REAL.
What Makes Us Human? Let's find out.
I've spent years teaching people to use AI without losing their human selves in the middle of it. Everyone's distracted. Nothing breaks through anymore. So we're driving out there to say it to people's faces.
Me, Diana, and our little guy Luke. An RV, sixty days, every stage and campfire between Colorado and Tennessee. And every talk is free.
I wrote a book about friction.
Then we decided to live it.
The book is called F* Your Friction. If you don't like the title, read the book, it'll help you reconcile that. It's about fighting back against the systems stealing your time and your money. And somewhere in the middle of writing it, we looked around at our own life and figured it was time to practice what I preach.
So here's the plan. Everything we own goes into storage in Tennessee. Our next oldest is eighteen and headed off to Montana State this fall. And me, my wife Diana, and our little guy Luke, he's four, are getting in an RV in Colorado and taking the long way home. Sixty days of back roads, small towns, campgrounds, and cities. (Yes, sixty days in an RV with a four-year-old. We know exactly what we signed up for. That's half the show.)
Along the way, I'm doing what I've done for three decades on 4,000 stages, except now there's a campfire behind me. Free talks about AI and the human element. Destination Marketing Organizations, the VISIT INDY and VISIT DENVER and VISIT MUSIC CITY crowd. Companies. Conferences. Chambers. Anywhere people will put me on a stage, I'll get on it. And nobody on this route pays a dime for the keynote.
Tennessee is my roots. This is a family going home the long way, and inviting the whole country to ride along.
Time to get real.
Real about friction. Real about AI. And real about the passion that's gone quiet in a lot of good people. That's the talk, and it's the same fire whether I'm in a ballroom or a campground.
F* Your Friction
The systems stealing your time and your money, and how to take both back. Friction will eat two years of your life if you let it. I wrote the map. Now we're out driving the proof.
The Avatar
AI with a memory and a soul. Cities that greet you in their own voice. Real wisdom, from real lived experience, that never gets lost. I won't just talk about it, I'll build one live, on stage, in front of you, at every stop.
Amplify with AI
Here's what everyone gets backwards: AI isn't missing more data, it's missing you. Your wisdom, your lived experience, your applied knowledge, the skills of being human. That's what makes AI truly useful. Feed it something real, a life actually lived, and it becomes powerful. That's why we're going to live one, out on the open road.
You already feel it.
Everything is one click now, and somehow nobody feels heard. You've felt it. I watch whole rooms feel it.
The research just confirms what your gut already knows: technology removed the friction and took the human with it. And look where people are running to get it back:
People are going back to the fire, back to each other. The camping world is calling 2026 the Open Road Era, and they're right. So instead of waiting for people to come find me, we're heading out to where they already are. And I'm bringing the one thing nobody else is handing out: a way to use AI that makes you more human, not less. Amplify, not automate.
What happens out there
Free keynotes, city after city. This tour only.
Destination Marketing Organizations, companies, and conferences on the route get the full talk, the one that usually runs $35K+, for free. You put me on a stage, I'll take care of the room. Fair warning though: when the RV parks in Tennessee in October, the fee comes back with it.
An avatar at every stop
Everywhere we go, I build a guide, live. Every city, campground, and company on the route can get its own AI avatar, voice and soul included. Your town, greeting the world in its own voice, built in front of the room while I'm there. I've already done it for one of America's great cities, and the CEO's phone lit up the next morning from a national conference.
Campfire conversations, recorded nightly
Real people, real fires, real talk about what we keep and what we hand to the machines. This is the show, documented every single day.
The ultimate camping & RV avatar, built mile by mile
Riding shotgun in My HIVE AI is the big one: an avatar trained on the road itself. Every campground, every ranger tip, every wrong turn and hidden gem across sixty days becomes its memory. By Tennessee, it's the definitive AI companion for RV life, built where RV life actually happens, not in an office. The human drives, the AI amplifies.
The book, everywhere
F* Your Friction, signed at every stop, old-school back-of-the-room table, for everyone done losing two years of their life to systems built to slow them down. And if you'd like a copy for every seat at your event, we'd appreciate it, and your people will thank you for it.
I've done this before.
Just never with a campfire.
"AI isn't about doing things faster, it's about doing things better. I cannot believe what I learned in two hours."
"It's not the tool itself, it's HOW you use it. Hours upon hours of work can now be done in minutes so I have more time to think, review and prepare. And the whole LinkedIn demonstration was mind blowing!"
We're driving either way.
Come with us.
The RV is happening, the talks are happening, the cameras roll every day for sixty days. There's room for a few names on the side of this thing. Pick your lane.
Fuel the Tour
Sponsors ride on everything: the rig, the recordings, the campfires, the stages, sixty days of daily content across the country in America's 250th year.
Claim your spot →Put Us in a Rig
One RV manufacturer becomes the vehicle of the whole story. Your rig, our family, every mile documented, every stage name-checked. The realest story on the road in America's 250th year, and you built it.
Put us in yours →Give Me a Stage
Destination Marketing Organizations (think VISIT INDY, VISIT DENVER, VISIT MUSIC CITY), companies, and conferences on the route: the keynote is free, on this tour only. You bring the humans, I'll bring the reminder. Want a signed book for every seat? We'd love that. First come, first booked.
Book your city →Tell us your lane.
Thirty seconds. It lands straight in Mitch's inbox, and he actually reads it.
Prefer email? mitch@ahumanhive.com
Can't make a stop?
Ride from home.
Sixty days, documented daily. The campfires, the keynotes, the wrong turns, all of it. And there's a seat in the rig with your name on it.
It's called My HIVE AI. Riding shotgun the whole way is the road avatar, an AI learning every campground, every ranger tip, every hidden gem in real time, mile by mile. Open the app and it's yours: follow the tour, ask it anything, watch it get smarter city by city. By Tennessee, you'll own the definitive AI companion for the open road, and you'll have watched it grow up.
This is Amplify with AI, live. Real lived experience feeding the machine, and the machine handing it back to every human who rides along.
The RV leaves in August.
What makes us human? We're going to go find out, for real. With you or without you, we're driving. But it's a lot more fun with you.
Diana's driving. I'm talking. Luke's in charge of snacks.
I'm In