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About Org: Battlefield Commander Foundation is a non-profit corporation and shall operate exclusively for education and charitable purposes within the meaning of Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future Federal Tax Code. The Foundation provides educational scholarships to the children of law enforcement, military, and emergency responders killed on the job or during active service About Martin: Martin Conroy is a Christian High-Performance Lifestyle Coach, Martial Arts Instructor, and #REALTIMEwhistleblower. Conroy spent his three-decade-plus distinguished career in corporate America in the marketing and insurance industries. In 2014, he caught AFLAC agents committing fraud against police officers in Queens. He went through a horrific whistleblower experience resulting in him leaving corporate America to found and run the Battlefield Commander Foundation.
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00:00:53.950 --> 00:01:23.630 Tommy DiMisa: just below the roof of the house. That's right gang in the attic in the attic this is actually marking. Let's see, we did the show for a year. In 21 we did the show for a year in 22. This is the last episode of 2,023 for philanthropy and focus. The first episode of this program was done January eighth, 2,021. I was reminiscing on it this morning what a trip man, what a trip it's been! This just used to be an idea that I came up with. I used to say.
00:01:23.630 --> 00:01:34.920 Tommy DiMisa: Hey, man, I'm gonna do a radio show. It's gonna be call philanthropy and focus. And I walked around for 2 years saying, Hey, man, I'm gonna do a radio show that's gonna be call philanthropy and focus.
00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:59.519 Tommy DiMisa: Hey? Listen. It's about vision for sure. But I laugh, and I break my own chops a little bit there, because what I'm trying to say is, listen to short opportunity we have. It's a short window. It's a short life man, maybe 8 85 years, you know. I gotta I made a deal with the universe. I got 50 more years to go. So that puts me right. About 95 96 years old. I don't know how many episodes I'll have accomplished by them. But I'm challenging you all. If you're gonna do the thing. Just do the thing.
00:01:59.520 --> 00:02:03.379 Tommy DiMisa: man, don't talk about it, be it, do it! Lean in.
00:02:04.500 --> 00:02:24.399 Tommy DiMisa: I'm out of breath already. Look it out! I'm just. I'm just still fired up. So here's the deal II want you. I encourage you to get out there and try whatever it is. It's not gonna work out the first time the right way, and it ain't gonna be what you expected. I promise you that. But it's gonna be more than sitting around thinking about it. So have that vision. Do that thing. But being focus is my vision on the program.
00:02:24.860 --> 00:02:45.689 Tommy DiMisa: I do a lot of things. But one thing that or 2 things that I really focus on is helping nonprofits tell their story, and, as I like to say, amplify their mission. I think it's a big deal. I got a big mouth. People listen to me. People pay attention to what I'm doing. So I think it's pretty fun that I get to help others do the reach and get the get the connections and relationships. That's what
00:02:45.690 --> 00:03:14.659 Tommy DiMisa: call myself the nonprofit sector connector. That's what a nonprofit sector connector is. I know that because I googled, what does a nonprofit sector connector. I didn't Google that I made up the whole thing. So I didn't Google it. But if I typed in the Chat B Gpt, this I did do I typed in the Chat Gpt. What is a nonprofit sector? Connected? It does, and they go. I don't know. Man, text, Tommy d. I'm sure he knows that's what Chat Gpt told me. That's not true, everybody. I'm playing with you. I'm kidding happy holidays happy all the December holidays.
00:03:14.660 --> 00:03:34.080 Tommy DiMisa: you know. Listen. II was in a meeting the other night, and II said, Listen, we must reach out to people. My guest was there. Marty Conroy was at the meeting I'm talking about. We must reach out. We must show love, we must show compassion. Yes, it is the holiday time. Yes, it is a time of joy. But there are people who are having challenges on this planet. People are hurting. Please reach out. Please connect.
00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:55.140 Tommy DiMisa: And you know, maybe it's upper pole that that Marty's here on that last episode, because some of the people that his organization serves are those on the front lines, families of those on the front lines families of first responders. We're gonna get into all that today. I would like to just give one last shout out or 2, one to my friend Heather Edwards, the Allied Foundation.
00:03:55.260 --> 00:04:04.329 Tommy DiMisa: which is an organization that has given millions of diapers and period products to those in need here on Long Island and the 5 boroughs in New York City as well, and
00:04:04.920 --> 00:04:34.899 Tommy DiMisa: we had the opportunity. We rented a U-haul van together on Tuesday of this week, and went into New York City and picked up a bunch of gifts for for some low income folks here on Long Island, as well as 300 bags from a company called Baby to Baby, which is a nonprofit organization out of the West Coast that that hooks up families in need, with diapers and and different products they need. So just like the cool stuff, you know, my friend Heather and I in New Hall vanish. She like she looks at me she's like.
00:04:34.980 --> 00:05:00.180 Tommy DiMisa: and I had just like done like a zoom call with one of my clients, and right before we started the drive she's like man like you got the coolest job in the world, and I go well, so vango benefits. We are a cool company. I think anybody can have a cool situation, man, it's about creating. It's about creating. Create your retirement. Here's the deal. Retire right now a little bit every week.
00:05:00.450 --> 00:05:03.080 Tommy DiMisa: Do the things you want to do. Play
00:05:03.380 --> 00:05:21.709 Tommy DiMisa: as much as you can, and obviously you gotta do what you gotta do to pay the bills. Alright. Marty Martin Conroy, you're here. I gotta get you into this conversation all. There was one last shout out, and it goes right here. Shout out to Michael Goldberg, my friend, knockout networking founder of Tng, the networking group where I am sort of like.
00:05:21.990 --> 00:05:28.049 Tommy DiMisa: did we call my in? I think my title is national director, but II think.
00:05:28.150 --> 00:05:35.259 Tommy DiMisa: you know it to me, Tng, the networking group, a national networking group that that we that we run is
00:05:35.500 --> 00:05:55.360 Tommy DiMisa: It's a movement, and it's it's people helping people supporting people. And then there's certainly the business development place. But I think you know, and what we do, there is relationships first, for sure. So if wasn't for Michael introducing me to Martin Conroy just recently, and then we had a, you know, couple of se sorry a couple of meetings and then, now we're here, and I was like, Hey.
00:05:55.380 --> 00:06:14.120 Tommy DiMisa: we only know each other. You want to come off philanthropy and focus, and you're like, yes, I do, sir, and that was it. So? What's up? How are you, my brother? What's going on, man? II am absolutely, positively blessed. Before we get started would like to give a huge debt of gratitude to you, Tommy.
