My Story
I didn’t set out to become a life coach; but I did always feel called to serve. I attended the United States Naval Academy and became a Surface Warfare Officer in the Navy.
Service was not just a career choice — it was a lineage. My father, grandparents, uncle, and brother all served in the military. In many ways, the path was already laid before me, and I walked it willingly.
I was proud to continue the legacy. I believed in honor, discipline, and commitment to something larger than myself. But somewhere along the way, I began to realize something important:
just because a path is noble, doesn’t mean it’s yours.
A serious back injury during my time in service became my first real introduction to holistic healing. Breathwork, yoga, chiropractic care — practices I once would have dismissed — became the very things that helped me recover physically and mentally. That experience planted a seed.
At the same time, I began to feel something harder to name: a fundamental misalignment. On paper, I was succeeding. Internally, I felt radically off my path. The tension between who I was expected to be and who I actually was became impossible to ignore. So I left the Navy.
Shortly after, my body forced me to pay attention again. Persistent digestive issues began to dominate my life. I saw multiple Western doctors, was misdiagnosed, and found no resolution. Out of frustration, I sought a functional nutritionist who approached the body through muscle testing and a systems-based lens. We discovered a parasitic overload and poor liver function that had been overlooked. Within weeks of addressing the root causes, I felt better than I had in years.
That moment changed me. It wasn’t just about health, it was about truth.
About learning that symptoms are signals, that the body speaks, and that alignment matters.
Not long after, my girlfriend — now my wife — and I drove our car from San Diego to Panama and spent six months exploring life outside the structures we had known. During that time, I became a certified 200-hour yoga instructor and fell deeply in love with the practice — not just the movement, but the awareness it cultivates. Yet I realized that while yoga shaped me, teaching yoga full-time was not my calling. My vocation wasn’t to lead classes. It was to facilitate transformation.
Once back in San Diego, I volunteered for two years helping facilitate men’s group therapy sessions at Donovan State Prison. In that environment, I witnessed how vulnerability dismantles armor, how honest self-inquiry reshapes identity, and how
transformation begins when someone is willing to tell the truth about themselves.
That experience profoundly shaped how I hold space today.
In the midst of all this, I stepped into the world of ultra-high-net-worth estate and lifestyle management, working closely with some of the most affluent individuals in the area. Again, I found success. I operated at a high level and learned how to move in elite environments. But once again, I felt the quiet whisper: this isn’t it. Success without alignment isn’t fulfillment.
Today, I am a certified holistic life coach and am pursuing my Master’s in Integral Health, concentrating in Transformation, Consciousness, and Psychedelics. My work integrates lived experience, academic study, nervous system awareness, and grounded action. But more importantly, my philosophy is simple: you already know.
