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Project Vanguard Podcast

A podcast about leadership, energy, and service — told by the veterans shaping America’s Energy Dominance. Project Vanguard brings raw, mission-first conversations with those who’ve led in the military and continue to serve their country, building our energy future. Real stories. Clear insight. Focused on an All of the Above energy strategy where Energy Security is National Security. media.projectvanguard.com

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38:27

The Cost of Energy Chaos with Joshua Bice

Project Vanguard Podcast ·

2026/03/25

The problem is not that America lacks energy resources.The problem is that we keep treating a long-horizon infrastructure challenge like a short-term political argument.In this conversation, Joshua Bice helps put a finer point on something Project Vanguard keeps coming back to: energy security is national security. Not as a bumper sticker. As a practical reality.When Josh talks about the projects being built right now, he is not describing some clean-vs-conventional fantasy debate. He is describing

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36:50

The Network After Service with Ken Webre

Project Vanguard Podcast ·

2026/03/18

A lot of veterans do not struggle because they lack discipline, grit, or work ethic.They struggle because the structure disappears, the signal gets noisy, and nobody gives them a clear map for what comes next.That is the real center of this conversation with Ken Webre.Ken has spent decades in the electrical and power world, but what makes this episode worth your time is not just his industry background. It is the way he talks about transition without dressing it up. When he came out of the Navy,

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33:04

Building Energy From Experience with Jon Powers

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2026/03/12

A lot of veterans leave the military knowing they can lead, solve problems, and operate under pressure, but not always knowing where those skills fit next.That is the center of this conversation with Jon Powers.This episode is not just a walk through one man’s resume. It is a look at how military experience can turn into energy leadership, and why that matters far beyond one career path. Jon talks through the road from Iraq to Washington, from Operation Free to CleanCapital, and how the national

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30:07

Landmen, Data Centers, and Hard Truths with Rickey...

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2026/03/04

Most people argue energy like it’s a scoreboard.But the work lives somewhere else, out in the counties, across kitchen tables, inside contracts that feel longer than a deployment.In this episode, Rickey Stuchell breaks down the side of the industry that decides whether anything ever gets built. The land side.Energy parks are the new chess moveRickey describes a model that feels like a next-phase strategy: developers bundling generation, storage, and data center load onto the same massive

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35:26

Veterans, Policy, and the Hidden Energy Battlefield...

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2026/02/25

Most people think clean energy is about technology.It is not. Or at least not only that. It is about who understands systems, who can navigate policy, and who can bring unlikely groups into the same room.In this episode of Project Vanguard, I talk with Michael Dunn, a veteran who stumbled into clean energy through necessity, curiosity, and a relentless habit of saying yes.Michael did not set out to work in policy or markets.He joined the military to pay for school.He entered consulting to find

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39:36

Markets Don’t Care About Politics with John Szoka

Project Vanguard Podcast ·

2026/02/19

Most energy arguments start in the wrong place.They start with identity, not systems. With labels, not failure modes. With confidence about outcomes, without much curiosity about what actually breaks when demand spikes or assumptions fail.In this episode, Kevin Doffing talks with John Szoka about energy from a less fashionable angle: how power systems really behave under pressure, and what that implies for markets, policy, and leadership.It’s a conversation that refuses to pretend there are clean

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46:30

Energy Reliability Isn’t a Talking Point with Ken Young

Project Vanguard Podcast ·

2026/02/11

Most energy debates focus on the loudest question.This conversation focused on the one that actually matters.In my latest episode of Project Vanguard, I sat down with Ken Young to talk about how the grid really works when it’s under pressure. Not the headlines. Not the culture war version. The systems underneath it all.We talked about why grid failures don’t come from one bad decision or one bad energy source. They come from stacked stress. Demand growth. Weather. Planning gaps. Timing. Human

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45:24

Reality Always Collects the Bill with John Broschak

Project Vanguard Podcast ·

2026/02/04

Most people talk about veteran transition like it is a single leap.One decision, one résumé, one magic network connection, then the new life locks in.In the newest Project Vanguard episode, Kevin Doffing and John Broschak say the quiet part out loud: transition is a rough road, and the people who do best are the ones who stop waiting for perfect conditions and start building real momentum.John’s path runs through the Navy nuclear pipeline, into the utility world, into leadership, and into coaching

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38:57

Before You Build More Power, Fix the Leaks

Project Vanguard Podcast ·

2026/01/14

Most energy conversations start with one assumption: we need to build more.More generation, more megawatts, more infrastructure. That matters, but it skips over a quieter truth hiding in plain sight. The fastest way to strengthen the grid isn’t always adding supply. It’s reducing waste.On the Project Vanguard Podcast, Air Force veteran and energy entrepreneur Alex Mouton explains why energy efficiency is one of the most overlooked tools in American Energy Dominance, and one of the most practical

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47:05

Energy Needs a New Pitch, Veterans Are It

Project Vanguard Podcast ·

2025/12/18

Renewable energy did not start as a partisan issue.And it does not need to be one now.That was one of the clearest messages from Jim Adams, a Coast Guard veteran and President of North American Operations at Natural Power, during his conversation on the Project Vanguard Podcast.Energy is infrastructure. It is reliability. It is national security. And when the conversation drifts into ideology instead of outcomes, everyone loses.From Search and Rescue to Energy InfrastructureJim Adams did not plan a

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35:07

Make Energy Boring Again

Project Vanguard Podcast ·

2025/12/11

When I went on Ben Wilson’s Energy Right Podcast, he asked where my view of energy security comes from.For me, it started in Iraq, standing next to small generators and handing out diesel so families could keep food and medicine cold for a few hours. That experience changed how I see every conversation we have now about power plants, renewables, and the grid.Energy stopped being abstract. It became basic stability.Iraq and my view of energyOn the show, I told Ben that my idea of energy abundance

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38:18

How A Navy Crypto Built A Career Through Enron, VPPs,...

