What's up, Badi Bees? I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.

Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary things,

and I get to share her story with you. So let's go. Buckle up as we're going to get real and dive

into the shit nobody talks about. Welcome to the Batty B Club.

Beautiful. Welcome to the Body B Club. I am perfectly okay with failure at this point.

I want to feel.

I want to embrace it because that's the only way I'm going to get to success. I want to walk into whatever it is that I think I want to do and then

realize like, okay, CJ, this isn't for you, but you learn so much along the way.

Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch.

On today's episode, we have with us, C.G. Evans, who is a chief warrant officer three.

And today we are going to be talking about her huge 20-year career shift and transition back to being a civilian and all of the lessons learned.

So, C.G, thank you so much for being with us today. Of course. So let's start from the beginning. When and why did you

enlist in the Army? So I joined the military in 2003. I was in a delayed entry program at the time. Because initially when I went to

the recruiter and I took the ASWAP test, I wasn't of age. So I was like 16, 17 years old. And I then

just stayed in the delayed entry program until until I was a senior in high school. And one month after

graduated, I joined the military. The reason being was to file my grandfather as a dependent so that he

could get the medical care that he needed because we were struggling to pay for his medical bills

and even his prescriptions at the time. Lo and behold, he passed away within like a year and a half of me joining the military.

I was in Iraq at the time.

They had to send a red cross message.

I came all the way back to spend about a month with him, and then he passed.

And at that point, I had a decision.

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