 Hello, my name is Brad Snyder. I'm a formerly a lieutenant in the Navy. I was an EOD officer for approximately six years. I was injured in September of 2011 and during my recovery had the opportunity to participate in the Paralympics in London in 2012 Resulting in two gold medals and a silver. Now I'm currently awaiting my transition out of active duty status and into the civilian world. I'm working as an intern with a small software company as well as an ambassador for a nonprofit called the Commit Foundation. I had a lot of opportunities to kind of test my mental endurance. There's a lot of situations that are very stressful or really you have to keep a can-do attitude through some austere circumstances, whether it is patrolling in Afghanistan or it's deciding to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. You know those sorts of situations in the Navy prepared me well for situations of adversity. When I first started out in the Navy, I was terrified of public speaking. I was terrified of standing in front of people and having to make impactful decisions. I was terrified of being wrong or making a mistake. But my experiences in the Navy have really eroded at that that thought or that fear and I'm now able to move into each environment with a lot of confidence, a lot of a lot of leadership ability in tough environments, and that's something that sets apart veterans. My goal with all of my actions is to inspire that person who's been dealt a difficult hand and they're laying in a hospital bed and they're not sure what's next. Hopefully they'll see my story and say, you know, I can go out and do that. I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna hop on a hand cycle or I'm gonna go start my own company or I'm gonna go go back to what I used to love doing before I got hurt and hopefully that's the positive impact that my story holds and that's where I garner my motivation.