About Elliott · New Orleans, 2026
Navy veteran. Professional boxer. CEO of Bonita Payments. Author. One discipline, built in the ring — applied everywhere it matters.
The through-line
"I didn't get here by accident."
I've been a sailor, a fighter, and a founder, and none of them were the safe choice. What carried through all three was the same thing: you show up, you take the hit, and you keep moving forward. I learned it in the Navy, I proved it in the ring, and I've run a payments company on it. The discipline never changed — only the arena did.
People meet me now as the guy who runs Bonita Payments or wrote the books. But I got here the long way — bad days, a lot of them, and the refusal to quit on any of them. That's the whole story, and it's the reason any of the rest of it works.
Nothing on this page is theory. Every rule in the books was paid for first — in the ring, on the floor, in rooms where the numbers didn't work and somebody still had to make the call. The four chapters below are how it got built, in order.
Four chapters
Where the discipline started. The Navy set the standard: show up, do the work, own the outcome — and the standard doesn't move because you had a bad week. ⚠ Dates and role to confirm.
Boxing was the operating system for everything after it. Training, weight, discipline, and the habit of taking a hit and still moving forward. ⚠ Professional record to confirm.
Bonita Payments: not a reseller. A platform we built ourselves — six fintech products shipped under QuarterSuite and running in the real world today.
See the fintech →Two books, a framework, and the Business Is War podcast. The Pivot Process and Business Is War put the playbook on paper.
See the books →The record, in pictures
The ring
The stage
The company
The rule
You show up, you take the hit,
and you keep moving forward.
Learned in the Navy. Proved in the ring. Run a payments company on it. The discipline never changed — only the arena did.
New Orleans
Home base
Chicago gym programs, mentorship, and the work that never shows up on a résumé.
Beyond the business
Community work is not a line item on the About page — it's the reason the rest of it matters. Inner-city gym programs, mentorship, and disaster relief.
Post-Katrina relief in his home city, New Orleans. ⚠ Attribution and year to confirm.
Boxing for kids who need somewhere to be. ⚠ Names to confirm.
Founders and operators, one table at a time.
The newsletter
Work hard on your life. Work hard on your business. They go together — they are not separate. One dispatch, straight from Elliott.
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