1SG (Ret.) Matt Eversman (Black Hawk Down, Leadership and Complacency) - Episode 133

Behind The Shield

James Geering

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Fitness

4.9 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

1SG (Ret) Matt Eversmann was one of the Army Rangers portrayed in the movie "Black Hawk Down", chronicling the courageous actions of Task Force Ranger, during the Battle of Mogadishu. We discuss the importance of training, setting the bar high, complacency, ownership and much more.

First Sergeant (ret) Matt Eversmann personifies the importance of duty, courage and selfless service to succeed when ordinary circumstances become extraordinary challenges.

On October 3, 1993, Matt was placed in charge of a group of Army Rangers to lead a daytime raid against an eager enemy militia. His inspiring story of survival was immortalized in the epic film, Black Hawk Down, which recounts the harrowing experience. For his actions on the battlefield he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Valor device.

During his remaining time in uniform, he worked at the Army War College, taught at The Johns Hopkins University and finally deployed to Iraq where he lived with the Iraqi Army for 15 months during The Surge. He remained on active duty until May of 2008, when he retired after 20 years of service.

His frustration with the typical hiring process for veterans fueled his desire to help others avoid the “veterans predicament” —great servicemen and women overlooked because of the status quo. He and his wife Tori founded Eversmann Advisory in early 2018. Their mission is to connect great veterans with exceptional employers who realize their value.

Represented by Keppler Speakers, he is also a published author, The Battle of Mogadishu, and documentarian. His film “Send Me” is in post production. He and Tori live in West Palm Beach, Florida with their daughter and two black labs. Matt is a big fan of his Big Green Egg, travel and is an aspiring surfer.

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0:00.0	Welcome guys to the Behind the Show podcast. My name's James Gearing and this is episode 133 and I am so
0:07.0	honored to have on the show this week, retired first sergeant Matt Eversman. Now Matt was portrayed by
0:13.5	Josh Harnett in the movie Black Hawk Down and he obviously was an army ranger who fought alongside
0:19.1	so many brave men in the Battle of Mogadishu
0:22.0	and this conversation was incredible yet I feel we barely scratched the surface of Matt's story
0:29.2	and his philosophy and lessons learned so I want to preface this introduction by saying that
0:33.7	there will be a part to and I would love to travel down to South Florida and actually
0:37.0	interview Matt face to face in that second episode.
0:41.1	So we discuss an array of topics from kind of lessons learned, leadership, ownership, you know,
0:48.8	the effect of reducing budgets on, you know, Army, Special Forces, police um and they're just an array of topics
0:55.9	and obviously the the events of that day so as i always say please go to itunes subscribe
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1:06.5	share other episodes if you've loved them and help get this project and these amazing men and
1:11.1	women stories to every single person around the planet because I think they need to be heard.
1:16.0	So with that being said, I introduced to you, retired first sergeant Matt Eversman.
1:21.7	Enjoy.
1:45.8	Thank you so much for agreeing to come on the show, and I want to give you the first,
1:49.5	the full rank initially. So you're retired first sergeant Matt Eversman.
1:52.0	Yep. James, he's spot on.
1:56.4	All right, good, because I've made some military faux pas in the past, so I want to make sure I nail it. I call the Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, Lieutenant Dave Grossman once and it was corrected immediately.
2:03.6	But you know, it's funny in like everything, it's like trying to learn the hierarchy to the fire department for an outsider.
2:10.6	It's never bothered me. To this day, people still call me Sergeant Evertsman and it just confuses them trying to explain First Sergeant and the difference.
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