Surviving Your Own Inner Critic with Chelsea Porterfield

This is our first episode with Mike Lavigne at the helm. He’s serving as our new co-host and has been a longtime fan and supporter of AIP.

In this episode - in the 100 years of its existence and the dozens of years it’s been under 24 hour guard, there have only been five women to serve as “Sentinels” of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. No female noncommissioned officer had ever served as the Sergeant of the Guard - that is, until 2020 and the arrival of Sergeant First Class Chelsea Porterfield.

A career military police Soldier, Chelsea’s road to senior leadership at the Tomb was marked by exceeding standards and setting incredibly high expectations for herself - as a Soldier, as a wife, and as a mother. Those high expectations, combined with an “always on” mentality and coping mechanism that caused her to work even harder, ultimately took a hard toll.

Chelsea tells us about her journey - her time in the Army, her trip to rock bottom, and the lessons that shaped her along the way to becoming a groundbreaking woman leader with her eye on life’s next chapter.   

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