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Dominic “Dom” “Slice” Teich
Single Seat Mindset
Meet this Weeks Guest: Dom Teich
Dom “Slice” Teich brings his fighter pilot background and applies them to guide pilots, athletes, business owners, and students with afterburner techniques that American fighter pilots use to ensure mission completion. As an Amazon best-selling author, business owner, entrepreneur, civilian and military instructor pilot, he knows that busy individuals and teams struggle with information overload.
Since 2002, “Slice” has guided hundreds of students toward their goals. His blueprint is called Single Seat Mindset; an impactful group of 40+ fighter pilot guides with a combined experience of 700+ years. Proven formulas and life advice is shared to the insider circle community to ensure success and big goal achievement all while avoiding overwhelm, overload, and flameout. They dive deep into the productivity world to provide guidance through short, impactful steps.
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****This week’s guest, Dominic “Slice” Teich has a new book, Single Seat Wisdom, that releases tomorrow, Friday November 11, 2022 (Veteran’s Day). Available at: https://singleseatwisdom.com/
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00:00:15:03 - 00:00:36:17
Wayne Mulder
So welcome to the On The Blue Line podcast. I'm your host Wayne Mulder, and I'm excited to be back with you again this week. This is the interview room where I sit down with someone every Thursday and bring you their story and hopefully something actionable for you for the week ahead. Before I introduce this week's guest to you, remember on the blue line.com it's OnTheBlueLine.com.
00:00:37:01 - 00:01:00:11
Wayne Mulder
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00:01:00:21 - 00:01:18:04
Wayne Mulder
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00:01:18:04 - 00:01:45:19
Wayne Mulder
So Dominic Teich or Dom as he goes by and “Slice” is his callsign. He was a fighter pilot and he uses that fighter pilot background to a guy goal oriented individuals with techniques that American fighter pilots use to ensure mission success, high output individuals struggle with information overload. So I'm familiar. So he created the largest online group of fighter pilots to guide action takers in short, impactful steps.
00:01:46:08 - 00:02:04:21
Wayne Mulder
So much that we went over just in this episode I know is going to be beneficial to you. It's going to help you in multiple areas of your life. And I think it's it was just a really enjoyable conversation, including how he got the name “Slice” So be sure or the call sign “Slice.” So be sure to listen to that part of the conversation so you can find that out as well.
00:02:05:02 - 00:02:23:07
Wayne Mulder
Plus, I have to ask him whether or not something from the Top Gun movies is a myth. If you listen to the end of the episode, you'll find that out as well. So without taking any more time, here is this week's guest, Dom. Well, Dom, welcome to the show.
00:02:23:18 - 00:02:24:20
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Hey, thanks for having me, Wayne.
00:02:25:04 - 00:02:32:12
Wayne Mulder
Absolutely. I'm glad we can do this. I think you've got a fascinating story and you're doing some pretty neat things, so I'm looking forward to this conversation.
00:02:33:03 - 00:02:33:12
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Go.
00:02:34:02 - 00:02:40:07
Wayne Mulder
Let's start with some easy questions. Kind of get to know you type stuff. Okay. Coffee or tea, sir?
00:02:41:05 - 00:02:45:21
Dominic "Slice" Teich
I am I am a coffee, specifically espresso or Americano drinker.
00:02:46:05 - 00:02:47:12
Wayne Mulder
Okay. Very good.
00:02:47:12 - 00:02:48:10
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Yeah. Yeah.
00:02:48:21 - 00:02:53:09
Wayne Mulder
Now, do you add anything to it? Like, does it become like a cafe latte or.
00:02:54:02 - 00:03:00:07
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So it'll if it if it's a espresso shot, I might put some hot water in it, but I just like it black.
00:03:00:15 - 00:03:03:15
Wayne Mulder
There you go. I like that. I'm with you there as well.
00:03:04:00 - 00:03:04:12
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Okay.
00:03:04:18 - 00:03:06:17
Wayne Mulder
What's your favorite place to have that drink?
00:03:07:19 - 00:03:22:01
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Usually at home, because I got a pretty nice coffee set up here, so it's just nice to sit down in the living room and watch out for Little Rugrats, play around before school and talk to the wife. When we can, we can get a word in edgewise.
00:03:22:13 - 00:03:38:00
Wayne Mulder
I'm sure, especially with for running around. Yeah. The interview I had, which is Prague and released right before this one earlier today, she had six running around. So it's my day for bigger families. What do you have a best or worst travel story.
00:03:38:19 - 00:04:06:20
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Best or worst? So I think my worst travel story is going to have to be when getting into Afghanistan and getting back home. The first deployment I did it was they were deploying us one at a time versus with our unit. You know, they they they did this back in Vietnam and they found out that there was a lot of mental issues with aside from a lot of the other things going on in Vietnam.
00:04:06:20 - 00:04:30:06
Dominic "Slice" Teich
But that contract was going on probably about, you know, 12, ten, 12 years ago where they were deploying onesie twosies versus, hey, you deploy your squad or you deploy as your unit. And it really mess with me because I'm alone and not afraid. Right? I'm making my way out to the literally the other side of the globe on my own.
00:04:30:15 - 00:04:52:17
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And, you know, it's just it was it was tough because it was, you know, 36 hours to get in theater. There was a big layover where we were stuck in a customs room, literally a room in Germany, couldn't go anywhere. And then, you know, that deployment, it went a little bit longer at the time. Six months was typically the thing.
00:04:52:17 - 00:05:10:12
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And every day that you go longer, you start to you know, it's it's from what I've been told, the guys that got caught in Vietnam, when they put a date in the stamp or a date in the sand, or they're like, you're going home on this date. And then went past that. That tends to lead to some like bad mental states.
00:05:10:20 - 00:05:11:09
Wayne Mulder
I can imagine.
00:05:11:09 - 00:05:33:07
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So mine ended up being seven months and then getting home. It was 36 hours for me to just get to Baltimore, Maryland. And I just remember zombie walking off the, you know, off the airplane, just like I made it back to the U.S. And that was the worst part of the trip. Right? Was just leaving. I was newly married.
00:05:33:07 - 00:05:57:23
Dominic "Slice" Teich
My wife and I had spent two years long distance dating before we got married. So I was newly married. I went on that trip and then coming back in as I was zombie walking off the ramp, my uncle who lives there, he brought his family out and they probably didn't know that they shouldn't have done this. But I had been traveling for 36 hours and going through like all these different, you know, processing places around the world to get there.
00:05:58:02 - 00:06:14:14
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And they and the little dude jumped up. One of his kids jumped on my back and oh, my gosh, I was not you know, I had just gotten done wearing in battle rattle. We got shelled about 56 times on the base that I was at. Well, you know, we were we were living in Kevlar tents with 150 Army dudes.
00:06:14:14 - 00:06:18:06
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And I'm an Air Force guy, so I'm used to a little bit nicer, nicer gig.
00:06:19:16 - 00:06:21:09
Wayne Mulder
And then I've heard that rumor.
00:06:21:09 - 00:06:41:22
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Yeah, that happened. And, you know, he it was awesome, though, because after I got over the shock of somebody jumping on my back, he took me to a hotel and I remember taking a two hour shower because over there there were three showers per about every hundred, 150 people and you'd turn them on and the shower would fill up with water.
