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Veteran on the Move
"brendan aronson" Discussed on Veteran on the Move
"Launching a business himself as well before cofounding this business with me. But yeah, it's a hard process, man. It's super, super hard. And so we want to provide a forum for people to connect with one another through these in person events. And then we also work with employers who are hiring folks. The jobs that we work with folks to get range from jobs for folks transitioning directly out of the military up through more senior executive positions, CEOs, general managers, chief revenue officers, chief financial officers, we have kind of a widespread of different roles available. And the goal is the more veterans that we can get into fantastic companies, the more veterans that they will hire. The more military spouses that they'll hire. Those are basically the reason that we started it. We know this process sucks. And so if we can make an impact and do some good for our community, then we'll do that. So how do we find the military veteran? You can find us on our website. It's the mill vad dot org. You can also find us on Instagram. It's at the military vet. And then you can find I post on LinkedIn almost every day. It's Brendan aronson. Feel free to reach out, follow and connect. If you're going to connect, send a note when you connect pro tip, don't just randomly reach out to someone with a connection request, including a note and say, hey, I'm a transitioning marine. I heard you on X, Y, and Z, I'd be interested in connecting. And I posted about it on all those channels. And so the military veteran, you guys not only help transitioning veterans but you also help companies hire veterans. So you're on both sides, both sides of that great divide always there's so many great companies out there that want to hire veterans. And there's so many veterans that want to work for all these companies. But there's still this great divide. You're looking across the Grand Canyon. We can't seem to make that connection oftentimes. For sure. It's challenging for both sides to reach one another. We try and facilitate those connections. We get great employers to sponsor these events and come and speak at them. We also, and then the clients that we're working with to hire for specific roles. They just need some help finding people that are a great fit with a specific type of experience or background. We get to work finding candidates interviewing and then helping client candidates through the interview processes as well. Well, well, we're getting towards the end of our time here. Do you want to give you the last word? So talk a little bit more about the military veteran. Before we say the last words, what are some of the main things you see, whether it's things that veterans do, they're great things veterans do when they're transitioning in the typical mistakes that they're making when they're getting out. Yeah, on the great things side of the house, I would say, look, the things that made you successful in the military will make you successful in a civilian workforce. I love working with veterans. Because I hear this all the time. People say, oh, I'm not as worried about the title. I care about the title. I care about the compensation, of course. But I want to work with a great team that wants to win. And I want to work at a place I can make a huge impact. It's just like, God, just like since chills down my spine to hear better and say that because these attributes that make you a fantastic teammate, those are incredibly valuable. Maintain those soft skills, keep coming into these employer relationships, thinking about how I can be of service to your organization. I can be a world class teammate. Those are fantastic. Biggest mistakes I see veterans make, there are a few. First you gotta de jargon, your vernacular. So you can't be going in and talking about the most aggressive acronym I ever saw in the military was nav safe invent tracing. Can't be coming and telling people that you worked at the nav station inventory. Vernacular, you can't be swearing, obviously, people's resumes, that's a hard thing to do. It takes a lot of work, guys. Put in the work that's required. Resumes, there's a longer conversation, but they should be impact driven. What impact did you make that you can call attention to? If you were ranked really well, make sure that that's in there. And then thinking of networking as a dirty word, don't think of networking as a dirty word. It is about making new friends so that you can help them in the future, and they can be helpful to you. Do your cold outreach, reach out to a ton of people, follow up with them. Don't just send one message and assume if you didn't get a response that people don't want to hear it. You've got to follow up with people. Joe, you followed up with me because I slacked off on an email and I'm really glad that you did. You just got to have your follow-up system. Even if it takes a long time. I have some people, they're in my hopper for a year or two before I get them on the podcast, but I always keep those lines of communication open eventually. We finally find the time to get interview done. We were first connected last July. It's taken 9 months. There you go. I didn't even realize it had been that long until you said that. I appreciate your follow-up. So follow up with people. Send them another message and say, hey, I know you're incredibly busy. I wanted to make sure that I'm being diligent about my follow-up. If you're open to connecting on a call, I'd love to learn more about your career. And then on your networking calls, keep the conversation in the other person's corner. So just like Joe does on this podcast, that's essentially what you're doing on these networking calls. Tell me about your transition. How did you get to the point that you're at in your career? What do you wish you had known earlier? What skills can I develop to make myself a better employee for your organization? You can even put those folks to work for your networking. Ask them at the end of the call. Hey, who else should I connect with? Who would you recommend? If you hear of any open roles, please let me know. I'm actively recruiting and hoping to get into this industry. Be diligent about your outreach, be diligent about your follow-up, send thank you notes after you connect with folks and then keep them updated on your progress. I have folks that I talk to and that I never hear from them again. And I'm like, what happened with this person? I don't know. And then I have folks I talk to that reach back out to me and say, hey, I'm still searching in this area. And I'm like, oh, I'm glad you reached back out because I had actually forgotten that we had a conversation three months ago, but I do know some folks that are hiring in your area. To be diligent about keeping organized with these conversations because you need to circle back on them in order to develop a long-term relationship. Deliberate networking, deliberate follow-up. So I do want to give you the last word Brendan. In regards to entrepreneurship, if somebody is getting out of the military or they're in corporate America, they didn't really like where they landed, when it starts their own business, getting entrepreneurship, what kind of advice comes to mind. There are books to be written on this, and there's a ton of books that have been written on it. If you feel like you've got the entrepreneurial bug, it's not for everyone, it's a savage. Road. But if you feel like you can't live without it, then I do think taking the plunge can be incredibly liberating. I think what you want to do is really, really, really think about who are the customers that I can serve. Who are those customers? What is their willingness and ability to pay? What are their biggest pain points? If you are first time founder, especially folks coming straight out of the military, most of the ideas I see are consumer type companies because that's all you've really been is a consumer. You don't know about B2B. And if you own a business, you get hit up all the time by people selling different kinds of solutions, and you know what kinds of problems you have. I'm a big fan of B2B businesses, personally, consumers very hard. But for B2B, it's like you can just send more emails and you'll see more people interested in your product. And they're bigger ticket values typically. So fewer wins, just equates to more cash in your pocket, potentially. I would just very seriously consider what type of business model you'll be employing, what you're good at, what you like to do, who you'll be serving as a customer. And then you should come to our in person events is really the other answer here is like the career events that we put on. We have entrepreneurship panels. We have investor panels. Startup events also have obviously it's like two days of those types of conversations. And you'll just meet so many people that will help build your network so that you know who to talk to you about raising capital in the future and you at least have an idea of what needs to be done and then other than that.
