Brian speaks on Personal Growth, Self-Awareness, Better Habits, and Spiritual Transformation — ya know, all that frustrating and impossible esoteric BS that can just as easily confuse as it can transform. Growing up gay and closeted in the 80’s and 90’s, Brian internalized the idea that at a deep level he did not belong. Society said so, culture said so, and sometimes mean kids at school said so too.

Seeking refuge in the church of all places, he simultaneously found a kind of acceptance from others as he rejected himself more deeply. He had to become straight if it killed him. Or if that didn’t work then he decided he’d earn his way into heaven for good behavior, so he embarked on a missionary journey visiting over thirty countries on four continents determined to do enough good work to be the first homo in heaven.

Tiring of the secrecy and seeking something more he ended up swinging from the conservative world of evangelical Christianity to the extremely liberal world of cosmopolitan metrosexuality that is Oberlin College, where he began to embrace who he truly was.

Years later as an entrepreneur in California, running a production company and a medical marijuana dispensary Brian battled imposter syndrome, negative self-talk and drug addictions before finally learning how to surrender to the mystery of life, the tug of his heart and the inner wisdom that lies dormant in all of us.

Brian is passionate about helping others find and trust their own inner wisdom — a force that connects us all, supports our very existence and has an entirely benevolent nature.