00:06:42:02 - 00:07:02:24
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And you can only imagine the stuff that's in the water and the pipes. So you would you turn the water on, get wet real quick, turn the water off, let the water subside, soap up and then rinse off. And I just remember sitting in the shower back in America for 2 hours and just like, you know, probably not the best use of water, but holy smokes, that was that was where the good part of the trip happened.
00:07:02:24 - 00:07:13:13
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So I'd say the worst was up to that point. And then the best was getting home and, you know, getting back to my house. And we didn't have any kids at the time. So just seeing my wife and then coming home.
00:07:13:23 - 00:07:24:18
Wayne Mulder
Now that it's incredible and it really drives home what our service members go through both, you know, even even something as simple, if you would, as going to and from the arena.
00:07:24:18 - 00:07:41:21
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So so I would I would I would flip that on on its head. And I would say the getting out the door and getting home, that's the hard part. The deployment while you're there, you're not dealing with all of the training and paperwork and all that stuff. You deal with that home base, you're doing the mission, and I can definitely attest to that.
00:07:41:22 - 00:07:58:00
Dominic "Slice" Teich
When I was there in theater on both of my deployments and then, you know, I've been on about 35 temporary duty assignments around the world. When you're there, you're just you're doing what you've always trained to do. And it's pretty simple, you know, and you kind of get you kind of get in your zone. You get your, hey, I got to get breakfast this time.
00:07:58:00 - 00:08:16:02
Dominic "Slice" Teich
I go to the gym. At this time, I hit I hit this, you know, I fly at this time, you know, and so you kind of get in a battle rhythm. But then it's the bookends of the trip, the going and the coming back, right? Because then you're now trying to reintegrate when you come back home. And that that was I wasn't I wasn't a very graceful at that.
00:08:16:19 - 00:08:30:13
Wayne Mulder
I can imagine I cannot imagine that I would be either. So yeah, I definitely thank you for what you have done. So let me ask, do you have a favorite or most meaningful nonfiction book and why so selfishly?
00:08:30:13 - 00:08:53:00
Dominic "Slice" Teich
I would say my favorite yarn. Yeah. Can I say my own? You may. Okay. So my favorite book is it's called Single Seat Wisdom. It's part of you know, if you're watching this video, my shirt says single seat mindset. So it's a business we give all our money to charity, any of the profits that we get from this business we give to charity.
00:08:53:07 - 00:09:15:03
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And then within this one, basically, we're a bunch of fighter pilots for the biggest online group of fighter pilots that have come together to put our stories, you know, give back and to put our stories on paper. So the first book we wrote was called Single Seat Wisdom. It's a series of books we're getting ready to publish the second one on Veteran's Day this year and November 11th, 2022.
00:09:15:09 - 00:09:36:06
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Yep. And the reason why it's my favorite book is that there are 20 stories in there, each written from a different fighter pilot. And they're short, they're punch either anecdotal, some of them will make you cry, some of them will make you just go, Man, that is so cool. I want to be you know, I want to be an astronaut or I want to be a police officer or a firefighter or a fighter pilot.
00:09:36:06 - 00:09:56:16
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Like, you know, they just make you you go. Right. And so I've I've written one of the stories we have. We now have 40 stories on paper. And that single seat wisdom volume one, it's, it's my favorite book because I put a ton of work and effort into it. I am the, the compiler of the book and I did write a story in it.
00:09:57:14 - 00:10:20:08
Dominic "Slice" Teich
But as you can imagine, you know, any of the police officers, first responders, there's a lot of type-A personalities in those career fields and trying to, you know, who's the chief, who are the Indians type of thing, right. Like I'm in charge. I'm the mission commander. Get in line and follow me versus like a bunch of type-A personalities that want to do a certain thing, you know, a certain way.
00:10:20:16 - 00:10:40:02
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Oh, yeah. But that book is awesome because at the end of it, it gives practical life advice, wisdom, if you will, from the perspective of that fighter pilot that can be applied to, you know, sports, business, entrepreneurship, your mindset, your life, you know, you can read the stories to your kids. That's awesome. Yeah.
00:10:40:15 - 00:10:58:05
Wayne Mulder
Yeah. No, that's definitely what we're going to talk about because I want the listeners to check that out and to find it, which we're going give the website. Of course, there is all the links below that you, the listeners can go to. Plus, this is releasing right before veterans Day. So definitely we want check out volume two as well.
00:10:58:17 - 00:10:59:04
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Nice.
00:10:59:13 - 00:11:12:23
Wayne Mulder
So let's back up and go kind of to your origin story. Like obviously you were in the Air Force or are in the Air Force. I don't know if you are or were, but tell us a little bit of your story. What brought you into the Air Force and kind of how you got started?
00:11:13:15 - 00:11:29:08
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Yeah. So as a young kid, I was having kind of surprised me, but I was having were writing. So this single seat wisdom book is for the age group. Now, granted, other people read it, but I'd say it impacts the 16 to 29 year old age group the most that like the peak performers that people want to get somewhere in life.
00:11:29:08 - 00:11:49:17
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And I've been getting a lot of requests for the eight year old, the 16 year old group right. And the reason I say that and the reason we started writing a book for that group and figured out we were going to call it yet, but it's we're writing it. And I have two other buddies that are coauthoring it with me is that that was when I got in that age.
00:11:49:17 - 00:12:14:15
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Right. So seven, eight years old when I was seven, I built a fighter jet model on my birthday with my old man. And I've always liked airplanes. You know, we grew up on Final Four, an Air Force base. We'd go to air shows. I got the urge to fly right, to be a pilot. And fast forward, when I was 12, my uncle took me out to Alaska Airlines and he put me on the flight deck when they were doing engine runs on a big commercial airliner.
00:12:14:22 - 00:12:29:22
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And you can imagine a 12 year old kid just stand there like looking at all the gauges. And and and at that point, I thought maybe it's going to be expensive. I don't know how many pilots in my life. I don't have a guide. So maybe I'll just ranch on airplanes and I'll meet pilots that way and I'll fly.
00:12:30:07 - 00:12:54:12
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Okay. Well, that was a defining day where I was like, why not just try to fly these things? And so the seed had been planted. I wasn't you know, I wasn't all in on that idea or not. And, you know, fast forward to college. I played baseball on club teams through junior college. And then I was also I started researching how to get into an aviation mechanic school, which I did.
00:12:54:22 - 00:13:10:16
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And during that time, a counselor handed me a pamphlet and she's like, This is the last one. I don't know if this interests you. And it was a it was a flight school pamphlet. So my old man and I went down to the flight school. We sat down with the chief pilot. And I just remember everything going really well that day.
00:13:10:18 - 00:13:26:09
Dominic "Slice" Teich
You know, the I'm like, this is going to happen. I'm going to fly airplanes and I have to work on them. You know, I'm getting all excited. And I was a pretty quiet, quiet kid. So I'm just sitting there listening. And when the when that chief pilot told me how much it was going to cost, I'll never forget the look on my dad's face.
00:13:26:22 - 00:13:50:13
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And I was like, Oh, there goes my dream to fly airplanes. But but dad supported it. He saw the spark in me, and it kind of took off from there. Right? So I was a civilian flight instructor when I was 18. I was pretty hardcore. I flew five days a week. I was working three jobs. I just really wanted to do it.
