Episode 13_Nobody Cares About What You’ve Done: Identity and Transition after Military Service

We talk about the following:

Having to change your mindset to join the military, and then again to leave

The impact of 9/11 on those who served

Leadership training in the military

Indoctrination and becoming part of a group

How hard it is to adjust to less stress AND less adrenaline when you leave the military

Loss of identity and purpose

Developing emotional intelligence and understanding that there is a lot you don’t know

Great Quotes:

“you have to understand that the way you talk to people, the way you carry yourself the way that you interact with others, the way that you may give instructions, if you're like in a management position, it's much different than how you how you did that stuff in the army.”

“I really think one of the most important question that any veteran can ask themselves when they're getting ready to leave the military is, you know, what do I really want? If you’re waiting till you got out, you waited too long.”

Jeff’s #1 Culture-Hack: You set your own conditions, so own it, Own your conditions. And you're going to find that the loyalty that you drive from the folks that you're leading is going to be much is going to be much better then, and your product is going to be a lot better.

About Our Guest:

Jeff Schultz is currently an active duty Army soldier who's in the later stages of retirement. His career started in 1996 as an infantry man with these 82nd Airborne Division and spanned 24 years ending as the Joint Base Lewis McChord, enlisted military police advisor to the Joint Base Lewis McCord chief of police.

Jeff’s Social Media

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-t-schultz/

About Our Host:

Daniella Mestyanek (Mest-aa-neck) Young is an author, TEDx speaker and Organizational Culture-Hacker with fascinating life story and important insights into culture, socialization and group behavior. Daniella is the President of DMY Enterprises and the co-founder of cavnessHR.

Daniella was born and raised a third-generation member of the infamous religious cult the Children of God, known for promoting religious prostitution, pedophilia for God, and the end of the world. At 15, she escaped that life, moving to America and eventually becoming a US ARMY Captain.

During her journey, she was college valedictorian, served as part of the first group of women to conduct deliberate ground combat operations with all-male troops, deployed twice to Afghanistan where she also competed in, and won, a marathon, received the Presidential Volunteer Service Medal from President Obama personally, married an Army helicopter pilot, is raising a trilingual little girl in Seattle, WA and is hard at work on her forthcoming memoir, Uncultured.

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