Meet Chris Potoski: All About Brandi Love’s Ex-Husband

Picture a teenager living in a youth facility in Michigan. No family home to go back to. A state worker checking in on him. A small allowance to live on. Now picture that same person, decades later, running two companies. That is the short version of Chris Potoski’s life.

Most people have never heard his name. That is on purpose. His wife has over a million followers online. He has none. He does not post. He does not give many interviews. He stays quiet while she stays public.

In this article, we will walk through his childhood, his school years, his jobs, his companies, his marriage, his family, and his money. Along the way, we will be honest about one thing: some facts about him are confirmed, and some are only guesses. We will tell you which is which.

1. Who Is Chris Potoski?

Chris Potoski is an American businessman. He was born in 1972, which makes him 54 as of 2026. He is the founder and chief operating officer of two companies: TJC Asset Management and Tracey Jordan Properties.

Most people find his name through his wife. She is Tracey Lynn Livermore, known publicly as Brandi Love, an adult film actress. That connection is why he gets searched for at all.

But here is what he is not. He is not a celebrity. He is not a public figure in any normal sense. He has no verified Instagram. No Facebook. No public accounts anywhere. He appears to have made a choice years ago to stay out of view, and he has stuck to it.

So why does his name get typed into Google so often? Curiosity, mostly. People learn that Brandi Love has been married to the same man for three decades, and they want to know who he is.

Chris Potoski’s Early Life

Chris Potoski was born on April 13, 1972. One source lists his birthplace as Raleigh, North Carolina. That is worth pausing on, because the same source says he spent his childhood in Michigan. Those two facts sit awkwardly together.

We will be straight with you: nobody has cleared this up. He may have been born in one place and raised in another, which is common enough. Or the birthplace may simply be wrong. We do not know.

What we do know is that his junior high and high school years were spent at Eagle Village, a youth facility in Michigan. Eagle Village is a real place — a residential program in Hersey, Michigan that has worked with young people in difficult situations since the late 1960s.

He has spoken warmly about people from that period. The Emig family. People at Reed City High School. These are not famous names. They are the people who were around when he had very little.

One honest note before we go on. This part of his story comes from a single source that does not say where it got the information. It likely traces back to something he wrote or said himself. We are telling it because it is the most human thing about him, but treat it as his account rather than proven fact.

Life in a Juvenile Facility

After leaving the facility, Chris Potoski was placed in a state program called independent living. The name explains it well. The state does not house you anymore. Instead, it gives you a small amount of support and expects you to manage on your own.

He was given a social worker named Bob Kozlowski and an allowance. That was it. No family safety net. No one to call if the money ran out. Just a check-in and a small monthly sum.

He finished high school using his own money. Read that again. A teenager, on a state allowance, paying his own way through the end of school. Most kids that age are worried about weekend plans.

This is the heart of his story, and it is why the rest of it makes sense. When someone starts with nothing and no backup, they tend to move fast and stop asking permission. You will see that pattern show up again in the next section.

Chris Potoski’s Education

Here we hit another messy detail. One article names Reed City High School. The same article also says he graduated from Walled Lake Western High School. Both cannot be the finish line. He may have attended one and graduated from the other, which happens often with kids in state care who move around. We are flagging it rather than pretending it is clean.

After graduation, he faced a simple choice: college or the military. He picked college. But college did not pick him. He applied to Ferris State University and was rejected. He applied again. Rejected again. More than once.

Most people stop there. He did not. He moved to a rented room in Big Rapids, Michigan — the town where Ferris State sits — and started showing up at the admissions office. Every single day. Not once. Not weekly. Daily, until they let him in.

Think about what that takes. No money, no connections, no fallback. Just a room in a strange town and a willingness to be the guy who keeps walking through the door.

In 1990 he moved to Central Michigan University. He graduated with two bachelor’s degrees. What were they in? The sources disagree — psychology and kinesiology, or kinesiology and physiology, or just physiology. All three are health-related fields, so the general direction is clear even if the details are not.

He paid for it with grants and student loans. He worked close to full-time hours during the school year. In the summers, he worked more than full-time. There was no other way.

How Chris Potoski Started His Career

He went straight to work after graduating. No gap year. No figuring things out. His first real job was at Curative Health Services, where he stayed for roughly five years.

He worked his way up through different roles there. By the time he left in December 1999, he was Director of Business Development. Not bad for someone who had to fight his way into college a few years earlier.

Next came National Healing Corporation, where he was Vice President of Business Development. He held that role for over five years, leaving in July 2005. He also spent time as a VP at Regent Medical Solutions.

So what is business development, in plain words? It is the job of finding new customers and new deals. You figure out who might want what your company sells, you build the relationship, and you close it. It is a job for people who are comfortable talking to strangers and hearing no a lot. Given how he got into college, it suits him.

The Heart Attack That Changed Everything

Here are two numbers that explain everything about this part of his life. Around 240 flights a year. Home about nine days a month. That went on for three years.

Do the math. Nine days at home means roughly 21 days away, every month, for three years straight. His daughter was small during this stretch. He was, for practical purposes, a visitor in his own house.

In 2004, he had a stress-induced heart attack. He was 32 years old.

That was the turning point. He stepped away from the corporate track — the flights, the VP titles, the endless travel — and started building things from home instead. Nearly everything he is known for today, the companies and the ventures, starts in that same year.

It is a familiar kind of story, but it is a real one. A body sends a bill. Someone decides the job is not worth it. What makes his version interesting is what he built next, and that is where we will pick up in the second half.