The Inspire Change Newsletter

Three weeks after my wife Jenny and I packed our belongings into my Honda Civic hatchback and moved to Austin, Texas, I was fired from the job we had moved there for.

I remember sitting in that conversation, shocked, explaining why there had been a misunderstanding. I knew I could make a strong case for myself.

Then, midway through defending my position, a different question became clear:

Do I even want to?

That moment has stayed with me because it brought me face to face with something I...

There’s a message I hear in spiritual spaces that has never sat right with me: you need to get rid of your ego.

I understand the concern behind it. An ego driven by fear, insecurity, or the need to control can cause real harm. When being right becomes more important than being honest, or recognition matters more than the people affected by our actions, we can lose connection with what we actually value.

But I believe we make a mistake when we take that concern and turn it into a rejection of...

When my Jenny and I started Inspire Change Collective in 2019, we chose a name that reflected what we believed about people: when someone begins to believe in themselves and act on that belief, the impact reaches far beyond their own life.

Before starting our company, we had worked in a variety of gyms and across health, fitness, nutrition, and habit change. Much of that work focused on the physical body by helping people move better, build strength, and develop healthier routines.

Over tim...

I want to tell you about the day I learned this, because I think you already know it too, even if you've never called it what it is.

My house burned down on my wedding day. I'm not telling you that for sympathy, and the day itself was never really the point. I'm telling you because of what happened after.

I rebuilt that house room by room, in order, whether I wanted to or not. The foundation went first, no matter how badly I wanted to skip straight to the parts people would actually see. Drywa...

I want to say something to you today, one thing, and I want you to actually sit with it instead of nodding along and scrolling to the next thing.

You already know you're capable of more.

You've known for a while. It's not new information. You feel it on the drive home some nights, or in that quiet minute before you fall asleep, or when you watch someone else do the thing you've been circling for years and think, quietly, I could do that too.

That knowing isn't the problem. You have plenty of ...