Scott Mann Green Beret Writes a Play About Combat
b'Scott Mann has spent nearly 23 years in the Army, of which 18 has been as a Green Beret with deployments in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Iraq and Afghanistan. During Scott\'s last combat tour to Afghanistan, he was one of the architects of the Village Stability Operations program. He has a book on this topic entitled "Game Changers: Going local to defeat violent extremists." \\n\\nScott Mann- It\'s Time\\xa0\\n\\nScott was a career Green Beret and spent 18 of a 23 year period in Army Special Forces, mostly in 7th Special Forces Group. \\xa0He was working in Central and South America before 9/11 and then after 9/11, his primary focus with Southwest Asia in particular southern Afghanistan where he did four tours. \\xa0Scott retired as a Lieutenant Colonel and knew that it was time to transition.\\n\\n\\u201cI felt like it was time for me to go. \\xa0My Dad had always told me like, you\'ll know when it\'s time to retire. \\xa0And I just felt like I could do more good on the outside than the inside. \\xa0I was still passionate about the mission. I was still passionate about stability. \\xa0My brother and I, a former paratrooper, we had started buying real estate.\\u201d - Scott Mann\\n\\nTransitioning from the Military\\n\\nAfter retiring from the Army, Scott founded the non profit Stability Institute where he still advises senior commanders and law enforcement officers on community-based operations. Scott is also a passionate advocate for veterans transitioning to civil society. He is a consultant to the Green Beret Foundation on military transition and has written a book entitled "Next Ridgeline" on this topic. Scott lives in Tampa, Florida, as a real estate entrepreneur, speaker, trainer, and author.\\nStorytelling to the Start of a Business \\nScott found himself in some pretty dark places after retiring and had trouble transitioning. \\xa0He had lost his sense of purpose and knew he needed to share his experiences as a Green Beret with others. \\xa0Scott credits storytelling as the catalyst to pulling him out of the dark.\\n\\n\\u201cI just started learning how to tell my story from the stage and bringing out lessons from those trust depleted places. \\xa0I coach executives at Capital One, Fannie Mae, Sempra Capital, and I use my story to bridge those two worlds. \\xa0It saved my life, but it also gave me a business. I\'ve just found that storytelling for veterans, I believe is one of the most powerful transition tools you can have. \\xa0The ability to develop and share your experiences, your struggles, your lessons from your time in the military with your community, your family, and the businesses that you work with.\\u201d - Scott Mann\\nRooftop Leadership and The Heroes Journey\\nScott and his wife have a business for profit which is called Rooftop Leadership. \\xa0He trains corporate leaders and entrepreneurs in how to use old school Green Beret interpersonal skills and their low trust environment to build connections. \\xa0Additionally, on the nonprofit side, they have The Heroes Journey. They teach that same high end storytelling skill in workshops. \\n\\n\\u201cIn my book Mission America, I have an online video series that\'s free and we\'re building this whole tribe around storytelling where we train. \\xa0I\'ve got kids books that parents can use storytelling with their military kids. We are also building this culture of storytelling as a transition tool and we have all these different mediums to deliver it.\\u201c - Scott Mann\\nPlay About Combat\\nScott recently decided to write a play about the war using storytelling from live theater from the stage to help civilians and politicians understand that they keep sending the same people over to this war.\\xa0 He shares that it is starting to affect our families and our resiliency.\\xa0 Scott reminds them that our children are not fight this war.\\xa0 He tells the real story about this war and what is going on.\\n\\nTo hear more about Scott\\u2019s journey, download this episode now.\\n\\nDon\\u2019t forget to leave us a 5-star rating and review if you enjoyed the show. We would love to hear from you!'