ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
This Veterans Day, the American Warrior Association proudly launches Post-Op Reflections, a new video podcast that gives service members, veterans, first responders, and their families the microphone to share raw, real stories of moral injury, healing, and unbreakable purpose. Full episode drops 11.11.25.
Subscribe now. Share with a hero who needs to know they’re not alone.
Subscribe now. Share with a hero who needs to know they’re not alone.
Update frequency:
every 27 days
Average audio length:
108 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
13 episodes
since Nov. 7, 2025
episodic
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A special, shorter episode of Post-Op Reflections™. Rob Van Winkle, known to the world as Vanilla Ice, sat down with hosts Will Spencer and Neil Noakes at AWA Studios in Fort Worth, and the hour belonged to him: his mother’s rule to “stay on the dance floor,” growing up broke in Farmers Branch, the…
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Daylon Swearingen rode a bull to the whistle at the PBR World Finals — and the ride counted. The next day he was on an operating table with a fractured T10 vertebra. Ten weeks later, he sat down with hosts Will Spencer and Neil Noakes for one of the most honest conversations Post-Op Reflections has…
Chris Cassidy has done what almost no American has ever done. He served ten years as a U.S. Navy SEAL — deploying to Afghanistan in the earliest weeks after 9/11 as a Ground Assault Force Commander, earning two Bronze Stars, one with "V" for valor, and a Presidential Unit Citation. Then N…
Sheriff Bill Waybourn has given more than 40 years to public safety — from his start as an 18-year-old in the U.S. Air Force, to becoming Texas's youngest police chief at age 26, to serving 31 years in that chair, to now leading the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office, which serves more than 2.1 millio…
Shane Cartwright gave more than three decades to service — eight years as a U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant and Senior Drill Instructor, followed by 25 years with the Texas Department of Public Safety as a trooper, narcotics sergeant, and criminal investigations lieutenant. He answered the call st…
Brad Ortiz — former law enforcement officer with over a decade in patrol, street crimes, gang investigations, and fugitive apprehension — joins Neil Noakes and Reuben Ramirez for a raw, honest conversation on the unseen costs of the job.
From the cumulative trauma of loss-of-life calls (including t…
From the battlefield to a Christ-centered marriage—Sergeant Major Daniel Kaster and Sergeant First Class Ruth Kaster share their powerful journey of faith, healing, and hope on the newest episode of Post-Op Reflections.
After decades of service, multiple deployments, moral injury, childhood trauma…
Veteran SWAT operators Brandon Hernandez and Aaron Krause join Will Spencer and Neil Noakes for a powerful discussion on moral injury, officer shootings, justice system failures, and the role of faith in modern policing. A faith-anchored conversation about courage, leadership, and healing the soul …
In this powerful episode of Post-Op Reflections, host Neil Noakes sits down with Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker and co-host Dr. Heather Twedell, forensic psychologist and Dallas Cowboys team psychologist. Mayor Parker reveals how the R3 Program is transforming first responder wellness while sharing…
In this episode of Post-Op Reflections, Brad Hunstable courageously shares the heartbreaking story of losing his son Hayden to suicide, offering raw insights into grief and the path to renewed purpose. Joined by Forth Worth Fire Department Chaplain Cliff Weaver, who reflects on the traumatic calls …
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