Veteran on the Move
"brendan aronson" Discussed on Veteran on the Move
"There's a saying in entrepreneurship too is like if you ask people for feedback, they'll give you encouragement. And if you ask them for their money, they'll give you feedback. Yeah, I heard it a little bit. If you ask someone for money, they'll give you advice. If you have somebody for advice, they'll give you money. That's even more so true for investors. If you're raising capital. Don't go to people asking money. You should go to a masking for advice. How true? Yeah, I think it's a little bit of a mixed bag. If folks are raising capital, I also work as a venture capitalist at venture fund called context ventures, where we invest in military veteran entrepreneurs. We also host the military veterans startup conference. You can go to mill that startups dot com and check out the conference. We get great spears to come through our last event, had about 450 folks in San Francisco. Ton of fun. Joe, you should join us there. You have a great time. If you are going to be raising capital for your business, I do think you do have to have the ask at some point. You have to say, hey, this is what we're raising. These are what the terms are. And we can talk about the process of raising capital if that's of interest. It's a challenging process for sure. The next event for context adventures, the next startup event will be February of 2024. We just had it last February. The first year we did it was 2020 two. We had like 200 folks, but one this year had 450. Next year, I'm guessing it will be larger. We also have a number of events for transitioning veterans. In July, we'll host a transition career conference in San Francisco. That'll be July 20 and 21st. The keynote speaker for that is a guy named Graham weaver. He's the founding partner at Alpine investors. He's raised about $8 billion of capital and deployed it across hundreds of companies. He's hired dozens of military veterans to lead his companies. Really inspiring and interesting guy. We got about 20 or 30 other business executives that will speak at that event. If you're better in this looking to build your network, join us in San Francisco, July 20th and 21st, for an incredible opportunity to do so. And then type of event in New York, September 28th and 29th. In New York City, our keynote speaker for that event is Larry Smith, who's the chairman of Tokyo Electron, army veteran. It's like a 50 something $1 billion semiconductor business. And then we have 20 to 30 other business executives that will speak at that New York event. They're both going to be great places to come build your network. If you're a student veteran, the discounts make the tickets almost free. I think $10. There's just no better bang for your buck. I know folks that came in with no civilian network and left knowing hundreds of folks to their left and right and 50 or 60 folks, 5, ten, and 20 years in front of them who can serve as mentors to them as they are thinking about the next phase of their careers. One thing about networking, there's a big misconception all the time about networking. Networking is typically not I'm going to go to this conference to try to meet this one guy and see if that guy will hire me. That's not what networking is like having faith that it just works. It takes time. You go into conferences like this and you meet people without knowing when or how it's going to pay off just with the faith that it will pay off at some point. You just don't know, you're going to meet somebody that leads you to someone else that leads you to someone else and then boom something pays off. That's what networking is. You really don't there's deliberate networking where you're trying to meet certain kinds of people. But for the most part, network is one of those things. You just need to do it all the time and develop relationships and eventually things will come from it. 100%. Really well said and really, really, really important point for veterans. Because of the fact that our careers in the military are so linear. We look at networking as a dirty word. It's like, I would never want to I want to be promoted based on the merits of my accomplishments as a marine officer. Who I know. Exactly. Right. But that's not actually true in the civilian world. Because people don't know who you are, they can't know how confident you are. And they can't help you. Your networking is just making friends. And just like with any of your friends, if you have the ability to you will help your Friends. If you know of a great role for them, you'll help them get it. If you know of great opportunities for them, you plug them in. It's just making friends when you're transitioning. To ask for favors from people that you don't know, and it feels very transactional. But I promise you'll help those folks in the future. I reached out to hundreds of events when I was transitioning out of the military. They helped me get my foot in the door at Goldman, they helped me get my foot in the door and my MBA program. Some of them ended up being investors in my businesses, and then others have helped get jobs in the interim. They certainly weren't helping me at that pivotal phase because they were like, well, I bet Brendan will help me in the future. They're helping me because that's what veterans do. We reach back and we help one another because we know that that's a challenging transition. I remember it, of course. I'm very grateful for it. And I've reached back out to be as helpful to them as possible. And in their professional careers and more holistically, they're close friends now. I go to them for advice. They come to me for advice. That's what networking is. It's not this transactional thing where you're saying, help me, please. It is developing a relationship and friendship built on trust so that we can all lift one another up as we climb. I had a boss in the Marine Corps who was a great networker and at 1.1 time he said, I want to make sure I know someone before I ever need something from them. That's brilliant. I get it. He was always trying to go out of his way to meet certain people. Why do you care about what this guy's doing? Where do you want to go? Where are we going here and meeting this guy? He had no intentions other than getting to know people in the beginning. And then something 6 months later happens, we've already met him. We know them. It's so much easier to do the ask if you already know him. And that's what a lot of networking is getting to know people. If it makes folks feel like uncomfortable thinking about it in terms of I will have an ask for this person one day. Think of it from the perspective of service. How can I be of service to folks? Transitioning out of the military. So maybe I don't necessarily have the professional things that I can help with. But if I'm just going to be a person that's just going to give and give and give through getting involved maybe a nonprofits, which are great ways to build your network, by the way. Or just finding out how you can be of service to folks in your network. And you approach it from the mentality of I just want to give, then that is going to pay dividends. Because you'll develop really authentic, genuine relationships. You'll be used to providing other people with value right from the get go. So that's another way to think about it. I think it could be more palatable. So everything you've learned about military transition, everything. Was that the catalyst for starting up the military veteran? Yeah, I mean, we knew the process of transitioning was not fun from first person experience. My business partner, Tim, he tells the story of how he got rejected from hundreds of jobs. When he was transitioning, ended up getting a JD MBA at Stanford and
