Hi, I’m Peter Liciaga.

My work is about helping people become more skillful at being human.

I grew up in the South Bronx, where life began teaching me early about resilience, discipline, family, loss, responsibility, and finding a way forward when the road isn’t easy.

Those lessons have followed me through more than six decades of living—from performing on stages around the world to more than five decades in the martial arts, teaching and mentoring families, writing books, building communities, and continuing to learn from the people and experiences around me.

Today, much of that journey comes together through Living Strong Projects. Through writing, martial arts, storytelling, performing arts, and community, my goal is to help people see themselves more clearly, recognize the value in the life they have already lived, and understand that their journey is still unfolding.

I’m an author, husband, father, grandfather, lifelong martial artist, performer, storyteller, teacher, and student. At 65, I’m still training, still writing, still creating, still learning, and still becoming.

One of the greatest lessons this season of my life has taught me is that sometimes we become so focused on where we are going that we fail to see the human being who has already made the journey. Writing my own story helped me stop, look back, and better appreciate the value of the life I have already lived.

That is what I hope to encourage in others: to become more aware, more thoughtful, more compassionate, and more skillful at being human—to see, hear, value, and appreciate the people around them while also learning to see, hear, value, and appreciate themselves.

I don’t believe we ever arrive. We keep learning. We keep evolving. We keep becoming. Wherever you are in your life today, there is still something to learn, something to give, and more of your story to live.

Keep growing. Keep serving. Keep Living Strong.

— Peter Simon Liciaga