Keynote Speaker, Author & Reinvention Architect
It’s early in the morning; the sun hasn’t yet risen. The last pinks of the sunrise give way to a clear blue sky of a glorious fall day. A few cirrus clouds slowly transform and evolve, adding dimensionality to an already beautiful skyscape. I understand why Monet preferred to paint by the morning and evening…
You do the same thing every day, every week, and every month. And you get the same results every day, every week, and every month. You have a routine. It’s safe, certain, like a cozy blanket wrapped around you, and it’s working for you. But is it? Is your routine driving you to the life…
What were you designed to do? The 1973 Porsche Carrera 2.7 RS is widely considered one of the greatest sports cars of the 1970s. The Carrera RS 2.7 was conceived as a 911-derived race car and was the first production street/race 911 widely offered to the public. At the time, it was the fastest German…
What’s actually missing? I’m working on my second book. It’s a prequel to “Blank Canvas: How I Reinvented My Life After Prison.” I’m capturing the journey that landed me in prison and the lessons learned in the decade of reinventing my life. In the chapter I’m writing, I’m speaking to my younger self. It’s the…
I started writing Blank Canvas when I was in prison. I used those black and white composition notebooks from high school and a cheap Bic pen. I used an iPhone when I was released to the halfway house because it was all I had. When I went home, I used an iPad from 2012 because…
After prison I landed a job at a gym in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I worked at the front desk at first but eventually moved my way up to general manager. I was grateful for the job, and I met some of my now closest friends thanks to the job. But it wasn’t…