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 pen to work through the grief of losing friends in combat and a soldier under his command to suicide. Those poems became a book, a memoir to the soldier that now reaches veterans at places like Wind River Ranch in Colorado.
In this conversation, Jon and Jake talk about:
Why veterans isolate after service, and why leaving the military is a change of culture, not just a change of jobs
Surviving loss and carrying survivor guilt
Why we train as a team for everything except the fight in our own heads
Reframing mental health as endurance training instead of weakness
Finding a mission after the uniform comes off
Why you get to define your own success
How faith was broken down and rebuilt through the hardest seasons of his life
If you've ever bottled it up, this one is for you. Different stories, same tribe.
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