For most of my life, I told other people's stories for a living. I was good at it — and it was, for a long time, a welcome distraction from sitting down with my own. The Hope Dealer is where that changes. It's a space for essays, dispatches, and memoir fragments drawn from the seasons of my life: the 2020 Nashville tornado, the loss of a business I loved, the founding of Inclusion Tennessee, and the slow, unglamorous, necessary work of rebuilding.

These are not tidy stories with clean endings. They are honest ones. I write them because I believe that when the right story finds the right person at the right moment, something shifts. Subscribe below and I'll land in your inbox whenever something new is ready.