Veteran on the Move
"brendan aronson" Discussed on Veteran on the Move
"Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs have that stick to this mission accomplishment mentality that creativity and leading an entrepreneurial venture is nothing like in so many ways it's nothing like being an infantry leader, of course, but it's like the mindset is still the same. It's the closest thing I could, that's why I love about entrepreneurship. I love the Chase and the poll for success. So I think veterans make great entrepreneurs. They make great employees too. For sure. Veterans getting into entrepreneurial roles can be one of the most satisfying things they can do when they get out. I feel like to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to be a zealot. It's the same thing as being a marine. Marines and their zealots. They are true believers. That's one of the things I love about working with marines and veterans more holistically. To be an entrepreneur I do think you have to be it requires an intense amount of focus, discipline and it's just hard. It's super, super hard every single day. And there's so many highs and lows that I think of it as a full mind body and spirit endeavor. You have to have each portion of that has to be dedicated to growth. My first venture was very challenging. Coming out of that experience and figuring out what was next, it really made me question a lot of what I thought I wanted to do with my life and my sense of purpose. And ultimately, I think what I recognized was like, hey, I'm just not good enough as an entrepreneur. Yet. But that doesn't mean I never can be. As long as I can continue to learn and grow for the next ten, 20, 30 years. I can get good at this. It's just going to take a long time and it's going to take consistent effort over a long period of time. I try and encourage people to think with that kind of long-term mindset because I think it can be very helpful. Even if you're not where you want to be today, that doesn't mean that you can't get there in the future. Absolutely. 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You're hitting on a really key point there, brilliant when you're talking about your first venture, it was really hard and you learned a lot. It wasn't really a big success. Entrepreneurship is a process. And oftentimes, it's not a one time chance and you're done in your out. Every time you jump in an entrepreneurial venture and fail, you've learned more about the process and eventually when you figure out the process, you can run any idea or any products through that same process. And then you can be successful. A wholeheartedly agree. Entrepreneurship and business more generally, first of all, for people looking for a passion or transitioning out of the military and feeling the same concern. I would tell you that you can and we'll find a passion in the civilian world. Hopefully you'll find something that challenges you and provides you the sense of fulfillment that I found in business. Business can be extremely interesting. It can force you to grow and a lot of different ways. To your point about entrepreneurship and continuing to learn, it does force you to take your long-term goals and break them into really simple bite sized chunks and ask how can I march the ball forward today and then ruthlessly prioritize. There are right now my to do list is like it's just hundreds and hundreds of items. If I want to get to where we want to be, and so I need to ruthlessly prioritize what do I need to do in order to march the ball forward? I see a lot of first time entrepreneurs avoid eating their frogs. And by that I mean, there are going to be tasks that you hate doing. I see this in transitioning that's too. It typically comes back to some sort of cold outreach. They know they need a network. They'll reach out to a couple of people on LinkedIn and then they'll just be like, all right, cool, I reached out for the day. But they're not tracking it. They're not logging. How many people they've reached out to? And so it feels like they've done a lot more outreach than they actually have. I see this as well in entrepreneurs who are like, well, I'm going to reach out to some potential clients. Reach out to a handful of not tracking. It's very uncomfortable, and it's boring, and it's annoying work. And so they'll kind of think that they've done more than they actually have. I just always encourage people to think about and prioritize what is truly going to move the needle forward. It tends to be the boring work that you don't want to do. But that same process of thinking with a long-term vision, setting your priorities for the day and ruthlessly executing. We'll come back to pay you benefits throughout your civilian career. And sometimes we take for granted or we even load the fact that in the military, we have daily training plans. You have daily flights as you get everything everything's scripted and oftentimes we're even the ones putting those plans together, making things happen. You get out, you start your own business and you don't hold yourself accountable with those hardcore things that you used to always do, because there's no one else, there's not really anybody looking over your shoulder, you know? That's a tough transition entrepreneurship is learning how to hold yourself accountable, even when no one's watching. Because oftentimes you are on your own, especially in the beginning, you might not have other people working with you. And it's easy to not hold yourself accountable. Yeah, it's very easy. It's also easy to become busy without making real progress. And a lot of that just comes down to not knowing what to focus on, or with entrepreneurship, I also talked to a lot of times people who have an idea for a product, but haven't necessarily talked to as many customers as they need to. I think that's a big mistake as well. You want to spend as much time as possible talking to customers. They'll also have an idea that's like, hey, this will be really valuable when there's like a million members on the platform. Anywhere I can get a million people to pay attention to is going to have value. But how can you create value in the interim to build traction so you can build up to that kind of level? That's harder to think about. It's really hard for people to think in terms of what tangible steps can I take to march this thing forward? Made that mistake a few times in your Amazon business. We were creating products of our own and things like that and a number of different angles with Amazon. I made some of those same mistakes. I fell in love with my own idea and didn't solicit it out to customers enough to find out if it was really an interesting people even wanting that.
