Jeff Tiegs

I was also fearful that I would lose my identity, which brought me into the counter sex trafficking space.

I wanted to be around the men and women that I had spent most of my life with, the talent, the drive, the passion, offer them something new, something that's relatively safe.

We don't need to go to the

furthest corners of danger in the world to affect change and protect people.

People need our help right here in the United States.

And when I started to look internal, again, I felt a little bit guilty that I had been working so hard to fix things in areas of the world that really didn't want our help.

And so much had fallen away with exploitation and abuse and all these other things that we confront on a daily basis now with the counter sex trafficking.

So let me first answer a question you didn't ask and then get to the one that you did ask.

So this is a logical extension of this idea that A, I'm a protector and B, much has been given, right?

Like I just, I understand the enemy.

You know, there's one of my favorite quotes of all time is from Sun Tzu where he says, if you understand yourself and you understand your enemy, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles, of a thousand battles, however it is.

And it's pithy.

And you'll see this above executives' offices and their desks, you know what I mean?

But it's loaded.

Knowing yourself is very, very difficult.

And then even knowing yourself as you change and adapt.

I am the same guy I was when I was 15 years old, but I'm also not.

So knowing yourself is a constant pursuit.

Knowing your enemy is something that I think I excelled on.

In the military, I knew Al-Qaeda.