Latest Veterans benefits Podcast Episodes
STMSS Extra - Jamie Mustard - The Way Forward
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - December 31, 2020 08:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Jamie Mustard is the world’s leading authority on perception in the physical world. Steeped in the worlds of technology, product engagement, and the creative arts, Jamie consults with leading companies, CEOs, creative artists, etc., getting their messages, p...
STMSS50 - Series Reflections with Duane and Shauna
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - December 29, 2020 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Show: Duane and Shauna reflect on the themes that emerged from the collective series, which include: Coordination and Collaboration, featuring MSG Tom Cruz Public Health Approach, featuring Dr. Matt Miller Risk Factors/Warning Signs featuring USMC Veteran David Bachm...
STMSS49 - Chris Jachimiec - Listener Response to STMSS Series
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - December 22, 2020 08:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Chris Jachimiec is a recently retired member of the United States Air Force. Over the course of his 20 year career he served in multiple military leadership roles in Nevada, Germany and Korea and is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. He was named the Air Comba...
STMSS48 - Dr. Bridget Matarazzo - Risk Identification and Clinical Consultation for Suicide Prevention
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - December 15, 2020 08:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Dr. Bridget Matarazzo is a Clinical Research Psychologist and the Director of Clinical Services at VA’s Rocky Mountain MIRECC for Suicide Prevention and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She co...
STMSS47 - Michael Sugrue - Similarities Between Veteran and First Responder Suicide
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - December 08, 2020 08:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Michael Sugrue began his law enforcement career in the United States Air Force as a Security Forces Officer in 1998. As a Security Forces Officer, Michael specialized in Law Enforcement, Global Force Protection, Anti-Terrorism, Nuclear Security, Foreign Air Fie...
STMSS46 - Dr Harold Kudler - Historical Perspective on Suicide Prevention
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - December 01, 2020 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Dr. Kudler received his M.D. from Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, trained in Psychiatry at Yale and is Adjunct Associate Professor at Duke. He has received teaching awards from the Duke Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, the American Psychiatr...
STMSS45 - Danica Thomas - Suicide Loss Survivor and Advocate
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - November 24, 2020 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Danica Thomas is the widow of US Army SSG Allen Thomas. In March of 2010, her husband was severely injured in Afghanistan and brought to Walter Reed. Danica was pregnant with their first daughter. She became a caregiver overnight and quickly learned they had a ve...
STMSS44 - Dr. Amy Taft - Suicide Prevention in Children of Military Families
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - November 17, 2020 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Amy Taft is the wife of retired Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Ward Taft. Together they have 2 girls and live in Jacksonville, NC. Amy is the founder of Third Star Foundation, an organization that provides ongoing support to children who live in a house with a ...
STMSS43 - Cpt Michael Kanaan - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Suicide Prevention
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - November 10, 2020 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guests: Michael Kanaan was the first chairperson of artificial intelligence for the U.S. Air Force, Headquarters Pentagon. In that role, he authored and guided the research, development, and implementation strategies for AI technology and machine learning activities across its g...
STMSS42 - COL(R) Rob Swanson - Life Worth Living After a Non-fatal Suicide Attempt
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - November 03, 2020 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Colonel Robert “Rob” Swanson retired from active duty after serving nearly 35 years. Since retirement, he completed an Executive MBA from the Shidler School of Business and has been actively involved as keynote speaker, senior mentor and advisor for the award-winning F...
STMSS41 - Kim Donohue - Suicide Prevention at the State and Local Level
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - October 27, 2020 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guests: Kim Donohue has worked for the Nevada Department fo Veteran Services as the Suicide and Homelessness Prevention Program Manager and Organizational Integrator since January 2018. Kim has been actively participating in the SAMHSA Mayor's Challenge Teams, which is a suicide...
STMSS40 - David Bachmann - Peer Support in Suicide Prevention
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - October 20, 2020 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guests: David Bachmann is a Marine Corps Infantry combat veteran. He served with E Co, 2nd Battalion 7th Marines from 2001-2005. After being discharged from the Marine Corps he began to ride and build motorcycles. He currently resides in Texas where he raises cattle and Quarte...
STMSS39 - Dr Jeff Smith and Dr Michael Doidge - Historical Aspects of Military and Veteran Suicide
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - October 13, 2020 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guests: Dr. Jeffrey Allen Smith, PhD: Dr. Smith is an Associate Professor of American History and Chair of the History Department at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He has published historical analyses of military mental health, psychology, and suicide in academic jou...
STMSS38 - Congressman Scott Perry - Legislative and Policy Approach to Suicide Prevention
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - October 06, 2020 07:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Scott Perry was elected as the U.S. Representative of the 4th Congressional District (York, Adams and Cumberland Counties) in 2013. He earned re-election in 2018, and due to congressional redistricting, now serves the 10th Congressional District (Dauphin, Cumberland and Y...
STMSS37 - Dr Pete Gutierrez - Research on Community Based Suicide Prevention
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - September 29, 2020 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Peter M. Gutierrez, Ph.D. is a licensed Clinical Psychologist at the VA VISN 19 Mental Illness Research Education Clinical Center (MIRECC). Dr. Gutierrez's clinical training was in child and adolescent psychology, with an emphasis on serious psychopathology and suicide. H...
