Welcome to the Trauma Therapist podcast. My name is Guy McPherson. I interview incredible people who've dedicated their lives to helping those who've been impacted by trauma. A big thank you to our sponsors and our guests who are supporting this show.

Five, four, three, two, and one. All right, folks, welcome back to the podcast. Very excited to have back, John Henry Parker.

John, welcome back.

Thank you.

Good to see you again.

Appreciate it.

John is a modern author, behavioral analyst, and a former Marine focused on trauma recovery and veteran transition.

As co-founder of Harvesting Wisdom, he's known for his narrative approach to helping

individuals navigate personal, professional, and military to civilian life challenges. He's the author

of most recently Men Harvesting Wisdom, a transformational guide to self-leadership that blends

the hero's journey with his 10 Heroic Dimensions Framework.

Designed as both a book and a workbook, it invites readers into deep reflection and action,

empowering them to uncover their own answers and actively shape who they are becoming.

He's also the author of Be the Dawn in the Darkness.

All right, John, obviously just a little bit about you.

Remind our listeners where you're from originally and where you are currently.

Yeah, I was raised in Southwest Phoenix, and I reside in outside of Reno towards Lake Tahoe.

Okay.

All right.

So obviously, we're going to get into the book and harvesting wisdom. Okay. All right. So obviously we're going to get into the book and harvesting wisdom. But before we do remind some of our readers and share with our newer listeners, how this all started for you. How this feel, this interest, passion took hold.

Well, when I think back, there are a number of events,

but the original, like, Gestalt, like that activated this whole thing.

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