For most of my life, I told other people's stories for a living. I was good at it — and for a long time, it was a welcome distraction from sitting down with my own. The Hope Dealer is where that changes.

This is 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. When the right story finds the right person at the right moment, something shifts. Subscribe below and new essays will land directly in your inbox.