Failure didn’t give me success. It gave me awareness. For most of my life, I lived in survival mode. Run. Grind. Push. Don’t stop. Don’t relax. If you relax, you fall behind. If you fall behind, you lose. That script ran deep. Bad grades in high school. Labels. Shame. Then years later, going back to… Continue reading

When I was a kid, I never thought about failure. I thought about drawing. Cereal boxes became canvases. I’d take the smallest image and recreate it bigger — just to see if I could. I could memorize a Disney character in one glance and redraw it from memory at 11 years old. There was no… Continue reading