Transformation vs Transition
For current Air Force reservist and former active duty member, Daniel Faust, the term transition doesn't quite cut it. For him TRANSFORMATION makes more sense, and he isn't wrong! Throughout life we find ourselves headed into different chapters and we must transform ourselves and our mindset going into these new situations in order to thrive! We discuss some of this transformations in life and how he framed his mindset to get through them!
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Transcript from Episode 31 with Daniel Faust:
Keith McKeever 0:04
Whoa, buddy with Keith McKeever. Welcome back to another episode of the battle buddy podcast. I have daily by Daniel FOSS here and he is the he's with Liberty Media. I think you got some other organizations you're with as well. But Daniel, welcome to the podcast. We're gonna talk about transition today. So, before we get into that, introduce yourself, what where did you grow up? What kind of what kind of a kid was Daniel? And how'd you end up in the military?
Daniel Faust 0:34
Daniel fast originally from Rhode Island from zero to eight fun go lucky, jokey, sarcastic kid at eight, went through some trials between eight to 15 with including my brother's death, and then became not just sarcastic, but very facetious, which is tearing a flash, and very heartbroken during that time. So from 15 to 918, was just filling the void, whatever God shaped vacuum I had at that time, I was just filling that up. So that was until about 18. And then I got recruited into the military because of a girl that I had a crush on since ninth grade. She told me how much she didn't like me and she had a boyfriend after we got to the recruiters office. And that's how I started my military career in 2000. Going
Keith McKeever 1:27
through the most interesting story, I did not expect that you got me there.
Daniel Faust 1:32
Mm hmm. Right version, because I want to make sure our listeners are not like tick tock or so I want to lose them. So Wow. So going from there dropping that bomb, I went over and the recruiter gave free food and, and funding conversation. So even though the video of basic training scared the bejesus out of me, I still went in the service. So that was October of 2000. And then I've been in for 21 years, and I've done many different jobs and many different places. I was 12 years active. I've been nine years as a reservist. My goal is to retire in the next couple years. So hashtag ready to retire. That's been on my mind for the past, I don't know six months. So I'm like, hashtag ready to retire in
Keith McKeever 2:14
six months. I mean, don't most people have that for like the last six years.
Daniel Faust 2:18
Now, for me, it was one of those things, you just come to the realization when you start going to certain courses, you start reading certain things, and you're like, I've grown since then. And I did some things that I'm like, I'm not congruent with anymore. And I think it's just being wise and saying like, hey, as soon as I'm done, I'm done. I'm like, Hey, if you're good for the service, stay in the service. Once you find out that the service is not a fit for you or you're not in the same values instead of being confrontational. You just go over and say, Hey, I need to go find a place of values that I fit in. And that's why we started like reading media five months ago because it really goes to my values of integrity, legacy and global community. Now the rest of the services do have some of those values but for me specifically, I want to value more the military the veteran in the first responder this the soldier, the airman they a guardian, as we call it nowadays cosi to go over and serve them. Yeah, I know. The Guardians got new logos. Now they got their rank, they're ready to go. So I will call them guardians. Now. I never thought I'd have Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah, it's not something
Keith McKeever 3:22
that really rolls off the tongue. Very easy. Still.
Daniel Faust 3:27
Imagine, yeah, but that's what I'm here for. And that's what I want to serve. I want to serve them in a veteran capacity, and also as a director of IT and library media. So that's me in a nutshell. I've gotten some of my humor back working through my brokenness and transition everything else which we call transformation at war hero to superhero. That's my show that's on LEGO IDI media. So that's the other agency Keith you were talking about. So there's only two main things I go over and do and it breaks up in the three simple spots like learning live is the business that goes over and powers we're here to superhero and then Liberty Media powers both those resources through their digital TV connections and also distribution.
Keith McKeever 4:07
If you know listeners haven't checked it out, go check out Liberty media.com No previous conversation you can get it on I think Amazon firestick Roku a bunch of different devices you can download the app you can watch it on there got different shows on there. It's been a while I don't know if you've got anything new since I looked but variety shows it's kind of a definitely variety show different topics. I think someone worked more talk show some of them were more informative and educational. So is there on that topic of laggard media? Is there a certain show that your favorite on there,
Daniel Faust 4:44
um, my show of favorite right now is amore umbrella through neroca caston Ada, she is an Army veteran of 10 years that takes veteran resources and lifts them up and lifts up the veterans and she actually travels so you're not stuck in this head Bible video like we're doing today, like head Bible videos are good. But you need the variety between the head bottle and then the face bottle, and then the outside bottle, whatever. So yeah,
Keith McKeever 5:11
I feel like I hit level all the time on the nurse cache, but doesn't video say it? But yeah, you're right on New York. I mean, she travels all over the place. I've known her for a while. The amount of traveling she's done on the show is amazing. And I feel even with the battle buddy podcasts and the resources I try and put on my website. And the resources I try and bring in education, I try and bring my mind is blown it where she finds the resources she has, I'll be honest, she is like, another resource library for me. If I can't find something I know in New York has probably connected with somebody who knows it. And it's amazing. And I think I've watched I think three episodes of her under the first two with Steven Kuhn and lean blown and kind of talking about the humble Alpha stuff, but you gotta go check it out Liberty media.com, or get on Roku, Amazon Fire, all those different plug and play devices, I guess. But transition, you were active duty for 12 years, you're in reserves. Now, what was that transition? Like for you? How did that process go?