00:13:50:13 - 00:14:14:07
Dominic "Slice" Teich
I wanted to make something of myself. And then at about 20, I was researching flying for SkyWest Airlines or the Air Force, and the Air Force recruiter lost my paperwork three times, which was tough because I lived in Tucson, Arizona. I drove up an old Volkswagen with no air conditioning that would overheat. So I had to turn the heat on a lot of times just to get around.
00:14:14:22 - 00:14:34:08
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And but I stuck with it and I got I got a a conditional job offer from SkyWest Airlines. And then I got the officer training school spot kind of within the very short timeframe. And, you know, I was like, I can always go fly for the airlines later. I might as well give this whole fighter pilot thing that I've always wanted to do a shot.
00:14:34:11 - 00:14:58:17
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Right, because it's not even guaranteed. So. Right. That's that's the gist of the story. There is I think the the impactful piece is you never know who you're going to impact. You never know if you're planting seeds in somebody's mind, which is why I've just gotten in this last month, I talked to that uncle. He met me for dinner and I was like, you know, Todd, I'll never forget that day.
00:14:58:17 - 00:15:22:01
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And he's like, My son's 12. He needs a book. And so, you know, I've been thinking about this for a long time, but I think we're going to write a book for that age group because that's when kids nowadays they need a coach or a guide. With all the broken families nowadays, they may not have it right, but having somebody that gives you permission to try, hey, dude, like go try to be a fighter pilot or be a be a police officer or be a firefighter.
00:15:22:08 - 00:15:41:07
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Do it. And a lot of kids are told that nowadays. So no, that's like kind of my origin story. And the last thing was, is that as I was talking to my dad this weekend, he's like, as a little kid, I never you didn't really have that. You know, I was I was a little bit introverted in certain situations.
00:15:42:10 - 00:16:03:17
Dominic "Slice" Teich
I was fairly athletically inclined, but I wasn't a fire, you know, a fiery, as you can imagine, like watch Top Gun, right. Like that. Right. Cockiness and edginess. He's like, you didn't have that. And the powerful piece behind that is that parents that are listening to this teens, you know, if you're talking to kids, you don't have to have that in order to be a fighter pilot.
00:16:03:17 - 00:16:15:17
Dominic "Slice" Teich
You can learn that. You can learn how to be you know, I wouldn't say arrogant or cocky. I would say confident. Right. Right. You know.
00:16:15:17 - 00:16:45:24
Wayne Mulder
So that is a huge distinction and something that I've actually been talking about a fair amount, because it's amazing the number of cops, the number of podcasters that are introverts, that even when I took the test, I was highest in the introvert scale. It's really amazing. But there is a distinction or difference between being, like you said, cocky or unconfident, and a lot of introverted cops can learn to be confident in control or seem to be in charge.
00:16:46:07 - 00:17:18:18
Wayne Mulder
And the air has always fascinated me. One of my best friends is also my uncle and he's a pilot, so it's always a commercial airlines. But it's always interested me when we've had conversations how how different the two career paths are and super. I'm sure they're completely different with a military path, but how different they are and yet all the similarities when it comes to the personality and you being in control of that air, you know, just all the things, especially someone in a commercial setting that's dealing with the public as well.
00:17:18:18 - 00:17:45:17
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Yeah, yeah. It's yeah, I didn't know that until meeting this. There's a police officer that's part of my Christian mens group and, and just talking with him and being like, how do you guys go? You know, one day just hit me. I was like, dude, you guys have you're doing a deployment every day. Like you're when you put that stuff on, you know, that switch flips.
00:17:45:17 - 00:18:03:18
Dominic "Slice" Teich
When you walk up the side of a car and somebody rolls a window down, you're just on edge. And it was I was like, Dude, I probably sound really dumb, right now to be saying this, but I'm like, My hat's off to you because, you know, we compartmentalize, which has its own issues, right? Because you don't deal with some of that.
00:18:03:18 - 00:18:21:01
Dominic "Slice" Teich
You don't work through a lot of that, especially if you're type-A. You're just like, no, I got this right. A big, big thing in our in our career fields. But it was kind of cool to to talk with him and just be like, wow, that's it's crazy. You guys, you know, you bring that stuff home for so many years.
00:18:21:03 - 00:18:40:22
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And if you don't, you know, if you don't have a strong group that you're part of, not your wife. Not your family. Right. A group outside of that that you can area grievances or lean on somebody else or ask them questions that that's it's powerful, but it's hard to learn if you haven't been taught that.
00:18:41:09 - 00:18:58:07
Wayne Mulder
Yes. And if it's not natural, because I've been fortunate to be a part of some strong men's groups as well, things through the church and so forth. And I talk to guys that yeah, that's not as natural or not something that they've done and you're right, they end up internalizing so much of it.
00:18:58:24 - 00:19:17:00
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Yeah. Yeah. And so real quick, when you had mentioned introvert and somebody somebody with a much larger brain than me volunteered this idea about introversion and and it kind of goes back to what my dad said this last weekend, which was you I didn't really see you as a fighter pilot. Right? So we're putting a label on somebody.
00:19:18:09 - 00:19:34:00
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And then now that I am, it's like, okay, our plastic brains, you can grow into that. You can learn that your mindset can change. You can have coaches and guides to help you get there. But in regards to introversion, it's, I think the person or the book that I was reading, I can't remember. I heard it. It's contextual.
00:19:34:11 - 00:19:54:19
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So what I get at by that is if you were to put me. So I was 18 and I was teaching, I had 12 civilian flight students. I had guys that were engineers that were 56 to 65 years old. I had 16 year old high school kids that I was teaching. I was 18. And if you put me in front of them to teach, I was I was a pig in mud.
00:19:54:19 - 00:20:18:02
Dominic "Slice" Teich
I was happy. I was I could talk. That was my that was my my gig. When I was 14, I was a downhill ski instructor. And that's where I kind of broke out of my shell and knew that I like to teach people. But then if you put me in like a social mixer, like, dude, if you brought me to like a a cop convention and you know, people are like having drinks and stuff, I'm going to be that dude that's pretty quiet.
00:20:18:15 - 00:20:35:04
Dominic "Slice" Teich
I have no idea. And I'm going to be the introvert. So I think contextually, if you put me in front of a bunch of fighter pilots to teach them, you know, because I teach at the schoolhouse, here I am, I'm open. I'm like, hey, this is it. And granted, my introversion has kind of waned a little bit now that as I've gotten older.
00:20:35:04 - 00:20:54:17
Dominic "Slice" Teich
But I think that's important for people to know is that you can train yourself into that. You can train yourself. You know, you put the you put your uniform on. You're you're the cop. I put my flight suit on. I'm the fighter pilot. Right. But that's a trained behavior. You don't have to be. There are guys in you know, I'm I know him that are you're like, dude, that guy's a cop.
00:20:54:17 - 00:21:01:24
Dominic "Slice" Teich
That guy's a fighter pilot, like, and he's six. Yeah. And, like, that is going to grow up to be a fighter pilot, right? You know those people? I wasn't one of them.
00:21:02:17 - 00:21:21:11
Wayne Mulder
Yeah, it's funny you say that, because in some ways my family say says that I had attributes that they thought someday I might get in law enforcement, but I didn't. In fact, right out of high school, I was a landscaper, so I didn't go to law enforcement till my thirties. In fact, it was between I had the opposite decision.
