R.T. III doesn’t write from comfort. He writes from wreckage and wonder. His words are forged in collapse, sharpened in silence, and delivered with an honesty that never looks away. His style is cinematic, weaving raw metaphor with lived experience. Called one of the most distinctive authors of his generation, his voice cannot be imitated. Only felt.
He knows what it means to suffocate under the weight of your own life, to hide behind a mask, to wonder if wholeness is even possible. That is why he wrote Hell Is Holy: The Rawest Book on Healing Ever Written. It is not meant to soothe, but to confront. To rip away excuses. To wake readers up to the parts of themselves they have been running from.
Before turning to writing, R.T. III was a high-level corporate executive who walked away from the boardroom to pursue deeper work. He became a men’s coach, the leader of one of Colorado’s largest men’s groups, and the host of retreats and events built around raw honesty and brotherhood. An avid student of philosophy, psychology, and spirituality, he built his life around asking harder questions and refusing easy answers.
His work is not safe, not polished, not wrapped in affirmations or formulas. It is truth that leaves marks, and those marks are what make it real.
No dogma. No mantras. No easy steps. Just words that burn, stories that linger, and books you carry like live weapons.
At its core, his writing moves with one pulse: collapse and resurrection, suffering as fuel, identity and masculinity, radical self-responsibility, and freedom on the far side of pain. It is spiritual psychology without pretense, visceral storytelling drawn from scars, and raw motivation born from struggle, not slogans. Always, it points back to becoming the fullest, most unshakable version of yourself.
Beyond the page, R.T. lives off-grid in a small surf town in Baja California Sur, Mexico. His days are split between writing like his life depends on it, surfing Baja breaks at sunrise, mountain biking desert trails, and playing beach volleyball at sunset. His life is stripped to the essentials, but his work pulls no punches.
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