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  *To sign up for the in-person Run To Home Base at Fenway Park on Saturday, September 25th, click here.   (Enter  promo code "PODCAST" for $5.00 off registration fee) This episode was recorded at the Kensington Golf and Country Club in Naples, FL on May 6th, 2021   To learn more and connect with us at Home Base Nation: www.homebase.org/homebasenation Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn Home Ba...

*To sign up for the in-person Run To Home Base at Fenway Park on Saturday, September 25th, click here.  (Enter  promo code "PODCAST" for $5.00 off registration fee)   Click here to learn more about Homes For Our Troops   To learn more and connect with us at Home Base Nation: www.homebase.org/homebasenation Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn Home Base Nation Team: Steve Monaco, Marine Veteran B...

*To sign up for the in-person Run To Home Base at Fenway Park on Saturday, September 25th, click here.   Click here to learn more about Bekah Salwasser and The Red Sox Foundation   To learn more and connect with us at Home Base Nation: www.homebase.org/homebasenation Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn Home Base Nation Team: Steve Monaco, Marine Veteran Brendan McCaffrey, Maureen Roderick, Shea...

Home Base Program and the Mass Military Heroes Fund are both 12 years ago this year, founded in 2009. The MMHF shares in its mission with Home Base, an initial support of post 9/11 veterans and their families, and each year the Memorial Day Flag Planting reveals 37,000 flags that represent those tied to MA who lost their lives in all wars since the Revolutionary War. www.homebase.org www.massmilit...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and on this Memorial Day, with Covid clearing, Memorial Day seems to come with a collection of emotions. As vaccinations rise, masks come off and people start to congregate more and more - Up the road at Fenway Park and cheering on the Bruins around the corner from Home Base as they make their way in the playoffs. And looking back one year exactly, we h...

-This virtual conversation was originally recorded on November 18th, 2020- Kevin Miller is a defensemen for the Boston Bruins, in his 7th season. Pre-Covid, he was injured at the knee during the 2019-20 season, and is now back on the ice for the 2020-21 season, resilient and rehabbed. Kevan came to Boston's WCVB Home Base Televent for Veterans Day 2019, bringing friend and fellow Bruin Brad Marcha...

At Home Base, the team has cared for more than 25,000 veterans, and we know that connected to each veteran is a family who also serves. Change and injury affect everyone, and the kids, no matter how resilient, can benefit from our support and care. April is a special month, Month of the Military Child, initiated in 1986 by the DOD - a legacy of the Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. Military...

Thanks very much to our guest, US Air Force Veteran Mike Roose for your service and what you continue to do for all of us on and off the field. Home Base is a partnership of MGH and The Red Sox Foundation – And as we look at moving forward to spring 2021 and baseball season, these two institutions give all of us a little more hope.   To learn more and connect with us at Home Base: www.homebase.org...

Last night on March 9th, The MGH Center for Neuroscience of Psychedelics welcomed award winning author and Professor Michael Pollan to join Dr. Jerry Rosenbaum and team to celebrate the launching of this exciting and novel effort at Mass General. The conversation was introduced by social change activist and philanthropist Dick Simon who appropriately held up Pollan's 2018 book "How to change your...

Learn more: Frost Call ----------- To learn more and connect with us at Home Base: www.homebase.org/homebasenation Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn Home Base Nation Team: Steve Monaco, Marine Veteran Brendan McCaffrey, Maureen Roderick, Charlotte Luckey, Karianne Kraus, with COO Michael Allard and Brigadier General  Jack Hammond Producer and Host: Dr. Ron Hirschberg Music:  "Bats" from Acadi...

Seema Reza is a 2019  President George W. Bush Stand-To Veteran Leadership Scholar . She is the author of two books and CEO of Community Building Art Works , an organization that bridges the veteran and civilian communities and combats social isolation through writing, art, improv, and music workshops in military and veteran healthcare settings.  Through her participation in Stand-To, Seema is wor...

12-23-20 Dear Home Base Nation, This second season of our show has come to an end, and so has 2020. Even though the country and world look ahead to a continued difficult situation in 2021, there is always something hopeful about a new year, along with the natural reflection that we all can use now. Personally, I’ve learned a lot from our guests both military and civilian, especially in that with c...

