About The Founder

My name is Bryan Hammond. I retired from 24/7 supervising the real-time operations of the power grid across the Western half of North America—giving me a front-row seat to how real wisdom gets earned—and how to skip the personal cost.

Along the way I've also been:

• professional voice actor, lifetime member of SAG-AFTRA, and owner of the registered trademark You Found Your Voice®
• on-camera actor in Hollywood for ten years (ever watch the soap opera Santa Barbara?)
• professional musician
• Director of Marketing & Sales and Manager of the International Projects Office for a 67-year-old engineering and manufacturing company
• successfully sold residential real estate for nine years
• formally studied biology and environmental ecology at UC Irvine
• PADI SCUBA Divemaster, pro photographer, tennis and ocean-sailing instructor, motocross racer, martial artist, and advanced snow skier

My eclectic background has taught me one simple truth: the least-cost way to gain wisdom is to learn from other people’s stumbles or strokes of luck. My late father, a World War II fighter pilot in training at the end of the war, lived by words that boil down to the words of Lao Tzu: “By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.” Thrivevolutionary exists so you can skip the bitter part.