MCEC Podcast

High School senior Hudson talks about what it’s like to be in his third high school, multiple deployments and the importance of friendship in each new duty station. 

This podcast was sponsored by HEB.

www.militarychild.org

High School senior Hudson talks about what it’s like to be in his third high school, multiple deployments and the importance of friendship in each new duty station. 

This podcast was sponsored by HEB.

www.militarychild.org

FOCUS stands for Families OverComing Under Stress and is a DoD program providing interactive, strength based resilience training to military families and couples to assist with unique challenges they face. Kelly Skala, a model supervisor with FOCUS, shares how FOCUS tailors trainings to fit each families' needs to help build on current strengths and teach practical skills to enhance communication, emotional regulation, family closeness, problem solving and create a shared family story. 

https://www.facebook.com/FOCUSResiliencyTraining/

www.focusproject.org

#Resilience #FOCUS #MilitaryFamilies #TeleFOCUS

This podcast was sponsored by HEB.

FOCUS stands for Families OverComing Under Stress and is a DoD program providing interactive, strength based resilience training to military families and couples to assist with unique challenges they face. Kelly Skala, a model supervisor with FOCUS, shares how FOCUS tailors trainings to fit each families' needs to help build on current strengths and teach practical skills to enhance communication, emotional regulation, family closeness, problem solving and create a shared family story. 

https://www.facebook.com/FOCUSResiliencyTraining/

www.focusproject.org

#Resilience #FOCUS #MilitaryFamilies #TeleFOCUS

This podcast was sponsored by HEB.

In this podcast we talk with Anne Haston and Barbara Livingston who provide insight, share stories, examples and experiences from decades of advocacy work supporting National Guard-connected children and families in their states.

: http://guardyourbuddy.com/your-resources/your-guard/j9-program/

J9 Program | Guard Your Buddy

The Tennessee National Guard J9 Directorate is a diverse group of professionals with distinctive skill sets. They form the center of gravity to enhance our Guard families’ circle of life.

guardyourbuddy.com

South Carolina was harder to find and called something different:

https://www.scguard.com/smfc/

Service Member Family Care | SCNG | South Carolina National Guard

Family Programs. The family programs are to help those a ected by an event that need crisis/grief support, ensure that any Soldier or family issues are referred to proper resources, provide non-medical, short-term, solution-focused counseling services to military individuals, help families who are in need of financial assistance, provide resources for education, relocation, parenting, stress ...

www.scguard.com

The challenges that children of the National Guard and Reserve face often go unnoticed and unaddressed. In this webinar, we discuss those challenges and talk about ways to help these great military-connected children get the support they need and deserve.

Register for the recording here:

https://events-na5.adobeconnect.com/content/connect/c1/968319730/en/events/event/private/1825780098/1835195351/event_registration.html?connect-session=na5breeztxop99dvaq7nbwer&sco-id=2243188422

This podcast was sponsored by HEB.

In this podcast we talk with Anne Haston and Barbara Livingston who provide insight, share stories, examples and experiences from decades of advocacy work supporting National Guard-connected children and families in their states.

: http://guardyourbuddy.com/your-resources/your-guard/j9-program/

J9 Program | Guard Your Buddy

The Tennessee National Guard J9 Directorate is a diverse group of professionals with distinctive skill sets. They form the center of gravity to enhance our Guard families’ circle of life.

guardyourbuddy.com

South Carolina was harder to find and called something different:

https://www.scguard.com/smfc/

Service Member Family Care | SCNG | South Carolina National Guard

Family Programs. The family programs are to help those a ected by an event that need crisis/grief support, ensure that any Soldier or family issues are referred to proper resources, provide non-medical, short-term, solution-focused counseling services to military individuals, help families who are in need of financial assistance, provide resources for education, relocation, parenting, stress ...

www.scguard.com

The challenges that children of the National Guard and Reserve face often go unnoticed and unaddressed. In this webinar, we discuss those challenges and talk about ways to help these great military-connected children get the support they need and deserve.

