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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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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
The Sitreps Guys on Hiring Done Right (opens the original)
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I sat down with Max Cormier and Wyatt Frasier, the guys behind Sitreps. If you’re a veteran in business you already know the meme page. What you might not know is that they turned that community into a recruiting firm that places vets into leadership roles at defense tech startups and private equity portfolio companies. We got into how that actually happened. It started as beer money from advertising lip balm, and it became something real once companies realized Sitreps could find trusted people
More projects than people to build them (opens the original)
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I sat down with Jim Sardonia, who just won the first PowerVets Veterans Leadership Award from ACP, a program they run with us. When I asked him about it he barely talked about himself. He called it a team award and started telling me about his guys in the field, the ones out at two and three in the morning restarting turbines in feet of snow and twenty below. Jim spent seven years in the Air Force as a launch weather officer at Cape Canaveral. Now he’s VP of technical support at Exus Renewables
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