Empowering Veterans for Success: Warrior-Scholar Project
The Steve Harvey Morning Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Transitioning to civilian life after years of military service can be daunting. Some veterans pursue higher education, while others explore business and entrepreneurship, each journey uniquely personal. What remains constant is the importance of ensuring service members are well-prepared for this transition.
In this special episode of The Unshakeables, Ben sits down with Ryan Pavel, a veteran and CEO of the national nonprofit Warrior-Scholar Project, to discuss his transition from the military. Ryan shares how the discipline and determination he developed during his service helped him achieve his dream job: guiding and preparing other veterans for a fulfilling life after service.
Additionally, Ben is joined by Mark Elliott, Managing Director and Global Head of Military and Veterans Affairs at JPMorgan Chase, who offers his insights on why veterans often become exceptional leaders and passionate entrepreneurs
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| 0:00.0 | After years of work, Ryan Pavel had finally landed his dream job with the Warrior Scholar Project. |
| 0:08.0 | He was a military veteran turned lawyer who dreamed of working with other veterans. |
| 0:12.0 | The Warrior Scholar Project had just |
| 0:14.6 | received a huge grant that would allow them to bring him on as executive director. |
| 0:18.1 | But right before he was supposed to begin, his boss suddenly left the organization. |
| 0:24.9 | So I came on board and I had this really small team of people who believed in the thing, |
| 0:29.6 | like a few people, and we had enough money in the bank to be able to pay the bills, but the organization |
| 0:34.3 | sustainability really depended on that grant. |
| 0:35.9 | I didn't realize how much depended on it until I actually got a look at the like full-on |
| 0:40.3 | financials. |
| 0:41.6 | I also didn't realize that we were only in phase one of this big grant application. |
| 0:45.2 | Okay, let me just make sure I have this right. You come on board, on spec, you don't know how on |
| 0:50.0 | spec it is. You desperately need this grant, way more than you realize you desperately |
| 0:55.2 | need this grant. |
| 0:56.9 | And it's a little further away than you sort of were led to believe. |
| 0:59.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.8 | Yeah, shit, right? |
| 1:07.0 | Welcome to the Unshakables, from Chase for Business and Ruby Studio from My Heart Media. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm Ben Walter, CEO of Chase for Business. |
| 1:13.0 | And I'm Tanya Nippo, a lawyer and consultant for business owners. |
| 1:17.0 | On the Unshakables, we're sharing the daring stories of small business owners facing their crisis points, |
| 1:22.0 | and telling the stories of how they got |
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