From Ranger to Road Warrior: John Renken’s Mission with Tactical Traveler Group
SOFREP Radio
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Tactical Traveler Group is not your average vacation service. It’s a purpose-driven platform offering deeply discounted and even complimentary travel opportunities for veterans, active duty members, and their families. With PTSD and burnout at an all-time high among the military community, John is on a mission to make healing, family reconnection, and mental decompression accessible and affordable through unforgettable travel experiences.
As a decorated warrior and former 6-time MMA champion, John knows the value of resilience and recovery. He’s already helped countless vets transition to civilian life through mentorship—and now he’s using his platform to give them something many have never had: peace of mind on a beautiful beach or a mountain retreat.
This is a powerful human-interest story of transformation, service, and visionary thinking—perfect for your readers who care about wellness, military life, and purpose-based entrepreneurship.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | If it doesn't work, if it doesn't work, you're just not using enough. You're listening to Soffrop Radio, special operations military news and straight talk with the guys in the community. Well, hey, what's going on? This is Rad with another awesome episode of Soft Rep Radio. |
| 0:50.9 | Insert cool music. |
| 0:52.9 | Now listen, before I tell you who I have on the show |
| 0:56.1 | today I just want to remind you that we have a merch store and it is constantly |
| 1:00.6 | updated with the newest branded items like the soft rep hoodie totally legit I know |
| 1:06.6 | it's a little warm right now but it'll be cold soon in about four or five months |
| 1:10.3 | and you'll be pulling that hoodie on and tag us in photos, |
| 1:13.5 | because you're going to take them and put them on the internet, tag soft rep mafia. |
| 1:17.4 | Second, our book club. |
| 1:19.2 | If you're new to soft rep, welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:22.7 | If you're a return listener, thanks again for your repeat listening, |
| 1:26.2 | but you know I'm going to tell you to check out the soft rep.com |
| 1:29.0 | forward slash book hyphen club. That's forward slash book hyphen club. And you can go and read all |
| 1:36.2 | sorts of books just like a gym. You go to work out your muscles. You go to work out your body |
| 1:39.8 | and a gym. Well, the book club is a gym for your brain. So go check out the books that are curated by folks like Brandon Webb and others on the back end of Soft Rep, who just stay in the shadows and make sure that I'm not in the shadows. Here I am. Front and Center. And today's guest, I'm going to introduce you to him. Okay, he goes by the tactical traveler. His name is John Rankin. And welcome to the show, John. Hey, man. Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure. Thanks for reaching out. Having Rob reach out, you know, Rob's great. Your publicist, he's like, hey, Rad, I got one for you. And I was like, bring him to me. Bring him to soft rep. Let's go. So, John, tell me something me something how old are you bro i am wait you said |
| 2:20.8 | don't say things you don't want on the internet i did warn everybody i say don't say what you |
| 2:25.3 | on the internet do man about to be 53 okay i thought you're going to say 47 like myself |
| 2:30.2 | now john what i like to do is kind of get to know a little bit about you, let my listener |
| 2:37.2 | learn a little bit about your space from, you know, when you were a young man to the military |
| 2:41.0 | career. |
| 2:41.5 | So tell me, how old were you when you decided that joining the military was something that you |
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