Many moons ago I spent the summer working in Porto, Portugal. At the time, the country was far less developed than the rest of Western Europe. Portugal was lightyears behind the economies and hustle and…
I once left a perfectly good paying job with loads of student debt and almost no savings to my name to launch a company. I’ve flown planes, jumped out of planes, paraglided off 5,000 foot…
I was sitting on the floor in the back of an old single engine propeller-powered plane which was flying straight up toward the sky like a rocket ship. I was just a few feet away…
I was returning to the San Carlos airport during my first ever solo flight. Everything went according to plan and I was now within sight of my destination. As I was preparing to go through…
I was standing on the edge of a mountain peak, 3,000 feet from the valley below. I had trained for over two years to be in a position to make this paragliding flight. I was…
When I moved out to Los Angeles after college, I thought it would be fun to set an audacious goal for myself. So I figured what better activity to pursue in sunny California than…
I was about 100 feet below the ocean surface that morning. Everything was going according to plan. I’m checking out the beautiful colors of the coral reef, watching a moray eel slither in and out…
I vividly remember that moment 15 years ago like it happened yesterday. There I was lying flat on my back gasping for air in complete and utter exhaustion but yet with a huge grin on…