00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:27.030 Martin Conroy: for everything that you have done for charities over the course of the last 3 years. You know, it doesn't matter where you come from, what faith you follow. What profits book you read.
00:06:27.030 --> 00:06:44.129 Martin Conroy: putting charity first is what we're supposed to be doing as humans. So the fact that you're leading in that endeavor from the front and helping charities nationwide promote their causes is near and dear to my heart. So we have an incredible debt of gratitude
00:06:44.130 --> 00:07:09.650 Tommy DiMisa: to you for for for doing this, for all charities. Not just well, well, thank you, Chills, man, I got chills, and I'm I'm doing better as I age in. In taking the gratitude I used to say, yeah, alright. No big deal so good. Not about me. But I do appreciate that because I do invest a lot in this, and and I have to be a better recipient of of the praise. So thank you for saying that. A. And I say this, you know no big deal man just changing the world like that's what we're trying to do. No big deal.
00:07:09.650 --> 00:07:25.970 Tommy DiMisa: It is right. It is a big deal, everybody. Of course it is we, I, the people I get to spend time with, you know, are are people who are are bringing food to people who are food insecure. They're housing people who are experiencing homelessness. They're helping people
00:07:25.970 --> 00:07:53.940 Tommy DiMisa: who are working through substance, substance abuse issues, you know. They're they're helping get diapers in the hands of families who don't have the the wherewithal to to buy diapers. You know. II mean, there's so many different things, and and for me it's become I don't know labor, love. I don't know. It's a hobby. It's a fun thing. It's part of my life. I don't know Marty, and the rest of the world where my philanthropy ends, and where my business starts, and I'll leave one last thing before we dive in, because.
00:07:53.940 --> 00:08:05.830 Tommy DiMisa: you know, our company vanguard benefits is an employee benefits agency, and, you know, woven into the DNA of our firm. Is this focus on service, the focus on the nonprofit sector, and
00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:13.470 Tommy DiMisa: maybe the kid had a little something to do with that. Maybe Tommy. D yeah, stop ego. But maybe maybe it was something that maybe Tommy D had something to do with that
00:08:13.850 --> 00:08:40.459 Tommy DiMisa: Martin, or I gotta call you Marty for the rest of the show. I'm gonna call you Marty. It says Martin on the screen. But you said your friends call you Marty, and when you're talking virtual Green Room a little while ago, so I shall if it's okay with you. Call you Marty, and everybody should call me Tommy Dick. All right, Marty, what is up, man? Tell me your story. Battlefield commander Foundation is the name of the organization an incredible mission, incredible focus whether it's with an F or a Ph up to you gang, but an incredible focus on
00:08:40.460 --> 00:09:03.559 Tommy DiMisa: the work you're doing in serving families of first responders and former military veterans. Let's get into this man and this logo man is I gotta we gotta shout out this logo because it's like an eagle with a lion's face and a big lion hair like long Tommy d hair. And what what is that? Can we talk about that for a battle? Feel, Commander Foundation. What is that logo? What's that about?
00:09:03.670 --> 00:09:27.630 Tommy DiMisa: Well, fortunately, 3 years ago, when we started designing the logo, God gave me the vision to realize that on Friday, December fifteenth. That was going to be on Tommy D's. We had to design a logo that most accurately, reflected Tommy. Dick. I love the show. II want you to finish that, though. But I love the show. II, my my younger son
00:09:27.630 --> 00:09:56.450 Tommy DiMisa: and I. We try to find the old episodes. But thunder cats! I used to show thunder cast Thunder! Thunder! Thunder Cat. I didn't know I would do that on my show ever. But Lionel was like one of these thunder cats man. He was like the badass one. He was like the leader of the crew. I don't know, man. I gotta Google, and we'll look at our show. Mick Collins is feverishly looking over the Internet for pictures of Lionel. If not Mick Collins. What are you doing? So let's talk to me about the logo. I'll be quiet. You tell me II like how you knew in the future
00:09:56.450 --> 00:10:18.619 Martin Conroy: 3 years high performance, lifestyle coach. So when it came time to designing low logo. I wanted something that sent the message of of faith. And how important! You know.
00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:33.520 Martin Conroy: having that lion type attitude is out there in life today. What you know. So that's that's that's the image that we wanted to portray for for the charity, strength.
00:10:33.740 --> 00:11:00.809 Martin Conroy: honor, discipline, honesty, integrity, respect. That's what we were looking for with the logo. I love it. I think it's great. II think it's I just, I mean, does anybody get that? II have no tattoos. But did anybody get that yet? That that badass lion with a big wings as a tattoo that you know about connected to your organization, or or are they going to? I don't know. I'm just throwing it out there. It looks like a good tattoo.
00:11:01.020 --> 00:11:30.610 Tommy DiMisa: So it looks like in 5 years when you have me on our anniversary of podcast that I'll have to have the tattoo tattooed on my back. Huh! I listen. You know what your lips of God's ears. You're the man of faith. I don't know what's gonna happen, brother. I don't know. I I'll tell you. I'll tell you. They might be one of us will have the tattoo, because I still have not done that yet. I have not done the tattoo thing. A lot of people around me, you know, love the Inc. I just haven't done it. Alright. You'll probably get a kick out of this.
00:11:30.610 --> 00:11:54.560 Tommy DiMisa: Whenever anybody asked me whether or not I have a tattoo, I say, would you put a bumper sticker on Lamborghini? There you go! I get it. I get that man. I get it, although some days, you know, for II feel a lot more like a Pontiac self deprecating humor. Marty, I scout me everywhere. Alright! Let's do this.
00:11:54.830 --> 00:12:12.750 Tommy DiMisa: Let's have fun. Who are you? You said. You know it says here, Christian high performance, lifestyle, coach, martial art instructor, you know, 3 decades in corporate America. Let's dive in. Because I think you and I talked very, very briefly this week about like the why of this organization. What happened so
00:12:12.900 --> 00:12:16.240 Tommy DiMisa: everything to me. When we look back.
00:12:16.390 --> 00:12:34.839 Tommy DiMisa: we could see how things are happening, although sometimes oftentimes when we're in the moment. We don't realize, like I'm in some opportunities right now that are a matter of of course it makes sense that I'm doing these things now. But if I had looked at it in the past when I was doing the steps to get there, I wouldn't have realized that, you know. So what is it that brought you to
00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:46.709 Tommy DiMisa: a number of years ago, founding this organization. What I'm saying? What is the Martin Conroy story? I said Martin gang because I wanted to be professional with them for a second. Marty. Conroy, what is the story? Your story?
