I’d like to introduce myself and share some context on my journey.  Why I feel qualified to be on the other end of your belay line while climbing the your rock face.  I chose the path less traveled. Straight out of college, embarked on what I found to be the most challenging journey I could imagine at this time in my life.  I chose to  believe in my unique potential to become a Special Operations Officer in the United States Navy. As a bomb technician, I lived the reality of "The Hurt Locker," but with the added intensity of Military Free Fall and supporting elite Special Operations and Special Warfare Communities. Highlighting this expertise in the 5 minutes or less, when courage can play a major role in the Victor versus Victim moments.  

However, my career ended before I was ready.  My dark passenger is unworthiness. This pivotal moment marked by this line in my life’s movie.  “Brian, I have lost a lot of sleep over this, but you are not the Man to take your team to Afghanistan.”  Crushed and buried alive in now my life’s avalanche. 

This is simultaneously the best and worst day of my life—led a powerful realization and decision. Inspired by Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning.”  I became the observer of fear, transforming shame, guilt, and unworthiness into the greatest teachers. Through this journey, I turned deep trauma into rich treasure.  I chose to partner with Unworthiness as my sparring partner.  The coach that was daring me into the Regal Wise King, needed on earth at this time.  It gave me a choice.  I stopped being a victim to it.  

And so can you.  And so must we to dance with the demons now coaches and honor the challenge to our Majesty and Invincibility.      

Much like Batman who embraced his fear of bats, Brian became one with his fears.

During my medical sales career, I began writing about these life-altering experiences, as a guidebook for those of us blessed with the courage to go through life’s avalanche. Your Secret Superpower: Tame Fear to Thrive,” is my journey and the method I hope to inspire your greatest triumph and aid those in your life with a similar dare for greatness that can only be found on the other side of the most difficult journey.  

This journey leads us to the heart where our unique gifts are buried.  These gifts are waiting for our authenticity to remember our 5 year old self, who is already unstoppable.  This journey is simply about remembering this superhero buried in all of us, waiting for the avalanche for us to break through right into the life beyond our dreams.