How The Redeemed Second Half Can Help You Rebuild
What free, paid, and founding subscribers get, and who I write these essays for.
I was 59 years old, sitting in my newly rented duplex. My 24-year marriage was over and I had no plan for what came next.
If you’re somewhere in your 40s, 50s, or 60s and something’s off that you can’t name yet, I write these essays for you.
Maybe the papers are signed and the house is quiet in a way you didn’t expect. Maybe you gave a company 25 years and it ended in a conference room on a Tuesday morning. Your net worth took a hit you don’t talk about. You’re carrying 25 pounds you don’t remember gaining.
You did what the first half asked of you: you built your career and kept your family fed. And now your own life doesn’t fit, and you have no idea who you are outside the roles you just lost.
I know that man. At 59 he was me, sitting in that duplex, running first-half rules in a second-half life.
Five years later I’m remarried, lean at 65, and in June I published a book built on 15 years of my own food logs and 13 surgeries. I rebuilt my body, money, and faith after divorcing at 59, and I wrote it all down while it happened.
That’s what this page is: one essay every Sunday morning for men rebuilding after a divorce, a career collapse, a health hit, or losing the thread on who they are outside work and family. My faith is in these essays like a little bit of salt. Just enough to be noticed.
How the memberships work
Every essay is free for its first six weeks. After that it joins the archive. Comments are open to every subscriber. Here’s what each level gets you:
Free
A new essay every Sunday morning, free to read for its first six weeks. Start here if you want to see whether these essays land before you put anything on the table.
Paid
The complete archive, always open. No essay ages out.
My book, The Last 10 Pounds, free, as a PDF.
The subscriber chat, for what comes up between Sundays.
Email me anytime. I read and answer every one.
Every few weeks I open the real numbers behind an essay: the training split I run at 65, the alcohol math from 37 lb of Bourbon, the food logs behind 34,000 logged entries. You get a vote on which one I open next.
If you’re in the middle of your own rebuild, this level was built for it.
Founding
Everything in paid, plus:
A 30-minute one-on-one call with me. Ask me anything, or bring the thing you can’t name yet.
Free access to my Second Half Assessment app for as long as you’re a founding member.
This is the level for the man who doesn’t want to start alone.
Before any of this I built and sold ScreenRant.com and GameRant.com, so I know what a long build looks like. This one mattered more.
You can survive what happened to you. You can come out the other side, and you can still have a good life in the second half.
Stop treating your second half like a consolation prize. Pick the level that fits and get to work.