I started stuttering at eight and didn't stop until my late twenties. I was the child of two nightclub entertainers who had given up their dreams when they had me. I grew up feeling cared for but mostly alone and unwanted. Even then, other kids came to me with their questions. When I gave them my ideas, I never stuttered, because I was listening to them rather than thinking about what I was going to say. When a friend's father asked what I wanted to be, I said I wanted to give people my ideas and have them pay me for them. He laughed hard. But no matter what I thought I was doing, this is mostly what I have done ever since, because it is what I was always meant to do.

Art school took me out of a steel-mill town. The Army took me to Army Entertainment instead of Vietnam. CalArts gave me a school with no grades, only projects. Then a friend and I took on the optical effects for the first Star Wars, a job no one else in town would touch: 366 shots in under eighteen months. It was impossible, and we did it.

The EST Training changed everything. A mentor put me, still stuttering, in front of 350 people for ten weeks and yelled "breathe" from the back of the room. I led seminars for the next twelve years. I found a true sense of self that will never go away and have developed my own unique way of working with people whose lives will never be the same.

Corporate consulting followed, then my own coaching practice in 1989, which became RothMethods, Inc. In the 1990s I began the Blindspot Discovery work quite by accident at one of the lowest points in my life. Today it is one of my six Applied Ontology Methods, and AI is now giving me the freedom to fully build out years of development of what I have been working toward all my life.