In 2007, sitting in solitary that first of 4 years, an inmate gave me a book….Awaken the Giant Within. That book didn’t just inspire me — it re-engineered me. It taught me the truth I had never been given: Your circumstances don’t define you. Your decisions do. And for the next twelve years, I lived like a man rebuilding himself from the inside out. Over 2,000 books — mindset, business, psychology, systems, execution. Preparing for a life I hadn’t lived yet, but knew I would. When I came home in January 2019, the world had no idea who I was becoming. And honestly, neither did I. But I had one rule: Execute every day. No excuses. 2020 — The Spark That Stayed With Me In November 2020, in West Palm Beach, I finally sat in a room with the man whose work sharpened me through twelve years of walls and silence. Tony Robbins. Life was stable then. My construction company was growing. Kristen and I were building our family. There was momentum in the air. And then Tony said something that struck me with the force of those twelve years of preparation: “Knowledge is potential power. The only real power is execution.” @Tony Robbins and Dean Graziosi I didn’t know it at the time, but that line was about to become the anchor I held when life shook everything else loose. 2021–2024 — The Quiet Fight My company grew fast… but so did the problems. Payroll. Labor shortages. Deadlines. Pressure. Stress. Eventually, it collapsed. In 2022 we lost everything. Moved back to Boston with nothing but discipline and a dream worth fighting for. I jumped into solar. Crushed the leaderboard. And then — fired over a background check from twenty years earlier. I remember sitting in the car, staring at the dashboard thinking: “How many times can I rebuild my entire life?” But Tony’s teaching came back: “It’s in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” So I decided: Execute. Again. And again. And again. No matter how many times life reset the board.

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