People often ask me how I became an entrepreneur, author, speaker, and business strategist. The truth is, I didn't set out to build a business. I set out to build a life with purpose.
My journey began with service.
As an Army veteran, I learned discipline, resilience, leadership, and the importance of showing up even when things are difficult. After my military service, I spent years working in government and public service roles, including law enforcement and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. I was fortunate to have a stable career, but like many professionals, I followed the traditional path: work hard, save money, and someday enjoy life when retirement arrives.
Then everything changed.
Just months before my father was scheduled to retire, he was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer. I became one of his primary caregivers and helped move him from Minnesota to New Mexico so I could support him through treatments, surgeries, hospital stays, and ultimately hospice care. Watching someone I loved work his entire life only to lose the opportunity to enjoy retirement changed me forever. His story became the foundation for my book, Bucket List Living: Living Your Purpose.
My father's experience taught me a lesson I could never unlearn:
Tomorrow is not guaranteed.
That realization forced me to ask difficult questions. Was I living my purpose? Was I creating the life I truly wanted? Was I helping people in the way I was meant to?
After his passing, I struggled with grief and depression, but eventually found healing through personal growth, faith, travel, entrepreneurship, and a commitment to living intentionally. I made a promise to myself that I would stop postponing life and start living it now. That promise eventually became Bucket List Unlimited and the philosophy I call Bucket List Living.
Today, I help authors, coaches, speakers, consultants, and entrepreneurs build businesses that create more income, impact, and freedom.
I believe your book should be more than a book.
Your expertise should be more than information.
Your business should be more than a job.
Whether I'm building funnels, creating marketing systems, hosting my podcast, interviewing successful entrepreneurs, or helping authors turn books into businesses, my goal is simple: help people create businesses that support the life they actually want to live.
Along the way, I've invested heavily in learning from some of the world's leading experts in business growth, marketing, publishing, speaking, mindset, and entrepreneurship. I've participated in masterminds, coaching programs, conferences, and training led by respected entrepreneurs including James Malinchak, David Bayer, Chandler Bolt, Wes Bergmann, Russell Brunson, and many others.
I believe the best way to serve my clients is to continue growing myself.
Everything I learn is filtered through one question:
"How can this help my clients create more freedom?"
Because freedom is what most entrepreneurs are really searching for.
More freedom with their time.
More freedom with their finances.
More freedom to make an impact.
More freedom to spend time with the people they love.
That mission drives everything I do.
If you're an author, entrepreneur, coach, consultant, or speaker who wants to generate more leads, increase revenue, build authority, and create a business aligned with your purpose, you're in the right place.
Because life is too short to spend it building someone else's dream.
Let's build the business that funds your bucket list.