00:12:46.890 --> 00:13:16.519 Martin Conroy: Sure. Okay. So the Battlefield Commander Foundation is A. 501 c. 3. That provides full scholarships and mentorship to the children of full and officers and the military law enforcement emergency responders. Now, me myself, I have prior military experience. Taking my commission as a second lieutenant in the Air Force through my Alma Mater's Rotc program, New Jersey Institute technology has an Air force Rotc program that I took my commission as a second lieutenant
00:13:16.530 --> 00:13:45.799 Martin Conroy: my senior year of high school. After competing and wrestling I began a journey and martial arts, and after about 10 years ago I got to 10 years into it. I got to rank where I started helping train some of the incoming students, and our Dojo had quite a lot of law enforcement emergency responders coming through the Doj. So when it came time for the charity to be founded, which we'll get into in a couple of minutes.
00:13:45.830 --> 00:14:04.619 Martin Conroy: I realized that I wanted to group what we call our battlefield commanders all together under one umbrella and battlefield commanders or military law enforcement emergency responders the people who are out there who are protecting, serving and reviving us
00:14:04.920 --> 00:14:32.870 Martin Conroy: so the scholarship is for the children of fallen officers in the military. That's Ncos up to Colonel's and law enforcement that sergeant up to colonels as well. We do not include chiefs in that and emergency responders. It's lieutenants and captains. Alright, we're gonna dive more deeply into that after quick break. But I wanna so we we set the stage. So you know things that
00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:47.400 Tommy DiMisa: you were touched by in your life. You know the the martial arts work. You know your Rotc. Thank you for your service serving in the Air Force, second lieutenant. There's so much there that got you to this path.
00:14:47.870 --> 00:14:59.990 Tommy DiMisa: And then there's this opportunity where you mean, did you? Did, you know? And you don't have to answer this. We'll come back and answer it. But I wonder? Did you know that you hey? One day I'm gonna found a nonprofit, you know, one day wanna do this, or one day.
00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:09.720 Tommy DiMisa: or were there just some events that happen that led you to do this, and we'll get back to that. That's sort of like a cliffhanger gang. That's how we do it. That's a radio trick. Alright, we'll be right back.
00:17:21.130 --> 00:17:42.239 Tommy DiMisa: That's right. Your voice back in the Attic baby Morning. You never heard that song before. Oh, my God, it's a classic. Come on. I used to make I'm laughing more on this podcast than what previous podcasts combined. I love it. I'm listen. Happy to serve, happy to serve it. That's what i'm here to do is entertain, that. I will take the job and responsibility.
00:17:42.240 --> 00:18:09.480 Tommy DiMisa: You can't see me, obviously, but I'm wearing an Fd. Ny. Job shirt today. Shout out to my boy, Mick Collins, love that guy paid forward plastic man himself. He's all about nonprofit organizations and giving back money to to nonprofits by by way of merchant processing merchant services, and he's always got my back. Appreciate you, man, and of course, Fdny, I got a lot of friends and cousins and and relations on that
00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:16.109 Tommy DiMisa: on the fire department. You know we've done some stuff with, you know, a couple of years ago.
00:18:16.170 --> 00:18:24.349 Tommy DiMisa: you know, right around September eleventh, the the anniversary of that tragic day. We did some focus there. You know.
00:18:24.710 --> 00:18:33.499 Tommy DiMisa: Nypd Fdny, obviously our our military, our veterans, you know, Marty, wh? Let's just tell me some stories, man like W.
00:18:34.400 --> 00:19:03.429 Tommy DiMisa: You had these folks in the dozo you had, you know, law enforcement folks coming in, you know. II shared the website while while we were at break, you know, and I'd encourage everybody to check it out. Battlefield commanders.com battlefield commanders.com. It lists the the 7 virtues of the organization, and then it says, the effective battlefield commander follows the battlefield commander 21 precepts for the benefits of an operation. So you, you know, this isn't stuff that the organization made up.
00:19:03.430 --> 00:19:07.629 Tommy DiMisa: I'm gathering. This is what it is to be a battlefield commander in, you know
00:19:07.630 --> 00:19:12.170 Tommy DiMisa: on the front lines. Is that how I'm understanding that in life, in in life? Yeah.
00:19:12.230 --> 00:19:13.060 Martin Conroy: Period
00:19:13.220 --> 00:19:34.330 Martin Conroy: you know, my my journey was an interesting one, Tommy, because, like you, I had a very successful career and voluntary, and unfortunately, in 2,014 I began an unfortunate journey as a whistleblower. I went through a horrific whistleblower experience with the largest voluntary insurance carrier in the world.
00:19:34.350 --> 00:19:50.690 Martin Conroy: where I caught agents from the organization committing fraud against police officers. Now, when I reported this up the chain of command, what I was unaware of is that there were parties that had reported it all the way to this organization's highest levels.
00:19:50.790 --> 00:20:13.859 Martin Conroy: So they initially, they initiated large cover up. And unfortunately, over the course of next 2 years, I went through the experience of a whistleblower. At the end of 2,017 we were in negotiations with this organization's law firm, and they asked us, under the under a confidential settlement discussion
00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:38.610 Martin Conroy: what type of evidence we had, and at the point at that point there was another 8 plaintiffs. So they, the 9 of us, submitted our evidence to the law firm, and once they saw it they filed temporary restraining orders against me and 8 other plaintiffs prohibiting us from filing any lawsuits. The problem is, Tommy, is that this law firm was so sloppy
00:20:38.660 --> 00:21:06.169 Martin Conroy: that they took that information and they filed it in public domain. It was supposed to be filed under seal. So now, at that point I was instantly known as a whistleblower, which means that from that point Cnb. Level opportunities or shutdown for me in corporate America. You know. You're not gonna be the the chief revenue officer for Multi 1 billion dollar brand when you're a Whistleblower people just unfortunately look at you the wrong way.
00:21:06.450 --> 00:21:17.810 Martin Conroy: So shortly after that a series of articles were published by the intercept dozens and dozens of people reached out to the media and to our teams nationwide.
00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:23.040 And I looked at myself. And I said, Okay, wh. What do we can do for the rest of my life.
00:21:23.990 --> 00:21:45.160 Martin Conroy: So I said, I want to do something, whatever I do next. I want to be doing for the rest of my life, and I realize that ideally, it was something that it was going to be that I built so initially, I was gonna launch battlefield commander as a for profit enterprise, and then, summer of 2,018, I was praying, and God delivered the message to me to make it to charity.
