Most people see injuries as setbacks. Career-enders. The thing that derails your plans and forces you to start over. But sometimes, what looks like the end is actually the beginning of something bigger—you just can’t see it yet.
I recently spoke with Its Released about how a golf injury became the catalyst for everything I’ve built since—and why the hardest moments often unlock the most important pivots.
Here’s what we explored:
Pain has a way of forcing clarity. Throughout my Division 1 golf career, I dealt with constant injuries. What should have been the highlight of my athletic journey became a battle with my own body. I talked about how that physical struggle eventually pushed me to make the hardest decision of my life: walking away from professional golf. But that forced pause gave me something I didn’t have before—space to think about what I actually wanted to build, not just what I’d been training for.
The skills don’t disappear—they just find a new arena. When I stepped away from golf in 2017, I didn’t lose the discipline, the strategic thinking, or the mental resilience I’d spent years developing. I just redirected it. That’s when I discovered blockchain and cryptocurrency—not as a financial play, but as transformative technology. I shared how that spark led me to channel my competitive drive into entrepreneurship, and why the same mindset that helped me compete at the highest level in sports became the foundation for scaling ventures to seven figures at Pabs Marketing.
Sometimes you need to break before you can build. One of the most honest parts of the conversation was acknowledging that success doesn’t always look linear. My path wasn’t golf champion to tech CEO overnight. It was injuries, uncertainty, exploration, and finally—clarity. That winding road taught me something most founders miss: you don’t need to have it all figured out. You just need to keep moving, stay curious, and trust that the dots will connect later.
If you’ve ever felt stuck between what you trained for and what you’re actually meant to build, this story will hit home.
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The best pivots don’t come from perfect plans—they come from honest reckonings.