@AlexHormozi Spent 20 years building an identity around my title, salary, the whole thing. Lost myself in it. Stripping that back has been the hardest and best thing I've done.
@thedankoe Gave that intensity to corporate for 15 years. Always on, always performing. It nearly broke me.
Now that intensity is on me — mentally, physically — and on my family. That's the shift.
@thejustinwelsh The feeling stupid part is the whole game. I spent 20 years thinking my basketball career was a failure because it ended early. Turns out it was just the first chapter. The decade of showing up started after I stopped mourning the old dream.
Spent years running comms for a major brands. PR, crises, comms, branding — all of it. Always on. I thought that was the deal. Burnout taught me otherwise.
The pro basketball grieving is over. Now I find joy coaching the next generation and building something of my own as I await the next steps on the corporate side.
Sometimes the best chapter starts after the one you thought would last forever.
In 2002 I was a scholarship athlete at Kentucky. D1 basketball. The dream was NBA, maybe Euro leagues.
By 2006 my back had other plans. Transferred to Northwestern, played one year, graduated, walked away.
20 years to make peace with that. Now I watch my kids do what I couldn't