Hey, there. I’m Ray. 

Let me tell you a little story:

I woke up one day in my late 20s and hated what I saw.

I was working a demanding and unfulfilling 60 hour week — and that was the most exciting thing I had going on.

My day-to-day was lifeless and I had no clue why I was even getting up in the morning. Somewhere during or after college, the colors leeched out of my life and everything became gray.

I don’t know what was different about that day. I can’t even tell you what day of the week it was. But I realized that day that if I just kept on keeping on, I’d wind up less than a person. 

I didn’t want that for myself. So, I started looking into ways to make my life fulfilling and fun again.

I found writing.

Now, I’d been writing for about as long as I can remember. I even got my degree in writing. But this was something different. I’d never really considered that writing could make me any real money.

On a whim — or, you know, to stave off the crushing depression I’d found I was living with — I started a little side hustle. I told myself I’d do it to give my life some color.

It was just supposed to be a blog post here, some ad copy there, and the odd email funnel now and again. It was never meant to become a career.

I quit my job a few months later. I’d finally found the color.

Here I am now. I’m not always happy (who is?) and I sometimes put more than 60 hours into a week’s work.

But writing? That’s what I was made for.

When I was a kid, I had a friend who said that math was better than recess. I didn’t get it, but that was fine: he could keep his algebra and I’d go enjoy the monkey bars. My friend found something at nine years old that took me almost 29 to understand.

Writing? That’s better than recess for me.

So, look: writing is what I love — I want to use it to help you do whatever it is you love. Let’s get together and do something incredible.