Welcome to
One Notch at a Time
We will fight like a team and build a community of brothers and sisters with the same mission to get back to ourselves and our families.
The Scars You Hide Are Breaking The
Home You Defend.
I’ve walked through the fire, gained the weight, destroyed the relationships, and hit bottom only to find out it had a false floor and that there was farther to fall.
I made a decision to get better, got into therapy, lost 86 pounds, and am better mentally and physically now than I have ever been. I understand the struggles that we as Veterans and First Responders face and know the path to redemption.
I built this program around teamwork, mental and physical health, and techniques and protocols to build better and lasting relationships, even those that seem to be at the breaking point.
I’m proud of you for getting here and taking this step. Since I’m building this coaching platform as a transition to the next chapter in my life, I CANNOT FAIL YOU, and I WILL NOT FAIL YOU!
I’m here to listen to you if you just need someone to vent to, help you when you need it, or kick you in the ass if that’s what the situation calls for. This is not an “Admin-Approved” program where you’re going to get treated with kid gloves. It’s an 8-week total reset on your life; treat it as such.
Welcome aboard, warrior; we’ll find peace and redemption through the brotherhood we build over the next 8 weeks, and those squad-mates will be with you forever.
Time for a Hard Personal Inventory. Where Do You Actually Stand?
In this line of work, you don’t guess if your gear is functional or if your team is ready, you run a strict inventory. Yet, too many first responders and veterans completely ignore their own operational readiness off the clock. If you’re running on fumes, snapping at your family, relying on a bottle to sleep, or feeling dead inside the moment you take the uniform off, you are failing your most important mission.
The Veteran and First Responder Baseline Climate Survey isn’t a corporate HR wellness quiz. It’s a harsh, uncompromising look in the mirror. It’s about taking extreme accountability for the life you are leading outside of a high-stress, tactical environment.
This assessment forces you to evaluate yourself across five critical pillars to expose whether you are holding the line or just surviving day-to-day:
Disconnection and Isolation: Are you maintaining a real connection to your peers and your purpose, or are you isolating yourself from the world around you?
Sleep and Nervous System Recovery: Is your body actually recovering from shift work and physical training, or are you masking exhaustion with unhealthy vices?
Irritability and Emotional Regulation: How short is your fuse when managing minor annoyances, and how fast can you recover from stress?
Presence and Family Connection: Are you actively engaged and joyful with your spouse and kids, or are you stuck in a defensive, tactical interrogation mode at the dinner table?
Overall Physical and Mental Well-Being: Are you physically strong, grounded, and mentally clear enough to be the asset your family needs?
Your answers will generate an Overall Baseline Climate Score. This score is your reality check. It strips away the excuses and gives you a clear, measurable baseline of your current physical, emotional, and mental climate.
You cannot fix a vulnerability if you refuse to acknowledge it exists. Take accountability for your own life. Take the personal inventory, get your baseline, and do the work.
At the end of the survey, it will give you the option to send it to your spouse, who can take the same survey but about you. What I’m seeing in the results so far looks like a teeter-totter. Either the Veteran or First Responder sees themselves as doing fine, and the spouse sees something much different, or vice versa. What that tells me is we are either really good at hiding our shit from ourselves, and our spouses see the real us, or we are really good at hiding shit from them, and we see what is really going on inside.
