OverPressure Podcast

Austin Holmes

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OverPressure is a weekly podcast that brings authentic, unfiltered conversations from veterans,service members, entrepreneurs and advocates. Hosted by Austin Holmes, the show highlightsresilience, leadership, and the real challenges faced during and after military life. Each episodeoffers inspiration, practical advice, and powerful storytelling designed to empower the veteranand entrepreneur community.

4d ago

OverPressure Podcast Brent Loyd & Austin

The Overpressure Podcast just dropped a conversation with Brent Loyd, coming to them from San Diego and the world of Special Operations transition, and it's equal parts seven-deployment Navy vet, TBI and PTSD survivor, and guy who got misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder over a 45-minute phone call by a practitioner who didn't want to do their job. He had every plan in place. COVID hit. Then the freight train hit. Then the VA hit. Two years passed before he got treated for anything he actually needed, and in the gap he had to figure out how to rebuild himself from scratch using the same systems the military gave him to survive in the first place. His best insights? Not the transition advice, though there's plenty of it. It's the framework no one gives you: your sympathetic nervous system is a muscle you spent years training to peak condition, and you have almost no reps on the parasympathetic side. When the job disappears and the structure disappears and the mission disappears, the fight-or-flight machine keeps running with nothing left to fight. It's the reminder that having a PACE plan for your career means nothing if you never briefed your support network on what the emergency looks like. It's the observation that continuity of care is a logistics problem, not a feelings problem, and you should treat it with the same attention you'd give your gear before a deployment. It's the quiet anger of a man who gave people better medical care in Afghanistan than he received at home, sitting in a dark room with a hernia he could see through his skin, treating himself because the system that was supposed to catch him didn't. Quick gems from the episode: → The health issues you were putting band-aids on the whole time you were active they will manifest. They are patient. They will wait for the structure to go away and then they will come out swinging. → Brief your support network on the emergency plan before you need it. Your family doesn't speak VA, doesn't speak insurance nuances, doesn't speak military provider. That's a gap you can close before the crisis, not during. → Get established with a primary care provider at the VA while you're still active. On paper affiliated is not the same thing as established. You will learn this difference at the worst possible time if you don't handle it first. → Checklists aren't just administrative. They're psychological. When you've checked your gear, you can put it down. That peace of mind is the point. → Cultural cleanup is the easiest fix and the least implemented one. Every leader at every level, take mental health seriously and don't throw people under the bus. → He's building 17 acres into a veteran retreat and event center with on-site sustainable living quarters, marksmanship and medical training, and a great hall that can host a wedding or a seminar without anyone having to leave the property. That's the mission now. The moment he connected a misdiagnosis on a phone call, an insurance denial, two years of no treatment, and a hernia from vomiting through vertigo into a single systems failure, not a personal failure, a systems failure and then decided to fix the system for the next guy? That's when a Special Operations vet with a TBI and a clean psych record became a podcaster, a builder, and someone worth listening to on the topic of what the transition actually costs. Check out the Overpressure Podcast if you want the version of the veteran transition story that doesn't skip the hard part.

52 min
Jun 12

OverPressure Podcast Laura Camacho & Austin

The Overpressure Podcast just dropped a conversation with Laura Camacho, coming to them from Charleston and the world of executive presence coaching, and it's equal parts Harvard Business Review council member, PhD communication scholar, and self-described introvert who will tell you that your brain shuts down exactly when you need it most. Her career started in Caracas writing economic newsletters, moved through teaching communication at the university level for nine years, and landed in the uncomfortable realization that knowing your craft and getting people to pay you for your craft are two completely different problems. That gap became her life's work. Her best insights? Not the communication theory. It's the framework: personal brand, speaking up in meetings, presentations, and cross-functional influence four pillars, in that order, and most introverts are trying to fix the last three while skipping the first one entirely. It's the reminder that if you don't speak up, the organization assumes you don't have anything to say, and your boss is perfectly happy to let you keep delivering great work without ever moving you up. It's the observation that introverts don't lack ideas, they overthink them, and that's actually an asset if you learn to channel it. It's the false dichotomy she keeps dismantling: the choice is not between staying completely quiet and talking your head off. It never was. Quick gems from the episode: → Your brain shuts down when you need it most. Knowing your triggers isn't weakness, it's the whole ballgame. → Ask questions. You can confront people without getting into trouble, build relationships with intimidating people, and be considered the most interesting person in the room, all with one tool. → When someone asks you a question, don't just answer it. Use it. Add thought leadership. That's the difference between giving information and building influence. → Doing good work only takes you so far. Around the director level, your ability to influence matters as much as your ability to deliver results. Nobody tells you that part. → The introvert's instinct to only speak when it really counts is not a liability. It's just inefficient when unmanaged. Make fewer words land harder. → She wants to go see her clients in person before AI locks everyone in a room with a cord taped to their spine. That's not a joke. That's the 2025 business development strategy. The moment she connected an entire career of communication research to the simple observation that the way you do something matters more than what you do? That's when a former business journalist with a doctorate and a home office full of international clients became a coach worth listening to, and an introvert who built her whole system around not wasting anyone's time, including her own. Check out the Overpressure Podcast if you want conversations about saying less and meaning more, and why the quietest person in the room might just be running the whole thing.

