Learning How To Live Your Best Life

Jessica Jaber is a USMC veteran who served in Iraq. She joins us to discuss her experiences, and how she's worked to live her best life after returning home. Links & Resources Vet Center VA resources for Massage Therapy VA resources for Acupuncture Transcript Scott DeLuzio   00:00:00    Thanks for tuning into the Drive On Podcast, where we're 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 Jessica Jaber. She was a Marine Corps veteran and she served in Iraq as a truck driver. And she had some experiences over there that she's coming on to share with us and share with us how she has transitioned since coming back and all the things that she has kind of gone through. So, welcome to the show, Jessica.   Jessica Jaber   00:00:53    Thank you, Scott.   Scott DeLuzio     00:00:55    Yeah, absolutely.  I'm excited. We talked a little bit earlier today.  Just a little bit of background on your story for the people who are listening to this. And so, we kind of dug in a little bit to your story and I'd like to kind of start from the beginning and talk about how you joined the Marine Corps and how you got into that, and what those early days were like when you first joined.   Jessica Jaber    00:01:21    Yeah. I'll just jump right in. So again, thanks for having me, Scott. This is really exciting. So I was 18 when I joined the Marine Corps, and I joined on a dare. I didn't come from a family of military brothers or, or parents or grandparents. And so for me to join the Marine Corps it was out of the norm, so a really good friend of mine. He joined the Marine Corps, came back and his, his dress blues,  came out with a group of friends and I just said, out of the blue, what would you, what would you say if I joined the Marine Corps? And he's like, oh, no way. We just did this, we just did this crucible, we just did this. And he said I don't think you would be able to do it. And so that was on a Friday night and then Monday I was in the recruiter's office signing up. So this is how I joined the Marine Corps. It wasn't a lifelong dream of mine. Scott DeLuzio      00:02:36    I like that story because let's just do it and why not? And it's for a good cause, serving your country. At the time, did you have any career expectations or college expectations in your future? Or was it something where you were 18 and were kind of like, I don't really know what's going on with my life and this sounds better than the alternatives is that?  Was that kinda like that?  Jessica Jaber   00:03:07    Exactly what it was. I wasn't that interested in going to school anymore.. It didn't really have any passions and so I'm like, yeah, Marines let's do it.   Scott DeLuzio      00:03:18    Right. It's a good career path, in the military you can learn a lot of things. You can get a skill that you can translate to the civilian world later on, if that's something that you're interested in. When we talked earlier, you didn't really have any career path in mind with the Marine Corps.  You just kind of said, put me where you need

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