I hadn’t been back to Bucknell in decades.
Walking through campus last week, I met her again—that 19-year-old who convinced the French department head she belonged in a 300-level class without prerequisites. Who spent nights in the Art Building, charcoal staining her fingers, sketching her way toward something she couldn’t yet name.
That girl who sent herself to a private university. Paid her own way. Every. Single. Semester.
I stand on her shoulders now. Her courage. Her tenacity. Her audacious belief that constraints were just invitations to get creative.
That French class she fought to take? It got her selected by Accenture for the Paris Stock Exchange. Those hours in the art studio? They taught her that creation requires destruction first—you must be willing to smudge the perfect line to find the true one.
Last week, I returned as a Board Advisor for the Perricelli-Gegnas Center for Entrepreneurship + Innovation. When I studied computer science there, entrepreneurship wasn’t even a whisper. Now? Revolutionary. ✨
The room was packed with energy alchemists. Self-made founders. Financial wizards who built empires from scratch. The kind of people who see constraints as laboratories, not limitations.
The next day, I gave my Quantum Surfing workshop. One woman stayed despite another commitment—tears streaming from deep recognition of these ideas. Another messaged: “I’m immediately adapting the framework and experiencing results!”
The framework was simple:
- Be Curious (not certain)
- Trust Intuition (not just logic)
- Activate Imagination (not limitation)
Because here’s what twenty years of founding and scaling startups taught me: Your energy drives the show.
Not your business plan.
Not your pitch deck.
Your energy.
When you shift your energy, results happen FAST. You tap into the quantum field where all possibilities exist simultaneously.
The secret? There is no separation.
That investor you’re trying to reach? Connected.
That breakthrough idea? Already there.
That “lucky” break? Just better energy.
What that 19-year-old knew that most adults forget: The quantum field responds to audacity.
Bucknell launched my life. Not because of what it taught me, but because of who it dared me to become.
To that girl in the art studio: I see you. Thank you.
To the next generation of Bucknell entrepreneurs: Your quantum moment is now. 🚀