Founder, CIV, Serial Entrepreneur
Students to Executives™ – Athletes to Executives™
M.P.S. Edge™- RocStar Society™ – urEYZ™
President Society Nights Productions Inc.
WR the kid… without a clue?
…with his parents roots in Detroit and himself being raised primarily in South Florida, both Dade and Broward county schools, WR from a young age was always seeking answers.
WR’s mother was a single parent raising his sister and him working nights after putting siblings to sleep to make ends meet. WR never went without and was even awarded “Best dressed” in High school. Mom’s efforts beyond necessities included private school w/sports looking for the fix?
WR’s father was the relentless renegade without grounding or any semblance of a true-life direction. What hope did an outdated – overburdened school system expect to provide?
The early years for WR were definitely (without his knowledge or permission) attached to disharmony, destruction and despair… His father’s best guess was the Boys club but WR was not connected to boxing, football, basketball or other common sport activities offered there.
WR’ s mom enrolled him in intramural football and baseball and his dad exposed him to business and the world of wine, woman and song. Additionally this business life included drug smuggling and of course the celebratory using of drugs was just a by product of the lifestyle offered by dad.
Yes, WR naturally and curiously indulged in more than his share of all the available drugs at the time. Additionally he participated in many illegal activities that went along with the accepted and for the most part, socially accepted and endorsed lifestyle. Remember Cocaine wasn’t addictive!
Matter of fact most of the smuggling activities included chiefs of police, city commissioners, successful business owners and powerful Miami attorneys. They were “in the business” and using a young kid to ride in the boat out of Government cut in Miami made it look like a family fishing trip. This is my take on it reflecting back about it many years and with clarity later.
WR vividly recalls sensing it was illegal but truthfully, being naïve he didn’t care. There was an allure and he loved the crisp Benjamin’s he received after he got off the boat docked at the Miami Yacht Club or heading down alligator alley with the Swamp Buggy trailered after a romp in the Everglades because small airplanes were losing their strange Colombian grown luggage?
Business and money was far more attractive but proved to be more dangerous and deadly as the attached lifestyle subsequently took WR’s dad to an early grave and he was heading close behind. Unfortunately WR carries the dubious records associated and frequently linked to that lifestyle.
On one occasion when WR viewed his dad in a very sad state, he asked his dad “what was wrong”?
His dad’s reply was merely “son you will never understand”. WR was crushed by the response.
Upon his father’s crossing over in 1985 WR experienced much confusion and further disharmony, despair and destruction for the next year. Finally in a moment of clarity on Oct 16 1986, WR began his quest to discover why his father exclaimed “he would never understand’ and just what exactly was it that he would never understand? Since that day WR has not drank or did a drug, made mistakes, just not those dumb ones!
While still in his 20’s the reality of disharmony, despair and destruction was even more real with the loss of his dad and his dad’s reply really began to reverberate in WR’s young spirit. WR knows today that quest for the answer is the inspiration for ThunderPilots™,RocStar Society™, StudentstoExecutives™ and the M.P.S.edge™
His quest for the “answer” discovered the path to HHP™ Healthy, Harmonious and Prosperous living and also gave birth to the ‘Sport of Business” along with the secret sauce we know as the M.P.S.edge™.
Born in Detroit Michigan, the grandson of an inventor/engineer who found his place working with Henry Ford. Reared in South Florida streets and then after serving 6 yrs. in the U.S. Air Force as an Instructor, WR shifted gears into the private sector. WR has now enjoyed many years as an eclectic businessman and calls the whole planet his home. WR is the consummate treazurz™ hunter and lives in a perpetual amusement park!
FAST FORWARD since fueled with H.H.P.™. WR, Entrepreneur and Innovator, has been intensively involved in business startups, training and management for multiple decades; encompassing diverse services, product design, manufacturing, marketing, promotions and sales.
Additionally during this entire time of business pursuits WR has remained extensively involved in helping others in his off time. Individuals who choose substance abuse as the answer.This has always been his life work and it wasn’t until much later did he accept money for his wisdom. This was the business mind at work and WR became a private life coach and relationship guru. His coming book: boardroomBEFOREbedroom.Essentially, it’s about the art of H.H.P.™ (Healthy, Harmonious & Prosperous™) human relationships that won’t go ever bankrupt!
His unrelenting passion remains intact because he feels regardless of an individual’s past everyone deserves to understand what they too never understood about the harmonious human quotient. The big exception is that today he desires to impart this wisdom while people are very young as opposed to beyond their teens or even worse, after the fall.
WR’s conclusion is too much energy is needed and the odds suck for crisis intervention and management and now chooses to spend his life in preventative preparation (H.H.P.™) instead.
Whether in the early days dabbling in business as a news carrier who sub-contracted or leveraged his route at the age of 12, managing a bicycle store at 14, followed by many years at the side of his business owner father and then moving on the the harmonious years he invented the Cartache’ office system. This allowed WR to hang and be inspired with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates as fellow aspiring businessmen/geeks at Comdex Atlanta. Regardless, WR’s mind is always seeking the next big thing or more importantly, the better way.
WR has created diverse marketing, promotions and sales platforms to accommodate Estate planning, Insurance, Transportable Computer offices, and Fire systems. Completing the process of entrepreneurship with manufacturing in his art studio an aesthetic array of wind instruments. 12 years were dedicated entirely to manufacturing, promotions, sales and distribution of his patentable art while additionally teaching and empowering young students and retirees to reproduce his incredibly unique designs. Both inspiration and passion by all provided the success.
Although he oversees these entire structural units, his team, principals and associates interpret and implement tasks and activities towards the achievement of Society Nights Productions Inc.’s ultimate goal — maximizing for all those involved, empowerment, profits, and loyalty through value-laden branded products/services and by offering a unique interactive, effective and proprietary business methodology and system.
WR has been honored, privileged and inspired with the advice and consultation of some of the most successful entrepreneurial minds in the world. WR’s current passion is “Playing it Forward” by inspiring and empowering young minds in the “Sport of Biz, Life & Love at Students to Executives™, The RocStar Society™ and simultaneously providing all with the MPSedge™ formula.
WR’s shares time with his family in Medellin, Colombia while his 3 basset hounds, 6 fish tanks and organizational operations are maintained at his office in Florida.