45 min
Jun 5

OverPressure Podcast Eric Dillman & Austin

The Overpressure Podcast just dropped a conversation with Eric Dillman, coming to them from Charlotte by way of Pittsburgh and the world of interior design, and it's equal parts NKBA 30 Under 30 honoree, country music obsessive, and guy who accidentally started a podcast because people kept telling him he had one. He left residential design for retail, needed something to keep his social media alive, and started asking real estate agents and architects 30-second questions about home ROI. Then a guy from HGTV said yes to a Zoom call. The rest built itself. His best insights? Not the production tips. It's the framework: you don't need a studio, a budget, or a perfectly edited episode to build an audience. You need to show up, stop overanalyzing the caption, and let the raw version live. It's the observation that the content he spent the least time on almost always performs best, and that still blows his mind every time. It's the reminder that social media is a marketing tool, not a diary, and that the line between building a brand and oversharing your personal life is one worth drawing deliberately. It's watching country music reviews he posted for himself on weekends outperform everything else he'd carefully crafted all week. Quick gems from the episode: → If you can communicate your message effectively on social media, you can do it in person. The feedback loop is just faster and more honest online. → The number felt like a number until strangers at industry events knew him before he introduced himself. That's when it got strange, and also clarifying. → By the time you've released enough podcast episodes, AI has enough of your voice to do damage. We're already doing it to ourselves. Caution is the minimum. → A lot of people have big goals and zero content because they can't stand hearing their own voice. That discomfort goes away. Post anyway. → The stuff you don't spend a lot of time on does well. Every time. It still stings. → Weekdays are for business. Weekends are for country music. That structure didn't dilute the brand. It became the brand. The moment he realized his IGTV interview series was a podcast because his audience told him so, before he ever called it one? That's the moment a designer with a large following and a content gap became a two-episode-a-week creator with a studio in the plans, a growing music lane, and a very healthy distrust of his own perfectionism. Check out the Overpressure Podcast if you want conversations about building something real while keeping a day job, and why the guy who never set out to be a podcaster might be the most useful person in the room.

27 min
May 29

OverPressure Podcast Martin Pytela & Austin

The Overpressure Podcast just dropped a conversation with Martin Pytela, coming to them from Canada and the world of Life Enthusiast, and it's equal parts systems analyst turned wellness detective, escaped Czech communist, and 72-year-old who will tell you he's healthier now than he was at 35. He went to a dentist at 25, trusted the guy with the diploma on the wall, got 12 mercury amalgam fillings he probably didn't need, and spent the next decade crawling on all fours from his rocking chair to his bathroom. That was the origin story. The rest of his life has been figuring out what actually went wrong and telling anyone who will listen. His best insights? Not the supplements. It's the framework: toxicity, malnutrition, stagnation, trauma, four things, in that order, and most people are trying to treat symptoms of the first one with more of the first one. It's the reminder that your wallet is your most powerful vote and every purchase is a reorder. It's the observation that the bottle of water you buy cold at the gas station spent part of its journey sitting in a hot truck baking phthalates into the plastic and that 20% of couples now struggle to conceive. It's watching atrazine turn male frogs hormonally ambiguous in a pond and drawing a quiet, uncomfortable line to what's happening in the broader culture. Quick gems from the episode: → Less is more when it comes to performance. The best thing you can add is subtraction. Stop accumulating toxins first. → It's really hard to convince a man that something isn't true when his livelihood depends on him ignoring that truth. That applies to doctors, industries, and politicians equally. → Your microbiome is the translator between food you eat and nutrition you absorb. Chlorinated water and trace glyphosate are killing that translator. → Turning color is not the same thing as being ripe. The tomato that looks perfect in the store was picked green and gassed in a warehouse. → Voluntary adversity is the point. Aging is the relentless pursuit of comfort. The cold plunge, the weights, the discomfort, that's not punishment, that's maintenance. → If AI reads data without corruption, we might actually have a chance. Albania already made one a government minister. Worth watching. The moment he connected mercury fillings, plantar fasciitis, carpal tunnel, gum recession, and a 10-year physical decline into a single systems diagnosis? That's the moment a former IT analyst became a wellness evangelist with a Facebook ban, a deleted YouTube channel, and zero regrets. Check out the Overpressure Podcast if you want conversations about cleaning up what's coming in before you worry about what to add, and why the guy two weeks from 73 might be the most useful person in the room.

