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What do you consider like say your vision of what you're trying to accomplish?

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So I have kind of two tracks and they are completely

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separate. I'm a

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investor. I'm a CEO of a healthcare company. I've

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built companies, sold companies

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over the years. I've worked with large companies

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kind of where I learned a lot of it. I was a

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portfolio manager for UBS for eight years at one point after I got out of the SEALS.

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And that's kind of the

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the professional work track and

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and right now I'm working, you know with this healthcare company and growing it for the next couple years.

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Okay. Personal track, the personal track.

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I'm a writer of an author.

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I published nine novels.

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As I'm sitting here, I'm four chapters away from my tenth novel.

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My first draft. So that'll probably come out next year. And I've got three business books.

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So all the all the proceeds of my novels are donated to the SEAL Veterans Foundation.

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Which

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was my intent for the very first novel. I had no idea I was gonna write nine others.

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But once I put that out there, I couldn't really take it back.

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So all the proceeds from that, from all my my fiction stuff go to that.

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Which there's a special part of their fund that has to do with

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finding money for

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veterans that are suffering from PTSD or traumatic brain injury.

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But because of when they served or when they got out, if it was before the

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the military, you know, acknowledge those concerns, acknowledge them as actual

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you know problems, physical problems, they missed it. There's a gap.

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So if you were in the military from like 2009 on,

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you're covered. It's in your records. It's a part of your disability, etc. But if you were in before that,

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you're out of luck. So that's what my money goes to a program that helps

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find consultants that know the VA system and get these people into doctors, get all the stuff

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identified and tied to their servers disabled,

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whatever the event was.

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All the business books, I just I use them to help leverage my

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my professional speaking and my consulting.

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So the consulting speaking and writing the business books is kind of the three legs of the stool on my personal

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business side.

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And then I've got my work

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side.