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Entrepreneurs on Fire

A gunshot wound to the head while serving in Iraq hasn't slowed down Justin Constantine

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

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4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Justin is a former Marine and attorney and is now an inspirational speaker and leadership consultant. He survived a gunshot wound to the head while serving in Iraq.He recently completed his book,My Battlefield, Your Office.

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0:00.0

Hold on to those Afterburner Fire Nation, JLD here and welcome episode 16-100 of EO Fire.

0:10.0

We're right, Chadwick, today's most successful entrepreneurs.

0:13.0

Seven days a week. Knock over that domino Fire Nation. Start your chain reaction of awesome today with the Freedom Journal.

0:23.0

Now let's chat with today's featured guest Justin Constantine. Justin, are you prepared to ignite?

0:31.0

John, I definitely am.

0:32.0

Yes. Justin is a former Marine in attorney and is now an inspirational speaker and leadership consultant.

0:38.0

He survived a gunshot wound to the head while serving in Iraq and recently completed his book, My Battlefield Your Office.

0:47.0

Justin, take a minute. Fill in some gaps from that in-john. Give us a little glimpse of your personal life.

0:52.0

Yes.

0:53.0

Yeah, sure. Thanks John. I'll just take a second to do that. I joined the Marine Corps when I was in law school.

0:59.0

During, after a second year of law school, I went to officer Canada's school and completed that and then came back and finished a third year of law school and took the bar exam and came into the Marine Corps and did criminal offense and criminal prosecution.

1:15.0

I left after doing in 2004 that I joined the reserves in 2005. I was working as a lawyer with Homeland Security at that time.

1:25.0

And then in 2006, I transferred over to a different reserve doing it not as a lawyer, but what's called a civil affairs team leader.

1:34.0

It was also in Washington, DC where I was and that unit was going to deploy to Iraq in the fall 2006.

1:42.0

And then he had some marine officers to join the unit for the deployment. So I was so honored for the opportunity.

1:49.0

And we got there at late August of 2006 and we were attached to a Marine infantry battalion.

1:55.0

I have a camp in June, what Carolina and we were in the Alambar province in between pollution and Ramayi.

2:02.0

And so I was there for just a couple months. At that time in 2006, it was very volatile. Lots of insurgents in the area. They're very powerful.

2:13.0

And we were on one of our patrols just over 10 years ago, actually October 18 2006.

2:18.0

We got to an area where when you and any of its sniper was operating because you'd already killed a few of our Marines in the last two weeks.

2:25.0

And so we were kind of keeping eye out for him. We had a reporter with us who, and he wasn't moving around very much.

2:33.0

And he and I were walking together. We got out there at last stop and I said to him, hey, J. Eam, we're quicker here. Don't forget about that sniper.

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