Daniel Faust 6:09
Well, initially, it was fantastic. You know, you get on that high. And you're like, because at first I got out because of a career field and the career field wouldn't let me go. So then they gave me a referral. EPR. So then I had to go. And then because the curriculum says unless you're mentally retarded, or have a speech impediment, you're stuck in the Caribbean, that's the only two eliminating factors. Well, I wasn't going to stutter, again, because I went through seven years of speech therapy. And I'm not going to reduce down my IQ to 80, just to get out of a career field. So they saw I was a disservice to the career field, and rightfully so. I mean, I couldn't balance it all, like you have 300 diagnosis is you're helping providers being their arm for everything. And then you're also doing all their administrative work and everything else. So you got to balance between hard skills and soft skills on a constant basis. I'm a soft skill guy. And I can go in that lane, and I'm a hard skill guy, and I can go in that lane. I can't shift and pivot back and forth in there. Like after this call, I can go hard skill, but it takes a lot of focus on me and them to guard but doing them both was difficult. So I give no harm or foul. When active duty. Did it make sense on what they were restricted on. They couldn't get me to go back because of their restrictions. You know, like, we can't wave this stuff. So I had to quote unquote, transition back to the civilian world, which we never transition back. And that's the first fallacy you never transition, you transform. A caterpillar doesn't go to a butterfly and says, Hey, I need to go back to being Caterpillar again, no, they've already transformed. They might have a couple months on their life, but they have a beautiful life during those couple months. And for us, it's like as we, you know, transform out, we might have a long transformational life, or we might have a short transformational life, but we transform. So we need to enjoy that time while we're out. But we also need to figure out how to best live this new metamorphosis, Bonnie that we have which we are not aware of the first three to six years. Chris Hoffman, that printer that is fantastic. And helping transition embeds really, in the sense of entrepreneurship, really high kudos to him. And he's actually been doing some great studies with San Diego University's out there and whatnot, goes over and helps those people. But that's the first thing you need to realize you're not transitioning, you're transforming. Now, I know not every vet organization calls it that, but at least for war, hero to superhero, and my overall business is transformation. And I'm hoping one day because when you look at this transformation, it's a lot more in depth than just transition transition just says you go back. That's like saying you got married and then you got divorced, you don't go back, he's single and all that time in your life, you just don't reflect on even if it was a quote unquote, good divorce, you still had lessons that you went over and learned.
Keith McKeever 8:56
So you're a different person. I mean, the moment you step off the bus into basic training, boot camp, whatever you branch called it like you're a different person. You've been trained differently, experiences, life. All these things are just different. We're all different. I think everybody says they're not different. The moment they get out, is a liar. But that was really an epiphany moment. For me. I was just sitting there thinking as you're saying that it's like wow, transformation. Yes, because we don't go back. But you do instantly the time you get out. You transform your back into civilian world, you are now a veteran, you have the title of veteran, even if you're going to the reserves or National Guard wherever you're leaving one type of service for another because they're different. Obviously, you know, weekend's and training periods and structure is different. But you've got the immediate impact, that immediate change, but then you'd have the lifelong change. You have to learn how to be in civilian world. It doesn't happen overnight. You're instantly in it. That's the instant change, but there's that long term learning that you're We're always gonna do learning and adapting. So that's a interesting way of putting it. I like how you put that there.
Daniel Faust 10:06
Yeah, there's a there's a chairman, and I'm not gonna go too far in depth, but I think of Christian concept, I would explain it better. If you understand salvation, it's like, Hey, you came to faith, we'll just keep it at that. And then there's sanctification you're going over and you're now coming into the process of glorification. So what it means is like the butterfly, the butterfly is become glorification. But it doesn't really understand how to live a butterfly. So it has to learn that it's the same thing as US veterans, we already are transformed. Now we need to learn to live that out. And we might not realize all the nuances of things like I remember when I went into Active Duty was the same thing. You wore the uniform for six months, you were a soldier, you were an AMA and you were a Marine, you already were transformed. And you were in now you're in this sanctification process. It took me six months to realize I'm like, I'm in the military. I'm wearing a uniform is the mental process, the emotional process, a social process, a spiritual process. And it's the same thing when you get out of the service. You've already set those things and you're living those out. But the thing is that you don't realize it right away. You still having mental mental, transitional realities, and emotional and social and spiritual. So we're already there. We already were veteran when we got out. But the thing is, is that now we're just learning how to live it out. That's it.
