Energy
Protect the physical and emotional fuel required to lead well.
Vol. 01 · The origin issue
Become the hero
of your own story.
Practical leadership for small-business owners and creators who want stronger energy, clearer priorities, braver action, and better relationships—without adding more grind.
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FIELD FILE 01THE ORIGIN CONTINUES
In the arena since 2003
Business tested
Story forged
Human first
Field note
Real life needs
real tools.
20+years leading in the real world
Founder · Coach · Speaker01
20+
Years building Alter Ego Comics
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2013
Small Business of the Year
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2003
Owner-operator since
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TEDx
Speaker · stronger lives
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Win the Day protocol
Your next level is not another productivity hack.
The problem is rarely a lack of information. It is the distance between what you know and how you show up when business, family, and your own mind all need something at once.
Open Field Guide 001What’s Important Now? (WIN)
Name the one meaningful outcome that deserves your attention now.
Courage
Take the useful action that discomfort keeps asking you to avoid.
Connection
Strengthen the relationships that make success worth having.
TEDx · The signal
The thesis
What if the lessons you need were already taught in the comics?
The heroes we remember are not perfect. They are tested. They choose their values under pressure. Marc turns those familiar stories—alongside Stoic philosophy and lived entrepreneurial experience—into practical tools people actually remember.
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Choose the next chapter
Start light. Go deeper when it earns the right.
FIELD GUIDE 001
Win the Day
A five-minute morning reset for everyday heroes. Four checkpoints. One useful move.
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Antifragile Alliance
Live coaching, monthly missions, and a room built for honest practice—not performance theater.
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Speaking + Workshops
Story-first keynotes that make courage, resilience, purpose, and personal leadership impossible to forget.
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Calm guidance.
Useful action.
Real change.
Trusted by founders, teams, and community leaders
“Marc’s sessions are always a crowd favorite, and his insights on leadership have a profound impact on our community, helping them to level up and achieve their goals.”
Founder, NOW Marketing Group & Social Media Week Lima
“His calm and caring approach helps me connect with my best self. Each session keeps me committed to what matters and pushes me to go deeper on why it does.”
Founder & CEO, The Growth Dojo
“I am 100% convinced that Marc’s guidance was an integral reason for our success. He helped us understand ownership, decisions, financial expectations, and the unexpected.”
Owner, Crooked Dog Comics
Origin pointLima, Ohio
2003Founded
The man behind the mark
He has lived the lesson—not just studied it.
Marc built Alter Ego Comics from a home-based side hustle into an award-winning downtown business. He has navigated retail, tariffs, a pandemic, hiring, family responsibilities, and the thousand decisions only another owner understands.
In 2016, a nervous breakdown led to diagnoses of generalized anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. That chapter did not disqualify him. It clarified how he wanted to lead—and why ambitious people need tools that care for the human being doing the work.
Today, Marc is a certified Heroic Coach, workshop instructor and trainer, and TEDx speaker. His work is practical because it had to work in real life first.
Free field guide · Issue 001
Lead the day before the day leads you.
Get Win the Day—A Five-Minute Morning Reset for Everyday Heroes—and Marc’s weekly “We Can Be Heroes” dispatch. No motivational fog—just memorable stories and useful moves.
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