hey there
— meet kevin —
author • podcaster • speaker • educator • graphic designer • photographer
I have always been a creative. A seeker. Someone who can't just glance at the world. I have to study it.
As a kid, I'd sit on my skateboard after a skate session and lean forward and backward until every telephone pole down the street lined up perfectly behind the other. I noticed how line and shape interact on buildings. I paid attention to form and function in ways I couldn't yet explain — I just knew I saw things differently.
Eventually, I found photography and the camera didn't just teach me how to see, it gave me language to something I'd been doing my whole life.
But for a long time, I forgot how to see any of that clearly.
Things got blurry. Not all at once, of course. It crept in quietly while I was busy looking like I had it together. I was building a freelance business and functioning like a normal human being. But slowly I was disappearing while nobody noticed, including me.
Alcohol had its grip on me for years. I lost my mom to breast cancer in 2007, and by that point I was already submerged. Six more years of that shit before I finally got sober in January 2013. And here's the thing about living in that kind of blur — it doesn't just hide the pain. It hides everything. How to feel joy. How to belong. EVERYTHING!
And no, getting sober did not hand me a roadmap; it’s not that simple. Instead, it did something more important…
It cleared the lens enough for me to start seeing again so I could build my own roadmap.
Then The Camera Talked Back!
Sobriety gave me back the one thing I didn't realize I'd lost — the ability to slow down and actually see. I remembered who I was when I was behind the lens. And somewhere in that stillness, the camera began revealing something about life.
That's when it started happening. The technical camera concepts I'd worked with my entire career began showing up as something else entirely… analogies; a whole slew of them, too! Shutter-speed stopped being a camera setting and started being a life question. Am I moving too fast to see what's right in front of me?
Then…
One analogy became two.
Two became 27…
And that became my first book,
The Guiding Light
Forever a Student
I have a deep obsession with how things look, how they work, and what they mean — that's been the through line of everything I've built over the past two decades. The photography career, the design work, the teaching, the speaking. All of it grew from the same place: a kid who couldn't stop paying attention.
Here’s the thing though… I'm always a student of the craft. But really I'm a student of life, same as you. I don't have it all figured out. I'm still adjusting my own settings, still finding focus, still occasionally overexposing the hell out of a life situation.
AND… that's exactly why can I talk to you about it honestly. I'm not teaching from the other side of something. I'm teaching from inside it — just a few steps ahead, holding the light for us both.
you are worthy.
you are worthy.
You are worthy of love.
Of guidance.
Of change.
You are worthy of all the good that’s already moving towards you.
I built this platform — the book, the podcast, the blog — because clarity changed everything for me, and I believe it can do the same for you.