My humble introduction of who I am

in introduceyourself •  7 years ago 

Okay I have been here on Steemit since early 2016, and never introduced myself. My focus has been more behind the scenes working on building our @exploretraveler brand, and I really didn't post much. Now that 2018 is upon us I have been told by my family that I should begin sharing what I see, and how I build crypto as a sustainable system that others can follow. 

So here is my formal introduction post.

My name is John J Gentry Sr and I have been fortunate enough to have had an exciting, and yet hard life. I am originally from Alaska but have traveled since I was a young teenager, and as a young adult.

I have always loved animals, and raised many that had to be kept as pets because selling them for food was always difficult.

I joined the military at a very young age, and wanted to travel internationally. I soon got my wish, and was in Germany at the age of 18.

I served in the military within several positions, but it was electronics, computers, and programming that I was very good at.

I have my beautiful family, and they have been my focus these last few decades. But everywhere they have always been with me, and we have traveled around the world together.

We together started a travel blog at ExploreTraveler.com and switched to the website in 2013.

I have been involved within many high tech projects from Atomic Force Microscopy to EUV Semiconductor Photolithography. So when Bitcoin showed up on my radar I was interested in it as a hobby, and lost many coins along the way. I really didn't focus on it until 2011, and it was 2013 when I started looking for ways to earn, and integrate it into my own life. Today it is a daily subject for myself, and my family, and it's apart of our focus, and financial study.

I talk about cryptocurrency, and the technology roadmap on my podcast along with other travel related subject matter. For me social media, crypto, finance, and technology are one in the same.

You can follow my podcasts here but downloading my Apps.

ExploreTraveler Android Podcast Download

ExploreTraveler Apple IOS Podcast Download

I don't really code much anymore but developed teams of people to work on complex projects.

Wherever my teams have gone I have always been willing to go as well. No matter what the disaster or terrorism attacks have been I always try to treat my teams with the respect they deserve.

So this is just a glimpse of who I am and what I do. I look forward to meeting all of you at the different crypto, and technology conferences along the way.

You can find me on Facebook Here

Until next time!

@johngentry

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Great post! You have been a big inspiration and mentor to me over the past year. Look forward to seeing what 2018 has instore for us.

Thanks @kryptonia many great things to come in 2018.

Very interesting indeed, to see a little behind the curtain.

Thanks @mps01k but just a glimpse since I'm a crazy private person :-)

@mps01k kindly follow back and upvote.cheers

Hi, very cool. wecome to STeem!

Thanks @tokengirl for the warm welcome.

Nice and Thanks for Such Introduction :)

Thank you @socialanne

Stay Blessed with Loving family dear @johngentry

Thank you @majidawan and Happy New Year to you and your family.

Thanks! Happy New year

Very Beautiful Pictures and Your Biography is interesting. I Like it

Thank you @manees330 and I have been writing for a while now, but never really introduced myself.

Introduced should be must And you good that you introduced. see my blog i also introduce myself in short words

Well you have led a very interesting life, sir. I loved your story, and finally welcome to steemit :D

Thank you @sabinwrites now I will share what I know with the world here :-)

welcome , so happy to share a great community with you. happy new year

welcome to steemit @johngentry, best regards..
hopefully you feel at home here. 😊

Thank you @devsuraj I really love steemit, and the community.

Pleased to make your acquaintance! Thank you for your service.

Thank you @simplysara It's still apart of me, and I believe it helps me helps others here as well.

this is very good friend, keep friends to share with us what you see.
keep your friends working, and always successful.

Thank you @jasonmunapasee

you are welcome.
success for you is always my friend.

Well it is wonderful to hear your story John Gentry. I enjoy the travel posts and am glad I just caught this one.

Thank you @sunscape I don't like talking about myself really but decided I should say something. I have been here since before I personal account even existing in the summer of 2016. Thank you for the support.

I think that is wonderful, a behind the scenes guy. Yeah, I started in Sept of 2016 thanks to my son @hilarski who encouraged me to be a part of this cutting edge platform. I love it here and this community is so supportive. Glad to meet you.

hopefully @johngentry success always and and continue to work, I really like about your post.

Thanks @masril

yes,You are welcome , because we help each other in steemit.

Your overall stories mentioned on posting are very interesting to me. Thank you very much. Happy new year upcoming 2018.

Thank you @forbetterlife and Happy New Year! to you as well.

Greetings know my friend indonesia and just joined in steemit ..

Thank you @rafka90

Yeah friend, I also have a new post please support his friend karna I am still new is still very quiet support ..

Welcome @johngentry.
have a nice day in steemit

Thank you very much @safrijals

Hahahahahahahha looollll lol

Excellent post. Looking forward to conversing with you more. Sending a follow, would appreciate if you did the same.

Thank you @entrepreneur916 I hope to meet allot of people from Steemit. We did goto SteemFest 2017

You have an exciting life filled with great experiences. Welcome to steemit

Thanks @dan24

Nice fantastic post Contribution comment#

Thank you very much @phillips93

this is great man , i also had almost the same dream you accomplished by joining the military , i wanted to apply for the Nigerian defense academy but i changed my mind when my mom pleaded with me.
welcome to steemit

It was very hard, and they also used me. I still would not change anything.

now its history man, happy new year from the hearts of Africa

Very nice post @johngentry.

Thank you @floridagypsy :-)

You have been BUSY! Thank you for sharing what you see. Just visited your FB page. I may not be at technology conferences, but if there are animals anywhere in the vicinity, just maybe....they are a link to purity and uncondtional love that I cherish. Thanks again John.

