[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Thanks for tuning in to the Drive On Podcast where we are focused on giving hope and strength to the entire military community, whether you’re a veteran active duty guard reserve, or a family member, this podcast will share inspirational stories and resources that are useful to you. I’m your host Scott DeLuzio and now let’s get on with the show.

[00:00:21] Scott DeLuzio: Welcome back to the Drive On Podcast. Today, my guest is Brent Magnussen. Brent is a us army veteran who served as a combat engineer. He’s also a bestselling author speaker and sits on the board of the Resilient Warrior Foundation, which serves us veterans and first responders who suffer from PTSD. So welcome to the show.

[00:00:47] Scott DeLuzio: Brent, I’m glad to have you on.

[00:00:48] Brent Magnussen: Yeah, man. Awesome to be on. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah. You

[00:00:51] Scott DeLuzio: bet. For the listeners who may not be familiar with you and your background why don’t you tell us a little bit about

[00:00:57] Brent Magnussen: yourself? Someone doesn’t know about me [00:01:00] oh my God. My ego is being crushed and humbled as we speak

[00:01:04] Scott DeLuzio: there, there might be one or two.

[00:01:06] Brent Magnussen: There might be one or two, one or two. No I appreciate it again, man. I appreciate the time. I appreciate what you’re doing with the podcast. And it’s always interesting to get two army guys. On zoom and then hit record. So hopefully this goes well, but we’ll see where it goes. yeah. So for the 99.9% of the population that does not know who I am I’m Brent Magnuson.

[00:01:25] Brent Magnussen: I was born and raised in the rough middle class suburbs of Chicago. And Yeah. I was a sports guy growing up, martial arts guy growing up. And like the vast majority of males in my family. I had a calling if you will, to serve. And pretty much knew it was gonna be the army. And yeah, I was fortunate to enlist and get to serve with some amazing people.

[00:01:46] Brent Magnussen: was a combat engineer with the 94th engineer battalion combat heavy spent most of my time stationed outta Southern Germany in VI. I was fortunate enough to deploy got to hit Bosnia, did a little skirmish and supported some cool guys in Macedonia. [00:02:00] Then argument deployed to cost of O 99 and then late 99, I got banged up a little more on a training up and got medically discharged, healed up for about a year, year and a half.

[00:02:10] Brent Magnussen: And then after that, unfortunately things kicked off in the middle east and found that there was still a purpose. Cuz for a lot of us that get on, especially there’s the guy that wants to be the weekend warrior. Although I don’t like that term, then there’s the guy or the gal that wants to put in a full 20 plus some and just get after it every day.

[00:02:30] Brent Magnussen: And I wanted to be that guy and unfortunately it wasn’t meant to be, but I was able to do some contracting and still contribute in that capacity. And after that Yeah, I became entrepreneurial, been doing some executive protection stuff, so I can still kind of, get after it a little bit.

[00:02:46] Brent Magnussen: And in addition to that, I obviously have the book Roger Up and yeah, we have a big event called Roger Up class zero one coming up September 1st, second, and third in Chicago. We can talk abou...