Exhale.
Evaluate.
Emerge.

E3 Project Empowers Veterans to transform purpose through decompression and leadership development.

The Vision

E3 Project’s Long-term vision is to build a national leadership institute that prepares veterans to become influential leaders who strengthen the organizations and communities they serve.

Our Values

Honor

Upholding integrity and respect for all who served and their families.

Service

Continuing the commitment to serve those who dedicated their lives to protecting others.

Healing

Creating environments that promote emotional, mental, and spiritual restoration.

Family

Strengthening the bonds that carry veterans through transition and recovery.

Purpose

Guiding veterans toward renewed meaning in civilian life.

Community

Building supportive networks that reinforce belonging and connection.

Resilience

Empowering veterans to overcome the challenges of transition with strength and hope.

The Founder's Story

Built by a Veteran
Who Knows the Journey

Brian Minzey served in both the United States Navy and Army. Like many veterans, the military gave him purpose, structure, brotherhood, and a mission that felt bigger than himself. When service ended, that mission disappeared overnight.

The transition from military service into civilian life felt disorienting. The structure was gone, the team was gone, and the identity that had defined him for years suddenly became unclear. Over time, through faith, education, and the support of others, Brian began to realize something important: veterans are not a population defined by their struggles. They represent one of the most capable leadership populations in the country. What many of them need is not just support, but a pathway to rediscover purpose.

That realization is what led to the creation of E3.

Brian currently serves as Commander of VFW Post 7507 in Fountain Hills, Arizona, and is pursuing his Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. His doctoral research focuses on understanding how veterans describe finding purpose after their military-to-civilian transition, a topic shaped by both his academic training and his lived experience.

Through E3, Brian is committed to helping veterans heal, reconnect, and build purposeful lives beyond military service.

Brian Minzey
The Founder's Story

Built by a Veteran
Who Knows the Journey

Brian Minzey served in both the United States Navy and Army. Like many veterans, the military gave him purpose, structure, brotherhood, and a mission that felt bigger than himself. When service ended, that mission disappeared overnight.

The transition from military service into civilian life felt disorienting. The structure was gone, the team was gone, and the identity that had defined him for years suddenly became unclear. Over time, through faith, education, and the support of others, Brian began to realize something important: veterans are not a population defined by their struggles. They represent one of the most capable leadership populations in the country. What many of them need is not just support, but a pathway to rediscover purpose.

That realization is what led to the creation of E3.

Brian currently serves as Commander of VFW Post 7507 in Fountain Hills, Arizona, and is pursuing his Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. His doctoral research focuses on understanding how veterans describe finding purpose after their military-to-civilian transition, a topic shaped by both his academic training and his lived experience.

Through E3, Brian is committed to helping veterans heal, reconnect, and build purposeful lives beyond military service.

Where We Are Now

Transparent by Design

E3 Project is currently in an early-stage build phase. The organization was formed in 2020 and shortly after, Brian intentionally paused all fundraising to focus on completing his doctoral research, ensuring that E3's programs would be grounded in real evidence, not assumptions.

Now, with doctoral research underway, a board of directors in place, and a retreat venue identified, E3 is building toward its first cohort.

We believe in full transparency. We have not yet received significant funding, and we do not yet have formal sponsors. What we do have is a clear mission, a research-backed model, and the determination to build something that genuinely serves the veterans who need it.

Our Long-Term Vision

E3 is more than a retreat program. It is a leadership pipeline designed to move veterans from decompression to purpose to meaningful leadership in their communities and organizations. Through the E3 Leadership Institute and corporate partnerships, we are building a pathway that transforms veteran experience into civilian leadership impact.

Our Team

Join Our Team

E3 Project is growing. If you are a veteran, researcher, mental health professional, or community leader who shares our mission, we want to hear from you.