Veteran on the Move
"brendan aronson" Discussed on Veteran on the Move
"All right, today we're talking with Marine Corps veteran Brendan aronson, cofounder and CEO of the military veteran and also a big venture capitalist in serial entrepreneur. Brendan, thanks for being on the show today. I want to start off by talking about what you did when you were in the Marine Corps. Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it and congrats on everything you've done with the podcast. As far as my Marine Corps background, I joined the Marine Corps after graduating from the naval academy in 2012. I was an infantry officer for 6 years. I was with first battalion first marines out on the West Coast as a platoon commander, did a deployment to oki in that capacity. Came back, I spent a little bit of time training marines going on adviser deployments and marine expeditionary units. Folks that are deployed on ships. Deployment to Iraq in 2016. So I was there for almost the whole year. I was there for 9 months and we were advising the Iraqi army. If you remember back in 2016, ISIS controlled up to the outskirts of Baghdad. We were stationed between Ramadi and Fallujah out in the western part of the country. We helped the Iraqi army plan for and retake most of the Euphrates river valley, as well as coordinated a ton of air strikes in our AO. That was an interesting experience. And then came back home and transitioned out of the Marine Corps in 2018. For that last year I was working as the operations officer at adviser training branch out at the West Coast of training folks to go do the same deployment that I had done. Yeah. You know what? It's amazing, I look back on, I was there at Al takada and TQ O four and mostly Alice in Korean village in O 7 and O 8 and it was always in the news back then, but once certain presidents said that we're no longer in Iraq, even though we were still in Iraq, there's been no coverage at all. Those are big operations that took place that you're talking about. Absolutely zero coverage anywhere on the news about it. It's like, no, we're not really there anymore, but we've still got a huge presence. And then I was talking with somebody else the other day. We were always flying out near the Syrian border and everything was like, do not cross the Syrian border. And now we've got in and out of all sorts of stuff in Syria, setting up semi permanent operations in Syria all the time, which is crazy. It's just not really on the news anymore, you know? It's like old stories. So it's interesting to hear somebody talk about it that was actually there. So talk about what your transition was like, the military veteran, your company, your main company now is all about helping transitioning veterans and helping companies hire veterans coming out of the military. What was your transition like? Yeah, I mean, I feel very lucky and fortunate in my own transition. When I came back from Iraq, I was actually supposed to transition out in the spring of 2017, but my back was like a disaster. Just physically and very bad shape. I think a lot of that was just wear and tear as a lot of that's experience, especially in the infantry. I stayed in the Marine Corps for an extra year to rehab it deferred at an MBA program during that time. It really gave me time and space to set myself up into a better spot for my transition. It gave me time to apply to an internship and financial services at Goldman Sachs in New York, which I was lucky enough to get. And then also to start volunteering with an organization called service to school. Services school is a nonprofit that's helped thousands of vast ventricular and higher Ed. Enlisted vets that are thinking about going to undergrad. You definitely need to reach out to service to school. Service the number two and then school dot org. They can help you with your application. They've actually established relationships directly with some of the nation's top schools, like the top 30 schools. Places like Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford. They now accept transfer students. They have veterans now ten years ago, there were zero veterans at those schools and today there's 50 to 80 student veterans of each of those places, along with a myriad of other great spots. That experience of volunteering for that nonprofit actually serendipitously introduced me to my current business partner, Tim, which I'll get into in a moment. But volunteering for a nonprofit was super helpful. And then going and working in financial services was interesting. I went through the MBA program at Wharton and ended up declining a full time offer to go into financial services. I wanted to launch something for myself. I would say I had a fairly straightforward transition out of the military, and it was still incredibly challenging. Even being set up for success and even feeling like I knew what I needed to do and having some goals that I set for myself. It was still really hard. Part of it was by virtue of the fact that I lost my father during my transition. And we were very, very close, which I think was very challenging. But more holistically, what I see from veterans is this loss of purpose, and this loss of a tribe. And those two things are really hard. I remember telling my brother when I was getting out, he's still a marine. I'm not sure how I'm going to find something that is going to give me the sense of purpose of leading marines. But that's okay. I'll be fine in the civilian world, and I'll find a great paying career. And losing that sense of purpose is really hard. It hit me a lot harder than I thought. I love the military mindset. And I think that's what a lot of it we miss the people. When we get out of the military, they have that trash. I've been everything else. Because you can think about certain times, people are deployed with whatever you're like, I am so looking forward to just getting the hell out of here and away from these people. You forget about those parts. But the truth is, you really do love the people in the camaraderie in that tribe. And when you unplug yourself from it, it's nice at first because you get away from all the hustle and bustle and hectic life, but it quickly becomes very boring because you realize how much you really do love it. And what's interesting is I've said that the closest thing I found to the military mindset or that sets a purpose, what else compares to leading marines as an infantry officer in combat, the closest thing I've ever found would be
Men In Blazers
"brendan aronson" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"That one 6 four tell us where you are. What's your question? Can we give us a hug? Hello, hello. It's Megan from Pittsburgh. The cling lives here, or was from here, but former home of Zach Stefan. My question is, we're kind of just talking about it, but well, first of all, great from the boys. It's so nice to have hope again. I mean, it's great. It's truly great. But my question is, is which national team player do you think garnered themselves like the biggest move right now? I know you were just talking about Christian, obviously Westin with the UV situation, but which may be outside of those two, do you think garnered the most attention for the transfer window? Yeah, so outside of Christian and western, I would look honestly to play like Tyler Adams, you know, and I know that many U.S. fans love seeing him play at leagues under Jesse marsh. Along with Brendan aronson, but I think Tyler Adams did a lot to get some attention. And I think the other two players would be the full backs would be junior desk. And Anthony Robinson, those would be the three I'd pick ros what do you think? Any adversary will come in with about 80 million dollar offer for Tim Reed. He deserves every bloody way. You're Tyler is now on every single major team's radar. Any player that has those loans and that capacity is always always marveled at them going to contact a player who makes it look like the team have 12 players on the field. In this tournament, Tyler Adams looked like Yankee can take will have every single thing with some tiny bit more tactical development he will be a and we just didn't absolutely warrior three atoms. It was just, it was majestic to witness that kid, my friend, he remember, when I started podcasting with him, ten months ago, was in Leipzig, not in the first team, battling injuries, battling confidence, battling joy. And that,
ESPN FC
"brendan aronson" Discussed on ESPN FC
