September 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Why I Left Defense Contracting to Sell Real Estate
People assume that when someone leaves a successful career, something went wrong. That wasn't my story.
People assume that when someone leaves a successful career, something went wrong. That wasn't my story.
I spent more than a decade in the defense and intelligence world before I became a real estate agent. I didn't leave because I hated it. I left because friends and colleagues kept asking me for help with their transactions, I realized I genuinely enjoyed the work, and at some point I wanted to build something of my own.
I wrote the full story here, including how a summer studying Indonesian with a Special Forces team eventually led me to enlist, and why I built NOVA Military Real Estate around the community I already knew.
