"VOICES BEYOND VALOR: ADDRESSING THE NEED FOR IMPROVING MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT FOR AMERICA'S VETERANS AND FAMILIES^TM"

"Voices Beyond Valor ^TM" seeks to make an extraordinary difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of America's Veterans by providing them with the most current health, wellness, medical, and other scientific information needed to improve their lives, with a particular focus on improving their Mental Health.

The program will inform Veterans, family members, and others of the resources available today as well as what is coming in the future (which will help give hope to many of those with significant health and medical needs). Most of all, the show will ensure that Veterans know their challenges are shared by many and that they are not alone.

Aaron Harber, the award-winning television host and moderator of "The Aaron Harber Show ^TM" (HarberTV.com/Info and HarberTV.com/Awards), also serves as the Host and Moderator of "Voices Beyond Valor."

The program takes a deep dive into the Mental Health challenges facing America's Veterans and explores their Mental Health needs. It also will propose ways to improve the Veterans Administration's efforts to adequately provide Mental Health services at this critical juncture with a new Administration and VA leadership in Washington.

(Photo: Aaron in Iraq with General David Petraeus)

To maximize viewer accessibility at no cost, "Voices Beyond Valor" is scheduled as an over-the-air broadcast television (also available via cable and satellite) and online streaming program as well as an audio and video podcast on multiple platforms as a subset of the weekly television program, "The Aaron Harber Show."

The series already has a broadcast and national distribution agreement with Rocky Mountain PBS (KRMA-TV, Channel 6) which has taken the lead as the Presenting Station to all 354 Public Television Stations.

Amanda Mountain, Rocky Mountain Public Media President & CEO, emphasized, "Given that Colorado is home to six major military installations, the challenges our military families face resonate across every community in our state — and across the nation"

Mountain declared, "We are truly honored to champion this partnership and to help bring critical issues like mental health into the national spotlight. By elevating these conversations here in Colorado and through nationwide distribution, we're working to ensure that those who serve — and the families who stand behind them — receive the understanding, support, and visibility they deserve."

Mountain, a nationally-recognized and Emmy Award-winning journalist also is the Board Chair for the nationwide Public Television Major Market Group and serves on the Digital Marketing Advisory Committee of PBS. (Please see the official Rocky Mountain Public Media endorsement and broadcast plan letter at the end of this document.)

A number of prominent experts already have agreed to be guests on the program, including Dr. Nora Volkow (bit.ly/VolkowNIH), the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health. Volkow's work has been instrumental in demonstrating drug addiction is a brain disorder.

As a research psychiatrist, Volkow pioneered the use of brain imaging to investigate how substance use affects brain functions. Her studies have documented how changes in the dopamine system affect the functions of brain regions involved with reward and self-control in addiction. She also has made key contributions to the neurobiology of obesity, ADHD, and aging.

Samuel Gandy, M.D., Ph.D. (bit.ly/SamGandy), the Mount Sinai Professor of Alzheimer's Disease Research, Professor of Neurology & Psychiatry, Associate Director of the Mount Sinai Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, leads research using blood and brain imaging biomarkers to diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) during life in in former warfighters exposed to improvised explosive device battlefield blast injuries. He is testing new classes of drugs relieving brain trauma-related neuropsychiatric syndromes such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Joshua Brody, M.D. (bit.ly/JoshBrody), Director of the Lymphoma Immunotherapy Program at The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai and a faculty member of the Icahn Genomics Institute, has pioneered a therapeutic vaccine approach – in situ vaccination – that induces anti-tumor immunity at the tumor site and can also cause regression of tumors throughout the body.

Additionally, other Participating Organizations include the Veteran-focused Marcus Institute for Brain Health (MedSchool.CUAnschutz.edu/MIBH) led by Professor and Brigadier General Kathleen Flarity (Ret.). The Marcus Institute for Brain Health (MIBH) at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is a clinical care and research institute for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and psychological health (PH) conditions such as post-traumatic stress (PTS). Its mission is to deliver in-depth, interdisciplinary precision medicine to Active Service Members, Veterans, and First Responders with ongoing symptoms following a mild to moderate TBI.

A key Participating Organization is Blue Star Families (BlueStarFam.org). Led by Kathy Roth-Douquet, CEO and Board President, Blue Star Families is the largest nonprofit serving and representing military and veteran families. Founded by military family members to help others thrive as they serve, Blue Star Families strengthens military families by connecting them with their neighbors – individuals and organizations – to build vibrant communities of mutual support for our country.

The organization's groundbreaking research is raising the nation's awareness of the unique challenges of military family life. Blue Star Families helps overcome the isolation and alienation of frequent moves and deployments via programs that solve challenges for military families, such as fighting economic insecurity with resources that foster spouse career development, creating family strength with rich family programming, and providing critical peer support for caregivers.

