I played in the Olympics. I played pro hockey for fifteen years. Two years after I retired, I'd lost everything I owned.

This is the part of my story I don't usually tell. Here it is.

I built a business after I retired — worked hard at it, was in over my head on the financial side. Then 2008 hit while I was already stretched thin. I lost the investments. Three properties. The family home. All of it. A buddy got me a job selling cars at a dealership. No hockey. No identity. No structure. Just trying to figure out who I was without the only thing I'd ever known. Those dark times are what led me back to the rink — and eventually to the work I do now.