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Military Life

Welcome to the Military Life Podcast- a podcast telling the stories of everyday Australian Military partners. Listen in to hear from others who are living this military life (Defence Life), juggling all the things on the daily, just like you and I. Let"s connect and support each other by telling our stories, celebrating our strength, focusing on self-care & lifting each other up.

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48. 30 years of Military life & Leaving your kids behind

Military Life ·

2020/05/07

This week on the Podcast I talk to Lisa about what it's like to be a spouse with 30 years of Military life under your belt. Lisa talks about how she is navigating having to post away from her adult children, the transition back to spending time with her Husband and being a couple again and how she found it going back to work without a defined career path and now that she is older. Ready to join the MWL community? Click through the link to get connected xx www.militarywifelife.com.au

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47.MWDU, Chronic illness & Making plans

Military Life ·

2020/04/30

This week on the Podcast I talk to spouse Courtney about first postings, moving and managing chronic illness. We also talk about how she navigates knowing her Military member will be at sea a lot and her decision to move to be closer to family and friend supports while her Husband is deployed. Ready to join the MWL community? Click through the link to get connected xx www.militarywifelife.com.au

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46.Getting past a bad deployment experience

Military Life ·

2020/04/23

This week on the Podcast I talk to spouse Suze about how she moved past a bad first deployment and decided to learn the skills and coping mechanism needed to not just survive but thrive future separations and deployments. Suze talks about how some bad advice from others to not tell her partner that she wasn't OK, affected her mental health. We also talk about finding employment, accessing Open Arms and everything inbetween. Ready to join the MWL community? Click through the link to get

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PART 3-Current Info & Support for ADF families during...

Military Life ·

2020/04/16

This week's podcast episode is the third in a series dedicated to bringing you current information relevant to you, as a spouse and as part of an ADF family, during COVID19. This week I talk to Military spouse and Nutritionist Katherine Ramsden about all things nutrition, food and our health. How can we best navigate this time while making sure we're still looking after ourselves despite limited resources and food stocks. To find out more info about Katherine follow this

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Part 2-Current Info & Support for ADF families during...

Military Life ·

2020/04/09

This week's podcast episode is the second in a series dedicated to bringing you current information relevant to you, as a spouse and as part of an ADF family, during COVID19. This week I talk to Vonnie Balmer, Coordinator of the Gallipoli Barracks Community Centre about what they're doing now that spouses can't actually physically make use of their community centre. We talk about how they, like all centres across the country, have had to adapt the support and services they offer and how some

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PART 1-Current Info & Support for ADF families during...

Military Life ·

2020/04/02

This weeks podcast episode is the first in a series dedicated to bringing you current information relevant to you, as a spouse and as part of an ADF family, during COVID19. Support, info and services are changing and adapting to try and meet our needs which is why I thought it was important to bring you as much updated and useful information as I could at this time. This week I talk to National Convenor Maree Sirois, from Defence Families Australia, about how DFA are advocating for families

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45.An expert talks us through thriving as a Spouse

Military Life ·

2020/03/26

This week on the Podcast I talk to Clinical Psychologist Dr Jodie Lowinger about how we can thrive as Military spouses. Whether we are just entering the role of a spouse or have been doing it for years and years, Jodie talks about how being kind to ourselves, understanding that our best is good enough and focusing on the certainty within the uncertainty can help us cope with the ups and downs of spouse life. We also talk about getting on the same page as the military member, helping them understand

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44.Gus the service dog saved my Husband and our Family

Military Life ·

2020/03/20

This week on the Podcast I talk to Army spouse Bec about a service dog called Gus and how he saved her husband, her marriage and her family. Gus was matched to her Husband through the Defence Community Dog Program, a program that is funded by the Defence Bank Foundation. The DCD program provides highly trained service dogs to serving and ex-serving ADF members who need support to deal with injuries and illnesses including Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Every dog in the program is rescued from a

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43.First posting, making friends & a plan to...

Military Life ·

2020/03/12

This week on the Podcast I talk to spouse Hannah about her first posting, the isolation you can feel even though you might be living in a City, accessing couples counselling through Open Arms and the plan for her Husband to possibly transition out of Defence. Ready to join the MWL community? Click through the link to get connected xx www.militarywifelife.com.au

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42.A Navy partner with a passion for supporting spouses.

Military Life ·

2020/03/05

This week on the Podcast I talk to Claire, a Navy partner who is using her personal and business experience to make a difference for all of us. Claire has a passion for supporting woman achieve their goals through coworking spaces (her coworking program is currently underway in Canberra). Think a space and place you can go to and work alongside other's with onsite childcare. For many of us spouses who have recently posted, work or study from home and are without childcare or even just those of us

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41.Army Spouse life & a cancer diagnosis while on...