38 min
May 22

OverPressure Podcast Seth Green & Austin

The Overpressure Podcast just dropped a conversation with Seth Green, not that Seth Green, out of New York, and it's equal parts direct response nerd, personal development junkie, and quietly one of the more interesting operators you'll hear on the show. He went from making 300 cold calls a day at a Fortune 500 company, dead last among 6,700 reps, to discovering Dan Kennedy, turning into a top-30 rep nationwide, and eventually building Market Domination LLC into an Inc. 5000 company with nearly 7,000 podcast episodes produced for clients across two dozen verticals. Oh, and he co-hosts a show with Kevin Harrington from Shark Tank, a relationship that started when Seth told Kevin he was his airport ride. He was not his airport ride. He just drove very slowly. His best stories? Not the Inc. 5000 placement. It's realizing that the list generated zero trackable revenue but was still absolutely worth it because he'd been reading that magazine his whole adult life. It's watching his business grow faster after a spiritual breakthrough than after launching a new software product. It's launching an AI-powered podcast that works like an audio advertorial, closes objections, gets your message out while being the first to tell you it isn't building any real relationships and never will. Quick gems from the episode: → Your business doesn't just grow because you built something new. It grows when you become a bigger container for it. → Don't get a coach who's 20 years ahead of you. Get someone two or three years ahead, close enough that they still remember what it felt like to be where you are. → AI gives you leverage and skill sets you didn't have. It still needs a human to push the button, proof the output, and own the relationship. → The more AI grows, the more people will crave human connection. Those two things move together, not against each other. → 95% of what you experience is the thoughts in your head, and most of those are running on autopilot. Wire yourself for positivity intentionally or the default takes over. → If you want to stand out at a networking event, don't get in the selfie line. Figure out what actually makes you useful. The cold plunge that froze into a solid block of ice over a Buffalo winter and took half the spring to thaw out? Just a reminder that personal development practices require a little more logistics depending on your climate. Check out the Overpressure Podcast if you want conversations about building systems, staying human in an AI world, and occasionally kidnapping a Shark Tank celebrity for a very slow airport run.

23 min
May 15

OverPressure Podcast Alan Sisto & Austin

The Overpressure Podcast just dropped a conversation with Alan Sisto, host of the Prancing Pony Podcast out of California, that's equal parts accidental entrepreneur and lifelong Tolkien obsessive. He started as an architectural photographer who hated shooting people, stumbled into voiceover to fill the slow seasons, got told to start a podcast to sound more conversational, and ended up building a full-time media business around Middle Earth. Ten years, six to eight team members, four shows, a published book, and he still traces it all back to a nine-year-old watching a Rankin and Bass cartoon and asking for the book for Christmas. His best stories? Not the growth numbers. It's realizing that 130 downloads on episode one was actually a decent start, not a death sentence. It's setting a $500/month Patreon goal, watching it get crushed in three days, and learning that underselling your audience is its own kind of mistake. It's spending a full year on each of the six books inside Lord of the Rings, then another year just on the appendices, because the depth was always there and the audience kept showing up for it. Quick gems from the episode: → Don't start a Patreon until people are knocking the door down asking to give you money. Build the content and the audience first. → Find the one thing you can talk about for thirty minutes without notes. That's your show. → Don't ape the most knowledgeable person in your space. Find a different angle, the conversation format, the two-person dynamic, the accessible entry point. → A team doesn't make the work easier. It makes the work possible. Audio editor, video editor, graphic designer, social media, that's what keeps a show running at scale. → There's always a version of the world where the thing you love most becomes the thing you do for a living. The gap is usually just starting. → Don't gatekeep the fandom. Fans are fans. Meet people where they are and welcome them in. The moment he realized he'd gone from voiceover side hustle to full-time Middle Earth professional? Probably somewhere around year six of the Lord of the Rings coverage, deep in the appendices, explaining the civil war in Gondor 1500 years before the Fellowship even formed. Check out the Overpressure Podcast if you want conversations about building something real out of something you genuinely love, one episode at a time.

