Would your younger self be proud of you?
Honestly, mine probably wouldn’t - and that’s okay.
At 30, I can look back at chased dreams, wrong turns, shiny objects, and lessons that cost me time and energy.
Fighter pilot. Airlines. MLM. Insurance. Tech. Modeling. Acting.
I’ve touched a lot of worlds. None of them handed me a clean W. But all of them shaped me.
Life doesn’t always match the vision you had at 15. That doesn’t make you a failure - it makes you human.
You’re not the only one sitting with the gap between where you are and where you thought you’d be. Social media shows wins. Real life shows you everything else.
At 30, I’m not done. I’m just finally playing smarter.
It has to make sense before it makes dollars. 💡
📸🎞️: @kevindayphotography
Protecting the Earth is a team effort! Each and everyone one of us are responsible for doing our part to keep her clean.
Please pick up after yourself and be courteous of Mother Nature. She brought you into this place after all these probabilities stacked against you.
Let’s not obliterate our Earth plz. Thanks! 🌎🌱🌳
#earthday2026
Navigate Business Competition (Shark Tank–style) was a tremendous success. We extend our sincere appreciation to the Greater Boston YMCA facility, as well as all participants and judges whose contributions made this event possible. #YMCAAchievers #Navigate #futurebusinessleaders
🔥 We Did It! Navigate Program 2nd Annual Business Pitch & Graduation 🎓
This past Saturday was nothing short of amazing! Our 2nd Annual Shark Tank–style Business Pitch Event brought out innovation, confidence, and next-level ideas from every single participant. 🦈
From powerful pitches to bold visions, our Navigate entrepreneurs showed exactly what the future of business looks like. We couldn’t be more proud of the growth, dedication, and creativity displayed on that stage.
🎓 A huge congratulations to all of our Navigate Program graduates — this is just the beginning! The journey doesn’t end here, it only gets bigger from here.
Thank you to everyone who came out, supported, and believed in our vision. Your presence made this event unforgettable.
🚀 Next stop: even bigger moves.
#NavigateProgram #BusinessPitch #Entrepreneurs #Graduation #futureleaders
That about sums it up.
Happy New Year 🥂✨🤲
A reminder that the universe gives - and it takes.
Watching volcanoes and learning this land makes one thing clear: the Earth destroys itself only to make space for something new.
“Nature loves nothing so much as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.”
— Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
Inside Raufarhólshellir, I’m walking through a lava artery 🩸 carved by magma over 5,200 years ago - when fire outran stone, hardened, then vanished, leaving the Earth hollowed out 🌋
Not far away, the Sundhnúkagígar eruptions (2023–2025) with the most recent eruption being July 2025 - ripped the Reykjanes Peninsula back open 💥 No buildup. No warning. Just fissures, lava, and new land spilling into existence 🔥
This is Iceland 🇮🇸: the youngest land on the planet 🌍 cracked straight down the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where tectonic plates are still tearing apart ⚡️ Nowhere else feels this raw, this unstable, this unfinished.
This isn’t sightseeing 📍
You’re standing on a work in progress 🧊🔥
You can feel the energy constantly shifting ☯️
Huge props to @jvn.photo on the Sundhnúkagígar eruptions photos and videos. Amazing work! Check out his profile. 📸🎥
Iceland is in full Christmas spirit at the Árbær museum 🎄🎅🏔️🇮🇸
This exhibit offers a glimpse into the past with furnished homes, workshops, and exhibitions on local history, architecture, and daily life 📍
Swimming in Silfra 📍🇮🇸
🏔️🌊🏔️
Some epic background here:
Silfra is a rift formed in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge – the divergent tectonic boundary between the North American and Eurasian plates – and is located in the Þingvallavatn Lake.
Silfra is formed by the divergent tectonic drift of the Eurasian and North American plates. The plates drift about 2 cm (0.79 in) farther apart every year, building up tension between the plates and the earth mass above. This tension is relieved through periodic major earthquakes at approximately ten-year intervals, which have caused cracks and fissures to form.
It’s the only place in the world where you can literally walk and swim between two tectonic plates. How sick is that?
Silfra is a spring fed by groundwater originating as meltwater from Langjökull Glacier (the place I was at in my last picture snowmobiling).
The emerging, highly filtered groundwater is exceptionally clear and 100% drinkable.
Aquatic life is scarce in this extremely cold water temperature so there’s nothing swimming there other than some amphipods.
Huge thank you to @your_guide_monika for being an amazing guide to Iceland 🫡🇮🇸 Deff visit her page for the best info on Iceland!
Thank you @hugo_sevan_bulbulyan for being a world class instructor and guide for Silfra diving 💯🫡
Langjökull Excursion 🗻🏔️🌨️
The second largest ice cap in Iceland 📍🇮🇸
Behind me, you see “The earl’s hat” on the east side of Langjökull, a palagonitic mountain range, which originated in a fissure vent under a glacier during the Ice Age.
