After losing her husband, Marine helicopter pilot Shawn Campbell, in a tragic night operations training accident, Kelli Campbell-Goodnow faced the unimaginable: raising four young children alone. Joining her parents in Kansas City, Kelli transformed her grief into a mission to serve others.Today, as Executive Director of the <a href="https://www.valorpartners.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Valor Partners Foundation</a>, she is working to provide scholarship support for the spouses and children of 100% disabled and deceased veterans. In this inspiring interview, Kelli shares her powerful story of resilience, service, and hope, from navigating loss to leading a nonprofit that’s making a real difference.

After losing her husband, Marine helicopter pilot Shawn Campbell, in a tragic night operations training accident, Kelli Campbell-Goodnow faced the unimaginable: raising four young children alone. Joining her parents in Kansas City, Kelli transformed her grief into a mission to serve others. Today, as Executive Director of the Valor Partners Foundation, she is working to provide scholarship support for the spouses and children of 100% disabled and deceased veterans. In this inspiring interview, Kelli shares her powerful story of resilience, service, and hope, from navigating loss to leading a nonprofit that’s making a real difference.

After losing her husband, Marine helicopter pilot Shawn Campbell, in a tragic night operations training accident, Kelli Campbell-Goodnow faced the unimaginable: raising four young children alone. Joining her parents in Kansas City, Kelli transformed her grief into a mission to serve others.Today, as Executive Director of the <a href="https://www.valorpartners.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Valor Partners Foundation</a>, she is working to provide scholarship support for the spouses and children of 100% disabled and deceased veterans. In this inspiring interview, Kelli shares her powerful story of resilience, service, and hope, from navigating loss to leading a nonprofit that’s making a real difference.

Kelli Campbell-Goodnow: Gold Star Spouse & Executive Director of Valor Partners Foundation

“There’s just something about Kansas City.”™ It may be the most-heard phrase from those who are from here, those who have come here, &amp; those who have chosen to stay. It’s a sense of pride, of camaraderie, of community and comfort. A sense of small-town, back-patio warmth brimming with growth, innovation and potential. A sense of zero degrees of separation in a city of champions.

For each of us, that “something” is a story crafted through years of experiences, big and small, that have planted the Heart of America so deeply in our own.

Join legendary Kansas City sports broadcaster Frank Boal each week for deep, down-to-earth conversations with some of this town’s most legendary residents, both natives and transplants, and hear what it is about Kansas City that just keeps calling them home.

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“There’s just something about Kansas City.”™ It may be the most-heard phrase from those who are from here, those who have come here, & those who have chosen to stay. It’s a sense of pride, of camaraderie, of community and comfort. A sense of small-town, back-patio warmth brimming with growth, innovation and potential. A sense of zero degrees of separation in a city of champions. For each of us, that “something” is a story crafted through years of experiences, big and small, that have planted the Heart of America so deeply in our own. Join legendary Kansas City sports broadcaster Frank Boal each week for deep, down-to-earth conversations with some of this town’s most legendary residents, both natives and transplants, and hear what it is about Kansas City that just keeps calling them home.

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