He was raised in an upper-middle-class neighborhood by parents who fawned over him and did everything they could to secure a promising future. Yet feeling lost between cultures in his high school, Gregory found himself drifting to the wrong crowd. He lived the tough gangsta-type life selling drugs by day, but would then go home and practice Handel on his violin at night. When selling drugs, burgling, and hanging out with the wrong crowd got him kicked out of his beloved music program, his life spiraled to the bottom.

In Excuse Limit Zero, Gregory Fernandes tells the uncensored story of how he turned around his early troubled life by owning his mistakes, and how he learned to move past regret to discover his role as a mentor, high school choral director, and classically trained musician who has traveled the world sharing his gift.

Gregory's story teaches us that the path to better starts when we set a personal excuse limit to ZERO.