Veteran Advocates For Veterans To Help Them Live Better Lives And Effectively Work With The Government!
The Mike Litton Experience
Mike Litton
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🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In 2018 and 2019, Selnick was a senior advisor to the secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. His major responsibility was the implementation of the VA MISSION Act, the biggest transformation of the VA healthcare system in over 20 years. He is recognized as one of the key players in the development, negotiation and implementation of the legislation.
From 2017-2018, Mr. Selnick was the Veteran Affairs Advisor, Domestic Policy Council (DPC), at the White House. He was responsible for veteran’s policy and coordination of efforts with other White House offices, VA and other federal agencies. This included reviewing and providing input and recommendations on VA policies, reform efforts, and legislative proposals. At the DPC he developed the Presidential Executive Order on Supporting Our Veterans During Their Transition from Uniformed Service to Civilian Life.
Darin has served as senior advisor to two secretaries of the Department of Veterans Affairs, responsible for advising the secretary and other senior management officials on sensitive issues and critical matters pertaining to policies, priorities, and program direction of the Department and to its structure, organization and operation. He also served as a commissioner on the Commission on Care, a commission established by Congress to examine how VA can better deliver health care to veterans.
Mr. Selnick is a retired Air Force officer who attained the rank of Captain.
He volunteers his time as a board member of the West Los Angeles Veterans Home Support Foundation and has been very active in veteran’s issues. He is also a member of the American Legion, AMVETS, Jewish War Veterans and the Air Force Association.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Mike Litten Experience Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Mike has over 31 years experience in real estate, finance, and investing. |
| 0:11.0 | He's passionate about being a father, a teacher, a realtor, an investor, and a leader. |
| 0:18.0 | Everyone has a story and our passion is to help them tell it. And now introducing the host of the Mike Litten experience, Mike Litten. |
| 0:28.0 | So what can you expect from the Mike Linton experience? You can expect stories that will inspire, |
| 0:37.6 | motivate, advice that will sharpen your focus, and expert information on real estate, finance, and market conditions. |
| 0:47.0 | Darren Selnick, thank you so much for being our guest on the Mike Linton experience. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm super excited for our time together. |
| 0:54.3 | Like we talked about before we hit record, |
| 0:56.7 | everybody has a story and our passion is to help them tell it. |
| 1:00.6 | So with your permission, |
| 1:01.7 | we'd love to start with where you were born, go all the way up to today, |
| 1:05.0 | and then talk about these amazing things that you're doing to advocate for veterans. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, great, great. So I was born in Los Angeles in the valley. We moved a thousand Oaks when I was a kid. A nice middle class life and then when I was about 11 years old my parents divorced and unfortunately my mom came a single mom with five kids and we ended up on welfare. |
| 1:31.6 | So I had to well well you know, it builds character. Sure it does. |
| 1:36.5 | It builds character and learned to be independence and productive and one thing we learned was we didn't want to be on welfare. |
| 1:46.4 | So I started working from the age of 14 and summer jobs and stuff like that. |
| 1:52.1 | Eventually I went to Cal State Northridge and at Cal State Northridge got myself a health science degree, got enrolled in ROTC. |
| 2:04.3 | The biggest most famous person I ever knew personally |
| 2:08.8 | at that time was Paula Abdul, was my biology partner. |
| 2:12.8 | Oh, wow, how cool. |
| 2:14.6 | Yeah, yeah, she was a Laker cheerleader. |
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