00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:52.129 Martin Conroy: So I spent about 6 months putting together the business plan. It's a hundred 59 page business plan.
00:21:52.280 --> 00:22:03.570 Martin Conroy: I spent tens of thousands of hours making sure that I sent up. This set up the 501 c. 3. Correctly trademark, the intellectual property, including the 21 precepts
00:22:03.590 --> 00:22:07.840 Martin Conroy: and achieved a tax-free status. In April 2,019,
00:22:07.860 --> 00:22:14.450 we formally launch fundraising activities in November of 2,019, and then a virus shopping down right away.
00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:18.810 Martin Conroy: Now we picked back that back up in 2,021,
00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:28.510 Martin Conroy: when I designed the charity, though, Tommy I designed it in a very unique fashion. We designed it as a professional aggregator or networker.
00:22:28.580 --> 00:22:29.690 Martin Conroy: Here's the deal.
00:22:30.490 --> 00:22:41.449 Martin Conroy: Anybody that I've spoken to over the course of the last 4 years gets behind the costs. and when they hear about the cause. One of the first questions that they ask me is, how could I help
00:22:41.750 --> 00:22:51.330 Martin Conroy: now? I knew this as I was going through the design of the platform and our go to market strategy. So I knew that God gave me an incredibly
00:22:51.450 --> 00:22:53.380 Martin Conroy: powerful tool
00:22:53.610 --> 00:22:55.669 Martin Conroy: that I had to take care of.
00:22:56.370 --> 00:23:02.740 Martin Conroy: you know, unfortunately, a lot of times in charitable work, and you know this more than anybody.
00:23:02.940 --> 00:23:10.269 Martin Conroy: Unfortunately, people utilize charities, not in the way that they're supposed to utilize charities, for
00:23:10.280 --> 00:23:35.499 Martin Conroy: you have to put the quas first. You have to make sure that you're putting the cause for first. So the fact that God gave me this power? I said, Okay, well, how am I going to be able to build this network in such a way that the people who are associated with the network experience a level of value for being associated with this new charity. Yeah, remember, Tommy, as a whistleblower, I was destroyed professionally.
00:23:35.500 --> 00:23:56.470 Martin Conroy: I was destroyed publicly I was destroyed on the streets. I lost somewhere around 90% of my professional contacts. It was really just my very close friends and fe friends, that I consider my family me through that entire circumstance. But the majority of my professional contacts were decimate. So I had to build this network from scratch.
00:23:56.620 --> 00:24:09.190 Martin Conroy: What I did have was I had nearly 30 years worth of high level sales, leadership and sales, training and sales coaching experience where I met certain experts in certain industries.
00:24:09.250 --> 00:24:37.539 Martin Conroy: Now, these experts that I met Tommy or our top of the class, you're talking about people that have impeccable reputations the education most of the time. They're offering some type of niche solution that you know you're not gonna encounter. Somebody say, Oh, well, I got a guy who does that. No, I have the guy who created the program. I have the guy who created the platform. That's who I'm looking to introduce you to, not somebody who kind of does it part time.
00:24:37.580 --> 00:24:49.590 Martin Conroy: So when I make, when I need an executive as opposed to asking them for a donation right away, my response is. Let me see how the charity could help you first.
00:24:49.810 --> 00:24:56.029 Martin Conroy: So what this charity does is we're looking to set the standard the same way that you are is, we're looking to
00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:59.289 Martin Conroy: help the executives that we meet
00:24:59.430 --> 00:25:08.700 Martin Conroy: first before we accept any type of donations or sponsorships from them, and that comes from the professional introduction system
00:25:10.230 --> 00:25:13.819 Tommy DiMisa: first. Wow. I mean, that's kind of
00:25:14.220 --> 00:25:17.859 Tommy DiMisa: you know, I think, in those terms. And I
00:25:18.170 --> 00:25:19.790 Tommy DiMisa: I think the
00:25:19.870 --> 00:25:29.880 Tommy DiMisa: certainly in the business world and in industry. It's best to think that way. How can I help you? How can I serve you? I?
00:25:29.910 --> 00:25:50.970 Tommy DiMisa: I'm constantly in meeting with executive leaders of nonprofit organizations, and the ones who, I think, are most successful from a fundraising perspective and from a development perspective, are the ones who find those partnerships and look for those opportunities to be you both of service to their quote, unquote partners, donors, founders
00:25:50.970 --> 00:26:02.289 Tommy DiMisa: different stakeholders, volunteers, board members as well as they are to their the constituents that their programs serve, you know, like
00:26:02.520 --> 00:26:14.619 Tommy DiMisa: a A, a. Yeah. I think of my friend Ken, serene founder of the New York City. Imagine awards part of that. The Long Island. Imagine awards and managing Director Serenian associates with the accounting firm out on Long Island, and
00:26:14.780 --> 00:26:22.180 Tommy DiMisa: you know. I remember being in a room, and I might have shared this on the show here before, but I remember being in. We had done a panel discussion.
00:26:22.750 --> 00:26:23.770 Tommy DiMisa: And
00:26:23.930 --> 00:26:42.720 Tommy DiMisa: you know, over the years Ken's talked about that that some nonprofits haven't realized how important it is to consider their donors or strategic relationships as partners, and to think in terms of how can I be a partner to them? What am I talking about? Well, look, let me give you an example, some people
00:26:43.370 --> 00:26:52.469 Tommy DiMisa: play golf, and other people don't play golf. Many organizations do a golf outing, and many organizations ask for sponsorships
00:26:52.590 --> 00:27:20.299 Tommy DiMisa: that may be relevant to some people. But in the case of one person who I'm thinking of specifically, that isn't relevant. That person is not a golfer. It's not something that's on brand with what they do. So just doing a t sponsorship, or just putting their name in the in the you know the event, gal. Excuse me, the event guide is not really relevant, but finding something that is relevant, finding the connection. And II believe you know what you're saying. There, let me see how the charity can help you. First.
00:27:20.300 --> 00:27:32.280 Tommy DiMisa: I that excuse me that to me is partnership, that to me is relationship. Marty, that's like, how can we work together. How can we collaborate? And I feel like I always use this one as an example. But I think it's a great example, and it's one that I'm
00:27:32.280 --> 00:27:49.630 Tommy DiMisa: I'm very I don't want to say. Connected to, but very aware of is the organization here on Long Island, called Book Fairies, which was founded by my friend Amy Zlanski, and it's run by Executive director Eileen Minogue was also a very good friend of mine
00:27:49.990 --> 00:28:05.850 Tommy DiMisa: book. Fairies has given 4 million books to people who need books. Literacy, as we know. It's a silly thing for me to say that literacy is incredibly important. But let me just say this without literacy, people's job tra the trajectory of their
00:28:06.580 --> 00:28:20.159 Tommy DiMisa: their career is different. With their housing is different. It without the ability to to to read and understand, and that is one of the key focuses of book fairs. So to to put this kind of put a bow on this.
