A Week After Going Live

It’s been about a week since the site went live.

I wasn’t sure what to expect.

When you put your name, your story, and pieces of your life out there—especially a life like mine—you don’t control how people respond. Some remember parts of the past. Some only know what they’ve read. And some are seeing a different side for the first time.

That’s okay.

In fact, that’s part of the reason I decided to do this in the first place.

For most of my life, my story has been told in fragments—headlines, conversations, opinions. Some are accurate, some are incomplete, and some are missing the most important part altogether. Even recently, things have been said or written that bring those older chapters back to the surface.

And to be clear—I understand why.

When you live the way I lived, those things don’t just disappear. They follow you. They become part of your story whether you like it or not.

But they’re not the whole story.

This past week has reminded me of something important:

You don’t get to rewrite your past—but you do get to tell the truth about it.

That’s what this upcoming book is about.

Not defending what happened. Not minimizing the consequences. Not pretending it was something it wasn’t. But also not leaving out what came after.

Because what came after matters.

The lessons. The losses. The realization that my way wasn’t working.

And the decision—finally—to change direction.