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008: Military Spouse Career Building Resources
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The Department of Defense knows how valuable military spouses are. So, when it comes to supporting your career goals within your mobile military life, the DoD has your back. In this episode of the DoD BeThere Podcast, we interview C. Eddy Mentzer, program manager for the Department of Defense’s Spouse Education and Career Opportunities program. He …
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007: Building Connections in Your Military Community — Part 2
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In part two of this two-part series of the DoD BeThere Podcast, we continue our conversation on building meaningful connections in your military community. This time, we meet Brittany, an Army Foreign Area Officer’s wife of nine years and a mom of two young boys (with one more on the way). Brittany reflects on her years as a military spouse, how sh…
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006: Building Connections in Your Military Community — Part 1
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Making meaningful connections with people can be challenging for anyone. Add in the unique qualities of a military life, like PCSing every 18 months to three years, deployments and duty, and we understand the energy this takes, and the resilience needed to thrive. In part one of this two-part series of the DoD BeThere Podcast, we meet Kelli, a wife…
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005: Back To College – Military Spouse Style
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In this episode of the DoD BeThere Podcast, we interview Marine Corps spouse Kristi, a mom of two young kids, who decided to go back to school. Kristi shares with us how she overcame the time and money hurdles to get back to school as well as her experiences as an adult student.View transcript: http://www.betherepeersupport.org/wp-content/uploads/p…
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004: She Agreed to Do What? Surviving a “Digital Detox” – With Peer Specialist Shay
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In this episode of the DoD BeThere Podcast, we follow up with Shay, a retired Air Force Intelligence Analyst and current BeThere Call Center Peer Specialist, who took our challenge to give up her smartphone, her computer, AND her TV for five days. The results of her “digital detox” show just how much we’ve come to rely on our devices and how someti…
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003: Are You Addicted? Your Questions Answered – With Dr. Blake Chaffee
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In this episode of the DoD BeThere Podcast, we interview former Navy psychologist, Dr. Chaffee about what it means to be “addicted.” Addictions come in many forms such as smart phone use, shopping, eating, drinking, gambling and exercising, to name a few. Join us as we discuss addictions, getting help and how to support friends, family members and …
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002: Treating Post-Traumatic Stress With Virtual Reality
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In this episode, we discuss exposure therapy with Dr. Skip Rizzo. Dr. Rizzo is the Director of the Medical Virtual Reality research group at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies — an Army University Affiliated Research Center supported by the Army Research Lab. Through this virtual reality therapy, Service membe…
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001: Coping With Post-Traumatic Stress – With Donny Moncrief
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In the pilot episode of the DoD BeThere Podcast, we introduce the podcast, its intent and general information about the DoD Peer Support Call and Outreach Center. We interview call center manager and Army Veteran, Donny Moncrief, about his experience with post-traumatic stress, or PTS. He discusses how he recognized his PTS symptoms, what it took t…
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