"Difficult because of how impactful he's been for the U.S. miss nationally we've already a goal and assist, right? So you would assume it would be very difficult because they're not a high scoring team as Casey just mentioned, especially against elevated competition. Please explain something to me. Please, please. Where's gill sharina? Where is Gio rayna? I'll be honest with you. I have no clue. I mean, I'm watching some of the substitutions and particularly as Iran gets more and more of the ball. You're thinking, okay, where's that guy that can hold the ball up? Skate pass two or three defenders. Keep possession down on the corner, win a throw in, do stuff like that. I mean, that's clearly one of Georgia's biggest strengths. And I don't know what's going on. We obviously knew there was a bunch of craziness that happened after the first game. I hope there wasn't a locker room situation or something like that because it is probably the most confounding thing with the success of the team so far in this World Cup is that giovanna is only played 7 minutes of that. And it'll be interesting to see how that goes forward, but look, coaches make difficult decisions all the time. And decisions in the end depend then on how you're looked at as a coach if your decisions are successful. Well, the goal for Greg berhalter was to get out of the first round, see who the next opponent was going to be, have a good performance and go from there. And he's accomplished exactly what he came into accomplish regardless that a lot of us or let's just say most of us are scratching our head why Gio reyna hasn't had more game time. G arena, Brendan aronson, the fans are screaming for both of them. If Christian Pulisic out, at least to Casey's point, that's probably the spot on this team where you've got the most depth and you vent very are likely to see. Probably an aronson in the starting lineup, and that brain would move up as one of those next guys off the bench. Casey, you mentioned Greg berhalter, getting the job done. There's a big discussion about whether he's the coach to take this team to 2026. Now that he's gotten them, out of the group phase and into the round of 16 and playing the way that they did over these three games has he done enough for you to get those next four years for the 2026 World Cup that we know will be held primarily in the United States. Well, it's really difficult to achieve your goal and then not say you're the right guy. That seems a bit harsh. But there's also a thought process of how difficult it is to repeat the task at hand. Very, very few managers have been successful in staying at the job for the kind of for the second go round. And the question mark will be. You know, I know you guys know Greg and I are good friends and, you know, Greg and I had some discussions, you know, when he took the national team
Men In Blazers
"brendan aronson" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"To be your best player, he's your captain, is your talisman. He's supposed to be head and shoulders above pretty much anybody else. I would counter that Brendan and say to you that I think the best player in your team is Brendan aronson. And I think little Brendan aronson, who is what, 21 years old, 20 years old, from Philadelphia, formerly of the union. I'm right, right? And he, I think, having watched him play for leads this season in the Premier League, Brendan aronson, if you're looking for a player to follow to love, to see real work ethic, passion, dedication, and talent. For me, he knocks pulisic off the park. Well, you're exaggerating. Frankly, you've gone too far. I think. You know the Oreo chestnut of a football phrase form is temporary class is permanent and politic is class. And I think at Chelsea, he's just having a hard time and he's being made to sink to that much and they keep putting him at fucking wingback. Yeah, that's right. I said fucking wing back. I'll give a fuck. And but you're right, Brendan's playing amazingly well, despite his inability to spell his own first name correctly. He's been amazing. I would say Tyler Adams, his teammate it leads, has been even better than he has been. But I think it is folly to say that either of them are better than Christian. But Christian now needs to prove it. But now let's talk about England. Now folks, here's the thing about England. Here's the thing about it. They won the World Cup in 1966. They invented the game as they're still fond of saying they codified it. And then they were so good for so long, they wouldn't even condescend to go to world cups. World cups were beneath them. And then when they finally went to a World Cup in 1950, who did they lose against about the United States of America, which was mostly comprised of a bunch of dudes from St. Louis and a dishwasher from Haiti and our goalkeeper stood on his head and the mighty England were defeated. Now, England has not done much of anything since that 66 World Cup win, they made it to the semifinals in 90 as Rebecca so finally recalls, they made it to the semifinals also in 2018. And then the European Championship final in 2021 Rebecca, my opening question is, it seems especially given the 2018 performance that England do best when expectations are low. And expectations are a great, great burden on this team historically. At least in the 21st century, disgust. I would agree with that. I would agree that we do poorly when expectations are high. The problem is that expectations on the England team right now coming off the 2018 semifinals and the 2020 or 2021 European Championship final, which we lost on penalties since they've penalties again to Italy. The expectation should be high, right? Based on our recent prowess under Gareth, Southgate. However, our form since the summer of 21 has been nothing short of abysmal. And I think there are low expectations. The problem with England, right, is this. English people and football and the England national team. We can try our hardest, right? To lower expectations, we can say, oh, we're not very good. We haven't been very good for about a year and a half, so we're not going to win the World Cup, but then just in our dreams, we lie there in a quiet moment. And it starts to just trickle into the brain, but we're England, and that we invented this for. And we are we are dual World Cup. And it could just happen in 2022, because we have Phil Foden. We have Harry Kane. We have no defense, but we'll get on to that later, but we have some good, if not great players. So I'm going to agree with you when expectations are high. We're rubbish. The problem is, expectations are pretty much always high. No matter what for England and that's a problem. Well, sometimes it's realistic and sometimes it isn't. And this time, I think it is realistic. I think, again, their form has not been great this year, but it's hard to it's hard to get up for a nation's league game in Bulgaria or whatever or Hungary. When you've been to the heights that they've been to in the last three years, but Rebecca, you're glowing tribute to the potential of your nation's football team brings us to a feature that we like to call. Optimist.
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"brendan aronson" Discussed on ExtraTime
"Parameter. You can interpret that. That story is being told in multiple ways. I completely what we hold we hold our own data. So we track our own statistics, and then we use try to use consistent base statistics to look at what we're trying to achieve. And in this moment, it was to make sure that we understood that we were on the right path, right? And if you looked at metrics at any level, we would have been in the top half of the league at the very least, and then sometimes even in the top 6. And so for me, it was about now trying to understand how to modify our tactics and our substitutions, our line of choices, everything. And then still provide enough consistency so that the players understood that we were doing well and that it eventually it was going to pay off and that we needed to continue to push even harder in the direction that we were going. So that's still the case. This one victory, which is a big victory doesn't really change that at all. You have these reams of data I'm sure from all your stops and it was important to Red Bulls. It was important and Salzburg. It's remained important. And a lot of it I assume is on physical capacity as well to press and run and do the things that you're asking. Can anyone has anyone surpassed what Brendan aronson is and can do within that sort of parameter? Like just from a physical capability to run and press, I mean, is he number one on that list or have other people surpass that? I mean, I've had a few guys that are at a high level for that, but he's certainly one of them and Tyler is too. I mean, it's the reason why we went after both of those guys, right? It was because I believed in their talent, and I knew them, but I also knew, and their ability to play the way that I wanted to play. And that we want to play. So they are gifted that way. But they are also relentless in the commitment to get better. And to develop as people and as players. What does this come from this capacity? It's an americanism. It's an americanism. I'm sure of it, right? I mean, in some ways, for both of them, like when they landed, they played for me, right? Tyler, I was the assistant. And Brendan and I was the head coach. But, you know, they kind of played a version of what we were doing in Salzburg. Obviously, New York did with Leipzig. And so it was a little from a stylistic and from a philosophical football philosophical standpoint. It was a little bit easy for them to adapt based on some of the terminology and the ideas that were behind the tactics.
