Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions

Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions Unfinished Business | A Podcast for Veterans
Pursuing New Life Missions
- Frisco's #1 Veteran Advocacy Podcast - For some of us, it just changed shape.

The fight didn’t end when the uniform came off. Unfinished Business | A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions is a podcast built for veterans who still feel the weight, and for those who refuse to let their service end in silence. Hosted by Eric Rush, a decorated double bronze star veteran turned podcast network CEO. This show gives voice to those rebuilding purpose, identity, and commun

ity. Not with applause. But with action, advocacy, and real conversation. For the warriors still carrying burdens. For the ones helping others carry theirs. Raw stories. Hard truths. New missions. Built by veterans. Powered by purpose. Follow, share, and support the next chapter. Let's Get It!
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Rush
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Unfinished Business | A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions
Prime Pitch Podcast Network Inc. www.primepitchpodcast.com
Frisco's #1 Veteran Advocacy Podcast

11/24/2025

There’s a moment in every veteran’s healthcare journey where you stop asking for help and start bracing for disappointment. My conversation with Dr. Eldon Hopkins cut straight into that reality. Before he ever touched a scalpel, he understood something the system never did: the weight of waiting. Not waiting for an appointment, waiting for someone competent enough to see what’s right in front of them.

Dr. Hopkins didn’t need a stack of authorizations or a parade of unnecessary scans. He needed one updated X-ray and five minutes to identify what the VA system had overlooked for more than a year: two bone-on-bone hips and an anatomic condition visible long before anyone bothered to look. What stood out wasn’t his expertise, though he has plenty of it. It was his anger on behalf of the veteran. His refusal to normalize delays that cost people mobility, dignity, and time.

What we discussed wasn’t just my case. It was the pattern he sees across Community Care: overwhelmed staff making decisions outside their scope, pointless imaging cycles, referrals that go nowhere, and veterans restarting the process every time someone misroutes a file.

This episode is about truth, accountability, and the surgeon who refused to let the system write the ending.

Rush CEO | Executive Producer | Bronze Star Veteran
Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions
Prime Pitch Podcast Network Inc.
Frisco's #1 Veteran Advocacy Podcast

If you are looking for an IN NETWORK knee and hip replacement specialist, please look up Dr. Eldon Hopkins.

11/23/2025

Big Country Veterans has grown into one of the few places where community feels as steady and familiar as it did in uniform. What begins each year as a helicopter hog hunt on the wide ranch land of Truscott, Texas quickly becomes something deeper. The hunt may be the headline, but it works like an allegory for the real mission: giving veterans a vantage point high enough to see their lives with clarity again. Under Dr. Cody Palmer and COO Michael Grohman, the Circle Bar Ranch becomes a place where rank, politics, and posturing fall away, and the only requirement is presence.

Alumni nominate who comes next. Sponsors stand shoulder to shoulder with warriors. Veterans show up days early to prepare the ground, sleeping in trucks so others can experience what once changed them. The helicopter blades may draw the eye, but the real movement happens in the quiet conversations that follow, when guarded veterans realize the room is safe enough to share their story.

Palmer brings the insight of a clinician who understands what trauma carves into the body. Grohman brings the steadiness forged in Special Operations. Together, they’ve built a community that follows veterans home.

For many, that weekend gives them room to breathe and decide what comes next.

Special thanks to Michael Grohman and Dr. Cody Palmer for making it out to Frisco. It was an honor and absolute pleasure to have Big Country Veterans on Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions

Rush CEO | Executive Producer | Bronze Star Veteran
Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions
Prime Pitch Podcast Network Inc.
Frisco's #1 Veteran Advocacy Podcast


Big Country Veterans

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Going old school...
11/21/2025

Going old school...

11/21/2025

Dr. Katie Baillio and the Rooms Women Veterans Have Always Deserved

In this episode, Dr. Katie Baillio talks about the spaces she’s helped create, rooms where women veterans don’t have to shrink, justify, or prove their service. Her advocacy is rooted in the truth that belonging is not earned through explanation but through recognition.

She speaks with the clarity of someone who understands exactly what it feels like to be overlooked, and what it takes to change that reality for others. Her work is reshaping the landscape for the next generation of women who raise their right hand.

Rush
Bronze Star Veteran
Host & Principal Creator
Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions
Powered by: Prime Pitch Podcast Network Inc.
Frisco's # 1 Veteran Advocacy Podcast
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11/20/2025

I am happy to announce that Dr. Eldon Hopkins has been selected as the next featured guest on Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions.

