What’s your story?

Charles Daly, “Charlie,” is the co-author of I Will Follow You Anywhere: A Comedian, a Responder, and the Fight for 9/11 Healthcare by John Feal, foreword by Jon Stewart (2026) and Make Peace or Die, featured on Jocko Podcast.

He has worked as a developmental editor on bestselling military memoirs including From Lawyer to Warrior and Civil: Life After the Foreign Legion.

His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, We are the Mighty, Kōkatat, and Thought Catalog. He lives in a cottage on the west coast of Ireland with his wife, Dominique Müller, a Swiss crime novelist, and their cat, Serge.

He serves as a maritime first responder on his local Lifeboat. Before that, he worked as an English teacher in Korea and a defamed Stop & Shop cashier.

“This is the kind of book I love—a true-life memoir of a man who lived (and is still living) a multi-dimensional life of war, love, family, and service … and who writes about it like a bandit.”

- Steven Pressfield, on Make Peace or Die

Notes from a Ghost 👻

A podcast about stories and the people how tell them.

The Lap

I’m training for my second attempt to kayak around Ireland— Subscribe to follow the adventure.
Here’s the story of my first attempt.