00:21:21:11 - 00:21:30:12
Wayne Mulder
So I was deciding between the Navy and law enforcement, and I decided to go local law enforcement instead of the air going into the service.
00:21:30:12 - 00:21:33:21
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So yeah, well, you were in law enforcement.
00:21:33:24 - 00:21:53:02
Wayne Mulder
Prior to this. It was law enforcement. Yeah. Keep that aggressiveness. It was actually designed, Bill, but it works. Yeah, it was a completely different field. And so internally, like, if someone would have asked me, hey, are you thinking of becoming going into law enforcement someday? I would have said, have no, no, I have no idea what I'm talking about.
00:21:53:07 - 00:22:10:17
Wayne Mulder
In fact, the irony for me was it wasn't till I went through the academy and start being around cops and I was like, I kind of like the boring parts of law enforcement. I like the report writing. I like the, oh, nice investigative side. And so it was actually that that attracted me to it. And then I was like, I think I actually want to do this so nice.
00:22:11:06 - 00:22:21:16
Wayne Mulder
You mentioned and touched on your teaching a little bit and it appears that you've done a lot of different teaching. You want to touch on that a little bit from music lessons to downhill skiing.
00:22:21:16 - 00:22:42:21
Dominic "Slice" Teich
The yeah, and I don't, I don't know if this I mean, it'll probably resonate with you, it'll resonate with a lot of people, but at least for me, until I end up being an instructor or teaching something, I, I find that I'm not really, I haven't really gotten, you know, I'm competent, but I'm not an expert at it.
00:22:43:05 - 00:23:05:16
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So teaching, you know, I really found out how little I knew. And I was a I was a pretty good skier by the time I was 14. Right. I could ski bombs. I ski all different types of terrain. And when I was 14, my uncle, it was probably illegal, but I was a hired downhill ski instructor and I found out very quickly how little I knew about the how to explain something right.
00:23:05:16 - 00:23:27:23
Dominic "Slice" Teich
With all the different age groups. And then fast forward a little bit further. You know, I've taught some music lessons. I was a this was kind of a selfish aim. But when I was in college, I would coach math prior to the class so that I could help myself learn it better. Because a lot of times, as I was coaching it, I would find out what I didn't know.
00:23:29:18 - 00:24:00:11
Dominic "Slice" Teich
I also tested into math that I had no beat, no. I had no business being in that level of math. So that was kind of my way of like learning it. And then for flight instruction in the civilian pilot world, if you don't know, typically a lot of guys will build their hours doing civilian flight instruction. So that's kind of how, you know, it's very similar to like and doctors will hate that I say this if they're listening, but it costs a lot of cost, a lot to go to school.
00:24:00:18 - 00:24:25:15
Dominic "Slice" Teich
It takes a while to go to school. And then just like doctors do their residency, pilots, civilian pilots, they they usually usually teach people how to fly to build their hours before you can go to the airlines. Because I think I think it's at least 1000 hours, if not 1500 hours to get different certifications and stuff like that.
00:24:25:23 - 00:24:26:06
Wayne Mulder
Right.
00:24:27:02 - 00:24:27:15
Dominic "Slice" Teich
You know, to fly.
00:24:27:16 - 00:24:32:04
Wayne Mulder
Yeah. That seems pretty common with the pilots that I know a lot of them were flight instructors at one point.
00:24:32:16 - 00:24:56:05
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Yeah. And then joining the military. I was a, I've been a ti 38 so a that's a twin twin engine two seat jet trainers got ejection seats at supersonic but it's the entry level jet to get into the fighter world. And then I've been a F-16 instructor for I don't even know how many years now, but that's been kind of the thing that.
00:24:56:15 - 00:24:58:03
Wayne Mulder
I'm still in. Are you still instructor?
00:24:58:13 - 00:25:18:23
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Yeah. So I'm a I'm a full time reservists. I'm on the I'm on the same orders as you would as you would have if you were active duty. So I can go, I can deploy and do all that stuff. But because I'm a reservist, I get a little bit more control over where I request to live, which has been nice because we did before we got here to Phenix.
00:25:19:09 - 00:25:24:12
Dominic "Slice" Teich
We had six moves in ten years and that was a lot for the the family.
00:25:24:24 - 00:25:26:23
Wayne Mulder
Yeah. Especially the little ones I'm sure.
00:25:27:05 - 00:25:27:15
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Yeah.
00:25:28:13 - 00:25:47:22
Wayne Mulder
So let's talk a little bit about what you got. So you've got a book Single Seat Wisdom, which you spoke about, but you also have single seat mindset. Let me back up and ask another question first. So single seat, what is that actually, what is that brand mean to you? Because I in researching for the show, I believe you also have done a little bit in the financial world as well, is that correct?
00:25:48:07 - 00:25:49:02
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And yeah, so.
00:25:49:02 - 00:25:51:12
Wayne Mulder
Single seat name has kind of come along.
00:25:51:21 - 00:26:11:13
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Yeah, that's the I'd call it the series or that the idea is, you know, as an F-16 pilot, there's one seat in the jet. Now, we do have the F-16 does have two seaters. There's not very many of them. And we'll sit in the back seat just to kind of monitor a student that's maybe having trouble or maybe teach them how to land initially.
00:26:11:21 - 00:26:33:05
Dominic "Slice" Teich
But for the most part, you're single seat. Your by yourself doesn't mean that you're an individualistic looking out for yourself. However, you are the only person in the jet and you're working as a team. So that's where the single seat theme comes from in regards to the financial world. Question you asked I own so the F-16 is known as the Viper.
00:26:34:02 - 00:27:01:17
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So I started Viper Ventures, which is basically I just I help fighter pilots grow proactive well through and minimize their taxes by passively investing in apartment communities. So we own some little community like apartment communities here in Phenix and I run it. So I own the business. And then basically fighter pilots invest and I run the business. And then, you know, when we sell, there's distributions.
00:27:01:17 - 00:27:09:13
Dominic "Slice" Teich
When there's rental income, we, we distribute the money that way. And where the book started was that company I wrote Single Seat Investor.
00:27:10:01 - 00:27:12:18
Wayne Mulder
That's what I had seen. And I was like, that's why I was asking the question.
00:27:12:23 - 00:27:35:10
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And that book is basically 14 years of my notes. You know, I went through some mind numbing courses on how to underwrite commercial property, like how do you value commercial property, right? So I went through a course to do that and I had all these notes and I found that every time somebody was interested, I'd, you know, I'd take them to lunch for a couple of hours and it was just a lot of work.
00:27:35:22 - 00:27:51:13
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And so I was like, Oh, I'm going to write a book. I'm going to consolidate it all into about 120 pages. And that way, if somebody says, I'm interested, I hand them a book and I go, If this fits your world, read this. It'll take you about an hour or 2 hours. You know, pour yourself a glass of scotch or your favorite beverage.
00:27:51:21 - 00:28:14:19
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Just read through this and then call me. And not only did it weed out 95% of the people that were wasting my time before it really honed in the 5% that really wanted to be a part of it because it it clarified my message. It told people that I was serious because I wrote a freaking book right. And and then it gave all the examples of, you know, we had we had some deals under our belt at that point.
