Latest Militarylife Podcast Episodes
112: Think Creatively About Your Life
Keep Your Courage - May 14, 2024 12:26 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsI bet I'm not the only one where my life doesn't necessarily look the way I thought it would or fit in a neat and tidy box. There's so much about military life that forces us into creativity- to look at something in a new way to see how it has actually been serving us or how we have been serving...
111: Look for God in the Small Moments
Keep Your Courage - April 30, 2024 06:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsThere's so many seasons of life, and especially in military life, when stressors aren't necessarily going to disappear. We can't exactly control any of that. But there are some things we can control, and today's episode might give you something you need to make it through your next stressful mom...
110: Marriage in the Hard Times
Keep Your Courage - April 16, 2024 06:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsIf proximity builds connection, what do we do when so much of our military marriage is spent not in proximity to each other? Is it still possible to to have a strong connection and marriage? I fully believe it does, and I want you to experience it, too. Find Sarah on Instagram! Sign up for S...
109: Find Your Real Friends
Keep Your Courage - April 02, 2024 06:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsIt's not always easy or simple to build community and I know how it feels if it's been lonely and hard. But I have found my save-my-life girls by showing up again and again with the determined belief that my girls are out there. Let's talk about making friends in the military life. Sign up for...
108: Find Your Vocation as a Military Spouse
Keep Your Courage - March 19, 2024 06:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsIn this hard military life, the most important way I have found to make it through is by finding connection with others. But it's also so, so important to remain connected with your own self, stay in tune with your desires and purpose and passion in life and make sure you're playing the note you...
107: Mothering in the Hard Times
Keep Your Courage - March 05, 2024 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsThe thing about being a mom is that we give our kids what they need- even if we might need the same exact thing ourselves. But sometimes, the reassurance that we need to make it through a hard time comes in the most unlikely of places. Listen in and I'll show you. Find Sarah on Instagram!
It's Not Goodbye - It's See You Later, Ep. 115
Milspouse Matters - February 22, 2024 10:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsTune into this special episode to hear what's going on with Jen, some reflections on the past five years and what's coming for the podcast, and how to stay connected. Mentioned in this episode: Get Jen's new book here! https://books2read.com/MilspouseMatters Get Jen's first book, You Are...
Chakra Clearing Meditation
The Lion's Garden - February 20, 2024 20:12 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsHey don't listen to this while driving! This chakra clearing meditation will help clear your energy and give you a renewed sense of clarity and confidence. Connect with us here. Visit out website here. Message Annie on Instagram or Facebook.
106: This is What Trust Feels Like
Keep Your Courage - February 20, 2024 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsIn this military life especially, we are faced with so many opportunities where we don't control our own future or don't know what's coming next. In other words, we need to trust that it's going to be okay a lot. On my better days, I am able to do this with an adventurous and open heart. On my n...
105: What Are Your Support Beams
Keep Your Courage - February 06, 2024 07:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsIf you’re feeling a little threadbare from being a military spouse, if you need encouragement from the real side of military life, or if you can feel yourself spinning in anxiety or uncertainty or chaos or just plain overwhelm, you’re not alone and you’re in the right place. Listen in for a litt...
Fearlessness Is A Myth
The Lion's Garden - January 30, 2024 21:36 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsIn Episode 90, Annie shares strategies for making moves alongside fear and calls BS on the Be Fearless movement. Click here to connect and learn more about The Lion's Garden Coaching and Consulting services and how we can help you make moves alongside fear.
104: How to be In It Together in Marriage
Keep Your Courage - January 23, 2024 07:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsI really think we’re given such an opportunity in this military life: We are asked to go through some of the very hardest things a marriage can go through, but because of that, it can build some of the very strongest bonds a marriage can have. Let's talk about it. Find Sarah on Instagram!
Learn How to PCS Proof Your Fitness - Ep. 114
Milspouse Matters - January 17, 2024 13:36 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsSome of the most listened-to episodes for this podcast are on the topics of self-care and fitness, and so I’m delighted to bring you today's guest Grace Barnick-Damazo. We're talking all about how to “PCS proof” your fitness routine, along with some practical tips you can start using today. Grac...
103: Live Well Anyway
Keep Your Courage - January 09, 2024 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsI think I've gone through the whole spectrum of New Year experiences- the hope and fresh start that a new year brings, all the way on down to complete cynicism when it feels like we have no control over our life anyway? How then, do we move forward when both are maybe a little bit true? I have s...
Feeling Your Feelings Without Alcohol
The Lion's Garden - January 08, 2024 22:16 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsAnnie shares her 3 year alcohol free journey and what it's been like to navigate life without booze. As always, please share this episode far and wide and leave a review. Email Annie at [email protected] or message her anywhere on her platform. Visit The Lion's Garden™ to learn about ...
Microshifts, Awareness and Going Nicheless
The Lion's Garden - January 08, 2024 20:39 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsIn Episode 88 Annie Peguero shares about making microshifts towards awareness to open up pathways towards your authenticity as opposed to self-abandonment. Annie also talks about "going nichless" and what that has done for her coaching business. Reach out to Annie at [email protected] ...
