HeyJaredProject Vanguard Podcast
A podcast about leadership, energy, and service — told by the veterans shaping America’s Energy Dominance. Project Vanguard brings raw, mission-first conversations with those who’ve led in the military and continue to serve their country, building our energy future.
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From Artillery Officer to Business Owner (opens the original)
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I sat down with Dan Maxwell, one of four Army veterans who own Summit Point Leadership. Most of their work is training frontline leaders at rural electric co-ops, and Dan says you couldn’t ask for a better customer. I met Dan at Rice and pushed him into Al Danto’s acquisition class.Dan doesn’t sugarcoat what buying a company takes. He signed a personal guarantee, and he’ll tell you you’re “essentially buying a job.” Be convinced of the company and its cash flow before you talk price, and expect
Where Veteran Policy Gets Written (opens the original)
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I sat down with Zach Federico, who runs the veterans task force at ALEC. He got there sideways. A commander walked into his rehearsal at Liberty University and offered to pay him to play music, which is how he wound up in the Virginia National Guard Band. He was a brand new executive assistant when a barely advertised roundtable packed out, and he turned that room into the first new ALEC task force in over 15 years.ALEC is a nonprofit where state legislators trade what worked. The process is mor
How veterans in energy get in front of elected officials (opens the original)
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I sat down with Joe Jones, who joined the Coast Guard because of a TV commercial. He was a junior in a farming town in north central Kansas, saw Lou Gossett Jr. tell him to be part of the action, and got on the delayed enlistment program before he finished high school. He runs HR recruiting and corporate development at Canadian Solar now. The part I didn’t expect is how much of his week goes into local politics. Joe calls himself an apathetic citizen for his first years out of the military, unti
Why Vets Undersell Their Service (opens the original)
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I sat down with Megan Glancey. She spent about ten years in the Navy, most of it flying in Growlers, which are the electronic attack jets, and she develops utility-scale wind projects for Steelhead now. On her way out in 2022 she cut her own footage into one video and posted it with no plan attached, and it went everywhere, so she ended up with an audience she never went looking for. What she does with that audience is why I wanted her on. She spends a good part of it telling other veterans to q
Landowners have more power than they use (opens the original)
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I sat down with Jeff Risley, who grew up on a wheat farm in western Kansas and spent his career in public affairs with energy developers as clients. One of them asked him why nobody was looking out for the farmers across the table. They had the idea, he built it. Farmers have a group for wheat and one for corn. Now they have one for electrons, and his own family has oil and gas wells on the same ground. When a developer comes knockin about leasing ground, the farmer is negotiating something he h
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