I’m 52 years old. I’ll be 53 soon.

If you would have asked me when I was 15 years old what I wanted to do with my life, I wouldn’t have hesitated.

I wanted to be a financial advisor. But I also fell in love with songwriting after I wrote my first song called “That Day” inspired by a conversation with my dad. He told me the doctor said my mom may not see me graduate from High School. She had ovarian cancer. I will never forget that day. That day, I fell in love with songwriting and haven’t stopped since. I must have somewhere over 500 songs in old notebooks, in the notes on my phone, or Word file pages in my computer. Many of them half written. Many of them the melodies forgotten. But all of them…

There’s a question most of us spend years avoiding:

Is this actually the life I want?

Not whether your life looks successful. Not whether other people think you should be happy. Not whether you’ve checked enough boxes.

But whether the life you’re living feels like yours.

That question became the heart of “The Big Life Question.”

There are seasons when life becomes…