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What can be do to stop the spread of divisiveness? How can we understand one another and seek to empathize with people who don’t look like us, act like us, or even think like us?

I believe this understanding is vital. One amazing veteran has founded an organization that’s on the front lines of healing our fractured communities through coffee, conversation and advocacy.

Join us on the S.O.S. podcast as we kick off season 3 with what this show has always represented - our service to others by talking about our most pressing issues!

Jake Harriman graduated with distinction from the United States Naval Academy and served seven and a half years in the U.S. Marine Corps as a Platoon Commander in both the Infantry and Force Recon.

During his military service, Jake led four operational deployments, including two combat tours in Iraq. Following his service, Jake enrolled at the Stanford Graduate School of Business to gain the business acumen he would need to follow this new direction. While at Stanford, Jake founded Nuru International to eradicate extreme poverty in the world’s most unstable, vulnerable regions to help end violent extremism.

Due to the desperate condition of the U.S. political system, Jake has now turned his attention to helping protect the American Democratic experiment, which he fears is on the brink of failure—a failure that would have terrible global consequences. Jake is the Founder of More Perfect Union, a veteran-led movement to heal the divide in the nation by creating meaningful connections through civics, service, and leadership.

Jake has received several honors including the Unsung Hero of Compassion presented by The Dalai Lama (2014), White House Champion of Change (2014), Presidential Leadership Scholar (2015), and 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs presented by Goldman Sachs (2015). He is also a Council Member of NationSwell (2016), an Unusual VC Academy Partner (2018), and a Truman National Security Fellow (2018). Jake has been interviewed on ABC, BBC World Service, CNN, Fox Business and MSNBC’s Morning Joe and received coverage in the Christian Science Monitor, Devex, Forbes, Huffington Post, The New York Times, Stanford Magazine, Fox News, and others.

More Perfect Union - https://www.mpu.us/

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There is nobody better out there who has the fortitude to push through change like Chris McGhee, Esq., LL.M.

His own experiences as an aircraft maintainer seeing an acute mental health crisis has pushed the United States Department of Defense to study suicide rates by job code, to which they did a “nice try” with an overdue study which contained partial information, but where clearly much more work must be done.

Tomorrow evening, Chris and I will chat live about where this important work stands and what needs to be done next.

Chris McGhee is an Air Force veteran, founder of Falcon Forward Law Group, and host of the "20 Years Done" podcast, where he raises awareness of organizational and cultural issues in the military.

Chris played a pivotal role in crafting legislation mandating military suicide data after repeated FOIA denials by the DoD.

He also led a Department of the Air Force working group tasked with developing a post-vention model to identify organizational factors influencing suicidality.

His advocacy recently led to Senator Angus King pressing the Secretary of Defense for accountability.

Falcon Forward Law Group - https://www.fafo-law.com/

More on Chris's fight - https://www.pressherald.com/2024/09/15/a-maine-man-helped-get-the-defense-department-to-release-detailed-suicide-data-hes-not-satisfied/

Visit my website: https://thehello.llc/THERESACARPENTER
Read my writings on my blog: https://www.theresatapestries.com/
Listen to other episodes on my podcast: https://storiesofservice.buzzsprout.com
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With a passion for giving back to the veteran community, today I am so honored to bring Melissa Washington to the S.O.S. podcast.

Melissa is an award-winning advocate, speaker, author, entrepreneur, CEO, publisher, Radio Show Host, and proud Navy veteran.

Woven throughout all of her diverse pursuits is a mission of service—and a passion to empower her fellow women veterans.

One of her most notable accomplishments founding the Women’s Veteran Alliance. This global organization seeks to empower and positively impact the lives of women veterans. The nonprofit wing of WVA, Women Veterans Giving gives women veterans opportunities to gain valuable career experience and successfully integrate back into civilian life. WVG also helps fund women veteran-owned businesses, which other organizations often overlook. To date, they have awarded over $20k to women in veteran-owned businesses. In 2016, created and produced the first "Women Veterans Unconference."

Join us as we discuss how she went from helping people with their LinkedIn profiles from her kitchen table to now running global business, writing several books, creating a magazine, and appearing in numerous international media outlets - all dedicated to empowering by helping them grow their companies.

More on Melissa - https://www.melissawashington.com/about

Visit my website: https://thehello.llc/THERESACARPENTER
Read my writings on my blog: https://www.theresatapestries.com/
Listen to other episodes on my podcast: https://storiesofservice.buzzsprout.com
Watch episodes of my podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheresaCarpenter76