About
A life witha few twistsin it.
I grew up on a farm, started at the bottom in sales, and worked my way across most of the insurance business. Then a hard year changed the questions I ask. This is the whole story.
Chapter one
The farm
I grew up in a small town and spent much of my childhood on a farm, surrounded by animals. Animals teach you patience quickly: things do not happen on your schedule, responsibility does not disappear because you are tired, and consistency matters. A small community teaches the rest. People knew each other, helped each other, and your reputation was built on how you treated the people around you. At the time none of that felt like a lesson. It was just everyday life.
Chapter two
The questions start
After high school I entered the working world and became fascinated with people: how they make decisions, how confidence is built, how successful people think, and what separates those who keep growing from those who stay where they are. Around 2019 that curiosity became deliberate. I started setting goals, reading, studying people I admired, investing, and constantly asking what kind of person I wanted to become.
Chapter three
Starting at the bottom
My career began in sales, marketing and customer service. I learned by talking to people, making calls, hearing no, handling objections and working out how to communicate with completely different personalities. Cold calling was my first real training ground. It made me comfortable being uncomfortable, and taught me that rejection is rarely as big as we make it in our heads. All the while I was attending college at night and working full time, building a career, working out, investing, and trying to learn as much as I could at once.
Chapter four
The long way through insurance
From sales I moved into individual medical insurance, then deeper into group employee benefits, then commercial property and casualty, which I helped build at BenefitCorp after graduating in 2023, and later Medicare. That path put me on several very different sides of the industry: helping families with healthcare, and helping business owners with benefits and risk. My interests never stopped at insurance. I built projects on the side, helped develop a technology platform and a collectibles business, joined Vistage, and kept putting myself in rooms where I was not the smartest or most experienced person there.
Chapter five
Early 2026
Within a very short period my grandfather passed away, and my family and I narrowly escaped a fire in an Airbnb while travelling in Mexico. The idea that life is short stopped being theoretical. I started asking different questions. What am I actually building? What am I taking for granted? What should I be spending my time on? What conversations am I avoiding? That year became one of real change: I started my own business, doubled my client book, reached a personal investing milestone, moved, and became far more intentional about the people, opportunities and projects I let into my life.
Chapter six
Why I do this
I am still very much building, and I do not claim to have everything figured out. What drives me is knowing how much there is still to learn. What I can offer is perspective from years of deliberately putting myself into different environments, and trying to understand the principles that connect them. I enjoy talking with people about problems. Sometimes the problem is insurance, sometimes sales, sometimes business, and sometimes a person simply needs someone to challenge their assumptions and ask better questions. I have benefited enormously from conversations like that. If I can give that to someone else, even once, the conversation was worth having.
Sometimes you just need someone to talk to.
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