Now with the release of HERE COME THE NOTHING HEADS, I'm a poet-philosopher too. I also make a pretty mean chocolate cobbler.

My #1 best-selling books have received glowing reviews worldwide thanking me for the understandable, actionable, effective ideas and stories they contain

I've been featured in Forbes and Automotive News, spoken to audiences coast to coast at TedX and national conventions, and I only take the stage to do two things – change lives and chew gum; I'm all out of gum.

I've worked with thousands of small businesses offering proven marketing strategies that put the right words in the right order to tell the right story and make the cash register ring.

My wife Mary and I are the proud parents of three adult daughters, and I spend most of my free time, like every other middle-aged, overweight, native Southerner, at the ice rink playing hockey.