STMSS36 - Sgt Maj Bryan Battaglia - Suicide Prevention at the Senior Enlisted Leader Level
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - September 22, 2020 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Bryan Battaglia is the former Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and was the senior non-commissioned officer in the U.S. Armed Forces. In this role, he served as the principal military advisor to the...
STMSS35 - Mike Richardson and Dr Roger Brooks - Wounded Warrior Project
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - September 15, 2020 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guests: Michael Richardson: As the independence services and mental health vice president for the Wounded Warrior Project®(WWP), Michael Richardson is responsible for the Independence Program (IP) and Long-Term Support Trust (LTST), as well as the Combat Stress Recovery Pr...
STMSS34 - Joe Bartozzi - National Shooting Sports Foundation
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - September 08, 2020 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Joseph Bartozzi is the President and CEO of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the firearm and ammunition industry, as well as the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute, the standard setting organization for the firearm an...
STMSS33 - Dr. Matt Mishkind - Reducing Barriers to Care through Telehealth
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - September 01, 2020 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Matt Mishkind, PhD, has focused his career on two focal points: military health care and organizational development. He began his military health career with the Deployment Health Clinical Center (DHCC) at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. He also served...
STMSS32 - Michelle Zook - Suicide in Military and Veteran Spouses
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - August 25, 2020 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Michelle Villarreal Zook is currently an economics impact researcher evaluating programs within the federal government. She previously served as a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force, flying as an air battle manager with the 960th Air Command and C...
STMSS31 - Akshay Nanavati - Fearvana
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - August 18, 2020 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Akshay Nanavati is a Marine veteran, speaker, adventurer and entrepreneur. His new book "Fearvana" is an actionable guide on how to leverage fear to accomplish anything. The Dalai Lama said “Fearvana inspires us to look beyond our own agonizing experiences and find the po...
STMSS30 - Rick Trimp - Gatekeeper Suicide Intervention Training
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - August 11, 2020 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Rick Trimp, MBA, is an experienced health and education executive. He leads LivingWorks with a vision of community-based health impact made possible through layered, integrated training programs combined with transformative technology. Prior to joining LivingWorks, Rick ...
STMSS29 - Rear Adm(R) Tony Kurta - Policy Approach to Suicide Prevention
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - August 04, 2020 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Mr. Tony Kurta performed the duties of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. Mr. Tony Kurta assumed the duties of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Personnel Policy on September 8, 2014. A member of the Senior Executive Servic...
STMSS28 - Tom Cruz - Attempt Survivor and Suicide Prevention Advocate
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - July 28, 2020 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Tom Cruz is an Active Duty Master Sergeant in the United States Army with over 25 years of service. He has deployed in support of Operation Joint Guardian, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Jordan. He has lived experience with suicide prevention and awaren...
STMSS27 - Mat Bergendahl - Stack Up Overwatch Program
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - July 21, 2020 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Mathew “Frag-o” Bergendahl, MS, NCC, LPC graduated from South Dakota State University with a Masters Degree in Counseling in the Agency Setting back in 2015. Prior, he earned his Bachelors of Science in Psychology from Blackhills State University. Mathew is a former Air F...
STMSS26 - Dr. Barbara Van Dahlen - PREVENTS Update
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - July 14, 2020 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAbout Today’s Guest: Barbara Van Dahlen, Ph.D., named to TIME magazine’s 2012 list of the 100 most influential people in the world, is the president of Give an Hour. A licensed clinical psychologist who has been practicing in the Washington, D.C., area for over 20 years, she received h...
STMSS25 - Sue Freeth - Combat Stress UK
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - June 30, 2020 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSue joined Combat Stress in 2016 as the first female Chief Executive in the charity’s 100-year history. Since her arrival, the charity has increased its profile and contributes actively to veterans’ mental health and particularly military trauma healthcare. Sue has set out a new strategic direc...
Plan & Protect #11 - "The Medicaid Episode" (part 3)
Plan & Protect - June 25, 2020 11:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsEpisode 10: The Medicaid Episode (Part 3) In this final installment of a three part Medicaid series, Justin and Drew dive into how his firm can use Medicaid rules to protect one spouse when the other needs expensive long-term care. They talk about income protection that may be available to...
STMSS24 - CAPT Matt Kleiman - Suicide Prevention in the National Guard
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - June 23, 2020 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAs the National Guard Bureau J-1 Warrior Resilience & Fitness Division Chief, Captain Matthew Kleiman, MSW, LCSW, BCD, synchronizes Air and Army National Guard well-being, resilience, and suicide prevention efforts across the 54 states, territories, and DC. He also serves as the Directo...
STMSS23 - Dr. Tina Atherall - PsychArmor
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution - June 16, 2020 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsTina Atherall, DSW, LMSW, brings to PsychArmor her vast experience and leadership in the military non-profit community and academia. In 2006, she co-founded Hope For The Warriors, an organization dedicated to serving combat wounded servicemembers and their families. Scaling a grass-roots effort...
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