Conviction
A clear belief, held under load. Growth, service, and leadership do not expire — and a life built on that belief keeps choosing the harder path long after it would be easier to stop.
Clipper Round the World Race · 2025–26
I'm not sailing around the world to prove who I am — but to find out who I can still become.
A crewed race around the planet. A campaign for the veterans and families who gave the most. An open question for anyone who has ever wondered whether they're finished becoming.
Never Finished. Always Becoming.
The Whole Man
One life, expressed in different theaters.
Thirty years of service don't add up to a title. They add up to a person — one who has led under pressure, built something worth protecting, and learned that the credential you earn through difficulty does not expire.
The Coast Guard was one chapter. The Army was another. So are the family, the field, and the crew. The ocean is simply the next arena.
- Army Soldier Service that asked for everything and taught what discipline costs.
- Coast Guard Captain Commanded vessels. Answered for the people in his care.
- Rugby Coach Built young men. Won and lost together. Taught discipline from the inside.
- Husband & Father The most important work. Still ongoing. The reason all of this matters.
- Circumnavigator In progress. Forty thousand miles. The hardest thing yet.
What carries the work
Conviction. Compassion. Courage.
Compassion
Service that points outward. Toward the crew on the rail, the veterans who gave the most, the young people learning what they're capable of. The "I" in this story always resolves to a "we."
Courage
Choosing the hard thing on purpose — the ocean, the fundraising, the years of preparation — and naming the difficulty honestly. The obstacle isn't in the way. The obstacle is the way.
The Hard Thing
The obstacle is the curriculum.
The race is hard. The fundraising is hard. The years of preparation at sea are hard. None of it is incidental — the difficulty is the point.
The Hard Things Project is raising awareness and funds for the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) Memorial Foundation and the veterans and families it honors — because service doesn't stop at discharge, and the people who made the hardest sacrifices deserve more than gratitude.
40,000
Miles at sea
6
Continents
Find your place in this
Three ways in.
The story, as it happens.
Every dispatch from the water is a chance to see what the work actually looks like. Not the highlight reel — the decisions, the setbacks, and what gets built by choosing the harder path consistently.
Read the campaignYou know what hard looks like.
This campaign exists because of the people who chose service before anyone asked. The mission, the charity, the community being built here — all of it traces back to those who carried the heaviest loads and kept going anyway.
Read the missionEarned in the field. Applicable in the boardroom.
The lessons from an ocean circumnavigation — discipline, decision-making under pressure, leading through uncertainty without losing your people — translate. Explore what alignment with this campaign makes possible for your organization.
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Growth doesn't have an expiration date.
Follow the expedition, support the mission, or build something together. The campaign is already underway.