About The Impact Project
This is a hug from me to you… our collective humanity. Please, come and sit with me for awhile. Immerse yourself in the weekly stories of how we impact each other. Hear in them parts of yourself–your yearning to both hear your worth and express the worth of others. Learn, through our stories expressed about each other that there are many of us, often flying under the radar and without fanfare, doing incredibly impactful things in the seemingly smallest actions. Every. Single. Day. This is about love. Full stop.
For more details, please head over to the intro page.
About Moose
If you’ve read the intro, you’ve learned that this project started as a tribute to a friend—specifically, the energy he brought into this world and that remains despite his departure. Here’s a little bit about him.
Morris (call sign “Moose”) Fontenot (7 Nov 1972-27 Aug 2014) was a son, father, husband, friend, and fighter pilot. He was born in Houston, Texas. He graduated from the US Air Force Academy in 1996 and became an F-15C pilot, flying the Eagle for 17 years and accruing over 2,300 flying hours. He served as the commander of the 67th Fighter Squadron at Kadena Air Base, Japan and also had assignments in DC, FL, ID, and AK, along with multiple overseas deployments.
Moose was serving in the Barnes Air National Guard in the 104th Fighter Wing in Massachusetts when he lost his life. He was piloting an aircraft from Massachusetts to New Orleans, where it was to receive a radar upgrade, when his aircraft went down enroute in Deerfield, Virginia.
There’s more to him than a biography will ever know…and it is my hope that his essence–his laughter, his sincerity, his love for his family, his care and concern for his community and his airmen, is in some way captured in this project, where it lives on.
About Me
I feel less like the author of this project and more like a conduit for you; in a way, you should have your bio here instead. That being said, here’s a little bit of my journey.
I [barely] graduated from the Air Force Academy and served in the military. I became a professional triathlete and traveled the world, where I learned more about people than I did about racing and experienced kindness as our universal language.
I became an endurance coach, something I continue to this day because I love the joy of helping athletes pull the potential out of themselves.
I spent almost a decade working with wounded veterans in adaptive sports, and that experience has shaped me. I think about them daily, and when I get out of bed in the morning, I picture them putting themselves out there, overcoming tremendous odds to reach their full potential. They leave me with no excuses. You’ll meet a few of them along the way. To you guys/gals: Your courage has given me permission to be vulnerable and to put this thing into the world. You’ll never know how much you mean to me.
Thank you for coming along for the ride.
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