A little late in sharing this story, but I'm happy I got to tell it. I got to serve next to amazing Americans who all on their own volition drove and flew down to Texas to help in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. I'm truly honored that I got to join the teams from Mountain Primal Meat Co. and Merging Vets with Players in bringing aid to the Beaumont, TX area.
Deavon runs the interview on this one, and we cover:
What it says on the tin, plus tangents.
In this episode I'm joined by two veterans: 1) Nate Boyer, a US Army veteran and Special Forces soldier followed a path through football, playing for the Texas Longhorns and then a single pre-season game with the Seattle Seahawks, and 2) Denver Morris, a fellow Marine infantry veteran from 2/7 and Program Coordinator for the Los Angeles branch of Merging Vets with Players (MVP).
Nate, along with his co-founder Jay Glazer, started MVP with a mission "designed to address challenges that many combat veterans and professional athletes face when transitioning their service/professional life towards a new mission in their civilian life." They do this by challenging its members with group fitness classes and fostering peer-to-peer support among the team. Denver, MVP's first success story, joined them very early on and was their first employee.
In the interview we discuss: