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Welcome to Citizen.

We got a great guest today.

Brent Gleason, former Navy SEAL.

This is your second time, I believe, on the show.

I don't remember, actually.

Yes, he is.

Yes, it is.

Could have been third, but definitely not the first.

How's it going?

Good. How are you doing, brother? Good to see you. Yeah, doing well. Busy. You said you're in San Diego right now. I am. Yeah, I've lived here now 25 years. you know, I want to make a clear point that I am a Texan, I grew up in Dallas, until I moved here for the Navy.

Um, 25 years, you know, I want to make a clear point that I am a Texan. I grew up in Dallas until I moved here for the Navy. So, um, how's that going in, and California these days, it's a little, you know, it's not, it's not so different than it was 10 years ago, to be honest. So it's, yeah, it hasn't changed that much. I mean, obviously it depends on who you surround yourself with. And there's a large contingent, especially in Southern California, pretty conservative people, politically, religiously, things like that.

So it's, you know, you can you can find your tribe and that keeps it, that keeps it reasonable.

Yeah. What have you been up to lately? I see you got a new book

coming out in a couple weeks. Yeah, actually quite a lot like you. Two years ago, well I say

last year, coming up on two years, took my company accelerate through an entire rebranding.

We were a full-scale enterprise management consulting firm and then we went out and one of the

original visions of that business was to find an enterprise software integration or a solution

or identify a potential white space or need that wasn't currently being fulfilled, you know,

with a lot of these large companies.

So last year we went out and raised a bunch of money for our first round,

have built proprietary enterprise software that really leverages Gen AI to bring performance

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