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It sounds simple until someone actually asks you—and your brain just stops. This episode tackles why the question "What Do You Want" feels impossible, especially when you've spent years being told what to do instead of choosing for yourself. We dig into the "should" voice that drowns out what you actually want, why avoiding the question keeps you building a life that looks good on paper but doesn't feel like yours, and how to start answering it without needing the whole future figured out.

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The skills that make you valuable are often the ones you can't see—because they've become so natural, you think everyone has them. Spoiler: they don't. This episode unpacks why your most transferable capabilities are hiding in plain sight, how to stop underselling yourself because something feels "too easy" to matter, and why the people who get hired aren't always the most qualified—they're just the ones who can actually name what they bring.

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• Produced by Elysium Creative Collective

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What do you do when you get a job offer that solves all your financial problems but still doesn't feel right? This episode tackles one of the hardest decisions in transition: choosing between the job that pays the bills and the job that actually fits. We break down the security–purpose split, why this tension feels so urgent, and how to stop treating it like a binary choice.

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In Brief is presented by The RECON Network, an organization focused on helping veterans and military spouses find purpose and success in the post-military transition.
• Hosted by Jordana Megonigal | CEO, The RECON Network
• Produced by Elysium Creative Collective

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Sometimes good things happen and you can't feel them. Instead of excitement or relief, there's just heaviness—and you don't know why. This episode unpacks the grief that lives in transitions, even the ones you chose. We talk about why you can mourn something you're relieved to leave, what gets lost beyond the obvious markers like rank or title, and why unprocessed grief doesn't disappear—it just waits underneath everything you're trying to build.

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About the In Brief Podcast:
In Brief is presented by The RECON Network, an organization focused on helping veterans and military spouses find purpose and success in the post-military transition.
• Hosted by Jordana Megonigal | CEO, The RECON Network
• Produced by Elysium Creative Collective

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Big transitions have a way of making you feel like you've lost everything—like all those years of building skills, credibility, and expertise just evaporated the moment you stepped into something new. This episode dismantles that lie. We explore the difference between starting over and redirecting, why losing the visible markers of progress doesn't mean the progress itself is gone, and how almost everything you've built transfers—it just needs translation. If you're standing in a new space feeling like a beginner when you know you're not, this conversation will help you stop treating yourself like one and start operating from the full weight of what you've already earned.

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In Brief is presented by The RECON Network, an organization focused on helping veterans and military spouses find purpose and success in the post-military transition.
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• Produced by Elysium Creative Collective

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Have you ever been ready to quit something—completely ready to walk away—right before it was about to work? This episode explores one of the most painful ironies of transition: that the moment you feel most stuck is often right before things shift. We talk about why breakthroughs hide behind resistance, how your brain miscalculates progress when the work is invisible, and the difference between a path that's wrong versus a path that's just long.

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In Brief is presented by The RECON Network, an organization focused on helping veterans and military spouses find purpose and success in the post-military transition.
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• Produced by Elysium Creative Collective

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Ever feel like you're running out of time—even when there's no actual deadline? This episode tackles the invisible clock that so many of us are racing against, and why that constant sense of urgency is draining your energy without moving you forward. We explore where that pressure to be "further along by now" really comes from, how comparison turns everyone else's highlight reel into proof that you're falling behind, and why rushing through decisions from a place of panic rarely leads you where you actually want to go.

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In Brief is presented by The RECON Network, an organization focused on helping veterans and military spouses find purpose and success in the post-military transition.
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What if the biggest thing holding you back isn't the mistake you made—but how long you've been thinking about it? In this episode, we dig into why our brains get stuck replaying failures on loop, and how that mental replay actually prevents us from doing the one thing that matters most: showing up today. We explore the difference between learning from setbacks and dwelling on them, why your nervous system learns more from what you do than what you think about, and how progress is built by people who don't stay down—not people who never fall. If you've been carrying yesterday's missteps into today's possibilities, this one's for you.

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In Brief is presented by The RECON Network, an organization focused on helping veterans and military spouses find purpose and success in the post-military transition.
• Hosted by Jordana Megonigal | CEO, The RECON Network
• Produced by Elysium Creative Collective

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