AUTHOR • SPEAKER • FOUNDER

I have spent much of my life asking a deceptively simple question:

Who are you becoming?

Not what do you know?

Not what have you accomplished?

But who are you becoming through the way you respond to the opportunities, choices, successes, failures, relationships, and ordinary moments of your life?

That question is at the heart of Own Your Head Space.

For much of my early life, things looked pretty good from the outside. I was ambitious. I worked hard. I pursued success. But underneath it was a question I didn't yet know how to ask.

Is this all there is?

On March 6, 1983, that question became impossible to ignore.

My mother died when I was 23 years old. Standing in the hospital, looking at her body, two thoughts came to me with remarkable clarity.

There has to be more to life than this empty shell.

And then:

I have a choice. I can be consumed by the fact that she's gone, or I can be grateful that I had her for almost 24 years.

I didn't understand it at the time. I wasn't a churchgoer. I didn't have a theological framework for what had happened.

Looking back, I see something different.

I see the beginning of a lifelong journey into the questions of meaning, choice, response—and who we are becoming.