EP 255 MR FORTIFIED

Joseph, what's going on, sir?

Well, thank you for the gracious introduction.

Everything's great.

Thank you for having me on.

Yes.

Well, Joseph, when you look at your background, lots of big, successful companies, UPS, FedEx, Amazon.

We know that you just didn't wake up in 2026 doing what you're doing.

So take us on the journey.

How did you get to where you got today in 2026? Well,

yeah.

Oh, great.

Well, I listened to some of the introductions, you know, and of course I wrote it and lived it.

Um, this really kind of graces for God's coverage over the years.

So the journey's not over.

That's not the finish line.

I'm still growing.

I'm still moving.

So, but to answer your question, I started, you know, I really, my foundation was at Delta airlines.

That's where I cut my teeth in corporate America, really my very first professional job.

I actually, I started off working on the ramp.

loading bags and kind of progressed within the ranks within Delta.

I was very fortunate to have a lot of mentors, a lot of people who saw something in me and got to travel the world.

I got to travel the world domestically, internationally, training people, working with people from different cultures.

So that's really my base and foundations.

So after Delta went on to work for other corporations, UPX and FedEx and Amazon, some great corporations, and kind of that travel from learning development to HR, I started seeing some common themes