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 everyone. Welcome back to Drive On. I’m your host, Scott DeLuzio. And today my guest is Seth Gehle. Seth is a veteran and expert in leadership and personal development with a focus on helping individuals and organizations achieve their full potential. And he brings a wealth of knowledge and experience and insights that are particularly valuable for veterans and active military personnel looking to transition to civilian careers or enhance.

Their leadership skills and their, their personal lives. So, before we get into all of that which I think it’s going to be [00:01:00] a great show, great topics and everything. But before we get into all of that, Seth, welcome to the show. I’m really glad to have you here.

Seth Gehle: Yeah, I appreciate it. Thank you for having me. It’s always an honor when, when somebody wants to have a good conversation. So thank you.

Scott DeLuzio: Yeah, absolutely. And one of the things I’ve, I’ve noticed just throughout the years doing this show is everybody’s got different perspectives on, how, their own two cents on how to do one thing or another. But when you start piecing all that stuff together, when you, when you started doing it.

Hear little bits and sometimes you got to hear it from, from different people, multiple times over and over again until it finally clicks with you. But when you hear different perspectives, different ways of doing things, different people’s stories and stuff, it, it sometimes just starts to form itself in, in people’s minds.

And that’s, what I’m hoping to do is just get. Different perspectives out there, different insights and experiences to basically just help other folks who might be just struggling, not figuring able to figure it [00:02:00] out on their own. And they start hearing messages like what we’re going to share today.

And hopefully that kickstarts things in their life and gets them moving down the right path. So why don’t we just start off would you be able to tell us a little bit about your background and, how you got into focusing on leadership, personal development, that type of thing.

And, and how you got to where you are.

Seth Gehle: Yeah my background’s a little rocky. It’s, I, I had a very traumatic, tough childhood upbringing. And for, 16 years, I kind of went through the full spectrum of Child abuse and neglect and kind of witnessed everything from, just physical, emotional, and then sexual abuse as well as a young man.

And, my mom was addicted to hard drugs and abusive. And so I went through a lot of that as a young man to almost an unfathomable amount. Like when I tell my story to people, it’s almost like [00:03:00] incomprehensible. Like people don’t understand how you could. Do that or go through that and kind of, and one to do all that, but then to be in the shoes that I’m in today.

So that’s kind of like my very brief backstory and we can get into that. If we can get more into that, if you’d like, if you have questions, but when that all ended, I was about 16. And a couple of years later, I joined...