11 was my number long before it was my episode number...

This one starts at the Lexington Truck & Tractor Pull with a few questions from an old friend I hadn’t seen in a while:

What’s the plan? What do you enjoy? What do you actually want to do?

For maybe the first time in my life, I just said, “I don’t know.”

And I meant it. So this episode is me sitting in that answer.

Professional limbo. Financial insecurity. Bankruptcy. Walking away from a job that was about to pay me more than I’d ever made. Watching childhood friends build businesses and families while I’m still trying to figure out what I’m building. Being a caretaker who has always found it easier to take care of everybody else than himself.

And somewhere in the middle of all of that: Interstellar, Stutz, eight hours with my mom, t ...