00:28:14:19 - 00:28:31:23
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So I was more or less a proven entity at that point. So that's where I started. And then many of my roads to success deal with a lot of failure along the way. So the next two books I was like, I got this, I'm not going to pay all pay all this money to get, you know, these other two books.
00:28:31:23 - 00:28:50:17
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So I wrote and these are two very low content books. One of them's a gratitude book, single seat gratitude, and the other one single seat scratch pad. So the gratitude book, just there's some quotes in there. It's about who I am. It's something that I would send people that I really connected with just to say, Hey, I'm grateful for you in my life.
00:28:51:15 - 00:29:10:11
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And then the scratch pad was a notebook that I would hand to F-16 students and just be like, This fits in your flight suit. It's it's a great way to keep track of your day and your notes from what you're learning. And those two books, when I designed it myself, they were terrible. The they were absolute. They were bombs.
00:29:10:11 - 00:29:38:15
Dominic "Slice" Teich
They were just I've kept them. I'm not even a show them to you because they embarrassed me. But since then we've republished them and I have professionally designed them and stuff. So they're they're back on their feet. And then the single seat wisdom book, like I said before, that company single seat mindset, the parent company that published these these books, it started during COVID because the students were really struggling on the shifts that we had them on.
00:29:39:03 - 00:29:56:10
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Fighter pilots learn a lot with corporate knowledge just from hanging out and talking to each other. Yeah, I would assume cops do the same thing. You know, you're sitting in the in the car and you're talking to your buddies and you're learning from each other. So they didn't have that. And the class was really struggling at the time, and it started with just a weekly email to them.
00:29:56:12 - 00:30:19:09
Dominic "Slice" Teich
It was, Hey, in 2 minutes or less, read this. And pretty soon there were about 30 weeks worth of content. So I put it into a blog and then I built a website and then I leveraged it into what we call the Competent Wingman program. So these guys can just go sign up online for free and it is branched out to more than just fighter pilots.
00:30:19:19 - 00:30:41:05
Dominic "Slice" Teich
I have I had two Southwest Airline pilots call me the other day and they're like, dude, I'm using your competent wingman program on, you know, single seat mindset dot com. This this is great stuff. It's short, it's impactful and it gives a, hey, do this. It's an action. If you're an action based person, you'd love the program, right?
00:30:41:12 - 00:31:01:08
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Yeah. And then, you know, just talking talking with some of my friends, I'm like, you're about to retire. Like, what do you do? You have a story like would you consider writing a story less than 1500 words? And they're like, Well, yeah. And I'm like, Would you also consider giving money to a children's cancer foundation to, like, double your efforts?
00:31:01:08 - 00:31:09:00
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And we've we've done it well myself. I've done it once, but I've have 39 other people that have done that, and I think we'll do one every year.
00:31:09:10 - 00:31:16:01
Wayne Mulder
That's awesome. Yeah. And you would mention that all the proceeds from the book go to charity, but it's to that cancer foundation. Correct. Is that.
00:31:16:11 - 00:31:45:03
Dominic "Slice" Teich
It's yep. The NSA in their foundation it's an action. There actually was my cousin and she got liver cancer at five years old. She battled it for two years and died the day after she turned seven. So my aunt and Uncle Joe and Polly Schindler, they run that foundation up in Spokane, Washington, and they basically build they build, you know, multifamily places near the hospital.
00:31:45:03 - 00:32:04:17
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So families, bigger families can come up there. They can bring their whole family up. Dad can tell telework work. The kids stay there. And I think they're breaking ground on their second multifamily project now where, you know, they're specialized. The Polly and Joe went through it. They lived in the hospital, 12 on, 12 off for for two years.
00:32:04:19 - 00:32:26:12
Dominic "Slice" Teich
You know, Joe's a fireman by trade, so. Wow. Yeah. It was really, really powerful. And it was kind of cool to see the outpouring of of people willing to help, not only for the project to give back some wisdom to the younger generation, but also to help monetarily. Yeah. With the Anna in foundation.
00:32:27:00 - 00:32:27:12
Wayne Mulder
So it's.
00:32:27:20 - 00:32:28:00
Dominic "Slice" Teich
A.
00:32:28:08 - 00:32:47:15
Wayne Mulder
Great mission and something that is that's awesome. So yeah, that would definitely for the listeners I'll have that linked up in the shownotes and of course we'll have the information on the website, but that's powerful. And having seen the effects of cancer, a good friend of mine lost her eight year old brother to cancer. So it's I've seen it firsthand as well, and it's a devastating thing.
00:32:48:15 - 00:33:10:12
Wayne Mulder
Let me ask you, when it comes to one of the things you talk about and I just kind of on shored up for the listener when you're talking about fighter pilot knowledge and how does that come to other areas of our life? How does that apply? Because some people in the same thing in the cop world, which is kind of the way this podcast is designed around, is, yes, this is something you do.
00:33:10:12 - 00:33:15:15
Wayne Mulder
But these skills that you learn in law enforcement can apply to other areas. So how was that in the fighter pilot world?
00:33:16:03 - 00:33:35:10
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Yeah. So the way that I would explain that is I I'm very I'm a very driven person. I'm very action oriented. Right. And you probably have gotten that is like I'm willing to take ten times the action somebody else says, even if it means I fail every single time, I'll just learn ten ways not to do the thing, right.
00:33:35:10 - 00:34:05:04
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So, you know, goal oriented individuals, they they tend to get frustrated with with rigid structures, you know, slow processes, long winded programs, unnecessary protocols. Right. With and there's no deliverable outcome. Right? So the cop world is very bureaucratic. The military is very bureaucratic. So you might ask like, well, how does that how does that apply? Well, fighter pilots like myself are trained to make decisions in the right order, you know, 800 plus miles an hour every single day.
00:34:05:05 - 00:34:32:06
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Right. And those what I've found, you can leverage those skills, that way of thinking, you know, in high performance type professions, you know, so athletes, coaches, you know, aviators, aviators, cops, business entrepreneurs, it all leverages a lot of the same concepts in the way you do it are good, but we do it really fast, right? So I created this online group of fighter pilots.
00:34:32:14 - 00:34:55:13
Dominic "Slice" Teich
We call it single seat mindset, and it's the largest online group of fighter pilots guiding action in short, impactful steps, primarily to avoid failure, avoid the failures that a lot of us have made. But it also allows them to control their their path to success using, you know, what do they say this the smart person learns from their mistakes.
00:34:55:19 - 00:35:20:15
Dominic "Slice" Teich
The wise person learns from others mistakes. So that's that's how I would say, you know, the the single seat mindset kind of applies outside of that because I've been asked that before. Right. And then I, you know, I talked to another guy this morning. He was a collegiate football player. And I said, dude, do you use a lot of the training, a lot of that stuff that you did up here, the mindset stuff, right.
00:35:20:15 - 00:35:36:19
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Has to be a collegiate football player. You don't just walk into that. Right? I'm I do use that because he was in real estate. I was like, do you use that in your real estate? Do use laws, concepts? And I'm like, dude, same thing like fighter pilot. We're very checklist oriented. So we're very, you know, hey, this than this and this.
00:35:36:19 - 00:35:54:15
Dominic "Slice" Teich
But how to do it really fast and then if something goes wrong, well, we need to do this right now in order to avoid this over here. And so it it leverage is really nice. And it's it's the same in sports, too. You've seen it in the cop world as well. Hey, yeah. You know, I don't I'll probably sound stupid saying this, but you pull somebody over on the side of the road, right?
