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Personal Coach | Lost 70 lbs at 50 🏆 | Fitness & Transformation for Men 40-60 | Houston, TX | Author: Raise the Standard 📕 | Free 7-Month Blueprint 👇

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I was 256 lbs at 50 years old.
At 40, 50, or 60 — you are NOT too old.

You're too comfortable.

I wrote "Raise the Standard" for every man who:
🔹 Looks in the mirror and doesn't recognize himself
🔹 Is tired of being tired
🔹 Knows he's capable of more

This book changed my life at 50.
It will change yours too.

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Out of breath walking up stairs.
Avoiding mirrors.
Too tired to play with my kids.

Today? 190 lbs. Same man. Different machine.

If I can do it, so can you.

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Harvard. MIT. Running a holding company. All at the same time. 🎓

Not to impress anyone. To prove a point: the best operators never stop being students.

Here's what the credential stack looks like:

🎓 Harvard University — MBA + OPM67 Owner/President Management Program
🔬 MIT — Executive Education, starting August 2026
⚡ UT McCombs — Energy Executive Program, completed
📊 Wharton/Emeritus — Corporate Strategy, M&A, Energy Finance
🏢 Simultaneous with — Chairman & CEO, Ikon Group Investments, Houston TX

What nobody tells you about getting an MBA while running a company:

The classroom amplifies what you already know. Real operators learn faster because they bring live problems to the room. Theory plus practice compounds exponentially.

Your peers are worth more than the degree. OPM67 puts you in a room with people building $100M–$1B companies. Those relationships change your reference point permanently.

Credentials validate — they don't build. The MBA didn't build Ikon Group. Ikon Group made the MBA make sense. Execute first, credential second.

The best CEOs never stop studying. The ego that stops learning is the ceiling you'll die under. Harvard OPM taught me how much I still didn't know.

The world doesn't slow down for you to learn. So you learn while you build.

What's the last thing you studied to get better at what you do? Drop it below — I read every comment. 👇

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I was inside the Ferrari pit at Le Mans this year. 🏁🔴

24 hours. Full VIP media access. Pit lane. Paddock. The most demanding endurance race on earth.

I didn't go as a spectator. I went to study.

Here's what standing next to the Ferrari team for 24 hours taught me about building companies:

1. Pit strategy wins — not raw speed.
The fastest car doesn't always win Le Mans. The team that executes the mundane moments better — the tire change, the fuel stop, the communication at 3 AM — wins the 24 hours. Same in business. Execution of the fundamentals determines outcomes more than the headline decisions.

2. The car is only 30% of the result.
Process, team culture, decisions under pressure — that's the other 70%. Ferrari doesn't win because they have the best car. They win because they have the best system.

3. Endurance over sprints.
Anyone can run fast for one lap. Le Mans rewards those who can sustain excellence for 24 consecutive hours without losing precision. The companies that last aren't the ones that sprint — they're the ones that hold the standard longer than everyone else.

4. Plan for every variable.
Rain. Night driving. Mechanical failure. The teams that win have already built a response for everything. In business: your contingency plan determines whether a setback becomes a pivot or a collapse.

Standing in that pit, watching Ferrari hold that standard at hour 18 when they were exhausted and behind — I left asking myself one question:

Where am I lowering the standard when things get hard?

What's your answer? Drop it below. 👇

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I'm going to tell you the only thing that actually worked — after years of trying everything that didn't.

What didn't work:
❌ Crash diets — lost it fast, gained it all back plus more. Every single time.
❌ Gym without structure — working out hard without a real program is expensive cardio with no compound effect.
❌ Using motivation as the driver — motivation is weather. It changes daily. You can't build a transformation on weather.
❌ Fixing the body without fixing the mind — the weight was a symptom. The real problem was my standards for myself.

What actually worked:

01 — Raised my standard first. I decided 256 was not the version of me I was willing to accept. That decision came before any gym session.

02 — Jiu jitsu. The mat doesn't care about your title, your revenue, or your reputation. It humbles you daily and builds a discipline that transfers everywhere.

03 — Consistency over intensity. 5 days a week of something beats 1 heroic session. The compound effect of daily movement is undefeated.

04 — Faith anchored the process. When motivation was gone — and it was completely gone — faith kept the standard. Every morning started there.

