AUTHOR | SPEAKER | STORYTELLER | INSURANCE BROKER
About Craig Sawyer
The Story Behind the Voice
Craig Sawyer is an author, speaker, insurance professional, and storyteller whose life has been shaped by hard lessons, unlikely second chances, and the kind of personal honesty that only comes from walking through the fire and refusing to stay there.
Born in Champaign, Illinois and now rooted in Cape Coral, Florida, Craig’s story is not a polished highlight reel. It is a real human journey marked by struggle, humor, regret, resilience, fatherhood, faith in something bigger than himself, and the long, uncomfortable process of becoming a better man. His memoir, Behind Blue Eyes, pulls no punches. It explores the choices, relationships, losses, victories, and private battles that shaped who he was, and more importantly, who he chose to become.
Craig’s early life taught him how easily a person can drift through pain, pride, impulsiveness, and self-protection without fully understanding the damage being done. But over time, through marriage, divorce, fatherhood, the United States Marine Corps, business, personal failures, and the relentless responsibility of rebuilding himself, he began to see life differently. He learned that growth is not about pretending the past did not happen. It is about facing it, owning it, learning from it, and using it to connect more honestly with other people.
That honesty is what makes Craig’s voice different.
As a speaker, Craig does not rely on clichés or motivational slogans. He speaks from lived experience. He understands what it means to feel unseen, to make mistakes, to carry regret, to chase success, to fall short, and to keep going anyway. His message reaches people because it is grounded in the truth that most transformation does not happen on a stage, in a single moment, or through one perfect decision. It happens in the quiet, difficult spaces where a person finally decides to stop running from themselves.
Professionally, Craig has spent years helping individuals, families, and business owners make important decisions about health and life insurance. That career sharpened his ability to listen, ask better questions, explain complicated issues clearly, and meet people in moments of uncertainty. Those same skills now shape his work as an author and speaker. Whether he is speaking to a business group, leadership team, men’s group, recovery-focused audience, entrepreneur community, or appearing as a guest on a podcast, Craig brings a rare combination of vulnerability, humor, directness, and real-world perspective.
His talks are ideal for audiences interested in personal growth, resilience, accountability, fatherhood, relationships, reinvention, leadership, entrepreneurship, and the power of telling the truth about your own life. Craig’s message is not about being perfect. It is about being honest enough to change.
At this stage of his life, Craig is not trying to impress people with who he once pretended to be. He is focused on using the truth of his story to help others think deeper, laugh harder, reflect honestly, and believe that their own past does not have to be the final word.
Craig Sawyer is available for speaking engagements, interviews, podcasts, business meetings, conferences, and events where real stories and meaningful conversations matter.
A Story Built Through
Struggle and Growth
Behind Blue Eyes is the story of a boy who grew up feeling small, underestimated, and emotionally wounded, then spent much of his life trying to prove he was stronger than the pain that shaped him. Through childhood bullying, the brutal test of Marine Corps boot camp, divorce, single fatherhood, personal loss, and the long process of facing himself honestly, Craig Sawyer’s memoir traces the transformation of a man who learns that true strength is not about pretending nothing hurts. It is about surviving what did, taking responsibility for who he becomes afterward, and finding purpose in the scars. At its core, the memoir is a raw and deeply human story about resilience, fatherhood, identity, healing, and the hard-earned wisdom that sometimes the life that breaks you is also the life that finally teaches you who you are.
Through every challenge, Craig chose not to quit.
He chose to grow.