life isn't happening to you it's happening for you
Essays on purpose, meaning, and becoming.
If you feel the gap, you’re not alone.
This is where we begin.
About Steve Satterwhite
A fellow traveler. Same road. Same journey.
I've spent 28 years building companies. It's what I know. It's what I love.
I'm the founder of Entelligence, an IT services and consulting firm I started in 1997. What began as a small operation has grown into a platform I'm deeply proud of — not just for what we've built, but for how we've built it. Our philosophy is simple: do the right thing, treat people well, and take responsibility for outcomes. The results tend to follow.
I'm also the founder of Feed1B, a nonprofit with an audacious goal: helping to feed one billion people by addressing the root causes of food insecurity with dignity and sustainability at the center.
And I'm the author of Above the Line, a book shaped by years of building teams and companies — and by a belief I've seen proven repeatedly: that culture isn't a nice-to-have. It's the whole game.
Over time, building organizations, leading people, and raising a family have raised deeper questions for me — about leadership, purpose, and responsibility. About the unconscious blueprints we carry from childhood and the assignments waiting on the other side.
I explore those questions here. Not as someone who has it figured out, but as someone learning to pay closer attention. Writing is how I metabolize life. How I find my way.