Adam Marr graduated from Texas Christian University in 2006 and commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army. He graduated from flight school at Fort Rucker, AL in 2009 as an Apache Helicopter Pilot and would go on to make “Pilot-in Command” and “Air Mission Commander.” In 2010 Adam deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom with the 1st CAB, 1-1 ARB out of Fort Riley, KS where he flew over 400 combat hours and was awarded the Combat Action Badge. In 2011 Adam took command of Charlie Company 1-1 ARB and became the first company in the Army to field and train on the new Apache Echo model aircraft. Adam’s last assignment from 2013-2015 was as an OCT at Ft Polk, LA where he helped train and evaluate Attack & Reconnaissance helicopter troops in full spectrum operations prior to their combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Since 2015 Adam has been on the front lines of helping to organize, operationalize, and advocate for innovative solutions to the Veteran mental health & suicide crisis. Vowing to fix what was broken, Adam Co-Founded Warrior Angels Foundation 501(c)3 with his brother in 2015 to help bring an innovative message and solution to sponsor treatments for Veterans who had sustained a Traumatic Brain Injury.
In 2017 Adam co-authored the best-selling book "TALES FROM THE BLAST FACTORY," offering a unique perspective on the intimate challenges his brother, a Special Forces Green Beret, faced transitioning out of the Army because of his TBI and PTS injuries sustained in combat. This book was the inspiration for the Academy Award qualified documentary film Quiet Explosions: Healing the Brain (2020).
Concurrent to all this, Adam spent 5yrs as a management consultant executive for Accenture LLC specializing in leading at the intersection of people and technology, helping fortune 100 executive teams deploy large scale multimillion-dollar organizational transformations.
In 2021 Adam left Accenture to support the passing of Texas House Bill 1802 which was the first legislation of its kind in the United States which allowed for clinical trials in the state of Texas through the Baylor College of Medicine using psilocybin and related therapeutics to help explore clearly, these breakthrough treatments that produce curative results not attainable with existing pharmacology.
Adam is an advocate for the safe and responsible use of these therapies. He attributes his ibogaine and 5MeODMT protocol as a life changing experience that helped reconnect him to his Christian faith and address his own personal combat and service-related traumas. In 2023 he shared his story of healing with these medicines in front of the Kentucky Opioid Abatement and Advisory Commission who is considering the allocation of $42M for novel programs using these therapies to combat the opioid epidemic.
Adam is the current Director of Operations for the Veteran Mental Health Leadership Coalition. The VMHLC is a 501(c)19 coalition led by Lieutenant General Martin R. Steele USMC Ret. along with +45 organizations that advocate for increased research and safe, affordable access to psychedelic medicine and assisted therapies for Veterans and their family members. In 2023 the VMHLC helped unlock $12M in state funding across 4 states for these programs.
Adam is married to the love of his life Alycia, they live in the rural southern town of Slocomb,Ala., where they delight in raising their three children Amelia, Austin, and Aria.
Adam Marr has hosted 24 Episodes.