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"brendan aronson" Discussed on ExtraTime
"You know, Brendan aronson, you know, part of that Philadelphia union academy from around the same age. Jack Harrison, former number one pick in the super draft. So this is, it's important to understand the context of this being sort of another milestone on the growth of the league on the ability of MLS to more and more become a part of the global soccer, hierarchy, as a league that sort of filters players to the very top of the game in Europe, but I don't think there's much argument that EPL in La Liga are levels above just about everything else, including the Bundesliga right now. So it felt big in that way. But it's just another stop on the trip. It's not the end point. It's not the goal. There are going to be more Jesse marshes. They're going to be more bread and Harrison's more Tyler Adams. More Jack Harrison's as well. And it's exciting to think about that.
Men In Blazers
"brendan aronson" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Code. Am I B? Okay. Okay, leads to wolves one rod and American Portuguese proxy war fought out on a Yorkshire battleground and it is the Americans who come out on top after wolves started the scoring with a scissoring Daniel Poland's bouncing Betty in the 6th minute, leads it back, Brendan aronson created a turnover in the wolf's box, the ball broke to Rodrigo out on the right and he lashed one past Jose saw in goal and then in the 74th minute after you'll make Tyler Adams broke the lines with a beautiful ball, Patrick Bamford's cross found a streaking Brendan aronson for the game winner. It was officially ruled an own goal, but the men in blazers dubious goals committee has looked at it and has decided on this show. We're giving it to that P-51 Mustang in football boots. What a win and what a goal for Brendan aronson roger. What a massive, massive movement for United States men's football. Really, really, really is. And for Americans in the Premier League, this is the truth. This is not a hyperbolic. Not just two starters, Brendan arenson, 21 years age, Medford, New Jersey, soccer Timothy Chalamet. And Tyler Adams, 23 years old from whopping his falls, New York, both making their debut, but this is a Premier League club managed for the first time in our nation's history at the beginning of a season by an American reseen Wisconsin's Jesse marsh with American ownership in the form of the San Francisco forty-niners, but if these things go well, this is great for all of us. We are going to see that as if things go belly up, we will believe me in this conservative just very risk averse world of English football. We will pay a price. So saver, days light this and God. What is that line from Hamilton? That's what I thought of at kick-off and so the American experiment begins at the gross 12 tweeted. Have Lee united Dave out officially supplanted the cowboys as America's team. Yeah, it's pretty incredible. I heard from so many people this weekend who've never ever messaged me about soccer suddenly just really into leads and that leads victory. It does feel rod that for so long we've been grasping at so many straws. As we've had to with American involvement in the Premier League. But looking at this leads performance this weekend, Tyler Adams, Brendan aronson, Jesse marsh, also central to every single good thing that was going on. It must be what it's like for Spanish people watching the Premier League on watching all these amazing Spanish managers and Spanish players. It was just, this is what it's like. We're not trying to grasp at all. This was he was involved. He made a defensive header here that led to 5 passes later the ball going in the net or trying to convince yourself that the XG or the dribbles one or the offensive actions happened. This was a manager and two players genuinely being the story of the game, you know, wherever you're from. I thought it was absolutely fantastic to watch. I loved it from the outset. Tell her Adam's set the tone with a crunching tackle on neves from the off. It was not the start. We should note that leads wanted caught by a sucker punch netto floated the border Wang at the far post and he set up Poe dense to take an improvised flick of a shot off the ground, the ball span up agonizingly. What a nightmare. Leads though credit them. God, they felt like the whole thing could just deflate and spell out of control, but they took out on the chin. They drew forward. It was helter skelter this game. Aronson, everywhere, a bit like Taylor Swift's private jet. And he thrashed one just wide off of deflection. The endeavor lifted the crowd. They hunted in packs, Ellen rode a cauldron, and it seemed to inspire to players to summon the belief that they belonged and could pummel walls and it was Brendan aaronson's persistence alongside honorary American Jack Harrison, the best New York New Jersey combo since the metro stars who caused a turnover inside the walls area, leading to the lead equalizer. My God, in that moment, I watched Brendan Owens and I was like, this kid was running around the Philadelphia union academy a couple of years ago. Here, he was chasing down, defenders on Premier League turf Rodriguez slapped him through a admittedly dodgy keeper. And we got a note, Dave, second half, leads intensity, did burn off Neto started a propel walls forward to the midfielder will. Better teams probably could have would have scored once twice in that opening of the second half. But they didn't. But they didn't. And Leeds found a way. Yeah, wolves, this was a, this was a very opening daylight performance by them, clearly their manager was extraordinarily frustrated, which we'll get to. But Leeds were difficult. They were throwing their bodies into it. They do look stronger as well as fitter. And they were just being pests. They were stopping walls from playing football, which is by the way, what walls have done a lot themselves, and sometimes that's necessary. If you're going to lift yourself back into being a mid table team, which has got to be the ambition for Jesse marsh this season. Yeah, then the moment 74th minute Adam starting the move, Jack Harrison evolved again. Brendan amundsen, speedy in on the line. 8 nori said to a prodded at home, but my God, Brendan arenson Premier League sure Mendez sped away celebrated just a move ripped
ESPN FC
"brendan aronson" Discussed on ESPN FC
"That they lost them. They valued him. So if that discussion was had with a great Warhol, I assume it meant the possibilities about playing in the World Cup. Not just a 2026, but maybe even Qatar. I want to see what you're getting with Malik sandwich. I've heard how good he is in tight spaces. I've heard about his vision. I've heard about his box to box. I've heard about the nac he has for goals and assists we're getting into that final third. I want to see myself in this first team setup. That's what I would do. That's what I want to see. Till I'm in a player lots of people are excited about notes out. I'm interested, you got them trying to get into that crowded midfield instead of one of the wide attacking positions or something like that. Speaking just from Tillman's perspective, what's his quickest ticket into the starting 11 or into playing time? Is it midfield or is it a different role? Well, just based on everything I've heard of him, it's got to be midfield and everything I'm hearing now. I know you think the midfield is crowded, but think about those wing positions. So you're not going to play as a 9. Think about those wing positions. I mean, you're fighting with some very good players. Where do you put Brendan aaronson? Where do you put Giovanni Reina? There's some names there. Brendan aronson, fresh off a move to Leeds. And recently he sat down for a one on one interview with Sam Borden. Let's listen in. As our road to Qatar continues. It was.
