I’m Mel — founder of Carbon Wolf. Ten-plus years cutting network television for MTV, Viacom, BET, and HGTV taught me one thing: the desk, the deadline, and the takeout menu will eat you alive if you let them.

During the pandemic, my dad got sick. At my own check-up not long after, my doctor pulled up my labs, asked about my family history, and told me straight: lose the weight, get your life together, or this ends badly. That was the line in the sand. Carbon Wolf is what I built on the other side of it.