THE LEFT SEAT.

A chopper pilot, a used car salesman, a mortgage guy, and a gut health freak walk into a bar.


Start to a bad joke?


Actually no...it's my resume'


I feel certain this is the only space where you'll find an actual heavy lift pilot that traded his wings in for licenses in automotive and mortgage finance who happens to traffic in good gut bacteria.


Why is this newsletter called The Left Seat?

The Left Seat is where the Pilot-in-Command sits in a heavy lift helicopter. It's where the checklist gets run, the calls get made, and the mission either succeeds or it doesn't.

Need a better example? You drive every day from the left seat too — unless you're reading this from the UK, in which case, carry on.

On your next heavy lift — a mortgage, a car deal, a gut health situation that's been ignored too long — you have a choice. Ride in the back and hope it works out. Or take the left seat.

1. YOUR GUT IS THE HEAVIEST LIFT OF ALL.

You've tried cutting things out. The keto lasted three weeks. Your fasting lasted even less. You're tired of using your home equity line of credit to finance your supplement stack, that doesn't even move the needle!

Your labs keep creeping and the answer you keep getting is another prescription and another "let's wait and see." After all, "...like sands through the hourglass..." is the slogan for the soap opera Days of Our Lives — not your health.

You're not looking for another program. You're looking for something that finally makes sense — and someone who has actually been where you are.

I have.

Colon cancer at 50. Type 2 Diabetic since Christ was a corporal. An A1c at 9.2. Blood sugar approaching 200. Cholesterol climbing higher and higher. Sound familiar?

I built my checklist from scratch — food first is the hill I will die on. I started with fermented foods, then fiber as the fuel. But only one control input at a time to build the habit. Now with seven years of receipts, I have a rebuilt gut that outperforms where I was at 40. Scratch that. Better than 30!

No upsells inside the products. No subscription traps. Pay once, get the brief, fly the lift.

Your gut still has good bacteria hiding out.
Your number one job is to feed the soldiers behind enemy lines.

Fiber is the fuel. Pulling pitch is the mission.

And what might be most important?

I know how to recognize gut health drift and how to snap back. Three back surgeries in 13 months was the proof.

Returning Gut Pilot subscribers, that’s where I’ve been!

2. HOME LOANS-
THE EDUCATION GAP IS WHERE THE MONEY GOES.

The professional on the other side of the closing table does this every single day. You do it once every seven to ten years. The average borrower leaves $3,000–$10,000 on the runway in fees they didn't question, rates they didn't push back on, and products they didn't need.

Many loan officers play a financial game of hide and seek with your money. After 22 years in this business, I'll give you an aerial view with thermal imaging so you can capture all the savings.

3. CAR BUYING- KNOW THE PROFIT CENTERS BEFORE YOU WALK IN.

Every car deal has four profit centers — purchase price, trade-in, financing, and back end products. Your job is to negotiate each one independently, in sequence, one before the next.

Bring your own financing and you eliminate dealer reserve (profit from the interest rate) and you also remove their ability to bury product costs inside a monthly payment increase. make them show you the cash price so you can make a value decision. Not a payment reaction.

Five years managing both sides of that desk. The buyers who know this sequence will always leave with a better deal.

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A perspective for life’s heaviest lifts from a pilot who has flown the missions. Gut health, homeownership, and car buying.

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Better-briefed for your next heavy lift.

No fluff. All stuff.