I believe in an integrated life. I've spent my entrepreneurial career proving that impact and returns aren't a trade-off. They're a design choice.
"Business is ministry, fueled by sustainable cashflow."
I'm a self-proclaimed capitalist missionary. I don't set faith aside to run a business, and I don't set business aside to live out my faith. Designed right, they're the same project, not two things I'm holding in tension.
"An exceptional Purpose will gravitate exceptional People who will build exceptional Plans, executed by exceptional Processes, which will yield as a byproduct exceptional Profits."
That is the architecture. Life, Business, and Wealth: integrated, not siloed.
Alongside my partners, I've been part of teams that have raised and deployed more than $750 million in capital, across business acquisitions, energy, real estate, and operating companies.
Every Exceptional company connected to the family office. One mission, one system, running through all of them.
Life, Business, and Wealth aren't three separate pursuits we should juggle. They're three operating systems built on the same design, integrated at inception.
The framework for designing a life on purpose: faith, family, health, and mission, instead of reactionary, tired default operating.
The system running every company in our portfolio: People, Process, Profit, in that order, built for clarity, accountability, consistency, and results.
The framework for creating true wealth, not just dollars in a trading account: multi-generational, life-giving outcomes.
Exceptional Business Advisors helps the owner build a highly valuable business and exit it well. The liquidity event is stewarded by their financial advisor, or by Exceptional Wealth & Family Office if they need a wealth advisor. And along the way, Exceptional Insurance protects what they've built.
It's not a holding company bolting unrelated businesses together. It's one relationship with an owner, served at every stage: sell, protect, invest, transition.
Every entity runs on the same system: Exceptional OS, the framework we use to build, run, and eventually hand off a business.
Sell-side M&A and business advisory for owners navigating the Silver Tsunami, the largest wave of business ownership transfer in a generation. Offices in Colorado Springs, Austin, and Midland.
An SEC-registered RIA and family office serving multigenerational families, high-liquidity investors, and entrepreneurs, with concierge-level guidance across investment, estate, and tax. As Tara puts it: "Most advisors manage your money. We orchestrate your life."
An agency protecting the businesses, families, and assets our clients spend a lifetime building.
Oil & gas and real estate investments & advisory spanning ranch & farm land, oil & gas working interests & royalties, and residential & commercial properties, assets we own directly, and help our clients build and manage for themselves.
A frontier expanding tech company creating digital marketplace solutions for energy, business, and wealth, founded by Chris Seegers and Joseph Thompson. Relationship Based Tech.
Figures current August 2026
Written for the men & women actually in the arena buying, building, and selling businesses.
A field guide for business owners preparing for the sale of a lifetime. What actually drives value, and what quietly destroys it.
How to acquire a business without overpaying, over-promising, or over-estimating your own ability to run it.
Co-authored with Tara Seegers. The Blueprint for Creating the Life You Want, the book behind the Exceptional Life Operating System, publishing February 2027.
A fable. Written in the tradition of the old stories, built on lessons from a lifetime of building. Publishing Q1 2027.
Co-authored with Dax Atkinson. A guide to oil and gas for family offices and private investors. Be the owner, not just the investor.
Co-authored with Marcus Seegers. The book behind the Exceptional Business Operating System, the same system running every company in the portfolio.
The book behind the Exceptional Wealth Operating System: creating true wealth, not just dollars in a trading account: multi-generational, life-giving outcomes.
Long-form conversations on buying, selling, and building exceptional businesses, where faith and entrepreneurship share the same table.
Co-hosted with Marcus Alvarado and Andrew Hazzlee, spotlighting the operators building the state's economy.
Whether you're preparing to sell, looking to acquire, or building something that needs a guide instead of a broker. Start here.