If Love Stays
What if love comes again — and this time, you choose not to run? A song about growth, vulnerability, and the hope that if love finds me again, I'll have the courage to stay.
Life Lived. Lessons Learned. Perspective Earned.
Stories, conversations and perspective from a life that didn't always go according to plan.
Daily decisions, doubt, and the quiet courage of trusting something bigger than your circumstances.
Travel, style, food, and the full texture of living well after 50.
Friendship, fatherhood, dating, and the people who shape who you become.
Divorce, reinvention, and the gift nobody talks about — the second chapter.
60 Seconds With Mario
Faith. Relationships. Family. Starting over. Life after 50 — and occasionally something that just makes me laugh.
"That's my 60 seconds. What's your perspective?"
My Story
Adopted shortly after birth. Working by twelve. Lost at sea at nineteen.
Then came business, marriage, fatherhood, success, failure, loss, countries I never expected to call home — and eventually, an entire biological family I never knew existed. Read how I found my family →
Some chapters I chose.
Others chose me.
And somehow, they all brought me here.
Some stories are easier to tell through music. These songs come from the chapters of my own life — family, fatherhood, loss, survival, faith, love and starting over.
New Music
What if love comes again — and this time, you choose not to run? A song about growth, vulnerability, and the hope that if love finds me again, I'll have the courage to stay.
My First Spanish-Language Release
The same heart and the same story as If Love Stays — the hope that if love comes again, I'll be ready to meet it differently.
Mi primera canción en español. Muy pronto.
Meet Mario
I don't have life figured out. But I've lived enough of it to have some perspective.
At 54, I've experienced enough twists, turns, wins, losses and unexpected chapters to know that life rarely follows the plan.
I'm a father, businessman, traveler, storyteller and a man still figuring some things out along the way.
This is where I share what life has taught me — about faith, family, relationships, success, failure, starting over and learning to appreciate the life that's happening while we're busy planning the next one.
Life With Mario
"Faith isn't the absence of doubt. It's the decision to move anyway."
— Mario Wells
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