He served as a combat engineer officer in the United States Army Reserve.
In 1990-1991, he volunteered to return to active duty in the Army, took a leave of absence from Harvard Business School, and served as a platoon leader in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait during the First Gulf War.
From March 2008 until June 2015, he hosted Glen Meakem on the Weekend, a talk radio program about what it takes to be successful in business and life; the program aired initially on WPGB 104.7 until the station flipped formats to country music in August 2014, when it moved to WJAS 1320.
He gave up the program to spend more time with his family and on another business he started, a cloud-storage host, Forever.com.
[14][15] He was mentioned by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette[16] and the National Journal[17] as a possible candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate to challenge incumbent Democrat Bob Casey Jr. in the 2012 election.