the rebuild project
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Before We Begin
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Why This Exists
The Rebuild Project exists because rebuilding a life isn’t something that happens all at once. It’s a series of ordinary decisions, unexpected setbacks, small victories, and quiet moments that rarely make headlines. After everything that’s happened over the last three years, I wanted a place to document that process honestly, not just the destination.
This isn’t just a fundraising campaign or a collection of updates. It’s an ongoing record of what it looks like to rebuild from the ground up. I’ll be sharing the milestones, the lessons, the challenges, and the progress as it happens, with the hope that this project becomes something more than my own story.
Whether you’re here because you’ve followed my case, you’re interested in the rebuilding itself, or you’re simply curious about what comes next, welcome. I’m glad you’re here.
What Happened?
In 2023, my life changed overnight when I was arrested in Washington and extradited to Arizona to face a first-degree murder charge in a case where I maintain my innocence. What followed was nearly a year in jail, much of it spent in 23-hour lockdown, while nearly every part of the life I’d spent decades building came to a halt.
My businesses disappeared. My income vanished. I lost my home, my transportation, and many of the things most people spend years working to build. Friends and strangers alike have asked why rebuilding isn’t as simple as getting a job or picking up where I left off. The reality is that some disruptions don’t just pause your life. They fundamentally change the ground beneath it.
Today, my case is still moving through the court system. There have been significant developments, including changes to key medical opinions that have altered the landscape of the case, but because the legal process is ongoing, there are many things I simply can’t discuss publicly yet. There will be a time for that story. This isn’t that time.
This project isn’t about relitigating my case. It’s about documenting what comes after disruption. Whether the outcome arrives in months or years, rebuilding couldn’t wait. Life doesn’t stay on hold while the legal system does its work.
If you’re looking for every detail of the case, you won’t find it here. But if you’re interested in what it looks like to rebuild a life, a career, and a future one step at a time, you’re in the right place.
What We’re Rebuilding
The Rebuild Project is focused on restoring the foundations that make everything else possible. Not luxury. Not excess. Not some glossy reinvention story wrapped in a bow. Just the practical pieces of a stable life: a safe place to live, reliable transportation, and sustainable work that allows me to keep building instead of constantly scrambling.
The first priority is stable housing. For the last few years, housing has been temporary, uncertain, or dependent on whatever option was available at the time. Rebuilding requires a place where I can sleep, work, think, recover, and plan without always being in survival mode. A real home is more than an address. It’s the base of operations for everything that comes next.
The second priority is reliable transportation. Without a dependable vehicle, even ordinary life becomes complicated. Court, appointments, errands, work opportunities, housing searches, and basic independence all become harder when every trip depends on someone else, public transportation, or rideshare costs. Transportation is not just about convenience. It’s about mobility, autonomy, and the ability to respond when life requires movement.
The third priority is sustainable work. Before all of this, I spent decades building businesses, creating systems, advising clients, writing, designing, and helping people make things work better. That part of me didn’t disappear. The Rebuild Project supports the work of getting those systems back online in a way that is stable, realistic, and built for the long haul.
These three pieces are deeply connected. Housing gives me a place to stabilize. Transportation gives me room to move. Sustainable work creates the income and structure needed to keep going. Together, they form the foundation this project is built around.
Stable Housing
Creating a safe, permanent place to live and work.
Reliable Transportation
A dependable vehicle that makes work, court, and everyday life possible.
Sustainable Work
Building businesses, writing, consulting, and creating resources that support long-term independence.
Why I’m Asking For Help Now
If you had asked me a year ago whether I’d ever create something like this, I probably would have laughed and said no. For most of my life, I’ve been the person who figured things out, solved the problems, built the systems, and found a way forward. Asking for help never came naturally to me, and accepting it was even harder.
When everything fell apart, my first instinct wasn’t to ask for support. It was to rebuild quietly and independently, one piece at a time. I kept believing that if I just worked a little harder, waited a little longer, or solved one more problem, I’d eventually catch up. The reality is that rebuilding after this kind of disruption doesn’t happen in isolation. Some things simply take longer than determination alone can overcome.
Over time, I realized something that was surprisingly difficult to admit: accepting help isn’t the opposite of independence. Sometimes it’s what makes independence possible. A stable place to live, reliable transportation, and the ability to rebuild sustainable work aren’t shortcuts. They’re the foundation that allows everything else to move forward.
This project isn’t about rescuing me. It’s about creating the conditions that let me do what I’ve spent my entire career doing: building, writing, creating, solving problems, and helping other people. The goal has never been to stay in survival mode. The goal is to get back to contributing in meaningful ways.
If you choose to be part of that, I’m deeply grateful. Whether you donate, share the project, read the Logbook, or simply follow along, you’re helping create something much bigger than a fundraiser. You’re helping build the next chapter of a life that was interrupted, but not finished.
How Your Support Helps
The Rebuild Project isn’t about solving every problem overnight. It’s about creating enough stability that rebuilding becomes sustainable instead of constantly reactive. Every contribution, whether large or small, helps create the conditions that make long-term progress possible.
Support creates breathing room. It means making decisions based on what’s best for the future instead of what’s necessary to get through today. It means spending less time navigating crises and more time writing, building businesses, serving clients, and documenting this journey for others who may someday find themselves rebuilding their own lives.
It also creates opportunities that simply don’t exist in survival mode. The ability to accept a client project, travel to court without worrying about transportation, invest in the tools needed to work effectively, or say yes to opportunities that would otherwise be out of reach. Those moments may seem ordinary, but they’re often the difference between staying stuck and steadily moving forward.
Perhaps most importantly, your support creates momentum. Every milestone makes the next one a little easier to reach. A stable home supports productive work. Reliable transportation opens new opportunities. Sustainable work creates long-term independence. That’s how rebuilding happens. Not through one dramatic moment, but through hundreds of small, practical steps that build on one another over time.
Ways To Contribute
There isn’t just one way to support The Rebuild Project, and not every contribution has to be financial. Some people choose to donate. Others share the project with friends, subscribe for updates, or simply follow along as the story unfolds. Every one of those actions helps move the project forward.
If you’re in a position to make a financial contribution, you’ll find options to donate through GoFundMe or directly through Groundless. If giving isn’t possible right now, sharing the project with someone else who might connect with it is every bit as meaningful. Sometimes the right story simply needs to reach the right person.
You can also support the project by subscribing to updates or reading the Rebuild Logbook. Every visit, every conversation, every shared post, and every encouraging message reminds me that rebuilding doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens in community.
However you choose to be part of this journey, thank you. Your time, your encouragement, your generosity, and your willingness to follow along all help make the next chapter possible.
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The Project Dashboard
This isn’t a finish line. It’s a progress report. The Project Dashboard provides a quick snapshot of where the rebuild stands today, highlights recent milestones, and tracks the practical steps that continue moving the project forward.
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