the birth of the factor....
The Bullshit Factor wasn’t born in a boardroom. It crawled out of the wreckage of bad decisions, fake smiles, prison walls, and every polished lie people tell to look like they’ve got their shit together. It came from getting punched in the face by life enough times to finally stop blaming everyone else and own the mess in the mirror. This isn’t some feel-good, sprinkle fairy dust, “live your best life” garbage. This is raw truth with dirt under its fingernails. It’s calling out the excuses, the finger-pointing, the religious fronting, and the comfortable lies we wrap ourselves in like a cheap blanket. The Bullshit Factor is what happens when you strip everything down, stare your own nonsense dead in the eyes, and decide you’re done living like a fraud.
It’s not pretty. It’s not polite. But it’s real as hell.
It was built in the silence of lockdowns in my prison cell for 90 days, where there was nowhere to run and nothing to numb it. Just me sitting face-to-face with me, every excuse I’d polished, and every version of myself I hid behind when life got real. It was born on the floor of an abandoned house in Detroit, where survival wasn’t a mindset, it was the only option. Cold air, empty walls, and the kind of quiet that forces you to realize nobody’s coming to save you. That’s where the truth starts talking whether you like it or not.
It was forged on a battlefield, not the kind with medals and headlines, but the daily war inside your own head. A place where weakness gets exposed, pride gets crushed, and the only way forward is through the parts of yourself you’ve been avoiding your whole life. This comes from a warrior mentality. Not loud, not flashy, but relentless. The kind that keeps swinging when everything in you wants to quit, that learns how to take hits without folding, and that understands survival isn’t luck, it’s a decision made over and over again. The Bullshit Factor is the voice of someone who has seen human nature stripped down to its ugliest and most honest form. No filters, no pretending, no safety nets. Just truth, consequence, and the choice to either stay buried in it or rise up and do something different.
coming soon..... "The Bullshit Factor" Book
"Here's what actually happens when you try to white-knuckle your way through transformation by yourself: you get picked off. You get isolated. You get exhausted. Eventually, you convince yourself that the problem isn't the isolation, the problem is you. You weren't strong enough. You weren't committed enough. You weren't good enough. You quit. Or worse, you keep going but you hollow yourself out in the process. You become a shell of a person who's technically still turning the pile but who's lost all sense of why it matters."
Chapter Five · Burning Yourself Out