Listen When: You Need a Seasoned Spouse, with Lizann

09/16/21 • 31 min

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Lizann shares with us her journey through military life from her spouse getting in before cell phones and text messages to 5 kids and 7 deployments. Lizann shares that she found joy and necessity in writing when many jobs weren't available to her due to locations of stations or childcare costs. Her passion for inspiring military spouses to shine their own light shines through in this episode.
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Lizann and I chat about:
- The hardships of finding a traditional job as a milspouse
- How writing helped Lizann through her own military journey
- How military life is lived in seasons
- Mindset shifts you can make to experience more opportunities throughout your challenges
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Good News for Military Spouses, with Andrea and Natalie

We hear a lot of stories of Fake News, conspiracies, and find out hours after resharing an article that it's been fact checked and ruled false information - so how on earth do you figure out what "good" news is? That's exactly what I asked Natalie and Andrea, the two military brats behind Spouse Angle.
Spouse Angle is the podcast platform that brings the unbiased news to military spouses all over the world. Created in 2020, this platform is gaining traction unlike any other military news platform! You can check them out here.
We talk about:
- Andrea's and Natalie's story of growing up as Military Brats
- Why people have lost faith in the media
- How to support "good" news platforms and some suggested platforms
- Does "fake news" even exist, and how to fact check what you're reading
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Moments with an M.E.O. - Listen When: You Need a Seasoned Spouse, with Lizann

Transcript

Lizann 0:00
I think when I first switched from stay at home mom to part time working mom, my kids definitely noticed they were young. They were in early grade school, but they noticed that I was spending more time on my phone or I was spending more time on the computer, one of my children is much more emotionally clingy and needy. And she would call me out on it. And as a mom, that's, you know, trying to do the best for your kids and trying to start a business, you definitely feel torn in