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Hey everybody. Welcome back to Drive On. I’m your host, Scott DeLuzio. And today my guest is Matt Scott. Matt is the author of the Surviving the Lion’s Den series. And he’s here today to discuss, uh, some of the benefits of writing to the audience here. And, um, that it’s never too [00:02:00] late to start writing. So, uh, welcome to the show, Matt.
I’m really glad to have you here.
Matt Scott: Uh, Scott, thanks for having me on. I really appreciate it.
Scott DeLuzio: Yeah, you bet. Um, for the folks who might not be familiar with you and, uh, kind of what you write about, tell us a little bit about yourself, a little bit about your background and who you are.
Matt Scott: Okay. Well, I, uh, I was originally born in the Virginia Beach area, Virginia, but, uh, I went to college in a small liberal arts college just outside Virginia, or excuse me, outside of Richmond, Virginia, and at Hammond Sydney College. And I studied under the director, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, General Sam Wilson.
He was the president of the school at the time. And he kind of, you know, Learning from him, I got, I got my, my claws into the intelligence agency, started learning things a little bit, and I just never really let it go. And then, you know, I got into corporate world for a while, uh, almost 20 years actually.
And, uh, you know, eventually I just, you know, things were starting to get, you know, uh, starting to get complacent in the job, things weren’t going the way I [00:03:00] wanted. And I, uh, decided to go for broke and. You know, through a meeting with, uh, David Baldacci, along with some other, you know, fortuitous circumstances, I guess we’ll call it, I decided to, uh, write a, write a spy thriller.
Um, and...
