Dragon's Den Podcast Ep. 21 (Matt...

Dragon's Den Podcast Ep. 21 (Matt Berkins) Leadership, Special Forces & Creating Change

Dragon's Den by Chris Scott
S2 · E21
Jul 23, 2025
01:20:56

Episode notes

Welcome to the next episode of the Dragon's Den Podcast. Today we finally return back to South Louisiana with our next guest, Matt Berkins. Matt serves as a fireman out of Slidell, LA. I first met Matt at the LIFT conference, just last year. We spent a good amount of the conference having conversations during breaks and social events and I loved his mindset and the things he was trying to implement, especially being so young in the fire service. What also intrigued me about Matt is that he is a former Ranger and also spent time with doing contract work with the CIA. The leadership lessons learned in that environment will serve him well through the rest of his career. Guys like Matt excite me for how good they could be in the coming years. We talked about everything from conferences, leadership, training the basics and much more. We hope you enjoy. Thank you for listening.

Matt's Bio:

It’s just me my wife and some dogs. We’ve been together for 10 years. Army for 7 years. I was a Ranger my whole career stationed in Savannah, GA with 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger regiment Contractor for the Agency for 3 years. Global Response Staff (GRS) Got back into firefighting in February 2022 🤘🏻Please like, subscribe and ring the bell for notifications.You can follow us on:Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dragons_den_training/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/32CpxOAnxDbGGGvNb2UznvRSS - https://media.rss.com/thedragonsden/feed.xmlYouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@DragonsDen03

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