even if you're
Speaker 2: just pursuing it a typical W two job like me.
Speaker 2: They live in a different world. They have, you know,
Speaker 2: that collective environment that they are taken out of and
Speaker 2: then thrown into this new, crazy world of the those
Speaker 2: who have not been in uniform, and that transition is
Speaker 2: tough enough. But you got the mind and you're interested
Speaker 2: in being an entrepreneur, it sounds like this is a
Speaker 2: wonderful way to go. Dan Claire, thank you for your
Speaker 2: service to our country and your ongoing service to the
Speaker 2: American veteran. Keep up the great work, and I'll be
Speaker 2: looking forward to having you back on the show sometime
Speaker 2: and hear more about these success stories and further promote
Speaker 2: the Patriot boot Camp. Maybe we'll do that in advance
Speaker 2: of the May fourteenth to sixteenth program.
Speaker 1: We'd love it. And Todd Cassini and Diana are listening,
Speaker 1: so they said hello as well.
Speaker 2: Tell him. I said, Hi, yeah, I'm the one that
Speaker 2: introduced them. I'm taking credit for that. I went to
Speaker 2: high school with Dianastrul. She's an awesome, awesome, awesome lady.
Speaker 2: And Todd is one of my best friends from childhood.
Speaker 2: And you know what the minute I thought when she
Speaker 2: said she was coming back to town, like I gotta
Speaker 2: fix her up with Todd Cassini. So that's great. That
Speaker 2: made my day. Dan Claire, thank you for your work.
Speaker 2: And tell them both. I said, Hi, that's wonderful. It's
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