I recently had the pleasure of joining my long time friend and coach, Casey Parlett, on his podcast, Stick to the Program. Casey Parlett is a world class fitness trainer and retired professional fighter. I have been following his programming and instruction for years and at peak fitness in my late 30’s thanks to his […]
Compulsory School Attendance: An Experiment in Cultural Assimilation
For centuries the western world has leveraged compulsory public education and attendance laws to promote cultural assimilation. In many cases the ends are different but the means are always the same, children. The virtue signaling and misguided altruism is nothing more than a mirage to distract from a specific political or social agenda. There is […]
Education and the Impact of Scholarships
When I started the Growing Worldwide Opportunity Foundation with Chris Genung in 2009 we both wanted to give opportunities to students that we did not receive ourselves. Even though I was a student athlete and good student I had very little financial aid from scholarships during my undergraduate and graduate education. So naturally when GWOF […]