A friend invited me to the Hamilton Filmmakers Club. I knew nothing about filmmaking. I said yes anyway. The person who invited me never showed up. So there I was, alone, in a room full of people who did this for real. That's where I met Adam. He asked me a random question about how I'd film a car crash. I had no idea — but I had a go at working it out with him. Over the years since, Adam and I have made five short films together. One of them won awards overseas. Here's the part I think about. That award-winning film has a car crash in it. The script called for a car to veer off the road, roll down a bank, and land upside down in a ditch. That location doesn't exist. So we used three. A flat private road on a farm, filmed so you'd never know it was flat. A friend's hill, where we actually rolled the car. And a third farm with a ditch, shot at an angle that hid everything around it. Three locations. Camera tricks. A flat road pretending to be a hill. From where I was standing, it was chaos — messy, stitched together, held up with angles and hope. On screen? One clean crash. Seamless. Believable. The audience never saw the seams. And that, it turns out, is the whole truth about communication. Everything that captivates an audience — every talk that looks effortless, every idea that lands like it was always obvious — was built out of fragments. Chosen, cut, sequenced, hidden. The work is messy from the inside. It's only ever seamless from the audience’s seat. So two things have stayed with me: Say yes to the rooms you don't belong in. My friend didn't show, but Adam did — and one "yes" to a room I had no business being in led to five films and an international award I never went looking for. And don't judge your work by how messy it feels to build. You're standing on the flat road, hiding the seams, sure it's held together with nothing. The audience isn't. They just see the crash you want them to see. One stage leads to the next. And before you know it, there are opportunities in front of you that you never even dreamed of.

At 35, I can honestly say I’m living the life I once dreamed about. I started my online business because I wanted more freedom, more time with my kids, and a better future for my family. The journey wasn’t easy. I had to learn, make mistakes, stay consistent, and keep pushing even when things felt slow. Today, my business has given me the freedom to take better care of my family and build the future I want for my kids. I’m still growing, but I’m grateful for how far I’ve come. What would your ideal life look like if you stopped settling for less?

Couldn't sleep last night, ridiculous, right? Yesterday they emailed me saying I was a finalist for in the Global Book Awards!

Howdy, y'all! I'm a speaker and coach from the US, obsessed with helping coaches get more sales from speaking, but the thing i am really interested in is the subconscious, the nervous system, and how humans are influenced to change their behavior. this started with the question in the caption, but was really rooted in my own experience. first, as an athlete, looking at great sport coaches and wondering how they can get any player to do whatever they wanted, and the players would THANK them for it, for DECADES after. how can someone have such a strong level of influence? at a deeper leve, i became more curious around my own experience: both of my parents were addicts, and committed suicide (please hold your "i'm sorry's"). the experience for me was devastating, but left me with the same question, under a different format: why do people want something (to live a happy, fulfilling, loving life) but do the opposite (suicide)? i've spent 18 years coaching, and always interested in how great speaking isn't just great sounding, but it actually MOVES people to not only learn and act differently, but to EMBODY the ideas, values, and principles shared by the speaker. if you're interested in real behavioral change, and not just sounding shiny, let's talk! it would be cool to do a group call about some of our experiences, wisdom, and how we can enhance each other's skills.

Are Relationships For Suckers? won two awards, 1st place in Self-Help Motivational and 3rd place in Self-Help Happiness!