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Entrepreneurs on Fire

FBI Special Agent Jean South bridges the culture and language gap between military veterans and recruiters

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

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4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Jean is a Marine spouse, daughter of Army veterans and a former FBI Special Agent. She is the President/CEO of Hire Served, where she bridges the culture and language gap between military veterans and recruiters who want to hire them but can't understand them.

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0:00.0

Light that spark fire nation, a JLD here and welcomed episode 1556 of EO Fire.

0:09.0

We're right, shout out today's most successful entrepreneur, seven days a week.

0:13.0

And goals equal success. And with the Freedom Journal Fire Nation, you'll be accomplishing a number one goal in just 100 days.

0:21.0

And now let's shout out today's featured guest, Gene South.

0:25.0

Gene, are you prepared to ignite?

0:28.0

Absolutely.

0:30.0

Yes.

0:31.0

Gene is a marine spouse, daughter of Army veterans in a former FBI special agent.

0:37.0

She is a president slash CEO of Higher Served, where she bridges the culture and language gap between military veterans and recruiters who want to hire them, but they can't understand them.

0:48.0

Gene, take a minute, fill in the gaps from that intro and give us just a little glimpse of your personal life.

0:53.0

Awesome. Well, thank you so much for having me.

0:56.0

Yeah, as you said, I am working on helping to bridge that military civilian culture gap and help, especially small medium sized businesses who may not be able to afford a full time veteran recruiter, but still really want to hire veterans and military spouses.

1:10.0

So I've been married for 10 and a half years to a marine.

1:14.0

We have four dogs who he's going to try and keep from barking while we chat.

1:19.0

It's always a challenge.

1:21.0

And I think that the most pertinent thing right now is I'm a Florida girl and I'm stuck in New Jersey and it's cold.

1:29.0

And I basically spent all winter bundled up as much as I can and telling everybody that I still can't get warm.

1:34.0

Well, 87 degrees is the temperature right now for me and Puerto Rico.

1:41.0

So I have I have sympathy for you because I'm actually leaving for Maine in a couple days to spend the holidays back up in that frigid area where it was negative for windshield factory yesterday.

1:53.0

Oh, yeah, it's just not good. Don't do it. I'm coming home in February where I told my parents clear a bedroom. I'm just coming home for a month.

1:59.0

See, that's funny. It's obviously for us. See, like where I live is Puerto Rico when I go home. It's actually like I can only stay for a week, mom. Sorry.

2:08.0

So Jean, let's talk about your area of expertise because you know, you've done a lot of really cool things.

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