My mission in life is to build hope and courage into the hearts and spirits of others, so they can become the very best version of themselves because they want to not because someone else wants them to.

MY STORY!

You’ve probably heard it said that it’s best to learn by doing.



Well, in my case, I learned by failing.

See, I’ve always been wired for sound. Hugely competitive. “If you’re not first, you’re last” ….one of those guys. It’s just the way I grew up.

I played football in high school, won a High School State Championship, and went to college as a dumb jock. In the first semester, I had a 1.2 GPA because I just didn’t care about learning.

But once I understood that I couldn’t play unless I got the grades, and I met my future wife, I went from a 1.2 GPA to the Dean’s list. We’re talking about someone with full-blown ADHD and OCD making that kind of adjustment, just by wanting it enough and putting value on my education.

Later in life, I ran my own business, and I did it the same way. Growth was all I cared about. It was everything I thought winning was – being the biggest and the best.

I went from $0 to $20-million dollars in four and a half years. That’s fast!

But I went from $20 million BACK to zero a helluva lot faster.

What happened? I refused to listen to advice. I refused to listen to the people around me -- some of the very people I’d hired to help me on my journey -- and I got my butt handed to me. Absolutely took it in the shorts.

I’ve gotta tell you, that stings.

It got to the point where I locked myself in my office, crawled under my desk, and cried.

But I was lucky. Why was I lucky? My parents would always say, “Don’t let an experience go by without learning something from it.”

So instead of laying down to die, I took another step. Several of them.

The first step was to look in the mirror and own it. Own my mistake.

I didn’t have anyone else to point a finger at. I was the guy. I created this reality. I put my family’s well-being...my marriage…my sons… my relationships…in jeopardy. Nobody else.

The next step was to use it as a teachable moment for others – namely, my boys. With every check I wrote to pay off my debt, I told them why that money was going away, we take care of our responsibilities regardless of whether it is good or bad for us.

I wanted them to understand that there are consequences to bad choices, but also it is not the end of the game!

The next step was to flip the script and learn how to win through adversity. How to develop my own winning edge.

You see, an edge is sharpened by scraping it against something hard.

My edge was honed by that hard time---by a time when I didn’t know if I would ever recover. If I’d ever save the most important relationships that meant the most to me.

Adversity helped me. It helped my family. It brought me success.

And all because I found my winning edge!

That’s what I’m here to talk about today.

I’m here to help you move forward. To help you be the best version of YOU that you can be.

All by finding your winning edge.

Love to connect with you to understand how you found your winning edge in life!

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