Chris Lambert Unedited: Vietnam Veteran Marine, 3 Purple Hearts before 19yrs old.
Release Date: 03/25/2025
Monica & David now sharing a To Do List of actionable Items to help Transitioning out of the Military!
The Monica Sanford Show
Part One: Monica Sanford and retired Marine LtCol David Sanford have been married for 35 years and have firsthand experience navigating the full journey from active-duty life to civilian retirement after 25 years of military service. They’ve lived through every stage of the transition—healthcare changes, job searches, housing decisions, and the emotional and practical adjustments that come with leaving the military. Together, they offer grounded, practical advice and actionable steps to help service members and their families move confidently into civilian life. David was prior enlisted...
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Monica & David now sharing a To Do List of actionable Items to help Transitioning out of the Military!
The Monica Sanford Show
Part One: Monica Sanford and retired Marine LtCol David Sanford have been married for 35 years and have firsthand experience navigating the full journey from active-duty life to civilian retirement after 25 years of military service. They’ve lived through every stage of the transition—healthcare changes, job searches, housing decisions, and the emotional and practical adjustments that come with leaving the military. Together, they offer grounded, practical advice and actionable steps to help service members and their families move confidently into civilian life. David was prior enlisted...
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Tommy Richardson: Elite of the Elite! Incredible stories from the Retired Marine Captain and a Navy Seal & Founder of Divine Savagery.
The Monica Sanford Show
Tommy Richardson is in a unique position of being a combat decorated Marine Captain and also a combat decorated Navy Seal. The elite of the elite! He tells us incredible stories serving in both services while in combat and leadership roles. He told us about the differences in services in leadership and challenges and culture and how he transitioned from one to the other. He is the Founder of Devine Savagery coaching, consulting, services, purposeful leadership and leaning into Faith. If you think he was slowing down, he's only getting started in the civilian world, smashing state and national...
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Marty Strong: Navy Seal, CEO of Warrior's Haven USA.
The Monica Sanford Show
Marty Strong is a decorated combat veteran, retired after 28years as a U.S. Navy SEAL officer, author, keynote motivational speaker and CEO of Warrior's Haven. He is highly sought after content expert of military topics and business topics. Marty has appeared on national tv, radio and podcasts and was featured in 2 History Channel documentaries. He was a tactical expert in multi-terrain and geographical locations. Now we hear all about the business & leadership strategies right out of the Navy Seal playbook! He shares his thoughts on system improvement process, mastering psychological...
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Rachel Rodriguez: Taking over Nashville with her unique style, attitude, soulful vocals & fusion of Latino, Tejano, & Country, wowing both English and Spanish fans
The Monica Sanford Show
Rachel Rodriguez started singing with her father at a young age, and now she has an entire festival named after her and an album that made it to the first-round consideration of the Grammys! She is taking over Nashville with her attitude, soulful vocals, buffet of sounds & fusion of Latino, Tejano, Country & Mariachi style! She is enjoying her season of overflowing recognition in the music industry and still looking forward to what's ahead. She is giving back to the community, inspiring and teaching young artists and encourages their expression and creativity to stay connected to their...
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Chris Crawford: Exclusive with Florida's Top Attorney Defending the Constitution, 2A and changing FL gun laws.
The Monica Sanford Show
An Exclusive Interview with Chris Crawford, the Top Defense Attorney in FL that changed the FL gun law! He went up against the FL Supreme Court in September 2025 and Won with his amazing oral arguments defending the Constitution & the 2nd Amendment. The now precedent-setting case law in the First District Court of Appeal unanimously ruled prohibiting open carry in FL was unconstitutional. This is the first time he tells the story of how he gathered his defense on 2A. Chris Crawford has been featured on Dateline, Court TV, and Forensic Files. He has taken on the State of FL and...
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Lindsey Chrismon: Combat aviator, West Point Grad, AH 64 Apache & AH 6M Little Bird pilot and CEO of Oply
The Monica Sanford Show
This week Monica and retired Marine LtCol David Sanford sat down with Lindsey Chrismon, a 2014 West Point grad, combat aviator, and the first Captain of the Corps of Cadets, being only the 4th woman ever in the Academy's history to lead the 4400 member Corps. She flew the AH 64 Apache and was the first woman to fly the AH 6M Little Bird in the 160th Special Operations Aviation regiment, flying combat air missions and operations in Afghanistan. She also has an MBA from Harvard Business School where she focused on Entrepreneurship and Technology, a Stanford Fellow of the Hoover Institute...
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Niels Andersen: President & CEO of VETCV Foundation and Mission Next
The Monica Sanford Show
Niels Andersen is a US Navy Corpsman, President and CEO KA Med Data, Vet CV Foundation and Mission Next. He spent 35 years in the tech development industry focusing on Veterans, and healthcare organizations and systems. He designs and develops software and assists, commercial and government, providers with their practices. He assists organizations in solving recruitment, acquisition, retention, benchmarking and metrics. He has built VETCV, the digital platform for Veterans to access all their records from their smart phone app. He is a resource in the industry, a sought-after speaker,...
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Ellen Boyer: The Brett Boyer Foundation is supporting groundbreaking heart research & saving lives
The Monica Sanford Show
The Brett Boyer Foundation is a 501c3 that was co-founded by Ellen Boyer, her husband Bo, sister-in-law Caroline and brother-in-law Luke Bryan. It was created in memory Ellen and Bo's daughter, Sadie Brett Boyer who was diagnosed prenatally with Down syndrome and a congenital heart defect (CHD). In her short 7 months she spent most of that time at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital and inspired the entire movement and purpose to help others. The Foundation's mission is to fund congenital heart disease research, data, give support and resources to patients, families and providers and to celebrate...
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Joe Leurs: Purple Heart Marine, retired Army Reserves, retired Nashville Metro Police Gang Unit Detective & Entrepreneur
The Monica Sanford Show
Joe Leurs is a combat Marine Corps NCO, received a Purple Heart from an injury sustained in Iraq, retired Army Reserves, and retired Metro Nashville PD Gang Unit Detective. He's also an Entrepreneur/Inventor of a life-saving product and recently a candidate for US congressional District 7 in Tennessee. We discussed his time in the Marine Corps, 31st MEU, special ops, 1st Marine Division, his time in the Army and then his time embedded undercover detective in the Nashville Metro PD Gang Unit. He has been called on to testify against gang members in state and Federal courts and he's...
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Chris Lambert joined the Marine Corps right out of high school. He shares an unfiltered conversation about alcohol, anger, divorces, and 50 years of PTSD. He tells us about walking into hell, then how he said Goodbye to Vietnam, to now having over 6000 hours of volunteering at the VA and helping other Vets.
Such a powerful episode and full of stories, that we had to make it a 2-part series.
We discussed the events that led up to his receiving his Purple Hearts, what it was like being in Vietnam at 18, the beauty of the Vietnamese people, and his return home by himself.
Co-host retire Marine, prior enlisted, LtCol David Sanford.
Check out the You Tube: Goodbye to Vietnam by Chris Lambert