Built from
the inside out.

I should have
been a statistic.

I was born in Reading PA and raised there during the years it held the title of the poorest major city in America. Raised in a single parent household without a father for a good part of my life. We moved constantly. I never had the chance to put roots down anywhere before something changed again.

By the time I was nineteen everything I had built my identity on collapsed. A severe panic attack. A few weeks of derealization. Losing trust in the one thing I had always relied on — my own mind.

That is when the Lord met me.

What followed was five years of the hardest and most important work of my life. And this book is my attempt to make sure the next generation of young men does not have to find their way through it alone.

Somewhere in the middle of that work I realized my story was not unique. The details were mine but the shape of it — the absent father, the constant instability, the self medication, the performance, the desperate need to be seen — that was the story of an entire generation of young men. They were sitting in churches across this country with nobody naming what they were carrying.

That is why Firm Foundation Co. exists. Not as a program. Not as a platform. As an attempt to build what I never had so the next generation does not have to go without it.