“I was born in Western Nebraska and my daycare was a tractor or combine.  While my degree is in finance and I have over 25 years in banking, I never lost my passion for driving heavy equipment and always looked for an opportunity to volunteer with my friends and customers working on their working farms.”

“David Goggins, You Can’t Hurt Me. It drives my will to be resilient to challenges that life presents.  To complete the difficult tasks first and live in my conscious state of mind every day.”

“If I could master any skill, it would be the skill of patience.  My personality is wired, while I have learned to use it to my advantage, there are times in my professional life when having patience would have been valuable.”

“All pain, all hard times do come to an end.  One grows more in the valley than on the top of the mountain.  When faced with hopeless situations, which I have, I did not focus on the situation moreover what I needed to do to trudge through it and come out better.  I always try to focus not on what I am but what I can become.”