Feb 24, 2020
This week's guest is retired Army First Sergeant Patrick Abrams. Patrick was drafted and served in Vietnam in 1971 and then deployed again in 2003 to Iraq as a 55-year old infantry platoon sergeant with the New York National Guard. He was severely injured when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive devise detonated at a...
Feb 17, 2020
Are today's service members narcissistic snowflakes or the next greatest generation? In this week's episode, FourBlock Founder Mike Abrams, NYT bestselling author Lindsey Pollak, and entrepreneur Rick Miners discuss a new study published in the journal Psychology and Aging that suggests baby boomers are actually more...
Feb 10, 2020
This week, FourBlock Founder Mike Abrams discusses a speech delivered by William Deresiewicz at West Point called Solitude and Leadership. For the past ten years, all FourBlock students read and reflect on this speech to help them think critically about their lives, careers, and transition. The link to the full speech...
Feb 3, 2020
This week, FourBlock Founder Mike Abrams discusses a critical lesson in Anton Myer’s classic war novel “Once an Eagle” about what is described in the book as the occupational disease of the soldier. Mike talks about how veterans can learn from this lesson in order to successfully transition into a new career....