Vintage One will change your life.

It will be an intensely personal experience with some of the most impressive people you will come to know. In the first month, none of us will know one another. By month three, we will be making plans to fly around the world to visit one another’s homes.

This program is an eight-month paid program. But you create a lifetime board of directors that will be in your corner, forever.

Vintage One is not something you can call in or use when you need it. Our cohort calls are as sacred as a board meeting. The work between calls has a purpose, and you will be a changed person, with an incredible set of lifelong friendships, before we are done.

Vintage One will be an experience you remember for a lifetime. It will give you tools that you can use forever, and it will give you friendships that will endure long after your old work relationships have ground to a halt.

Welcome to the Normal 40 Highway 

The best days are in the windshield. 

In February 2022, I left my job as a 1% wage earner.

I had caught what I chased: The C-Suite office. Pay. Travel. Car. Image…

Most think I left because I was unhappy, but I’m smarter than that.
I decided to leave before I wasted any more time chasing what I would never find in a corporate setting. I was lucky - I avoided being crushed by the expectation of others, and I was able to escape while I still had my best days in front of me. But it was damn hard.

You might not be sure why you are here – but I know why: You are wrestling with something. Something is stealing your Sunday afternoons and destroying your Mondays. There is something staring you in the face, something begging you to chase it, and something calling on you to make a bet - on you.

The whole thing has you feeling frustrated, anxious, controlled, annoyed and alone. To make things worse, you feel guilt and shame for wanting more than all you currently have.

You simply want to feel good about all you have done to now, but you can’t.

Dude, I get it. Not long ago, that was me.

This is the idea behind the Normal 40.

What’s next from here will not be easy. It will not be obvious, it will go slower than you would like, and there will be some sort of cost. What comes next is work – to discover what it is you would trade all you have become, for a chance to live who you want to be, next.

This is “The Trade.” It requires a desire to test yourself on your own merits, and it requires insane courage to trade what you’ve already created for something you can’t even articulate. And it takes your acknowledging that this will not be free, it will be a trade. You will have to leave something behind before you can chase what’s next.

BUT know this:

The friendships you’ve made along the way are portable; they don’t end when the paycheck does.

The skills you’ve gained will be there the moment you need them.

The fans you have built will admire your courage, and the ney-sayers will ask you to coffee in eight months to ask you how you had the courage to do it.

I'm a Certified Coach and former public company executive who now helps leaders get clarity on the change they want in life. I help build roadmaps for your second-half story. So come on in, join the Normal 40 Community, and let's see where we can go.