Rock bottom was
the beginning.
I was fired from Facebook for drinking. Then my son died during birth. This is the story of what I did with that.
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I had the resume everyone wanted. And I was hiding from all of it.
Adobe. Facebook. Speaking on stages. Building a business. From the outside, the trajectory looked right. Behind it: drinking every night, living someone else's definition of what success was supposed to look like.
Getting fired from Facebook was not a plot twist. It was the only honest thing that had happened to me in years.
Getting sober was the first step. Then my wife got pregnant, and I thought I had finally figured it out.
On May 29, 2017, our son TJ died during birth. Standing in that hospital room, holding my son's body, everything I thought mattered stopped mattering. And everything I had been avoiding became the only thing worth doing.
The tombstone moment
What seeing my name on my son's tombstone did to my understanding of legacy. Not what I expected. Not what you'll expect either.
The stage that changed everything
The exact moment I stopped performing a version of myself and started telling the real story. What happened in that room afterward.
Why hiding your pain is costing you
Sharing the real story cut the weight in half. The connections that came after could not have come from the polished version.
How TJ's story is still working
Ten percent of Build With Them revenue goes to PUSH to End Preventable Stillbirth. In TJ's name.
Your time is limited. Act like it.
Sixteen minutes. The worst moment of my life is now helping people I'll never meet have a better one. Watch it. Share it if it lands.
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