Military Life ·

2020/02/27

This week on the Podcast I talk to Army spouse Bec about what it's like to post in and out of the same few locations while juggling mum and work life, separation and deployments. Bec also talks about the day she was told her Husband, who was just a few weeks into a deployment overseas, had been diagnosed with Cancer and the years that followed that diagnosis. But the one constant Bec talks about is that the Military community went above and beyond rallying around her and her family and that she will

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40.Defence Community Organisation-Who they are and...

Military Life ·

2020/02/20

This week on the Podcast I talk to Shayne Vining, Deputy Director of National Operations at the Defence Community Organisation to get the low down on what DCO do and when and why we should access information and support from them. We touch on the broad range of programs and services focusing on the 24 hour Defence Family Hotline, the SMART programs, PEAP (Partner employment assistance program) and the Welcome Days, Coffee meetups and Walk and Talk mornings. To find out more information about DCO and

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39.Letting go of resentment and a bad first...

Military Life ·

2020/02/13

This week on the Podcast I talk to spouse Anastasia about how she brushed off a bad first deployment. Anastasia talks about how she started to resent her military person and felt she didn't cope with the 6 month separation very well. She became depressed and really felt like she was in a holding pattern while her partner was away. But Anastasia was determined to go into a second 6 month deployment prepared and with a positive mindset and she says it made all the difference. Ready to join the

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38. Spouse life & moving your business across the...

Military Life ·

2020/02/05

This week on the Podcast I talk to Jess about the pros and cons of working for yourself when you're a Military spouse. Setting up your own business is often an appealing option to a lot of us due to the nature of the Defence lifestyle and needing to be able to take your work with you from state to state. Jess lets us in on just what goes into moving your family and your business across country. To learn more about Jess's business look her up on Instagram @jaylee_photography or visit her

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37.Connecting with what WE really want out of life!

Military Life ·

2020/01/29

This week on the Podcast I talk to Kat John, speaker, coach and someone who's mission is to help us master our minds so our souls can come back to life! This episode is about us focusing on sparking that connection with what WE really want out of life. We talk about how we can follow through with the vision for our life despite the brick walls we come up against and the lack of control we might feel we have because of the Military lifestyle. We also talk about what it means to shift the plan to

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36.Submariner Spouse life & what happens when your...

Military Life ·

2020/01/22

This week on the Podcast I talk to Shari about what it's like to be the spouse of a Submariner. We talk no communication for months on end, the tight knit community that Shari calls the Navy within the Navy and how that community and Defence rallied around their family when their 16 year old son was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Ready to join the MWL community? Click through the link to get connected xx www.militarywifelife.com.au

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35. A young Military spouse trying to find where she...

Military Life ·

2020/01/15

This week on the Podcast I talk to Madeline about juggling being an Army spouse alongside being a young Uni student who lives at home with her parents. Madeline and her boyfriend live in the same town and have been together for over 4 years. They have been through separations and a deployment but she says she still feels like she hasn't found her spouse tribe yet and doesn't really fit into a box when it comes to support. Madeline also talks about the worry she feels about finishing her double

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34. Processing the devastating bush fires and how to...

Military Life ·

2020/01/08

The Military Wife Life Podcast returns for 2020 with Clinical Psychologist Dr Jodie Lowinger who is talking us through coping with traumatic events and natural disasters, like the Australian bush fires. We talk about how significant unfolding events like these can have an impact on our mental health and well being, even if we haven't been directly affected but have just watched on, or our military member has been recalled and deployed to those affected areas or maybe we have a family member who is a

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33. When living apart from your Military person works...

Military Life ·

2019/12/18

This week on the Podcast I talk to Navy spouse Sal about how living apart from her Husband (MWDU) for, so far, 8 years and two kids has become the norm for their family and actually really suits them. Sal talks about how staying in location was important for her in order to pursue her own career goals, stay close to family support and is all about their families long term goals. It hasn't all been smooth sailing but Sal and her Husband are committed to making it work for as long as it works and

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32. Posting away from a seriously ill parent & the...

Military Life ·

2019/12/11

This week on the Podcast I talk to Army spouse Steph about making the hard and emotional decision to move away from her seriously sick Mum in New South Wales and join her Fiance on his first posting all the way over in the Northern Territory. Steph talks about finding her spouse tribe in her new location and the support they have shown her despite not knowing each other very long. Steph also talks about an issue that isn't often highlighted and that is the struggle to get back to visit family,

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