SPU – Ideas that Changed the World

When people have the courage to speak about their role actualizing ideas that changed the world, it’s worth listening. Jill Chambers, retired colonel and U.S. Army Women’s Hall of Fame inductee, joins host Tonya Dawn Recla as they unpackage a riveting story of battling the behemoth U.S. military system to create change. Jill is widely recognized as the first person in U.S. military history to develop a successful, sustainable strategy to address the unimaginable destruction created by stress, trauma and mental illness. Jill’s efforts profoundly altered the post-war experience for service members and veterans everywhere. In addition to her heroic efforts in the policy battlefield, she carried the internal burden of being in the Pentagon on 9/11 until realizing the damage of untended constriction in the body. As a dynamo in a little package, Jill embodies ultimate courage, intestinal fortitude and an internal compass consistently pointing her to magnificence. [...]