Mustafa Tut-Brown has been many things: a barefoot kid in a Caribbean village, an angry teen in Canadian high schools, a university radio host, a shipping broker, a moving-company owner on a bicycle, a restaurateur, a financial consultant, a father of six, and a man who once thought hustle could outrun grief.

He calls his true alma mater the “University of Hard Knocks” — with courses in pain, suffering, success, failure, and reinvention. Later in life, he returned to formal study, spending three years in philosophy and earning a diploma in mental health and addictions.

Serial Entrepreneur, Reluctant Addict to Success

He has been:

• A college radio host — taken off air for telling listeners to quit their jobs and start a business
• A shipping broker — sending barrels and crates “back home.”
• A moving company owner — riding a bicycle between jobs until the wheels broke
• A restaurateur — opening doors with more grit than capital
• A transport operator — managing trucks, drivers, breakdowns, and sleepless nights
• A consultant and coach — helping others navigate risk and reinvention

For years, he believed more hustle would fix everything. Instead, it nearly broke him.

A New Kind of Calling

Philosophy, Mental Health, and the Work of Repair

After his body forced him to stop, Mustafa began a different kind of study. He spent three years in university studying philosophy, then trained in mental health and addictions. Those disciplines gave him language for what he had lived: the pull of addiction, the weight of depression, the cost of unresolved grief.

Today, he brings all of it together — the village, the immigration story, the businesses, the breakdowns, the classroom — in his work as a writer, speaker, mentor, and mental health practitioner.

He lives by a simple confession:

“I don’t throw stones because I’ve been living in a glass house, and I’ve got skeletons in all my closets.” –Mustafa Tut