My Story: My dream as a young lad was to be a movie director. I gave up on that dream to pursue an Aerospace Engineering degree. 3 semesters in, I realized I was living a life that wasn't my own. So I dropped out of college at age 19 and ran a house-painting franchise, growing it past $1M over 3 years. I learned so much outside of the classroom that I wrote a book on education. Then, I traveled the country in an RV and worked for an alternative education startup where I coached young people to build an education and career on their own terms. Now I'm fusing my business experience with my childhood dream by building Native Films, a video production agency based in Salt Lake City, UT.