So you wanna
get to know me, eh?

I grew up as a Navy kid ... which means we had to move a few times.

Panama City. Kingsland, Georgia. Jacksonville. Back to Georgia again. Every few years, new neighborhood. New school. New lunch table to figure out.

Most people would call that hard. I call it the best education I ever got.

Because when you're always the new kid, you learn fast. You learn which friends are worth keeping. You learn that family is sometimes the best friend you've got. You learn how to walk into a room full of strangers and find the one person sitting by themselves and go sit next to them ... not out of pity, but because you've been that person and you know they're probably the most interesting one in the room.

In 9th grade I got bumped off my lunch table ... literally the seventh kid in a row of six. So I moved one seat over and sat by myself. Didn't say anything. Just sat there. And slowly, one by one, the quiet kid, the loud kid, the guy nobody really knew ... they all came over. My friend from the old table eventually walked over, smiled, and handed me a drawing that said "King of the Nerds."

I'm pretty sure it was a compliment.

My faith became my own in the summer of 2008 at a church camp in Daytona Beach. There was an optional prayer session. My friends were going so I went. I don't know how to explain what happened in that room except that I ended up on the floor and I was scared to get up. I prayed over an empty chair that whoever sat in it would come to Christ that night. The person who stood up and gave their life to Jesus was sitting in that chair.

That anchor is what lets me move so freely. I'm an Enneagram 7 through and through ... I want all the experiences, all the adventures, all the flavors. I've had to learn that "more" isn't always the answer. But God has been the one consistent thing in every season, every zip code, every new chapter. The stability He provides is what lets me take risks, try things, start over, and keep going.

One of my second jobs out of college was as a Kids Director at Journey Christian Church in Apopka, FL. Good job. Good people. Wrong fit. After a year I quit. And I hate quitting.

I felt like a quitter until my counselor said something I've never forgotten: "We're all just tasting different flavors of ice cream. You tried chocolate and you didn't like it. That's okay. Figure out what flavor you LOVE."

I knew immediately. It was making videos.

I had always made videos. It was the throughline in every job I had and I certainly never got paid for it. To know it was possible to get paid to make videos ... I knew that was what I wanted to do. I called everyone in my life and told them I was going to try to become a full-time YouTuber. Every single person said "that makes sense." And I've been chasing that goal since 2020.

I met Jenny at a work event in 2018. She was out of my league and I knew it immediately so I shrugged it off. Then later that year, there was a company cruise to the Bahamas and we reconnected briefly. Halfway through the trip there was a dance party. One person jumped in and started a dance circle. Jenny walked through the whole crowd, looked at me, nodded "sup," and jumped in as the second person without a single second of hesitation.

The world went quiet. Everything was in slow motion. I stood still.

That was it for me.

Fast forward 2 years: we got together, we broke up, got back together, I moved to Orlando, we broke up, we got back together, she moved to Orlando, we got married.

We have two boys now. Dino III is two. River is brand new. Almost every morning I read the Bible out loud to them. We're 23 books in. I don't take that lightly.

After committing to video full time, I figured out how to make myself useful fast. I started writing LinkedIn content for real estate agents... then stumbled into repurposing podcast clips before anyone was really doing it. One client led to another, and before long I had built a small agency helping business owners get seen without wasting money on ads or guesswork (if you want to see what that work actually looked like, head to the Work page).

I look around at what I've built and I know ... I KNOW ... that some people would call this their dream life. And some days I have to slow down and actually see it. The boys. Jenny. The channel growing. The work I get to do.

But I'm still figuring out how to become the best. Not the best at YouTube. Not the best at Disney content. Just... the best version of what I'm supposed to be. The fullest expression of the thing God put in me when He made me this way.

I think that's okay. I think that tension is the point.

My whole life has been about moving into new rooms and making them feel like home. I think I've got a few more rooms left.