Golden Conversations
Long-form conversations with leaders, volunteers, business owners, educators, and everyday people whose experiences can teach and inspire others.
Golden Lug Nut
Recognizing ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Every day, people quietly lead with integrity, serve without recognition, and leave those around them better than they found them.
Golden Lug Nut exists to make sure their stories are never forgotten.
Golden Lug Nut
Our Mission
To inspire people to build lives of character by demonstrating that the smallest acts of integrity, kindness, and leadership can create a legacy that lasts far beyond our own lives.
The Founder's Circle is one way early supporters can help establish the movement while the mission remains centered on recognition, service, and storytelling.
What Is Golden Lug Nut?
More than a media project. A movement.
Golden Lug Nut celebrates servant leadership, exceptional customer service, acts of kindness, and the everyday people whose actions inspire others to do the same.
We believe leadership is not defined by a title. It is revealed in the choices people make, the way they serve, and the impact they leave behind.
The movement turns those examples into stories that can strengthen homes, workplaces, churches, schools, businesses, and communities.
The symbol comes from a lug nut: a small, often overlooked component that helps hold everything together. That same idea applies to people.
The Philosophy
We do not tell stories to prove that extraordinary people exist.
We tell them to remind ordinary people what they are capable of.
Every Golden Conversation, Golden Story, Golden Moment, and act of recognition exists to move people from admiration to action.
Stories that sharpen the rest of us.
How We Tell the Stories
A recognizable media ecosystem.
Golden Stories
Written and filmed stories preserving examples of character, service, kindness, perseverance, leadership, and exceptional care.
Golden Moments
Brief moments of integrity, kindness, service, or leadership that may appear small but deserve to be remembered.
Golden Thoughts
Short reflections, quotations, and lessons about leadership, character, service, personal growth, and living with purpose.
What We Recognize
Character is revealed in what people choose to do.
Servant Leadership
Leading by helping others grow and succeed.
Exceptional Care
Choosing to listen, anticipate needs, and make a situation better.
Integrity in Action
Doing what is right, especially when it would be easier not to.
Stronger Communities
Leaving families, workplaces, businesses, churches, schools, and neighborhoods better than they were before.
The Golden Lug Nut Series
One symbol. Distinct meanings.
Each Golden Lug Nut series serves a different purpose, protecting the meaning of recognition while giving people ways to support the mission.
Legacy Series
The highest honor within Golden Lug Nut. Personally bestowed upon people whose influence helped shape the movement itself.
Not purchased. Not applied for.
Recognition Series
Presented to people whose character, leadership, integrity, service, or care has made a meaningful impact.
Earned. Never sold.
Founder's SeriesComing Soon
Limited commemorative editions recognizing those who help establish Golden Lug Nut at the beginning of the movement.
Supporter SeriesComing Soon
A way for people to own the Golden Lug Nut symbol while helping fund future storytelling and recognition.
Challenge Coin SeriesComing Soon
A wearable or carryable reminder of the values behind Golden Lug Nut.
Golden Lug Nut Products
Current products and availability.
Products are not available online yet.
Founder's Circle
Help build something that will outlive all of us.
A limited group of original Founders will help establish Golden Lug Nut during the beginning of the movement.
Their Founding Contributions help fund interviews, storytelling, recognition presentations, media production, community initiatives, platform development, and future educational projects.
The original Founder positions are limited. Once the Founder's Circle closes, it will never reopen.
Where It Began
One small act created an impact that lasted far beyond the moment.
Golden Lug Nut began with a story involving Jeremiah Alton's grandfather, Tom Brownlee, and a single gold lug nut that became a lasting reminder of service, influence, recognition, and legacy.
What may seem like a small action to one person can change the direction of another person's life.
The complete origin story is coming soon.
The Recognition Series
Some things should be earned, not purchased.
Recognition Series presentations honor people whose character, service, leadership, integrity, or exceptional care deserves to be remembered.
Recipients do not buy a position or make a contribution to receive one. They are recognized because their actions reflect the values Golden Lug Nut exists to preserve.
The Recognition Series is earned. It is never sold.
Nominate SomeoneJoin the Movement
Whose story should never be forgotten?
Tell us about someone whose integrity, kindness, service, leadership, or care made a meaningful difference. Their story may become a Golden Moment, Golden Story, Golden Conversation, or future Recognition Series presentation.