Scott DeLuzio: [00:00:00] Before we dive in, make sure you’re subscribed at Drive On Podcast dot com slash subscribe. You’ll get my five favorite episodes sent straight to your inbox. No fluff, just the best insights to help you drive on. Are you struggling to find real connection? You’re not alone. Too many veterans feel isolated, misunderstood, and trapped in a cycle of anxiety PTSD, and feeling outta sync with the world around them.

But. What if the key to healing wasn’t in a pill or a diagnosis, but in your own voice? Dr. Fred Moss is here to break down how true healing happens through communication, human connection, and rediscovering your authentic self. Let’s get into it.

Dr.

Fred really glad to have you here. Looking [00:01:00] forward to this conversation. Welcome to the show. Thank

Fred Moss: Thank you so much. It’s really just an honor and a pleasure, a true privilege to be on the show. I look forward to our interview and thank you for having me as a guest.

Scott DeLuzio: Yeah, absolutely. So, before we get into you know, all that, can you maybe take us back a bit share with us your journey into what you’re doing now, mental health advocacy and you know, kind what this, this journey looked like for you? I’d like to kind of paint the picture of who, who the guest is before we, we start getting into the, the topic.

Fred Moss: All right, so I’m gonna take you back right to the very beginning. You know, I arrived right here on this planet as a born healer. And how do I know that? Well, I was called on to bring love and peace and understanding to a family that was in chaos and disarray. I had two older brothers, 10 and 14 years older than me and my parents, and from what I understand, as they’ve told me later, there was a lot of chaos, a lot of conflict in the home, and they were hoping for little freight to come in and be the, you know, bundle of joy that apparently I succeeded in being for a couple years.

I’m not sure my brothers, by the way, [00:02:00] would, would agree that it’s.

Scott DeLuzio: No brother. Even if they did agree, no brother would admit that.

Fred Moss: That’s exactly right. For sure. And so there was a, you know, there was an opportunity for me to learn how to be, you know, how to be the center of attention. How to, how to, you know, win a crowd with a smile, how to be funny, and all those things that I was you know, to bring this a sense of entertainment and joy into my family.

Now, I fast forward a little bit. I remember being in my playpen and watching my brothers and my parents speak with each other and thinking that someday if I was lucky, I would also know how to speak like that. I just wanted to learn how to speak and how to communicate. It was very clear to me that that’s what people were passionate about, and I thought that I would probably get that in school.

You know, my again, with my family I was pretty precocious and they had taught me many things that my kindergarten friends didn’t know when I arrived. You know, I had a sort of already an established at least semi. I won’t say young [00:03:00] adult, but old kid. A, a viewpoint of what life was about, having been taught a little bit about sex and drugs and rock and roll and, you know, war protests and all those kind of things that were going on as a young child and I knew how to read, I knew how to do math.

I knew how to write...