00:35:54:15 - 00:36:00:18
Dominic "Slice" Teich
There's there's your whole team, all your training that leads to even before you get to the window, you know, what side of the car do you go to?
00:36:00:18 - 00:36:18:17
Wayne Mulder
So no, there's absolutely that's a great analogy. And the checklist thing is something that I have brought up on several occasions, especially my uncle that I was referring to. When we talk about these kind of things, a lot of times the checklist, even though we don't formally use a checklist, you know, we're not like pre flighting a house or something.
00:36:18:17 - 00:36:37:15
Wayne Mulder
However, you are mentally running through a list of things and there's so many unknowns. Just like if you guys have, I'm going to sound stupid now if I try to draw a comparison, but if you have any sort of things that can go wrong in an airplane, which Lord knows it could be everything, if that happens, what are you going to do?
00:36:37:15 - 00:37:00:12
Wayne Mulder
And same for us when we're, you know, maybe approaching a house where all you have is what dispatch told you someone one was screaming, the line is now blank or lying is now dead. You get there and you've got an open door, some broken glass. What do you do? You know, now all these decisions that you've got to make quickly that may result in a use of force or something like that or may result in the needing to apprehend somebody and so forth.
00:37:00:12 - 00:37:05:15
Wayne Mulder
All comes down to decisions that are made, like you said, maybe not at 800 miles an hour, but you need to make them darn quick.
00:37:06:01 - 00:37:12:07
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Well, I mean, how fast is a bullet go exactly? So way faster than 800 miles an hour, for sure.
00:37:12:08 - 00:37:34:09
Wayne Mulder
Yeah. No, that's a good comparison. Yeah, it's definitely in that moment and in the few scenes that I've been in that become something like that, you do, you have to make decisions quickly and all those same, you know, the narrowing of the senses, all those same physiological, physiological response becomes the same. And then what are you going to do?
00:37:34:09 - 00:37:37:11
Wayne Mulder
And you can use those skills in other areas of your life like you said.
00:37:37:22 - 00:38:02:05
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Yeah. And that training, you know, it started, it started back in Vietnam where they found that, you could mold a plastic brain and you could train somebody to basically make those those trigger responses. Right. You go to the shooting range, you're just you're shooting, shooting, shooting. You're just training your brain. That that is the response. One thing happens and that means do this right.
00:38:02:05 - 00:38:24:20
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And and you see that a lot in our training where the downside the good side is when something bad happens, boom. You're trained it's it's a it's not even a knee jerk reaction. It's just you're not pre-frontal cortex, your motor cortex. You can you know, it's it's like standing in the batter's box. If you if you had somebody a baseball bat and say, I want you to think really hard about how to hit this baseball, it's going to be really hard.
00:38:25:05 - 00:38:48:04
Dominic "Slice" Teich
But if you hit 100 and 100,000 baseballs from the time you were a little kid up until junior college, it's reactionary. Your motor skills just making it happen in the same thing. It can be trained in the cop world. Some people have more natural, innate abilities, but that doesn't mean that you're not trainable, right? As long as you're willing to put the time and effort into it.
00:38:48:10 - 00:39:10:13
Dominic "Slice" Teich
I find the guys that are the best, most natural fighter pilots are the ones that grew up playing sports. So they're, they're fairly athletic. Um, they have a little bit of swagger, but they know how to, like, control that, especially when they're young. That wasn't me. They're a little bit less introverted, but I'm not saying that that's a downside either.
00:39:11:17 - 00:39:39:08
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And The best ones are willing. Are able, right? They have kind of an innate tendency to be able to learn stuff, but also to to adjust. Right. Because I've I've flown with some really good students until something goes wrong and then it goes really wrong really fast to where we just safe everything up and we come home. But I've also found some students that are like, you know, they're competent where they are in the program, they're not the best.
00:39:40:05 - 00:39:59:13
Dominic "Slice" Teich
But then something goes wrong and they can adjust to that, right? They're good on their feet. And that was me. I wasn't the best student. I was pretty good. I put my work in, but I grew up on dirt bikes and light and my neighbors like, you know, mailbox on fire and shooting bone arrows up into the air, you know, like we shouldn't do.
00:39:59:13 - 00:40:01:23
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And I grew up doing that exactly.
00:40:02:06 - 00:40:27:18
Wayne Mulder
Back then it was okay. Nowadays, yeah, people lose their mind, but yeah. Yeah, that's fascinating. That is absolutely interesting. And I like how you broke down the attributes of what makes a good firepower. I find that very interesting and I find that is similar in the law enforcement world, especially the whole thing you were saying with sometimes your best students, your people that know it with the head knowledge, the best is not the person you want to be next to.
00:40:27:18 - 00:40:30:23
Wayne Mulder
When you're going into a seeing that's about to go to heck really fast.
00:40:31:05 - 00:40:38:00
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Yeah you need you need the redneck or you need the dude that grew up in the hood that can think on his feet. He's got some street smarts.
00:40:38:02 - 00:40:39:05
Wayne Mulder
Exactly. Yep.
00:40:39:06 - 00:40:57:20
Dominic "Slice" Teich
You know, because I've met a lot of very academically smart dudes. There are guys that have gone to MIT that come through training. And I'm not saying that they're not good on their feet, but that is not the sole determining thing. Right. So if you're looking at a guy's background based on his college education, you're going to it's not that's not it.
00:40:57:21 - 00:41:15:16
Dominic "Slice" Teich
That's one. That's one delineate or. Right. I've known a lot of kids that actually were pretty terrible starting out and they just put the time and effort in. They said that I suck, I need help and they got back on the horse and they graduated and they were very competent fighter pilots.
00:41:16:11 - 00:41:29:09
Wayne Mulder
Wow. That's really interesting. Let me ask you. I got it because you teased it out in the notes that I was looking over. So I have to ask what story to tell about yourself that gets the most laughs from your audience.
00:41:29:09 - 00:41:32:04
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Um hmm. There's so many.
00:41:32:15 - 00:41:36:00
Wayne Mulder
Okay, well, let us hear at least one of them.
00:41:36:06 - 00:42:05:23
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Well, so a lot of people ask where I got the call sign slice because that's my, you know, my handle or whatever whatever. It's my nickname within the fighter pilot community. And just like a fraternity or I'm sure the police force any really tight knit group there usually ends up in getting a nickname of some sort. So it's a big deal in the fighter pilot world to get a call signed, to be named by other fighter pilots.
00:42:05:23 - 00:42:32:14
Dominic "Slice" Teich
You don't choose it yourself. That's a misnomer. So I'm a young, young fighter pilot. I'm still learning quite a bit about myself and the jet and just life. And we take off to do I'm I'm at my first combat base. I'm going to take off and do my first very high g high intensity sortie that it's dogfighting. Right.
00:42:32:14 - 00:42:51:19
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So that's an easy term. We call it something a little bit different. But is dogfighting where you you basically check away from that you're instructor, pilot, and when you turn in, you're pointing at the other jet and you pass 500 feet from each other. And you're we're both doing over 500 miles an hour. Our closure rates over 1000 miles an hour.
