S5:E136 (VIDEO)🎙️ LIVE with COL Brian Cook, USA (Ret.)

S5:E136🎙️ LIVE with COL Brian Cook, USA (Ret.)
Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ – Season 5:Episode 136 LIVE!

Set Your Table: Leadership, Authenticity, and Reclaiming Your Life

Join me for a powerful conversation with COL Brian Cook, USA (Ret.), soldier, strategist, author, educator, and transformational coach whose remarkable journey spans 33 years of military service, five combat deployments, the Pentagon, Army Futures Command, the U.S. Army War College, and now a mission to help others reclaim ownership of their lives.

📅 Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2026
⏰ Time: 8:00 AM PT (San Francisco, CA) | 10:00 AM CT (Austin, TX) | 11:00 AM ET (Washington, D.C.)
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🎖️ Meet Our Guest

COL Brian Cook, USA (Ret.) is a West Point graduate, former Armor and Cavalry officer, strategic thinker, author, and leadership coach. Throughout his distinguished military career, Brian commanded soldiers from platoon to battalion level, deployed across the Middle East and Afghanistan, taught Theater Strategy at the U.S. Army War College, and helped lead Army Futures Command’s first-ever Campaign Planning effort.

Today, Brian is the founder of Allons LLC, a national security strategist, speaker, and author of the bestselling book:

📚 Set Your Table: Reclaim Your Life

His work challenges leaders to stop living according to other people’s expectations and start intentionally creating the conditions for success, fulfillment, and authentic leadership.

As Brian says:

“The question isn’t whether you’re successful. The question is whether you’re successful at being yourself.”

🔥 What You Will Learn

✅ Leadership lessons from 33 years of military service and five combat tours

✅ How strategic thinking applies to life, leadership, and personal growth

✅ Why many high performers feel successful but unfulfilled

✅ The powerful framework behind Set Your Table: Reclaim Your Life

✅ How to define success on your own terms instead of someone else’s

✅ Why authenticity is becoming a leadership superpower

✅ The difference between motion and progress

✅ How to create conditions for victory before the battle begins

✅ Leadership, character, and navigating uncertainty in an AI-driven world

✅ Why Brian wrote his widely discussed open letter to President Trump—and what it teaches us about courageous leadership, citizenship, and speaking with conviction

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👇 Your Turn:

➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?

➡️ What’s one leadership insight you’re applying this week?

➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, veteran, executive, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation ❤️🙏🏾

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