In today's episode, we get to chat with a person who has faced serious adversity, but makes no regrets for the path he was placed. In fact, this is a story of overcoming, creating generational benchmarks and annihilating the status quo. If an

Get in Step! CMSgt Charmaine Kelley

Apr 3rd, 2021 26m 19s

1. Know yourself. 2. Extend Grace. 3. Be true to your 'Why. 4. Form your own opinions about folk. 5. Touch lives We keep it short and sweet on today's podcast; but the convo we have here is not to be missed! This South Carolina native, daugh

Get in Step! Maj Lenora Alva

Mar 15th, 2021 47m 46s

"What are you doing here? You're not supposed to be here..." are not words you think you would hear when walking into a recruiting station. But that's exactly what happened to our guest today before she was pushed into learning about officer ca

Get in Step! Lt Col Clementine Duke

Mar 1st, 2021 43m 32s

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them." - Maya AngelouThis sobering episode features a guest with a lot of credentials, but not a lot of credit throughout her career and her race is the reason. We talk deeply about "the conversat

Get in Step! MSgt LaShandra Denson (Ret)

Feb 16th, 2021 25m 54s

Angry. Black. Female. Stereotype or personal microaggressions? She came in 1998 and saw her first black Chief Master Sergeant in 2012 on a deployment...It's time to hear from a 21-year vet in the Active Duty game who reminds us that "it's OK

Get in Step! Maj Henry Sims

Feb 1st, 2021 26m 39s

What do you get when you mix a 4 year Marine Corps enlistment and an 11 year Air Force enlistment with a total of 22 years of active duty service? You get a powerhouse leader who has done a lot, seen a lot and here to tell us about it! We are e

Get in Step! Anonymous Guest

Jan 15th, 2021 44m 37s

Who doesn't enjoy a little anonymity? This episode's guest appeared incognito, but we still get to the business at hand! We discuss a little about the Bataan Death March where tens of thousands of starving American and Filipino Prisoners of Wa

Get in Step! Lt Col Jennifer-Ruth Green

Jan 2nd, 2021 35m 51s

405. That's the approximate number of females of African American heritage who can say they're part of the Air Force Academy Alumni and we had the opportunity to chat with one of them! #girlpower #magic The Air Force Academy allowed women to

Get in Step! LTC (Ret) Michael Boykin, Esq

Dec 16th, 2020 41m 21s

At the time of this recording, retired Army Reserves by way of the Army National Guard Lieutenant Colonel/Lawyer/UNC-Chapel Hill Business Analyst was finishing his PhD (phew!) so we, at Cadence Convos, want to send a huge congratulations and ma

Get in Step! MSgt Asua Rose

Dec 1st, 2020 29m 17s

A nation at war has no time for racial or gender separations...right?! And even if it did (have time) the 1% of people who dedicate themselves to Serving are probably pretty good humans and therefore wouldn't entertain such petty divisiveness..

Get in Step! MSgt LaShaundra Myers

Nov 15th, 2020 40m 14s

Is it Black, African American or....something else and when to use which acknowledgement? In this episode, MSgt Myers and I talk about growing up in a seemingly racially unified Cali, being immersed into an ultra-black cultured Georgia and her

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