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Gerhard Grieb was born into a refugee family from Eastern Europe, emigrating into Germany in 1946, the year he was born, and into the US in 1956. After completing public education in the Philadelphia suburbs, he attended college for 2 years when he was drafted into the Army. He served 1 year in Vietnam and then returned to finish his BA. He went on to get a Master's at U of Md. and dropped out of the PhD program in 1977 to begin working for the Postal Service. He served as VP and editor of the Letter Carrier's local until then switched to become an Electronic Technician. He was married in 1970, divorced in 1980 from his first wife, then remarried in 1982 to the present. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009 and retired at that time. He lived in Takoma Park from 1973 until 1987 and has lived in Sandy Spring since.
Check out Gerhard's extensive website detailing many documents, letters home, stories, photos, videos, and other essays related to the war.
https://coredawg.tripod.com/
A snippet from Thoughts on Viet Nam:
"We were forced out of the area under pressure and set up a perimeter around the area and spent the night there as artillery pounded the area through- out the night. As a fighterbomber flew over the area at dawn, a sole machine-gunner opened up on it. The rest of the unit, to our surprise, had managed to slip away during the night, under cover of the nipa palms which hung over the river to their back. When we swept through the abandoned camp we found that the dead we had seen there the previous day had been buried by their comrades, despite the massive artillery fire of the night. I kept the flag and turned in the rest of the pack to S-2 when we returned to camp."
How Sesame Street is helping Ukrainian children traumatized by war

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Kate Alcamo is a licensed clinical couple and family therapist and founder of Family Therapy Center of Bethesda who specializes in working with adolescents, young adults and adults with anxiety, depression, relationship issues, low self-worth, and challenges related to divorce. Kate also provides both parent and divorce coaching. Kate recently co-founded The Confidence Coaches with Allison Cohn of Cohn Counseling which provides unique group therapy experiences that foster growth and empowerment for people of all ages, genders, and abilities through participation in structured, out-of-office activities. Kate is a certified cognitive behavioral therapist for children and adolescents and is trained in EMDR. Kate is also a trained collaborative divorce professional. In addition to clinical work, Kate is active in the professional community. She is a Clinical & Founding Member of Metro MFT, and the current secretary on Montgomery County’s Collaborative Divorce Resolution Professionals (CDRP) Board. She is also an Approved Supervisor.
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Dr. Jonathan Lebolt is a licensed clinical social worker, psychoanalyst and certified group psychotherapist. He has over 33 years’ experience providing individual, couples, family and group psychotherapy and psychoanalysis to adults, as well as professional consultation and training. Jonathan’s private practice is located in New Jersey, but as a former resident of Maryland, he is licensed in the DMV and a total of 12 jurisdictions, in which he works with patients and clinicians via Zoom. Jonathan is on the faculty of the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey, and he is a former instructor at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in DC, as well as former adjunct faculty at the graduate schools of social work at VCU, NYU, Columbia, Adelphi and Fordham. His doctoral dissertation was the first study of gay affirmative psychotherapy, and his latest article, “Evolution of a Gay Male/Non-Binary Psychoanalyst,” has been accepted for publication by Psychoanalytic Inquiry journal.
Learn more about Dr. Jonathan Lebolt:

• https://doctor-jon.com/
• Psychology Today

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My next guest is a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst out of Baltimore, MD. I'm speaking with none other than Mr. Gregory Gann of Gann Partnership, LLC. Greg is a member in good standing with the Maryland Bar; While he's not currently practicing law, his interest in personal financial planning as well as divorce financial planning sets him up to be a highly sought after CDFA. Greg is also trained in Collaborative Law. He began Gann Partnership back in 1989, and has been involved in an array of financial planning, estate planning, and domestic matters.
We get into:

• What exactly is a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst?
• His origin story and starting up Gann Partnership, LLC
• Advise on what to consider when navigating a divorce
• The financial mistakes that couples makes
• The roles that CDFAs, Attorneys, and Psychotherapists play in the uncoupling process
• and much more!

Learn more about the important work that Greg and his team are doing at:
http://www.gannpartnership.com/
Greg brings a unique combination of knowledge and experience in helping clients resolve their divorces successfully and expeditiously. Although no longer practicing, he is a member of the Bar. Since starting his firm in 1999, he has been an instrumental resource for clients with
respect to estate and tax planning, financial planning, and investment management. He is also a certified divorce financial analyst as well as certified in both family and divorce mediation. The unique combination of all of these diverse and complementary skill sets position him as a
leader within the burgeoning and highly successful divorce financial analysis specialty. While
Greg recognizes the importance of legal counsel and promotes lawyers, he understands that
money and finances are at the heart of divorce, and strongly believes in a collaborative
approach, knowing just how integral his role as a CDFA is in terms of case resolution.
Securities and advisory services offered through LPL Financial, a Registered Investment Advisor, Member FINRA/SIPC. Gann Partnership and LPL Financial do not provide legal advice or services. Please consult your legal advisor regarding your specific situation.

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Bianca Stevens is a Practice Manager, Private Practice Consultant and the Founder of Nurture and Balance along with their partner Nicholas Trietsch. Nurture and Balance is a mental health private practice and medical billing facility located in Martinsburg, West Virginia. As a business owner, Bianca is passionate about mental health; and has worked and volunteered in it since they were 18 with organizations like NAMI. Bianca started her private practice after the loss of her brother who served in the Army and died by suicide in 2015. Bianca enjoys working and helping practices streamline processes, onboard with electronic health records, hire and credential, do the medical billing, and link their practices and ethics together. They have completed schooling for both medical billing and coding, and certified clinical medical assistant; along with phlebotomy and ekg. Before Bianca worked in mental health; they did an internship in endocrinology and came to understand the importance of how physical health impacts mental health. Her hopes for working in mental health is to destigmatize it and increase access to individuals of all walks of life and experiences.

Learn more about Bianca and the work she does at
https://www.nurturebalancewv.com/

https://www.nurturebalance.coach/

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https://www.facebook.com/bianca.stevens
Consider making a donation to a charity that means a lot to Bianca and myself, NAMI:
National Alliance on Mental Illness
https://www.nami.org/Home

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