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slash enhance. We were just about to head back to the tent start the walk back and we heard explosions and then we heard more explosions and you know that was the first my first experience to getting mortared. You know I saw them in the distance and they were just dropping them in and it was like boom whoa it didn't click until that point you know that what's the expression we're not in Kansas

anymore yeah that's wow that was my first dose of reality.

Welcome back to the show guys, Digital Soul Shower. I'm your host Sean Kelly with a great guest today.

Jeff Petter, how's it gone?

Good man, thank you for having me.

First podcast, man. My first podcast.

I'm breaking your podcast Virginia. Yeah. I'd love since people don't know who you are probably

I'd love for you to kind of explain what you do. Yeah, absolutely. So a little bit about my background,

born in Atlanta, Georgia. I ended up having broken household. Initially, my parents got divorced and my mom moved us up to Massachusetts and I've been there ever since.

I've lived with my grandparents growing up, did the whole school thing there and went through my kind of rebellious childhood phase and figuring out life with separated parents and all the stigma and challenges that come with that and jumped into figuring out how do I find myself and my confidence within you know this background, within trying to prove, you know, and

being played back and forth between my parents over, you know, figuring out my identity

who I wanted to be and I realized, you know, around 17 I didn't want to live home again so

Join the Marines crash course and confidence in life experience and my recruiter told me that they encourage you to go to college and that this is at the beginning of the war.

So I graduated school in 2003 and I signed up for the military, September 2002.

So kind of at the beginning of the Iraq War.

And did all my training.

Ended up, I applied to one school.

I got into UMass the business program there and while I was

while I was going to school after I had done my first you know boot camp combat training in my specialty school I then went to school for

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