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:
The loss of identity when leaving the service and getting past it Nate's belief that anything is possible. Denver's brush with suicide and journey through homelessness How Denver met Nate and joined the MVP team The successes they've both had as well as their favorite success stories coming out of their program