My Midlife Crisis Rebellion

Midlife Rebellion Against Mediocrity

Buy a sports car?
    I like not having a car payment.
Trade in my wife?
    I married well the first time.
Travel the world to find myself?
    I already know who I am. Travel does sound fun anyway.

Wait, I am not having a crisis!

This is my one-man rebellion against comfort, distraction, and slow decline; not by chasing youth, but by building discipline, purpose, and legacy from the inside out.

Real Transformation in Real time

Join me as I document my midlife rebellion to transform my life across business, health, and education.

The wins, the failures, and everything in between.

No hype. No shortcuts. No fake overnight success stories.

Watch me build businesses from scratch, pursue a doctorate without pausing real life, rebuild my health without shortcuts or gimmicks, and test all of it in real time in the real world.

This is not theory.
This is what it looks like to bet on yourself; messy, honest, and all-in.

The Renaissance

My journey to lose 100 pounds after age 45 and build a body that gives me maximum quality of life.

No shortcuts. No magic pills.
Just honest experiments to figure out what actually works.

In the journey of life and health, the only finish line is death.

Your path will not look like mine, but if seeing me fail forward in full view gives you the courage to keep going, then come along.

Expect setbacks. Expect real talk.
Expect me to screw it up before I get it right.

Enter the Dragon

The Crucible

My journey to earn a Doctor of Business Administration degree while juggling work, family, and multiple side hustles.

“Isn’t 46 too old to be going back to school?”
“Attempting a doctorate without even having a master’s degree? Are you nuts?”
“You have a full-time job, three side gigs, one marriage, and two sons!
So you thought being busy just wasn’t challenging enough?”

If you have ever wondered what it takes to earn a doctorate without pausing real life,
this is where you will see discipline and perseverance collide with chaos.

Sometimes the journey is the goal.

Enter the Chaos

The Forge

My journey to build a micro-publishing Imprint and learn how to write books that matter.

Word Smithey is my one-year-old micro-publishing company, with nine titles in print and more on the way.

It was forged in the fires of introversion, grit, and a ridiculous love of the English language.

More than a side hustle, it is my way of building a legacy that lasts for generations.

Take a peek behind the curtain as I figure out how to write, format, publish, and market great books. Maybe I will even sell one or two.

Enter the Inferno

The Imaginarium

Creativity from the deep end:
raw, reflective, emotional, and honest.

This is where the art lives. Raw. Honest. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes brutal.

Some days I write what my heart tells me. Other days, what my mind demands.

These are the words that held me together when nothing else made sense,
and the ones I used to celebrate those rare moments when everything did.

Read if you dare. I make no promises of greatness, convention, or happy endings.

Enter the Maelstrom