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 211: Tango Alpha Lima: Comic artist and illustrator Stephen Russell
April 30th, 2024 | Season 5 | 57 mins 11 secs
american legion, article 15, artist, authentic stories, author, baqubah, care packages, catharsis, ceremony, comic books, comic strips, comics, community, creative process, deployment, fob warhorse, gwot, honor, illustrator, iraq, iwo jima, memoir, military, native american veteran, orthopedic joints, patriotism, petraus, post-9/11, remembrance, self-reflection, service, storyteller, troop surge, veteran, veteran-owned business, vietnam, world war ii, writing therapy, wwii
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 210: Tango Alpha Lima: Fort Meade Armed Forces Wellness Center Director Noelle Austin-Jones
April 23rd, 2024 | Season 5 | 57 mins 33 secs
american legion, armed forces wellness center, cadence, change, community, coping skill, danger-sleep, fitness testing, funeral benefits, funeral services, gwot, health, health readiness, heart health, holistic, homeless, human performance, meditation, metabolic testing, military, military spouse, mind body spirit, motivation, post-9/11, ptsd, service, sons of the american legion, stress-management, total force fitness, veteran, weight-tape, wellness injury prevention, woobie
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 209: Tango Alpha Lima: Afghanistan War Commission Executive Director Jaime Cheshire
April 16th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 6 mins
afghan allies, afghanistan, afghanistan war commission, american legion, appalachian trail, bin laden, boots on the ground, boys state, burn pits, children and youth, cia, community, congressional gold medal, deception, diplomats, female veteran, ghost soldiers, graffiti, gwot, history, intelligence assessment, interviews, kabul, mental health, military, military women, moral injury, national emergency fund, natural disaster, ort-a-john, policy, post-9/11, resolution of support, scholarship, security forces, service, testimony, tora bora, tornado, trust, ubl, veteran, veterans, withdrawal, youth programs
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 206: Tango Alpha Lima: The Attributes founder Rich Diviney
March 26th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 15 mins
absentee, american legion, apache, attributes, buds, chinook, coaching, community, competitiveness, election, gwot, helicopter, hell week, high-performing teams, human performance, lakota, military, moxie, native americans, overseas voting, phone etiquette, pockets, post-9/11, seals, service, shared experience, sioux, special operations, standing rock, strength finder, teams, tiara, trust, veteran, voting
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 205: Tango Alpha Lima: Wellness Journey with Dr. Laurie Marbas
March 19th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 34 mins
ai, american legion, anxiety, aquatic mammals, be the one, birdwatching, chinese spy, community, crack, depression, diet planning, fasting, food, gwot, habits, healthcare, lifestyle medicine, meat substitute, medical technology, mental health, mike tyson, military, mindfulness, mocumentary, nutrition, pact act, personal development, pigeon, plant-based diet, post-9/11, preventive care, rocket launcher, self-care, service, service officer, shenanigans, surveillance, telehealth, toxic exposure, va, va benefits claim, veteran, vitality, wall-e, warrior spirit, wellness, wellness journey, whole foods
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 204: Tango Alpha Lima: With Honor Founder and CEO Rye Barcott
March 12th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 17 mins
988, advocacy, afghan allies, afghanistan, american legion, authenticity, bi-partisan, border control, brandon act, break-through therapy, caucus, character, civics education, community, compromise, congress, culture war, disenfranchisement, elections, fallujah, food insecurity, gwot, hyper-partisan, ilitary retiree, immigration, integrity, iraq, jrotc, mandatory national service, mdma-assisted therapy, member benefits, membership, mental health, mentorship, military, mission, national security, polarization, political, post-9/11, pt, ptsd, purpose, service, service officers, stability and courage, starman, stolen valor, the big lebowski, therapeutics, transition, tribe, tron, unity, va volunteer, values, veteran, veteran affairs, veteran crisis line, vietnam veteran, vote, white russian
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 203: Tango Alpha Lima: Modern Elder Academy founder Chip Conley
March 5th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 8 mins
aging, american legion, archetype, askhole, bravo zulu, community, curiosity, editing, growth mindset, gwot, hotelier, intergenerational, mentorship, mid-life, middlescence, midlife crisis, military, modern elder, post-9/11, sandwich generation, service, veteran, wisdom
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Tango Alpha Lima: Leaping Lizards – Meet the new Tango Alpha Lima podcast hosts
February 29th, 2024 | Season 5 | 46 mins 33 secs
alternative therapy, american legion, be the one, breakthrough therapy, community, grace, green beret, gwot, healing, mental wellness, military, non-profit, pache helicopter, pilot, podcasters, positive mindset, post-9/11, psychedelic therapies, ptsd, rotc, service, service dog, suicide, tbi, troop surge, veteran
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.