About Me

I'm a storyteller.

For 30 years, I ran from it.

I built businesses. Made money. Survived bankruptcy and rebuilt. Did everything except the one thing I knew in my bones I was meant to do: write stories.

Why? Because storytelling didn't prove I was "someone" fast enough. It didn't feed the ego. It didn't make me visible in the ways I thought I needed to be.

In 2016, I traveled to Peru for an ayahuasca ceremony. What I experienced there broke something open. A novel poured out of me in six weeks—117,000 words, three hours a day, seven days a week. The story wrote itself. I was just the channel.

That book is called The Billionaire and the Backpacker. Nothing—and I mean nothing—has ever felt like writing that book.

And then I stopped. I published it, sold 40 copies, and walked away. Back to the "safer" path. Back to being seen. Back to proving worth through other means.

At 66, I'm done running.

I'm a storyteller. That's what I've always been. That's what I'm finally becoming.

If you've spent years running from the thing you know you're meant to do—the thing that makes you feel most alive—I see you. I understand. And I'm here to say: it's not too late. It's never too late.

The world needs your stories. The world needs you to pick up the pen and tell them.

I'm doing it. You can too.

📖 Read my work: MartinCole.com