Keith McKeever 11:22
Yeah, I know, when I got off active duty. I want to say somewhere between two to three years before I really maybe understood what it was to be a veteran, I understood who I was. I mean, it was about the time I turned 30. And that's kind of when just like life clicked and I realized who I was, I had that moment of clarity of like, This is who I am. This is what I've experienced. Here's what my goals and aspirations are. Like. This is a part of who I am, but it doesn't completely define who I am. And I got all this ahead of me. There was like that moment of clarity. I think for everybody, it's different. Some people might get it six months, some people might not get it in 50 years. Like it might just be stuck for whatever reason. But did you ever have anything like that happened to you? Were you just like, after leaving active duty, you just woke up one day and just had this clarity.
Daniel Faust 12:12
It was more clarity in my marriage in 2013, because I was just an emotional whore and really stupid and I was gaslighting. I didn't realize I was doing this. But it was in June of 2013 when I took it too far. And then my wife spiritually kicked me in the nuts. And that's when the reality of that transformation and that reality of realizing, first I'm a veteran, and I'm also not in the military anymore. And I was treating my wife like a soldier. So I had to get a reality check in there and make that transformation too. So is each part of life that you know, I was there. I was like, Alright, I'm already almost June of 13. I got out. July of 2012 is about a year. But I was still living like that soldier husband trying to soldier on but I really needed to go over and to transform and I was doing some really stupid things in that regard. So for me, that was that reality, the reality of me really understanding the full retrospect, emotionally, socially and spiritually, and also transforming Lee as a veteran in where they were the site was in 2017. I broke my back in 17. It was November 2, I'm 17. I was on drill. I'm a numbers guy. So if you're meeting me in person,
Keith McKeever 13:24
I'll pick it up on that. The numbers, dates and everything's rolling around off the toner.
Daniel Faust 13:28
Oh, yeah. Yeah, funny parts history class was hell, but my history is really easy.
Keith McKeever 13:36
I don't remember I can't remember nothing. I'll just be like, I think it was like, spring you know, it's as close as I'm gonna get. Yep. Now
Daniel Faust 13:42
now for me history is really big to me because it goes over and transforms when you have an understanding of it. But yeah, November 2 of 17. I think it was a Thursday that day. Yeah, cuz drill was Saturday. And we were almost homeless again, because of just jobs and everything else. And my wife's like, how are we going to go over and make it I said, The Lord is my witness. I'm gonna do two things continue to go over and love on you and continue to go fight for this family. Well, I got to go fight for my family by my back breaking in the parking lot, got down to about eight and pain almost collapsed onto the concrete. Luckily, I had strong enough knees but the back wasn't there. I basically, lo crawled over to the car, which is about another 1000 feet. It was more like a crouching low crawl. And then the pain subsided and I'm like Lord give me strength. I still need to go make money and I was on annual toward the time. Well got to the next place and boom, the back went again. And I couldn't do nothing. I had to basically now army crawl into the building. And the funny part is is 2017 And yeah, I had a different iPhone but I thought to myself have a Chromebook like why am I crawling I have a phone set apart transmission of times you don't realize the transformation, you making the simplest little things I'm like, why am I army crawling into my medical building when I can?
Keith McKeever 14:58
So I asked somebody Come out and grab it for crying out loud. Yes. Good point. I said, you're probably not alone in that. A lot of people would probably do the same thing.
Daniel Faust 15:06
Yeah, yeah. So the thing about transformation, we need to realize what we are living in and actually think about it in a proactive way. And so I go over and I call my chief, I said, Hey, Chief, I'm outside the door, and I'm calling right now and I can't much move. I say, could you go and help me? So she's like, what? And I said, I said, I think I brought my bag. I don't know. They tried to pull me up and do a fireman carry, oh, hell, no. I said, take my bag. I'm Army crawling the rest of the way. And so I write in. And the next hour and a half, I had, like, 30 people tell me like what happened? What happens? So how do you become a good storyteller? Tell 30 People 30 separate times. That's how you become a good storyteller. If it changes, like, I'm gonna make this more fun as I go. And then in two days in the hospital, and it was the thing that broke the straw, not just my back, but broke the straw on the camel's back. But the realization of who I was really transforming what got wore here to superhero started was a guy. I won't name names, but it was a guy from my church. Because this church has been a lot of the news lately. So I won't name names. But long story short, he, he's like, You need to start over again, you need to go back to civilian run this transition up, go back to a 10 to $15 job and hopefully work yourself way back up and all these other things. And I'm like, when I was wrestling at the time of who I was going to serve in my business, am I going to serve marriages just in general? Or am I going to serve my military veterans and first responders and now is, and I awaken her, I'm like, I don't care if I'm $1 air or a billionaire, the Lord hopefully make it billionaire, so I can serve more people. That's the only reason why I'd be rich. But no matter if I'm $1, or a billionaire, I need to serve the people I go over and love, which is the military veterans, first responders, I almost got up and walked out of the frustration of him trying to tell me like how much wrong I was, and everything else. And I'm like, really. And but yeah, I have to get up and walk like 12 hours later, like, You got to get out of bed and walk in. I'm like, what, but I had to go continue to transform. So it took three months and now is and that was more of the emotional, social and spiritual transformation made the mental one was when my wife kicked me out. It's when God went over and kicked me in the back. And he did it with good reason to get me to transform and to realize what my calling was and what my life was supposed to be. So I'm thankful for both. I mean, yeah, it hurts initially. Luckily, the one with my wife was spiritual, not physical, but I can imagine getting getting, it's like the Olympics, every four years, I'm getting kicked somewhere.