Thanks @aspectsofbeauty I'm a big animal lover, and support a few causes.

steady

TY

What an inspiration! Cheers to 2018!

Thank you @wremetil Happy New Year

Please don't get tired of inspiring young hearts! Be a blessing always!

Welcome @johngentry, looks like you have had a very interesting life. You'll love it here and we'll love you to be apart of Steemit. All the best

Thanks @coochya it was time to come out of the Steemit shadows.

You got an exciting life mate. Welcome to the steemit family!

Thank you @jupiter002 I'm still running strong, and have plans on stopping until I have too.

Looks intresting, followed!

Thank you @yato

Thanks for your service

Your welcome @davedickeyyall but I don't really like to talk about it much. Some good times, and allot of bad but hey it's apart of who I am now, and it has helped me help others.

I understand... I served in 88-91 ...

Cant wait your next post, Sir. You have such a perfect life.

Not perfect @suryansah since I only show happy moments or talk about life issues that I think can help others.

Great intro post. I regret that time and circumstance did not allow us to connect at steemfest, but I'm sure we would have had interesting conversation. Perhaps next year. Until then, may you have a prosperous 2018

Thanks @noboxes we plan on going to SteemFest 2018 and several steemit meetup's this coming year. Happy New Year!

Very nice..

Thank you @humaidi

You are welcome

You have a very interesting life!

Thanks @emolleno

Great intro post. Glad to know you. Our community is better by having you here. Can't wait to learn from you.

Thank you @bbrewer I look forward to it.

It was interesting to read! I will subscribe to your blog!

Thank you @gleb-jeglov for the follow.

Excellent! the photographic graphics are spectacular. I follow you, I hope you do not forget to stop by my blog

Thank you very much @johamusa and I will stop by to check your blog out.

nice introduction i loved it

Thank you @viajandocomgabi

Great! I love animals too! I really want to travel and know a country like germany just like you! I hope you have a very nice new year!

Thanks @raquel.ramirezv I'm thinking an Africa animal photo safari would be really cool. Saving up crypto for that one.

awesome introduction,I just started here and looking forward to learn from your post..kindly follow back.cheers

Thank you @dimples followed :-)

Welcome @johngentry!

Thank you @jamshedbaloch

Thanks for @johngentry! I look forward to your post, so I can become familiar with crypto-currency. After seeing your introduction, I fee my intro is barely adequate.
https://steemit.com/introduction/@unicornvomit/hello

Thanks @unicornvomit I went over and upvoted and commented.

Awesome story...Keep up the good work!

Thanks @tiatime I will keep it going!

It was really an inspirational post and very much liked it

Thank you very much @ankit8866

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Thank you @youngeric

Wonderful and inspiring introduction. Welcome to steemit

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This is me when I was a little kid with ice cream all over my face.

Here is a great review of The Raiden Network Token, a great upcoming coin I wrote about here: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@cryptoknight12/raiden-network-token-review

This post has received a 21.41 % upvote from @booster thanks to: @johngentry.

Hello John. Thank you for your service and nice to meet you virtually.

I'm a writer and entrepreneur and just getting into cryptos. There was a small error here in your post that you might want to update (pointing out to be helpful, not critical :-):

"You can follow my podcasts here but downloading my Apps."

Looking forward to hearing your insights. Take care and thanks for taking the time to introduce yourself.

Thanks yes I saw it, and however once you publish if you go back and edit to correct something you must do all of the re-centering again within the mark-down code. This can be very time consuming, and I was to lazy to re-center everything again.

Thanks for sharing such an interesting introduction. I am an avid traveler myself and left my home country at 18. Its inspiring to hear your combining your passion for travel with your passion for programming. I hope I will be able to combine science, travel, and work.

Thanks @pixeljar Only issue is the body ages, and the mind it still going 100 MPH.

Welcome to Steemit and Happy New Year!

Thank you @mikej

This post has received gratitude of 1.16 % from @appreciator thanks to: @johngentry.

I just read that you started Steemit in July and I thought, Oh! I'm not the only one who is writting the first time since he just joined Steemit. But then I saw it was just an ilusion. xD
Anyway, I just followed you and upvoted because you create really nice content and I feel really identify. Can't say welcome, but keep on. :)

Yes but I started in 2016 and never introduced myself. My personal profile has been quiet while I have been building our brand here on steemit.

Hello Welcome to Steemit!

Thank you @gina2017

Congratulations @johngentry!
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That's great!

Great introductory post!

Thanks @bash11

A pet sheep when you were a younger man? That is so cool. If it wasn't raised to be some day eaten, care to reveal what happened to it? Hopefully, there's a happy ending. :)

Went out into a pasture for wool sheep. Died eventually do to old age.

Lots of really cool photos. Thanks for the introduction

Thank you for looking @stevenbrokaw

@johngentry i join steemit since 2017. And i got lot of info from your post.

That's great @joynalabedin I hope you learn allot from my posts.

Great Introduction! I really enjoyed reading it.

Thank you @uvabul

welcome to steemit, nice to meet you

Thanks @gengkira

welcome man good to meet you - follow back and let's create a community here :D

Heyy would love if you could check out my blog and maybe upvote to increase my steem power! :) I liked your introduction!

Interesting read, thanks!

Thank you @codeschool

very nice post... thanks for sharing this post.
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Welcome to Steemit. Happy you're here sir!

Looking forward for more inspirational post👍

That's a nice piece. You are very explanatory and exact. Well-done!!

Welcome John! excellent post, i just introduced myself too! Informative post.