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What Is Army Wife Talk Radio?

Army Wife Talk Radio is the internet talk radio show designed specifically for army wives by army wives. Our Life. Our Family. Our Soldier. We feature information, special reports, empowerment, inspiration, stories and interviews that affect YOU!

Army Wife Talk Radio is a weekly LIVE 1 hour show that is available every Monday via our website. You can download the archived audio or stream it and listen through your computer. The show includes information relative to military spouses and families; many different topics are covered each week.

Our purpose is to motivate, inspire, and empower Army wives worldwide to make the most of their lifestyle choice. We strive to do this by providing helpful information, interviews, and tips that take the guesswork out of Army life. We also provide forums & conferences, in which relationships can be formed and people can "grow".

What Army Wife Talk Radio is not:

Army Wife Talk Radio is not a broadcast radio show via a radio station. (at least not yet, yes we would love to be added to a radio station and syndicated)

Army Wife Talk Radio is not affiliated with the Department of Defense.

Army Wife Talk Radio is not the 'official' word, our views and opinions are of personal nature.

Army Wife Talk Radio is not a solution to all your problems. (don't you wish it were?)

Army Wife Talk Radio is not a place to vent or publicly humiliate your FRG leader or Commander's wife. Civility must take precedence over temper in all of our conversations.

Army Wife Talk Radio is not a fly by night business, personal forum for vents & politics, or a get rich quick scheme. We are here for support & education, not sensationalism.

Army Wife Talk Radio was born in March of 2005 on a whim.
Tara Crooks, founder of www.ArmyWifeTalkRadio.com and previous owner of www.AdvertisingMoms.com had often cohosted www.wahmtalkradio.com with Kelly McCausey. In 2005, McCausey launched an e-book “Shoestring Radio”. Crooks was interested and started playing with audio. Knowing that she had many experiences, stories, and information to share with fellow Army wives, Crooks did what came natural. The rest is history….
 

Tara Crooks
Site Owner, Radio Talk Show Host, Freelance Writer, & Military Mom Expert

Tara is the owner of Army Wife Talk Radio & Field Problems. She is “household 6” as well as taking care of daily operations of these two successful sites.

Tara is the Proud Work At Home Mama of Wrena and Chloe, and wife to MAJ Kevin Crooks, US Army. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Human Resource Management. Tara started her original home business, which she has since sold, The Candle Coop in 2001 to be able to raise her daughter in a more stable environment, given her husband's career choice. To meet Tara and learn more about her visit www.taracrooks.com

Starlett "Star" Henderson
AWTR Newsletter Editor & Freelance Writer

Starlett is an Army Veteran and Army Wife to GA National Guardsman David Henderson. She received a B.S. in Scientific and Technical Writing from Michigan Technological University where she also received her commission and assignment to Fort Stewart, GA in 1997. She spent time there as a soldier and Department of the Army (DA) Civilian supporting soldiers and families of the highly deployed 3d Infantry Division (3ID). While assigned to 3ID, she augmented 1^st Cavalry Division (Fort Hood, TX) during their deployment to Bosnia, remained as part of a rear detachment for 3ID’s deployment to Bosnia and served as a DA Budget Analyst at the outset of Iraqi Freedom.

Starlett left Fort Stewart to further her interest in taking care of soldiers and their families. In 2003, she started a Master’s Degree in Professional Counseling, which was received in November 2005. All the while, Star and David are raising former military brat, Thomas and latecomer, Tara. She hopes to be to work full-time soon in a career that will allow her to assist soldiers and their families with their growing mental health concerns.

Star co-authors Field Problems with ATWR Host Tara Crooks.

Sarah - News 6
AWTR News Reporter & Co-host

Leah Miller
AWTR Sponsorship Liason & Newbie Minute

Sheryl Kurland
Relationship Minute

Having interviewed 75 couples married 50-plus years across the country, Sheryl P. Kurland is the “voice” of the “voices of experience” – the real-life relationship experts.  Over 4,000 years of marriage insight and advice are  compilated in the coffee-table book Everlasting Matrimony: Pearls Of Wisdom From Couples Married 50 Years Or More.  Not only is Ms. Kurland the only author to have interviewed such a sizable collective of couples married more than 5 decades, she furthered her distinction by interviewing husbands and wives separately.  The couples represent a "sprinkling of America," from all different faiths, ethnicities and backgrounds. Contrary to the colossal number of today’s traditional self-help books, each espousing an analyst’s “how-to” brand to the perfect relationship, Everlasting Matrimony fills an abyss by providing experience over analysis...the expertise of ordinary folks who’ve walked-the-walk and talked-the-talk.

Karen DeBord
Parenting Minute

Dr. Karen DeBord has been with North Carolina Cooperative Extension at NC State University for 11 years.  Previous to her work in North Carolina, she was an Extension faculty member with University of Missouri and before that at Virginia Tech. 

Dr. DeBord supports Extension Agents in North Carolina's 100 counties who conduct educational programs for parents, families and child care professionals. She is also the Director of Graduate Programs for a Master's Degree in Family Life and Parenting Education.  She is known nationally as an expert in parenting education and is a parent and grandparent herself.  Her son is 17 years old and her daughter is 22 years old.  She has a 2-year old grand daughter.

Additional information

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/people/kdebord.php