Hernán Luis y Prado: Founder and CEO of Workshops for Warriors, Former Hospital Navy Corpsman and Surface Warfare Officer

<div>Have you ever heard of anyone who was not a United States citizen become one and enlist in the U.S. Military the same day they received their citizenship? In this week’s episode, you will meet and hear from Hernán Luis y Prado – born in Argentina, grew up in France, and became a U.S. citizen, only to join the U.S. Navy on the same day. Hernan is a 15 year Navy veteran, humanitarian, entrepreneur, and CEO of Workshops for Warriors, a nonprofit for transitioning and struggling service members, offering them advanced manufacturing training certification and job placements.</div> <div>His attraction to America is that it is the only nation governed by an idea, which is expressed in the Constitution and not a person or bloodline. That’s what this patriot chooses to support. Listen to this incredible man’s story of aspiration and success in the country he loves so dearly.</div> <br> <div> <strong>In this episode you will hear:</strong> </div> <br> <ul> <li>I sold everything we had to start Workshops for Warriors.</li> <li>We train America's veterans to rebuild America's advanced manufacturing and economic backbone. We harness discipline, an ethical mindset, tenacity, and focus on our skills.</li> <li>You're a badass, you can do anything, improvise, adapt, overcome.</li> <li>It never rains, it only liquid sunshine.</li> <li>When you get out of the military, you go from a suit of armor to the civilian world &amp; are cast adrift in free fall.</li> <li>America needs welders, machinists, and fabricators. You need a skillset.</li> <li>Our school is a velvet funnel. You come from a really tight straw &amp; now you gotta give more liberty until you get to the civilian world.</li> <li>There are 2.3 million unfilled jobs due to unskilled labor in America.</li> <li>Our goal is to rebuild America one veteran at a time.</li> <li>We do the hard things every day. It's the easy things that kick our butts.</li> <li>People come in - shoulders hunched down. By the end of the first week you see them coming back.</li> <li>The most im