With approximately 370,000 members, including in chapters and communities all over the world, Blue Star Families touches more than 1.5 million military family members every year.

Also joining the effort as a Participating Organization providing expertise is the Princeton University Neuroscience Institute (PNI.Princeton.edu) including, among others, the Witten Lab (WittenLab.org) headed by Professor Ilana Witten (Ilana Witten | Princeton Neuroscience Institute).

The Witten Lab investigates the neural circuits underlying reward learning and decision-making with the aim to understand how the brain assigns credit to specific actions or stimuli that lead to outcomes—a fundamental challenge in learning and behavior.

Professor Annegret Falkner (Annegret Falkner | Princeton Neuroscience Institute) heads the Falkner Lab (FalknerLab.com) at PNI which focuses on understanding the interplay between circuit nodes in the brain's "social decision-making network" in the brain that processes social-sensory information and drives social behaviors.

The Lab uses genetic tools and optical recording strategies to probe how activity in these networks changes as a function of experience, neuromodulatory, and hormonal influences.

Professor Catherine Peña (Catherine Jensen Peña | Princeton Neuroscience Institute) leads the Peña Lab at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PenaLab.org) studies the neurobiological mechanisms through which early environmental experiences are encoded and maintained into adulthood to have long-lasting impact on behavior.

The Lab focuses on understanding how early life stress increases risk for depression, addiction, and other psychiatric syndromes. Their research is translationally motivated by the robust clinical finding that child maltreatment and other forms of early life stress increase the lifetime risk of depression and other mood, anxiety, and drug disorders by as much as 400%.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, a four-time guest on "The Aaron Harber Show," who has often focused on the needs of our Veterans, also will participate by providing both his medical expertise as well as his unique governmental insight as the current Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.

Dr. Oz is a world-renowned heart surgeon and an emeritus Professor of Columbia University. He led the Heart Institute at New York Presbyterian Medical Center with research interests including heart replacement surgery, minimally invasive surgery, complementary medicine and health care policy.

He has received numerous patents, including creation of the famed Mitraclip to repair heart valves without surgery. He has authored over 400 original publications, book chapters, and medical books, and led The Good Life Magazine with Hearst for a decade in addition to serving as host of the "Dr. Oz Show," which won nine Emmy awards.

Also advising the series is Harvard Medical School Professor of Neurology Dr. Greg Petsko, whose research aims to develop treatments for ALS, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.

He also has received the National Medal of Science, the highest honor the United States can bestow on a scientist or engineer and has founded several biotechnology companies, including ArQule, Ironwood, Aevum Therapeutics and Retromer Therapeutics. His public lectures on brain health have attracted a wide audience; one of his TED Talks has been viewed more than a million times.

Joining the advisory group is Dr. Seemant Chaturvedi. His research interests include stroke prevention, gender differences in stroke outcomes and maintenance of brain health across the lifespan. He is the Stewart J. Greenebaum Endowed Professor of Stroke Neurology and the Department of Neurology's Vice Chair for Strategic Operations at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and also is the Stroke Program Director at the University of Maryland Medical System.

He has helped create and co-author guidelines related to stroke prevention for the American Academy of Neurology and the American Heart Association (AHA), including the 2024 AHA guidelines for prevention of a first stroke.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

With a view towards providing answers and solutions, "Voices Beyond Valor" will candidly address Mental Health crises, sharing untold stories of struggle and resilience. It will expose how difficult it can be for both Veterans and their families to navigate the VHA's system with advice how to advocate effectively for individuals and others in need.

(Photo: Aaron with the troops in Iraq)

The program also will provide expert guidance on how to access support and best practices for those in need. Veterans will openly share their personal stories of both successes and failures in their interactions with the VHA.

The program will be a place where thousands of Veterans will be able to get valuable information, hear stories so they would know they are not alone, and see how much their fellow Americans do care about them.

The ultimate goal is to make the shows an invaluable resource for hundreds of thousands of Veterans across the country as well as to make it accessible to their families, friends, and supporters.

Subjects related to the challenges of returning Veterans reintegrating back into Society also will be a focus of the program along with revealing how Veterans perceive their treatment by the Public upon reentry and for years after having completed their service.

The program will be structured to inform the General Public about the experiences and needs of Veterans, who often feel forgotten after completing their tours of duty. It also will discuss the best ways for family members, friends, acquaintances, and strangers (e.g., someone meeting a Veteran for the first time) to respond to Veterans' needs.

SPECIAL FEATURED GUEST EXPERT DR. CHRISANA B. OLSON

Dr. Chrisana Olson will join Aaron as a special guest. She is uniquely qualified as the featured expert of the program based on her service to Veterans for two decades in various roles, including previously as a Clinical Psychologist in the Veterans Health Administration ("VHA").

