The Story
The Long Way Around
Most people take the direct route. I took the one that went through crime scenes, recording studios, server rooms, and boardrooms. It all led to the same place.
Act One
The Storyteller
In 2008, I was a college freshman in Indianapolis with an idea that seemed absurd: create a podcast about the crimes nobody was talking about on campus. The university wasn't reporting them. The local media wasn't covering them. Students were walking into danger they didn't know existed.
So I did the only thing that made sense: I started talking about it. No studio. No budget. No audience. Just a microphone, a story that needed telling, and the belief that someone would listen.
“The best stories don't just entertain. They change what you pay attention to.”
Someone did listen. Then a lot of someones. That first show became one of the earliest true crime podcasts in America. Before Serial. Before the genre had a name. What started as campus journalism became something bigger: a commitment to telling the stories that matter, with the rigor they deserve.
Nearly two decades later, that impulse has grown into the Myths & Malice podcast network. Six shows. More than 1,500 episodes. A team of hosts and producers who share the same conviction: accuracy isn't optional, and every story belongs to the people who lived it.
6
Active Shows
1500+
Episodes
18+
Years
Act Two
The Builder
Running a media company teaches you what broken systems look like. You see it in every business you touch: the spreadsheets held together with prayer, the processes that exist because “we've always done it this way,” the teams drowning in manual work that a machine should be doing.
I started building fixes for my own company first. Automation that replaced the work nobody should be doing by hand. AI systems that turned chaos into clarity. It worked. Then other business owners started asking how.
“I don't build technology for technology's sake. I build it because someone is drowning in work that a machine should be doing, and they deserve to spend their time on something that matters.”
That's how Margin Consulting was born. Same instinct as that first podcast: see a problem nobody's solving, solve it. We help small and mid-size businesses reclaim their time through AI, automation, and operational strategy. Not with buzzwords. With systems that actually work.
Act Three
The Coach
Every story I've told, every system I've built, comes back to the same instinct: figure out the real question. Not the one people are asking. The one underneath it.
I know what it feels like to have nothing. Not as a thought experiment. As a Tuesday. Before my senior year of high school, I was homeless for over a year. Someone showed up for me without being asked and without making it a production. Just saw what was needed and moved. That act changed everything.
It also changed how I listen. When the ground has disappeared under you, you stop trying to fix people from above. You sit with them. You help them find their own way out. That's the difference between pulling someone out of the dark and being in the dark with them until they can see.
In journalism, that instinct meant finding what nobody was looking at. In business, it meant seeing the people problem hiding inside the systems problem. In coaching, it means walking alongside someone while they find the question underneath the question. I didn't plan this convergence. I followed the instinct.
“A journalist finds the question nobody is asking. A business owner builds the answer nobody has built. A coach walks alongside someone while they find both.”
The Timeline
2008
The Beginning
A college freshman in Indianapolis creates a podcast about the crimes nobody was talking about on campus. Not for entertainment. To inform. To protect. It becomes one of the first true crime podcasts in America.
2010
Finding the Format
What started as campus safety reporting evolves into investigative storytelling. The audience grows beyond the university. The stories start reaching people who need them.
2015
Building the Network
One show becomes two. Then three. Each with its own voice, its own audience, its own reason to exist. The network takes shape organically, driven by the stories that demand to be told.
2020
Myths & Malice Is Born
The network gets a name and a mission. Six shows spanning true crime, history, the paranormal, and the unexplained. A team of hosts and producers who share the same standard: tell it right, or don't tell it at all.
2023
The Builder Emerges
Years of seeing broken systems in the businesses around us leads to a new chapter. AI and automation become tools for giving small businesses room to breathe. Margin Consulting launches.
2026
The Coach
The convergence becomes clear: journalism taught the right questions, business taught the right answers, coaching is walking alongside someone while they find both.
The Personal Stuff
Based in Wabash, Indiana. Small-town by choice. I believe the best work happens when you're close to the ground, not in a corner office.
When I'm not recording, building, or studying, you'll find me thinking about what it means to walk alongside someone while they figure out their own next step. Or reminding myself that good enough is sometimes exactly right.
Want to Work Together?
Whether it's a speaking engagement, a consulting conversation, or just a hello. I'm always up for a good question.