For many veterans, the journey to proper medical care is not a straight line but a maze, one filled with misread imaging, misrouted referrals, and long stretches of pain disguised as “routine processing.” My own turning point came after a year and a half trapped inside those delays, a period where my condition worsened while the VA Healthcare system repeatedly redirected me to solutions that could never resolve the underlying problem. It wasn’t until I called the White House VA hotline that momentum finally shifted. When I sat in Dr. Eldon Hopkins’ office, his clarity was immediate: he saw in seconds what had gone unseen for far too long.

Dr. Eldon Hopkins is more than one of the nation’s most respected joint-replacement surgeons, he is a leader who operates with the decisive command of a seasoned officer and the cognitive empathy veterans instinctively trust. When he reviewed my X-rays, his response was swift and clinically exact: this was not a physical therapy case but a surgical emergency. Within a week, he had me in the operating room; within days, I was walking pain-free. Months later, he performed my second hip replacement with equal precision and steadiness. His authority does not overshadow his humanity, it sharpens it. He understands the VA’s blind spots because he treats the consequences of those blind spots every day.

This upcoming episode examines all of it: the clinical danger of delays, the shortcomings inside Community Care, and the reforms needed to protect veterans from preventable suffering. This is conversation about truth, responsibility, and the kind of medical leadership that refuses to let veterans fall through the cracks.

For veterans, caregivers, and advocates, this episode is a call to awareness and a reminder that decisive, ethical care is still possible when the right person takes command.

Rush
Bronze Star Veteran
Host & Principal Creator
Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions
Powered by: Prime Pitch Podcast Network Inc.
Frisco's # 1 Veteran Advocacy Podcast
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11/15/2025

Some lives are shaped by a single decision, and others by a steady accumulation of moments that refuse to let go. In this episode of Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions, Drew Carlton walks through the moments that shaped him, the early discipline of the Marine Corps, the unexpected turns of transition, and the long road toward finding his place in behavioral health. He speaks with humility about the chapters that tested him and the people who helped him grow into the leader he is today.

His path from Parris Island to Mesa Springs reveals a man who carries his experiences with intention. Nursing school, overnight shifts, difficult pivots, and years of listening to the pain of others became the building blocks for a kind of leadership rooted in steadiness and care. Drew explains how a hospital needs more than procedures, it needs presence, calm, and a leader who understands what people carry when they feel overwhelmed and unseen.

What makes Drew’s story meaningful is the dedication behind his work. He shows how purpose can build itself quietly over time, shaped by service, faith, and a willingness to be there for people in their hardest moments.

Having the opportunity to sit with him and explore that inner landscape was a gift, a reminder of how rare it is to hear a veteran speak with this level of honesty and heart.

This conversation opens a window into the heart of that mission, and the rest of his truth unfolds inside the full episode.

It is truly inspiring.

Rush
Host & Principal Creator
Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions
Powered by: Prime Pitch Podcast Network Inc.
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11/12/2025

Where Courage Endures: Unfinished Business Honors Paul A Slough with the 2025 Veterans Appreciation Award

There are men whose lives remind us that service does not end when the battle is over. It continues, in faith, in perseverance, in the long, often lonely work of rebuilding what war has taken.

Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions was founded to honor that journey. To give voice to those who continue the mission, quietly, steadfastly, and with extraordinary grace.

This year, the 2025 Veterans Appreciation Award is presented to Paul A Slough, a man whose story is written in the language of endurance. Once thrust into one of the most controversial and complex chapters of modern conflict, Paul faced years of silence, scrutiny, and unimaginable testing. Yet through it all, he remained resolute, anchored by faith, sustained by purpose, and guided by an unshakable moral compass.

Where others might have faded into bitterness, he found redemption through service, mentoring, advocating, and reminding the world that courage isn’t proven by what you endure, but by what you become afterward.

Paul A Slough represents the very heart of Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions the will to rise after being broken, to rebuild without resentment, and to live each day as proof that grace and grit can coexist.

Because true service never ends. It evolves.
And through men like Paul, it endures.

Congratulations by brother!!

Rush
Host & Principal Creator
Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions
Powered by: Prime Pitch Podcast Network Inc.
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11/11/2025

One Veteran. One Mission. Infinite Impact: Dr. Katie Baillio💯
Veterans Day is the one day when “thank you for your service” becomes a national chorus, but for some, the real meaning starts after the applause fades.