Keith McKeever 17:35
I don't know much of a religious person, but I do very firmly believe that. Some force of some sort any universe sends you messages. And sometimes you just got to pay attention, or take a step back and be like, alright, well, what happens sucked. But what are the opportunities here? Like, what, what is being told to me? What, what's my direction, you know, you hit a lot of forks in the road, and you got to figure out which which way to go. And luckily, unfortunately, for you, it happened twice. But to put you on the right path, you know, put you on the path and like, gotta figure some things out. I know, I've had things in my life that have pushed me in different directions. And I look back and I'm like, wow, without that one key incident happening, I wouldn't be where I am today. You know, I wouldn't be thinking of different things. And that's how my podcast started was seeing different people's struggles on Facebook, in different areas of marriage, marriage, faith, finances, PTSD, metal, medical claims, whatever, all the things that US veterans deal with. And I got Sorry, I got sick and tired of seeing it. Like it was kind of, in a way a gut punch to me, I just felt sick to my stomach knowing that people are struggling, and some of the advice they get was just terrible. Or it's not really, when it's a text thing. And Facebook, it's not. It's not an actionable step. It's not inspirational, sometimes the information is wrong. And then I was like, Well, what I like podcasts, why not create a podcast and bring people on and inspire people? Give them the actionable steps or inspiration or the education that they need to better their lives better the situation? You know, and that's a perfect example what you just said of like, sometimes, shit happens to you, and you just got to realize what happened and then like, search really, really deep inside and say, What am I gonna do about it now? And always keep the, you know, the eye on the prize of doing good for other people.
Daniel Faust 19:36
And that, that's fantastic. And that's the what made me you know, make that transformation to is that yeah, you gotta take these moments in life, no matter if you have faith or not, and it's a fork in the road. Sometimes you like what direction that you go. And the funny part is, is that, you know, we get those in life and we want to do things a certain way but for my personal belief, it's his story, not mine, and I get to be Only in chapter one of the rest of the story. And I get to be an actor, I don't have to worry about directing and producing and gaffing and lights and all that sort of stuff. I get to be an actor, I might get only one line for 15 seconds. But the thing is, is that it those 15 seconds transforms our lives, to give people more of their story, which goes over all to his story, then, then that's worthwhile. And that's the reason why I do the things that I do and make the decisions that I do and try to empower the people I go over and do and the community I do, because I feel that and I know that my story part, my one role is to transform the military, veterans and first responders. So again, doesn't matter how much I get. It's how much I can go over and give.
Keith McKeever 20:44
Yeah, awesome. So Let's retry rework some of my questions here, because I'm going to take your transformation. Instead of transition, I was gonna ask you, what are you seeing out there, you know, from your perspective, what people are struggling with the issues that they're having with their transformation.
Daniel Faust 21:02
I would say the biggest thing now, like when it was in 2012, it was lack of information, everything else. Now, it's totally information overload in so many different directions to go over and go. So trying to be that beacon of light. And that's the reason why I, we started Liberty Media, because we're gonna be talking about this tonight on clubhouse at six, while this episode will be airing months later, but you can catch us in some modality on liberty media.com, but we're gonna be talking about tonight is about shadow banning and subs, which are like from YouTube, and you get lost. So there's just so much stuff out there. So we want to be a beacon of light, and we want to be a blue ocean, to get the right content out there and to get the best content out there. So I would see that's one of the biggest things is that now we have so much it's so hard, because sometimes we might think there's more forks in the road for our direction when we get to those trials or those epiphany moments. And we're like, then you get paralyzed. Because it's analysis paralysis, it's like, so I would say that's probably one of the biggest things in the transformation nowadays is that now we finally stepped up and you're like, which direction do I go? How much should I go? Should I take that risk? Should I go to Daniel's program, or Keith's program or Chris Hoffman's program or whatever program and not having that light. And that's what we want to do with, we're here to superhero as we go over and consult through the show, which is unlike any media, to give you those best resources that we go over and see. But the overall goal is what's best for you. Because, again, mind minds pretty clear, but sometimes you might not get that clear answer, you know, in 2013, it was a clear answer, you get get spiritually kicked in the woohoo, it's pretty clear. Right? You lose, you lose your back and someone's challenge you exactly what you're wrestling with in your head, it's pretty clear. But sometimes those answers are not pretty clear. So we hope to be that three feet of light to go over and help you. In that regard, we can't be the 1000 yard stare. But as long as you got three feet of light, and you can keep walking forward, that's the most important thing about transformation to is you just can't do it all at once. Like I have projections where I want to be and I can say them right now until I'm like 80 years old, I do. But if I go over and I hold that Maglite out all the way that far out, I might miss people on the left and the right that I could have served. So I need to have that vision. But I also need to have that flashlight, the local one. So I can look on my left and right and see who I can help in those regards, and what directions are best. So that's what US is hope. I think that's the main thing and transformation is that there's just so much blasting light everywhere. But we want to be one central focal focal, like that's what library media like our goal. I know this is going to enter December, January. But our long term goal is 120,000 shows and like the next five or 10 years, but we want to make sure that we're focused laser light in there. 120,000 sounds a lot, but there's 37 million on YouTube, there's 800 million on tick tock, we want to be a focus, like that's only 300 stations. So it's like your average cable company that we really want to be focused, to go over and to get your message and for you to never be lost and that you can continue to go find that light three feet at a time.
