As a kid, I made talk shows in my living room, directed short films in my backyard, and convinced my cousins to be actors in whatever story I was telling that week. I filmed everything. I staged everything. I was obsessed with entertaining people and making sense of the world through stories.
I’ve been creating and performing for as long as I can remember.
HI, I’M GENTRY
What I didn’t realize then was that I wasn’t done with entertainment—I was just taking the long way back to it.
Over the next fifteen years, I worked across marketing, brand, business, and creative strategy. I learned how culture moves. How ideas spread. How audiences connect. How stories are packaged, produced, and sustained. I didn’t stop being a creator—I just learned how the machine works.
That early attempt at the entertainment world ended quickly, and I did what a lot of people do when a dream doesn’t pan out the way they hoped—I pivoted. I traded stages for conference rooms. Scripts for strategy decks. Creativity for corporate life. And for a long time, I told myself it was the responsible choice.
So when my small hometown ran out of room, I did what made sense at the time—I chased the big screen. Writing. Directing. Performing. Hollywood. And for a brief moment, it felt possible. Then it didn’t.
Today, I’m building an entertainment-led media company focused on human-centered shows, short-form series, and cultural experiments—work that reflects what it feels like to be human right now: unfinished, evolving, and still moving forward.
It’s an entertainment-led show built around a simple idea: being human is complicated, and most of us are figuring it out in real time—without needing advice, optimization, or another self-improvement project.
Eventually, the entertainment pull came back. Not as nostalgia. Not as regret. But as clarity. Humans, Forward! grew out of that return.
Gent at Seven!
Nineteen & full of dreams!
So instead of telling people what to do, I host conversations. Instead of answers, I offer stories. Instead of lessons, I create space for humor, curiosity, and the moments that actually move us.
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