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Veteran Healing Through Fishing: Captain Jimmy & Knot Lucky Foundation
Host Jessica Leigh Lebos is in the Ship Watch Loft of Tybee Marine Science Center with Captain Jimmy Armel, former Army Ranger and founder of the Knot Lucky Foundation (K-N-O-T), which offers free fishing trips for active-duty service members and veterans (and immediate family) to support healing, connection, and purpose.
Armel shares his own struggles after leaving the military, including alcoholism, brain damage, and suicidal crises, and explains how fishing and later ibogaine treatment led him to shut down his for-profit charter to run the nonprofit full time. He describes transformations…
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