Trish Leto US Navy Veteran, Live video expert, Founder of 5 Minute Lives- Fail Fast Podcast

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QUIN: Today we have another special guest. She is a US Navy veteran, a speaker, live video marketing expert and the founder of the 5 Minute Lives. With us today, we have Trish Leto. How’s it going, Trish? TRISH LETO: Oh that was awesome. Thank you so much. Yes, it is going fantastic. How are you doing today? QUIN: I’m doing very good. So spring has arrived and how beautiful is it where you are? TRISH LETO: Oh my god. So I’m in Tampa Florida and the weather is beautiful. However, with the spring season in Tampa comes like just sheets and sheets of pollen on our cars and in our sinuses. So my poor children are just like, it’s just mucus everywhere. And as you know, you’ve got little ones as well, when your little kids are running around with like that cold or the allergies whatever, they’re just walking little Petri dishes. So the weather is lovely but then everybody gets a cold. QUIN: You know what, that bothers me so much when the little ones are having a hard time breathing. TRISH LETO: Oh it’s the worst because you like you can’t do anything and they fight you, right? And for me, and my son he wakes and he sneezes and I’m constantly having to wipe his nose. And then, you know the little saline spray that you can put up their nose and like help flush it out. He hates that. He hates it. So yeah we just went directly into parenting life but yeah that’s what’s going on. QUIN: Very good. Trish, so you’re a US Navy veteran. How long were you in the Navy for? TRISH LETO: I was in the Navy for 4 years. I was a helicopter mechanic. QUIN: Really. TRISH LETO: Yeah, ’96 to 2000. QUIN: Helicopter mechanic. Nice. So you actually worked on helicopters, fixed them. Hammers and wrenches and all that kind of stuff? TRISH LETO: Oh yeah, wrenches and hammers and power tools. Yeah. I loved it. I really did. I was a Structural Mechanic, so I did sheet metal repair, fiberglass repair, hydraulic system troubleshooting. But I was a part of a detachment, so it was like all the different MOS’s basically like all different people who you had… I worked with avionics people and the mechanic people and you know, like all different specialties. So we all kind of work together because you know, one helicopter everything kind of comes together, right. So yeah, three years and then I got out. QUIN: It’s fantastic that two days, ago I aired a podcast where I interviewed the Crew Chief of the F16 for the US Air Force, Sean Romero. And man, it is so exciting like you guys were working on some equipment that is very expensive and like millions of dollars. TRISH LETO: Oh my god yeah. Like even the hunks of junk that I worked on, and I have to say it that way because we used to just… I mean, they’re still around too, they’re still flying those things. CH-46 Deltas. I mean it was like $33 Million aircraft. And then not to mention all the tools that went into that too. But yeah I mean, I look back on that and think to myself, “Geez, god almighty. I still can’t believe Uncle Sam put me responsible to work on those things.” But I’m glad he did. QUIN: You know what’s funny? I find that if army helicopter compared to any other one, it almost sounds as if none of them have exhausts because they’re so loud. TRISH LETO: Oh my god, they’re so loud. Even the H-60 is like, I worked on CH-46 Deltas, the echoes of the marine helicopters and their engines are a lot bigger because they had to bring like a lot of ammunition and like a lot of troops in there. But whenever I was on a flight deck underway and an H-60 would fly in, the 60 helicopter blades are like twice the width and length of a 46. And I mean they were freakin massive and I loved it. I loved landing an H-60 on my ship. We never had an army helicopter come in because we were so far out at sea like, they’re also land-based for the army. But yeah man, I don’t know. I love hearing the sound of a helicopter fly over like even like the news choppers, even sheriff’s chopper if I see like a chopper flying in the air in my neighborhood, I’m like “Oh, that sucker sounds good.” QUIN: Yeah. Absolutely. So you know something I heard a few podcasts where you were interviewed, and there was one thing in common that all hosts I heard, they introduce you as a badass. TRISH LETO: That’s funny. QUIN: Was that a coincidence or are you really one? TRISH LETO: I mean, I like to think that I’m a badass just in that, I don’t know, you know it’s funny it’s like you know what does that mean that for different people? I think for me it just means that I think some people just consider me a badass because of what I did in the military. Other people consider me a badass because I’ve worked very hard. You know I beat everybody, plenty of people out there that work hard you know. I don’t know. I definitely appreciate it and I consider it a huge compliment. Am I a badass? Sure, I’ll own it. I just own my stuff.