Sharing my personal history and professional roadmap to help others navigate their own path. If I can do it, you can too.
In 2002, I was 25 years old and convinced I was untouchable. I was living in Sarasota, Florida, driving a Mercedes, and running a business, but I was fueled by a dangerous mix of ego and addiction. We were leaving a bowling alley, headed to the clubs, and the drinks were already flowing. One of […]
I’ll Show You Crazy Read More »
By 1999, the heat in New Jersey was in my rearview mirror. I was 22 years old, fleeing to Sarasota, Florida with my girlfriend because the cops were getting too close and the air was getting too thin. But I couldn’t leave my mother with nothing. Before I crossed the state line, I left her
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By the time I was 12, the man I shared blood with—my real father—was murdered over the very drugs he once made me sell my toys for. Back home, I was told he ‘deserved it.’ In a world that cold, you learn to build your own heat. From age 12 to 15, I was a
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In a house full of addicts, you don’t just raise yourself—you protect yourself. Before I was seven years old, I was a feral kid dumping flour on the counters while strangers used drugs in the next room. I didn’t have a mentor; I had a dog. I was so unsupervised that I’d mimic the dog—pooping
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