I left my rural Kansas hometown at 18 and haven't really stopped moving since. Twenty-plus years in the travel industry, 60+ countries across six continents, three companies built, a TEDx talk delivered — and I still hold a 9-to-5 in tech. I'm what you might call a high-functioning dreamer.

The Niner Project is my answer to a question I kept avoiding: what do I actually want the second half of my life to look like? 99 quests. 1,900 days. All before I turn 50 on September 9, 2031.

Some quests are epic — Antarctica, a safari, all 50 states. Some are close to home — the best BBQ in KC, a letter to someone who changed my life, yoga at the K. Some are hard — a marathon, a book, paying off debt. All of them matter.

"I've come too far to only come this far."