👍 DON'T PANIC! Mentoring, Retiring, Writing Books, Learning through Games, giving back #42
👍 DON'T PANIC! Mentoring, Retiring, Writing Books, Learning through Games, giving back #42  
Podcast: Military Retirement Podcast
Published On: Fri Mar 10 2023
Description: 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