A Talk with the Authors of Unwavering: Taylor Kiland and Judy Gray- Ep. 113
Milspouse Matters - December 13, 2023 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsOn this episode, I'm honored to be speaking to Judy Gray and Taylor Kiland, the authors of the newly released book, Unwavering: The Wives Who Fought to Ensure No Man is Left Behind. About the book: In a time when women faced countless challenges and societal limitations, these military wives da...
Military Moves and Deployments During the Holidays - Ep. 112
Milspouse Matters - December 07, 2023 13:13 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsAre you dealing with a military move or deployment right smack dab in the middle of the “most wonderful time of the year”? Let's talk about ways to cope and giving yourself permission to do what works for you and your family. Mentioned in this episode: Jen's new book, Milspouse Matters: S...
102: Darkness and Light
Keep Your Courage - December 05, 2023 21:06 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsAs we walk toward Christmas, there's going to be a lot of ways we experience the mixture of darkness and light. Our work? Find the light. Find Sarah on Instagram!
101: Who Holds Your Stories?
Keep Your Courage - November 21, 2023 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsWe get to meet so many different incredible people through all of our military assignments. Have there been friendships in your life that have been a constant thread for you no matter the time or distance? We talk about why this is so important! Find Sarah on Instagram!
Coming Back from Rock Bottom with Charlynda Scales - Ep. 111
Milspouse Matters - November 09, 2023 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsI'm so happy to bring you my talk with Charlynda Scales, author of the brand new book, Rock Bottom Has a Trampoline, which has already ranked as a best new release in its category! She’s a veteran, now a reservist, a former military spouse, and an entrepreneur. Charlynda is not only impressi...
100: What I Wish I Had Known
Keep Your Courage - November 07, 2023 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsHappy 100 episodes! In this special episode, we talk about the question "If you could give your younger self who is just entering the military one piece of advice, what would that be?" So many of you sent in your own answers as well as hundreds of other spouses and so in this episode we talk abo...
PACT for Animals: Fostering Pets for Military and Veterans - Ep. 110
Milspouse Matters - November 01, 2023 09:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsIt's no secret that military families love their pets! But what do you do if you're facing a deployment and have no one to care for your pet? Or if you get an overseas assignment to a location your pet can't go? Enter PACT for Animals! PACT for Animals is dedicated to fostering pets for active ...
A Home for Surviving Spouses and Veterans: A Chat with Brooke McLean, CEO of the Air Force Enlisted Village - Ep. 109
Milspouse Matters - October 26, 2023 12:18 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsIn this episode of Milspouse Matters, Jen talks with Brooke McLean, retired CMSgt and President/CEO of the Air Force Enlisted Village (AFEV), a one-of-a-kind-community which has a mission of providing safe, secure homes for surviving spouses of military retirees and retired military couples. T...
99: What to Do When We Can't See What's Next
Keep Your Courage - October 24, 2023 06:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsThe military life causes us to reckon with how much we don't know about our future when we're not the ones deciding our future. There's so much uncertainty with our spouses' jobs, assignments, moves, a world in crisis. But are we the only ones who can't see what's next? Here's what we do about i...
98: Keep Connected in Marriage
Keep Your Courage - October 10, 2023 06:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsMilitary life asks so much of those who serve in it and marriages have to endure a lot of time apart. There's so many experiences we have without each other and it can be hard to bridge the gap. What if we could use the military life as a tool to push us closer together though rather than farthe...
After the Boxes Are Unpacked with Susan Miller- Ep. 108
Milspouse Matters - October 06, 2023 08:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsHave you ever felt lost after a military move? Are you trying to figure out how to get connected? Do you feel "stuck"? Susan Miller from Just Moved Ministry is here to talk about settling in, plugging in, and finding your new normal after a move...after the boxes are unpacked! As she says, "Do...
97: Find Your Balance
Keep Your Courage - October 03, 2023 06:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsIf you pay attention to it, I bet you'll notice a lot of us using language around sinking: On a really hard day of a deployment, a text comes in: I'm drowning / Chatting with a friend at a park and she confesses: January sunk me / Talking with girlfriends over a group chat: We're all just trying...
96: Meals and Prayers
Keep Your Courage - September 26, 2023 06:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsWhat if we could be the type of people who saw someone going through something hard- and then did something about it? People have done that for me, and so now I know how to do that for others. That's the thing about living a hard life like the military life- you know what it's like to hurt so yo...
Best of: Preparing for Deployment and Reintegration - Ep. 107
Milspouse Matters - September 22, 2023 23:36 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsOn this episode, I'm discussing the issues that spring up with deployment and reintegration with guest Terri Laurent, a seasoned military spouse who’s sharing a ton of wisdom. This episode is a "best of" from waaaay back on Episode 34. Have you dealt with the emotional build up leading up t...
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