I'm Matt Stine, Falken’s Mage, a child of the Oregon Trail generation, resident of the Bitter South.

Until very recently, I've worked professionally as a software engineer, and I've been tinkering with computers since I was seven years old. I was dialing in to bulletin board systems (BBSes) by 1987, and I was on the Internet by 1991. Fast-forward about 20 years and I'm starting to surf the early cloud wave. In 2015 I published the first book with the term "Cloud-Native" in the title, and by 2018 I was very briefly a cloud startup millionaire. Cool story, huh?
 
Well, along the way I became a 150K air miles/year road warrior avoiding a dysfunctional marriage, self-medicating depression and anxiety with free booze from sales guys. That entire period began with what I'll call an unconscious deconstruction - after growing up Southern Baptist and spending parts of 2001-2011 teaching adult married Sunday School and knocking on doors doing Evangelism Explosion -(Yes, the rabbit hole is deep), exploded into a period of militant atheism around the time of Trump's ascension, and around 2019 settling into my continuously evolving mix of witchcraft, Irish Paganism, Hermetic philosophy, astrology, and Exvangelical-flavored Christian Mysticism.
 
Also post 2019 came divorce, new job, a miracle match on Tinder to whom I am now happily married, and lots of dad transitions from drivers to graduations to college students and so on.

Fast-forward to 2024: I've been actively hunting for new work in the technology field. I've cast many lines into the water, but I've only gotten a few tiny nibbles. Since the beginning of this year I've lost a sibling and a job. Yet, I'm at greater peace than I can remember being. Which is the result of a lot of work in therapy, coaching, and a renewed spirituality. I'm more convinced than ever that my future is in helping people live into the highest possible version of themselves. 

I fully believe the Universe is giving me what I'm asking it to give, but on a timeline much faster than I have planned or thought possible. Part of that accelerated journey is launching this business is helping others and you.