The Story
I spent my career helping build and test complex spacecraft, including NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, designed to explore the universe beyond us. Alongside engineering, I've spent years as a filmmaker documenting people who care deeply about making something with the patience, skill, and devotion that turn ambitious ideas into something real.
But somewhere along the way, I realized the explorer's mindset could be turned inward. The same curiosity that had taken me toward distant worlds could also be used to examine the one much closer to home — my own patterns, wounds, relationships, and sense of connection.
From A Perfect Vintage winemakers working with the unpredictable forces of nature to the engineers, scientists, and technicians who brought Webb to life, my work has continually brought me back to the same question:
What becomes possible when we give ourselves fully to something that matters?
True North was created as an exploration of that question—a place where science and story, craftsmanship and nature, preparation and exploration, individual growth and human connection can come together.
Every trail we cut, every foundation we build, and every person we bring together is an act of remembering what we forgot we knew.
Because becoming our better selves isn't necessarily about becoming someone new.
Sometimes it is about uncovering what was there all along.