I’ve Been Bleeding From the Eyeballs. Here’s Why I’m Laughing About It.

The last twelve months have been the most chaotic, beautiful, controlled explosion of my life. I’m only now coming up for air long enough to talk about it.

Johnny Slicks crossed eight figures. We just landed nationwide retail distribution. I still have to stop and say that out loud sometimes, because a few years ago I was mixing product in a garage.

I started a PhD program. Because apparently I don’t have enough going on.

Ali and I adopted a baby. That’s a story unto itself and I’ll tell it properly someday, but I’ll say this, it cracked me open in ways I didn’t expect and made me a better man faster than almost anything else I’ve done.

I’m rebuilding The Agoge from the ground up. Not a refresh. A complete rebuild based on what actually works for men who are serious about changing their lives.

And I’m deep in the work of making Core Medical Group the number one place in the country where men can get real hormone optimization. We are actively working to get the VA to approve Core as a primary care provider for veterans. That one is close. That one matters more than I can put into words.

If you’re doing the math, yes, I have been bleeding from the eyeballs.

But here’s the thing.

I look around at my life, the controlled chaos of it, the businesses, the program, the baby, the PhD, the marriage, the training, and I laugh. Not the nervous laugh of a man who is barely holding it together. The laugh of a man who built a system that actually works and then stress-tested it against the hardest year of his life.

Still training. Still sub 12% body fat. Still have a marriage that is thriving, not surviving. Still growing in jiu jitsu. Still moving forward.

That system is the Agoge. And I rebuilt it so other men can use it too.