81. Marqueta Plum Jenkins. Scars & Stripes: Surviving Military Sexual Trauma (MST)
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Marqueta Plum Jenkins talks about her tumultuous childhood growing up on the streets of Norfolk, Virginia, her first entrepreneurial experience as a kid, then smashing the glass ceiling in the street drug trade as the first girl \\u201ccorner boy,\\u201d and escaping it all to join the military. Her hopeful military career was tainted by Military Sexual Trauma (MSA). She\\u2019s spent a lot of time running but this girl is on the way up. Her book Something Beautiful Out Of Me is a sincere message of revelation, enlightenment, courage, and hope. Marqueta shares with you her relationship with God, her time spent in the military, and her learned lessons of breaking family "curses and chains." Included in this conversation:
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- A realistic glimpse of military life. \\n
- Growing up in a financially disadvantaged environment \\n
- Joining the military to escape poverty \\n
- Growing up as a teenage girl without a father figure \\n
- Lessons the street taught her \\n
- How she learned her \\u201cfather\\u201d wasn\\u2019t her biological father \\n
- Letting go of resentment for a father who left \\n
- Young entrepreneur skills selling candy and then drugs \\n
- Being a \\u201ccorner boy\\u201d and the only woman street dealer (there\\u2019s even gender discrimination there too)! \\n
- Why she enlisted \\n
- What basic training was really like \\n
- The military experience after basic training \\n
- Experiencing sexual assault in the military \\n
- Military\'s failure to do anything about it \\n
- Coping with PTSD from sexual assault \\n
- Being a struggling single parent with PTSD \\n
- Military Sexual Trauma MST \\n
- What she\\u2019s doing now and how she still connected to the military \\n
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