No child would ever feel invisible
in the stories that shape them.

That same year, I started building Fantoria™. Not as a project, or a hobby, but a universe that's been growing in my head for over 30 years. A living mythology with its own creatures, rules, physics, and stories. Fantoria is where I've been learning how imagination actually works, how wonder operates at scale, how you make the impossible feel inevitable. It's my Disneyland, my Wonka's factory, the thing I've been building toward since I could hold a pencil.

To get there, I had to become
everything I needed to be.

I mastered illustration because I needed to see the worlds I couldn't find. I studied theater to understand how characters think and feel. I learned UI/UX, design, and software engineering because the tools I needed didn't exist yet. I became an award-winning children's book author and illustrator. A software engineer. An animator. A music producer. A choreographer. A performer. An entrepreneur.

Collecting skills like keys to doors that were locked.

That promise I made at seven became Storytailor®, a platform where families can create stories where every child sees themselves as the hero. It's how I'm taking three decades of mastery and making it scalable. It's proof that technology can amplify expertise instead of replacing it. It's also the foundation I'm building for Fantoria, the real mountain I've been climbing toward my entire life.

I'm not done. Storytailor is the stepping stone. Fantoria is the destination.

Between those two worlds is me: a bridge between children and the inner child that adults forget they have. A reminder that nonsense still has purpose, that wonder still matters, that stories still heal.

I live in Kansas City, but most days you'll find me somewhere between reality and Fantoria. Still building. Still believing. Still keeping that promise.

Because imagination isn't something you grow out of. It's the most contagious thing in the universe.

And I've spent my life learning how to spread it.