My Story

My name is Michael Teague. I am an Internet Entrepreneur, Transformational Speaker, and Spiritual Leader. Also, I have entered the final stages of my corporate career, overseeing Business Development for a healthcare start-up, in New Jersey. 

I’m an athlete, in training for my first Muay Thai fight, which I will compete in later on this year. I have two children: Michael, my son, and Jordan, my stepdaughter.

I have re-launched my life after 20 years of healthcare in corporate America into full-time entrepreneurship. My specialty is empowering organizations and people to Relaunch.

I’m from Roselle, New Jersey. I remained in Roselle until I left for college. My mom and dad divorced when I was five. I grew up with my mom and saw my Dad, every other weekend. I have two sisters and one brother. I am a product of the Roselle school system. While in school, I played baseball, football, and basketball. I wasn’t good at baseball and basketball. I was decent at football. The highlight of my football career was scoring a sixty-three-yard touchdown, after catching a pass. I ran cross country and did pretty well.

I want to consider myself a fairly well-rounded person in high school. To round out my college career, I played the trumpet from the fourth grade through the tenth grade; played in the jazz, marching, and concert bands; served as the drum major; was a member of the National Honor Society. I was voted Class Speaker, and I graduated fifth in a class of 187.

I was accepted into Dartmouth College after applying to nine schools: Three “dream” schools; three “mid-level” schools; and three “safe” schools. I chose Dartmouth because one of the elements of the application is that its marketing materials stated that Dartmouth produces problem-solvers and leaders.

While at Dartmouth, I majored in History, with a concentration in Government (Political Science). I sang in the Gospel choir; participated in a school play; and worked in various jobs on campus. While starting as an Engineering major, during my sophomore year, I received a “Calling” into a faith-based career. Subsequent to this, I withdrew from Dartmouth, and then returned several months later. I stayed on campus for over two years, without a break, and graduated on time.

While away from Dartmouth, I reasoned that the Calling to a faith-based career also is a call to academic preparation. For that reason, I applied to and was accepted into Masters of Divinity program at Princeton Theological Seminary. I received my master’s after three years and graduated with a Concentration in Management.

For the next twenty years, I involved myself in faith-based work, within the context of the local church. While spiritually rewarding, faith-based work is low-paying. So, although from an educational standpoint I was an Ivy League-trained professional, from a salary standpoint I earned a working-class salary. I was both inspired and challenged by my Ivy League education, as I was exposed to Old Money; I call it, facetiously, “Pilgrim Money!”

Grateful, yet not satisfied with financial sacrifice, I took an inventory of my financial life at mid-career. I had conducted the first half of my career in service to others. I decided that I would live out the second half of my life in pursuit of wealth. The road to wealth is paved with the asphalt of asset ownership. I reasoned that a business is the easiest asset to start, though not always the easiest to build. So, at forty, I began a serious foray into Entrepreneurship, a pursuit that I continue to this day.

Over the past sixteen years, I authored two books. In 2007, I self-published my first book, Rise and Walk! Seven Steps to Purposeful Living. Also, I wrote an E-Book entitled, Seven Days to a Change. I involved myself in Network Marketing opportunities. I filed and was granted a provisional patent for several inventions. Also, I studied everything I could about business: Articles, books, videos, and the like. I focused on opportunities in the Digital space. Mark Cuban says that it only takes one time to get it right to enjoy phenomenal success. I believe that I’ve discovered some keys to entrepreneurial success in the digital space. While maintaining a footprint in the faith-based space, during this half of my life’s journey, I want to focus on three things: 1) Teaching GenZ and early-Millennial Internet Entrepreneurs how to begin, build, and scale their digital businesses; 2) Showing Baby Boomers how to Re-Launch At Mid-Life; and 3) working to improve the state of our world.

I invite all interested persons to take the journey with me as I live out this half of my life.