Register for the recording here:

https://events-na5.adobeconnect.com/content/connect/c1/968319730/en/events/event/private/1825780098/1835195351/event_registration.html?connect-session=na5breeztxop99dvaq7nbwer&sco-id=2243188422

This podcast was sponsored by HEB.

Join us as we chat with Dr. Tom Wiggins, wounded Ranger Regiment veteran about his experiences when injured, furthering his education, leadership and communicating with his kids.  

 "The military may make you a man but it's how you use your life that matters"

Tom has enjoyed a successful career thus far by any measure. He has served in the Army as a decorated Airborne Ranger. He has earned degrees in business, leadership and policy, and andragogy. He has experience leading major organizations in both the private and public sector. Tom is currently a professor of strategy at Army University; Ft. Leavenworth, Ks. You may be surprised to learn; Tom is deaf.

On his fifth combat deployment Tom was severely wounded in action, which would ultimately cost him his hearing. Upon retirement from the military, Tom was recruited by Evergreen Aviation where he served as the Executive Director for the world-famous Evergreen Aviation Museum. During his time with Evergreen, Tom also helped start-up Evergreen Defense & Security Services, which he also presided over. These experiences, coupled with his ongoing education, created a unique understanding of the power of leadership.

For the past ten years Tom has taught thousands of senior military officers and government executives, world-wide, various levels of leadership. In doing so, he has captured and developed the best practices of some of the finest leaders this country has to offer.

 In his latest book, Tom describes a new leadership theory that he refers to as Disabled Leadership. Disabled Leadership examines how disabled people employ leadership traits better than anyone else, and how we can strive to emulate those traits. Disabled Leadership is a person’s ability to gain self-awareness of their greatest weakness, and develop it into a platform to conceive, believe, and achieve life goals through empowerment built from a foundation of resilience.

To learn more about Disabled Leadership click here: https://www.amazon.com/Disabled-Leadership-Dr-Tom-Wiggins/dp/1694324672

Forget everything you think you know about leadership, its time for a new lesson. Disabled Leadership is a new leadership theory that inspires everyone, from disabled veterans to senior executives, to build their leadership from a foundation of resilience. Disabled Leadership is a persons ability to gain self-awareness of their greatest weakness, and develop it into a platform to conceive, believe, and achieve life goals through empowerment built from a foundation of resilience. Fifty-four million Americans suffer from diagnosed disabilities. Tom is one of them. During the course of his twenty-year career, he has been blessed with the opportunity to be inspired by Disabled Leaders, both in the operational environment and in the classroom. Over the past several years Dr. Wiggins has conceptualized what he refers to as “Disabled Leadership”. This concept proves how Disabled Leaders demonstrate leadership traits better than the general population. Disabled Leadership also serves to teach disabled leaders how they may emulate many fundamental characteristics to improve their leadership abilities. Disabled Leadership provides readers with self awareness, teaches leaders how to build platforms for success, and investigates the key traits of Disabled Leadership: Desire, Dedication, and Discipline. Dr. Wiggins shares personal stories and others inspirations in detailing his theory. Disabled Leadership covers a wide range of disabilities from deafness to blindness and from autism to cerebral palsy. Dr. Wiggins invites leaders to conceive, believe, and achieve any aspiration.

This podcast was sponsored by HEB.

Join us as we chat with Dr. Tom Wiggins, wounded Ranger Regiment veteran about his experiences when injured, furthering his education, leadership and communicating with his kids.  

 "The military may make you a man but it's how you use your life that matters"

Tom has enjoyed a successful career thus far by any measure. He has served in the Army as a decorated Airborne Ranger. He has earned degrees in business, leadership and policy, and andragogy. He has experience leading major organizations in both the private and public sector. Tom is currently a professor of strategy at Army University; Ft. Leavenworth, Ks. You may be surprised to learn; Tom is deaf.

On his fifth combat deployment Tom was severely wounded in action, which would ultimately cost him his hearing. Upon retirement from the military, Tom was recruited by Evergreen Aviation where he served as the Executive Director for the world-famous Evergreen Aviation Museum. During his time with Evergreen, Tom also helped start-up Evergreen Defense & Security Services, which he also presided over. These experiences, coupled with his ongoing education, created a unique understanding of the power of leadership.

