About the author

GABE was eight years old when he first had to work, going door to door selling the homemade pizzas his mother baked so they could help pay the bills. A year later, he survived a traumatic childhood abuse that could have silenced him for life. Instead, that wound became the raw material for his voice.

From those early streets to global boardrooms, GABE built an award-winning career in advertising, becoming a creative director and earning more than 150 international honors, including Cannes Lions, Clio Awards, One Show, El Ojo de Iberoamérica, SABRE Awards, among others. His work has always tried to do more than sell products, it tries to understand people, their pain, their hope, and their contradictions, their universal truths.

Outside the agency world, GABE created Ancestral Renaissance, a fine art photography project that reimagines classical artworks by placing Indigenous women at the center, giving visibility and dignity to voices long excluded from traditional art history.

This book is another chapter in that same journey: a man who refused to be defined by what happened to him, and who is still learning, every day, how to turn fear into honesty, fragility into strength, and personal scars into bridges for anyone who has ever felt broken but still wants to heal.