Holmes Lilley and Narcissistic Excess

According to the interview with Holmes posted last segment, he was unaware where he was headed following college with a degree in English. After discussing his future with the father of a prep-school classmate, Holmes decided to head to law school at Elon University. Upon completion of his legal education, Holmes headed back home to North Carolina to practice with the firm  Karen McKeithen Schaede, PLLC in corporate law. After bouncing around between KMS and working as GC for healthcare company HMS, Holmes landed at Chartwell in 2016 as General Counsel. His ascension to CEO came 2 years later and during this time, he simultaneously founded and headed the firm Employer Defense Group LLC. According to its website ( here ), EDG provides defense against workers compensation claims. They claim to use a pro-active approach to avoiding litigation from occurring, as well as defend its clients when it does.   Wait, what? Yes, you heard that correctly. A man who is currently ...

No doubt you have gathered that Holmes Lilley is bit impulsive, showy and driven by his most primal impulses, but the question now remains why? Well, finding out is actually a bit easy if you just use Google. In a profile of Holmes posted  here , Holmes gives us his background. Born in North Carolina, he describes his upbringing as tumultuous and unstable, with his mother working three jobs and resorting to welfare to make ends meet for herself and her children. There is absolutely no shame in this, as sometimes we all need some help, and it surely isn't responsible for the troubles seen later on its Holmes' character, but it likely didn't help. So, where was Holmes' father during his childhood? Turns out, Holmes William Lilley Sr, his father, struggles with drugs and the criminal lifestyle it comes with. Since at least 2016, Lilley Sr has been involved in three separate arrest incidents here , here , and  here  involving felony drug possession and felony violation o...