Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions

08/19/2025

I am happy to announce that we have selected our next guest to be featured.

07/29/2025

Honored doesn’t begin to cover it.🙏
To stand with the Airpower Foundation at this year’s Patriot Round Up, and help honor Native American warriors who wore the uniform with courage and sacrifice, is a sacred privilege.

Having recently learned that part of my lineage likely traces back to Native roots, this invitation carries deeper meaning. Some stories carry blood memory. Some call us home.

Grateful for the chance to listen, uplift, and serve through storytelling.

"When you know who you are, when your mission is clear and you burn with the inner fire of unbreakable will, no cold can touch your heart."
— Chief Seattle, Suquamish and Duwamish

Let’s ride.
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🚨Patriot Roundup Series Coming to Your Feeds Soon!🚨

Saddle up, Patriots! We have partnered with Eric Rush, decorated combat Veteran, founder and CEO of the Prime Pitch Podcast Network and friend to the Airpower Foundation to bring you some of the stories at Patriot Roundup! These stories will be released on our social feeds throughout August for your enjoyment.

Eric Christopher Rush is not your typical podcast host, he’s a decorated combat veteran, servant leader, and the trusted voice behind Unfinished Business | A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions, Frisco’s #1 Veteran Advocacy Podcast. As the CEO of Prime Pitch Podcast Network Inc., a veteran-owned media company based in Frisco, Texas, Rush produces high-impact shows that explore the real stories shaping veteran reintegration, leadership, and legacy.
Having experienced many of the same struggles that countless combat veterans face when transitioning back to civilian life, Rush redefined his mission, earning three degrees, building a respected media platform, and dedicating himself to helping others find purpose, direction, and voice after service. He now serves as an executive volunteer with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the Prison Entrepreneurship Program, where he mentors justice-involved men and leads through grounded presence and earned perspective.
Recognized for his leadership in veteran storytelling and reintegration, the Airpower Foundation invited Rush to serve as a Special Event Correspondent for this year’s Patriot Round Up, a role that reflects his ongoing commitment to honoring service, amplifying veteran voices, and building bridges between military and civilian communities.

Welcome to the Roundup, Rush! We can’t wait to see what stories come out!

07/26/2025

In this compelling episode of Unfinished Business, host Rush sits down with investigative journalist Gina Keating and decorated veteran Paul A Slough, one of four Americans at the center of the Raven 23 case. What starts as a mission in Baghdad unfolds into a powerful look at how justice can be shaped by pressure, perception, and politics

At the heart of the episode is Gina Keating’s investigative book, Raven 23: How The Department of Justice Betrayed American Heroes, a six-year deep dive into the trials, documents, and decisions that impacted the lives of four military contractors. Her reporting sheds light on the gaps between perception and fact, and how institutions sometimes prioritize appearances over accountability.

Though only Paul appears on the show, this story honors all four men: Paul A Slough, Nicholas Slatten, Evan Liberty, and Dustin Heard. Their names are revisited here with the care, clarity, and context that was too often missing in public discussion.

This isn’t just a podcast episode. It’s a meaningful reminder of the power of truth, and the responsibility we all share to ask hard questions.

Raven 23: - How The Department of Justice Betrayed American Heroes Purchase your book at : https://a.co/d/8a2EXBn

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07/23/2025

In the spring of 2024, Eric Hall was a man in motion, an Army veteran, civic leader, and financial advisor, planning a podcast appearance and a future with his fiancée. Just weeks later, he was confined to a hospital bed, unable to stand.

Diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare autoimmune condition that attacks the nervous system, Eric found himself stripped of autonomy and control. But what emerged in that stillness wasn’t despair. It was clarity. This is a story about resilience, spiritual surrender, and what it means to lead when leadership no longer looks like it used to.

If you’re navigating loss, illness, or a career shift, Eric’s words will resonate: “Everything is conceptual, until it’s not. We all say we’d lean on our faith if something happened. But you don’t know until it hits. And when it does, you don’t need all the answers. You just need to move.”

For Eric Hall, “unfinished business” isn’t about what was lost. It’s about what’s possible. It’s a call to resilience. A choice to serve. A declaration that purpose doesn't disappear when your plans do—it just evolves. Your mission might change. But your value never does.

Want to hear the full conversation? Listen to Eric Hall’s story on Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions

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07/20/2025

Some stories aren’t found. They’re inherited. And once inherited, they’re never laid down again.

This Friday, Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions welcomes two guests whose lives, and work, refuse to look away from the uncomfortable. Investigative journalist and author Gina Keating, and Paul A Slough, U.S. Army veteran, Blackwater alumnus, and one of four men imprisoned for their actions in the 2007 Nisour Square firefight, join the podcast to discuss the release of Raven 23: How the Department of Justice Betrayed American Heroes.

