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I'm the host of the podcast and presenter, Neil, the media giant Haley.

And I'm here with Sergeant Eric McCants today from McCants Leadership LLC.

We're going to talk about his background in law enforcement and how he has started McCants Leadership.

Eric, Sergeant McCants, thanks for stopping by.

How are you? I'm good, sir.

I appreciate you having me on.

So I had to remember how to handle those types of situations.

And just over time with life experience, you learn how to be better at that.

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Good morning, Sergeant Blake.

Mr. Holmes, Dr. Watson.

How are you, gentlemen?

Yes, thank you, Sergeant.

And very appreciative of the weather that you've provided

for us.

And if you don't mind my saying so, Mr. Holmes, we both thought you made a bad mistake.

Yeah.

And I, I do remember you being a corporal, but didn't you pick up Sergeant on the deployment?

Yeah.

At the end.

Yeah.

You're right.

At the end, right before the end, I, I, I got promoted to Sergeant.

So I came home a Sergeant.

This is a podcast series where we discuss published articles with authors and provide a forum for the open exchange of ideas, information, and solutions.

I'm your host, Staff Sergeant Owen Thez, NCO Journal, NCOIC.

With us is Chago Zapata, the Managing Editor of the NCO Journal, and Command Sergeant Major Leonard Grimes, the Command Sergeant Major of the Kansas City Recruiting Battalion.

today we discuss his article tell your story humanize the soldier experience before we kick things off could you please tell us a little bit about yourself sergeant major

all right so hey listen i'm i'm uh originally from memphis i'm raised by my grandparents i ultimately joined the army because i tried college for about five semesters Couldn't really see the end.

Would you say that would be an important thing or something that you would recommend?

Yeah, I definitely would recommend it.

I think even if we talk about it in Sergeant's time training, where the biggest impact is probably made is during maybe a block leave schedule or, you know, a post-deployment block leave schedule.

If you think of the technology that went into the innovation – You probably know as a fan and as a Beatles fan that the Beatles and the Beach Boys, different bands, entirely different sounds, they were kind of in a soft competition back then for innovation with the things that they were doing with Brian from the Beach Boys and, of course, Paul and John with the Beatles, kind of the different things they were doing with stereo technology and all the different things.

So Sgt. Pepper's and Pet Sounds were kind of the two that were like, who's got the more innovative sound?

Yeah, I mean, they came out with, well, if Brian Wilson hadn't written this, then we wouldn't have written this, you know, Paul McCartney.

And it's like back and forth.

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So we provide that training, um, to, and, and I give this training course with my, my training director is a, is a, an amazing guy.

He was Sergeant with the Pennsylvania state police somewhere in there, Shamokin or something like that.

I love the callbacks.

And he was severely injured.

I know.

Well, back then it was just a different, different time, I guess, you know, and it's funny, you know, I, I think I told you that I, I, you know, ended up just recently this past year, reconnecting with that, that recruiter, that gunny Sergeant through some other veteran organization.

And we were like, just laughing about it.

And cause it's like, Hey, well, I still got in and served and now I get to go use this facility that he, he represents, you know? Yeah.