How’d I get here?

I’m lying in a cube motel in Kyoto, Japan. If you’d asked me a year ago where I would be, this would have been the last answer I’d have given you. This time last year, I had just turned 25 a few months earlier. I had finished college with a B.S. degree, run my first marathon, completed my first Ironman triathlon, and thought to myself, “I know I’ll become a Navy SEAL.” Now, life is completely different from where I was a year ago and from where I thought I’d be.

2024 has been one of the craziest years of my life, full of change. Through Vocal, I will share the stories and experiences that have led me here—and where I go after I leave this cube.