Dr. Katie Baillio knows that feeling. She’s an Army veteran who turned her own transition into a life of service that never really stopped.

She calls herself “the veteran”, not to separate herself, but to remind every woman who’s worn the uniform that they belong here too. She’s the one building bridges between veterans and the resources that keep them going.

We're happy to announce that we have selected Katie Baillio to be featured on an UPCOMING EPISODE of Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions.

Katie's journey runs deep. She earned her Ph.D. studying women veterans and how online forums help them find belonging. She is a former Texas VFW District Commander. She connects others as a Rural Veterans Career Advisor. And she keeps growing through SMU’s Women in Leadership program.

What makes her story powerful isn’t just the titles, it’s the ripple effect. She changes lives the old-fashioned way: one person at a time. One résumé class that leads to a job. One late-night message that becomes hope. One reminder that service doesn’t end when you leave the military, it just takes on new form.

That’s why Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions. Because she embodies what the podcast stands for: mission, connection, and second chapters filled with purpose.

(Episode Shoot Date : 11/15/25)
(EP. release date 11/16/25-ish)

Rush
Host & Principle Creator
Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions
Prime Pitch Podcast Network Inc.
Frisco's #1 Veteran Advocacy Podcast.


11/10/2025

I’m proud to share that Drew Carlton, Chief Executive Officer of Mesa Springs Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, has been selected as the next featured guest on Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions.

Before he was leading one of North Texas’s most respected behavioral-health hospitals, Drew served in the United States Marine Corps with the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines Surveillance and Target Acquisition Platoon. Those years didn’t just shape his discipline, they became the blueprint for how he leads today: structured, composed, and relentlessly focused on mission.

When I visited him at Mesa Springs Hospital, I saw that discipline translated into a living system. The place runs with rhythm, precise but calm. Every exchange has intent behind it. You can see the Marine influence in the way the team operates: steady under pressure, exact in ex*****on, grounded in respect for every patient who walks through the door.

Drew’s leadership is a study in continuation. The same instincts that once stabilized a platoon now sustain an entire organization devoted to healing. His command style has evolved into something rare, a blend of tactical precision and clinical empathy. It’s what makes Mesa Springs feel less like an institution and more like a mission executed daily.

This upcoming episode of Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions looks at what happens when structure, compassion, and service occupy the same command post, and how one Marine turned order itself into a form of care.

Episode Date : 11/13/25
Release Date: 11/15/25-ish

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Rush
Host & Principle Creator
Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions
Prime Pitch Podcast Network Inc.
www.primepitchpodcast.com
Frisco's #1 Veteran Advocacy Podcast




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11/03/2025

Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions, the City of Frisco’s #1 veteran advocacy podcast dedicated to exploring life after service, proudly announces that Dr. Cody Palmer and Michael Grohman of Big Country Veterans Texas have been selected as featured guests on an upcoming episode.

Their appearance continues the show’s mission of spotlighting veterans who transform adversity into leadership and build new forms of community after service.

When the upcoming echoes of Veterans Day fade, one question always remains: What now? That question lives at the heart of Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions, a space where identity, faith, and purpose intersect beyond the uniform.

That’s where Big Country Veterans comes in.

Led by Dr. Cody Palmer and Michael Grohman, the Texas nonprofit has redefined recovery as fellowship. It’s a family built on belonging, service, and shared resilience.

Dr. Palmer, raised on the plains of West Texas, brings both clinical insight and pastoral empathy to his work. As a Doctor of Physical Therapy, he views healing as more than medicine, a rhythm of restoration rooted in connection.

Michael Grohman, a retired Master Chief and Special Operations Independent Duty Corpsman, spent over 25 years serving in elite military units. Today, his strength lies not in rank but in presence, the quiet authority that builds trust and belonging.

Together, Palmer and Grohman have shaped Big Country Veterans into a living brotherhood, one that heals through proximity, campfires, shared hunts, and the laughter that returns when people finally feel seen.

Their upcoming episode explores how intellect, faith, and leadership intertwine to create spaces where veterans rediscover meaning, and continue the mission long after the war is over.

Rush CEO | Executive Producer | Bronze Star Veteran
Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions
Prime Pitch Podcast Network Inc.
Frisco's #1 Veteran Advocacy Podcast



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10/29/2025

I'm happy to announce that we've selected our next guest.
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