Keynote Speaker, Author & Reinvention Architect
What mountain are you climbing? In the 1st half of our lives, we climbed the mountain we believed we needed to climb to be happy. It was a mountain of shoulds, expectations, and the opinions of others. It was a mountain of perceived safety. Get good grades, go to a good school, land a good…
9 to 5 is an illusion. Who actually works 40 exact hours per week? Think about all those little moments, moments you shirk off as, “Not a big deal” “It’s just the way it is.” “If I want to get ahead…” I’m talking about those moments where the first thing you reach for in the…
As we enter the inflection point between the 1st and second half of our lives, a voice calls to us. The voice has been with us our entire lives, but we’ve diminished it to merely a whisper through the responsibilities of adulthood. With time, the whisper grows louder. What’s it saying? It’s the desire to…
I had no idea what the hell I was doing. I was in prison, throwing chicken scratch handwriting into one of those black and white journals I used in high school. You know, the ones, most people I knew filled in all the white with their pen. I had decided I was going to write…
“That’s way too much cheese.” I knew it was coming. I even shredded less cheese than I wanted to out of fear of hearing the commentary. Every time I cook pasta (or tacos or burritos) for us, it’s the same, “That’s a mountain of cheese.” “That’s way too much cheese.” “We’re not going to finish…
Ten years ago today I reported to federal prison. It was day 1 of 730. Then followed by 3 years of supervised release and an order of restitution. I would do my time in a prison camp, but I was processed in a medium-security prison, the ones we see on TV, the ones we fear.…