#191 A LITTLE BIT OF LIGHT TO GET OUT OF THE DARKNESS With The Combat Divas
The Snack Nine
Mara Marek
4.8 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Mara welcomes Tonnisha and Tiffany of The Combat Divas Podcast for today's episode. They talk about their careers in the military as Truck Drivers in a very volatile combat zone, witnessing a battle buddy and brother get killed during combat, experiencing boot camp and life as a hot, female cadet, dealing with race in the military and how to keep pressing forward even though you want to end it all. We also talk about being the kind of woman that lifts each other up and surrounding yourself with people that are truthful even though the honesty is gonna sting a lil at first. As soon as this lockdown is over, Mara is bringing them to New York for an event...so stay tuned.
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| 0:00.0 | BeFrank Network |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome to another very special episode of Happy Never After, where typically we talk about getting over divorce and redemption stories and breakups, which we'll probably talk about here. |
| 0:28.4 | But I have a very special episode with Tonisha and Tiji of the Combat Divas podcast, who I've been following for forever. |
| 0:36.4 | And I love you so much. |
| 0:38.4 | And I feel like the, there's a couple of types of women, and there's the women that will, |
| 0:47.1 | like, become your friends and kind of just leach on to you until you are done giving them the |
| 0:52.9 | things that they need from you and then kind of |
| 0:55.1 | move on or are mean girls. |
| 0:56.7 | And then there's like real women that support each other. |
| 1:00.0 | And I feel like you two are those type of ladies. |
| 1:03.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.1 | For sure. |
| 1:04.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | I mean, it's just too much going on out here to be just fighting with each other all the time. |
| 1:09.2 | All the time. |
| 1:10.6 | So you started your podcast because you're two ladies in the army. |
| 1:15.9 | Well, kind of. |
| 1:17.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.6 | We started it because, yeah, we were two female veterans and we just had issues that were |
| 1:22.3 | unique to women veterans, you know, and stuff and how we overcame those obstacles. |
| 1:44.9 | Like, for example, just getting benefits, you know, and such as. How we overcame those obstacles. Like, for example, just getting benefits, you know, benefits was more geared toward our male counterparts. It was like, you know, we wouldn't recognize as actually going to war and actually fighting the same battle. So we didn't, it was harder for us to get benefits at first. And now we started to kind of steamroll that and now it's like, oh, you go to war too. So we, uh, we got that going. |
| 1:50.3 | Okay, but that's very like surface and I love that, but I feel like you have way more issues |
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