We are back with our sisters, Shellie Willis and Evelyn Tuiana from the Redefining You Foundation.

This is part 2 of our 3 part series and today we dive deep into healing.

Key points:

How to recognize the start of your healing journey

How to handle new hurts and not backslide

How faith has played a role in healing

How to be okay with who you are in spite of past pains

For more information on RYF, please go to their website here.

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This is our first sponsored series on the Freedom Sisters Podcast. Thank you to Redefining You Foundation for this incredible 3-part series, we kick off today!

Have you ever tried to present yourself in a new way to the world, you thought you were presenting a fresh new you, but in reality all you were doing was masking what was happening inside of your mind and heart?  If you said yes to this, then you probably experienced a time in your life that you RE-INVENTED yourself.  Reinventing means change (something) so much that it appears to be entirely new. Key word appears; you really didn't change; you just made it appear as such.....

So, let's ask this question:  have you ever had to look at your life and make real point of view changes.  A process that you reexamined and reevaluated your feelings or environment and saw that what existed was not working?  And as a result of this examination, transformed yourself to being different?  This my friend is redefining.  Redefining means to  transform.  

Just like the caterpillar who goes through the metamorphosis process to completely transform her existence, this is what happens to Women Veterans when we leave service.  We can no longer be the caterpillar, our way of life is changing and we need to go through the transformation and embrace what is on the other side of service.  

This week we lay the foundation of our 3-part series, with our beautiful sisters, Shellie Willis and Evelyn Tuiana from Redefining You Foundation.

Let's start the work of transformation. 

For more information or to connect with RYF go to www.redefinedfutureyou.org

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Interviewing a storyteller is such fun! This week Sheryl shares her wisdom, her adventures and her motivation to keep learning.  As you listen in, I hope that you are inspired to utilize this time to FINALLY PURSUE YOUR DREAMS SISTER!  Sheryl has lived a great life and worked at a job she loved until retirement, but now she is continuing to serve other Veterans beyond retirement.

Please support Sheryl and her youtube channel, Veterans Helping Veterans TV.

You can find 2 episodes of my co-conspirasister (Shellie Willis) and I on her channel, here and here.  But I am a huge fan of Elinor Otto and there is a real neat AWARD WINNING episode about her on Sheryl's' channel as well.

So sit back and enjoy this wildly entertaining and motivating conversation.

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This week we have a real treat for you, Cheyenne Hernandez is in the house!  She joined your host, Kerri Jeter for an insightful and encouraging conversation.

From homeless to Hollywood bombshell....Catch Cheyenne Debut her Unstoppable Acting—from the Armed Forces to Bad-Ass Fight-Mode in Film! 

Cheyenne Rae Hernandez is an empowering force to be reckoned—from struggle to carving her own path through life and finding the meaning to happiness and success, despite a turbulent past. This Latina/Native American icon from El Paso, Texas, always felt that acting was her ultimate calling, even while enlisting in the Army at only 16-years old. Who knew that her journey was all part of the process in actualizing her ultimate vision that she held onto as a child.

 “I enlisted as a combat medic and wound up being one of the first group of females stationed in Schofield Barracks 1-14th infantry unit. I served just under 4 years. During my first year enlisted, my little brother also enlisted so that he could try to get stationed with me. He had just enlisted and was leaving for basic training in 2 weeks, when I got the call that both of my brothers were killed by a drunk driver on Christmas Eve. My whole world was shattered.”

When her life felt like it was in a downward spiral, she fought to keep it together while serving her country—that was when she was injured in a terrible military vehicle accident in the Mojave Desert, which resulted in a traumatic brain injury and loss of feeling to her right hand. After being discharged, Cheyenne felt like a “a broken machine.” 

“I moved to Washington state until it hit me—I had put my hand on my brothers casket, and promised I would live out our dreams for the both of us. I wound up packing up and moving to Hollywood by myself and living in a car for a few of months and showered at the gym.” 

Despite being divorced and homeless, Cheyenne persisted and met her acting coach who asked her to audition for the film “The Tax Collector,” where she landed a leading role as the villain. She applied her extensive background from the military and performed her own stunts! 

After intense training in MMA, she quickly became known as a Super Weapon—she fights, falls, and can handle different weapons. She is now a blue belt in Brazilian Jujitsu, American Kenpo and study Russian Boxing as well. Action Thriller Movie The Tax Collector is an upcoming American crime thriller film written, directed, and produced by David Ayer. The film follows two tax collectors for a crime lord named Wizard whose business becomes upended, resulting in one of them desperately protecting his family from an old rival. 

Check out this All-Star Cast:

Shia LaBeouf as Creeper 

Cheyenne Rae Hernandez as Gata 

Bobby Soto as David 

George Lopez

 Lana Parrilla 

Elpidia Carrillo

Chelsea Rendon

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Miss Pierce County 2020, Maria Hazel. Follow her journey as she promotes Pierce County and prepares to compete at the Miss Washington pageant in June of 2021. 

 http://www.misspiercecounty.org/titleholders/miss-pierce-county/

More about Maria:

Maria sat down with us to chat about bravery, beauty and big dream for herself in and out of uniform.  If you have ever been unsure if women can be both brave and beautiful, stop right now and listen in to this conversation!

She sat with us the night before shipping to BASIC TRAINING!!!! This conversation brought me so much joy and hope in our future servicewomen.  I hope you find some too!

