Scott DeLuzio: [00:00:00] 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.

Hey everybody. Welcome back to the Drive On Podcast. Today my guest is Steven Nisbet. Steven is an Air Force veteran and the President of Shields and Stripes, a nonprofit which takes a holistic mind body approach to helping veterans and first responders heal. And in this episode, we’re going to chat with Steven.

His experiences in the military and what shields and stripes is all about and how it can help the people who are looking to get into a more of a holistic mind body kind of, approach to their healing journey. So welcome to the show, Steve. I’m glad to have you here.

Steven Nisbet: [00:01:00] Oh, thank you for having me on the show.

It’s my pleasure. Hopefully we don’t keep it too boring and we keep it interesting and for your listeners. And then yeah, we can say some things that hopefully spark some opportunity for.

Scott DeLuzio: Yeah, absolutely. And I don’t think we’re gonna have a problem with that. I think we’re gonna talk about some pretty great stuff that you guys have going on and how you’re out there helping out the veterans and the first responders who are struggling in one way or another and how you’ve taken this approach to really help heal their overall, their mind, their body, that everything that they have going on.

So, I think, I don’t think we’ll have any issue with it being a boring conversation here. So, first off let’s take things back a little bit and you know, would you be able to tell us a little bit about your yourself and your background?

Steven Nisbet: Yeah, absolutely. So, I’m 36 years old.

I grew up in Tucson, Arizona. Growing up my dad was in the air. He spent several years in the Air Force Security forces, and then he got out and became a police [00:02:00] officer. So he’s spent pretty much the next 30 years in law enforcement my entire childhood and beyond as a police officer and specifically in the gang task force unit.

So as I grew up it was, you know, a pretty strict house. If you will. And it’s not that I had a, there was no like terrible upbringing or anything like that. It was just making sure that we didn’t do anything, me and my brothers where my brothers and I didn’t do anything to tarnish his name or his reputation.

You know, there’s a lot of individuals or kids at the school that I hung out with that he arrested and he knew a lot of things about a lot of the people that I hung out with. And and so it made it a challenge in school being the son of a police officer. Spent my childhood playing soccer and beyond doing, you know, that was my sport that I really wanted to get into.

I wanted to go to college playing soccer. That was a goal and an aspiration. And as [00:03:00] I finished high school, that never came. I didn’t get a scholarship to go to. To place soccer somewhere and you know, specifically the university of Arizona there, or even Pima Community College. And it was at a point of, well, what do I do now?

What do I do next? And so I went to school, I went to Pima Community College after high scho...