BTM75 - Besa Pinchotti - The National Military Family Association
Behind The Mission
<p><strong>About Today’s Guest<br></strong><br></p>
<p>As Executive Director, Besa brings leadership at NMFA along with her personal experience as a military spouse to this incredible team. Besa is an award-winning journalist and marketer whose passion for our military began during her time as a reporter and television news anchor. From Jacksonville, North Carolina to Kosovo, her assignments opened her eyes to the post-9/11 military experience, and its cycles of deployment, redeployment, and constant transition. She also covered highly-contentious Congressional hearings and the impact military life has on families, including the effects of water contamination aboard military bases. During Besa’s time covering Camp Lejeune, she met a guy named Dave, whom she decided to marry despite warnings to “never marry a Marine.” Now 15+ years later, they live on Capitol Hill with their 3 kids.</p>
<p><strong>Links Mentioned In This Episode<br></strong><br></p>
<p><a href="https://www.militaryfamily.org/" rel="nofollow">National Military Family Association Web Site<br></a><br></p>
<p><a href="https://www.militaryfamily.org/the-military-teen-experience/" rel="nofollow">Military Teen Experience Report<br></a><br></p>
<p><a href="https://www.militaryfamily.org/help-is-on-the-way-congress-passes-the-basic-needs-allowance/" rel="nofollow">Basic Needs Allowance Legislation</a></p>
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<p><strong>PsychArmor Resource of the Week<br></strong><br></p>
<p>The PsychArmor Resource of the Week is the PsychArmor course <strong>Veteran 201: Military Families. </strong>The life of a military family can be chaotic and stressful. This course provides some insight into the unique challenges faced by military families, and you can find a link to the resource here: <a href="https://learn.psycharmor.org/courses/veteran-201-military-families" rel="nofollow">https://learn.psycharmor.org/courses/veteran-201-military-families</a></p>
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<p>This episode is sponsored by PsychArmor, the premier education and learning ecosystem specializing in military culture content. PsychArmor offers an online e-learning laboratory with custom training options for organizations.</p>
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<p><strong>Theme Music<br></strong><br></p>
<p>Our theme music Don’t Kill the Messenger was written and performed by Navy Veteran Jerry Maniscalco, in cooperation with <a href="https://operationencore.org/" rel="nofollow">Operation Encore</a>, a non profit committed to supporting singer/songwriter and musicians across the military and Veteran communities.</p>
<p><em>Producer and Host Duane France is a retired Army Noncommissioned Officer, combat veteran, and clinical mental health counselor for service members, veterans, and their families. You can find more about the work that he is doing at </em><a href="http://www.veteranmentalhealth.com/" rel="nofollow"><em>www.veteranmentalhealth.com</em></a><em> <br></em><br></p>