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Achieve Your 2025 Career Goals: How DYPSI Guides Veterans to Success
Are you ready to turn 2025 into your breakthrough year? If you’re transitioning from the military, this blog is your ultimate guide to tackling life’s biggest shift. Discover the keys to unlocking discipline, setting actionable goals, and harnessing the DYPSI program—an innovative, no-cost coaching platform designed to transform military skills into thriving civilian careers. Packed with practical strategies like micro-goals, macro-goals, and inspiring success stories, this blog will show you how to commit to change, stay on course, and redefine your post-service identity. Make 2025 the year you don’t just dream but achieve. Ready to start? Dive in now!
Building Meaningful Relationships After Military Service
Five dollars. That’s how I started building my relationships once I left the service, finished college, and started pursuing corporate America. Just five dollars at a time.
The TRUTH Around Transition: Building Resilience and Mental Wellness
In 2023, 48% of active-duty families reported spousal employment challenges as a major family stressor, and in 2021, 18% reported it as a potential reason for separating from the military. Are you prepared?
Unlock Your Civilian Career: Networking Strategies for Veterans
Transitioning from Active Duty to the Civilian Sector?
You’re not alone. Transitioning to civilian life after serving in the military for so many years is a journey that includes both opportunities and challenges. To many veterans in Washington State, one of the most overwhelming barriers is building a robust professional network. While the military community provides a close support system, a new set of connections often unlocks civilian career success.
Building Your New Mission After Military Service: Why Goal Setting Is Critical
The DYPSI program helps Washington veterans transition from military to civilian life by setting goals and providing personalized support.
SPECIAL SERIES: Transitioning from Joint Base Lewis-McChord: Your Guide to Civilian Success
Transitioning from military service at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) to civilian life presents opportunities and challenges. Programs like DYPSI can help veterans navigate this transition successfully.
Honoring Our Veterans: Comcast’s Commitment to the Military Community
Through initiatives like the Xfinity military customer benefits program and the production of “The Aviators,” Comcast has demonstrated its deep commitment to honoring and supporting the military community. By fostering connections, preserving stories, and exploring innovative technological solutions, Comcast is playing a vital role in recognizing the sacrifices and contributions of our nation’s veterans. Be sure to check out both the benefits and employment opportunities here: VETERAN/MILITARY BENEFITS: https://military.xfinity.com/
May Spotlight: Honoring Military Families & Unveiling the Ultimate VA Benefits Guide by Rachel Lustbader!
This May, join us in celebrating Military Family Month and paying tribute to the valiant souls who have fallen in service. Amidst our remembrance, we’re thrilled to offer an essential read for every veteran: an in-depth guide to navigating the often bewildering world of Veterans’ benefits.
Bridging the Digital Divide for Veterans: A Crucial Mission for 2024 and Beyond
Whether it be as a mentor or a funder, bridging the digital divide for veterans in 2024 and beyond is a multifaceted mission with wide-ranging implications. The impact on veterans’ lives is immediate and sets the stage for their long-term success and well-being. Through enduring partnerships and a commitment to digital equity, we can ensure that veterans, regardless of age, are equipped with the tools and knowledge they need to thrive in this fast-changing, complex digital era.
Operation Military Family and Comcast Help Close the Digital Divide for Veterans
Operation Military Family and Comcast today announced they are continuing their partnership to bridge the digital divide among veterans, including working with and supporting several other veterans organizations in Washington state. Comcast will donate $20,000 and 100 laptops to Operation Military Family to help address the needs of veterans and their families, including physical and mental health, employment, housing, social support and more.
VUCA to VUCA: How the Hero’s Journey can shape better communications
Communicators are storytellers, so what better framework to follow than Joseph Campbell’s classic “Hero’s Journey” to help employees feel like they’re growing and equipped to face even the most dragon-like challenges? That’s how Shellie Willis, senior director of...
Looking to Transition into Grad School? Check out the costs
The average cost of grad school comes out to roughly $38,200 per year. Discover the average cost by program, as well as average graduate debt amounts and earning potential.
May is Military Appreciation Month
MAY is Military Appreciation Month. Collaboration is key to greater market impact and influence. As leaders and organizations, we need to look for ways to partner that will lead to the greatest impact.
The Secret to An Effective Military-to-Civilian Resume
If you are looking to stay within your military field of experience or are looking to transition into a new career, tap the experts and know the secrets an effective resume that will grab the attention of the HR department.
BEST MILITARY COLLEGES OF 2022
Wanna know the best colleges to attend if you are a veteran pursuing higher education? This article reveals some of the best in 2022-2023.
Veteran Rights and Discrimination: Are You A Victim Of Veteran Discrimination?