00:28:20.840 --> 00:28:50.440 Tommy DiMisa: Amy's as Lansky reaches out to ken Sereni at serenity and associates because Sereni and associates is focused on education. So there's a partnership. There's something so for every single hour that Serenian associates builds out as an accounting firm. A book gets put in the hands of a child. That is something that is on Brand. That is a partnership. That is something that makes a lot of sense. Let me see how the charity can help you first, Amy Zlansky said. Let me see how I can connect with Ken on something that's important to him and is
00:28:50.440 --> 00:29:16.479 Tommy DiMisa: his organization. And that is something that has changed the culture from the feedback I've received of that company because it's on their proposals that when they put a proposal out to market, it's on it's on their email signatures. It's something that is so on brand for these the 2 organizations. So they they're in lock step. So II kinda riffed for a while here. We're gonna we gotta go to break in a minute or 2 here. But but it II wanna go back to that is
00:29:16.480 --> 00:29:40.079 Tommy DiMisa: what does that feel like to the, to the to the listener when you say that that must be something that is refreshing to people. So let's play this out. You meet a new relationship, Marty, and and they go well, I'd love to support the organization. How can I help? And your answer to them is, let me see how the charity can help you first. What does that experience look like? Give me an anecdote or something before we take away. We take a break quick.
00:29:40.510 --> 00:29:46.359 Martin Conroy: sure. Let's just say it was you and you weren't new. You know. Tommy.
00:29:46.360 --> 00:30:10.670 Martin Conroy: Well, what the charity does is we make introductions to certain experts and certain industries. Now, these are experts with the right type of education, the right type of experience. They have impeccable records, and most of times they're offering a niche solution. Now, if you happen to transact business with this expert, the expert will make what we call is a structured
00:30:10.670 --> 00:30:35.499 Martin Conroy: donation to the charity. Now the structured donation covers our operational costs. What that enables us to do is to apply 100% of donations and fundraising to the cost. And again, you know this, I mean from working in charities that it's very difficult, because we have to apply as much as possible
00:30:35.500 --> 00:30:49.560 Martin Conroy: to the courts, and it's only the elite charities that could get up over 80 90% of what they collect going to the courts. This system enables us to apply when applied properly
00:30:49.870 --> 00:30:54.210 Martin Conroy: 100% of the note of the donations and fundraising to the costs.
00:30:54.280 --> 00:31:17.680 Tommy DiMisa: W. So gang. What we're talking about is, you know, a lot of overhead expenses. There's a lot of things that cost money to run an organization. And sometimes when we get donations and grant dollars, you know, they're restricted funds, and then they can't be allocated towards certain things. So what I'm understanding you say Marty, is, the dollars you're talking about are to run the organization. So when somebody makes a donation of of
00:31:17.690 --> 00:31:28.059 Tommy DiMisa: $10,000 for argument's sake. Those donation dollars can go right out to support these these families and these young people with from a scholarship perspective. Is that right?
00:31:28.100 --> 00:31:52.660 Tommy DiMisa: I don't know before.
00:31:52.660 --> 00:32:05.440 Tommy DiMisa: I don't know. I'll just say cause it's out there. Emma Dwyer is her name right? So right? So I guess we could. Reference that we come back. I mean is that the founding of the organization Marty is is she's one of the first people who got served by the organization.
00:32:05.460 --> 00:32:12.439 Martin Conroy: Yeah, she's she's her first scholarship recipient, and she's done like can't wait to talk, to talk, talk, talk to you about.
00:32:12.660 --> 00:32:17.810 Tommy DiMisa: You're gonna have to wait for 90 s. We gotta go to a break. It's your board Tov, the nonprofit sector, connector right there.
00:34:15.120 --> 00:34:38.689 Tommy DiMisa: My buddy Brendan, leave you from the Queen's chamber. I call it my uncle, and because he's older than me, and he don't look nothing like me, so I say he must be kinda like an uncle, so I call him Uncle Brandon, and he wrote that song, and he sings that song, although a lot of people around this house. Sing that song too. Certainly I do. But I'm wondering right now, with with 2 weeks to go before we come back and do another episode of the show.
00:34:38.690 --> 00:34:52.440 It might be time to to do a remix. I've been talking about it for a while. It might be time to rewrite the the music to the show. We've done a hundred, almost a hundred 50 episodes of something that was just an idea, and it might be time to.
00:34:52.440 --> 00:35:17.159 Tommy DiMisa: I feel I feel an island Reggae type beat, you know. Shout out to anybody who wants to talk to me about making a new song. I know Mick Collins wants me to to do like an eminem inspired hip hop thing, Mick text me, let's talk about it. Maybe there's something there. Maybe we do a different song for you know, every quarter or something like that. Anyway, Marty, why am I doing this? Let's talk about the show. Let's let's talk about you not to show again. Let's do it
00:35:17.160 --> 00:35:32.349 Tommy DiMisa: so tell me, tell me like you know, like I said, breakfast with break the look and feel the organization, what it does with the why, the scholarship? Why, like you wanted to do something? How did this tell me how this became the thing when you know.
00:35:32.390 --> 00:35:35.610 Tommy DiMisa: program-wise how this became, what the organization was going to do.
00:35:36.180 --> 00:35:53.880 Martin Conroy: Well again, Tommy, when I when I went through that horrific experience, I looked at myself, and I did a deep dive, and I spent a lot of time in prayer, meditation, and training. I said, Well, how am I gonna best serve God for the rest of my life, and that's for charity. So I started at a much
00:35:53.880 --> 00:36:06.400 Martin Conroy: higher macro scale, and understanding what the importance is of philanthropy and charity to to the human race. I, even though I run a charity, I'm very philanthropic. I'm involved with
00:36:06.400 --> 00:36:20.470 Martin Conroy: a multitude supporting multitude of other charities. I don't need a ton ton of my time to my town to a as a volunteer assistant wrestling coach, so I tried to give as much as I possibly possibly can.
00:36:20.660 --> 00:36:29.999 Martin Conroy: When I looked at charities, though, and I was looking to launch this charity, I realized that there was a problem. There was a problem with charities nationwide, and that was that
00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:53.979 Martin Conroy: too much of the money that was being donated was being applied to operational expenses. You see, horrific stories constantly publishing in the media where, you know, people are being investigated and 92% of their donations went to operational expenses with Ceos getting paid for $500,000 a year. It's a real train wreck when you actually do your own research.
00:36:53.980 --> 00:37:12.010 Martin Conroy: So when I designed this charity, I wanted to make sure that I didn't take any money out of it, that everything that was used to fund and launch the charity and get it to a certain point was made by me and the experts and sponsors that we introduced the network. And so far it's worked. It's worked pretty well.
00:37:12.010 --> 00:37:26.750 Martin Conroy: What's very unique about the charity, like, I said, is the professional introduction system, and this is very apropos to multitude to charities. I believe that as a charity we should be bringing value to our network have to remember there's a
00:37:27.070 --> 00:37:52.169 Martin Conroy: millions of millions of amazing causes out there. So if an executive or a family or company is going to give money to a certain cause. There has to be much more than the cause. There has to be value in that network, because a lot of organizations and individuals do look at their charitable giving as access to a specific network. So by introducing, hold on, I think I want.
00:37:52.360 --> 00:38:02.280 Tommy DiMisa: I heard you? I don't know, for everybody. Did many people look like their charitable donations as access to a network? Is that how you said that?
00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:28.170 Tommy DiMisa: Yes, okay. So that says to me that you know II don't know why this is coming up for me now. But I you know one of the guys where I learn a lot about networking from is Michael Goldberg and Michael Goldberg says peripherals wide. We're always networking, and I've always been like that, too, no where, no matter where I am, I might be at a personal function. Certain people in my family laugh about it, but it's like always over there networking, you know, like that sort of thing. But it's that to me, is it? So?
00:38:28.260 --> 00:38:52.170 Tommy DiMisa: It shouldn't be a bad thing, that part of our connection through relating to organizations. Look, I know people join boards because they wanna support the organization. But at the same time they wanna grow their own business. They wanna grow their own profession. They wanna grow their own professional network. So that's what I'm hearing you say is, is, it's that's part of the ambition of people getting involved with this type of work. Is that what you're saying?
00:38:52.570 --> 00:38:57.009 Martin Conroy: Yeah, listen. You know you have to. You have to in today's day and age
00:38:57.120 --> 00:39:00.209 Martin Conroy: and in the future look at
00:39:00.550 --> 00:39:21.590 Martin Conroy: what money you are putting out as an organization, organization and individual individual, and make sure that it's a worthwhile investment, a worthwhile donation. You know. So that's where you have to look at the charity. You have to look at the charities network. And you have to say, okay, above and beyond the costs, because the course is pure.
00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:33.529 Martin Conroy: you know, that's 1 one great thing about the battlefield commander. Foundation is even criminals say, oh, wow, yeah, you know, it's kind of hard to get negative on the child of a fallen officer.
00:39:33.590 --> 00:39:54.610 Martin Conroy: So you know, above and beyond that, to give true value to our, to your network. You want to look for legal, moral, creative ways, to add value to that network. And the professional introduction system is away.
00:39:54.690 --> 00:40:05.549 Tommy DiMisa: not to say, Look, Nu, you know, not to say that organizations are not developing relationships. We know that they are. However, this seems to be a major tenet of what you're doing here.
00:40:05.730 --> 00:40:30.680 Tommy DiMisa: Yes, so think about it like this, Toby, and you've you've been swimming in the voluntary borders for a long time. Tell me, are you familiar with premium financing? Do you understand? I would. I will not admit that I understand that I am aware of premium financing from a life insurance perspective. Speaking of life insurance he would be. I would be remiss if I didn't say hello to my friend for life. Robert Rosner. Hello, Robert miss you
00:40:30.680 --> 00:40:53.889 Tommy DiMisa: miss you because I haven't talked to you in 2 days he is my friend for life, and whenever life insurance pops up he would have been like. He's gonna text me later, he would say, that would've been perfect time. I heard Mick Collins's name 5 times on the show today, but I didn't hear my name mentioned, so the fact, trust me, he will. So yeah. So I again, I'm aware of premium financing. II would beming if I said I understand it, or could talk too much about it.
00:40:54.060 --> 00:41:20.439 Martin Conroy: Sure. So let let me explain where that works and how it's applied with the professional introduction system first for your listeners, so that they understand premium financing what all, but only a few very select high level financial advisors and accountants. And you know, lawyers know about the premium, know about the premium financing industry? What most people don't realize is that life insurance
00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:44.270 Martin Conroy: can work the exact same way as when you're buying a house. And what do I mean by that? If you see a house that you wanna buy, there's 2 ways that you could buy it. Let's just say hypothetically, the house is a million dollars. You could either pay a million dollars cash or you could put 20% down and mortgage the other 80. Well, what most people don't realize is that life insurance policies work the exact same way.
00:41:44.310 --> 00:41:47.070 Martin Conroy: You could actually have a bank
00:41:47.200 --> 00:42:15.480 Martin Conroy: finance a portion of your life insurance policy. Now, this is very relevant to business owners, to executives, to people who who have large real estate holdings. When you're talking about in corporate America with small to Midsize companies. It's a tool that is utilized for key man policies. So it's something that the general public is not aware of.
00:42:15.540 --> 00:42:22.689 Martin Conroy: Well, my mentor founded his own premium financing intermediary
00:42:23.050 --> 00:42:44.599 Martin Conroy: in the exact same way as with insurance. When you're talking about health insurance where an individual health insurance agent cannot place insurance directly with an insurance carrier that works the exact same way with premium financing. If you're looking to place a premium financing case. You must go to what's known as an intermediary.
00:42:44.610 --> 00:42:52.250 Martin Conroy: The intermediary communicates and negotiates with not only the insurance carrier, but the bank.
00:42:52.330 --> 00:43:16.659 Martin Conroy: They're basically the Master General Agency in the transaction. Well, Darren Sugayama, my mentor, after being a high level financial advisor who, has run training classes for some of the largest voluntary insurance carriers in the world, including Colonial, including Northwestern, including a couple of others, one that you and I were discussing earlier today.
00:43:16.830 --> 00:43:22.110 Martin Conroy: He designed his own premium, intermediate premium, financing intermediary.
00:43:22.130 --> 00:43:27.899 Martin Conroy: and a very unique software platform around the company.
00:43:28.140 --> 00:43:36.910 Martin Conroy: So when I need a certain executive and they have a certain net worth they have, you know. Perhaps they're a business owner. Whatever the case may be.
