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This Week's Episode

Nate Springer is President and CEO of Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado. He joins Dr. Phil Knight and Gerry Brisson to discuss how his military service shaped his approach to hunger, leadership, and organizational culture.

Nate shares how food banking challenged his assumptions about who experiences hunger, including teachers, nurses, military families, and working households. He also explains why he believes food security is national security.

 

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On This Episode

Nate offers a powerful leadership lesson: give people clear direction, trust them to lead, and sometimes simply get out of their way.

His story ultimately reminds us that jobs end, titles change, and uniforms come off—but purpose doesn’t have a retirement date. Different mission. Different uniform. Same why.

“You never know what life is preparing you for.”

Nate Springer, President and CEO of Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado

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This Week's Guest

Nate Springer

CEO of Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado

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Nate Springer

CEO of Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado

Nate Springer is President and CEO of Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado, leading an organization serving 29 counties across nearly 47,000 square miles.

Before joining Care and Share in 2022, Nate served 23 years as an officer in the United States Army, with assignments and deployments around the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, Europe and the Western Pacific. He concluded his military career as Garrison Commander at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, where he was responsible for an installation community of approximately 72,000 soldiers, civilian employees and family members.

Just five days after retiring from the Army, Nate began his next chapter at Care and Share. Today, he brings the same commitment to service, mission and empowered leadership to the work of addressing food insecurity throughout Southern Colorado.

For Nate, the uniform changed. The commitment to serve did not.

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