M Y   S T O R Y

My name is Jack, and here is my story.

In 2011, due to my Tourette's, the Air Force wouldn't have me, so I found myself aiming to become a videogame designer, and I was one of the first avid supporters of gaming streamers. However, that endeavor died quickly as I dropped out to help my brother Patrick, who was a single father at the time, raise my nephew.

Fast forward 3 years later, I was without purpose and no longer encouraged to return to school. Highly in part to my depression and anxiety. I'm ADHD, OCD, and have Tourette's. I was filling my void with mega gaming hours, but I was still in search of my purpose.

In 2014, I voyaged off to find my purpose. My late cousin Brian opened my eyes to the joys of comic books and everything geek/nerd related and pushed me to once again embrace it. 

He believed in me and my endeavors. 

I found myself in a Facebook group for comic book enthusiasts and we began a storytelling thread. This inspired some of us to beginning working on a comic book. One of those people was Jeff.

I never did get that comic book started because of financial reasons for one, but also i needed to seek the knowledge it took to make a comic book.

In doing so, I began finding a passion in the work behind the comic books, the work behind the computer while making videogames, and thanks to my late grandfather Paul, the work behind the camera while making movies.

More importantly, I found a desire to study the why as much as the how. That's when I realized that a lot of websites were posting low quality work. My insistence on details and apathy for creative writing took a new life.

I began writing a blog, which my cousin Brian loved, and he decided to help me invest into it and make it something bigger. It became a budding community. Eventually, it became a mission. During this time, I met Trey.

Around this time, Brian passed and, in his honor, as much as for my own self, Me and Trey gave everything we had to this site, along with Jeff, and Kelly, who I've known since before this story began. We all spent over 3 years working on trying to make this endeavor something that people would remember and maybe be inspired by if not appreciated.

We traveled the lands making connections, securing interviews, attending 6 wrestling shows per week and helping the talent with their promos, attending every convention we could get our feet to, speaking to every creator we could speak to, and pumping out quality quantity at every turn. It was an adventure that will remain with us forever.

However, nothing last forever.

In early 2019, it became time to make a choice. No matter how hard we drove the endeavor we ultimately could not make enough momentum because we didn't have the capital for growth. I was never going to get myself in a position to garnish the capital with the amount of time and energy I was pouring into the endeavor. 

I shut it all down cold turkey.

3 months later, while I was making lumps of money to fuel my project as intended, I found a new purpose. A family. My now wife, and he two children who were not even half a dozen years of age at the time. This gave me drive to continue making the capital at a rate I'd never even thought possible. Until it didn't. Until I fought to make ends meet. I worked 100 hours a week for 4 years straight. 

That's when the storm began to weather, and I decided it was time. I needed to do what I set out to do. My kids needed to know me beyond a dad. I needed my passion restored. I need fulfillment. While I mulled over a few past potential purposes that I regret passing on, I ultimately decided that only one of those was something that I could do without putting my family in the backseat. I had to reignite my prior purpose.
However, in my absence, time had moved on without me. Formats changed. Tik Tok was born. Attention spans vanished. So if you're still here reading this, I thank you, and i commend you as one of the few remaining outlanders of adversity when it comes to an attention span or desire for digest.

Regardless, I was required to learn all new skill and studies and change the way I make content, but still, I expect to keep the same integrity that I did when writing. 

I find this harder than writing ever was or would have been. I wrote masterfully, and I struggle with this short form video content. But thankfully, I have my allies of the past in Kelly, Jeff, and Trey, as well as a new addition in my friend Drew, who I've also known since before this story even began. I have the support of my wife, my daughter, and my son who suffers from Autism and Aspergers. I have a new baby on the way. And I am more motivated than ever.

So, for anyone who has been interested enough to read this, I am glad you are here, and I know that you're one that I will see still here years from now. Please absorb the content and do aid in our growth by giving real feedback. Give us great idea for what you would like to see, and we will work to learn it and develop it. This is not just for us. This is for the ones who are not appealed to in the trend. This is for the ones looking for the proper material. The reddit users looking for something unique. The aspiring looking for motivation. The outlanders looking for purpose. 

You are my purpose.