Light that spark fire nation J L D here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network with great shows like business infrastructure.

Today we'll be focusing on you served you deserve getting the veteran benefits you've earned to drop these valuable I brought Brian into EO fire studios.

Brian is a leading expert and advocate for U.S. veterans benefits a former active duty Air Force officer he deployed to Afghanistan in support of operation and during freedom and received the defense meritorious service metal he is a distinguished graduate of management from the United States Air Force Academy and earned his MBA as a national honor scholar from the spear school of business at Oklahoma State University.

He has the founder and CEO of VA claims insider a coaching and consulting company whose mission is to educate and empower veterans to get the VA display benefits they've earned for their honorable service in fire nation today we're talking all about how veterans can get what they qualify for and so much more so if you know anybody who this makes sense for in your life in your family in your friend group.

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Brian say what's up to fire nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with first of all thanks for having me jail the fire nation look here's here's something that I believe about being successful especially as an entrepreneur that others don't I extremely dislike the quote knowledge is power because I don't believe knowledge is power and I think that the quote is the most successful.

That the quote is misleading to me knowledge is knowledge and power is power I think that knowledge can only become power through action and that's really fundamental to how I've built V.A. claims insider into such a successful business and organization transitioning for my military career to being an entrepreneur is you have to will things into existence as an entrepreneur and the way that you do that is.

Through action and so if you're sitting around as a course junkie a book junkie and filling yourself full of knowledge but you never do anything about it.

Look you you will not reach your full potential unless you put things into action I love this fire nation I mentioned a couple times in the past years about how I think my military experience and obviously Brian's as well made us a little action oriented I mean a quote I can remember

my platoon sergeant screaming into my ear during a firefight in Iraq was LT a good decision now is better than a great decision later make a good decision don't try to be patent out there don't try to be like the best general in the world.

Hey the bolts are flying in life they are for me physically they actually were literally for other people figuratively the bolts are flying take action be action oriented I love this since you're a book

Ryan congrats by the way I recently wrote a book which I know you've started and you will finish you are an action taker and I so I know the pain and just the agony of writing a book which is why I say

double congrats and your book is called you deserve it you deserve it and this book is designed to help disabled veterans which I'm one of so thank you for helping our cause

obtain benefits that are due to them what drove you to publish a book for this specific audience look to sum it up very clearly and concisely I wrote the book that I wish somebody would have written for me

and it took me about 15 months truly about 10,000 hours of of deep research and writing we've helped over 10,000 veterans directly in our programs JLD since 2016 and so I literally took all of that knowledge and I put it into one comprehensive volume you can think of it like the veteran benefits Bible and it's the first publication that actually has

many many of the veteran benefits that you qualify for in our eligible for under the law and that includes things like federal VA benefits state benefits nonprofit resources and then for profit veteran discounts and nobody had put together a comprehensive volume to help veterans with all things benefits until this book

and I will even say fire nation that I actually had the conversation with Brian I said where were you 15 years ago as I can tell you the 26 year old JLD who wasn't still is a disabled veteran that was just getting out of the military and going into the civilian world could use this book in a big major way because honestly even like a few hundred bucks a month that I deserve I just didn't know how to claim what it made a big deal for me and it could have even potentially been more in some cases and I know a lot of people just have all these you know potentially

unclaimed benefits that they qualified for so you know we love in this world Brian having people who actually qualify to give advice you know I've now published 3000 episodes so I am qualified to get people advice on how to create grow and monetize their podcast

what's your backgrounds like what qualifies you as a veteran to give this advice to other disabled veterans my result I mean that's that's the bottom line is the result speak for themselves and so it took me JLD about seven years fighting the VA thousands and thousands of hours of time in the trenches to figure out exactly what I needed to do and the part that's really crazy here is I estimate that I lost about a hundred thousand dollars

of tax-free disability compensation really just because I didn't know what I didn't know and one thing like here's a here's a shocking stat and this is listed in the book 75% of veterans a lot of today don't get anything from the VA at all 75% so if you think that there's you know statistics very but it's somewhere around 18 to 20 million veterans are alive right now in the world 75% don't have anything

right so really what that means then is just one in four veterans get anything at all and why is that I mean what what happened why is it that so few veterans have taken advantage of the benefits that they're entitled to by law well I think the main thing

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