About
Breadcrumbs...the clues that will lead you home.
Kevin Howard was born in 1965 in the Bronx, New York, the son of a Panamanian immigrant mother. Raised in Catholic school, he enlisted in the U.S. Army at 18 and spent four years serving with NATO forces in Europe during the Cold War's final chapter.
College followed the military - economics and political science, then law school - and from there, a quarter-century climb through commercial banking. By every conventional measure, it was working. Senior roles, respected institutions, a clear trajectory.
Around 40, it stopped making sense. Not the work itself, but the premise underneath it - the idea that accumulation and achievement were supposed to feel like enough. They didn't. What followed wasn't a breakdown so much as a slow, honest reckoning: ten years of peeling back assumptions about success, purpose, and what it actually means to live well.
In 2016, during a run in Carlsbad, California, something shifted. Kevin describes it simply — a moment of knowing, deep and unshakable, that we are one. Not as philosophy. As experience.
That understanding changed everything. He walked away from banking and toward the work he does now - not because he had a plan, but because he couldn't unsee what he'd seen. The writing, the podcast, the housing and climate work - all of it flows from that same source: a belief that the systems we built aren't serving us, and a stubborn conviction that we can build better ones.
Kevin currently lives in the Pacific Northwest (US) where the forest meets the water. The journey for community continues...
