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Rocketman to Movie Set Medic — How high-risk flying led to building National Set Medics Dan Schlund

Rocketman to Movie Set Medic — How high-risk flying led to building National Set Medics Dan Schlund

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In this episode of Unconventional Wisdom About Conventional Wisdom, Kim Miller-Hershon sits down with Dan Schlund, the Rocket Man himself, a world-renowned jet pack pilot, stunt man, and award-winning author, and the subject of the forthcoming documentary The Last Rocket Man, based on his memoir of the same name. Dan spent a decade flying rocket belts across 25 countries and six continents, over 100 feet in the air and up to 85 miles an hour, while surviving devastating skin graft surgeries and a broken neck. When he had to pivot, he founded National Set Medics, a company that provides medics to TV shows, films, and events nationwide, and grew it into a multi-million-dollar business over ten years. His memoir recently won Best Memoir at the 2026 New York City Big Book Awards.In this conversation, Dan challenges a piece of conventional wisdom that weighs on anyone cast as the expert: that you always have to have the answer and the plan. He used to burn enormous mental energy war-gaming every possible direction a problem could go. What freed him was learning to simply say "I don't know, but I'll figure it out," which focuses your attention on the actual issue instead of performing certainty. As he puts it, most of the time he doesn't know exactly what to do, he's just very good at figuring it out. Kim connects it to a current trap: people now think they can fake the answer because they can ask an AI, and she's candid from building her own custom agent workforce that AI can send you down wildly wrong paths if you abdicate your own thinking. Dan's version is clean: AI has a lot of information but it's not intelligent and it can't read your mind, so you still have to put your own brand on it.Dan's whole origin story is a case study in scrappiness. He started as a live-action stunt performer (getting shot off roofs and set on fire thousands of times as Batman, Indiana Jones, and cowboys at theme parks), met rocket-belt creator Kenny Gibson, and was selected to become one of the few Rocket Man pilots. After his 2013 crash and broken neck, he asked himself what his passion was, became a paramedic, and spotted a niche no one was serving well: film and TV sets legally require medics, and he knew both the entertainment side and the medical side. There was never a business plan. He threw his name out to producers, got double-booked, started splitting jobs with other medics, and realized he could earn a percentage on every medic he placed. National Set Medics now has 13,300 registered medics nationwide, and Dan describes his real job as balancing two customers, the medics and the producers, so that at the end of every day, everyone goes home alive.This episode explores:Why "I don't know, but I'll figure it out" beats faking the answerWhy AI can point a direction but can't replace your own thinkingSpotting an underserved niche by combining two kinds of expertiseBuilding a business with no plan, one working chunk at a timeTesting a category, then pivoting when it doesn't get tractionWhy shotgunning the whole market drains your resourcesSticking to your bread and butter before adding a second thingBalancing two sets of customers so everyone goes home aliveTiming a launch: packaging news instead of doubling the workContaining your own excitement as the real disciplineTreating every decision (and hire) as asset vs. liabilityEmbracing imposter syndrome by building a team and not micromanagingLetting managers lead in their own style, not yoursBeating anxiety by focusing on successes, not failuresIf you're a founder, creative, or anyone who's ever been told you need a plan before you can start, this conversation offers practical insight, honest talk about anxiety and imposter syndrome, and a refreshing case that figuring it out as you go is its own kind of genius.Connect with me here:Website: https://www.kimmillerhershon.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmillerhershonNewsletter: https://link.kimmillerhershon.com/widget/form/aEdmdA1W5MhoMCMfy5O8Webinar: https://webinar.kimmillerhershon.com/?utm_source=PodcastGuest Details:Guest: Dan Schlund, "The Last Rocket Man"Book: The Last Rocket Man (memoir, Best Memoir, 2026 New York City Big Book Awards), available on AmazonDocumentary: The Last Rocket Man (coming 2027)Company: National Set MedicsWebsite: https://rocketman.tv Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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