The title refers not just to a case, but to a team: Paul A Slough, Nicholas Slatten, Evan Liberty, and Dustin Heard, all members of Blackwater’s tactical support unit known as Raven 23. What began as a deployment to protect diplomats in one of the most volatile combat zones in the world became a years-long legal ordeal, one that raised enduring questions about truth, justice, and the political expediency of prosecution. Slough’s voice, shaped by war, trial, and six years behind bars, is not one of bitterness, but of clarity. The kind that only emerges when the system breaks, and a man survives it.

Keating, a self-proclaimed liberal journalist, didn’t set out to write this story. But when the institutions entrusted with truth, the press and the courts, collapsed under pressure, she did what journalism still exists to do: she bore witness. Raven 23 isn’t just her investigation. It’s a ledger of what was lost when truth was buried, and what had to be risked to exhume it.

This conversation isn’t an exception to the podcast’s mission, it’s the embodiment of it. Unfinished Business exists to hold space for veterans still navigating the aftermath of service, and to elevate the stories that challenge how our systems treat those they once relied on. In this episode, justice, memory, and survival converge.

We will not relitigate what has already been twisted. We will sit with what was silenced. We will explore what it costs to write your name into public memory, and what it means to do so not to clear your name, but to protect the next name that might be targeted.

Raven 23 is more than a book. It’s an indictment. It’s a stand. It’s the kind of truth that doesn’t need permission.

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07/15/2025

It's with great pleasure to announce that we have selected, U.S. Army Veteran, Eric Hall to be featured on an upcoming episode of Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions

Eric Hall doesn’t talk about resilience the way most people do. He doesn’t brand it, hashtag it, or break it into bullet points. He lives it, quietly, devoutly, with the same precision he once used to scan open terrain in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle. For Hall, resilience is what happens in the unseen spaces between what you hope for and what you’re forced to endure.

EPISODE COMING SOON...
This is what makes him an essential voice for Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions. Not because he carries a story of hardship, but because he embodies a philosophy few ever articulate: that life after war isn’t about restoration. It’s about reconstruction. Hall prepares for futures that haven’t introduced themselves yet. And that preparation, spiritual first, philosophical second, and structural always, is etched into the way he leads, serves, and lives.

Based in Frisco, Texas, Hall commits to roles that hold the line. Whether serving on the Frisco Veterans Advisory Committee, acting as Judge Advocate for Frisco Post No. 8273, Veterans of Foreign Wars, US, or helping guide the Civil Rights Project, he remains a bridge between systems and people, law and lived experience, veterans and the civic frameworks designed to support them.

In June 2024, the work was nearly taken from him.

Guillain-Barré Syndrome swept through his nervous system, leaving him unable to walk. His routines, his public service, even his voice in the community, put on hold. But what followed wasn’t collapse. It was refinement. “I chose a different outcome,” he says. Not as defiance. As decision. The months of hospitalization didn’t define him. It clarified him.

That’s the theology of preparation that grounds everything Eric Hall does. It’s the oxygen he breathes with. His leadership reflects endurance shaped in silence. His recovery is a recalibration. The soldier became a shepherd. The tactician became a teacher. The wounded became a well.

From reconnaissance missions in Iraq to financial consultations in North Texas, from academic halls to hospital beds, Eric Hall has remained what he has always been: prepared. Not in fear. Not in control. But in service.

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07/13/2025

Mimi Dabi, Executive Director of Airpower Foundation (Melissa Dabi)) never needed a spotlight to know she was called. Long before titles or recognition, she made a vow, “at whatever the cost.” Not out of fear. Not out of obligation. But out of certainty. A quiet moment of clarity that became the defining compass of her life.

She’s never looked back.

That vow now lives in everything she does. It shaped her work, her pace, and the way she leads. From building outreach programs by hand to answering the call to serve veterans and families through the Airpower Foundation, Melissa has always moved with intentionality. Her strength comes from stillness. Her leadership is quiet but unmistakable, anchored in trust, in discipline, and in the belief that true service is sacred.

The Airpower Foundationis a natural extension of that vow. Under Melissa’s guidance, it’s not just a nonprofit, it’s a living commitment.

Everything Airpower Foundation touches carries the imprint of Melissa’s conviction. It leads with intention and trust. Its presence is steady, its actions meaningful. Whether organizing a 22-mile walk to raise critical awareness for PTSD or standing beside a family in their quietest moment of grief, every effort is rooted in care that lasts. The mission remains clear and unwavering: walk with them, honor them, and remain, long after others move on.

Melissa's vow is no longer just a personal promise, it’s a cultural force within the Foundation she leads.

And because of that, the mission is strong. The work is lasting. And the vow? It’s alive and well,fueling every step forward.

It was a pleasure and honor to host Mimi Dabi | Melissa Dabi on Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions.