00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:39.849 Martin Conroy: I can introduce Darren
00:43:40.210 --> 00:43:55.080 Martin Conroy: without displacing their current relationship without displacing their current financial advisor without displacing their current insurance broker. I'm just presenting premium financing as an option to this executive
00:43:55.080 --> 00:44:12.309 Tommy DiMisa: and potentially their financial advisor. I got us, I wanna stop you because we I wanna get into and we gotta take a quick break and we're almost done. And I wanna make sure we hit upon. So this, this, to me, is the this is the professional network. This is the professional introduction piece which becomes a revenue generator. Donation.
00:44:12.480 --> 00:44:30.360 Tommy DiMisa: Excuse me. A donation angle for the organization. Correct. So I wanna put a bow on that for me quick, like sum that up because I really want to get into. We're we gotta go to break again, believe it or not. And I wanna hear about you know the work that the organization is doing for the for these families, and you know
00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:45.020 Martin Conroy: very, very quickly what by me introducing Darren, if there is a transaction between the Financial Advisor and the potential and short, he will make the structured donation to the charity.
00:44:45.020 --> 00:45:04.740 Martin Conroy: Now, premium financing cases. Tommy. Most of the times you're looking at upwards around over $20,000 worth of annual premium. So that means that the donation is normally pretty decent. Now, very quickly. What it means for the Executive is they're having a significant, larger insurance policy
00:45:04.740 --> 00:45:28.830 Martin Conroy: for less than what they're normally paying for. So I'm adding value to the Executive. I'm not displacing the financial Advisor. I'm giving the Executive a much bigger insurance policy than what they would be paying for cash. And there's a lot of unique tax structures that you could utilize with premium financing, such as something called an Llc. With charitable intent.
00:45:28.920 --> 00:45:55.439 Tommy DiMisa: You could have me background should be put into that little box or that little silo. So we're gonna come back into that on a different day. I can't believe I'm I have to say what I'm about to say. We're almost out of time. I can believe that, but I can't believe I never thought on this show. I have to say what I'm about to say.
00:45:55.440 --> 00:46:19.480 Tommy DiMisa: I am not an attorney. I am not a Cpa. I am not a tax adviser. I can't vouch for what Marty is talking about. Consult with your financial planner, consult with your attorney. Consult with your tax, man or woman, consult with your Cpa. Never in all my life, and I think I'd have to say that on philanthropy and focus. But I think it's an important disclaimer. I'm not vouching for everything that we're talking about right now, because I don't know it to be true. You must
00:46:19.480 --> 00:46:42.129 Tommy DiMisa: speak with people who are professionals in this space. Right, Marty, you agree on that one right? We got 100, and like I said, I could introduce you to to. We can introduce you to the the guy or gal who is the one. In all these cases we will be right back. We come back. We gotta talk about the programs. Gotta talk about scholarship upcoming events, how we can plug in and help right back philanthropy and focus.
00:48:40.790 --> 00:48:56.810 Tommy DiMisa: the battlefield Commander, Foundation articles of incorporation. State battlefield Commander Foundation is a nonprofit corporation, and shall be operated exclusively for education and charitable purposes. With inside the meaning of section 5, one C. 3 of the Irs code
00:48:56.970 --> 00:49:15.459 Tommy DiMisa: and the corresponding section of any future of Federal tax code. The foundation provides educational scholarships to the children of law enforcement, military and emergency responders killed on them, job or during active service. The scholarships that the foundation provides include full tuition
00:49:15.470 --> 00:49:21.070 Tommy DiMisa: room and board books. fees, 10 h of paid work, study, transportation costs.
00:49:21.090 --> 00:49:36.930 Tommy DiMisa: home and mentorship from elite professional athletes, professional sports, coaches and top tier executives check out the website, battlefield commanders.com founder of the organization. Marty Conroy. Let's bring it home, baby.
00:49:37.460 --> 00:49:43.699 Tommy DiMisa: What's going on? Tell me some stories about the organization. Tell me about you know who was the first recipient of of one of these scholarships.
00:49:43.810 --> 00:49:49.699 Martin Conroy: Our first recipient was a true blessing, Tommy. We are going to have the ability to build
00:49:49.890 --> 00:50:06.910 Martin Conroy: this charity on the back of this young lady, because if you want to talk about warriors, if you want to talk about warrior spirit, then you need to understand who Emma Dwyer is Miss Emma Dwyer. Miss Emma Dwyer story is horrific.
00:50:06.940 --> 00:50:17.210 Martin Conroy: Her first, her father, first Sergeant Russell Dwyer, did nearly 20 years in the army. He came back from Iraq with undiagnosed Ptsd.
00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:34.230 Martin Conroy: On his wife's birthday. He walked into the house, grabbed his pistol shot, and killed his wife, and then committed suicide in front of Emma, who was a year and a half at the time her brother Chris was 4. They saw the entire thing.
00:50:34.360 --> 00:50:38.630 Martin Conroy: They want to live with their handicapped grandparents. After that.
00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:46.830 Martin Conroy: in her freshman year high school, within a month of each other, both of her handicapped grandparents died
00:50:46.990 --> 00:50:55.440 Martin Conroy: now because Emma's father's Ptsd. Was undiagnosed. She is not eligible for the Gi. Grant.
00:50:55.550 --> 00:51:08.880 Martin Conroy: Therefore, without this scholarship she would not been to have been able to go to school so about 2 months ago she got admitted into her first choice, which is Denver Metropolitan.
00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:34.029 Martin Conroy: She wants to go to school for event plan, so she wants to be an event planner right now. She's in her senior year of high school, and she scheduled to graduate in May of 2024. This girl is amazing. She's got an incredible personalities. She's smart, she's philanthropic herself. Last summer she was on a Bible retreat in Peru.
00:51:34.030 --> 00:51:59.819 Tommy DiMisa: teaching blind kids how to read the Bible like really just an absolute dynamite dynamite a young lady. And for our first scholarship recipient, God couldn't give us a better one. Congratulations on to the organization, certainly, you know. And and II watched the video on your website with Emma speaking about her, her story. And, Emma, we wish you nothing but success.
00:51:59.820 --> 00:52:20.879 Tommy DiMisa: And hurry up and graduate because we got a lot of connections. We can help you out with man. I do a lot of events. We know a lot of people. So all the best and and I would encourage you, Emma, if you're listening to this, or if you find this somewhere to tap into. You know what? What Marty's talking about. Networks tap into relationships, build your relationships and create more relationships in the work you're gonna do.
