INSTINCTS

Reflecting the host’s own background and life experiences, guests will be veterans, entrepreneurs, and risk takers of every kind who can communicate to the audience their struggles, sacrifices, failures, and successes. They will discuss the “Return on Life Investment” of taking risks in life, war, and business. The host will question the guests in an open-ended manner to elicit their feelings, ideas, thoughts, and methodologies. He will explore the role of instinct (gut feelings) and how that mechanism helped the guest achieve decisive success or avoid approaching doom. Military veterans and entrepreneurs often possess little, or no data related to a given challenge, but are required to decide and act anyway. Fusing stress management, ideation, planning, and most importantly, effective, and timely decision making.

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EPISODE 1: CHRIS ANTHONY

Chris has over 20 years of leadership and governance experience. He served as the President of Weichert, Realtors where he oversaw the Capital Region Offices in D.C., Virginia and Maryland and prior to that served as that company's VP for the New Jersey region. Chris is currently the Senior Vice President, Northern Markets at ONE Sotheby's International Realty.

EPISODE 2: GUY GRAVINO

Guy Gravino is a former U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Beret), Command Sergeant Major and former counter-terrorism advisor and security expert for the public and the private sector. He is known for his leadership insights and experiences gained while supporting operations and contracts around the globe.

EPISODE 3: TRENT M. CLARK

Trent M. Clark is a 3x MLB World Series coach with 12 seasons in professional baseball. He currently serves as a leadership coach, speaker, and CEO of Leadershipity. Trent specializes in building winning teams, developing corporate growth strategies, and inspiring personal development. He hosts the "Winners Find a Way" podcast and is the author of the book "Leading Winning Teams".

EPISODE 4: KRIS PARONTO

Kris Paranto was a member of the U.S. Army’s elite 75th Ranger Regiment, and is the author of two books. He was also a part of the CIA annex security team that responded to the terrorist attack on the US Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya on September 11th, 2012, helping to save over 20 lives while fighting off terrorists from the CIA Annex for over 13 hours. Kris and his fellow brothers-in-arms story is told in the book and the highly successful movie, 13 Hours.

EPISODE 5: RIC PRADO

Enrique “Ric” Prado is a paramilitary, counter-terrorism, and special/clandestine operations specialist who served Ric served in Air Force Special Operations before joining the CIA, where he experienced direct combat and clandestine roles in Central America and around the world. Prado served in six overseas posts as Operations Officer and was an original member of the Bin Laden Task Force. He retired as a Senior Intel Servoce-2 (Major General equivalent), with twenty-four years in the CIA.