Project Vanguard Podcast ·

2025/12/05

Hydrogen was supposed to be the breakout tool of the clean energy boom.Then the rules landed. Hard.The “three pillars” froze major projects almost overnight. Capital paused. Developers hit the brakes. Monarch Energy felt the headwind like everyone else, but instead of waiting on Treasury, they pivoted to something more fundamental.Load.This week’s guest, Kevin Boudreaux, has spent his career reading these shifts before they hit the headlines. A Navy crypto, an Enron survivor, an early VPP architect

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35:41

What Everyone Gets Wrong About EVs

Project Vanguard Podcast ·

2025/11/13

If you only read headlines, you would think electric vehicles are collapsing.Sales are “slowing.” Chargers “do not work.” The “transition” is over before it began.Army veteran and EVgo Senior Vice President Marcy Bauer sees a different reality.“There are more EVs on the road than there are public fast chargers to serve them.”That is not a collapse. That is growth outpacing infrastructure.The Gap That Actually MattersThe core problem is simple.* EVs on the road keep increasing.* Public fast charging

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42:20

Water, Fences, and 1,200 Sheep: The Ops Side of...

Project Vanguard Podcast ·

2025/10/30

Picture a 193 megawatt solar site with roughly 1,200 sheep on patrol. Each one needs three to seven gallons of water a day. If you treat that as free grazing, it fails. Treat it as a service with checklists, water logistics, and predator defense, it works.My guest is Brad Quigley, an Army veteran who served nearly 26 years. He went from missile defense and aviation to ranch foreman in West Texas, and now runs Solar Ranch Experts, using sheep to manage vegetation on solar farms. We talk about the

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26:38

The Super ERG: Turning Veteran Networks Into Real...

Project Vanguard Podcast ·

2025/10/09

If you only read headlines, you might think clean energy is stuck. Higher rates, tighter capital, and a lot of noise. Then you look at the load curves, data center growth, and the simple reality that America needs more power, faster. The truth is quieter and more durable. We need every electron we can responsibly build.That is where veterans come in. On this week’s Project Vanguard, I sat down with Navy veteran and Geronimo Power asset manager Will Hossain. We talked about what is really happening

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51:14

The Grid Is a Battlefield, and Veterans Are Built for It

Project Vanguard Podcast ·

2025/09/24

The grid is no longer a background utility. It’s the front line.Explosive load growth from AI, data centers, and new manufacturing is colliding with a system built for a different era. At the same time, cyber and physical risks are converging in ways that stress every assumption we’ve made about reliability and resilience.In this conversation, Army veteran and energy security leader Jonathon Monken lays out what’s changing, why it matters, and where veterans can lead next.The stakes just

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33:15

From QRF to the Grid: Why Veterans Belong in...

Project Vanguard Podcast ·

2025/09/04

This week on Project Vanguard Podcast, I sit down with Jason Fabre, a Houston utility leader who built a Special Response Team that treats hurricanes, heat waves, and winter storms like missions. The conversation is straight talk about reliability, not politics. If you have worn a uniform, the cadence will feel familiar.Field lessons from Winter Storm UriWe get an inside track on what actually failed and what changed since.* The crisis started on the generation side, not distribution.* ERCOT ordered

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35:14

Building Trust, Building Power with Landon Redmon

Project Vanguard Podcast ·

2025/08/21

Most people don’t break into clean energy project development by asking, “Can I work for free?” But that’s exactly what Landon Redmon did.An Army National Guard veteran and self-proclaimed “intern,” Landon’s story isn’t about having the perfect résumé. It’s about persistence, cold-calling thousands of strangers on LinkedIn, and showing up to veteran happy hours until doors opened.That grit turned into a career leading 100–200 MW solar and battery projects across Kentucky and Georgia, projects

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38:32

Tim Sabean’s Mission from Osprey Pilot to Lithium...

Project Vanguard Podcast ·

2025/08/06

When Marine Corps Osprey pilot Tim Sabean left the cockpit, he didn’t just switch careers. He stepped into one of the most ambitious energy projects in U.S. history, Bechtel’s Thacker Pass lithium mine.Lithium may not sound as glamorous as flight ops, but this project could redefine America’s energy security. It’s the largest known lithium deposit in the country, powering everything from EV batteries to grid-scale storage — and reducing our dependence on foreign supply chains.“It’s the best of both

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45:27

Commander Kirk Lippold on Asymmetric Warfare and...

Project Vanguard Podcast ·

2025/07/24

“I had seven seconds to decide.”That’s how Commander Kirk Lippold described the moment a terrorist bomb tore a 40-foot hole in the USS Cole, killing 17 of his sailors and nearly sinking the ship.As the commanding officer, he didn’t flinch. He got to work. Damage control. Sailor safety. Power restoration. In the chaos, the mission was simple: save the ship. And they did.Today, Captain Lippold is still on a mission, this time to help the U.S. become energy independent, economically resilient, and

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