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Real Talk With Caleb — 100 episodes

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I Failed as a NCO!

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Develop Resilient Airmen By Doing Difficult Things

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Busy is not leadership

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When It Doesn’t Go Your Way

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The Air Force Promotion Process: Managing Expectations

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What Is Our Responsibility?

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Service Before Self Isn’t About Burning Yourself Down—It’s About the Profession We Chose

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A Reason Your Team Perceives Your ______ Program as a “Good Ole Boy Process”

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Air Force (stratification/EFDP) Specific: Are You Pursuing Excellence?

10

Stay in the Fight: Building Mental Durability for Airmen

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What if More Mental Health Providers Never Show up…?

12

The Backbone Speaks! Being A NCO By TSgt Calvert

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Model The Standard

14

Real Talk from the Truck: Don’t Let Pride Keep You Hungry.

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NEW USAF PT, LET’s GO!

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Enlisted Force Structure: 7 Sep 2025

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The Climb was Greater than the Fall: A Story of Resilience and Redemption

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Value Based Leadership Integration with the Crusaders of the 42 ABW

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The Climb, You Can’t Bring Everyone!

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Advice for SNCOs, from Chief McCool, PACAF Command Chief

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Mission Analysis Without Emotion

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Forget the Microwave

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It’s That Important!

24

Why Deployable Combat Wings

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Leadership is Vital

26

Be A Good Human

27

Squadron Readiness Reviews

28

Hard To Kill

29

How the McConnell’s Do Hard Things & KEEP FIGHTING!

30

STOP Seeking Affirmation

31

Self-Control

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Initiative

33

Teamwork: Mission Over Function

34

The Tribe

35

Standards

36

Do Hard & Difficult Things Well

37

Be the ONE!

38

Don't Let The Enemy In The Front Door!

39

Weaponized Success

40

Life, Liberty, and Legacy

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Accountability

42

You Can't Surge Trust!

43

What Will Your Legacy Be?

44

Make A Difference … Daily!

45

Resilience takes action

46

Focus on your treasure when you are in the fight

47

Focus on the WINS of 2023 and the OPPORTUNITIES of 2024

48

Keep going, you are inspiring others!

49

Remembering "Hustler 6" Keep Pushing

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Put some more DOA in your HOOAH

51

Service Before Self

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Ep. 00 Whatever it TAKES! with Brian Bowers (May 2020)

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#H2K … Hard To Kill

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Airmen, we MUST Look the Part

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OPREP: Be a good human

56

Airmen’s Time: AFFORGEN

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Airmen’s Time: Analyze the “advice” you receive!!

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Ep. 59: The SkillBridge Network

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Airmen’s Time, #4: It is “figureoutable!”

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Airmen's Time, #3: Don't "Wish" You Were Better; "Train" To Be Better!

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Airmen's Time, #2: Maybe your Comfort Zone is 100% Where You Belong!

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Airmen's Time #1: Attitude of Gratitude

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Welcome to "The Informed Airman" Podcast!

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National Defense Strategy (NDS)

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The National Security Strategy (NSS)

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USAF Specific: The "Purple Book"

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USAF Specific: The "Blue Book"

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Ep. 58: Common Sense Leadership Approach with Jeff Carley, CEO of Summit Leadership

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RTB: #HARDTOKILL Addressing Laziness

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RTB: Advice from Col (ret) Michael Homan

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RTB: Words of Encouragement to Maxwell/Gunter’s Newest SNCOs

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Ep. 57: Brotherhood

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RTB: Dash, Values, Purpose and being #hardtokill

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Ep. 56: How Joe Bogdan Stays Physically and Psychologically Ready

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Ep. 55: “Aye…Real Quick, Here’s My Perspective” With Deion Williams

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Ep. 54: Caleb and Darryl talk about the “3 Dimensions of Inclusion”

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Ep. 53: Lunchtime Leadership Lessons

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Ep. 52: Battle scars and the road to healing...don't suck at leading, with Jeremy "the real one" Louk

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Ep. 51: Legacy: A real conversation with MAC the legacy builder himself, on how important legacies are!

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Ep. 50: Shamon and I discuss “Outgrowing It & Finding Yourself”

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Ep. 49: Trauma and its lasting impacts on us with the one and only, Gen Van Pelt!

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Ep. 48: (USAF specific) THE ENLISTED FORCE STRUCTURE

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Ep. 47: Trauma, you MUST deal with it!

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Ep. 46: We need more supervisors like Mike Rosa: How introspection leads to greater achievements

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Ep. 45.5: RTB: Thoughts of Our Youth

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Ep. 45: Katie’s take on: The Leadership trap of “I’ll just do it myself!”

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Ep. 44 RTB: 🥾 🆚 🥿 (the short version!)

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Ep. 14: BOOT Leadership

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Ep. 43: The Clock IS Ticking!

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Ep. 42: Overcomer, A Story of Guilt, Depression, Seconds from Suicide, and the Healing Journey

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Ep. 41: Your Circle is Critical! How your story will become someone else’s SURVIVAL GUIDE!

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Ep. 39: Performers Vs. Posers Part #2, the REAL convo with Chuck and Eric

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Ep. 40 RTB: You HAVE a Voice NCO/SNCO; keep LEADING!!

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Chuck wagon!! WARNO, there is more, a LOT more on the horizon with Chuck!!

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Ep. 38: Performers Vs. Posers with Charles “Chuck” Ball, the living #legend!!

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Ep. 37 RTB: A Lesson in Followership

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Ep. 36 RTB: Toxicity

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Ep. 35: RTB: Transparency

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Ep. 34: RTB: Brilliant at the Basics

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Ep. 33: RTB: Reaching Your Peak Potential