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Episode 229: Tango Alpha Lima: Irish bassist and wellness advocate Tanya O'Callaghan
September 3rd, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 5 mins
american legion, animal welfare, bass player, bassist, be the one, caretakers, community, concurrent receipt, disability claim, documentary, foodie, gig, gwot, irish, mental health, military, miss usa, musician, nomad, pact act, pageant, post-9/11, richard starr act, service, suicide, touring, training, unity, va, va benefits, veteran, vietnam veteran
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 228: Tango Alpha Lima: American Legion 105th National Convention
August 27th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 18 mins
american legion, be the one, burial benefits, cemetery, champva, coin collection, comfort, community, crafting, dental care, fitness, gaming, gravesite, gwot, healing, honor, ketamine, medicare, medicare advantage, mental health, military, military spouse, mint, neuro plasticity, post-9/11, psychedelics, ptsd, public health, quilting, rpg, service, social isolation, stigma, suicidality, supplements, tricare, veteran, wellcare, wellness, wwii, wwii memorial
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 227: Tango Alpha Lima: Wellbeing Think Tank founder Chase Sterling
August 20th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 25 mins
ai, american legion, community, dogs, entrepreneur, exercise science, fitness, gwot, halo, health, inclusivity, k9, marines, military, military dog, military transition, navsea, pentagon, post-9/11, red sky morning, robot, role model, service, spaceballs, supersoldier, swifties, taylor swift, toxic workplace, training, veteran, weightlifting, wellbeing consultant, working dog, workplace wellbeing
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 226: Tango Alpha Lima: Marine Corps Veteran and Comedian Bryson Banks
August 13th, 2024 | Season 5 | 49 mins 19 secs
air force veteran, american legion, be the one, buddy check, camaraderie, coffee chat, comedian, community, crowdwork, f-bomb, fasting, gwot, honor, legion family, mental health support, military, military spouse, pershing park, post-9/11, ptsd, remembrance, service, soldier’s journey, stand-up, veteran, world war i memorial, wwii
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 223: Tango Alpha Lima: “A Date With Suicide” author D. Paul Fleming
July 23rd, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 11 mins
alternative therapies, american legion, audiobook, author, be the one, catharsis, childhood trauma, community, gwot, humor, legion baseball, mental health, military, military memoir, military story, pact act, post-9/11, ptsd, service, storyteller, suicide, va, va dental care, veteran, writing therapy
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 222: Tango Alpha Lima: Stem Cell therapy with BioXcellerator founder Eric Stoffers
July 16th, 2024 | Season 5 | 47 mins
alternative medicine, american legion, balloon, be the one, bravo zulu, community, community walk, concierge, conscription, entrepreneur, gwot, holistic health, ice cream, ice cream barge, illinois, mandatory service, military, military draft, overseas graves, pacific theatre, post-9/11, selective service, service, stem cell therapy, suicide awareness, veteran, white glove, wwii
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 221: Tango Alpha Lima: Warrior Canine Connection with Rick Yount and Joe Ouellette
July 9th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 2 mins
active-duty, american legion, community, concussion, dog training, guide dog, guitar, gwot, irritable heart, labrador retrievers, military, mission, mobility, music therapy, national guard, paws act, post-9/11, prosthetics and sensory services, seeing eye dog, service, service dog, stress signals, tbi, therapy, unfunded mandate, veteran, wounded warrior
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 220: Tango Alpha Lima: Haunted War Tales with Army veteran R.C. Bramhall
July 2nd, 2024 | Season 5 | 57 mins 17 secs
82nd airborne, abu ghraib, afghanistan, almas, american legion, animal attack, author, bigfoot, cannibalism, community, cryptid, energy signature, fda, flying tigers, gwot, haunted, iraq, italy, japanese pow, legend, letters home, mail, mdma, military, military stories, oil-drum drop, op rock, paranormal, post-9/11, postal service, psy-ops, ptsd, quora, reddit rabbit-hole, rock ape, salerno, sasquatch, service, solomon island giants, special forces, suicide, therapy, ufo, unexplained, validation, verification, veteran, vietnam war, writer, wwii
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 219: Tango Alpha Lima: Retired Army Maj. Gen. Tammy Smith - Living under the confines of DADT
June 25th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 17 mins
afghan allies, afghanistan, ally, american legion, authenticity, community, dadt, diversity, documentary, don’t ask don’t tell, flag officer, george washington, green beret, gwot, humanizing, inclusivity, korean war, korean war memorial, lgbtq+, major general baron friedrich von steuben, military, military discharge, military family, military memorabilia, military spouse, moral injury, outcomes based learning, post-9/11, powerpoint, pride, purple heart, retrograde, rotc, service, service officers, states' rights, support system, transition, tribe, veteran, vietnam veteran
