"No Risk, No Story"
I always knew I wanted to be an owner — not someday, right now. At 16, I started Hard Hat Pro, a marketing and web design agency. Filming client job sites pulled me into videography, and free shoots for friends and family pulled me into events.
When I realized those two things were the best parts of my life, I combined them and co-founded Triple Take with my sisters — people I already trusted completely and now get to work alongside every single day.
Outside of both companies, I’ve expanded into acquiring local businesses, because the drive that started all of this has never stopped. This is the story of how it all connects.
Biography
Ownership wasn't a goal.
It was a given.
Before the cameras, before the events, before any of it — there was one thing I always knew about myself: I was going to be an owner. It wasn't a dream I was working toward. It was just how I saw the world. I was drawn to business instinctively, the way some people are drawn to music or sports. I saw opportunity, I thought in systems, and I wanted to build things that were mine.
Film was a love of mine too — but from the other side of the screen. I grew up absorbing movies, studying them, feeling them. I admired what filmmakers did the way you admire a musician whose instrument you've never touched. It never occurred to me that I would be the one creating. Cameras weren't part of the plan. Ownership was.
A marketing company, a camera,
and a surprise.
At sixteen, I stopped waiting and started building. Hard Hat Pro began with websites — clean, functional sites built for real clients doing real work. Landscapers, contractors, tradespeople who needed a presence online and didn't know where to start. I wasn't waiting for the right age or the right moment. I just started.
As the company grew, so did the scope of what I was doing for clients. I started going out to their job sites — heavy machinery, earthwork, crews in the field — and filming it. Documenting the work. And then came the drone. Wide shots over job sites, the scale of construction suddenly visible from above in a way that ground-level photos never could capture.
I hadn't planned to fall in love with video. But somewhere between the job sites and the drone footage and watching back a clip and thinking — I made that — something shifted in me permanently.
Free shoots. Zero regrets.
Word travels when you're good at something. My personal connections started reaching out — friends, family, people close to me who were planning weddings, celebrations, moments they didn't want to lose. They asked if I'd film. I said yes every time, and I never charged a single cent.
What I found at those events wasn't work. It was something I hadn't expected to feel. The energy of a room full of people celebrating, the pressure of a moment that only happens once, the way a night can be so alive and then disappear completely — unless someone captures it. I wanted to be that person. Every time. Without question.
"I never set out to be a videographer. I just kept saying yes to the thing that made me feel most alive — and eventually I had to admit that was the whole point."
Two passions. One company.
Family.
The realization was simple once it landed: the part of Hard Hat Pro I loved most was the videography, and within videography, nothing compared to events. The energy, the stakes, the humanity of it. I didn't need to choose between the two loves — I needed to build something that held both of them. Events and film. Ownership and craft. A real company with a real foundation.
My sisters had always been drawn to camera work. The eye for it, the instinct, the patience it takes to wait for the right moment and then not miss it. McKenzie was already deep in the editing process alongside me — shaping raw footage into something that actually moved people. We didn't need to build trust from scratch. We already had it.
A partnership between us didn't feel like a business decision. It felt like something that was always going to happen. And just like that, Triple Take had a name, a team, and a direction.
"Most people have to choose between work they love and people they love. I get to walk into work every day with my family. That's not a small thing. That's everything."
Same instinct.
Bigger canvas.
Triple Take and Hard Hat Pro are two chapters in a longer story. The drive that sent a sixteen-year-old into business for himself has never let up — it's only expanded. Ownership isn't just a title I carry. It's the lens I see the world through.
Beyond the marketing company and the film business, I've moved into acquiring local businesses — finding companies with real roots in the community, with histories worth honoring and futures worth investing in, and making them stronger. It's the same instinct that built Hard Hat Pro at sixteen, applied to a bigger canvas. Find something worth owning. Do right by it. Build.
A kid who always knew he'd be a builder. A camera he never planned to pick up. A company started at sixteen. Sisters who already had the eye. Local businesses with stories still being written. And at the center of all of it — a drive that started long before any of this had a name.