Podcasts Culture Veteranology Nate Boyer & Denver Morris - Merging Vets with Players

Nate Boyer & Denver Morris - Merging Vets with Players

Published: Jan. 6, 2018, 7:01 a.m.

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In this episode I\'m joined by two veterans:\\xa0 1) Nate Boyer, a US Army veteran and Special Forces soldier followed a path through football, playing for the Texas Longhorns and then a single pre-season game with the Seattle Seahawks, and 2) Denver Morris, a fellow Marine infantry veteran from 2/7 and Program Coordinator for the Los Angeles branch of Merging Vets with Players (MVP).

Nate, along with his co-founder\\xa0Jay Glazer, started MVP with a mission "designed to address challenges that many combat veterans and professional athletes face when transitioning their service/professional life towards a new mission in their civilian life."\\xa0 They do this by challenging its members with group fitness classes and fostering peer-to-peer support among the team.\\xa0 \\xa0Denver, MVP\'s first success story, joined them very early on and was their first employee.

In the interview we discuss:

  • The loss of identity when leaving the service and getting past it
  • Nate\'s belief that anything is possible.
  • Denver\'s brush with suicide and journey through homelessness
  • How Denver met Nate and joined the MVP team
  • The successes they\'ve both had as well as their favorite success stories coming out of their program
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