Marine Corps. Combat deployments.
Climbing the corporate ladder. VP for a Fortune 500 company.
Built an 8-figure wellness brand from scratch. Wrote a book. Lived the American f*cking Dream.
And then one day... it all came apart.
Not from a failed business.
Not from burnout.
But from a failed marriage — the kind that makes you question everything.
The identity I'd built, the version of me I thought I was — husband, provider, high-performer — shattered.
And in that moment, I could finally hear the thing I'd been avoiding for years:
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"None of this matters if you're not awake."