Jessica Meuse joins Veterans Radio to talk about what happens when your ambitions don’t fit together cleanly. A recording artist who competed on American Idol and played the Grammys, she’s now an officer candidate turned logistics officer in one of the most remote duty stations in the country — and still chasing a second degree in medicine.

This conversation covers building boundaries under a microscope, why she stopped eating in high school and how that shaped her relationship with fitness and nutrition today, walking away from a manager who tried to take her music, and what she’s learned about worth that has nothing to do with how you look. She also gets into mentoring senior enlisted from an O-1 billet, and what “you just can’t win” actually means when you stop waiting for the friction to disappear.

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