For the past ten years Tom has taught thousands of senior military officers and government executives, world-wide, various levels of leadership. In doing so, he has captured and developed the best practices of some of the finest leaders this country has to offer.

 In his latest book, Tom describes a new leadership theory that he refers to as Disabled Leadership. Disabled Leadership examines how disabled people employ leadership traits better than anyone else, and how we can strive to emulate those traits. Disabled Leadership is a person’s ability to gain self-awareness of their greatest weakness, and develop it into a platform to conceive, believe, and achieve life goals through empowerment built from a foundation of resilience.

To learn more about Disabled Leadership click here: https://www.amazon.com/Disabled-Leadership-Dr-Tom-Wiggins/dp/1694324672

Forget everything you think you know about leadership, its time for a new lesson. Disabled Leadership is a new leadership theory that inspires everyone, from disabled veterans to senior executives, to build their leadership from a foundation of resilience. Disabled Leadership is a persons ability to gain self-awareness of their greatest weakness, and develop it into a platform to conceive, believe, and achieve life goals through empowerment built from a foundation of resilience. Fifty-four million Americans suffer from diagnosed disabilities. Tom is one of them. During the course of his twenty-year career, he has been blessed with the opportunity to be inspired by Disabled Leaders, both in the operational environment and in the classroom. Over the past several years Dr. Wiggins has conceptualized what he refers to as “Disabled Leadership”. This concept proves how Disabled Leaders demonstrate leadership traits better than the general population. Disabled Leadership also serves to teach disabled leaders how they may emulate many fundamental characteristics to improve their leadership abilities. Disabled Leadership provides readers with self awareness, teaches leaders how to build platforms for success, and investigates the key traits of Disabled Leadership: Desire, Dedication, and Discipline. Dr. Wiggins shares personal stories and others inspirations in detailing his theory. Disabled Leadership covers a wide range of disabilities from deafness to blindness and from autism to cerebral palsy. Dr. Wiggins invites leaders to conceive, believe, and achieve any aspiration.

This podcast was sponsored by HEB.

Antonio Freitas from Sesame Street is talking with us today. Antonio is a Senior Content Manager on the US Social Impact Team at the Sesame Workshop, Here, he builds assets for Sesame Street in Communities and Sesame Street for Military Families, with a focus on operationalizing training for parents and providers. He has worked to create, implement, and refine professional development programs for early childhood educators at organizational, city, and national levels. Antonio also works as an Adjunct Professor within the Teacher Education Department of the Borough of Manhattan Community College.  Antonio has a BSW from Seattle University and an MST from Pace University.

A portion of this podcast was taken from the Parent to Parent webinar: Bullying--Sesame Street Supports and Resources

Check it out by clicking this link:

http://militarychild.adobeconnect.com/webrec5119/event/registration.html

Links: https://sesamestreetformilitaryfamilies.org/- Sesame Street for Military Families

https://sesamestreetincommunities.org/

This podcast was sponsored by HEB.

Antonio Freitas from Sesame Street is talking with us today. Antonio is a Senior Content Manager on the US Social Impact Team at the Sesame Workshop, Here, he builds assets for Sesame Street in Communities and Sesame Street for Military Families, with a focus on operationalizing training for parents and providers. He has worked to create, implement, and refine professional development programs for early childhood educators at organizational, city, and national levels. Antonio also works as an Adjunct Professor within the Teacher Education Department of the Borough of Manhattan Community College.  Antonio has a BSW from Seattle University and an MST from Pace University.

A portion of this podcast was taken from the Parent to Parent webinar: Bullying--Sesame Street Supports and Resources

Check it out by clicking this link:

http://militarychild.adobeconnect.com/webrec5119/event/registration.html

Links: https://sesamestreetformilitaryfamilies.org/- Sesame Street for Military Families

https://sesamestreetincommunities.org/

This podcast was sponsored by HEB.