I'm a father, commercial business attorney (working in both Texas and Oklahoma for the past 20 years), author (both children's books as well as grown-up books), investor, speaker, professor, guest columnist, social activist, volunteer, and the writer of a monthly e-newsletter which has organically grown from 30 to 30,000 subscribers.

I love my clients, my students, and my work. I have the pleasure of teaching real estate courses to students at the University of Central Oklahoma. I am originally born and raised in Dallas. Both of my parents were high school teachers. I played football and track in high school, while I mowed lawns in the summer. My older sister, Lisa, and my mother, Sandra, are the main inspirations in my life, along with my three incredible kids, Troy, Mackenzie, and Vance (small, medium, and large). My family and circle of friends are all people who make me better and encourage me. I lost my father, an unborn child (both right before the Great Recession, and while starting a law firm) and a marriage. So, there's some of me in every American, I'd think.