I served for eight years in the U.S. Army as a Non-Commissioned Officer, deploying to Iraq, Haiti, and Afghanistan. Following those eight years, I made the difficult to decision to leave the military behind. However, I soon found myself serving as a private military contractor supporting operations at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan for the next four years and then the same position but in central Africa.

Throughout my years in the military and overseas, I was consistently serving in a supervisory and mentorship role. The mental health, physical fitness, spiritual fortitude, and overall wellbeing of my soldiers and team members were always paramount. This built a solid foundation for the role of a coach.

However, my work goes far deeper than this alone. Following numerous encounters with the dark, tragic forces of life at a relatively young age (war, the loss of my mother and primary father figure in my life, the split with my ex-fiancé, other breakups, the loss of friends, and pets too), I soon found myself on a mysterious path of spiritual and psychological transformation.