Mitch Russo

Mitch Russo’s public life began onstage as the lead guitarist for the rock band Absolutely Free. But the real work began after the amplifiers went silent.

Mitch co-founded Timeslips Corp., which grew into the world’s largest time-tracking software company before being acquired by Sage PLC. He later partnered with Tony Robbins and Chet Holmes to build Business Breakthroughs International into a company with annual revenue approaching 30 million.

After Holmes’ death, Mitch experienced a quiet but decisive shift. What followed was a decade-long evolution that produced six business books, a new software platform, and a growing realization that success alone was no longer enough.

That realization led him to an unexpected place: magical fiction.

His debut novel, Sacred Crossroads, emerged from a period of profound transition, an in-between space where old identities dissolved and certainty vanished. The story reflects that threshold moment when nothing makes sense anymore, and something entirely new begins to form.

Today, Mitch continues to write, speak, and build software platforms for coaches and entrepreneurs. His nonfiction works, including Power Tribes, Coach Elevation, and Sacred Profits, blend practical strategy with lived experience.

An award-winning photographer, Mitch’s landscape work has appeared in JETGALA Magazine and earned first prize in the Sierra Club’s Image of the Year competition. When he’s not writing, he’s often chasing the northern lights in Iceland or disappearing into the wild with a camera, still curious, still exploring, still crossing thresholds.