Category Archives: Podcast

Join me tomorrow night, Tuesday June 29, 2010 at 7:00pm on You Served Spouse Radio,  when I talk with the staff from Military to Medicine. Also on this show will be a clip from a new song being released dedicated to Military Spouses. All the money made on this song will be used to raise money for Military to Medicine’s.

If you have never heard of Military to Medicine then you are missing out on a wonderful resource for military members and their families or ANYONE who is a caregiver to a wounded warrior. This includes Blue Star Parents! Tune in and hear more and I will be posting more about this awesome organization that offers free training and aid to trained students in securing employment!

Military to Medicine has been knee deep in competition (a little friendly competition that is!) between the two military spouse employees, Colleen Saffron and Kristina Saul and their boss, Navy Reserve Chaplain Lieutenant Daniel Nichols. We will talk about the competition on the show! I will post more information on the competition later today.

CLICK HERE for the show’s homepage and to join us!

Background information on each guest:

Daniel Nichols:

Executive Director at Military to Medicine (Inova Health System), and a Lieutenant in the US Navy Reserves.
Having served in the U.S. Navy Reserve as a Chaplain and deployed in support of OIF in 2003, and having served in the U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service, he transitioned to a recruiting and technology role at Inova Health System, which has supported him in launching a new national military family service organization called: Military to Medicine.

Colleen Saffron:

Colleen is an Outreach Specialist at Military to Medicine and is the Founder and Executive Director of Operation Life Transformed (which is now merged with Military to Medicine) Colleen is the wife of not only an active duty soldier but also a soldier who was severely wounded in combat, during his deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom on May 5, 2004. She is intimately acquainted with the unique challenges the families of the war wounded are facing. She has, since the date of her husband’s injury, managed to care for him and her 3 children while also completing her online education to graduate with honors.

Kristina Saul:

Kristina Saul is an Outreach Specialist Military to Medicine. Previously she was the National Outreach Program Manager for Operation Life Transformed. Kristina is the wife of a Chief of the US Naval Reserve Force- Full Time Support with 25 years of Service. They have been a Geographical Military Family, living apart since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Along with her Volunteer duties as a 3 Time Certified Navy Family Ombudsman and Outreach Specialist for M2M. She is the mother of 2 young children, one with Special Needs. Kristina is also a 2 time cancer survivor who will be celebrating being 1 year cancer free December of 2010.

Join me tomorrow night on You Served Spouse and Family Highlights radio as I interview Julie Negron, the creator and cartoonist of Jenny Spouse.

Jenny Spouse is the only cartoon drawn by a military spouse that is for and about military spouses (both husbands and wives on the home front.) The show will air at 20:00 (8:00 PM) EST. You can listen to it by clicking on THIS LINK and turning up your speakers.

You can read Jenny Spouse weekly HERE. I asked Julie if I could post a cartoon here as a sample and she said I could. This one is a continuation from a chat Jenny was having with dear hubby over his lack of sharing deployment orders with his mother. I have been on the side of the conversation of the wife when my husband joined the Army and the mother when my son deployed. All I can say is Julie hit the nail straight on the head!

Join us tomorrow night for some fun discussion about Jenny Spouse and friends!

This is the first in a series of mini-podcasts that will address the many facets of post-deployment challenges. This first one deals with depression. It’s about 10-minutes in length and is focused on education and encouragement. Other parts to the series will include post-traumatic stress, anger management, sleep problems, and relationship issues.

Podcast Series Addresses Post-deployment Challenges

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2010 – Servicemembers and their families can get help coping with post-deployment stress through a new series of podcasts profiling the personal stories of those who have lived it.

“Combat brings individuals face-to-face with the harshest demands imaginable. In fact, it’s impossible to be unaffected by these experiences. Stress reactions, family and relationship difficulties, and work conflicts can affect an individual’s emotional well being.”

These words set the stage for the premiere episode of “There and Back,” an audio podcast series developed by afterdeployment.org, a Defense Department Web site developed by the National Center for Telehealth and Technology and the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury. 

The podcast series is directed to the entire military community to help manage some of the challenges faced by servicemembers and their families following a deployment, defense officials said. 

“Learning About Depression,” the initial ten minute podcast in the “There and Back” series is a tapestry woven of education, encouragement and emotional intimacy. 

Dr. Jenifer Alford, a clinical psychologist and afterdeployment.org’s functional director, guides listeners through the world of depression. “Depression can happen to just about anyone given the right set of circumstances,” Alford says. “Taking no action, or believing that time will heal the depression, could result in the depression getting worse or lasting longer.” 

The podcast is punctuated by servicemembers and their families telling their personal stories, allowing listeners to know that they are not alone in their struggles. 

Listen to:  “There and Back: Learning about Depression”

 

Don’t forget to join us tonight at 8:00pm (EST) to hear from the authors of Battlefields and Blessings: Stories of Faith and Courage from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

You can find the You Served Spouse and Family Highlights showpage HERE. Log on to have a reminder sent to you automatically.

This coming Monday, January 18th at 8:00pm (EST) I will interview three  co-authors of the new book in the series, Stories of Faith and Courage from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Take a moment and read about the authors below. Their backgrounds are very diverse.

