Eye on Veterans

Mar 08 2025 321 ep. 34 mins 282
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Each week, Navy veteran and journalist Phil Briggs looks at life from the military veteran's perspective. We highlight veterans finding success as business owners and industry leaders. We also examine topics like treating PTSD, TBIs with innovative alternative therapies; hyperbaric oxygen, cannabis, psychedelics, etc. Plus, we hear dramatic stories from combat veteran authors, discover job openings, and meet celebrity actors, athletes, and musicians.

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Maryland: Crab cakes, Football and Veteran Success! Army vet, Sec. Tony Woods shares what’s available right now

Mar 08 2025 47 mins  
As we experience an uncertain time of change and massive government layoffs, the state of Maryland is expanding its support for veterans. We talked with Tony Woods, Army veteran and Secretary of Maryland Veterans, Military and Families, about the specific ways they’re supporting vets. We begin with his days leading troops in Iraq. Woods also shares a surprising personal revelatio

Vet gets DOGE’d! Fired via email, VA employee and Army Veteran speaks out

Feb 28 2025 24 mins  
Luke Graziani, is a U.S. Army Veteran with 4 deployments to Iraq and AFG. After checking his email on February 13, he cringed after reading he was being fired from his public affairs officer role at The Bronx VA Hospital. He shares how despite having stellar performance reviews from his supervisor, the letter from DOGE cited “job performance” as one of the reasons for his termi

Purple Heart Foundation: Emergency financial assistance for veterans

Feb 28 2025 31 mins  
The Purple Heart Foundation supports military veterans and their families in many ways. We talked with CEO, Stephen Ruckman, and US Army Reserve MSG Henika "Nika" Carroll about her 23 years of service and how their short-term financial assistance grants helped her overcome crippling debt. Carroll also shares personal advice for making VA disability claims, and Stephen Ruckman highl

VA layoffs go viral on X, and Grunt Style Fdtn on source of suicide prevention problem

Feb 21 2025 46 mins  
Tim Jensen, a Marine Corps combat veteran, is on a mission to stop veteran suicide. The powerful veteran activist and head of Grunt Style Foundation (advocacy arm of America’s patriotic T-Shirt brand Grunt Style) talked with us about the current state of suicide prevention. Jensen shared a surprising connection between suicide and psychotropic drugs, and others for anxiety, depre

Return or Quit: Millennial Vet on tough choice many vets, federal workers face

Feb 20 2025 23 mins  
After the recent Executive Order for Federal employees to return to the office, Jenna Carlton, DoD employee and founder of The Millennial Veterans Facebook group is facing a tough choice- stay in her current job, or quit. She described how her DoD job was fully remote from first the day she was hired. She shared how they live over an hour away from base, but found a way to effectiv

Vintage Valentines: Historic military love letters that rival Shakespeare

Feb 13 2025 40 mins  
Let’s talk about love! Andrew Carroll, Director of The Center for American Letters, returns with some of the most romantic words ever written, by service members fighting wars around the world. This collection of over 200K letters spans the Revolutionary War to World Wars all the way up to modern emails from our current generation. We begin with the beautiful words for a loving w

“What vets should know about managing their money” w/ Jill Schlesinger, CBS Finance Analyst

Feb 07 2025 42 mins  
In this interesting conversation presented by Navy Federal Credit Union, Jill Schlesinger opens with 3 vital steps every veteran needs to take, if they want to have enough money when they’re older. Schlesinger guides us through a variety of financial planning tips and offers useful advice for the basic investor. We also discuss the difference between 401Ks and other types of inve

IVMF offers veterans FREE “Google Cybersecurity Certificate” program

Jan 31 2025 22 mins  
Looking for a career in cybersecurity? This is your chance! We talked about a new Google Cybersecurity Certificate training program with Army veteran, (Ret.) Lt. Colonel Bryan Radliff, from Syracuse University’s D'Aniello Institute for Veterans Military and Families (IVMF). Radliff shares benefits like; no cost to veterans, 150+ hours of the latest, industry-standard training, an

Denied full combat back pay, a Marine’s case is headed to Supreme Court

Jan 31 2025 26 mins  
Today we’re hearing from attorney Bart Stichman, Co-founder of National Veterans Legal Services Program, regarding the case “Soto vs United States” and how a Marine Corps combat veteran (and 9,000 other vets) had their benefit claims denied, and disputed by our government. The petition was filed on behalf of USMC vet, Mr. Simon Soto who was initially approved for Combat Rela

“Warrior Code” Part 2: VetClaims.ai wins the fight for VA benefits, How Congress may kill it

Jan 24 2025 41 mins  
This is the end of a 2-part series and a powerful interview with Army combat vet, turned software developer Lukas Simianer, Founder, VetCLaims.ai. After teaching himself computer coding, he went from flat broke to creating software that is revolutionizing the VA claims process. We begin with his rise to tech entrepreneur as the founder of Clusiv- an e-learning platform built to ass