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The short version
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Joined the U.S. Air Force at 17.
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Built businesses in Las Vegas before 30.
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Ran a $20M, 300-person operation.
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Built a manufacturing company from Prague, through a pandemic, and sold it.
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Twelve days later, my heart stopped for more than fifteen minutes.
I came back. Most people don't. I don't intend to waste it.
Meet MJ
MJ has spent 25 years doing what most people only talk about: building companies from nothing, through booms, busts and a pandemic, on two continents. He knows the rush of a deal closing, and he knows what that rush can cost.
In July 2026, twelve days after selling his company, his heart stopped. What he brought back wasn't fear. It was clarity about being present, about family, and about the difference between ambition and appetite.
Today he speaks to founders, leaders and teams who are busy building something, and helps them build it without losing what matters along the way. He lives in Prague, spends much of his time in the U.S., and is the author of Duck Medicine and Priorities of the Family Man.