It’s been a long first season, and time to wrap it up! In this two-part Season 1: Finale, I detail the serious health issues and hospitalizations that have been plaguing my lungs and breast and mental toughness over the last 8 weeks. It’s been a wild and painful ride, and I’m ready to share my story and explain what might be next for me physically and mentally. Now facing a medical separation, what’s next? What’s really going on with my health? Am I crazy? Ya’ll have been asking, and I’m ready to tell all and I’m not too short of breath doing it. Note: again this is a two part story, make sure to listen to Part 1 first!

Can you believe ATBTA has been out almost a whole year? In this two-part Season 1: Finale, I detail the serious health issues and hospitalizations that have been plaguing my lungs and breast and mental toughness the last 7 weeks. It’s been a wild and painful ride, and I’m happy to share my story and explain what might be next for me physically and mentally. Will I be able to stay in the Army? Am I dying? Am I crazy? Ya’ll have been asking, and I’m ready to tell all without being too short of breath doing it. Note: again this is a two part story, look out for part 2 coming tomorrow!

Mamas really are the best! At least mine is. After six days at the Blanchfield Army Community Hospital on Fort Campbell, special guest “Peg” (my mother) helps share a little bit of the lighter sides of my third episode of a collapsed lung and post op shenanigans. From helping me when I choked on bacon, and then a green bean, to exercising her flirting muscle… and making sure she was all caught up on the Googling of my surgeon… Peg tells all. And she is an absolute hoot.

Taylor Anne is back on the mic, after a short break, and this time with a Monday mini on goal setting and how it helps build resiliency. Listen as TA shares what’s new in her professional life, and how the 7-step process of goal setting can help her AND you gain control in stressful and unpredictable times.

I’ve been on Active Duty as a 68W Army Combat Medic of 9 years and tweeted my opinion about FRAGO 5, which triggered an outcry from military members across Twitter. The use of a GOMOR seemed redundant to me for those who refused the vaccine. But who TF am I to share my opinion? If I tweeted support for it, it would have been no problem, and probably liked and retweeted. Instead, I was basically told to shut up. I wasn’t allowed to have an opinion. Alright. So anyway, in the episode you might learn a thing or two about the history of vaccines, like their predecessor (inoculation), and how immunizing troops against life threatening diseases has played a major role in Force Health Protection in every single American conflict including the American Revolution. Woah there I said “Revolution”, something I’ve also been warned against. Some thoughts and opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the United States, the Army, or my unit.

August was a lot for a lot of us. The 20th anniversary of 9/11 is tomorrow- and I’m so tired of the term, “woke”. https://jmvfh.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/jmvfh-2020-0006.

Military service is hard + parenting is hard = it’s hard, I recommend wine. Join me as I share my ups and downs with transitioning my kids to school this year while serving in the Army, and share a story of the time childcare failed me when an in-home care provider breastfed my baby boy. Yikes.

Do you ever feel like you have so much to do and no way to do it? Or no motivation? So you just lay in bed instead because you’re not accomplishing the things you need to get done? That was me this week. This episode is painful in that it’s literally all over the place as I attempt to share my feelings about returning to work after block leave while getting easily distracted because ADHD do be like that. Oh well.

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Semi-Finals for Ms. Veteran America 2021 are officially complete as of Sunday, and now we wait to hear who makes Finals! Join me as I bring my experience with this round, how talent and interview went, and from our special guest (and also a Semi-Finalist) Heather Dugas as we chat about our journey so far and how our unique strengths make us better as a team with a common goal of raising awareness and advocating for women veteran issues like homelessness (dare I use one of my fave buzzwords: SYNERGY!). Msveteranamerica.org

Have you heard that I have been selected as a Semi-Finalist competing for Ms. Veteran America 2021? What is that about right?! Find out in this week’s episode. Link to White Paper: https://www.finalsaluteinc.org/uploaded/files/WhitePaper-Revised_070319b.pdf?direct=1