How an Army Veteran Built a 50-Year American Manufacturing Legacy
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This industry really got offshored, a lot of it. China came in and the machines that we use to cast stuff, they don't even make them in America anymore. I just had to buy a new one and it came out of Germany. I'm like, what? And using American technology, it just broke my heart. But we can do any of that. We've really gotten into that lately. And here's why.
Mike Lynch is a disciplined, principled and results driven Army veteran and the president of the Western Heritage Company. Anchored by his deep commitment to service, he helps uniformed personnel in local communities foster a strong sense of pride and economic resilience, creating a lasting legacy of principled leadership, steadfast civic engagement and enduring American patriotism.
It's a second-generation, veteran-owned company that's manufacturing unique stuff that really you can't get anywhere else on the shelf. If that's your vision, you've verified that that vision is a good one, stay with it and understand you're going to have failure. At the end of the day, no matter how much money you make or what legacy you live, if you're not doing right by people, you're not...
what's the purpose right so yeah i'm a jerk but and i made a bunch of money but you know that that's not a legacy it spans the globe like a super high school internet elvis today apple is going to reinvent the phone it's not over until i win the living your legacy podcast for those who live to leave a legacy Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Living Your Legacy podcast.
Today I am joined by Mike Lynch. Mike, welcome to the show. How are you feeling?
I'm feeling great. Yeah.
You're on the other side of your interview now. How did everything go in there?
It was great. It was good. Good time.
Good, good, good. And now I don't want to, you guys can't see this, but you interviewed with Kofi and Kofi is in the room with us. You guys will never know that, but right. How was Kofi as an interviewer? Excellent.
Yeah. We had a great, uh, great conversation. He was very good at drawing out the right information as far as I'm concerned.
He would make a good psychologist, I feel like. Because we play a little bit of devil's advocate. We play a little bit of therapist in here. We're sitting down. We're getting your story for hours and hours at a time. What would you say is the biggest thing that the audience is going to learn about you in your episode?
Well, it's kind of a unique situation that I've got. It's a second generation veteran owned company that's manufacturing unique stuff that really you can't get anywhere else on the shelf or, you know, everything's custom made. But we also have a lot of really cool designs that we're, you know, we're gonna launch in our uh 50th year so we turned 50 years this year so two generations um this will be this will be the year when i exceed my father in uh running and owning the company so i feel like you don't see that a lot which is multi-generational veteran owned businesses why is that you know um You know, it depends on what career path that either that second generation or that first generation took, right?
If somebody retired out of the military and started a business, then it's too late for their kid to take it over. My father and I both did our time, but didn't make a career out of it, you know? Um, so I think, I think that's one of the things you gotta have all the stars kind of aligned, right. Um, for that to, for that to work on a timeline, right. Even on the timeline. Cause you know, if somebody, a lot of people get out of the military, retire, cause you can retire in your forties. And so you've got a lot of life left in you. And so, but by that time your kids already in their twenties or already started their own career. And so, uh, in our case, it was just really, um, kind of a unique scenario to do that.
And keeping something alive for 50 years is not an easy task.
No. I was going to lead my next question into that. Not only is it a multi-generational thing, but 50 years is a long time to keep anything running.
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