I spent twelve years responding to disasters around the world—Haiti, Indonesia, Ukraine, the Bahamas, and dozens of other crisis zones. I specialized in high-risk extraction and worked in places most people only see on the news.

I'm a two-time Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. I founded HARP RESCUE, which has coordinated operations that helped save thousands of lives. I've been recognized by CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC, CBS, and NPR for my work.

But the credentials don't tell the whole story.

   For years, I used humanitarian work as a way to run toward death without calling it suicide. I'm a Christian—suicide wasn't an option. But walking into places where death was likely? That was different. That was just the work.

I lost two women I loved because I couldn't turn off the mission long enough to actually be present. I spent twelve years chasing disasters before I finally realized I wanted to live.

   The work that was supposed to kill me taught me to live instead.

   Now, I speak to organizations about what I learned the hard way: that the mission will take everything you give it, that endurance without boundaries is just damage delayed, and that your life is as valuable as the lives you're trying to save.

   I don't speak about theory. I speak about truth.