The Next Baseline

Your career can look steady while everything at home quietly fractures and sometimes a six-year-old is the one who says it out loud. I sit down with TJ Baird, creator of Warrior Dad Stories and a 30-plus-year military veteran, to talk about what it really means to be “reforged” through life’s hardest seasons and why transformation is never a straight line. TJ shares the moment that changed his lif...

Posting more used to feel like the only answer. Now it can be the fastest way to stay busy while staying unclear.  In this episode, I share what I learned after nine months building Elevatus Coaching in the digital space, including the mistakes, the late nights, and the “tax” of testing, rebuilding, and second-guessing before anything finally started to click. We talk about why trust is the real c...

Your life can change so fast that you cannot even explain what you are feeling yet. One day the old baseline works, and the next day it does not. I recorded this one to tell the origin story of C2R2E and to help you make sense of your own hard season, especially if you are dealing with divorce, co-parenting conflict, custody stress, or the quiet exhaustion of rebuilding after loss. I walk through...

Your life can fall out of rhythm without a single dramatic moment. One day the relationship, routine, job, or identity that used to hold everything together just doesn’t work anymore, and you’re left trying to “fix” a life that’s already changed shape. We built this conversation for that exact season, the one where your old baseline fails and you need something clearer than motivation to move forw...

Your child says they want a relationship, but their behavior keeps pushing you out. If you’ve ever been hit with words like “I don’t trust you,” “I don’t feel safe with you,” or “you hurt my mental health,” you know it’s not regular parenting stress, it’s grief that rewires your whole nervous system. I’m Danny De Jesus, and I’m speaking from a fresh, personal wound: what it feels like when a child...

Life doesn’t warn you before it changes. One day you’re managing, and the next you’re facing divorce, co-parenting stress, a career setback, leadership pressure, or an identity shift that makes everything feel unclear. I built the RISE community for those exact moments, when you don’t need hype and you don’t need another scroll, you need structure, support, perspective, and a real next step. RISE...

When life falls apart, most people ask the same question: How do I get my old life back? But when divorce, a breakup, child custody stress, job loss, burnout, debt, grief, or anxiety changes your reality, going back may not even be possible. In this episode of The Next Baseline , Danny De Jesus shares a practical framework for life transition, personal growth, and transformational resilience that...

AI isn’t slowly arriving. We’re already living in a hybrid AI world where tools support decisions, speed up execution, and quietly rewrite what “stable work” means. If you’ve felt that background tension lately, the uncertainty, the frustration, even the urge to ignore it, we put clear words to it and map a better response. We talk about why AI disruption is structural, not limited to one sector....

“Getting back to normal” is one of the most comforting lies we tell ourselves after a breakup, divorce, custody fight, job loss, debt, burnout, grief, or a full-blown identity shift. When life hits hard, the old version of you doesn’t fully come back and pretending otherwise keeps you stuck. So we ask a different question: what do you build now? Danny DeJesus explains why he created Elevatus, what...

Something breaks, and the first instinct is to get your old life back. This episode is about why that often does not work, and why the better question is: what do you build now? In this episode, Danny DeJesus introduces the core idea behind The Next Baseline and walks through the C2R2E Framework for transformational resilience: Collapse, Confrontation, Realignment, Reclamation, and Elevation. He e...

The hardest part of a life reset is realizing the old structure is gone and it is not coming back. When relationships change, careers shift, parenting dynamics evolve, or your health throws up a warning sign, the question stops being, “How do I get back?” and becomes, “What do I build now?” I’m Danny DeJesus, and I created The Next Baseline for people living through disruption who want something m...