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Coming to headphones near you on April 17th with a first guess you won't want to miss. Available wherever you get your podcasts. I'd done one thing for 20 years and I'd been told where to be, when to be, what to wear for 20 years.

And now of a sudden I've got the freedom and I joke, you know, now I've got to grow up.

Welcome to how to. I'm Carvel Wallace. You know, transitions are hard. Big moves, career changes,

the endings of relationships. They all require us to let go of something that

we've known well and step into an entirely new environment with new rules and new challenges.

We try to cling to the old ways, but the old ways don't work here, and we haven't yet mastered

the new ways. So there's this period, like a scary period of time, like a kind of a void, a no-man's

land where you were no longer in the old state of being, and yet not entirely in the new.

You feel weightless and unsure, and you don't know what to do.

Every year, about 200,000 military personnel face this void. Whether they've

served a single term, or they've made the military their entire career, they now have to move

into an entirely new world and figure out how to operate. And military life is far different

from civilian life. In the military, you're provided with food,

clothing, shelter, structure, jobs, health care, even a sense of duty and purpose. In civilian

life, let's just say those are things you need to find and keep for yourself, and sometimes

over significant odds. This can make the transition difficult for a lot of veterans, and sometimes over significant odds.

This can make the transition difficult for a lot of veterans, and especially those who have experienced combat-related injuries or emotional or psychological trauma.

Well, that's where today's listener comes in.

How my name is Dan?

I'm calling a reference to veterans retiring from the military. So I'm a

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