Finding Community with Kristen Christy, Speaker & Resilience Expert

Airmen Helping Airmen

Kristen Christy, Speaker & Resilience Expert, joins the Airmen Helping Airmen Podcast with Kaleth Wright to discuss life and chasing passions.

Key facts

• Kristen's Instagram
• Kristen's Twitter
• Kristen's LinkedIn
• Kristen’s Facebook
• Kristen Christy LLC Website
• National Resilience Day Website
• Speaker & Resilience Expert Kristen Christy is an international and TEDx Speaker, an international trainer, and writer. She is a veteran suicide prevention advocate working on getting March the 4th recognized as National Resilience Day for survivors. She is also a Co-founder and President of the National Veterans Vocational Village and the 2018 US Air Force Spouse of the Year. In 2019, Kristen was recognized as Top Women Military Influencer, and in 2020, Remarkable Woman. In 2021, she was an American Constitution Award Winner. She is a sponsor of the 988 suicide prevention lifeline and the first woman in the Military Spouse in seventy-eight years to chair the military affairs council of the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce.

Key takeaways

Get embedded in a community. Ask for help when you can’t do it alone. There's no shame in asking for help as you're stronger together

• Your identity is ultimately based on your character. “...Your identity is not based on being a defender or a maintainer; it's what you do. But it's really your character”
• “Life is a tough teacher. We get the test first, and then we learn the lesson”
• “Supervisors and managers say ‘Go’, and it's true leaders that say, ‘Let's go.’”
• “Forgive yourself for the things you do while you're in survival mode”
• “FAIL is an acronym for First Attempt In Learning or Further Attempt In Learning, not Final Attempt In Learning”
• “FINE is an acronym for Feelings Inside Not Expressed”
• Be compassionately intrusive. Be around. Ask them to lunch
• “Unless it deals with your body, that's when no means no. But otherwise, NO stands for Next Opportunity”
• Have hope and hold on. Hold on, but don't hold on to yourself. Hold on to one other person who's in a good place

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Quotes

“If someone is just not acting themselves, more importantly, trust your gut…If your gut or your heart or your head is telling you, ‘Hey, I need to reach out to K. Wright,’ then do it. Stop what you're doing.”

“We kind of put the responsibility on the person in crisis to reach out for help. I want to flip the script. How about those of us in a good place be more in tune, and reach out and let them [borrow] hope and courage.”

“For those struggling, HOPE stands for Hold On; Pain Eases.”

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Previous guests include:Errol Doebler, John Osarczuk of FirstCommand , Jared Metcalfe, Rich Diviney, Ginger Miller, Thomas Connally, Kara Taylor, Kathleen McMahon, Jennifer Pasquale Dr. Geri Lynn Maples, Haley McClain Hill, Amanda Huffman, Lizann Lightfoot, Tom Landwermeyer, Diane Rauch, Kim Nahom, Kristen Christy, Jai Salters, The AFAF Campaign, Shermaine Perry-Knights and Lacey Langford.
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