To all the brave men and women out there still protecting our freedom 🇺🇸 🫡
Retired COL Ray Kimball from the United States Military Academy West Point joins me to talk about his retirement, starting a business, a ton of books (some he wrote and others he is just reading), and relentless gratitude toward others.
⌚ 0:00 - Intro
⌚ 2:31 - Morning Routines - NY Times Crosswords
⌚ 7:50 - Throwing out all the obligations and doing what you want
⌚ 10:24 - How I joined the military - traveling the world as an Army brat
⌚ 13:50 - The retirement process
⌚ 17:25 - How I created my own exit from the military and what I wanted to leave behind - The magical continuity book - Microsoft OneNote
⌚ 23:22 - what is your legacy?
⌚ 25:34 - Thoughts on Space A
⌚ 27:37 - My retirement gift to myself - World Scout Moot and the gift of gratitude
⌚ 31:21 - IAVA - BDD
⌚ 33:42 - Benefits Delivery at Discharge issues
⌚ 35:00 - Planning for after retirement - How do you get started with educational games?
⌚ 43:16 - Retirement re-integration
⌚ 44:10 - Chatting with my 16 year old self
⌚ 47:26 - Navigating the muddy waters of life at 16
⌚ 49:042 - Thoughts on Mentoring - from steely eyed killer to loggie and working with Obama Whitehouse staff
⌚ 54:19 - A Ted Talk to transitioning members of the military
⌚ 1:02:37 - What message would you want put out into the world? The rule of 33%
⌚ 1:03:37 - What do you think about personal branding?
⌚ 1:07:44 - What is your hourly rate? and Anything you want
⌚ 1:08:32 - What is 42edgames?
⌚ 1:11:11 - Games for mentorship - The Reacting Consortium
⌚ 1:13:06 - What exactly is editing?
⌚ 1:16:47 - How would you spend 10 million dollars?
⌚ 1:21:27 - The gift of gratitude - giving back
⌚ 1:22:50 - Success in scouting
⌚ 1:23:55 - Closing comments - find people who don't look like you
⌚ 1:25:29 - How to find Ray online
⌚ 1:26:28 - Outro
Books:
📚 Army Guides to Mentoring - https://juniorofficer.army.mil/the-guides-to-army-mentoring/
📚 Good to Great - https://www.jimcollins.com/books.html
📚 how people learn - https://www.amazon.com/How-People-Learn-Experience-Expanded/
📚 making history - https://www.amazon.com/Making-History-Storytellers-Shaped-Past/
📚 Rank Absurity - https://www.amazon.com/Rank-Absurdity-Irreverent-Military-Memoir-ebook/
📚 Anything You want - https://sive.rs/a
📚 Teaching and Learning the West Point Way - https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780367685867/
📚 British Journal for Military History - https://bjmh.gold.ac.uk/index
Links:
🔗 NY Times Crossword Site - https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords
🔗 calculate your hourly rate - https://www.neilstrauss.com/neil/every-second-counts/
🔗 Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Sherwood-Randall
🔗 Microsoft Onenote - https://www.onenote.com
🔗 World Scout Moot - https://www.scouting.org/international/world-scout-moot/
🔗 Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America - https://iava.org/
🔗 The Reacting Consortium - https://reacting.barnard.edu/about-reacting 🔗 The British Journal for Military History - https://bjmh.gold.ac.uk/🔗 what is a Dramaturge? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramaturge🔗 Grand Canyon Council - https://www.grandcanyonbsa.org/🔗 Scouting USA - https://beascout.scouting.org/ The Reahttps://42ed.games@edgames @armymentoring Thanks to my recording platform of choice: Riverside.fm #riversidefm for their amazing software https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_2&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=john-mcconnell All of my recording/editing equipment can be found here: https://kit.co/Chief_McConnell/john-mcconnell some links may result in commissions for the site
👍 DON'T PANIC! Mentoring, Retiring, Writing Books, Learning through Games, giving back #42
Mar 10, 2023
Retire.Army
This is my journey through Army retirement. After more than 25 years of service I am navigating the murky waters of the retirement process. I hope I can provide you with some useful information and help ease your own journey. This is a topic where you will find mixed or little information. I am here to lessen the anxiety and help my fellow Military members along the way. Hope you enjoy and thank you for listening!
Currently expanding to document not only my own retirement but the retirement of so many men and women across all services. Retire.Army is so-called because I am a former Army
This is my journey through Army retirement. After more than 25 years of service I am navigating the murky waters of the retirement process. I hope I can provide you with some useful information and help ease your own journey. This is a topic where you will find mixed or little information. I am here to lessen the anxiety and help my fellow Military members along the way. Hope you enjoy and thank you for listening!
Currently expanding to document not only my own retirement but the retirement of so many men and women across all services. Retire.Army is so-called because I am a former ArmyListen on
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