Phil grew-up with his identical twin brother, Dave, loving wrestling. He excelled in wrestling from his early school years, through high school, and in to college at Stanford University. While working as an investment banker on Wall Street and in Denver, Colorado, he found that he used many of the same skills and life lessons in his career that had helped him win at wrestling. Phil shares some of his observations of life in the insightful accounts of his humorous and amazing adventures while growing up and then later in his life while escaping from the devastation of 9-11 at Ground Zero.