Veterans in Project Management is a resource for service members translating what they led in uniform into a civilian project management career — independent of any training provider. Real stories, specific advice, no funnel.
Every year, thousands of veterans leave the service having planned operations, run logistics, led teams under pressure, and delivered under constraints most civilians never face. Then they hit the job market and discover the work they did has a different name, a different vocabulary, and a stack of certifications standing between them and the roles they're already qualified for.
This show exists to close that gap. Each episode is a conversation with a veteran who made the jump — how they translated their experience, which certifications actually mattered, what they'd skip, and the moments that nearly derailed them. The transcripts stay on the page in full, because the point is to be genuinely useful, not to send you somewhere else.
Your hosts
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Michael Shick
Co-host · PM certification
Project management practitioner and instructor, and the founder of a training practice focused on getting people certified and hired. Michael brings the credentialing side — what the PMP and its cousins actually require, and where each one earns its keep.
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Stuart Bell
Co-host · Story & strategy
Spends his days helping experts turn hard-won experience into something other people can act on. On the show he draws out the transition story — the wrong turns, the pivots, and the throughline that only makes sense in hindsight.
What you get
Real transition stories. Not theory — veterans who actually made the move, in their own words, with the full transcript on the page.
Straight talk on certifications. Which ones open doors, which are noise, and how to sequence them around a job search.
Translation, not jargon. How to turn what you led in uniform into terms a civilian hiring manager screens for.
No sales funnel. We reference training and guides where they help, but the show isn't a pitch. You'll always know when something's a recommendation.
New episodes + transition field notes
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