In March, I did a four week series to celebrate Women’s History Month starting with Amazing Military Women from History. I’m going back to these episodes to highlight the stories I shared live now on the Women of the Military podcast and YouTube. I have learned so much about military history and specifically women in […]
Category Archives: Blogging
posts on learning how to blog or things that I am experiencing as I start my adventure toward blogging
Mentorship – Why it is important
This week we are diving into mentorship. Being a mentee or a mentor is a term thrown around a lot in the military and I wanted to dive in and learn more about how to build mentee-mentor relationships. My guest this week is Sabrina Dalton. She is the Deputy Executive Director for Military Mentors (MM). […]
How Culture Affects the Military
When you think about the military you often think about the how the culture affects the military. You can see how the culture had an impact on Rachel and her experience in the military. Boot camp felt watered down because of the culture around military sexual assault. She wanted to be pushed hard and felt […]
Veterans for Financial Freedom: Teaching Veterans to Invest with Zero
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Veterans History Project
This week on the podcast I’m excited to be talking to Monica Mohindra. She is the Director of the Veterans History Project (VHP) of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. In this episode, we focus on VHP. VHP is highlighting the importance of collecting veterans stories. We also discussed how the information collected […]
Financial wellness for military families from GoVA
This week on the podcast we are talking about financial wellness for military families with GoVA. GoVA is working to help military families have strong financial tools and resources to help them with the unique challenges military families and veterans face. Check out their platform The Edge. The Edge is free for veterans, military members […]
Why did you join the military opens the door
People may think that asking people why did you join the military is a great way to start a podcast interview focusing on the experience of being in the military. And initially I thought of it as an opening question to my interviews. But the thing was I did not know that this one questions […]
The Challenge of Deployment
Lauren Kay shared the challenge of deployment in her memoir The Fine Art of Camouflage. Lauren’s decision to join the military was inspired by her moms service during Desert Storm and the events of September 11th. Those two things led her to look into the military and she ended up gaining her commission through the […]
Importance of Veterans Getting Outside
This week my guest is Vedia Barnett. She is the Senior Campaign Representative for Sierra Club Military Outdoors. Sierra Club is this week’s sponsored. And I am so excited to share not only about Vedia time in the Air Force but also about the work she is doing today to help eliminate barriers for veterans getting […]
The Women Air Force Service Pilots Story
Dr. Katherine Sharp Landdeck wrote The Women With Silver Wings highlighting the story and history of the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP). Her story of writing this book goes back to when she first started her career and went to an air show and met an WASP. That moment was defining and led her […]