She has helped hundreds of Veterans and also has been a whistleblower revealing dereliction of responsibility by VHA administrators and officials who were failed to provide life-saving services to Veterans.

Dr. Olson seeks to use "Voices Beyond Valor" to further serve Veterans by providing thousands of them a safe place to confidentially share their life experiences and get Mental Health information to help them prosper.

Dr. Olson has a B.A. in Psychology, a Masters in Clinical Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. Her dissertation was titled, "Emotional Suppression, Forgiveness and Psychophysiological Response in Vietnam Veterans with Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder."

She did a Postdoctoral Fellowship at a University Pain Research Center and served as a University Adjunct Professor as a Clinical Pain Psychologist. In addition to numerous academic awards and publications, she received the American Psychological Association's Dissertation Research Award.

Dr. Olson served as a Research Psychologist at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center, conducting formal assessments of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CAPS interviews) and mental status (PANSS interviews) for a government-funded clinical trial of Risperidone for treatment of chronic PTSD.

She also served as a Clinical Psychologist and a Faculty-appointed Adjunct Professor in a University Medical School Department of Anesthesiology.

Dr. Olson's clinical experience has included serving as a Clinical Psychologist in a VHA Outpatient Mental Health Clinic, including in a Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program, providing essential psychotherapeutic and Mental Health support services to Veterans in individual, couples, and group settings for full range of patient populations via in-person and virtual formats.

She has served a wide range of patient presenting problems and/or diagnostic conditions including, but not limited to: PTSD, depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, "gender dysphoria," insomnia, chronic pain, chronic illness, personality disorders, normal bereavement, complicated bereavement, obsessive-compulsive disorders, substance use disorders, pornography addiction, relationship distress, anger, life-transition challenges, challenges related to diversity, inclusion, equity, access, harassment, and "moral injury."

Dr. Olson has received formal training in "Evidence-Based Practices" ("EBP") for Motivational Interviewing, Interpersonal Therapy for Depression, and Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy, as well as of EBP-informed therapeutic approaches including: CBT, ACT, CPT, PE, DBT, MET, PST, SP, BA.

Dr. Olson served in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Rapid Access Focused Treatment Clinic (RAFT) providing same-day, walk-in services such as Clinical assessment, triage, crisis management and short-term therapy sessions), and crisis interventions.

She also has served in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center Pain Management Clinic as a full-time Pain Psychologist for 8 years for three pain clinics: Telepain Program, Chronic Pain/Opioid Pain Care Clinic, and the Interdisciplinary Pain Team.

MILITARY EXPERT CONTRIBUTORS

Stephen N. Xenakis, MD, Brigadier General (Ret), served 28 years in the U.S. Army and is a psychiatrist with an active clinical practice. He has been a senior adviser to the Department of Defense on the care and support to service members and their families.

Dr. Xenakis has written widely on medical ethics, military medicine, and treatment of detainees and appears regularly on national radio and television.

He is an Adjunct Professor at the Uniformed Services of Health Sciences of the Military Medical Department and the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

"THE AARON HARBER SHOW" BACKGROUND

"Voices Beyond Valor" will leverage the success of "The Aaron Harber Show," the fact-based, nonpartisan broadcast television program featuring the world's top-tier guests, including Presidents, Supreme Court Justices, Secretaries of State, Attorneys General, other Cabinet Secretaries, Heads of State, Ambassadors, business leaders, scientists, and celebrities.

All of Aaron's guests appear in person with Aaron in studio or on location.

(Photo: Aaron with the troops in Iraq)

Some of his many Military guests have included Generals and Admirals such as John Allen, Wesley Clark, Michael Hayden, Douglas Lute, Dennis McGinn, David Petraeus, and Colin Powell as well as many other members of the United States Armed Forces.

Aaron also was embedded briefly as a journalist during the Iraq War where he interviewed General Petraeus in the U.S. Embassy (which was Saddam Hussein's palacpalace. (Note: All of the photos of Aaron with U.S. troops were (Photo: Aaron with the troops in Iraq) from his trip to visit the American and International Forces in Kuwait and Iraq during the War in Iraq.)

A sampling of Aaron's other guests includes the following:

The show's host, Aaron Harber (HarberTV.com/Bio) --- the recipient of the prestigious "Broadcaster of the Year Award" --- is recognized as a superb moderator and an expert with direct experience in many fields including Economics, Energy, the Environment, Finance, Health Care, International Relations, Politics, Ethics, Law, Media & Press, Citizen Rights, and Consumer Affairs.

