Why Your Rank Doesn’t Translate—But Your Leadership Still Can with Carey Kight
Joining us is Carey Kight, producer, advertiser, and owner of Veteran Made. He shares a series of pivotal choices that have shaped his career and his life’s journey, from the military to film school, advertising, production, and beyond. Pulling from his experiences, we discuss the frameworks that translate from the military to other fields.
Carey shares how Veteran Made embodies this, highlighting key skills that veterans can bring to the working world. We touch on managing your own expectations, the ideas that underpin Carey’s leadership decisions, and reveal more about his rich background and love of the classics, as well as his life philosophy and the kind of legacy he hopes to leave behind.
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Key Points From This Episode:
• The transferrable skills that veterans usually have.
• Developing the skill of managing your own expectations.
• The number one leadership lesson that Carey has taken into his new career.
Quotes:
“Resilience is very much a lifeskill. That’s something you have to develop emotionally and intellectually for yourself.” — Carey Kight
“Don’t just stay connected to the military community and the veteran community, but integrate the other community that you are trying to get into.” — Carey Kight
“We’re not the products of our environments only. We are the product of the choices that we make in each environment that we are in.” — Carey Kight
“I’m very lucky that my vocation is an avocation for a lot of other people. That, to me, feels like a privilege and a blessing, and it’s something I get to do.” — Carey Kight
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Carey Kight on X
Carey Kight on Instagram
Carey Kight on LinkedIn
Veteran Made Podcast
Lord of the Rings
Chronicles of Narnia
Harry Potter
To Kill a Mockingbird
Farenheit 451
Stephen Pressfield
