ABOUT DR. STEVE CAGEN
A life built from wrong turns, second chances, hard-earned lessons, and the decision to keep moving forward.
DOCTOR IS WHAT I DO. IT’S NOT WHO I AM.
I’ve been a lot of things in my life.
I was a high school dropout. I joined the Navy at 17. I worked in aerospace, cleaned buildings, built businesses, worked in real estate and mortgages, waited tables, went back to school as a married father, became a chiropractor, an author, and eventually a speaker.
I’ve succeeded. I’ve failed. I’ve made money. I’ve lost money. I’ve made some very good decisions and some spectacularly bad ones.
I’ve also been in recovery for nearly four decades.
Somewhere along the way, I learned that the lessons that matter most usually aren’t learned when everything is going according to plan.
THE ROAD CHANGES YOU
My wife Nancy and I built our lives and our chiropractic practice together while raising our family. Then our daughter Allie suffered a catastrophic traumatic brain injury, and everything changed.
What followed taught us more about faith, family, perseverance, acceptance, responsibility, and love than any classroom ever could.
FULL RECOVERY. NEVER A DOUBT.
Not a promise that life would return to what it was. A commitment to believe in the fullest expression of what was still possible.
— The Cagen Family
WHY WISDOM FROM THE BEARD?
I don’t have all the answers. I’m not interested in pretending I do.
What I have is a lifetime of experiences, mistakes, victories, failures, stories, and lessons that might help somebody else make a better decision a little sooner than I did.
Wisdom from the Beard is where I share them.
Life. Health. Success. Purpose.
Nothing complicated. Just hard-earned wisdom for real life.
A BETTER LIFE IS BUILT ONE DECISION AT A TIME.
You don’t need to change everything today. Make one better decision. Take one meaningful action. Then do it again tomorrow.