When I wrote my original book, I was still on active duty as a Green Beret and diplomat. That meant most of my time, energy, and attention were on the job itself. I was proud of the book, but I didn’t have much bandwidth left over to show up here consistently, blog, or build a bigger conversation around it. But my first book resulted in one of the best jobs of my active duty career - being the on-air security analyst for NBC's official coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Some of your great reviews convinced the executive producer of the Olympics to read the book and offer me the gig. And that was my last assignment on active duty.

Since then, life has changed a lot.

I’ve retired from the military and stepped fully into the civilian world. I’ve started businesses. I’m a co-founder with Soldier Bourbon, which has been its own demanding and rewarding mission. And alongside that, I’ve been doing the deepest work of my career: helping people and organizations apply the lessons of Special Forces to their own lives, teams, and companies.

That work has grown into what I now call The Green Beret Way – a system for building leaders and teams who can perform under pressure without burning out or losing themselves in the process. It’s come from years of working directly with clients, stress-testing ideas in the real world, and seeing what actually holds up when things get hard.

All of that has finally coalesced into a new book called The Green Beret Way, Leading Elite Teams Under Extreme Conditions - which will be published in March of 2026.

This isn’t just a rehash of war stories or a reprint of old material. It’s the best of what I’ve learned since leaving active duty: how to think, decide, train, and lead when the stakes are high and the margin for error is small – whether you’re leading a team, a company, or just trying to be the kind of person others can rely on.

So if you’ve been wondering where I’ve been all these years: I’ve been doing what I’ve always done, just in a different arena – serving, building, and refining the work until it was ready.

Over the next stretch, I’ll use this space to:

* Share more about The Green Beret Way and why I wrote the new book.
* Talk about the transition from Special Forces to the civilian world.
* Explore what “elite performance” really looks like when you’re not in a combat zone.

If you read my first book and stuck with me through the long silence, thank you. If you’re just finding my work now, welcome. Either way, I’m glad you’re here, and I’m looking forward to sharing what’s next with you.