A graduate of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs (Economics) and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government (Ethics in Business, Government, and Politics), and a former member of Princeton's governing Board of Trustees, he has an extraordinary knowledgebase on a wide range of subjects and the ability to get some of the most sought-after guests on the planet.

(Photo: Aaron with the troops in Iraq)

Aaron serves as the voice of his viewers and listeners by taking on all sides. The program's high-level, fact-based issue analyses and nonpartisan pursuit of solutions further distinguish it from other shows.

Aaron is donating his time as the Host and Moderator of the series for all of 2026. In Aaron’s career as a Journalist, he never has formally endorsed a product or service nor has he ever accepted funds or any kind of payment for an advertisement featuring him. Nevertheless, he always is very appreciative of those who support his efforts to promote civil and mutually respectful discourse.

COMMENTS ON "THE AARON HARBER SHOW" FROM INDUSTRY ICONS

Clark Bunting, former President of the DISCOVERY Channel. "What sets Aaron apart is his remarkably diplomatic approach --- asking the tough questions most hosts shy away from and then, without offending his guests, adroitly eliciting surprisingly candid and often profound answers."

John Sie, founder and former Chairman & CEO, STARZ Entertainment Group. "'The Aaron Harber Show' offers our nation a desperately needed, fact-based forum for civil discourse and problem-resolution."

"By featuring the world's most prominent guests sharing their perspectives across the political spectrum, the program objectively informs viewers so they can come to their own conclusions."

"Aaron's extraordinary depth of knowledge, experience, and wit allow him to probe at deeper levels while simultaneously entertaining his ever-expanding audience."

Joseph Koker, former President, Television Station Group, ION MEDIA NETWORKS. "'The Aaron Harber Show' continues to win kudos from all sectors of the political spectrum."

"The nonpartisan and non-confrontational forum he anchors provides for a free-flowing discussion of important issues of the day. This makes his show timely, educational and entertaining."

Richard Buchanan, former Vice President, COMCAST Technology Solutions. "As a result of the credibility Aaron has amassed through his nonpartisan reputation for seeking the truth, he uniquely fills the void in the programming landscape dominated by polarizing political commentary which simply echoes the point of view of its audience."

"Because Aaron reaches people across the entire political spectrum and provides them with accurate and balanced information, 'The Aaron Harber Show' has the potential to be trans-formational at a time the Media urgently needs to meet the obligations of the Fourth Estate."

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Funding for the series is provided by tax-deductible donations from Sponsors to the Democracy and Media Education Foundation, a tax-exempt IRS Section 501(c)(3) public charity founded a quarter of a century ago.

Contributions also can be made by Donors directly to the Production Company of the series, USA Talk Network, Inc. Payments to USA Talk Network can remain strictly confidential, at the Donor's discretion.

Donations can be made by check, cash, credit card, and wire transfer, as well as via the conveyance of assets in almost any form such as stocks, bonds, real estate, crypto, et cetera (e.g., especially if a contributor wants to donate an asset whose value has appreciated so as to maximize the value of a tax deduction).

(Photo: Aaron with the troops in Iraq)

Sponsors can receive promotional benefits in various forms ranging from being thanked in a list of Sponsors to a 15-second or 30-second video spot on each Broadcast television and streamed Program as well as inclusion in all audio and video Podcast shows.

Sponsors also can host one of the receptions after the recording of programs with an audience of up to 250 special guests who will have the opportunity to watch the "live" production and participate in a discussion.

Sponsors do not have any editorial control of the programming or any related activities.

To maintain its independence and objectivity, the program has never accepted and still does not accept funding from any U.S. Government, State or local Government funding source.

For more information, please write Producer@HarberTV.com. Thank you for your support!

(Photo: Aaron in Washington, D.C., moderating the broadcast television premiere of "The Great Economics Debate: What Is America's Financial Future? featuring [left to right] (1) Professor Peter Morici, former Chief Economist, U.S. International Trade Commission, Member of Reuters Macro-Economic Forecasting Panel, Vice President, National Planning Association; (2) Economics Professor William Spriggs, President of the National Economic Association, U.S. Department of Labor Assistant Secretary for Policy, and AFL-CIO Chief Economist; (3) Marty Regalia, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Senior Executive Vice President, U.S. Chamber Chief Economist, U.S. Chamber Senior Vice President for Economic & Tax Policy, and U.S. Chamber Leadership Corporate Advisory Council Overseer; (4) Chris Edwards, CATO Institute Economist, CATO Director of Tax Policy Studies, Senior Economist for the Congressional Joint Economics Committee, and author of “Downsizing The Federal Government;” and (5) Professor Alice Rivlin, Federal Reserve Bank Vice Chair, the first Director of the Congressional Budget Office, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, and Member of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility & Reform).