After her youngest sister’s diagnosis rocked their world with aggressive breast cancer. He sister is a Mom of three; then 34-years old. Everything was wrong with that picture.

It was late 2014 and Robin wanted to leave the classroom for the final time. She was overwhelmed, exhausted, angry and depressed, her writing voice fell silent and she stumbled into mixed-media art.

She discovered art could be a healing tool – giving her space to feel and focus – and not asking anything  in return.

In 2015, She established RobinLK Studios, her home-based studios to make inspirational art and eventually, teach women how to discover and use their creativity to heal and/or grow, too.

Her writing voice would return to her while discovering art and its influence on her writing, 

She has continued to make art and began creative art journaling in 2018. Through the Creative Process, she figured out what matters to her and why it’s important. Helping other women map their path, slay their goals, overcome lack of confidence, and find the deepest level of satisfaction and happiness is what she is doing now.

Most importantly, I learned what was holding me back and what I needed to learn (and do!) to reach my goals.

It’s 2020 and Robin, is teaching women like you the process she went through to gain clarity and confidence to follow her heart, fill her skills gaps, and reach her goals.

Now it’s your turn.

Are you ready to show up for you?  

ROBIN LK Studios is for you, find out more here.

Connect with Robin on her favorite platform and follow her creative process.

It is not everyday we have a queen on the show...wait....yes we do.  HAHA!  Our host, has held the title of Ms. Veteran America 2015, but this week we have a queen with a crown on her head for the whole conversation!  Naviere Walkewicz is the reigning Ms. Veteran America 2019 and she is exceptional and has done  a beautiful job as queen.

She is currently an Lieutenant Colonel in the USAF Reserves, Runs a household full of boys, motivates her clients at her Fitness Studio, Fitessentials and has led so well this past year as MVA!

Here's a bit more about this queen:

A zero-judgement zone, her “FITS Family” members found that they could be held accountable and still have fun. It has been her honor to share in their journeys and be trusted to help them onto the path of healthy living both in and outside their skin.

Through her professional and personal journey, Naviere has had the opportunity to connect with hundreds of women with hundreds of varying stories. As different as they were, they all shared a common thread: a craving that couldn’t be filled by food, wine, or even weights.

Understanding that craving, Naviere has made it her life mission to offer a recipe of understanding, compassion and support to eliminate that craving and instead nurture the ensuing capable and confident woman.

Mother of three beautiful boys, and wife to a Law Enforcement officer, her time is precious. Every minute she spends away from her family has to add value to the world they’re living in. She spends it in the most impactful ways she can find.

Naviere is an advocate for her community. She leads events that raise funds for numerous causes, supports the local food bank, and connects with The Women’s Center for Advancement, an area organization offering resources from classes to counseling for women escaping abusive environments.

With an ultimate goal of offering outreach to a larger audience of women, Naviere offers her love of life, whole mind and body fitness, and service of her community.

Teaching people that tough love can be nurturing and a gentle touch can be the most powerful mover, Naviere seeks to change more lives for the better! 

Today we talk about all those thing, fitness, faith, advocacy, reign and so much more!

Find out more about Ms. Veteran America Here.

Connect with Naviere Here, Here and Here.

and watch this year's competition here.

At an early age Vanessa “Siren” Mahan was exposed to aviation, whether she was attending numerous air shows, flying with her dad in a borrowed Cessna, or traveling standby on commercial aircraft to go on vacations. While she had a passion for adventure and was seeking to flee the nest of home, she wasn’t sure about a career choice. She decided to take a chance. She applied for and received an Air Force ROTC scholarship to Purdue University. It was there that she fell in love with the Air Force and serving.

When 9/11 occurred in her junior year, her call to serve got stronger, but she knew she must be patient and finish school. She excelled in AFROTC, finishing at the top of her class, as a Distinguished Graduate.  This earned her her first career choice…an assignment to Strike Undergraduate Navigator Training at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. With hard work and extreme dedication, she again received her first choice of aircraft…the F-15E Strike Eagle.

As a Weapons System Officer (WSO) in the Strike Eagle, she would deploy in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM (OEF) at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. Her primary mission would be Close Air Support (CAS), protecting joint and coalition forces from above. After two back-to-back tours in support of OEF, Siren chose an assignment flying the EA-6B with the Navy at NAS Whidbey Island where she would also be stationed with her Navy husband. Siren became the first female Air Force Prowler aircrew to be assigned to a fleet carrier squadron and spend time on the USS Stennis doing “workups” for deployment.

After having two kids and ten years of active duty flying, Siren made the difficult decision to transition to the Air Force Reserves. She currently works as an Air Operations Staff Officer at Special Operations Command Pacific in Hawaii. When she isn’t serving in the Reserves, she pursues expanding her business “Siren Strong” where she trains/coaches clients in a holistic method as a certified functional fitness and health coach. She also enjoys spending time with her husband, two kids, and golden retriever puppy “Blue”.

Connect with Siren today.

We sit down today with Lorriane Cuff, USAF Veteran and Greatness Coach!   

Greatness can be defined as an individual's natural ability to be their best self. Lorraine has a  Defining Your Greatness course that will unleash your inner talent to allow you to attain your highest, truest expression of yourself.

Find out more here!  use the code telework for a discount!