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Hardpoints

VALOR Media Network

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 7

Every week, former fighter pilots and current entrepreneurs Neal Rickner & Mike Smith provide unfiltered insights into the biggest stories in startups, energy, and national security.

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🇨🇦 Canada - techNews
30/05/2025
#83
🇨🇦 Canada - techNews
29/05/2025
#69
🇺🇸 USA - techNews
29/05/2025
#94
🇨🇦 Canada - techNews
28/05/2025
#52
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28/05/2025
#61
🇨🇦 Canada - techNews
27/05/2025
#32
🇺🇸 USA - techNews
27/05/2025
#64
🇨🇦 Canada - techNews
26/05/2025
#26
🇺🇸 USA - techNews
27/04/2025
#83
🇺🇸 USA - techNews
21/04/2025
#75

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Signal is forgotten but we all got the message

Season 1 · Episode 1

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 • Duration 01:18:55

There aren't different rules for leaders, just sometimes different results. Think through how being sloppy with security secrets is dangerous to us all. Plus, learn about how Neal Rickner came to host Hardpoints and his journey in startups, energy, & national security.

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Tariffs, national security, and startups - More overlap than you'd think | Hardpoints

Season 1 · Episode 2

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 • Duration 01:11:54

Tariffs and how they're created have so many effects on the world we live in, from manufacturing, to national security, to startup ecosystems. Neal & Mike discuss how they overlap and what that means for American leadership. Interview: Neal interviews Mike so new listeners can learn about how a guy from Idaho came to be a Navy pilot and a climate entrepreneur.

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Surfing, Carbon Collective, & Film Making - Guest: Breene Murphy | Hardpoints

Season 1 · Episode 6

Wednesday, May 21, 2025 • Duration 01:22:17

Surfer, CEO, Filmmaker - See how one man decided that his favorite sport and his business acumen led him to rethink how he can live his life. Guest Breene Murphy is the president of Carbon Collective Investing, a climate investment advisory firm with specialties in retirement plans (410ks), individual advising, and ETFs. Breene also writes about climate and investing on LinkedIn and has been published in Nasdaq. He’s a lifelong surfer, environmentalist, he made a documentary called “Seven Crossings” which is about paddleboarding off the coast of California, and he’s a dad. https://www.linkedin.com/in/breene-murphy-climate-friendly-401k/ Follow us here: https://linktr.ee/valormedianetwork

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Microbes, Mines & an Alaskan: A Startup CEO Redefines Mining

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 • Duration 01:28:34

The world's economy relies upon that everything you see has either been mined or grown. Learn about the life of an extraordinary Alaskan and her passion for using microbes to address the exploding pressures upon the planet's need for raw materials. Dr. Liz Dennett is the CEO & Founder of Endolith, where they use custom designed microbes to mine the metals our world needs.

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Elite athletes & the veteran transition | Hardpoints

Season 1 · Episode 4

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 • Duration 01:36:18

When your job goes away or you experience, we all have to go through a transition. Learn about how elite athletes and veterans share that experience, how it's more than a transition, and what you can take from it.https://www.linkedin.com/school/pat-tillman-foundation/

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Setting up the DoD Energy Clearinghouse

Season 1 · Episode 3

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 • Duration 01:13:46

Look at the world through the eyes of a former F-16 pilot and Department of Defense official about the intersection of energy and national security. Today's guest, Dave Belote, is a retired Air Force colonel and F-16 pilot who earned two Bronze Stars during Operation Iraqi Freedom and served as commander of Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas, Dave remains committed to public service. He has run unsuccessfully to represent his hometown in the Virginia State Senate and recently completed a 3-year term as secretary of the Virginia Beach Electoral Board. He is a founding director of the Southeast chapter of Environmental Entrepreneurs and serves on the board of the Southeastern Wind Coalition. He is also a five-time Jeopardy! champion. Follow us here: https://linktr.ee/valormedianetwork

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Predator Innovation & The Age of Machines - Guest: Siggy Zerweckh | Hardpoints

Season 1 · Episode 7

Thursday, May 29, 2025 • Duration 01:48:33

The time of machines has arrived. See how we got here with one of the fathers of autonomous vehicles and AI and how to think about how humans & machines will work together now. Follow us here: https://linktr.ee/valormedianetwork

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