A life in motion.
I’m Connor. I’ve spent most of my adult life chasing unfamiliar places, difficult things, and the occasional idea that probably would have been easier to ignore.
Travel has taken me through more than 60 countries, mountains have taken me higher than I ever expected to go, and these days most of my energy goes into building Gevity in Austin with my wife, Espoir.
Underneath all of it is a pretty simple pursuit: I want to work hard, stay curious, treat people well, keep becoming more capable, and still be awake enough to enjoy the life I’m working so hard to build.
Mindful Mindsets is where I make sense of that.
I’ve never been very good at choosing the sensible route.
I spent much of my twenties living and working abroad, teaching English, volunteering in Uganda and Malawi, and following curiosity farther than was probably practical. In 2023, after losing my corporate job, I spent eleven months traveling through 27 countries. There were people who thought I was running away. Maybe, in part, I was. But I also think I was running toward a life that felt more like mine.
Somewhere along the way, travel turned into mountains. I’ve now been to 61 countries, climbed three of the Seven Summits, trekked through the Himalayas, Pakistan, the Andes and Central Asia, and found that there is something remarkably useful about regularly putting yourself somewhere you are cold, tired, humbled and very aware that nobody cares about your résumé.
These days the unfamiliar territory looks different. Espoir and I opened Gevity in Austin in December 2025, and I’m learning how to build and scale a company from the ground up. It’s a different kind of mountain, with fewer crampons and considerably more spreadsheets.
I’m ambitious. I want to build something meaningful, climb bigger mountains, make money, grow, and keep finding out what I’m capable of. But I’ve also become increasingly skeptical of the idea that a good life is waiting somewhere on the other side of achievement.
I don’t want to spend decades building a life and forget to actually participate in it.
That tension is really what Mindful Mindsets is about: ambition without losing appreciation, growth without losing yourself, taking the risks that make sense to you even when they don’t make sense to everyone else, and trying to remain curious enough to notice how absurdly interesting this whole thing is while we’re here.
Work hard.
Take pride in what you do.
Lead with empathy.
Nothing revolutionary. Just three standards I keep trying to carry into business, mountains, relationships, and whatever comes next.