How Military Discipline Built a Purpose-Driven Business
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When you join the military, you are honed into a very well-crafted system. But when you get to the civilian world, the world didn't change. You have to do a lot of introspection and readjustment to make sure that you are relevant in the civilian world. And that's the tough part.
Terrence Lackey is an entrepreneur, veteran, and the founder of White Glove Medical Logistics. Through his work, he provides trusted healthcare logistics solutions while inspiring others to build businesses rooted in service, discipline, and excellence.
In my case, the healthcare technology field, I have run into so many scenarios where you ask the question and nobody has the answer. There's a super opportunity for someone to step in there who has a solution, who has the right answer for it. It's kind of what I do with my business.
If you could give one piece of advice to an entrepreneur out there that might be brand new or a veteran that might be in the middle of their transition back to the civilian world, what advice would you give them?
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How did Terrance Lackey describe his military background and early roles?
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Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Living Your Legacy podcast. Today, I am joined by Terrence Lackey of White Glove Medical Logistics. Terrence, how are you feeling today?
Hey, I'm feeling great. Thanks for having me.
A pleasure. Pleasure having you on the show. So you just finished filming your episode of Operation CEO. Tell me a little bit about what the audience can expect to learn about you in your episode.
Well, I mean, I just got done finishing the episode. It was a great experience. The audience is going to be able to get an insight into my business, insight into the mind of a veteran who actually utilized some of the skills and experience that he gained while on active duty and in the Reserves and National Guard to actually build a business. And I'm super excited to share the story because I think it might be an inspiration to others.
So talk to me a little bit about your experience with the military. You know, I've interviewed a couple of different business owners through Operation CEO, and you guys represent a unique part of the veteran population that they come home and they're able to start up a business and be successful with the lessons that they learned through active duty. Talk to me a little bit about some of what those lessons were.
Yeah, you know, I'm not sure how special the subset is. I'm sure not everybody does it, but certainly everybody can. And so I went into the military, and I was a combat engineer. So I started out blowing things up, blowing up bridges, blowing up roads.
That was an easy sell for the recruiter. Hey, you want to go blow stuff up?
Yeah. That's the thing. With that job, my specialty was destroying things. And I eventually got to a point where I got a chance to cross-train into fixing things. So I became a medical equipment technician first. a biomedical equipment technician in hospital. So repairing stuff in the hospital, repairing, maintaining medical equipment. So I went from destroying things to being able to repair, maintain things. So I got the whole spectrum there. But the transition from taking those skills and going into the civilian world and actually starting an entrepreneur journey or path and opening and starting a business Yeah, that's a little tricky. And I can't tell you it was an easy thing. It was something that I grew into and made several mistakes and learned along the way.
But it's very rewarding and complements the military background quite a bit. There's a lot of aspects to it that will make you a lot more successful.
Got it. And, you know, that's a that's kind of like a unanimous experience that I've heard from other veterans is that that that sort of transition from being in the service to going into civilian life, that transition can be there's a little period there that's a little tricky.
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