You'll never be as young as you are right now in this moment.I am a product of the 80s, born from working-class, creative DNA in the Allentown neighborhood of Pittsburgh. My mother was a part-time hairstylist & provided a solid foundation for discipline, while my father was a union foreman & gravedigger who encouraged wordplay, music, individuality & athletics (to stay busy & out of trouble). I am the middle child, between 2 talented & beautiful sisters. Since a young age, I have been independently active in the worlds of music, sports, art, commercial design & retail. As an indie musician, songwriter, producer & recording artist, I have released 6 full-length albums since 2003 & headlined stages across Western PA with my band, Jesse Mader & The Urban Rock Project. As a visual artist & designer, I became a founding partner of the multiple award-winning design agency, ocreations llc in 2007 after receiving a bachelor's degree from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 2006 (RIP AIP). After years of maneuvering through a changing music industry, a devalued design industry, & executing other people's dreams, I started paying more attention to the itch to build a world of my own. A world that truly inspired me & tapped into all of the things that have truly inspired me since I was very young. Those things are history, haunts, time travel, & escape.In 2014, I reunited with Amanda Rok, my kindred spirit & soul mate since we met in 2002. In those years leading up to marriage, we hunted ghosts in Gettysburg, sipped Seelbach cocktails & over 50 bourbons in Louisville, sipped Ramos Gin Fizzes in the French Quarter & explored our shared vision of reincarnation. We were playfully convinced that we must have existed in a previous century due to our infatuation with the aesthetic and texture of the Victorian Era through the Roaring 20s. During this time, my good friend and long-time creative collaborator, Mike, was coincidentally experimenting with building copper stills & making moonshine whisky. I sipped his unaged brandy for the first time and I was blown away. Amanda & I got married in 2016, and our elaborate, prohibition-themed wedding in New Orleans became the inspirational launchpad for Inspired by Spirits LLC. The wedding was very wet with Mike's authentic moonshine. When Mike & I sat by the bayou with our ties and our inhibitions loosened, we joked, "Ay, man... we have to do this for real. Let's make this a business." The rest is history... we were truly Inspired by Spirits™