I’ve spent most of my life building things. Sometimes that meant businesses, sometimes teams, sometimes ideas that didn’t fully make sense yet. My first entrepreneurial venture was selling beaded necklaces in the fifth grade, which ended with a visit to the principal’s office. That pattern has largely held. I’ve always been curious about how things work, willing to test assumptions, and comfortable coloring outside the lines if it meant learning something useful.
Over the years, that curiosity turned into a career. I’ve started and scaled multiple companies across retail, e-commerce, education, food, software, and energy. One early college side project selling shirts out of a backpack grew into a retail store. Later ventures included food trucks, an education company that landed on the Inc. 500 list twice and was acquired in 2022, and most recently a deep dive into building physical infrastructure for Bitcoin by generating power from wasted flare gas in oil fields. Each chapter came with its own set of hard lessons, reversals, and moments where the playbook simply didn’t exist. I learned how to operate in uncertainty, make decisions with incomplete information, and keep moving forward when things didn’t go according to plan.
My coaching practice is grounded in real operating experience, not theory. I work best with people who are building something meaningful, feel the weight of leadership, and want a clear, honest thought partner. I’m less interested in slogans and more focused on clarity, momentum, and helping leaders see what’s actually in front of them. If there’s a through line in my story, it’s this: progress usually comes from staying curious, doing the work, and being willing to learn faster than the situation demands.
