All Secure with Tom and Jen Satterly

Listen Up! Picture this: our podcast audience is a classroom. Imagine Tom asking, "How many of you know someone within SOF or a veteran of SOF that has been diagnosed with cancer?" We can guarantee every hand would shoot up. This is why you need to listen in to this episode with Dennis Downey.
Dennis Downey is a retired Army officer who spent 26 of 29 years on active duty in Special Forces. He served in a variety of assignments with the 10th and 1st Special Forces Groups and had extensive deployments to both Iraq and the Philippines.
Since retirement in 2010, he has led the First In Asia Association which is dedicated to honoring the fallen from the 1st SFG (A). In 2013, after the death of several friends in the 10th SFG (A), he has been heavily involved with assisting Special Forces Soldiers, their family members, and other Special Operations Forces personnel (CA, PSYOP, Ranger, 160th SOAR, NSW, AFSOC) afflicted with cancers.
He has written to the VA in support of numerous SF Soldiers who are battling for recognition of their cancer as service-connected. He has written both the Commanders of USSOCOM and USASOC to provide information on cancer trends and to help raise awareness of cancer within the force and in the veteran and retiree SF populations.
SF and SOF members and their family members fighting cancer or serving as caregivers to someone with cancer can join the SOF Cancer Fighters Facebook Page for support and information.
Let's dive right into this episode!
Honorable Mentions:

TRICARE covers the following cancer screenings as part of the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Benefit:

• Breast cancer exams
• Cervical cancer exams
• Colorectal cancer exams
• Lung cancer screening
• Oral cavity and pharyngeal cancer exams
• Prostate cancer exams
• Skin cancer exams
• Testicular cancer exams
• Thyroid cancer exams

Below are Dennis's best recommendations for websites for cancer information, awareness, and testing programs:

American Cancer Society

Special Operations Forces support organizations:

Green Beret Foundation

Navy SEAL Foundation - A Nation of Support

HunterSeven Foundation

Diagnostic Testing:

Galleri® for HCPs

Top five cancer treatment hospitals in the US:

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This episode is a little different in that we have not one, but two guests. Today we welcome Marcus and Amber Capone. Over the course of 13 years, Marcus served through multiple combat deployments as a U.S. Navy SEAL until he medically retired in 2013. He and his wife, Amber, thought that life would return to "normal," when in truth, their struggle had just begun. Marcus was experiencing an ever-growing echelon of challenges, including depression, isolation, cognitive impairment, excessive alcohol use, headaches, insomnia, intense mood swings, and impulsivity. Marcus was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress Injury (PTSI). Shocked by this discovery, Amber felt there was more to the story. After learning about the effects of blast waves, concussive, and sub-concussive brain injuries, a broader picture was painted. Marcus’ military career as an explosives expert, combined with his prior years of contact sports, had left him with the seemingly invisible wounds of traumatic brain injury (TBI), a condition that has significant overlap with PTSI, and is often not properly diagnosed. Subsequently, they cofounded Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions (VETS) with a mission to end veteran suicide, providing resources, research, and advocacy for U.S. Military Veterans seeking treatment with psychedelic-assisted therapy.
To support their organization and to find out more about VETS, please click here.

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All Secure fam... meet the brilliant and enlightened Virginia Gallagher. She's been adopted into the SOF community for years. Not only because of her heart and relatable story, but our own active duty community has been sending folks to get yoga teacher training done by her, at Hot Asana, for years. This is so that they can teach it at groups and on deployments.
Virginia knows that we are all on our own personal journeys, and she is ready to share a little bit about her yoga journey with us!
Virginia attended her first hot yoga class on August 12, 2007, and fell in love with the mental and physical connection. She began practicing 3 – 6 times a week, shed 40 pounds in 4 months, and was able to discontinue the use of all of her prescription medications. She began to feel healthier and stronger than ever. Convinced of the benefits of yoga, she continued her daily practice and began to deepen her dedication to and knowledge of yoga.
In this episode, we deep dive into the ideology of, "what we heal in ourself we heal in the world." We had a wonderful time speaking with Virginia, and it's no wonder that a significant number of her students are from our community. She gets IT. She gets us. You have to listen in to this one to understand!

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Bryce Mahoney is a US Army Special Operations Veteran living in North Carolina. He served in 3rd Ranger Battalion, Joint Security Area Korea, and E. co 51st Long Range Surveillance.
After leaving the military he struggled to find his purpose again. Through trial and error he came to the realization that to provide peace to others you first must be in a place of peace yourself, and that started with relocating to the mountains where he could fulfill his purpose.
He is the owner of Yadkin Valley Adventure, an all-inclusive adventure outfitter whose mission is to remove as many barriers as possible for people to experience the outdoors. He serves as an NC contact for Climbers For Christ and is the Northern Piedmont Board Representative for Carolina Climbers Coalition.
He is an AMGA Single Pitch Instructor, Wilderness First Responder, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Purple Belt. He is married to Charissa and has three children, Parker, Kellen, and Jax. In his free time, he is either climbing rocks with friends, building and repairing trails, or spending time with his family.
Straight from the hot tub in his back yard, here is Bryce. Let’s dive right in!!
Honorable Mentions:
Yadkin Valley Adventure

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Eric Frohardt is a Navy SEAL combat veteran with nearly 12 years of service to our great nation. While on active duty, he served on various SEAL Teams including the highly revered Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DevGru). Over the course of his career, he deployed numerous times to hot spots around the world including Iraq and Afghanistan.

As a SEAL, Eric was trained in the use of various firearms, explosives, radio and computer communication devices, combat diving, high-altitude parachuting, battlefield medicine, wilderness survival, climbing, mountaineering, hand-to-hand combat, and tactical driving. He was also a sniper! While on active duty he also climbed El Capitan and (2) of the (7) Summits: Denali and Aconcagua.

Eric was medically retired at the beginning of 2010 as a SEAL Operator, Chief after being injured in combat. After leaving the Navy, Eric went on to start an indoor gun range and gun store in Lakewood, CO. He stepped down from the daily operations in order to become the CEO of StrongFirst, a fitness company with nearly 5,000 instructors in over 40-countries. After that, Eric served as the Director of Education and Training for the National Rifle Association where he led and served the over 110,000 NRA Certified Firearms Trainers nationwide. Now, Eric works as the COO of Defy, a performance beverage company with nationwide distribution in over 11,000 stores.

Most importantly, Eric and his wife have been happily married for 20 years and they have 4 kids ranging from 10 to 17 years old. He volunteers for the Navy SEAL Foundation and serves as a committee chair for the Denver-based, “Evening of Tribute.” He is also active in his church and local community. Most of all, he enjoys being a husband and father!
Honorable mentions:
Connect with Eric on Linkedin.
Be part of the Navy SEAL Foundation's “Evening of Tribute” in Denver
Drink Defy

StrongFirst: School of Strength
Blucore Shooting Center

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