00:42:52:04 - 00:43:16:02
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And then just like on, you know, Top Gun, right, as soon as you pass, you know, off the side of the other jet, it's fights on and it's whoever can kill the other aircraft faster using the tactics that you're supposed to use. Right. So we done several sets. We had landed, we had gotten gas, which the F-16, they can gas us up while we're running.
00:43:16:02 - 00:43:32:19
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So you eat your lunch in the jet while they're gassing you up and then you take off again. So I'm on my second flight sortie is what we call them, and I'm on like the last set. So it's the fourth, fifth or sixth that I don't remember. And my instructor goes vertical. He just takes it up in the vertical.
00:43:32:19 - 00:43:58:18
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So I run the best vertical maneuver that I know how to run, and we start breaking training rolls together. So he's he's breaking a training rule. I'm breaking a training roll. And what ends up happening is we point at each other too long and we end up doing a close pass. And I just remember looking at the top of my my canopy out of the jet and seeing his jet just completely, you know, I was like, man, I hope he didn't take the tail off my airplane type of thing.
00:43:58:18 - 00:44:18:20
Dominic "Slice" Teich
It wasn't that close, but it went so fast. And then, you know, fast forward a little bit on a Friday night, they're doing what's called the naming for all the new punks. And my name comes up and I had been fixing a lot of stuff in the squadron, so I unplugged a sink with you know, coffee grounds and dip spit.
00:44:18:20 - 00:44:28:08
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And I had put, you know, white boards up and fixed a bunch of TVs. And they wanted to call me MacGyver because I just fixed everything, which whatever that had been fine, that.
00:44:28:08 - 00:44:29:01
Wayne Mulder
Would have worked it.
00:44:29:04 - 00:44:46:24
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Yeah. But they said I tried to slice my instructor in half and I at the time I was in the a squadron, the Samurai, and it was in Japan. So it's kind of like the sword. I tried to slice the instructor in half and it kind of just fit at the time and and yeah, that's how Slice was born.
00:44:47:07 - 00:44:48:10
Wayne Mulder
And the great story.
00:44:48:24 - 00:45:10:23
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Yeah, I haven't met any other slices in the Air Force, which is kind of cool because sometimes you'll, you'll meet other dudes with like, you know, bowtie or, you know, horse or whatever, right? Like whatever their callsign ends up being, you'll, you'll find that maybe it's, it's happened another time or somebody else got that name. But in my case, I'm the only slice that I know.
00:45:10:23 - 00:45:21:10
Dominic "Slice" Teich
I do like to play golf. I don't sleep, I play golf. So it's not a golf term. It's because I almost died. But that's that's my life story.
00:45:21:22 - 00:45:40:15
Wayne Mulder
I like it. Yeah. Oh, that that's awesome. It does answer one question, though, for all the people who have no idea what we're talking about when it comes to planes and stuff. So you actually cannot invert and flip off the other cockpit, unlike top down. Is that what I'm hearing? And you're not going to be able to see each other to flip them off.
00:45:40:15 - 00:45:41:05
Wayne Mulder
I'm assuming you.
00:45:41:05 - 00:45:42:15
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Actually can do that.
00:45:42:15 - 00:45:43:13
Wayne Mulder
You can do that.
00:45:43:16 - 00:46:07:06
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Very doable. Yeah. Now, granted, is it as would it be as stable as you see in the movie where it's like kind of slo mo and really, really intense? It's like that. I would think that the the Navy Blue Angels maybe that the the Air Force Thunderbirds, like those demonstration teams, they trained to fly that close all the time.
00:46:07:18 - 00:46:28:06
Dominic "Slice" Teich
You know, we do train to fly within three feet of each other, you know, if we come back in the weather. But it's not something that's not our primary thing. Right? Like we're not show pilots were combat pilots, whereas now that's very doable. You can you can flip the jet upside down, especially the F-16. It's very maneuverable and just fly, you know, right on top of the other aircraft like that.
00:46:28:06 - 00:46:31:24
Dominic "Slice" Teich
If you wanted to, I wouldn't do it. But it is it is possible.
00:46:32:07 - 00:46:36:24
Wayne Mulder
Well, now we know I. Yeah. When I was prepping for this, I was like that. I got to ask him that question.
00:46:37:09 - 00:46:37:18
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Yeah.
00:46:38:15 - 00:46:42:01
Wayne Mulder
What was your biggest obstacle and what helped you the most on this journey? Journey.
00:46:42:24 - 00:47:05:18
Dominic "Slice" Teich
I think from my vantage point, we kind of talked about it earlier. And this is going to be, you know, I'm formulating some ideas like what would I say to the 8 to 16 year old me back in the day? Right. And so it's part of the book as I as we're writing this and kind of formulating this, where a lot of kids have the right mindset.
00:47:05:22 - 00:47:31:06
Dominic "Slice" Teich
They they're fairly driven and they get derailed when they're told by somebody that maybe as well intentioned or maybe is maliciously trying to hurt their success rate. And what I get by that is and you've probably seen this, too, it's like, well, no, you can't do that. And I can't tell you how many times I heard that as a little kid.
00:47:31:06 - 00:47:57:21
Dominic "Slice" Teich
You can't do that. Like your dad's not a fighter pilot. You don't have any uncles like you don't know a senator, you don't know this, you know that. And as a kid, where it really clicked is I started some of those college classes when I was 15 and 16 to kind of get ahead. And I remember taking a class with a I didn't know he was a fighter pilot at the time, but his callsign was Harley, his last name, Davidson.
00:47:58:07 - 00:48:18:18
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And he was the classic just smooth talk and fighter pilot. And it was an it was an aeronautics class. And he's like, I was like, you know, I I've been flying. I've been doing this stuff, and I want to be a fighter pilot. And he goes, I never forget. It's like it was yesterday. He looks at me, he just goes, Hell, kid, I did it.
00:48:18:18 - 00:48:49:22
Dominic "Slice" Teich
You can do it. And the point being, the biggest obstacle is it's not necessarily your mindset, it's the coach or the guide in your life, right? Because you're your own hero, whatever story, whatever path you're going to take. But that second step is so important nowadays. And when there's so many negative people, there's so many people that aren't living up to their own potential and they're not willing because they suck themselves and because they're holding themselves back, they're not willing to let other people know that they can do that.
00:48:49:22 - 00:49:07:20
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And that was a huge obstacle because there are no pilots in my family. There are no Air Force people in my family. Well, my Uncle Joe, I take that back, he was a firefighter, but that's he's a firefighter. He's not really in the Air Force. You know, there were no fighter pilots. There were no pilots at all anywhere in my family.
00:49:07:20 - 00:49:23:16
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So I was just I was alone, not afraid I'd even know the next step. And I just needed somebody to give me that second step that that coach or that guide to give me permission didn't do it right. I had a lot I grew up around a lot of really good baseball players. So I was like, Oh, I can do that because it's modeled.
00:49:24:11 - 00:49:35:06
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And I had coaches and guides, right? So I was kind of going down that path until I figured out probably the best I'll ever get is maybe like single or double a baseball. Yep.
00:49:35:06 - 00:49:35:13
Wayne Mulder
Right.
00:49:35:24 - 00:49:55:12
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And I really liked flying, so I was like, I can kind of control that a little bit better. But I think the biggest obstacle nowadays, which is what I'm trying to guide the younger generation with so much right now with single seat mindset is is do it right like I can be your coach and guide and that third step is action.