55 min
May 8

OverPressure Podcast Ryan Lee & Austin

The Overpressure podcast just dropped a conversation with Ryan Lee, founder of Lighting for Profits out of Utah, that's equal parts blue-collar hustle and big-mission entrepreneurship. He grew up shoveling driveways for $25, was the first in his family to get a college degree, stumbled into landscape lighting from a hot tub conversation with his brother, built a business over 12 years, and sold it just when it finally started running itself. Then COVID wiped out half his agency clients and that turned into the best thing that ever happened to him. His best stories? Not the exits. It's realizing a guy making a million dollars a year teaching people to raise goats was his permission slip to sell knowledge. It's helping his clients generate $55 million in additional revenue and tracking it with actual awards the Lighting Millionaire Club, the Penta-Million, and now the first LMCX at $10 million. It's figuring out that a billion dollars of impact doesn't require becoming a billionaire just help 1,000 people each hit a million. Quick gems from the episode: → Sell the higher-ticket thing. The effort to close a $10K job versus a $250 job is not that different. → Don't sell a business that's finally printing money unless you know exactly what you're jumping into. → Partnerships need clear lanes from day one. Going left versus right means you go straight down the middle and nobody wins. → You can't prevent chaos. You can control it. Brain dump everything, pick your top three, don't move to two until one is done. → There's always someone one chapter behind you who specifically needs to hear it from you. → Write down your definite chief aim. On the bad days, go read it. The snowboard lesson that almost ended the marriage before it started? Just the origin story of a very different teaching style. Check out the Overpressure podcast if you want conversations about finding your fast-pass lane, building toward impact over income, and controlling the chaos one top-three list at a time.

40 min
May 1

OverPressure Podcast Nicholas Lirio & Austin

The Overpressure podcast just dropped a conversation with Nicholas Lirio, president of Hosky Native Seeds out of Iowa, that's equal parts systems thinking and unexpected entrepreneurship across three very different businesses. He grew up surrounded by entrepreneurs, stepped in to help his stepdad transition a prairie seed farm right as cancer was quietly taking hold, and has spent five years building it into a real e-commerce operation, while launching a coffee shop with his wife and a family documentary business with his siblings on the side. His best stories? Not the growth charts. It's tracking 140 panicked customer calls in one summer about seeds not showing up and building a proactive email system that killed the complaint entirely. It's using Claude AI to cut podcast production from 16 hours a week to four. It's realizing his great-grandfather's 10-page letter about surviving a Japanese POW camp in the Philippines was the spark that started a whole business around capturing family stories before it's too late. Quick gems from the episode: → Systems don't feel lazy, they feel like freedom. Build them early, measure how often they break. → Return on attention matters as much as ROI. Is this worth your time, not just your money? → A complaint is an opportunity. A bad experience handled well creates a customer for life. → Never go 50/50 with family in business. Contracts, clear lanes, and a way out before you start. → You can't control anyone for their better. Advise, then let them decide. → In a seasonal business, every year is make or break. Plan three years of harvest ahead. The species that takes three years to grow before you see a single harvest? Just the nature of the work. Check out the Overpressure podcast if you want conversations about building systems that outlast the chaos, preserving stories worth keeping, and finding your lane before someone else takes it.

50 min

OverPressure is a weekly podcast that brings authentic, unfiltered conversations from veterans,service members, entrepreneurs and advocates. Hosted by Austin Holmes, the show highlightsresilience, leadership, and the real challenges faced during and after military life. Each episodeoffers inspiration, practical advice, and powerful storytelling designed to empower the veteranand entrepreneur community.

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