Scott DeLuzio:    00:00:03    Thanks for tuning in to the Drive On Podcast, where we talk about issues affecting Veterans after they get out of the military. Before we get started, I’d like to ask a favor if you haven’t done so already, please rate and review the show on Apple podcast. If you’ve already done that, thank you. These ratings help the show get discovered so it can reach a wider audience. And while you’re there, click the subscribe button so that you get notified of new episodes. As soon as they come out, if you don’t use Apple podcasts, you can visit Drive On Podcasts.com/subscribe to find other ways of subscribing, including our email list. I’m your host, Scott DeLuzio. And now let’s get on with the show. Hi everyone. Thanks for joining us today. My guest is Bunny Young, who is an Army wife and founder of A Better Place Consulting, where she teaches burnout prevention strategies to military and law enforcement personnel. So welcome to the show. Why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself and your background?

Bunny Young:    00:01:03    Yeah, so I think you nailed it with Army wife. I’m a third generation, actually fourth generation Army wife, granddaughter daughter, and great-granddaughter. So, we have a Fort named after our family.  I’d say it’s definitely the Army in my blood.  I’ll be the first one to harass anybody who’s not Army. And the first one to stand up for anybody who messes with any of us.  I often tell people I hold the highest-ranking position in the United States military and that’s wife. I can speak to anyone in any certain manner and the repercussions will be pushups upon my spouse, not upon me. So I went to school to be a therapist. That’s when I got my master’s degree; I lived in China for about a year. I volunteered in Ecuador at an orphanage and just really through those experiences was exposed to a lot of trauma.

Bunny Young:    00:02:05    And when you grow up in a military family, there are certain things that seem par for the course for you. And when you’re asked to give a sit rep, it’s like just the basics. It’s no feelings, no emotion. The worst thing my father ever told me was that he was disappointed in me and that’s just because of the trust and respect that was built. But my entire childhood was definitely built on these core values and service to a purpose higher than yourself. And I have a heart condition. So, I know everybody’s going to give me a hard time about this in my family, but the Air Force turned me down because of my heart condition. I’ll have I scored really high on my ASFAB and so the way that we figure it out is if you’re brilliant, you can go Air Force or Chair Force, as we like to call it. If you’re brilliant and strong, then you can go Army. If you’re not brilliant, but strong, you got Marines. If you’re not brilliant, not strong and you can swim, it’s Coast Guard. And if you’re not brilliant, not strong and you can’t swim. It’s the Navy.

Scott DeLuzio:    00:03:16    That’s an interesting hierarchy there. I like that.

Bunny Young:    00:03:19    That’s how the recruiters figure it out. That really brought me to this aspect of an organizational psychology approach, where a lot of people were burning out because of their professional demands and then having marital or familial issues because of the stress of their professional demands, whether it be first responders or military, or just a job in corporate America and also being able to tie the purpose.  I don’t know a corporate situation that puts you through the brainwashing that the military does in order to say, the life that you had prior to when you step foot off of that school bus wit...