Angela M. Odom retired from the US Army in 2015 as a decorated colonel. She served in three separate combat operational deployments in her long and meritorious military career. 

She graduated in 1988 from the University of Southern Mississippi as an ROTC Distinguished Military Graduate with a BS in personnel management and the Homecoming Queen. Angela earned two Master's degrees; one from the University of Central Michigan in Human Resources and the other from the United States Army War College in Strategic Studies. She is an accomplished teacher, life coach, professional speaker, and entrepreneur, and she founded the Push Through Academy. One of the many accomplishments during her military career was helping develop a female mentorship program on one of the Army's military installations. 

Bronco Strong: A Memoir of the Last Deployed Personnel Services Battalion is her first book and a testament to the challenges of daily life for soldiers during the Iraqi Surge, during which two members of her battalion lost their lives in service to their country. 

Odom and her son currently reside in Georgia.