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James E. Boyce

Writer, speaker, leadership coach, and creative — connecting faith, resilience, fatherhood, wellness, and purposeful living.

James E. Boyce, known as J. Boyce, is a writer, speaker, leadership coach, and creative whose work connects faith, resilience, fatherhood, wellness, and purposeful living.

Having grown up in foster care and shaped by military and public service, he brings a practical approach to navigating setbacks, strengthening relationships, and leading with intention.

Through speaking, workshops, coaching, and conversation, he explores personal leadership, overcoming adversity, fatherhood, faith, and legacy. He is the founder of Banah Men™, whose flagship campaign, M.O.R.E.™—Motivate, Overcome, Restore, Encourage—carries a message of encouragement and purposeful growth.

Through Live Well, the wellness initiative within M.O.R.E.™, James encourages intentional habits around fitness, healthy eating, and everyday well-being.

His writing includes Dad Lessons and personal reflections exploring love, identity, healing, and faith. Through his writing, music, speaking, and coaching, James invites people to turn experience into wisdom and pass it forward.

When you stop taking everything personally, you start protecting what matters most.
— J. Boyce

Bookings and business support provided through Image Pro Management.

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  • These photographs show one chapter.
  • Humble beginnings.
  • Faith. Growth. Purpose.
  • The story is still being written.
  • — J. Boyce

Photos

A portrait only shows one angle. These are the frames that make up the rest — the stage, the suit, the kitchen, the ordinary afternoon.

The portraitSeen first. Never the whole story.
In businessA seat at the table, not above it.
On stageA borrowed voice, used on purpose.
At the micPlain words, pointed past myself.
Off dutyNo audience here. Just a man still learning.
Live WellSmall, faithful acts. That is most of the work.