I look forward to collaborating with Airpower Foundation in the weeks and months to come.

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07/07/2025

Between the War and the Welcome: Melissa Dabi Holds the Line

It started in silence. A young woman, twenty years old, worn down by a life she could no longer pretend to carry, whispered a prayer to a God she barely knew: “If You’re real… help me. Show me a way out.”

That prayer became a vow. “I will serve You—at whatever the cost.”

Years later, Melissa Dabi lives that promise in ways that defy convention. Not with speeches. But with a life shaped by surrender, conviction, and proximity to other people’s pain. Now, as Executive Director of the Airpower Foundation, she leads an organization that doesn’t just support veterans, it honors them in the most radical way possible: by walking beside them long after the war is over.

We’re honored to announce that we have selected Melissa Dabi for our next featured guest on Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions, a show that doesn’t chase perfect narratives, but instead holds space for what’s unresolved, unspoken, and unfinished.

Melissa’s story is not a polished arc of triumph. It is a map of chosen cost. After leaving behind a career in media, she built outreach programs from scratch, feeding the homeless, mentoring youth, and eventually following a divine pull to a remote village in Ethiopia. When institutions couldn’t hold her calling, she walked. When the path asked for more, she gave it. And after two years of quiet, when the whisper came again, she answered, this time through a door that led to the Airpower Foundation.

That door led her to a mission.

Airpower Foundation is not a typical nonprofit. It doesn’t treat service like strategy. It treats it like sacrament. It doesn’t just raise funds, it bears witness. It recognizes that veterans don’t need to be saved. They need to be seen, understood, and supported as they carry moral injury, fractured identity, and the burden of returning to a world that often asks them to forget.

Melissa doesn’t just lead this work, she reflects it. Her personal vow and the Foundation’s institutional posture are made of the same material: presence, without performance. Care, without condition. Obedience, without applause.

This upcoming conversation on Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions is not just about the logistics of veteran support, it’s about the inner architecture of trust, the weight of calling, and the spiritual and psychological stamina required to stay faithful to the vow.

It’s about what happens when a woman who once whispered for rescue now whispers ideas that raise $22,000 in a month for PTSD awareness.

It’s about what it means to build a life, not around ambition, but around answering.

Melissa, it's going to be an honor to share what this soul space with you.

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07/01/2025

Happy to announce we have selected our next guest on Unfinished Business!!

06/27/2025

For U.S. Navy veteran Christopher Smith, football wasn’t just entertainment while deployed, it was identity scaffolding. The trash talk, the team loyalty, the shared heartbreak of a missed field goal, these weren’t just games. They were threads stitching sailors together in a place where everything else was coming apart.

Years later, it wasn’t the roar of a touchdown that changed his trajectory, it was the moment the Superdome dimmed, and the crowd’s phones lit up in synchronized rhythm. Christopher didn’t see lights. He saw possibility.

That spark became FanWeb, a patented, veteran-led innovation changing the live-event experience for schools, teams, and now institutions like the University of North Texas and the Texas Legends

Not to sell. Not to scale. But to remind people why they came in the first place.

On this episode of Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions, we talk about the fire behind FanWeb, and what it means to build from memory, not metrics.

What’s a tradition in your life that became a calling before you realized it?

👉VOTE HERE: https://tinyurl.com/Vote4Christopher

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06/20/2025

Unfinished Business - A Podcast for Veterans Pursuing New Life Missions the #1 veteran advocacy podcast in North Texas, is proud to announce that we have selected Christopher, U.S. Navy veteran, founder of FanWeb Technologies, and the newly named Texas Vetrepreneur of the Year for upcoming feature on our podcast.

Smith’s journey from military deployment to tech innovation is anything but traditional. While stationed in Bahrain, he found unlikely solace in one of America’s favorite rituals: football smack talk. “It wasn’t planned,” he says. “It was human. It was survival.”

That raw sense of connection, born in uniform, shaped by family legacy, and crystallized in a New Orleans Saints game sparked the earliest vision of FanWeb, a fan experience platform that transforms live events into immersive, communal spectacles. What started with DIY prototypes and a patent application has since evolved into stadium-ready tech now being piloted by the Texas Legends, Sanger High School football, and the University of North Texas.

Host Rush Rush a decorated combat veteran and CEO of Prime Pitch Podcast Network Inc., describes Christopher’s story as “the embodiment of what Unfinished Business stands for, vision built from memory, purpose shaped through service, and the refusal to let a mission end just because the uniform comes off.”

Smith, currently completing his MBA in Sport Entertainment Management at the University of North Texas is also a finalist in the national of the Year competition.

The full episode will be released next week on all major podcast platforms.

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06/19/2025

What happens after service?
For most veterans, the real battle begins.
FULL STOP!