Working outside the home with a family is always hard. When you add in the military, along with its deployments, moves and necessary spouse job changes, it’s even more challenging. Join us to talk about it and find ways to make your skills more marketable as you move around with the military.
 

Marine Wife Leads Leaders

By Lisa Ferguson

Every military spouse knows that one of the hardships of military life is keeping a career going while moving every few years.  The need for a “portable career” is one of the reasons that Angie Morgan, a Marine Corp wife and the mother of a four-year-old son, co-authored the book, Leading from the Front and started her own business with a fellow Marine veteran five years ago. Her business, Lead Star, www.leadstar.us, provides leadership development to corporations across the country through daylong training sessions and executive coaching services.

“What’s great about consulting is that as long as I live near an airport I can do my job,” Morgan said.  “I work from my home office and, when I need to, I can hop on a plane to get to work.”
Morgan began working with Blue Star Families in 2008 because she wanted to advocate for military families to government officials at the highest level and to advance issues that affect families the most. 

What kept Morgan involved in Blue Star Families, though, were the people and the focus of the organization.

“BSF has some really great people who are very focused on solutions and issues,” she said. “Everybody has grumbles and gripes about life in the military, but BSF is a productive outlet to channel real solutions for these issues. I feel like I’m part of the solution, especially with Michelle Obama choosing military family life as one of her top issues.”

Morgan said one thing she quickly found to be unique about Blue Star Familes is the opportunity to network with spouses from other branches of service.

“We forget the value of learning about others’ hardships and issues,” she said. “It’s interesting to realize that while we’re separate branches, we really all have common ground and can learn from one another and share experiences.”

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