Army veteran Dan Kunze talks about his new role as Warrior Money podcast co-host, mental health, time management and more in this episode of Tango Alpha Lima.
Army veteran Dan Kunze, who joined the National Guard after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, returns to this week’s episode of the Tango Alpha Lima podcast to chat about his new role as co-host of the Warrior Money podcast on Yahoo Finance, mental health, time management and other topics. (In this earlier episode, he talked about being vice chairman of Task Force Movement.)
“I do have a bit of impostor syndrome because I never deployed,” he said about his service. “I do suffer from that issue because I feel like I didn’t do enough. But I feel grateful for what I got to do.”
Now Kunze works at the intersection of national security, technology and civic leadership, teaches The Infrastructure and Law of AI at Widener University, and writes The 250-Year View — a series on trust, service and the long arc of American leadership. He currently works in support of the Department of Defense involving Enterprise Software and Digital Transformation driving enterprise modernization.
“I believe in the national security mission,” he said. “The way my brain works in big systems. And the biggest system in the world is how we secure and protect our country. I really like working at that scale.”
Kunze is teaming with another previous Tango Alpha Lima guest, Patrick Murphy (his episode is here), on the Warrior Money podcast.
“Patrick is a ‘forever name’ in the veterans space,” he said. “We started talking about personal finance. Then we started talking about mental health. Then we started talking about community, and then all the things that comprise what financial health looks like.”
Kunze also talks about his own mental health, mentioning he needed to turn his own “internal noise” off, which he started about 18 months ago.
“I needed to start turning things off,” he explained, noting that he has turned his free time into coaching his son’s Little League team. “As I started deleting more things — deleting television, start deleting things on my phone, started deleting people from my life that were creating too much noise and chaos. Now if it’s not in my top three or four of my priorities each day, I don’t do it. If it’s not part of my long-term plan, I don’t do it either. And if it doesn’t help Dan Kunze Enterprises, I don’t do it either.”
He also praised the value of those committed to public service such as veterans and servicemembers, law
enforcement, firefighters, teachers and others.
“People who serve in public roles — they are the quiet folks who we should be listening to more now,” he said, noting he believes we are also heading toward an economy based more on creation and production.
“I think the people who create, produce and do, those are also the people we should start listening to more.”
Also in this episode co-hosts Stacy Pearsall, Adam Marr and Joe Worley chat about:
• A new tool that will help veterans find jobs.
• National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day is a thing and it’s today, Oct. 21.
• Tricks, treats and other Halloween fun.
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