Keynote Speaker, Author & Reinvention Architect
“An empty coffee pot left on the coffee maker will shatter and hurt you.” I remember, but I can’t recall where I heard this as a kid, but it stuck with me. So much so that every morning, after I pour the last drop, I turn the machine off and place the empty pot several…
Years ago, I was sitting on the balcony of my apartment in Brooklyn, unaware of the lesson about to unfold. It was a gorgeous spring day, and the morning routine I’d started in prison was unfolding as the sun peeked over the neighboring apartment buildings. It was me, a single chair (passed from tenant to…
It’s becoming easier to live an unfulfilling life. The amount of external short-term dopamine-producing escapes from reality is increasing, and the existing platforms are becoming more effective in sucking us in. The algorithms are designed to keep us connected to whatever we’re doing for as long as possible, showing us more of what we’re drawn…
Confidence doesn’t create the extraordinary. Creating the extraordinary cultivates confidence. It wasn’t confidence that got me on the TEDx stage. It wasn’t confidence that allowed me to publish my first book. It wasn’t confidence that created my speaking business and my life (which I love). It was self-trust. Let me rewind. Delivering a TEDx, publishing…
So many high-achievers are silently stuck, successful externally but misaligned internally. I know, because I lived that life. Here’s what inauthentic living cost me, and what I learned reinventing from rock bottom. 1st Half For the first half of my adult life, I was living inauthentically. And I didn’t even know it. I had the…
We like to think our lives are shaped by big moments. But in truth, our lives are shaped by small, often invisible decisions—especially the ones we rationalize. We call them little things. A harmless shortcut. A decision no one will ever see. But each of these moments writes a line in the story of who…