Most Military Couples Fall Apart. Here's Why They Didn't.

You’ve Seen Her on Stranger Things. Here’s What Nobody Knew About This Navy Veteran.

She shot an entire season of Stranger Things with cancer. Nobody on set knew. Jennifer Marshall is a Navy veteran, actress, firefighter EMT, and cancer survivor who has spent her entire life showing up when every reasonable person would have stayed home. She joined the Navy at 17 out of a small mountain town in Colorado, her words: “poverty and bad decisions.” She deployed on the USS Theodore Roosevelt in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. She got out, used the GI Bill, graduated Magna Cum Laude, became a licensed private investigator, moved to Los Angeles with no connections, and built a 50+ credit career in film and television including a recurring role on Netflix's Stranger Things, NCIS, Reacher, The Terminal List, and hosting Mysteries Decoded on the CW. Then in 2020 she recommissioned into the California State Guard. Then she was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma. She resigned her commission, spent 14 months in treatment, and went straight back to work, including shooting an entire season of one of the most-watched shows on the planet while her hair was falling out and her body was breaking down. She told no one. Until the last day. This is the conversation Hollywood didn't let her have. No PR. No filter. No version of the story that's been approved by anyone. We talk about what it actually costs to build a career in an industry that will tell you to your face that you need a nose job, a different body, and a different personality, and why she left anyway. We talk about what it felt like to shoot through cancer, what happened when she finally told the truth, and what the silence that followed actually meant. We talk about why she walked away from red carpets to ride an ambulance for $16 an hour, and why she's never been happier. We talk about sexual assault, healing, and the unexpected place she found both. And we talk about what veterans carry out of the military that nobody in the civilian world knows how to hold. Jennifer Marshall doesn't do the polished version. She does the real one. This is it. If anything in this episode brought something up for you: Veterans Crisis Line: Dial 988, then press 1 | Text 838255 RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673 | rainn.org Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741 About Vegas Veteran Voices: Vegas Veteran Voices is a veteran-led 501(c)(3) nonprofit media company based in Las Vegas. We tell veteran stories, all branches, all ranks, no filter, through cinematic long-form conversations that the veteran community deserves and the world needs to hear. ️ Subscribe so you don't miss what's coming in Season 2. vegasveteranvoices.com #JenniferMarshall [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/jennifermarshall] #StrangerThings [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/strangerthings] #NavyVeteran [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/navyveteran] #VegasVeteranVoices [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/vegasveteranvoices] #CancerSurvivor [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/cancersurvivor] #VeteranStories [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/veteranstories] #MilitaryVeteran [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/militaryveteran] #NetflixStrangerThings [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/netflixstrangerthings] #MaxsMom [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/maxsmom] #VeteranPodcast [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/veteranpodcast] #HollywoodVeteran [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/hollywoodveteran] #FirefighterEMT [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/firefighteremt] #MelanomaAwareness [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/melanomaawareness] #VeteranWomen [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/veteranwomen] #WomenVeterans [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/womenveterans] #MilitaryWomen [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/militarywomen] #VeteranCommunity [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/veterancommunity] #PodcastForVeterans [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/podcastforveterans] #TrueStory [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/truestory] #UnfilteredConversations [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/unfilteredconversations]

Behind the Beat - 2K Kenny Made Love Songs Underway

2K Kenny didn't go viral in a studio. He's Petty and Second Class. He went viral on a Navy ship, after writing a love song during sweepers, recording the melody on Snapchat before he forgot it, and sneaking into the barbershop to lay it down because it was the only quiet room on the boat. The next day his LPO walked in singing it. That's when he knew. In this episode, Kenny breaks down what it actually looks like to build a music career while active duty, hiding it from his command, performing at a ship talent show in Rota Spain, getting a show booked in Bahrain in 10 minutes flat through Navy networking, and why being a Retail Specialist (the most hated rate in the fleet) gave him more time to grind than any other sailor on the ship. He's still in. Just made E5. Headed to Hawaii. And he's not stopping. If you're in the military and think you have to choose between service and your dream, this one's for you. Find 2K Kenny: @2kkenny on Instagram | Spotify | Apple Music ️ Real Conversations drops every week. Vegas Veteran Voices | Veteran-Led. Veteran-Built. #VegasVeteranVoices #NavyVeteran #MilitaryMusic #ActiveDuty #VeteranPodcast #2KKenny #NavyLife #MilitaryArtist #RealConversations #FloatingWithEmotions

Two Brothers, One Came Home. Now He Fights For Others Still In The Dark.

