How to Love Your Life Without Losing Yourself as a Military Spouse (or Burning Yourself Out)
What if loving your life didn’t require you to shrink, perform, or disappear? In this episode, we’re talking about the tension that many military spouses feel, but don’t always have language for: feeling like you have to choose between trying to do it all (and burning yourself out) or losing parts of yourself in military […]
Buying a House During a PCS? What You Need to Know
PCS moves are stressful. Buying or selling a home on a tight timeline can make it even harder. In this episode, Michelle McGann (founder + CEO of Tier 1 PCS) shares how she built a military spouse–owned relocation referral network that connects service members and families with vetted realtors, lenders, and home inspectors, so moves […]
What I’ve Learned In Five Years of Podcasting
Five years ago, I hit record on the first episode of More Than a Milspouse. What started as a conversation about military spouse identity, career, and life beyond the uniform has grown into a space where military spouses can talk honestly about purpose, transitions, and building a life that feels like their own. In this special anniversary episode […]
How to Find Purpose as a Military Spouse Today
Welcome back to the Milspouse Summer Reset Series — where we’re exploring how to live with more meaning and less overwhelm using the Clarity Compass as our guide. Over the past nine episodes, we’ve talked about caring for yourself and building strong relationships. But there’s one final — and foundational — focus area we’re digging into this […]
How to Turn Your Pain into Purpose as a Military Spouse
Trigger Warning: This episode contains mentions of sexual abuse, rape, miscarriage, addiction, and suicide. In this powerful and deeply moving episode, I sit down with Nicole B. Gebhardt—author, speaker, transformational coach, and military spouse—as she shares her personal journey through trauma, loss, addiction, and healing. Nicole opens up about how she turned unimaginable pain into […]
How to Become a Military Spouse Who Won’t Quit
Buckle up for this one! This conversation is one that you will want to return to more than once. I sit down with Verenice Castillo, founder and CEO of the Military Spouse Advocacy Network, to talk about the 10-year anniversary of MSAN and what it took to build an organization that has positively impacted the […]
Making the Most of Your Military Spouse Life
We’re almost at the end of 2024. It’s a great time for reflection and for looking ahead to the new year. But how you enter the new year matters. We can enter a new year thinking about all the things that will prevent us from going after our goals and dreams, or we can […]
Balancing Entrepreneurship, Parenthood, and Life as a Military Spouse
You know it’s possible to pursue your dreams as a military spouse. But what does that look like practically? What does that look like as a mom of littles? Or as a CEO? That’s what this week’s guest is here to chat with us about. Meet Emilie Schario, a military spouse, mom of two, […]
How To Increase Your Results, Lower Your Stress, Build Confidence and Feel Better
How would your life change if each day you performed up to your full potential? That’s the question posed in a book I recently read, and the topic of today’s conversation. Today’s episode is about helping you increase your results, lower your stress, become more confident, and live the life you are truly capable […]
Helping Military Spouses and Veterans Build a Life and Business They Love
There are many different ways to serve. For some of us, it’s signing up for active duty. For others of us, it’s being married to someone who is serving. And for others, like today’s guest, it’s serving those who serve and their families. All of it is service. Today’s conversation is about entrepreneurship, it’s […]