00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:45.089 Tommy DiMisa: you know, at Denver, Metro, and certainly into your future, because it's you know. II say this as great as I might be, and people might think I'm such a big deal. I say it's and I say I'm kind of a big deal, but I in in all seriousness, I'm only as good as the people I'm connected to. I'm only as good as the strong. I'm only strong as my relationships and the people I've developed relationships with. So I'd encourage everybody to do that network, anyway, Marty, let's get back into it. So, Emma.
00:52:45.090 --> 00:53:08.139 Tommy DiMisa: but let me, I don't wanna say, anyway, Emma, I hope to meet you one day alright back to back to Mark. I hope so, Marty. What do we? Where do we go from here like? What's the next steps? How can we help what events are coming up that sort of thing? Sure. Okay. So to bring this charity to market. I tied it into my coaching platform, and as a Christian high performance, lifestyle coach, I
00:53:08.140 --> 00:53:18.239 Martin Conroy: set the goal of becoming a 3 sport professional athlete in my fiftys, starting first with mixed martial arts, continuing on to boxing, and then, God willing, golf
00:53:18.380 --> 00:53:35.399 Tommy DiMisa: so far the mma and the boxing is cooperating, but unfortunately the golf is not. Listen. I gotta talk to you about the golf thing. But I'm gonna pull up the website. This guy in the blue hoodie with the gloves on. Who's that? Is that? Is that you going into a ring somewhere? Is that somebody you trained? Yeah, that's me.
00:53:35.530 --> 00:53:42.610 Tommy DiMisa: Wait a minute. So you're you're how old are? Can you tell us how old you are? 52? You're 52,
00:53:42.680 --> 00:54:03.509 Tommy DiMisa: and you're is this, you're going the octagon or the version of the octagon like? Is there certain like? Is it certain age groups like, what help us with this? We we should have started with this. So what? What you're looking at folks is me stepping foot into the first my first amateur mix martial arts. Flight
00:54:03.510 --> 00:54:14.000 Martin Conroy: which was on October first, 2022 it was designed as a very unique fundraiser at my Alma Mater, New Jersey Institute Technology.
00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:37.809 Martin Conroy: Now on an annual basis, we just had our second annual fundraiser this past year, where we have a wonderful sit down dinner. I have an entertainer come in. We provide educational content, networking auctions, and we cap off the entertainment with a series of martial arts. Competitions. Last year was mixed martial arts. This past year was, combat grapp.
00:54:37.850 --> 00:54:57.509 Martin Conroy: So to answer your question, Tommy, on an annual basis. We ha! We will be having our annual fundraiser at Ng. It every single October. We should have that date assigned by January during the course of 2024. I will also be, competing in other types of mix more shorts, boxing
00:54:57.510 --> 00:55:11.110 Martin Conroy: and grappling on behalf of the charity. So in terms of events. That's what our fundraisers are gonna consist of. Where I'll be selling tickets for and sponsorships for those events
00:55:11.110 --> 00:55:35.110 Tommy DiMisa: selling sponsorships for me as a fighter and spell selling sponsorships and tickets for annual fundraiser in October usually put other people out there like this, but I'm wondering, you know I know you and Michael Goldberg have become more or establishing a friendship. I'm wondering if there's something, you know he's a fighter knockout networking the networking group. The whole thing.
00:55:35.110 --> 00:55:57.830 Martin Conroy: I don't know, man. Maybe you can put put your logo on his back somewhere. Get him in the ring somewhere, fighting somebody. What do you? What do you think about that? We were already working on that, Tommy? We're working on a very unique offering. You'll see. I'll send you a video. And there should be a promo video being put on the video on the website from this pastures event any day. Now.
00:55:57.830 --> 00:56:24.950 Martin Conroy: it's just getting completed. And we intend to have some type of charitable boxing event with Michael and his network somewhere in New Jersey or New York, if not in 2024 and 2025. Michael was, is absolutely incredible, and if your listeners are not tapped into his network, please let me say for you to please check it out. I've had the opportunity to meet some of the executives that are associated
00:56:24.950 --> 00:56:31.299 Martin Conroy: with this network. And they are true professionals. They're caring they're giving. They're highly competent.
00:56:31.300 --> 00:56:56.249 Martin Conroy: They run a great network. Tommy is involved intimately involved. So please make sure that you check it out. It is called the networking group network. Yeah, the networking group.org the networking group.org. Michael Goldberg is the founder. And again, I'm I'm sort of part of that leadership team over there, so check it out or reach out to me, Tommy, d Nyc. On the social media. You know the Instagram, the whole thing. And if you want to send me an email questions about
00:56:56.250 --> 00:57:20.759 Tommy DiMisa: that Tommy d at philanthropy and focus.com. Ph oc, us.com or Tommy D at the networking group.org actually, and get me there too. Thank you for that little commercial for that. There was a couple months ago I had an gentleman named Matt Pomarra from an or an a nonprofit here on Long Island, a boxing focus nonprofit. So we'll have to make sure, Marty, we made that happen. I promise you this, everybody, I will be there in support.
00:57:20.760 --> 00:57:41.229 Tommy DiMisa: I will not be in the ring. I will not be boxing. I will not be grappling. I will not be. You know. Doing, mma, that's not my, not my, not my bag, man, not my bag. But I'll be there in support. And you know, listen! You need me to wear a hoodies. You need me to do thing. I'll do all that. That's my moves. Listen, Marty. It is been an absolute pleasure. III hit a lot of
00:57:41.590 --> 00:58:03.630 Tommy DiMisa: this year. II hit a lot of big numbers and you know my on my birthday at the beginning of the year as a Friday, and it was the one hundredth episode of the show, and that's you know. And now you're finalizing the third year of the show with me. So it's a big deal. So we are taking 2 weeks off gang. We take 2 weeks off of the holidays. That is, talk radio that Nyc does that, and I go right along with them.
00:58:04.130 --> 00:58:06.500 Tommy DiMisa: So we will be back January fifth
00:58:06.610 --> 00:58:25.390 Tommy DiMisa: for a new episode, a New Year, and maybe a new song. I don't know. We'll say maybe a new song. It may be. Maybe maybe I'll just sing to you. All right, Marty Conroy, battlefield Commanders foundation website, battlefield commanders.com. Marty. I appreciate you. Thank you, my brother, for what you're doing all the best, any last words.
00:58:25.900 --> 00:58:37.710 Martin Conroy: merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy holidays! God bless you! And while your listeners we appreciate everything that you do for charity, Tommy. Oh, thank you. I appreciate you. I appreciate everybody. Make it a great day. I'll see you later.
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