Learn more about veteran rights and discrimination, and to see if you or a family member may have been illegally discriminated against for a civilian job. You sacrificed for your country and now it’s time for your country’s legal system to work to protect your rights. https://florinroebig.com/veteran-rights-discrimination/
Top Gun: Maverick – 3 Key Elements to Your Success
Top Gun: Maverick is already proving to be a blockbuster. What is truly impressive is that the film embodies exactly what is essential to YOUR success. Watch this 2 minute video. A shout-out to @USAA and to @WeAreTheMighty
ARE WE IN END TIMES? Listen in with CH. David Giammona and Troy Anderson
Are you ready for end-times? And…and we even close to end-times? Find out in this latest edition of The Military Wire with retired colonel and Chaplain David Giammona and best-selling author Troy Anderson.
OPERATION MILITARY FAMILY AND COMCAST LAUNCH PILOT PROGRAM TO HELP SOLVE DIGITAL INEQUITY AMONG VETERANS
Comcast Washington announced on NOV 11, 2021 partnerships with Operation Military Family and two other military community organizations in the state to help bridge the digital inequity divide among Veterans. The company donated $25,000.00, 100 laptops, and a Digital...
How Do We Move Beyond Liberals are Crazy and Conservatives are Nazis?
How do we have conversations with people who don’t hold our same values – how do we move beyond “liberals are crazy” and “conservatives are Nazis”? HOW DO WE WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE OUR ENEMIES?
FACING AND OVERCOMING DARKNESS with Int’l Best-Sellers Andrews and Wilson
A very recent study suggested that more than 72% of Americans face some sort of depression or anxiety due to COVID, economic upheaval, or accelerating uncertainty.
These times often lead to, and reveal, darkness – but what if it isn’t just mental?
What if there is another darkness – a spiritual darkness – that is feeding off all the uncertainty and anxiety. What if that is the cause?
STRIKING GOLD: WHAT IT TAKES TO SUCCEED with Special OPs Fred Lewis
What if your military service – your months and years of training – is actually the secret to unlocking true treasure in life?
My guest on this episode of The Military Wire is Fred Lewis. Fred, at first glance, appears to be a rugged mountain man who spends his days living off the land. But appearances can be deceiving.
The Secret to Veteran Success in Corporate America
What if what you learned in the service is the secret to your success in corporate America?
Bruce Evans, Army Veteran and VP of Franchise Development for the nationally renowned food chains Capriotti’s and Wing Zone, shares how his military experience – and what specifically from his military service – opened the doors to his climb in corporate America.
The Secret to Getting the Benefits You Earned
It is no secret that eight out of 10 veterans are not receiving the benefits they deserve by law and less than 25 percent (or 4.9 million) of veterans alive today are receiving disability benefits by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Air Force officer and author Brian Reese reveals this step-by-step method that has helped thousands of Veterans get the benefits they’ve earned on this latest interview of The Military Wire.
Broken and Beautiful: How One Woman Left Behind A life of Abuse, Sex, and Dysfunction
Knowing who we are and what our purpose is seems like a hidden treasure, discovered by only a few.
Our guest on this episode of The Military Wire reveals how to find this “hidden treasure” so you can move from broken to beautiful despite the circumstances of life.
How Small Victories Changed This Military Pilot’s Life After Losing It All
What will you do when life changes? Glenn Ignazio, retired Air Force Special Operations commander, and Defense Intelligence Technology innovator, grew up dreaming of becoming a pilot– a U.S. Air Force pilot, specifically. His dream became a reality when he enlisted at age 18, only for that same dream to be ripped out from under him 22 years later due to a horrific accident while training.
Facing a Never-Ending War: SONS of VALOR
Fact or Fiction? Brilliant at spotting patterns in the data that others miss, ex-CIA analyst Whitney Watts sees evidence of a troubling link between illicit Chinese arms sales and an attack on a US military convoy in Afghanistan. If she’s right, it would portend not only massive casualties, but a devastating threat to global stability.
Andrews and Wilson share in the interview how they keep their stories relevant and moving. Both having served in the U.S. Navy on assignments often hidden from the public, they share how fact and fiction both fall in the grey zone but assure the listener that no individuals or missions are ever revealed or compromised in their writing.
Former Navy SEAL Shares the Secret to Achieving Your Goal in a VUCA World
Former Navy SEAL Garrick Fernbaugh is no stranger to chaotic moments in life. So, if you are looking for practical ways to navigate life’s uncertainties, be sure to listen in. He also shares how High Value Target is helping improve real life engagement – that hopefully leads to a more peaceful world.
The Fight Worth Winning: A Delta Force Operator’s Battle to Save His Marriage
On this episode of The Military Wire, Jen and Tom share how they were on the brink of marital disaster because of Tom’s PTS, saved it, and now today both help thousands of military couples find that spark and fan the flame. Their books are life savers (you’ll have to listen to get the titles).
Success is NOT a Fluke – Six Easy Steps to Achieving Any Goal
In this latest video interview with best-selling author and Israeli Navy Commander Alon Ulman – who is better known as the “Tony Robbins” of Israel – reveals the steps one must adopt to experience breakthrough. Good news: you can do this!