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FOUND | Memorial Day, and something I've been building toward

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​Some holidays you observe. Memorial Day you feel.

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Today I'm thinking about service.

Not in an abstract way. The way you think about it when you actually wore the uniform. When you knew people who gave everything and didn't come home. Memorial Day has always landed differently for me because of that. It's not a long weekend. It's a reckoning.

My birthday is May 31st. Six days from now I turn 50. And because my birthday falls close enough to Memorial Day that the two have overlapped before, I've always felt a quiet connection between them. The beginning of my adult life was in service. And now here I am at the other end of a long arc, still trying to make that count for something.

The 180 Reset course opens on my birthday.

I've been building it for a while. Really building it, not just assembling slides and calling it a course. It came from the actual work of tracing back every inherited pattern I was running on, the ones from the military, from a 13 year insurance career, from every environment that shaped how I thought about money, security, purpose, and what a life is supposed to look like.

Most of us are living from a program we never wrote. The 180 Reset is the process of finding where that program starts and deciding what's actually yours.

It opens May 31st. In honor of the build, and the birthday, I'm offering founding member pricing for everyone who enrolls on launch day.

If you've been following along, you already know if this is for you.

​Learn more and get ready here​

To everyone who served, and to those who didn't make it home: thank you.

Terencio

Find your fit. Find your balance.​
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