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Tips for Career Relaunch: Insights from a Military Spouse

Article originally published on iRelaunch.com. If you’re getting ready to relaunch your career after an absence or pivot into a new career field, your best source for tips might be a military spouse. As a community, military spouses often have resumes resembling Swiss cheese – big holes over here, small holes over there. Our work history can look inconsistent at best and disloyal at worst. In honor of Military Spouse Appreciation Day, May 5th, I’ve

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S1, EP12: Unpacking Emotion: Retirement, Resilience and Rebuilding

Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Twitter Season 1, Episode 12 Unpacking Emotion: Retirement, Resilience and Rebuilding with Genevieve Kruger Join us your way!  You can tune in to the With Pride & Grit podcast on your preferred podcast platform or watch the videocast on Youtube. https://youtu.be/_5BILKBdrKA Meet our Guest:  Meet Genevieve, a newly retired military spouse of 17 years and mommy to two teen girls. Her husband retired last year with 22 1/2 years of Army service and

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Finding the right kind of support is often the key to thriving in military life. In our community stories, we're tackling what's easy and what's hard about finding your tribe.

Mom& Son

In military life, solo-parenting is just a known reality. And often military life complicates our role as parents as we relocate. In these parenting stories, we're offering tips and tricks for how to navigate mil life as a rockstar mom or dad.

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Deployments challenge us each and every time. No two deployments are the same and often we thrive best when reminded that our emotions, our challenges, are shared. This is what we do with out deployment stories.

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A strong military marriage is such an inspiring thing to observe. It isn't easy. But it is possible. In our marriage stories we tackle tough topics and offer insightful perspectives on what matters and even what doesn't.

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Talking about what makes military life hard is a cornerstone of our self-care stories. Not because we want to dwell in the hardships, but because we know that giving hardship a voice is also how we give away its power over us. And how we thrive.

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Resume gaps. Abandoned careers. Degrees unfinished or unused. These are all norms we grapple with with often. In these employment stories, we're talking about the emotions behind employment as a mil spouse.

Pride & Grit is a Trademark of Hinshaw Consulting Group, Inc 2018© and Pride & Grit Consulting, LLC. 2022© All rights reserved.

Pride & Grit is a Trademark of Hinshaw Consulting Group, Inc 2018© and Pride & Grit Consulting, LLC. 2022© All rights reserved.