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"brendan aronson" Discussed on ExtraTime
"And then just got up and slowly jogged back up field, keeping the whole thing on side and not even bothering to mark his man. It was pretty rough. It seems like we did ding him. Got it in, baby. Got it in. All right, just quickly on the winger line here. Post starter period in the team is way a lock or not. No. I mean, he's played awesome. But I think he's competing with Brendan aronson and G arena. And I think if all three of those guys are healthy, I think it's geo Rena who will be the starter of the three. Not a lock, but not based on his performance, or just the talent that we have available there. So yeah, I agree with that. Okay. All right, I think we can move up to the forward line. Should politics be a lock? If Timothy way is not starting for the U.S., I'm not even showing up. And I wasn't even invited to show up, so that's how strongly I feel about this. You're out of your minds. Yes. Is there a lock just to answer the question? Yes. For sure. I thought we were just going to ignore that. We came back into it. I'm going to bring Bobby on for a show. Wow. Well, interesting. You think if you think that that's not a threat, that's like, I welcome. You also remember this in my dreams. This show started a conversation about a lack of depth that left back. So you can combine both issues, Christian Pulisic, backup, left back, and now Bobby hosts the show. Wow, everybody. Everybody get on board here. How about the number 9? I mean, we've sort of summed it up a bit here. Taji Wright, it's Jesus Ferreira. To me, it's Jesus and then a question mark behind him. Not necessarily behind, but in competition with him. I think Ferrera will be at the World Cup. He has shown. To my eye, more of an ability with this group of players to get into good goal scoring positions and to also help set them up to get themselves into those positions than anybody else in the pool..
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"brendan aronson" Discussed on ExtraTime
"Around different publications podcasts and pundits, the three P's saying that maybe that wouldn't be the best for the U.S. in the World Cup. We saw Weston McKinney again for the first time since his injury his foot injury. He was back for 45 minutes, understandable that he wouldn't be necessarily at his very, very sharpest. At this point, we had to get those guys reps every opportunity that you can. Dave, let me ask you this. Is MMA? Is there a, is there a question about MMA at this point? With aronson sort of excelling at the 8 with raina, playing with the ball somewhere in Austin and we assume getting back for Dortmund soon as they're become a question mark in midfield for the U.S. that seemed to be sort of accepted gospel, a very recently. So I would spend the question a little and say, no, the question, the question is not, can it not work? It's more there's other talent that could deserve to be in those spots and can play. Which I think that's what shifted in my mind. We're coming out of qualifying. We had seen Brendan aronson inside he hadn't played well there. So that kind of had gone away GRE and obviously is hurt, hadn't played in a while. And it felt like those three had completely elevated themselves in that they were good enough to win in that space together and they could play well together, where now you have aaronson and I think play successfully for two games inside will obviously now head to the primary league where if he's playing in that position weekend and week out, that puts pressure on those guys, especially if moose is not playing that position. If Tyler's not starting, not that Brennan aaronson's putting pressure on Tyler. And there was the McKinney obviously we've seen her at times. Moved around in the past at uve and now he's settled in more centrally..
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"brendan aronson" Discussed on ExtraTime
"Team that won the sport of shield two years ago, went to the Eastern Conference Finals last year. They have switched over a large part of their minutes and they've been able to maintain that success. And I think actually reestablish it going forward as a continued process. So I picked them to win supporters shield last week. I still feel good about all of that. And if you took all of that away, they made like $6 million last week without doing anything. So that alone would have been a positive mood for them in Brendan aronson moving from Salzburg to Leeds, which we talked about on this show was somewhat credit to them for picking the right spot for him to develop and move again rather than the biggest name or the most money they could find out of that move. So overall, a minus for the season for the Philadelphia union, I don't know that they can get an a if they don't win a trophy, this year and so that's what sort of will decide it going forward as they taught her between a and B any thoughts, move on. I'd give him a B plus. I think they've been underwhelming for almost two straight months at this point. Like they don't feel like they're improving. So I go B, B plus, but a minus isn't irrational by any by any stretch. Portland timbers, this is an F for me. MLS cup finalist that's barely holding on to getting a point per game. They've had injuries for sure. But just, yeah, I don't really, it just feels like an F to me. All around grade just, you know, it's just enough. I'm going after the Portland timbers so far this year. We'll see if they can pull that grade up over the course of the rest of the season. Because honors is telling us to move quickly, we won't analyze that further..
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"brendan aronson" Discussed on ESPN FC
"It. Watching Salzburg. And this is a stats on Brendan aronson, who created 5 chances against vine, which is more than any other player across both the Champions League games that will be in play that night. Says fly in the U.S. flag. In fact, it was 5 chances in the Champions League game making him the youngest player to do that since Lionel Messi in 2008. Against Celtic. Archie, what did you make of him? First time I seen him properly gay, very impressive, symbolic of the overall thoughts about performance. High energy nimble, particularly he's turning circle you generally I think only here that in football when we're talking about slow defenders. But actually, as an attacker, just the way that he was able to kind of spin on an axis so so quickly, it was causing by in real problems and he had a great chance to make it two nil as well in the first half and you saw the respect that bind were giving him in that you could tell they were afraid to touch him in the penalty area because they knew that if he goes over it, if he gets a touch, it was going to be a penalty. So I thought that the way that he was still I thought the way that he was still sprinting even in the 90th minute when a lot of his teammates had kind of tired themselves out by that point. Look, he's that sort supposed to give himself a platform for the future as everybody who is there at that club is. And doing it in that kind of game against Bayern is a real test with your character, particularly at the young age that he is right now. So very encouraging and I'm sure it's the sort of performance that will put him even more prominently on bigger clubs radar. Thanks so much Archie. Thanks for letting us know and giving us your insight on what you saw there.