Home Base is excited to announce the launch of our new Home Base online company store.   Home Base swag for you and yours and All proceeds to benefit the care provided to our Veterans and their families. Show your support by visiting www.store.homebase.org to order your branded apparel and accessories. Our two special guests are Marine Corps Veteran Colonel Beau Higgins, and Navy Veteran Chief Pet...

You can’t see it but behind our guest in his office is a big flag that shows the classic Wounded Warrior Project logo of one service member being carried on the back of another. We have the honor to be talking with LTG Ret. Mike Linnington who served 35 years in the US Army prior to taking on multiple new roles, with new service to his country and all of our veterans and military families. He serv...

DoD provides military members, veterans and first responders the access to volunteers who board their pets during their deployments and service commitments. The whole family serves, and because pets are such an important part of all of our families, this organization really takes care of not only the pet but that person who is serving our country. You can learn more about Dogs On Deployment at: ww...

This episode is dedicated to the 723 people with COVID-19 who came to recover at the Boston Hope Field Hospital during Spring 2020, and to all 1,034 staff who took incredible care of them. With heartfelt appreciation to the Dr. Anne Klibanski, President and CEO of Mass General Brigham (MGB) and the entire MGB leadership team, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and Boston’s Mayor Marty Walsh for...

We all have a narrative. This is how we see ourselves and how we want to tell our own story. When we listen to the narratives of our veterans and military families, we can almost feel the honor, pain, pride, sorrow, joy, and inspiration. It can be therapeutic for the storyteller, to dive in and then come up for air feeling relief - that he or she is heard and we are listening. This is the kind of...

Ken Fisher is a leader in real estate, philanthropy, and giving back to our veterans and military families.  He is a man who puts his family first, but who also has helped thousands of military families over the past 30 years. Ken is chairman and CEO of Fisher House Foundation , which is an organization that has made it possible for the families of ill or injured veterans and service members to ha...

We would like to thank the great folks at Stop and Shop for all you do for our communities especially during these unprecedented times. This past Spring, Home Base and Mass General Brigham leadership teamed up with the City of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to stand up Boston Hope, a COVID-19 Field Hospital. Stop and Shop showed their service to the hospital by bringing food and supp...

To learn more and connect with us: www.homebase.org/homebasenation Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn Home Base Nation Team: Steve Monaco, Marine Veteran Brendan McCaffrey, Maureen Roderick, Charlotte Luckey, Karianne Kraus, Dan Berg, and  The Moxi Group  - DeeDee Kearney, Natalie Bonelli Producer and Host: Dr. Ron Hirschberg Home Base Media Lab Chairman: Peter Smyth   Home Base Nation is the...

Recorded on September 11th, 2020 This episode is dedicated to the following 9 soldiers and their families: Justin T. Gallegos, Christopher Griffin, Kevin C. Thomson, Michael P. Scusa, Vernon W. Martin, Stephan L. Mace, Joshua J. Kirk, and Joshua M. Hardt, who died in the Battle of Kamdesh, in Eastern Afghanistan on Oct 3rd, 2009, and Ed Faulkner who died the following year after returning home.  ...

On September 7th 2020 we acknowledge  National Suicide Prevention Week,  which happens to include the September 11th anniversary.  9/11/2001 was a life changing day for the world, and also a day that many of our servicemembers look back on as the impetus for their  own  dedication to service.  As the number of individuals who die by suicide increases, so too do the number of survivors impacted by...

This episode follows our conversation with Staff Sgt. Kevin Flike, a Green Beret, and Alan Price, an Army Veteran and the current JFK Library and Museum Director, released on 8-24-20. Staff Sergeant Kevin Flike is a true role model for so many in any culture, and for both service members and civilians. He continues to educate us through public speaking, his work with the Green Beret Foundation, an...

The US Army Special Forces is the special operations force established in 1952. Throughout the 1950s the Green Beret was worn as an unofficial part of the SF uniform, until 1961 when President JFK authorized the GB as the official head gear. JFK called the green beret "a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom."   To learn more and connect with us:...

Dear Home Base Nation Listeners, The Run to Home Base is our most critical, annual fundraiser and our primary source of funding for the clinical care and support for our veterans and their families who are impacted by the invisible wounds of war - Post-Traumatic Stress and Traumatic Brain Injury. Join Home Base Nation on September 26th, 2020 our annual, adaptive and memorable 9K Run or 5K Run/Walk...