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Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Running a Call with a Marine One Pilot with LtCol John Ballenger - Part 2

Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Brian Burton & Nate Minnich

Entrepreneurship, Business:entrepreneurship, Business

5.0548 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In today’s show, we are putting Lt. Col. John Ballenger in your passenger seat to continue our conversation from the last show. Until recently, Ballenger served as a pilot with HMX-1 otherwise known as Marine One or the President’s Helicopter. Capping off a distinguished career in the military Ballenger takes time to share what his time in the service has taught him. Looking to transition into the next phase of life we also explore a great DOD initiative called SkillBridge and what it is doing to help military personnel move into the civilian world and specifically the trades. If you missed the first part of this episode, make sure to get up to speed before diving into this exciting conclusion.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know, in the Marine Corps, we got Marine on one side, U.S. Marines on the other, on one, and then our name on the other.

0:08.0

You guys carry your name on your chest.

0:10.0

That's one of the things those people see when you walk through the door.

0:14.0

Is that name, the company name and your personal name.

0:17.0

So you're representing, every time you put that uniform on, whether you're a

0:21.0

marine or you're a plumber, you're representing your company and yourself. And so why not,

0:28.5

if you're not going to do it for the company, why not just do it for yourself?

0:37.1

Welcome to the Waste No Day podcast, a podcast specifically for and about the home services industry as it relates to plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical.

0:48.9

More than a podcast, Waste No Day is a credo, a determination, a mindset.

0:54.5

It is a never-ending discipline. It is a never-ending discipline.

0:56.6

It is a refuse to lose pursuit.

0:59.1

It is a wake-up call every morning to waste no day.

1:03.1

Now here's your host, Brian and Brian are hanging out with you, and we are looking forward to getting into part two. Our first two-parter, Brian, our part two of Lieutenant Colonel John Ballinger talking about his

1:28.4

experience as a Marine One pilot. We hope you really enjoyed last show. We're going to pick it up

1:34.3

here with a little bit of an intro and then get you right into the rest of that interview.

1:38.4

First, we're going to turn to Brian for our quote. Every man's life ends the same way.

1:43.9

It is only the details of how he lived and how he

1:47.6

died that distinguish one man from another. Again, Ernest Hemingway. Okay. I was thinking maybe you were

1:55.6

pulling a quote out of Scott Ridley's gladiator there. No. That would have been a good one.

2:02.1

My name is Maximus.

2:03.7

Echoes in the halls of eternity, something like that.

2:06.5

Yeah.

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