The Doctor of Digital™ GMick Smith, PhD
Sep 17, 2026 · 48 min · 18 segments
From Combat Experience to Structural Science: How Justin Brown Turned Adversity Into a Body of Thought Justin Brown-Stephens identifies himself as Founder/Architect of Staring Down The Muzzle…
Justin Brown-StephensGuest
Mick SmithHost
Well, it's outstanding to have you, and you know, been looking forward to this for some time.
And in order to get the interview going, I'm really curious, like when did you first realize that you weren't simply experiencing different problems, but beginning to see the structure underneath them?
Well, I will say my first collapse, October 19th, 2025, I had my first blackout after transitioning to civilian life.
And then after that, November 6th, I came out of that with my BP was 229 over 120 something.
And I'm standing there and I'm going, something's not right, but I can feel it in my body.
And from there I said, you know, With physical exertion, you're going to see my BP normalize.
I had a 20 year old heart, but what was surrounding that wasn't sufficient.
So when I got done with that, the doctors were like, we've seen variability like this.
We've never had a veteran come in and and you know predict it and i said you'll be hearing my name more and so i left there and i went and did my first field study did my second and i'm about to do my third
outstanding and you've moved from research into development of your own structural framework and so now that you first realized that something is off and you started researching it and discovering it yourself What did the Army experience teach you about the kind of things that prepared you for this in terms of systems and leadership and responsibility and consequences?
Let's just say when you get your intestinal fortitude rocked and you move it forward, that was the thing.
So when I first did my first field study and then moved into my second, I went to the VA and not one would read my codex, my scientific codex.
There was enough there to say, hey, this should be taken considerably serious to move this for other veterans.
Well, it's outstanding to have you, and you know, been looking forward to this for some time.
And in order to get the interview going, I'm really curious, like when did you first realize that you weren't simply experiencing different problems, but beginning to see the structure underneath them?
Well, I will say my first collapse, October 19th, 2025, I had my first blackout after transitioning to civilian life.
And then after that, November 6th, I came out of that with my BP was 229 over 120 something.
And I'm standing there and I'm going, something's not right, but I can feel it in my body.
And from there I said, you know, With physical exertion, you're going to see my BP normalize.
I had a 20 year old heart, but what was surrounding that wasn't sufficient.
So when I got done with that, the doctors were like, we've seen variability like this.
We've never had a veteran come in and and you know predict it and i said you'll be hearing my name more and so i left there and i went and did my first field study did my second and i'm about to do my third
outstanding and you've moved from research into development of your own structural framework and so now that you first realized that something is off and you started researching it and discovering it yourself What did the Army experience teach you about the kind of things that prepared you for this in terms of systems and leadership and responsibility and consequences?
Let's just say when you get your intestinal fortitude rocked and you move it forward, that was the thing.
So when I first did my first field study and then moved into my second, I went to the VA and not one would read my codex, my scientific codex.
There was enough there to say, hey, this should be taken considerably serious to move this for other veterans.
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