GordianKnot, LLC

GordianKnot, LLC, serves as the nexus of my (seemingly) varied involvements – Media, Writing, Non-Profit endeavors, Stout Engineering, Advisory (paid and pro bono), Public Service, Real Estate, Athletics, and Affiliations and Partnerships.
 
Here are the components that comprise GordianKnot:
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Media

• Executive Producer and Host, Living a Life in Full
• Executive Producer for the documentary Somewhere Else Together
• Executive Producer for the Documentary Series The New Humanitarians.
• Executive Producer for Living a Life in Full Radio on Spotify
• Education Channels on YouTube:
• Fitness + Performance + Wellness
• An eight-episode series on writing and getting published
• Various topical Lectures and Webinars
• The Living a Life in Full Podcast Series and Shorts            
• Hammer Nutrition Sponsored Athlete
• 2025 Mercedes-Benz CLE 450 4Matic Cabrio
• “Double Espresso” Ducati Monster Custom Bike Build
• Dr Chris Stout – Highlight Reel, Lectures and Keynote Addresses
• Beginner’s Guide to Auto Racing Series Beginner’s Guide to Road Racing/Racing to Help Others Series
• The Center for Global Initiatives
• Living a Life in Full
• Easy Upgrades | Few Tools | No Experience Series on BMW Motorcycle Tweaks.

 
Writing

• Wiley
• Bloomsbury
• LinkedIn Top Voice
• LinkedIn Tools for Change
• Medium
• Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, Advisor

• Substack
• Life in Full Sunday Breakfast Club Weekly
• Invited Contributing Author, MD for Lives

 
Non-Profit

• Center for Global Initiatives
  • Consortium for Humanitarian Intervention
  • Fiscal Intermediary for people wanting to do a project, not start a 501c3
  • Free tools and training, lectures and talks/Open-sourcing Humanitarian Intervention
  • Global Ambassador Program
  • Help with starting a 501c3
  • Tanzania
    • Kindergarten
    • 2 hospitals
  • Certificate and Fellowship Program
• Consortium for Humanitarian Intervention
• Summits for Others
• Racing to Help Others

 
Stout Engineering

• Commissioned Bike Builds
• Automotive Brokerage  

 
Advisory (paid)

• HighTop Health
• Fire Memos
• Biosysco
• Prevail Health, Chief Clinical Officer

 
Advisory (pro bono)

• University of Illinois, Chicago, College of Medicine’s Center for Global Health, Founding Advisor
• CGI’s Global Ambassador Program  
• Common Bond Institute
• The Hope Team on the Syrian Refugee Crisis
• University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine’s MD/MPH Program’s Department of Public Health Sciences
• Flying Doctors of America
• JAIDE (Joining Actions for Economic Integration and Development), Advisor
• Emergency Shelter for Homeless LGBT Youth in Uganda
• Teal Foundation
• Safe Waters
• AI-Wellness
• The College of Professional Psychology at The Chicago School
• Adler University’s Institute on Public Safety and Social Justice
• Ambassador Oluyemi Adeniji Foundation for Strategic Studies and Conflict Resolution, Trustee
• Bilim Nuskasy (assisting with their work with children with disabilities in Kyrgyzstan)

• Touching Lives Campaign, Ghana.
• African Kids Family Foundation, Uganda.
• Community Heals Us, Chicago
• WondrLink
• Here for Good Apparel Company Limited
• LinkedIn Advisor
• School of Science, Indiana University

 
Public Service

• Homeland Security, US Coast Guard, Aux Branch
  • Division Staff Officer 
  • Flotilla Staff Officer
• Citizen Scientist, The Ridges

 
Real Estate

• Stout Farms
• Horseshoe Bay Farms

  
Athletics

• Hammer Nutrition – Sponsored Athlete
• DeemedFit - Brand Ambassador
• GoRuck - Contracted Affiliate Athlete

 
Partnerships

• Pick My Brain
• Delphi
• Seersite
• Parlor Social
• HappyVerse
• Amazon Influencer

 
Consulting

• Fast Pace Health
• Carroll Craddock, PhD
• Vimedra
• The Cambridge Centre for Palestine Studies
• Inside Business Today
• Life+Leisure
• Alumni Ventures

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