Ep 442: Retirement Crisis - What's Next Peaches?

Ones Ready

Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

Education, Special Reconnaissance, Special Operations, Air Force, Pj, Combat Control, Tactical Air Control Party, Self-improvement, Fitness, Selection, Health & Fitness, Pararescue, Special Warfare, Tacp, Government, Assessment And Selection, Cct

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Send us Fan Mail What happens when your entire identity for 25 years disappears overnight? Peaches and Trent sit down to talk about military retirement, the struggle of finding purpose after service, and whether the Air Force is setting up its people for success—or failure—when they leave. 🔥 Peaches' first 48 hours as a retired Chief—surreal or just another Monday? 🔥 How the Air Force pushes people out but never asks why. 🔥 The real reason people spiral after retirement (and how to avoid it)....

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	One's ready.
0:01.0	Pointing.
0:03.2	Go!
0:07.2	Hey, everybody.
0:08.1	Welcome back to the Ones Ready podcast.
0:09.9	It's Trent here with Jared.
0:11.2	If you're not tracking, we got a little bit of feedback saying maybe we should put our
0:14.2	intros in the beginning of these podcasts so people know who they're listening to.
0:17.7	Trent Segmler, retired E8 out of Special Operations Weather and Special Reconnaissance,
0:22.1	Jared Peaches, Petrus, retired Chief Master Sergeant, officially now, combat controller.
0:28.2	Welcome back to the podcast, everybody.
0:31.0	How's it feel, Jared?
0:32.9	It's weird, man.
0:33.9	It's super weird.
0:35.0	You know, the last day of active duty was really weird, and the last day of active duty was really weird and the first
0:41.9	day of retirement was really weird and it's it's one of those things where i don't really know how to feel
0:46.9	i feel it's like a lot of the things in your career where you people like you Hollywood and people
0:53.5	talking about things and like you're
0:55.4	like should I feel a certain way it's so it's such like a mind thing this is going to go public so I'm
1:01.4	going to watch my mouth but yeah it's like who am I am I supposed to not know who I am now like
1:08.8	yeah yeah and it's you know it's Am I supposed to not know who I am now? Like, yeah.
1:20.0	Yeah, and it's, you know, it's weird because, you know, has it been my identity for 25 years?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.