Keith McKeever 24:13
Now I'm sure some of those other platforms are out there. I'll keep from referring their, their their name, but sure, it's much easier to get to get a show and negotiate with you guys and get it on there. Logistically, all that stuff that it is some of the bigger name programs out there. Oh, there's quite a hurdle on some of those.
Daniel Faust 24:36
Yeah. And like I said, we want to be the best fit for you. So that's another thing with Liberty Media, we want to be integrity, legacy and global community. If those values are you and your show goes over and fits great. We're going to be exclusive and inclusive. We're not just going to go over and just because you have a million subs and you have a half a million views doesn't mean it's the content great for our audience. That's the difference of where we're at. We're not just going to go accept anybody, you know, so you could be My BFF Keith, but if your show sucks, I'm not saying it does, but if it did, I'm going to tell you, and I'm going to say it doesn't fit or say, Hey, if you like to go over and speak your mind, and very foreign five letter words and your TV ma, no matter what it's like, you might be a fit for me, you might be a fit for VET TV, you know. So a couple
Keith McKeever 25:17
years is definitely more value driven. You know, a lot of, I've noticed that on the shows, I've watched, very, very much more value driven, dare I say? Maybe cleaner in some ways, but just more positive, you know, positive, inspirational. Morally, right, in some ways. I hope that makes sense. Yeah. So
Daniel Faust 25:39
from from a basic perspective, it's TV 14 content has a positive message, it has a global community reach. That's the type of stuff that we're going over and looking for, it can be in all types of genre and whatnot. And we do go over and love everybody in that potato guard. So it's not just because I'm a Christian, that I'm going to say, non Christians can can't come on the network, it's all faiths, all denominations, all types of viewpoints. But it's got to be in a positive light. So it's more of networks that we watch that we make fun of, they're in the news in the area, you know, I mean, love them to go over and to watch and banter. But we want to have it to be more of a positive spin, not in the sense of a negative or, you know, critical side of that side, you know, constructive criticism, yes, but not criticism. So, there's enough
Keith McKeever 26:25
criticism and negativity in the world. So it is very refreshing for positive news stories, positive stuff. So throughout the transformation process, he try not to say trance, transition, transition. But you know, mindset is huge in achieving that goal, right. And you had certain things that were leading you guiding you, mindset wise, but in any advice for somebody going through transformation here soon, like get their mind right, and focused in the right direction. For that process?
Daniel Faust 26:57
I would say as much as possible. As soon as they know the answer, they need to start working through the transformation process. Like for example, if you know you're getting a year out, you need to start working on your financial transformation, you start working on your mindset transformation, you start working on your resume transformation, learning to have those words depending on where you going. A taps class is authorized twice. Typically, when you're getting on a service, which is your Transitional Assistance Program. Forgot to add seminar, yeah, transitional assistance programs seminars. So that's like a one week that you can go up to twice within the year prior of you getting on the service. And I only have three tracks, which is fantastic. Because I didn't have that when I went out. It was basically learn your federal resume. And that's it and learn your job. And get on LinkedIn, get on LinkedIn for the year, which LinkedIn does give a year, which is great. So definitely, if you're getting out, you want to leverage that it takes an average before the pandemic six to nine months to go over an average to get a job. So I mean, it's faster a little bit as I've been seeing the trends because not as many people wanting to go back to the normal traditional face to face work, say might be faster. But there's a 40% movement from work work from home movement, there's a lot of remote jobs. So it's still I would year start working today, you really want to figure out where you want to go, but then the steps where you want to be. So if I had to rewrite my script, in a sense, which, when I got out, I just started my business, I did add very little cash flow, and I'm trying to just grind it out and make it as quick as possible, I wouldn't put as much savings as possible would have worked a part time job, and just side hustled my business until became full time instead of almost going homeless three times within a seven to nine year period, that seven year period. So I mean, and also with this transformation in that regard is that you start figuring out the things that maybe you neglected, maybe you were neglecting your marriage, maybe you were neglecting your kids, maybe you're neglecting your vision, your goals, your dreams, your destiny or other things and start going over and seeing what you can get aligned in order. But at war here to superhero, we recommend aligning from the bedroom to the boardroom because when your spouse is on board, your kids would be more likely on board. And then when your spouse and your kids are on board, then they're supporting you in your boardroom dreams and it also empowers