00:49:55:12 - 00:50:14:01
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So you have to do that. But hey, here as a coach and a guide, read these books, listen to this blog, watch these YouTube videos like do this stuff. I can guide you through that so you can see the end goal. But then the most important part of it is that you have to take action yourself. You have to put down your video games, stop looking at your Instagram and Twitter or whatever.
00:50:14:01 - 00:50:31:16
Dominic "Slice" Teich
You know, I would even say kids nowadays I'm getting to that age where the 12, 14, 18 year old kids, they're lost. I just can't find my passion. And it's like we had never tried anything. Right. And you don't have that. You're not surrounding yourself with anybody that's willing to tell you go, you can do that.
00:50:32:05 - 00:50:34:02
Wayne Mulder
Yeah. No, that's powerful.
00:50:34:08 - 00:50:59:19
Dominic "Slice" Teich
The hurdle would be having the right guide or having the right coach listen to you and say, Hell yeah, I do that now. If you're blind and you want to be a fighter pilot, I'm going to request that you maybe secure a spot in a different career field. Yes. However, physical limitations aside, you can still you know, I heard this story about this guy.
00:50:59:19 - 00:51:18:16
Dominic "Slice" Teich
He wanted to be a professional soccer player, but he was I think he was a bipolar Egypt. Is that the right way? His legs didn't work. So anyways, he made a ton of money and he bought a soccer team. No. So? So they built a special soccer team. So like, there's, there's so many different ways to pave your own path.
00:51:19:04 - 00:51:39:15
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And, and I think, you know, if somebody is telling, you know, if I was young and I could tell my young self again, which I started to do as I got a little bit older, but that's it means no to that thing that you're asking to that person. And many times I would sit there and I'd say, that person told me, no, who is that person?
00:51:39:15 - 00:51:56:03
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Oh, that's a college counselor. They're not a fighter pilot. The dudes that are telling me to become a fighter pilot or fighter pilots. So listen to them. Right. Like listen to the people, you know, that are going to help you along. They're going to move hurdles out of your way versus put them in front of you.
00:51:57:01 - 00:52:20:05
Wayne Mulder
Yeah. No, that's good. And I think that's powerful. It may be applicable a little bit to the law enforcement world, but definitely to the business world and definitely even to this podcast and things like it. I mean, I know how many times from people who haven't done it do I get all sorts of negative feedback about You don't have time for that, you know, all sorts of is that going to become something just a hobby, whatever, you know.
00:52:20:05 - 00:52:40:17
Wayne Mulder
Yeah, an endless litany of things we hear. And you're right, just and what's funny is the ones who have done it are the ones that are like, Yeah, you can do this. Just this is what you got to do. So I think that's powerful. And especially, like you said, for those younger formative years when you're trying to decide what path to take, that's powerful, powerful stuff.
00:52:41:09 - 00:53:00:18
Wayne Mulder
Well, I don't want to take too much more of your time. Let's get into a little bit about what exactly you have going on. So you have the book Single Seat Wisdom and Single Seat Mindset. Tell us a little bit what the listeners can expect with single seat mindset. They go to the website, what can they expect with what you have going on there?
00:53:01:05 - 00:53:32:12
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Yeah. So I would say I'll describe the person we hope the most and then you'll know if you're not that person, right? So single seat mindset dot com, that is your launch pad if you're goal oriented, if you're an action taker and if you're looking for a radically different perspective to solve life's issues, I'm talking there's fighter pilots that have had their wives die and there's, you know, guys that have war stories and all different types of stories.
00:53:32:12 - 00:53:57:22
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So single seat mindset dot com. You know, if you're if you're a if you're frustrated, right. Like you were like me, you had the right mindset. You were taking a lot of action or you didn't know what action to take. And you need a coach or a guide. That is the intent of single seat mindset. Dot com there's a bunch that that's really I'd say that would be my call to action for people that are that want to go somewhere in life they don't have a ton of time to read a Bible sized book.
00:53:57:22 - 00:54:21:22
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Right. Like, no, I need I have two or 3 minutes, maybe 15 minutes. I need this and then I need to know what to do. So that's who we help the best. I would say. Don't, don't waste your time. Like to use a an aviation term on the wrong vector, right? You can become part of the single seat mindset insider circle at single seat mindset dot com perfect.
00:54:21:22 - 00:54:37:05
Wayne Mulder
And I will have that all linked up so the listeners can find that. Let me ask you my final question that I ask every guest that comes on here. Much of what we've spoken about today is applicable to it. But this is where I like to just zero in on one specific thing. So what is the one take away?
00:54:37:05 - 00:54:44:13
Wayne Mulder
The one thing that law enforcement officers can do today that's going to make a difference in their personal lives?
00:54:44:13 - 00:55:14:14
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So you're putting me on the spot here. But I would say where my life radically turned around was when I had a reversion to Christianity and Catholicism specifically. So the mind, body, spirit piece of it, the spiritual aspect of life is just been gutted so much from culture, from our schools, from our politics, from everything. Right. And when I put the spiritual back into life, things came to life and it was non tangible.
00:55:14:22 - 00:55:42:15
Dominic "Slice" Teich
I wasn't doing it to make money, I wasn't. I was doing it to save my soul. But the spiritual side of it really, you know, people people will betray you or treat you poorly, but Jesus won't. He actually was a a huge liberal. He loved everybody. He did have some pretty cool rules. But almost two years ago is when that happened where I don't know if it was the Holy Spirit, I don't know what it was, but it was something pretty powerful.
00:55:42:15 - 00:56:02:11
Dominic "Slice" Teich
And life has changed in ways that I can't even explain. And that's what spirituality does for you. You can't explain it, right? I can't put it under a microscope. I can't examine it. I can't throw science at it. It's it's God. Yeah. So if God isn't in your life, maybe, maybe ask him to be and see what happens.
00:56:02:24 - 00:56:24:19
Wayne Mulder
That's awesome. Yeah. And it is, it's a personal experience and all the science and all the, you know, things that we can articulate never will fully take the place of that relationship. So now that's powerful stuff. And I'm glad you said that, because in our modern times it's something that is so forgotten that we are also spiritual beings regardless of our belief system.
00:56:24:19 - 00:56:25:14
Dominic "Slice" Teich
So yeah.
00:56:26:03 - 00:56:36:14
Wayne Mulder
Dom, thank you so much. We've gone over every one of these go to single seat mindset dot com. I really appreciate you coming on today and thank you so much for your time. This has been a wonderful conversation.
00:56:37:01 - 00:56:38:13
Dominic "Slice" Teich
Thanks, Wayne. Love what you're doing.
00:56:39:01 - 00:56:55:12
Wayne Mulder
Thank you. And that does it for this week's The Interview Room. I hope you really enjoyed it. Another great guest will be with us again next week. We have a great line up for you here over the next few weeks and I'm through the rest of the year, so you're definitely not going to want to miss a single episode.
00:56:55:24 - 00:57:14:07
Wayne Mulder
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00:57:14:16 - 00:57:34:11
Wayne Mulder
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00:57:34:11 - 00:57:48:07
Wayne Mulder
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00:57:48:13 - 00:58:05:06
Wayne Mulder
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