about

Fatherhood is the most difficult yet most rewarding job I have ever had. It has tested me in ways I never anticipated and deepened my understanding of growth, resilience, and love. My perspective is shaped by a life lived between worlds—spending my formative years in post-communist Romania, where collectivism and tradition still resonate, and my adolescence in the Western, capitalist United States, where individualism and ambition dominate. This contrast shapes how I see the world, how I parent, and how I approach both personal and collective growth.

Professionally, I’ve worn many hats—studying psychology and criminology, working as a research assistant in a multidimensional family therapy office, teaching high school and college-level science, and caring for patients as an ER nurse. At the core of all these roles is a simple truth: I am driven by a passion to help people become the best versions of themselves.

I don’t believe in 'free will,' and I find that liberating. Once you understand the cards you’ve been dealt—your strengths, your struggles, your limitations—you can set clear goals and begin the real work of self-betterment. We are like unpolished stones, rough and unrefined on the surface. Through experience, struggle, and time, we slowly uncover what has always been there—our strongest, most resilient, and truest selves. Socrates said, 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' This space is a reflection of that pursuit—a place to explore fatherhood, neurodiversity, mental health, culture, and personal growth, through the lens of someone who is still learning, still questioning, and still striving to father farther.