Vegas Veteran Voices
Vegas Veteran Voices
Podcast Description
Vegas Veteran Voices shines a spotlight on the inspiring stories, struggles, & successes of veterans making an impact in Las Vegas. From backyard businesses to nonprofit leaders, each episode dives deep into what drives these vets & how they're shaping their communities after service. Hosted by Navy vet & Realtor Brenton Mann, this podcast is raw, real, & rooted in purpose.
Inspire others through action & service.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes of military transition, entrepreneurship, personal resilience, and community impact. Topics include the challenges veterans face after service, the importance of mental health, and innovative business ventures like Envision Footwear and Pizza Neo. Episodes cover a range of unique examples, such as Ronnie Long’s transition to stunt work and self-defense, Ureal Irving's streetwear brand, and Sarah's upbeat brunch establishment, Effin Eggs, highlighting the diverse paths veterans take post-service.
Vegas Veteran Voices is a raw, unscripted podcast that puts real veterans in the spotlight, not as headlines or hashtags, but as people. Hosted in Las Vegas, the show sits down with veterans from every branch to talk about life after the uniform, identity, purpose, mental health, and the unexpected paths that help them heal.
Each episode goes beyond service stories. You will hear honest conversations about transition, dark humor, loss, rebuilding, and the moments that brought meaning back. Guests include combat veterans, creatives, athletes, business owners, and advocates who found their way forward through action, community, and connection.
This is not a highlight reel or a motivational poster. Vegas Veteran Voices is real talk 501c3 nonprofit, told without filters, designed to remind veterans they are not alone and to help civilians better understand the cost of service and the strength it takes to keep going.
Stories over stigma. Connection saves lives.
Anyone in America can open a martial arts school today. No license. No background check. No training. Nothing. Rob Ingram has spent 13 years proving why that’s a problem.
He was born with a cleft lip, got jumped outside gym class at 11, and walked into his first dojo on his 12th birthday, because his mom had already signed the contract. Twenty-nine years later he’s the industry’s watchdog: McDojoLife, calling out fakes, frauds, and cults in a 100% unregulated industry. When he exposed a gym owner who knowingly kept a sex offender teaching kids’ classes, the owner sued him. Rob won. It still cost him $100,000, and the rematch is going in the documentary, executive produced by Jocko Willink.
Then Ronnie brings it home: purpose, brotherhood, hierarchy, the three things that make a dojo feel like family are exactly what cults sell veterans after the uniform comes off. Do your research. Check on your people.
Subject Matter Experts is where Vegas Veteran Voices hands the mic to advocates who never wore the uniform but live by what it teaches, discipline, accountability, and protecting the people next to you. Some fights don’t require a DD-214.
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