Jeremy Stalnecker: Reveals Lessons in Leadership From Military Service
Mick Unplugged
Realm
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy Stalnecker is a Marine Corps veteran, pastor, and the CEO of the Mighty Oaks Foundation—a nonprofit dedicated to helping America’s military warriors and their families overcome the unseen wounds of combat, such as PTSD. Drawing on his own challenges transitioning home after Iraq, Jeremy has made it his mission to offer faith-based hope, healing, and leadership to veterans, first responders, and their loved ones. His experience in both combat leadership and ministry uniquely positions him as a transformative voice for resilience, character, and servant leadership.
Takeaways:
● Healing unseen wounds takes community and purpose: Jeremy credits his journey of healing from trauma to having the right support network and a strong sense of faith, which now fuels his responsibility to help others walking a similar path.
● Leadership is about being, not just doing: Effective leadership is rooted in character and presence—not just tactics or positional authority. True leaders leverage their resources and opportunities to help others grow and succeed.
● Resilience in a changing world requires clarity: With an overload of information and rapidly evolving challenges, leaders must be grounded in their purpose and values to navigate uncertainty and positively impact those around them.
Sound Bites:
“So many people are carrying traumas and brokenness within them that goes undealt with... if you don't address these, eventually it will have a very damaging effect on you.”
“My job as a leader is not to get you to do what I want you to do. It's to leverage everything I have at my disposal to make you better than you would be without me.”
“When those things pop up in front of us, we have to decide, am I going to stay where I am and die, or am I going to march?”
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Website: https://www.jeremystalnecker.com/
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Podcast: March or Die
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| 0:00.0 | I figured it out because I had the right people in my life and, you know, walked this out as a faith journey. |
| 0:07.7 | I had a responsibility now to take that to the men that I had served with specifically, but then, you know, more broadly since 2012. |
| 0:18.1 | Welcome to Mick Unplugged, the number one podcast for self-improvement, leadership, and relentless growth. |
| 0:25.7 | No fluff, no filters, just hard-hitting truths, unstoppable strategies, and the mindset shifts that separate the best from the rest. |
| 0:35.2 | Ready to break limits? |
| 0:37.4 | Let's go. |
| 0:42.3 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another exciting episode of Mick Unplugged. And today, |
| 0:48.3 | we have a distinguished Marine Corps veteran. He's a pastor and he's the CEO of the Mighty Oaks Foundation, dedicated to aiding |
| 0:56.7 | America's military warriors and their families and overcoming unseen wounds of combat such as PTSD. |
| 1:03.6 | Please join me in welcoming the courageous, the compassionate, the transformative. |
| 1:08.3 | My God, Mr. Jeremy Sondick. Jeremy, how are you doing? |
| 1:11.3 | I'm doing good, man. |
| 1:12.2 | Hey, your whole audience is going to be disappointed, though, after that introduction. So I appreciate it, man. No, it's good to be with you. Really appreciate it. No, sir, no, sir, no, sir. We're not going to be disappointed because I know that you bring it, man. Like, you know, your journey from the core to being a pastor |
| 1:28.7 | to all the amazing things that you do for our heroes is commendable, man. |
| 1:35.8 | And I just wanted to tell you that personally, you know, |
| 1:39.1 | those that know me know that Robert Irvine is not only a mentor of mine, |
| 1:43.0 | but one of my closest friends in the |
| 1:44.6 | world. And his foundation does so much for our military, our servicemen and women and all that. |
| 1:51.7 | And so over the last couple of years, I've gotten to see in action the things that you do |
| 1:58.4 | and you should totally be applauded by it yeah well i appreciate that yeah |
| 2:02.0 | robert irvine man um so i was a part of the first battalion fifth marines and uh he has supported |
| 2:07.9 | reunions and other events for us over the years so he's definitely someone who shows appreciation |
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