Second service, told plainly.
The Brave and Faithful centers military veterans and active duty service members as they talk through service, sacrifice, and life after the uniform. Its conversations stay practical, moving from leadership lessons to business starts, short-term rentals, writing, fitness, and family priorities.
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The Brave and Faithful is a service-minded interview show about what comes after the uniform. Its central question is simple: when the military mission changes, what does service look like next? Across its catalog, veterans and active duty service members talk through career transition, leadership, business, writing, fitness, family, and personal identity. The tone is conversational and direct. It sounds less like a classroom and more like a long check-in with someone who understands military culture, its habits, and its blind spots. Episodes often focus on lessons that transfer from command spaces into civilian life: humility, patience, feedback, ownership, and the willingness to step into responsibility before feeling ready. In the Mike Soto conversation, leadership is treated as something learned through trust, failure, and honest correction. In the Brian Niswander episode, transition is presented as harder than many expect, with preparation and free resources positioned as essential. The short-term rental episode shifts into business building, using vacation markets, unique properties, and micro resort development as a practical case study. The Jeff Clark conversation moves toward creative work, books, podcasting, and the satisfaction of hearing that an idea helped someone else. Dr Corinne Devin's episode brings in pageants, military residency, camaraderie, and refusing other people's limits. Earlier episodes add nonprofit support, dream jobs, small teams, and fitness-related business experience. The show is also tied closely to Fortis et Fidelis, with repeated attention to honoring fallen service members through memorial coins for families. That memorial thread gives the catalog a more solemn backbone than a standard career show. It is motivational, but not vague. The best moments come when guests name specific obstacles, decisions, and mindset shifts. The final episode closes the run with a personal turn toward marriage, fatherhood, time, and the need to step back. That ending makes the archive feel complete: a show about second service concluding with a choice to serve family first.
Made for: The show suits veterans, active duty service members, military families, and listeners preparing for life after service. It also fits anyone interested in leadership, career change, and veteran-led business paths.
What sets it apart: The Brave and Faithful combines military transition advice with a strong service ethic and personal reflection. Its conversations connect practical civilian next steps to duty, family, remembrance, and purpose.
“To the brave and faithful, nothing is impossible.” A podcast where Navy Chief, Reden Dionisio, talks to our brave and faithful military veterans and active duty service members. We discuss their time in service, sacrifice and success after service.How they've been able to apply the lessons they've learned in the military to life after, in their second service. Learn how you can apply the same principles in order to succeed in business and in life.This Podcast is sponsored by Fortis Et Fidelis, a brand dedicated to honoring the brave and faithful.
A pageant dare on one side, a transition survey on the other: your career plan has range.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A steady conversation about learning to lead, take feedback, and give others room to grow.
Leadership comes across as something practiced, resisted, and eventually accepted. The guest describes early discomfort with being seen as a leader, then traces how volunteer roles began to look less like obligations and more like chances to grow after steady encouragement.
A grounded short-term rental discussion built around nearby weekend destinations and location-first thinking.
Short-term rental investing begins here with a plain question: where do people nearby already go for a weekend away? Radon Dionisio's conversation with Alex, a Marine veteran working in short-term rental development, uses that idea as a practical entry point before moving into…
A steady conversation on why military transition takes time, and how preparation can make civilian life less surprising.
Military transition is framed as a long adjustment, not a clean break. Radon speaks with Brian, an Air Force veteran and founder of militarytransition.org, about survey findings that give the subject weight: more than 48 percent said the move out of uniform was harder than…
Jeff Clark measures writing and podcasting by whether they help people and build real connection.
Jeff Clark's account of writing Here Are These Truths turns the old post-service question of usefulness into something more practical: work matters when it gives people language they can carry with them.
Career power without apology.
Career confidence with a leadership edge.
Career clarity with backbone.
Radon Dionisio talks with Navy chief Mike Soto about his path from Hawaii to Illinois and into the Navy in February 2009.
Alex Jarbo, a Marine veteran and short-term rental developer at Sargon Investments, says he went straight from high school into the Marine Corps, served as an 0311 infantryman, and later spent four years at 8th and I doing Honor Guard and 21-gun salute work.
Brian Niswander, founder of militarytransition.org and an Air Force veteran with about 27 years of service across active duty and reserve time, explains how he moved from the Air Force Academy and intelligence work into Procter & Gamble and other corporate roles.
Jeff Clark, an Air Force veteran, author, and speaker, says he served 12 years in medical logistics, was medically retired in 2017 after breaking his back and injuring his shoulder, and then returned to work in a government support role.
Corinne Devin describes moving from a 2007 Navy scholarship commitment to active-duty commander and orthodontist roles in Japan.
Remi Adeleke says he invested over $150,000 of his own money in a short film to establish himself as a director.
Travis Partington says his Marine Corps transition after 1999 brought loneliness, a rushed job search, and little practical guidance from separation class.
Kevin Gibson, the Boot Nurse, says he failed the NCLEX three times before changing his approach and passing.
Host Reden Dionisio interviews Phil Randazzo, founder of American Dream U, about helping veterans find jobs or start businesses after military service.
A Navy veteran interviews a fellow veteran about his military service and transition to a business career.
Host Reden Dionisio interviews Army veteran and social entrepreneur Henry Rosario about his military service and post-service career.
Host Reden Dionisio interviews Canadian Army veteran Greg Potapenko about his military service and transition to founding a successful marketing company.