Canadian Armed Forces Artillery Gunner Kelsi Sheren | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 98
Mike Drop
Mike Ritland
4.9 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2022
⏱️ 156 minutes
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Summary
Episode 98: Kelsi Sheren is a Canadian Forces Veteran who fought on the front lines in Afghanistan as an artillery gunner. She opens up about her time at war, her struggles with PTSD after returning home and her recovery.
It is now her mission to help others struggling with PTSD through her jewelry company, Brass & Unity. In 2016, she started Brass & Unity to help save her fellow soldiers lives, or at least try to give them a second chance. After serving on the front lines in Afghanistan (Infantry & Artillery) at 18 years old and losing many of her friends during battle, she came home with severe PTSD. After 7 years of anger and pain she decided to use her struggle for good, and try to help others through their struggle.
To accomplish this, B&U donate's 20% of net profits to help rehabilitate soldiers & First Responders.
Chapters
0:00 - Intro
1:55 - Lightning Round
30:30 - Joined The Canadian Military
33:00 - Canadian Boot Camp
40:38 - Women In The Military
54:23 - Workup Before Deployment
1:00:43 - Afghanistan
1:16:29 - CST One Week Went Haywire
1:41:00 - PTSD
2:06:45 - Alternative Medicine and Art Therapy
2:27:18 - Brass And Unity
Support: Kelsi Sheren
https://www.brassandunity.com/ - Use Code "MIKEDROP35"
YouTube - @Brass & Unity Podcast
Instagram - @brassandunity - https://www.instagram.com/brassandunity/
Instagram - @kelsie_sheren - https://www.instagram.com/kelsie_sheren/
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| 0:00.0 | There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because |
| 0:05.4 | I'm a bit of a homebody and I love a 5th. |
| 0:08.0 | But I think it's just the holiday period, it's just for me, it's the most romantic period. |
| 0:14.1 | And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance. |
| 0:18.8 | Join in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks. |
| 0:40.8 | Celebrate Italy not qualifying for the football with spicy Italian flavors. |
| 0:45.3 | The ultimate spicy sausage topped with endo-yah, a sausage more fiery than a disappointed Italian fan. |
| 0:52.1 | Domino! |
| 0:54.1 | Subject to availability. |
| 0:56.1 | If you could kind of give me the synopsis of the Canadian military as it relates to what most people would think about it. |
| 1:04.1 | They either think it's not existent, they think that we are in normally UN. |
| 1:08.1 | They don't think that we have a fighting force which we kind of found out in Afghanistan how much of a fighting force we did have. |
| 1:14.5 | How long was that deployment? How long were you in that area? |
| 1:17.5 | So I was on an operation for a solid one fucking week that went haywire. |
| 1:21.7 | It came down that they needed some female CSTs to go with the British out into the Pandora district. |
| 1:28.7 | We had zeroed weapons when we, I don't even know if we zeroed when we got in country. |
| 1:32.4 | But my sergeant's like, we got a zero. |
| 1:33.6 | We need to go over the range and at least get you sorted out. |
| 1:36.1 | And he looked at like the basic C7 rifle we have and he's like, this isn't gonna fly. |
| 1:40.9 | You're going into tighter spaces, you're gonna need a better scope, you're gonna need something. |
| 1:44.9 | So he stripped his weapon, tacked mine out, and then just started handing me magazines. |
| 1:49.7 | And he's just like, take them. |
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