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In this episode, Satterly tells us about the aftermath of Somalia and his career during the Global War on Terror. Then, we get into Satterly's transition out of Special Operations and into his civilian life where the his personal war was just beginning. SRS also welcomes special guest Co-Founder & CEO of All Secure Foundation. Jen & Tom share some eye opening statistics around Veteran suicide and give an unfiltered look at what families go through when their warriors come home. They give us this insight through the lens of their own marriage.

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Anonymous

Wow, incredible three part series. I’ve never been military. Blows me away. I live by quantico and used to roll play at a training facility near quantico that trained black water, swat teams, and other units. These men are incredible. I get everything they said. I’ve gone through all of this in civilian life. I had two multi million dollar companies i started from scratch. 50 + employees in three states, a radio talk show. While suffering through cancer. I almost lost everything when i had some a crooked accountant and 4 employees siphon off $700 k of money. Wasn’t even my money it was my employer payroll tax contribution account. Man IRS came after me hard. I fought like hell finally getting back on my feet and then the whole mortgage market melt down. Fought like hell to try and keep things rolling and keep everyone employed. Went on a fishing trip and came home my wife was gone. She gave up left, she was a great partner, i lost all her income and help, she just quit man. She left my 5 year old daughter and 6 year old Son sitting on the floor in the living room. I can still here my daughter yelling at me crying her eyes out telling me, something is wrong with mommy and i needed to fix mommy. She kept sobbing your a good fixer daddy you need to fix her. It was if she died. I never knew what a greedy women she was until the divorce she had three attorneys and i did the whole divorce pro se myself and i got full custody. Anyway by the time 2007 ended i was living in my car with my two kids. Fought like hell and finally got a deal on a house rent to own, with no running water or electric. But it was worth cleaning up and it had a good roof. Got a job with a construction company making $15 an hour but i would rummage through all the dumpsters for scrap materials to get my house cleaned up. There was this giant tree on the road to my house, i just would fantasize about hitting that thing at 100 mph no one would even know i killed myself they would just think i was drunk driving. But God knew what he was doing. I have always preached to my kids never quit. When I’d think of killing myself i would see me preaching to my kids in my mind or wonder my God how would my kids ever make it i can’t quit. Man i wanted to get out of the pain so bad. Then the funny thing was i had an old Volvo 240 station wagon and I’d be thinking in my head you need a compact car not the safest damn car ever made you’ll hit that tree and have to walk home. Doing the construction, I also learned a lot of trades and gad good comrades that blew me away how much they helped me on my personal home, and I now own a handyman company. I’m a one man show i just can’t trust employees again. It’s been a fight finally see the light at the end of the tunnel but man i snap at my new wife and her kids a lot. I’m just still in survival and fight mode all the time. I’m not looking for sympathy but so many of these relationship problems i see in myself. Anyway, listening to some of these battles brings light to the whole situations that correlate to even us mortal civilians. My son is a athletic trainer now working with kids in sports injuries and married with a wonderful Wife and my daughter is a diesel tech at Penske trucks. Thanks for these podcasts !! Incredible. I think it’s time now to work on myself and try and get some help through some of my anger.

Anonymous

Without a doubt brother, this one will be hard to top. Such an amazing story of hope and damn what an amazing woman! Shawn, thank you for this.