What I learned that no fitness influencer will tell you:

Your body is a standard you set. What you permit in your body is what you permit in your business. The correlation between physical discipline and professional performance is not coincidental.

The transformation from 256 to 189 wasn't about aesthetics. It was about proving to myself that I could hold a standard I set — even when no one was watching.

That's the same muscle you use to build a company.

Where are you in your transformation journey? Drop it in the comments. 👇

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Building one business is the trap. 🏗️

Most people spend their entire career building one revenue stream, one client base, one market that can collapse overnight.

I started in midstream energy at 17. By the time I was 30, I understood why that wasn't enough. Here's the framework I used to build Ikon Group:

The Ikon Group portfolio today:
⛽ Ikon Midstream — refined petroleum export to Mexico and Latin America
🏗️ Real estate — Targus Asset Holdings and BDP Development
✈️ Aviation — BDP Airways
💧 Water — Puris Holdings / Bach Water Company
🏥 Wellness — Renew Republic, Houston TX
🧬 Research — Kynetide
📡 Technology — AtmosGuard emissions intelligence platform

None of it came from inheritance. None of it came from connections. All of it came from one decision: don't build a business. Build an architecture.

The framework that built it:

1. Master one vertical first. Total focus before expansion. One thing done exceptionally well.
2. Reinvest cash flow into uncorrelated verticals. Energy funded real estate. Real estate funded aviation. Intentional, not accidental.
3. Build the legal structure before you need it. LLCs, holding entities, compliance frameworks.
4. Never stop learning at the top. Harvard MBA. MIT. UT McCombs. The best operators are always students.

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Most people waste the first 2 hours of their day. Then wonder why they can't build what they say they want. ⏰

I've been running the same morning stack since I left home at 17. Here's exactly what it looks like:

4:45 AM — Prayer and Scripture. Faith before business. Every single morning without exception.

5:15 AM — Jiu jitsu or weights. The mat doesn't care about your portfolio. It only cares about your preparation. That's exactly why I'm there.

6:30 AM — Oil markets. Brent/WTI positions, macro scan. The market doesn't wait for you to wake up.

7:00 AM — Harvard coursework and executive decisions. Learning at the highest level while running the machine.

7:30 AM — By the time most people are still thinking about coffee, the most important work of the day is already done.

The truth about discipline that no one talks about:

Motivation is a feeling. It comes and it goes. Discipline is a standard — and a standard is something you hold whether you feel like it or not.

The morning you don't want to get up is the most important morning. That's where your actual standard gets set.

What time do you wake up? Drop it in the comments — I read every one. 👇

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The mat doesn't care about your portfolio. 🥋✝️

It doesn't care about your revenue. Your title. Your credentials. Your reputation.

The mat only cares about your preparation and your presence.

That's exactly why I keep coming back to it.

Three pillars that hold everything I build:

FAITH — Faith is the foundation under every decision, every deal, and every standard I hold myself to. Not a Sunday thing. An every-morning, every-moment thing. Without it, the rest doesn't hold.

DISCIPLINE — Jiu jitsu teaches you what no boardroom can. You can't fake it. You can't delegate it. You can't buy your way through it. When someone bigger and stronger has you in a position — you either trained for that moment or you didn't. Business is identical.

STANDARD — What you permit is what you produce. In your company, on the mat, in your relationships, in your home. The standard you hold for yourself sets the floor for everything and everyone around you.

What jiu jitsu taught me about business:

→ Ego gets you submitted faster than anything
→ Position before submission — foundation before the win
→ Show up when you're exhausted. That's where the real training happens.
→ Getting tapped is data. Learn from it. Get back up.

I'm not the best on the mat. But I'm there. Every morning. Holding the standard.

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." — Philippians 4:13

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Le Mans. 24 hours. Ferrari pit access. 🏎️🏁

There are very few places on earth where the standard of excellence is this visible, this uncompromising, and this demanding.

Le Mans is one of them.

I was there in 2026 as a VIP guest — inside the Ferrari pit, inside the paddock, watching the most disciplined engineering team on the planet execute at a level that most people never get close to.

