One thing I plan to use these regular blog posts for is to share updates about the athletes profiled in Hero Redefined. That’s important, because the lives of these athletes are not static and confined to how a book encapsulates their past. Their future will surely reveal another series of interesting stories. Additionally, I had more tidbits and anecdotes from many of these athletes than I could put in a single book—and it struck me that some should resurface in a blog . . .

I’ve thought of my mom often as we have moved toward the official publication date of Hero Redefined, on Jan. 28, 2025. Mom, I had to wind down a career and carve the time into my life to go back to my true love of writing. But by January 2024, I had written a manuscript, and throughout 2024, it was edited, perfected, and polished…

The editing and publication schedule for Hero Redefined: Profiles of Olympic Athletes Under The Radar did not allow me to profile some of the unsung heroes from the 2024 Summer Games in Paris. But a couple layers beneath the limelight, there were plenty of them…

I’ve been asked many times why I wrote Hero Redefined and how I arrived at the subject matter examined in the book.

The book builds off a few key themes: my passion for all things sports; my love of the Olympic Games; and, crisscrossing those two things, a deeper examination of what it means to be a hero…