them. And then they know how to live that out. So they're not like Hey, dad or mom is doing real well at work, but they're struggling at home and then they carry that legacy into the next generation. So that's what we recommend. And that is that, you know, the cool thing is, is that you're not dead yet. And if you're not divorced yet, you're not dead in that realm. So there's hope until everything's destroyed. I even seen marriages reconcile, like after divorce and they come back there's a really cool comedian, Air Force comedian Dennis coaxial go watch him on dry bar. He's been traveling across the USA and everything else. And he's also traveling with preacher, preacher Lawson, real famous comedian. It's been on America's Got Talent so they're traveling together. That guy is he's been And he's been in three marriages, but two of them has been to his what first wife. So his first wife and his third wife, he actually reconciled and worked it out. And it was, wow. So there's always hope until you're dead. So in that regard, it's an amazing transformational story that he talks about while he's on comedy and tour and everything else. So
Keith McKeever 30:19
sure, that provides a lot of comedy situations. And part of that story, too. Oh, yeah. Just getting divorced, and then getting remarried to that person later. Later, I love what you do change. I mean, we all change through throughout time. So it's not that, you know, much of a stretch to the imagination that somebody couldn't, when you get your mindset, right, and you mature and you bring those values more together. You know, things like that can be possible, but yet, you know, you have good point, like, you gotta, it's a clean slate transition can be, you know, you're leaving one job, one skill, one life for another, whatever that looks like, but it's kind of a clean slate, it's your opportunity to kind of hit the reset button in a lot of ways. And say, That's my old life. Here's my new life. Here's how I'm gonna live it with purpose now.
Daniel Faust 31:08
Yep, it definitely is. And that's the fantastic thing is that you can go over and do that. So that's what I love about transformation until you're dead. It's not over.
Keith McKeever 31:17
It's good point. You mentioned taps. And I know when I got out 10 years ago, it was basically just you might have went once, and it was basically LinkedIn, get your, your resume in shape, all that stuff. It was something. I think they could do more. But I'm kind of curious, do you have any thoughts that now that they have three, that kind of blows my mind a couple different options or tracks on it, but anything that you think that that you've seen or heard that you think they should improve on?
Daniel Faust 31:46
They've been doing pretty well from the so when you're a reservist and you go on orders for a long time, you get to go through it again. So I got to go through it again, when I was on orders for roughly about six months. And it was pretty well, it was that Luke Air Force base at the time and they had the entrepreneur track, they had the educational track, and they had the corporate track. So then you start shredding out and whatnot, they also check your finances to make sure that you're prepared to get out of the service and everything else and then you continually can go over me with them until they see that you're meeting these check blocks in that particular garden. Now, people still get lost because the premise on the matter of it is, is that you're stuck in the active duty track track. And one of the things that Cornelius, Max got I'm blanking on his last name. Maxwell. I think it's corneas, Maxwell, he's out in Virginia trying to go create a warrior battalion released in the army that goes over, it's called a Warrior Transition battalion. And basically six months prior that you're out, but you're still with them making that transition, go look for jobs and everything else. And you're not doing the work of the MLS or the FSC, or the rate or whatever you want to call it. I think Eric SpaceForce calls it a FSC still, which is what is this an Air Force Specialty Code? That's funny, but anyway,
Keith McKeever 33:01
that's it SF yet.
Daniel Faust 33:02
sfsc Oh, man, if I have to work on that's gonna be hard. But then. So you go over and they give you six months. So he's working on that. So it's, there's always improvement, but from 2012 to 2021 to one I'm aware of, it's gotten a lot better, but it's the mindset we're locked in. So it's like, you got to start making that transformation, the transition just going over like alright, I'm going to start releasing my job the people, I'm going to take my leave and everything else and then I'm going to exhausted out but if you're not making that transformation to say, Hey, I'm becoming a veteran, what can I do as a veteran? What is my next step? What is my five year my 10 year my 20 year plan? What do I want? What do I want my marriage to look like? What are my family look like? What do I want my legacy look like? What do I have financial portfolio to go and look like? If if my body went out today and what would I want the rest of my life to go look out like that. But those types of things you need to have people that are mentoring people that are regular basis to go and get that and I'm not talking about the mentorship you get for like 30 days when you get on base I'm talking about long term mentorship that goes over and sees how you're doing gets you to your goals dreams and destiny willing to go say like, Hey, dude, you're sucking at this or you know, and just call it out.