Here's what I took back to Houston:

→ Pit strategy wins races, not just speed. The team that executes the mundane moments better — the tire change, the fuel stop, the communication — wins the 24 hours. Same in business. Execution of the fundamentals determines outcomes more than the headline decisions.

→ The car is only 30% of the result. Process, team culture, decision-making under pressure — that's the other 70%. Ferrari doesn't win because they have the best car. They win because they have the best system.

→ Endurance over sprints. Anyone can run fast for one lap. Le Mans rewards those who can sustain excellence for 24 consecutive hours without losing precision. Business is the same. The companies that last aren't the ones that sprint — they're the ones that hold the standard longer than anyone else.

→ Plan for every variable. Rain. Night driving. Mechanical failure. The teams that win have already built a response for everything. In business: your contingency plan determines whether a setback becomes a pivot or a collapse.

The standard Ferrari runs at Le Mans is the standard I run in every company I touch.

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Most people spend their entire career building one business. 🏛️

The smartest operators build a holding company.

Here's the difference — and the framework I used to build Ikon Group:

A business is dependent on one revenue stream, one market, one set of clients. A holding company is an architecture of businesses — each generating cash flow, each insulating the others, and each compounding the whole.

The Ikon Group portfolio:

⛽ Ikon Midstream — refined petroleum export to Mexico and Latin America
🏗️ Targus Asset Holdings + BDP Development — real estate
✈️ BDP Airways — aviation
💧 Puris Holdings / Bach Water Company — water and pharmaceutical supply
🏥 Renew Republic — wellness and longevity clinic, Houston TX
🧬 Kynetide — research compounds and HPLC lab services

The framework that built it:

Step 1 — Master one vertical first. Ikon started in midstream energy. Total focus before any expansion.

Step 2 — Let cash flow fund diversification. Energy revenue funded real estate. Real estate funded aviation. Intentional, not accidental.

Step 3 — Build the legal structure before you need it. LLCs, holding entities, compliance frameworks — architecture first, scale second.

Step 4 — Never stop learning at the top. Harvard MBA. MIT. UT McCombs Energy Executive Program. The best operators are always students.

The goal isn't to be busy. The goal is to build something that outlasts the market cycle.

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4:45 AM. No alarm arguments. No negotiations. Just up. ⏰

Most people wonder how you build a diversified holding company while attending Harvard and running multiple operating businesses at the same time.

The answer starts before 5 AM.

Here's the actual stack:

4:45 AM — Prayer and Scripture. This is the foundation. Faith before business, every single day.

5:15 AM — Training. Jiu jitsu or weights. The mat doesn't care about your portfolio. It only cares about your preparation. That's exactly why I'm there.

6:30 AM — Markets. Crude oil positions, Brent/WTI spread review, macro scan. The market doesn't wait for you to wake up.

7:00 AM — Harvard coursework + executive decisions. OPM67. Energy executive programs. Learning at the highest level while running the machine.

7:30 AM — By the time most people are still thinking about breakfast, the most important work of the day is already done.

The truth about discipline that no one tells you:

Motivation is a feeling. It comes and goes. Discipline is a standard — and a standard is something you hold whether you feel like it or not. The mornings you don't want to get up are the mornings that separate who you say you are from who you actually are.

Your morning is your edge. Own it.

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I left home at 17 with no safety net, no blueprint, and no one to call. 🏗️

Most people would call that a disadvantage.

I call it the day the standard got set.

Here's what the next 20+ years built:

→ Ikon Group Investments — diversified holding company, Houston TX
→ Ikon Midstream — refined petroleum export, Mexico and Latin America
→ Real estate, aviation, wellness, water, research compounds, philanthropy
→ Harvard MBA + MIT (simultaneously, while running companies)
→ OPM67 — Owner/President Management Program

None of it came from inheritance. None of it came from connections. All of it came from a decision made at 17 to never accept the average version of anything.

The four things that built it:

01 — Faith first. Before every decision, every deal, every hire. Non-negotiable.
02 — Discipline over motivation. Motivation is unreliable. Discipline is a standard you hold.
03 — Build the standard you want to live by — don't inherit someone else's ceiling.
04 — No one is coming to save you. Ownership starts the moment you stop waiting.

I'm sharing this not to impress you — but to show you what's possible when you decide that average is not an option.

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