She shot an entire season of Stranger Things with cancer. Nobody on set knew. Jennifer Marshall is a Navy veteran, actress, firefighter EMT, and cancer survivor who has spent her entire life showing up when every reasonable person would have stayed home. She joined the Navy at 17 out of a small mountain town in Colorado, her words: “poverty and bad decisions.” She deployed on the USS Theodore Roosevelt in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. She got out, used the GI Bill, graduated Magna Cum Laude, became a licensed private investigator, moved to Los Angeles with no connections, and built a 50+ credit career in film and television including a recurring role on Netflix's Stranger Things, NCIS, Reacher, The Terminal List, and hosting Mysteries Decoded on the CW. Then in 2020 she recommissioned into the California State Guard. Then she was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma. She resigned her commission, spent 14 months in treatment, and went straight back to work, including shooting an entire season of one of the most-watched shows on the planet while her hair was falling out and her body was breaking down. She told no one. Until the last day. This is the conversation Hollywood didn't let her have. No PR. No filter. No version of the story that's been approved by anyone. We talk about what it actually costs to build a career in an industry that will tell you to your face that you need a nose job, a different body, and a different personality, and why she left anyway. We talk about what it felt like to shoot through cancer, what happened when she finally told the truth, and what the silence that followed actually meant. We talk about why she walked away from red carpets to ride an ambulance for $16 an hour, and why she's never been happier. We talk about sexual assault, healing, and the unexpected place she found both. And we talk about what veterans carry out of the military that nobody in the civilian world knows how to hold. Jennifer Marshall doesn't do the polished version. She does the real one. This is it. If anything in this episode brought something up for you: Veterans Crisis Line: Dial 988, then press 1 | Text 838255 RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673 | rainn.org Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741 About Vegas Veteran Voices: Vegas Veteran Voices is a veteran-led 501(c)(3) nonprofit media company based in Las Vegas. We tell veteran stories, all branches, all ranks, no filter, through cinematic long-form conversations that the veteran community deserves and the world needs to hear. ️ Subscribe so you don't miss what's coming in Season 2. vegasveteranvoices.com #JenniferMarshall #StrangerThings #NavyVeteran #VegasVeteranVoices #CancerSurvivor #VeteranStories #MilitaryVeteran #NetflixStrangerThings #MaxsMom #VeteranPodcast #HollywoodVeteran #FirefighterEMT #MelanomaAwareness #VeteranWomen #WomenVeterans #MilitaryWomen #VeteranCommunity #PodcastForVeterans #TrueStory #UnfilteredConversations