Don Heywood was born and raised in a small town on the Hudson River in upstate New York where he still lives today with his wife Nanette.

He has been a grave digger, laborer, mason, carpenter, heavy equipment operator, real estate investor, fork lift operator, bar tender, truck driver, salesman, snow plow operator, plant manager, business manager for a European contract manufacturer, founder and C.E.O. of a manufacturing business, now retired. Life was never meant to be dull.

Don Heywood has a Bachelor’s Degree in both Economics and Psychology as well as a Master Degree in Business Administration in Organizational Management, both from Syracuse University. He loves running, hiking and kayaking. He spends zero time on social media since he is too busy actually living in the real world.