How I spend my work time:

Journey

• I was homeschooled (through all grades)

• I started various business ventures part-time as a teenager (a moving company, website design, PC repair, a recording studio) and the business that became Mainstay at 20

• I have always seen business as a powerful way of serving others

• For years, I also saw business success as a way to make me feel freedom from insecurities, stress, and loneliness. If I just had enough money, enough esteem, enough things that build my identity… then I could rest.

• I painfully learned that “the only journey is the one within” (poet Rainer Maria Rilke).

• As I entered transformative therapy, received wonderful coaching, married a deeply loving woman, encountered ancient philosophy, and learned wisdom practices, I found the path to belonging, to peace, to Being

• This has helped me set business in its right place, as well as introducing me to powerful critiques of our current capitalist structure

• I seek to bring virtuous organizational competence to the growing movement that is attempting to answer the Meaning Crisis, as described by John Vervaeke