Two brothers. Same darkness. Only one walked away. Iraq combat veteran Raivadus Gill came home from war running at 110mph while the world had slowed to 15. He thought he was good. Then one afternoon, alone in a house, a heaviness hit him that he still can't fully explain, and he walked to his brother's room and picked up a gun. A flyer on a table is the only reason he's sitting in this chair. A year later, that same weapon took his brothers life. Raivadus has carried that question ever since, what made him pull it when I didn't? That question became two organizations. Operation Battle Cry, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit connecting veterans to the benefits, housing, and mental health resources they've earned. And Trigger Happiness, a movement redefining mental health as mental medicine. Something you practice daily. Something you keep close so when the tunnel comes, the lights are already flickering. STRUGGLING RIGHT NOW? Veterans Crisis Line: Dial 988, Press 1 Text: 838255 Chat: veteranscrisisline.net This episode is for anyone who's felt that heaviness and couldn't name it. Anyone who's lost someone and is still asking why. And anyone watching at 2am who needs to hear that the flicker in the dark is enough. CONNECT WITH RAIVADUS GILL Operation Battle Cry: https://obattlecry.org Trigger Happiness: @gotriggerhappiness OBC: @operationbattlecry

Addiction and Rebuilding From Rock Bottom

Army veteran Steve Ulman shares one of the most raw and powerful veteran interviews we have filmed on Vegas Veteran Voices. In this episode, Steve opens up about his suicide attempt, addiction, recovery, ayahuasca, acting, trauma, off grid living, entrepreneurship, and how he rebuilt his life from rock bottom. He talks about putting a gun to his head, moving the pistol at the last second, and realizing he had to stop living halfway. From there, this conversation goes deep into meth addiction, getting clean, finding joy for the first time, healing through acting, and building an off grid solar business in the Arizona desert. Steve also breaks down self sustainability, freedom, off grid solar, veteran transition, mental health, and why addicts can become unstoppable when that same drive gets redirected toward purpose. If you are interested in veteran mental health, addiction recovery, Army veteran stories, off grid living, off grid solar, entrepreneurship, acting, trauma recovery, or powerful long form podcast conversations, this episode hits all of it. Steve is an Army veteran, actor, entrepreneur, founder of Arizona Off Grid Solutions, and creator connected to The Off Grid Veteran, The Wolves Den Ranch, Mission Entrepreneurship, and The Gray Area. Subscribe, comment, and help us keep telling real veteran stories with honesty, depth, and integrity.

Most Military Couples Fall Apart. Here's Why They Didn't.

If you've ever come home from a deployment and felt like a stranger in your own house — this episode is for you. Jamie and Cole Waterberry are an Air Force couple with 16 years of marriage, 9 moves, and 6 deployments between them. Stories they're only now comfortable telling out loud — like the time Cole casually drove through IED Alley and described it as "nothing to worry about." Or the rocket that landed two trailers down while Jamie had no idea where the bunkers were. But beyond the war stories, this conversation gets into what actually makes or breaks a military marriage. What it means when you come home and the furniture moved. Why their first five years of marriage were really years five through ten. What happens when one person gets out while the other stays in. Jamie also opens up about her work in corporate philanthropy — why AI is quietly killing nonprofit grant applications, why Las Vegas runs on relationships before résumés, and how she talked her way into an internship that didn't exist. No fluff. Just two veterans being honest about what that life actually looks like. ️ Vegas Veteran Voices | Filmed at Outbox Studio, Las Vegas Subscribe to keep these stories coming — and drop a comment. We read them all. Military marriage · Deployment · Veteran transition · Mill-to-mill relationships · GI Bill · Corporate philanthropy · Nonprofit grant writing · Las Vegas veterans