Eric RushPress & Booking
Bronze Star Combat Veteran · Songwriter · Founder & CEO, Prime Pitch Podcast Network
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Leadership · Culture · Human Interest
In a loud, divided country, Rush makes the case that listening is a learnable skill, and that understanding someone else is the fastest way to understand yourself. He draws on more than 500 long-form interviews.
Ask himWhat’s the difference between hearing someone and actually listening?
Veterans · Faith · Personal Growth
Leaving the uniform, losing a career, recovering after collapse. Rush speaks from experience about identity, accountability and rebuilding, and from the hundreds of people he’s interviewed who’ve done it. Transition, he argues, is first a question of identity.
Ask himWhy do so many veterans struggle more with identity than with finding work?
Business · Community · Second Chances
Through veteran advocacy and his volunteer work with the Prison Entrepreneurship Program, Rush has seen talent most people never look for. He makes the case that second chances are good for families, communities and business.
Ask himWhat have you seen inside prison entrepreneurship programs that the public doesn’t?
Veterans · Mental Health · Justice
Rush spent years being treated for addiction and punished for its consequences before anyone diagnosed the combat PTSD underneath. He speaks to what happens when systems treat veterans’ symptoms instead of their wounds, and what families, courts and employers can do differently.
Ask himWhat did the system miss, and what would have changed your path?
News pegsVeterans Day · Memorial Day · Gold Star Mother’s Day · Second Chance Month · Suicide Prevention Month
“Of all the podcasts I’ve ever done, my time on Rush’s show was the most in depth and substantial interview I’ve been a part of to date.”
John MabrySpeaker & Connection ExpertThe Rush Outrospective“What stood out immediately was the preparation he had done. If you ever get the chance to have a conversation with Eric, jump at the chance.”
Col. (Ret.) Brian SearcyU.S. Air Force · Founder, Paratus GroupUnfinished Business“When we sat down to record the podcast all of my nerves just calmed and it felt like I was just talking with a friend.”
Kristi Davis HughesGold Star MotherUnfinished Business“Even after sharing my story many times, he brought new perspectives to light. I felt genuinely heard, understood, and seen.”
Carrie CrawfordLife & Recovery CoachThe Rush Outrospective“It was an easy conversation yet intellectually challenging. It drove me to explore parts of my story I hadn’t thought about in a long time, some of which I never said out loud.”
David EinhornBusiness LeaderNext Level Thinkers“There was no need to sidestep uncomfortable topics or dress up the realities of our experiences.”
Edward HadfieldRetired Fire ChiefUnfinished BusinessOn-air introduction
“Joining us now is Eric Rush, the Conversation Architect. He’s a Bronze Star combat veteran, the founder of Prime Pitch Podcast Network, and the host of Unfinished Business, a podcast for veterans pursuing new life missions.”
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Eric Rush is an interviewer, songwriter and the founder of Prime Pitch Podcast Network in Frisco, Texas. A Bronze Star combat veteran of Desert Storm, Rush hosts long-form conversations with veterans, Gold Star families, faith leaders and innovators, guided by a practice he calls outrospection: understanding yourself by first understanding someone else.
Eric Rush, known simply as Rush, is an interviewer, media personality, speaker and the founder of Prime Pitch Podcast Network in Frisco, Texas. An Army combat veteran and Bronze Star recipient who lived for years with undiagnosed combat PTSD, he describes podcasting as a form of rehabilitation: investigating how other people live and carrying what he learns into his own life. He hosts Unfinished Business, The Rush Outrospective and Next Level Thinkers, with more than 500 productions behind him. Rush speaks nationally on outrospection, veteran transition and second chances, and serves as an executive volunteer with the Prison Entrepreneurship Program. He has written and produced more than 25 original songs, played at Globe Life Field and Dickies Arena, and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Learning Technologies and Communications from the University of North Texas. His motto: The Ocean Refuses No River.
Eric Rush is a U.S. Army combat veteran of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, a Bronze Star recipient, a keynote speaker, a songwriter, and the founder and CEO of Prime Pitch Podcast Network. Known as The Conversation Architect, he’s built a reputation for getting past the polished answer to the real one underneath.
Rush knows that ground firsthand. He came home from combat, but he didn’t come home whole. A hard transition, a fight with substance use, a suicide attempt and incarceration followed. For years he was treated for the symptoms. Years after his service, the VA named the root cause: severe combat PTSD. Recovery began with personal inventories and hard inward work. Podcasting and songwriting turned that work outward. He calls them a form of rehabilitation.
Today Rush hosts four shows: Unfinished Business, The Rush Outrospective, Next Level Thinkers and, launching soon, Frisco’s Own. Across more than 500 productions, he’s interviewed Medal of Honor recipients Don “Doc” Ballard and Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, Army General Niave Knell, Army Night Stalkers and special operations veterans, Gold Star mothers, survivors of sexual trauma, people in recovery, formerly incarcerated men and women, mental health professionals, executives and nonprofit leaders.
His approach is grounded in cognitive empathy, critical thinking and intentional listening. He calls it outrospection: stop looking inward, start listening outward. He practices it in three moves: Reach. Reveal. Reclaim.
Rush has written and produced more than 25 original songs, including “Two Two, Too Many,” about veteran suicide, and “Where Honor Lives,” for Blue Star and Gold Star families. His music has been played at Globe Life Field and Dickies Arena. He’s an executive volunteer with the Prison Entrepreneurship Program and a TDCJ-approved volunteer, and his signature keynote, Operation Search & Rescue, draws on his own road through combat, addiction, incarceration and redemption.
Rush holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Learning Technologies and Communications from the University of North Texas. He lives in Frisco, Texas.
His work rests on one belief: your most difficult chapters do not have to define your final legacy.
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