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"brendan aronson" Discussed on TestUpload
"Maybe, you know, it's something bare halter has to look at in terms of obviously clearly on the road U.S. are not as they are at home. Which is normal. Which is normal, but I think it's more like maybe managing managing what happened or the energy or the mood directly after Friday night, maybe that's something as a group they need to look at and maybe not to leave themselves emotionally flat and then that leads into the physicality, which they just didn't have tonight. And they look leggy as well. They look kind of tired. Yeah, I mean, look, I went through the list of guys who were not available to them right now. Their depth for whatever we think of their depth, which we've come to think pretty highly of it. It's being tested. They're going a little bit deeper into the pool. And asking a lot from some of these guys. When work of qualifying started, we certainly thought highly of Brendan aronson, but he's playing a lot more, I think than what we had anticipated. It's every game now. He's given a significant minutes and he's being asked to run a lot a lot Riccardo peppy. He's somebody who kind of burst on the scene through this qualification period. And a lot's being asked of him. He's playing a lot, running trying to do a lot to help this team and was not super effective. In this window, did set up the goal tonight for waia, although like I said, it was I felt like that was a lot of way of doing Tim Leia things. But this was Ricardo peppy leveled out a little bit over these last two games, maybe. I still think very highly of him and think that he should still be the number 9, but these are guys being thrust into really crucial roles in really important games. And so I'm going to have to feel it out..
Men In Blazers
"brendan aronson" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"We'll after years of inferiority for candidate they just opened up saying we all know intimidated to come down to the and play in your own backyard. And i couldn't understand tactically why we seem to have no plan at the onset. Yeah look i think this is. That is the key point. It's you know. I actually think even trump's this idea that you know all these teams and individuals want to beat the. Us they wanna kill them. Because that's what's gonna get them you know. They're equivalent of the nobel peace prize in their own country. It's the. I don't think that these other players other teams think that the us are anywhere near as good as the us seem to think they are and they do think that there is good as then they think they can beat them and this competition. The nature of the octagon wrote the nature of the art. Show the art. Is that you know we're going to see three and a half teams move forward in the world cup's three into the actual competition guitar. Harp gonna go and play against another confederation champion. And there is a lot to play for and these teams all feel like they're in with a shot of making it into those top three and they see us or even mexico is so dominant that they can't like beat them to it. No one is invincible. In the book that is ru three of concacaf and frustrating moment. Right before halftime politic. Hit the post lake a action hero fulling shooting off-balance beautifully off brendan aronson pass. And for a moment in that move you so the us movement the team were the vision centers space that we are capable of that we want the we expect but it was so blood the rally produced on the night. We gotta take a quick detour into the halftime shakes. And you loved it. Possibly the nicest american management of the whole international break so far dax mccarty our pal. Jfk pay on the fox broadcast alongside. Alexi lalas stay to gingy on one. Half timeshare shave this is. This is a historic everyone for football so first of all before we get into that level of of ginger which i think is tweeted even seen on on irish television awful. They don't put that much ginger hair. Yeah on a on any kind of broadcast in ireland. I think their their government regulations against it but poor dak sitting between those two. he just looked. He looked terrified when they went to him. He really looked terrified. I think we tweeted alexi. Lalas breaks down games. His analysis of the united states is as if he is running for senate in alabama. Which were we have to say when he alabama was very right in and say you know what the way speaks about. The united states in these movements makes you want to me. he does. he talks. He doesn't like from footballing perspective. It's he's looking at. Brendan aronson thinking susan b. anthony. He's still looking up he. He's just seeing credible american heroes. All over the failed rising up to fight for nations all not just a recovering flags from battlefields lifting them aloft as fireworks go off on the military. It's like that's says narrative he believes the united states are destined to be the greatest soccer nation in the world because of their americanism and so the every time he sees something which does not compute with that. You literally see his head exploding. He just cannot process while he's watching these. These players are on the failed. They are they are in a remote criss crossing the delaware ultimately. And you know what. I'm not sure he's wrong. I probably feel better if they were Every once in volonte shocked but the the beautiful dax issue was was exquisite. Other countries might be better football and us. But i do doubt that they have the number gingy broadcasting rubbing decision the end of the day. That's all that matters. Ginger right back to the football. Helter skelter tackles planning and second off points. The ref just been like oh this whole if he dies he dies and politic for astray today after. I just much what. He was frustrated. Actor mondays head. I'd guess some of it was with the refereeing and what the defend is able to get away with. I think there was some degree of frustration. His teammates who are not mentally where he wanted them to be. But fifty six minute america dave they only went in scored their first goal of the octopus and it was. It was fantastic suddenly. A move at speeds some penetration Roach a bull down. The flanks of bullet comes into the midland brendan aronson who looked lively all day scored goal good goal celebrations even better a goal of optimism. Curious searching Goals are worth more than just one on the school board. That's what it felt like in a second and when brendan aronson tapped in from close range it felt like a mood changes said x. hail audible across america. We truly needed that. It felt amazing. Parole of six minutes. David canada go up the other end. We'd already seen like you. Know davies really abusing. The american defense like moments of just incredible penetration and dave is again with an incredible mood puts the bull on a plate of alaron. Who's in a bunch of space who puts the ball in the back of the net. Very good goal. I should say. I meet destroyed. Pulled the andrey yet lint roll the bull across the goal and open an open goal allowing even he couldn't miss as john brooks just stood and what's like the rest of this whole.