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Oct. 13, 2026

Why rest can be your biggest success

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Oct. 13, 2026

Episode #18: Juan Perez: Why Veterans Create Their “Second War at Home”

Why Veterans Create Their “Second War at Home” | Juan Perez | The Bunkhouse #18 (Above the fold: first two lines) A Marine Scout Sniper turned Chicago cop explains why veterans chase chaos after service, and what finally helped him stop. Juan Perez shares his story with honesty, including 15…

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Oct. 12, 2026

Coming home: the silence was deafening

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Oct. 12, 2026

The Bunkhouse Live | Pippa Bagley: You’re Not Broken, You’re Exhausted

Tired isn’t the same as broken. But plenty of veterans never learn the difference, because admitting they’re tired feels like admitting something worse. On this episode of The Bunkhouse Live, Jon sits down with Philippa “Pippa” Bagley: British Army Intelligence Corps veteran, Afghanistan deployment, program manager, and clinical hypnotherapist specializing…

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Oct. 6, 2026

Jon Cole joins The ToosDay Crüe from MisFitNation

The hardest part of leaving the Marines wasn’t finding a job. It was finding a purpose that felt as meaningful as serving. This Tuesday, October 6 at 7 PM CT, I’m joining Stephen LaMonica and Jake Holland LIVE on The ToosDay Crüe to talk about life after the uniform, veteran…

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Oct. 5, 2026

Simple challenge: check on one person this week

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Oct. 5, 2026

The Bunkhouse Podcast Live | Grief, Faith, and Finding Your Mission After Loss with Jake Kelly

Tonight on The Bunkhouse Podcast Live, Jon Cole sits down with active-duty Army Major Jake Kelly, author of The Spurs of Service, for an honest conversation about loss, faith, and what it takes to keep going. Jake is a 15-year Army armor and cavalry officer who first picked up a…

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Sept. 30, 2026

Tip of The Spear (T.O.T.S) Live | September 2026

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Sept. 30, 2026

Healing Journey: Sharing Your Story to Light the Way

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Sept. 30, 2026

Origin of 'Challenge Accepted' — a lifelong mentality

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Sept. 30, 2026

Origin Story: How Misfit Nation Was Born in Kandahar

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Sept. 29, 2026

Believe in yourself — stack victories daily

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Sept. 28, 2026

The Bunkhouse Podcast Live | Challenge Accepted: Rich LaMonica on Service, Transition & Purpose

What happens when a group of "misfit toys" on a 2010 deployment to Kandahar becomes the name of an award-winning veteran podcast? On this live episode of The Bunkhouse Podcast, I sit down with Rich LaMonica: 22-year U.S. Army veteran, author, speaker, mentor, and founder and host of The MisFitNation.…

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Sept. 14, 2026

Don't Suffer in Silence — How to Process Fear Before Transitioning

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Sept. 14, 2026

The Bunkhouse Podcast Live | The Business She Built From the Collapse w/ Amber Houghton

Most businesses start with a plan. Elite Performance Strategies started with a collapse. Chief Master Sergeant (Ret.) Amber Houghton gave the U.S. Air Force 28 years. Then she retired, and everything else went with it. A 20-year marriage ended. Her relationships with her children fractured. The identity she had spent…

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Aug. 31, 2026

Top leadership mistakes for first-time managers (two key fixes)

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Aug. 24, 2026

The Bunkhouse Live | Train As You Fight: JJ Hardy on Turning PTSD Into Post-Traumatic Growth

Join us live as we sit down with JJ Hardy, an 18-year Army veteran and combat veteran with 35 months of deployed service, for a powerful conversation about resilience, healing, and what it truly means to grow through hardship. After a rough and uncertain transition out of the military, JJ…

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Aug. 17, 2026

Don't Let Veteran Stories Die: The Power of Recording History

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Aug. 17, 2026

The Bunkhouse Live | Because Trying Beats Quitting: Bill Lowe on Semper Try and Brotherhood

Some conversations feel less like an interview and more like two guys who've walked the same road comparing notes. That's this one. Jon sits down with Bill Lowe — Marine Corps veteran, host of the Semper Try podcast ("Because Trying Beats Quitting"), and one of his co-founders in the new…

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Aug. 14, 2026

Episode #17: Train As You Fight: JJ Hardy on Turning PTSD Into Post-Traumatic Growth

JJ Hardy gave the Army 18 years of his life, including 35 months in combat. He came home with a 100% disability rating, a PTSD diagnosis, and a transition he describes as "very, very messy." No clear mission. No sense of identity. Just the quiet, disorienting weight of trying to…

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Aug. 11, 2026

Welcome to our live show!

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Aug. 10, 2026

What 'building your tribe' really means

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Aug. 7, 2026

The Bunkhouse Live | Ira Hearen on Bravo Mission Radio, Finding Your Tribe & Serving After Service

Here is the full episode description for Option 4, written for PodBean, Apple Podcasts, Pandora, and YouTube, with no em dashes: We Are Each Other's Best Therapy: Ira Hearen on Bravo Mission Radio, Finding Your New Tribe, and What It Means to Serve After Service Ira Hearen spent 20 years…

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Aug. 3, 2026

My Recovery Tools: Prayer, Writing, Therapy

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