Keith McKeever 34:18
And accountability sources gonna you know, emotionally kick you in the in the nuts, right? However you put it that you're wanting to do spiritual, I guess. But yeah, you need to have the you need that person that's going to be no filter that's going to just tell you like it is like, don't You're messing up. This is not right. You got to do this. Here's what I recommend. Here's what I've seen, whatever. But I've often said, transition transformation, whatever. I think it needs to start before you even sign up at 1819 20 years old. You need to realize that your time in is limited. Right? You've been in 20 years. I did five years, seven months, 20 days, something like that. Like you know not not that anybody has ever counting now I looked at my DD 214 He wants it said that. That's the only reason I know. But like seriously, whether it's four years, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, your time is up, you're gonna take the uniform off at some point in time. And you need to start thinking the month before you put it on, then it's going to end. What am I gonna do afterwards? Right? financially? How am I going to prepare because I'm gonna have to back into civilian world on Match pay bills, I've had to pay insurance, I have to pay all these things. And get my education, right like this figure this out to take advantage of, but I can tell you one of my biggest regrets in my time in is I got some education, but I did not make it a big enough priority, I kind of got enough for that EPR to say I was going for some school and make it look good, but not enough to like really progress through education track or you know, to really make any serious progress. And it was only towards the last couple years that I did it. But you need to think strategic from the day one of it speaking Airforce terms, because we're both Air Force guys. But you got to get through you got to get to your CDC, you got to get your, you know, CCS technical five level. So once you get through that you got a little bit of a gap before you start going for seven level. That's your opportunity for education right there, start going to college, knock out the core classes, even if you don't know what you want to do long term. Look at the career field you chose. Do you want to do that long term, right? You need to be constantly reevaluating that stuff, you know, think about it upfront, reevaluate, and build up. And that's financially it's education as career wise. Because even if you do 20 years, and you came in a team, you know, you got another 2530 years of work. That's a whole nother career. That's a whole nother lifetime ahead of you.
Daniel Faust 36:44
Yeah, it's definitely and even if they're not making those decisions, you have to get them start thinking on the process. Because some people need to have that dream that destiny, that vision before they go and activate it. But getting them to start thinking that mentor is like, where do you want to be? So five years from now if your career is over? And I don't let you reenlist? Where are you think you're gonna be the year or two after that asking those in depth questions like, hey, savings, most of us go over in America Gorman struggle with that, would you be able to handle a $400 emergency bill right now, you know, those those jaw dropping mic dropping questions, to get people there. Because once they have that motivation, they have that dream, that destiny, that vision, which the word is because zone ch a ZOWN great book, I love to recommend helps you figure out that stuff in a practical way. Once you have that, then you're motivated. And that's the thing until you have it. I realized even like thinking of marriage and my wife, like we're both walking together to make each other's Destiny come to reality. But until that person is ready to execute, you can see everything just like a supervisor does. And you're like, I see this great potential in you and blah, blah, blah. But if you don't see that great potential in you, you won't go and execute. So the mentorship should be like getting them towards it and really getting towards the direction because you say like, Hey, I want to be on television, I can help you up in that regard. But if you want to go over and be electronics technician, I still I still know how to help you out. But the thing is, is that if you if they don't know where they want to be, they could just be taking those courses, and it could be detrimental to them. So you want them as best as you can to equip them because everything changes. And that's the scary part is every three to five years, that people change their job tracks, people change what direction they're gonna go. And who thought in 2021, we would go to a digital streaming platform you want to tell me in 19, I would have been on television, first off on one network and secondarily now managing an entire network. Which goals of 120,000 shows broadcasting over 213 countries it Daniel, you go get a degree in broadcast technology. What are you talking about man? I'm like it's 19. I'm going over and doing podcasting. I would have never thought about it. So it's opening the door in that mentorship to go over and helping our airmen or helping our spouses or helping our kids, whoever we're mentoring, to go over and open those dreams and destiny, you know, because it's all about their dreams and destiny because that's when they're fruitful to the community and the society as a whole.
Keith McKeever 39:19
I couldn't agree more. And we'll kind of wrap it up on this. Like there's a difference between mentorship and coaching, coaching will cost you money. And there's a place for coaching, especially business, personal life, whatever high performance, mentorship shouldn't cost you anything. There's people in your own network that you can reach out to that if you just stop and look at the people that are in your shop, or work or neighbors, whatever, who are in a position in life or career, whatever the you want to be in. And they're a good person that's, you know, approach him and say, Hey, I'd like to learn more about who you are, what you do and your thoughts right. A good mentor is going to be positive They're gonna see the value in you, and they're gonna see the value in guiding you, they're going to be appreciated for that. And then you got free services online that they think they're nonprofits, but like glitterati and some other ones like that you can sign up to be a mentor or a mentee. There's couple different platforms for a veteran, he's the one I can think of right now. I've had a couple people reach out to me strictly on real estate, you know, to the thought about a career and all it takes for me is an hour or so conversation to talk to him be like, well, here's the realistic view, here's what it's gonna roughly cost for you to start, here's how it's gonna be difficult. Here's the pros and the cons right? Now you're, you know, you're educated on on a career path, right? But it could be anything. So this shouldn't cost you anything. I'll just, I guess I'll, I'll say, for those people who are on the fence, and they would want one, take a little imperfect action, get off your butt and reach out to that person and say, you know, hey, you know, I would like to have a conversation, take them out to coffee, whatever, just make that step, right. And build those, build those mentorships. Because without it, you're not going to have that person that's going to hold you accountable and be there for you and to, you know, want to see you succeed. So any any thoughts on that? Daniel? No,
Daniel Faust 41:16
I totally agree that we should all take the chance to go over into mentor people and everything else. And then again, there's a difference between consultation and coaching and things of that nature. But the long story short, is that with our digital world, you even have more access, so not even getting off your duff. Get your fingers off the tick tock, yeah, watch mine. But when you're done, or watching the legacy media, no little shameless plug. As you're watching more here, super afterwards, you can go connect your thumbs to those content creators or connect those mentors that you want to stay connected with. We are becoming an interactive global community. So why not I got to interview Michael Lechter, which is part of thinking grow rich, and Sharon Lechter. Because I utilized my thumb's to connect with someone else that connected me to someone else. I mean, we've been getting some awesome people that are coming to the table in the future for library because we use our thumb. So if you really want to get those connections, get your thumbs working, you know, and the cool part is, is that you can tip a lot faster with your thumbs and your hands. So leverage it.
