About Duane

ABOUT DUANE

MEET DUANE

My Journey
Designed to Solve, Built to Lead

You’ve done everything right. You’ve worked hard, built a life, and checked all the boxes of success. But if you’re honest, something still feels off.

Maybe you feel like you’ve been playing a role that was never truly yours—adapting, shifting, and doing what’s expected. Maybe no matter how much you achieve, there is still an emptiness you can’t explain.

I know that feeling because I lived it.

My Journey
Designed to Solve,
Built to Lead

You’ve done everything right. You’ve worked hard, built a life, and checked all the boxes of success. But if you’re honest, something still feels off.

I know that feeling because I lived it.

Breaking Down, Waking Up

On the surface, my life looked fine. I worked hard, built a career, and did everything I was “supposed” to do. I started as a laborer in my high school years, became a self-made carpenter, and eventually a successful entrepreneur. Later, I transitioned into project management, where my natural leadership and problem-solving skills shone.

But no matter how much I built—houses, businesses, projects—I felt disconnected. The work paid the bills but didn’t fulfill me. I kept questioning why things were done a certain way, only to be met with, “That’s just how it’s always been done.”

That answer was never good enough for me. I wasn’t just trying to understand how systems worked, I needed to know why they didn’t.

Yet, the biggest system that wasn’t working was me.

Behind the scenes, I carried the weight of unresolved wounds—buried so deep I wasn’t even sure what they were. I numbed the pain the only way I knew how: alcohol, weed, and working myself into exhaustion. I became whoever I thought I was supposed to be—adapting to expectations instead of being my real self.

Maybe you know what that feels like.

Maybe you’ve been chasing external success, hoping it would finally make you feel whole—but it hasn’t.

Then one day, I hit a breaking point.

No matter how much I drank, smoked, or worked, I couldn’t numb it anymore. The weight of my past wasn’t getting lighter. It was crushing me.

I had two choices: keep running or finally face the truth.

I wanted to ignore it. To keep pretending. Because facing the truth meant unraveling everything I had built. Who would I be if I wasn’t the man others expected? If I wasn’t useful?

But the more I resisted, the worse it got. I wasn’t living—I was just existing. And that wasn’t enough anymore.

Breaking Down, Waking Up

That answer was never good enough for me. I wasn’t just trying to understand how systems worked, I needed to know why they didn’t.

Yet, the biggest system that wasn’t working was me.

Maybe you know what that feels like.

Maybe you’ve been chasing external success, hoping it would finally make you feel whole—but it hasn’t.

Then one day, I hit a breaking point.

No matter how much I drank, smoked, or worked, I couldn’t numb it anymore. The weight of my past wasn’t getting lighter. It was crushing me.

I had two choices: keep running or finally face the truth.

I wanted to ignore it. To keep pretending. Because facing the truth meant unraveling everything I had built. Who would I be if I wasn’t the man others expected? If I wasn’t useful?

But the more I resisted, the worse it got. I wasn’t living—I was just existing. And that wasn’t enough anymore.

The Moment Everything Changed

For most of my life, I felt different—like I wasn’t wired the same way other men were. I struggled with confidence, anxiety, and the feeling that I didn’t belong. I couldn’t explain it, and I didn’t know how to process it.

At 16, I received a medical diagnosis that should have given me clarity, but instead, it made me feel even more separate from others. I didn’t talk about it. I didn’t know how. Instead, I buried it under work, distractions, and numbing myself to avoid the feelings I didn’t know how to deal with.

For years, I buried the pain in distractions. Therapy helped, but it wasn’t enough. I spent thousands of dollars searching for answers—trying countless modalities, reading self-help books, looking for anything that could explain why I always felt disconnected.

Then, everything changed. An injury at work that sidelined me for 6 months.

For the first time in my life, I couldn’t escape myself. No work, no distractions—just me, sitting in the discomfort I had been running from.

It was in that stillness that I started asking the right questions—

“Who am I?”
“Why am I here?”
“What is my life’s purpose?”

And for the first time, I saw a path forward.

The Breakthrough:
Finding My True Path

I had spent my life forcing my way through everything—pushing, grinding, trying to make things work. But the truth was, I had been living completely out of alignment.

I wasn’t meant to blindly follow rules—I was meant to question them. I wasn’t designed to fit into someone else’s version of success—I was here to build something different.

Some people accept life as it is. I can’t.

I break apart what isn’t working, question what others overlook, and rebuild from the ground up. That’s what I did with my own life. And that’s what I help other men do.

So, I started stripping away the false identities. I confronted the wounds I had buried for decades. And for the first time, I started listening to my own voice instead of everyone else’s.

Through this journey, I uncovered my core values—the non-negotiable truths that guide my life. I realized that purpose isn’t something you do—it’s who you are.

I stopped chasing validation, stopped shape-shifting, and started showing up as the man I was always meant to be.

Now, I Help Men Who Feel Lost
Find Their True Path.

You don’t need another self-help book. You don’t need another quick fix. What you need is the right process, the right questions, and a guide who’s been there.

You stop following the wrong script. When you feel stuck, it’s not because you’re failing—it’s because you’ve been following rules that were never meant for you. It’s time to strip away the expectations, conditioning, and false beliefs that have kept you small.

You stop chasing and start rebuilding. The life you’ve been living was shaped by expectations that no longer fit. Instead of forcing yourself to fit into a broken system, it’s time to create a new one.

You get out of your own head and take action. Overthinking, waiting for the right moment, trying to figure it out alone—none of that will move you forward. The shift happens the moment you decide to step into something new.

You reconnect with who you really are. When you know what you stand for and what truly matters, everything changes. The doubt disappears, your decisions become clear, and you stop chasing a life that isn’t yours.

You reclaim your power. Comfort is easy—but is it fulfilling? When you’re tired of feeling lost in your own life, it’s time to take the next step.

You stop running. You don’t have to keep numbing yourself just to get through the day. You don’t have to figure this out alone.

If you’re done running and ready to reclaim your life, I’m here to walk this path with you.

Take the first step now.