Jocelyn is a former military wife and award winning author. Jane Hampton Cook worked in the George W. Bush Administration for 5 years.  For two of those years she served as White House deputy director of Internet news services. Dr. John Croushorn served as command surgeon of Task Force 185, Army Combat Aviation, in Iraq in 2004.  He was active in combat operations throughout the region in the second year of Operation Iraqi Freedom as well as functioning as crew and door gunner on Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters for just over 100 combat hours. — there is more information on the authors below!

The authors have all agreed to come onto the show and share about the book, what inspired them most, their favorite stories and what is next in this wonderful series! Please join us!

You can find the You Served Spouse and Family Highlights showpage HERE. Log on to have a reminder sent to you automatically.

Here is some information on the book and on each of the authors taken from Jocelyn’s Faith Deployed site.

Stories of Faith and Courage from the War in Iraq/Afghanistan, part of the Battlefields & Blessings series, is a 365-day collection of inspiring stories of courage perseverance and faith-based on firsthand accounts of more than seventy who have served in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.Through multiple, never-before-told stories, readers will uncover the personal challenges of the battlefield. You’ll hear about the experiences and perspectives of deployed soldiers; chaplains; military wives, widows, parents and siblings; organizers of humanitarian efforts; veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder; missionaries to the Middle East and more.

The book was co-authored by Jocelyn Green, Jane Hampton Cook and John Croushorn, and was released by AMG Publishers in November 2009.

About the Authors:

Jocelyn Green

Jocelyn Green is an award-winning freelance writer who pens articles for dozens of magazines, including Christianity Today, Today’s Christian, Today’s Pentecostal Evangel, Baptist Bulletin, EFCA Today, InSite and more. She also writes for nonprofits, universities and corporations such as Juicy Juice, Nestle, Publix and General Mills. Wife of a former Coast Guard officer, she authored Faith Deployed: Daily Encouragement for Military Wives(Moody Publishers 2008). She also edited and contributed toStories of Faith and Courage from World War 2 by Larkin Spivey, a 2009 Military Writers Society of America Silver Medal Winner. She’s a member of the Evangelical Press Association, the Christian Authors Network and the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association. She and her husband have two children, a dog and a cat, and reside in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Jane Hampton Cook

Cook is the author of Stories of Faith and Courage from the Revolutionary War (2007), the second in the Battlefields & Blessings series,  and The Faith of America’s First Ladies(2006). Not long after the explosion of the World Wide Web, Cook became a pioneer in political Internet development as webmaster to President George W. Bush. She served five years, including two years as White House deputy director of Internet news services (2001-03) and three years in the Texas governor’s office (1998-01). In the White House, she redesigned whitehouse.gov and created the first stand-alone White House website for children, whitehousekids.gov. Cook directed Bush’s first expansive gubernatorial website in 1998 and designed his first presidential campaign website in 1999. She also received a history fellowship from the White House Historical Association in 2003 to conduct research on the White House and its heroic occupants. She and her husband, Dr. John Kim Cook, a U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security official, live with their two young sons in Vienna, Virginia.

John Croushorn, M.D.

Dr. John Croushorn is a residency-trained, board certified emergency medicine physician and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Trinity Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. Croushorn’s experience with emergent care extends beyond the hospital in several ways. He served as command surgeon of Task Force 185, Army Combat Aviation, in Iraq in 2004. Dr. Croushorn was active in combat operations throughout the region in the second year of Operation Iraqi Freedom as well as functioning as crew and door gunner on Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters for just over 100 combat hours.

Dr. Croushorn currently works with several federal agency special operations teams supporting the Global War on Terrorism as well as special operations assets in the Department of Defense (DoD). He consults for the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the Center of Operational Medicine and National Tactical Officers Association. He has designed products for use in tactical medicine as well as enhanced capability body armor and is involved with research at the Clinical Investigations Lab at Ft. Gordon, Georgia. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and is husband to Julie and father to Caleb and Katie.

Coming up on the next You Served Spouse and Family Highlights radio program, I will be talking with co-authors Jocelyn Green, Jane Hampton Cook and John Croushorn. They will be discussing their book Stories of Faith and Courage from the War in Iraq/Afghanistan, part of the Battlefields & Blessings series.

Here is an excerpt from the book and a peek at some of what we will be discussing. Look for the announcement this week for the show’s airing date and time!

From Battlefields and Blessings website:

Stories of Faith and Courage from the War in Iraq/Afghanistan, part of the Battlefields & Blessings series, is a 365-day collection of inspiring stories of courage perseverance and faith-based on firsthand accounts of more than seventy who have served in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.Through multiple, never-before-told stories, readers will uncover the personal challenges of the battlefield. You’ll hear about the experiences and perspectives of deployed soldiers; chaplains; military wives, widows, parents and siblings; organizers of humanitarian efforts; veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder; missionaries to the Middle East and more.

The book was co-authored by Jocelyn Green, Jane Hampton Cook and John Croushorn, and was released by AMG Publishers in November 2009.

For more information, click on the links below:

Excerpts

Reviews

About the Authors

Purchase the book at Amazon.com.