Keith McKeever 42:19
Boy, you never know that the power of connections I, I'm sure you would agree with this, that just the power of podcasting and talking to people I had a past guest there episode hasn't even released yet just emailed me this morning was like, hey, you know, that conversation we had after the podcast, some of those people that I was talking about, I've gathered their information, I thought to them, they're interested in talking to you, and I'm gonna be passing along information. And that's people I didn't even know about, but that they were just like, you know, what, hey, I know, two or three people would be great for your show, or people you need to talk to, like the power of networking is huge. So, you know, take advantage that get your mentors, get out there and network meet people, because you just it'll blow your mind who you connect with?
Daniel Faust 43:02
You do? Yeah. So that's what we do a luxury media. So anytime that we're running a club room on clubhouse, we bring in our host to and go over and help them network and connect them to interviews and things of that nature. So So one of the beautiful things about networks and connections and how those go over work. And what we do at library media is to go in to lift you up in that regard. So I think it's very worthwhile to go use your thumbs and to not go over and wait. But the biggest thing is the Finalize the mentorship conversation is that you want to find a mentor that's faithful, available, teachable and a servant faithful that they're going to commit to what they go over and soon to do available for the time that they are teachable, both regards they're teaching you but then they are teachable back and forth, because it's got to be a synergistic relationship because the styles might not work and then also a servant, that they're there for your best well being and not just for their game. And when you find that, that's good fats, fa Ts, and that's when you go over and thrive.
Keith McKeever 44:02
That's a good point. I you know, availability is a big one because time is precious. We all have a million different things we're trying to juggle on our live work lives personalized, whatever, you know, I'm terrible juggler, but I could, physically what stuff but you know, seriously, Daniel, I appreciate you coming on the podcast, and giving us your time and your advice and your thoughts. And that's where I was going with that. To share your thoughts and opinions and share with the world of Liberty Media is that once again, if you are listening and watching us Liberty media.com I have been on you guys's cup clubhouse once or twice and you guys had some great conversations in there. I know the one time you messaged me and you're like, Hey, you want to come up and talk and I was like, I was literally sitting here at my desk just working on things. I'm like, I'm just kind of listening in the background listening man just soaking it all in. So you guys have a club on clubhouse? What's the club name? Where can people find you there and other social platforms?
Daniel Faust 44:57
laggardly.tv So you You can go find out what clubs that we're going over and doing. And if you're ready to go over into come onto our network and you're ready to get past the shadow banning the low sums, the ads and you know, you're not making money and whatnot, and you want to keep 100% of revenue within your show to you, then we're ready to go over into onboard you. So we do have some criteria course, you know, TV 14 below legacy integrity, global community mindset, positive content. And we'd love to go and connect with you and to get your message out there so you can get it to your global community. So and that's where we're on clubhouse are on Facebook on a bunch of places, and you can download the app and just go try it for free right now, while we're in this blue ocean stage. But the thing is, is that this stage will close quickly, and we are exclusive and inclusive. So if you're listening this in December, in January, you're like, Ah, don't go over and wait, we'll help you walk through the process and you're not going to be alone. That's the beautiful thing is we have a community, not just say a names, but you're gonna have a community of content creators and producers that lift you up masterminds and we're going to help you walk through the entire process. So if you're already podcasting, and you're ready to the next level and you want to get in digital TV, and want to get past the noise, we're ready to serve you.
Keith McKeever 46:16
Awesome. Well, thanks again, Daniel. Go ahead and play my little ending video here about where where people can find more resources on my website and the National Suicide Hotline. But I appreciate you being here being on the show. All of the listeners Daniel's information will be on the YouTube in the description. And you can go on my website battle buddy podcast.net. After his launches, he'll, you'll see his face there and you'll see links to connect with him and the different things that's going on. So go to their website, you can find them there. You can listen to episode all that stuff. So once again, Daniel, appreciate it. Take it easy.
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