Simone Gurindo
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Thank you.
Hi, Oprah.
Hi, Jenny.
Just first of all, thank you so much for having me.
It is an absolute honor to be here.
Thank you.
Well, you know, really at the very beginning of my journey of becoming an army wife, I immediately was swimming in those waters of invisibility.
My husband, it was back in 2012, he joined a rapidly deployable combat unit in the Army, and I left my job as an editor in New York City and packed up a U-Haul, and we drove south to Columbus, Georgia.
Oh, Lord.
And two weeks later...
It's a long way.
It was a long way.
And I left everything I knew behind.
I'd never been south of the Mason-Dixon line.
And I didn't even have a driver's license to get myself around.
I was that much of a fish out of water.
And two weeks after we arrived, my husband deployed to Afghanistan.
And on one level, I knew what I was signing up for.
I knew he was going to deploy and go train.
But...