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 218: Tango Alpha Lima: Wrestle Like a Girl CEO and founder Sally Roberts
June 18th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 16 mins
advocacy, alternative therapies, american legion, assessment, athletics, bad-ass women, baseline, be the one, biomarkers, brain health, camaraderie, cognitive testing, community, dementia, federal employment, female veteran, florida, fod walk, fred smith, gator, gwot, head trauma, hormones, it's ok to not be ok, joy in suffering, leadership, life lessons, love is service, military, military spouses, neurological activity, non-profit, olympics, paris post 1, pentagon, personalized medicine, post-9/11, resources, self-love, service, sharing, state department, stigma, tbi, traumatic brain injury, veteran, veteran of the year, vulnerability, women, wrestling
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 217: Tango Alpha Lima: Veteran Socials to Combat Loneliness Epidemic with Dr. Jay Gorman
June 11th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 8 mins
american legion, arlington, be the one, buddy check, cemetery, community, connection, digital relationships, gaza pier, gi bill, gwot, history, humanitarian aid, loneliness, mementos, mental health care, mental health stigma, military, peer-to-peer connection, post-9/11, post-traumatic growth, purple heart, resilience, service, service dog, social circles, social interactions, social media, substance use, suicidal ideation, tbi, transition, va, veteran, veteran gaming, veterans socials, wwii
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 216: Tango Alpha Lima: Wounded veteran and powerlifting champ Omar 'Crispy' Avila
June 4th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 19 mins
aces, agent orange, american legion, arizona ied, bench press, bravo zulu, burn pit, community, deadlift, family, fighter jets, food pantry, forgiveness, gwot, luke skywalker, medical screening, mental health, military, missile defense, pact act, pain management, paralympic athlete, paranormal, patience, post-9/11, powerlifting, prosthetic, self-reflection, service, service officer, star wars, stem cell treatment, support system, survivor guilt, tbi, thankfulness, toxic exposure, uap, ufo, veteran, weightlifting, world record
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 215: Tango Alpha Lima: USU CHAMP with Capt. J. Russell Linderman and Andrea Lindsey
May 28th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 15 mins
american legion, band of brothers, blackhawk, boeing, chinook, community, d-day, dietitian, easy company, evidence based, fara, fitness, gwot, holisitc, human performance, identification, legion family, military, military superstitions, national commander, navy sea cadets, navy seal, normandy, nutrition, pandemic, paratroopers, pcs, post-9/11, preventative medicine, ptsd, recruiting, research, service, sleep hygiene, sleeplessness, sons of the american legion, stress, supplements, tbi, transition, travel, tsa, usid, vertical flight, veteran, weight-loss, wellness
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 214: Tango Alpha Lima: DPAA Director Kelly McKeague
May 21st, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 7 mins
allies, american legion, anthropologist, archeologist, chosin reservoir, closure, cold war, community, dmz, dna, dpaa, excavation, forensic sciences, funeral, generational grieving, gold star families, guadalcanal, gwot, historian, honor, humanitarian effort, kia, korean war, legion riders, loss, medal of honor, medics, military, military honor burial, missing in action, moh, never leave a fallen warrior behind, north korea, photographer, pilot, poppy, poppyday, post-9/11, pow/mia, remembrance, repatriation, russian prison, service, spy plane, taps, veteran, vietnam, wwi, wwii
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 213: Tango Alpha Lima: 2024 Miss America - U.S. Air Force 2nd Lt. Madison Marsh
May 14th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 3 mins
afits, american legion, american legion riders, astronaut, aviation, back street boys, bookworm, bosnia, cancer research, chaplain, character, check ride, college education, community, competition, djbouti, dna, dpaa, fantasy book, gi bill, gwot, horn of africa, integrity, laos, long snapper, mia, military, military recruiting, motorcycle, nfl, non-profit, pageant life, pageants, pancreatic cancer, pilot, post 9/11 gi bill, post-9/11, richard starr act, role model, scotus, service, space camp, spy, taekwondo, tbr, tetris, thrillers, veteran, vietnam war, wind therapy, yemen
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 212: Tango Alpha Lima: Air Force EOD veteran and endurance athlete Adam Popp
May 7th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 7 mins
9/11, air force, american legion, arnold palmer, baghdad, care packages, combat veteran, community, cumulative blast, deployment, elite athlete, eod, explosives, force reductions, golf, gwot, ied, invisible wounds, iraq, katz deli, macrame, marathon, mental health, mentorship, military, motivation, op tempo, opportunities, pez, post-9/11, post-traumatic growth, recovery, remains recovery, resilience, running, service, social media, the hurt locker, transition, ultra-marathon, veteran
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.