THE BEGINNING

I started out with humble beginnings and experienced a broken home, but was blessed with two hard-working parents who loved and provided to their best abilities. I grew up on food stamps and free lunches. As a latchkey kid, I quickly found trouble and ways of dealing with painful things that happened in my early youth. I became a juvenile delinquent, using drugs and alcohol, getting in trouble at school, but also found athletics as a positive release. Run-ins with authority, school suspensions, car accidents, near-death experiences, arrests, holding cells, court visits, and treatment became a routine part of my adolescence. I was addicted and on a path of destruction. After a stretch of intense blackouts and hitting bottom, on August 6th of the year 2000, I had my first awakening. At the time, I wasn’t exactly aware of what just occurred, but I was broken and surrendered.

LOVE, SOBRIETY, & BUSINESS

In my twenties and thirties, I played collegiate soccer, got my Bachelor’s Degree, pursued creative passions, built businesses, and lived a life of recovery. But it was all just beginning. Amazing things happened during this period of my life, I published a book, produced a full-length EP, built a career in the fitness industry, developed myself mentally and spiritually, met an angel who was sent directly from Heaven (my wife), started our own fitness companies, and became a father to the most incredible child (and now two amazing girls). As the entire world remembers, our lives changed when COVID struck. One of the many damaging effects was that it crushed the retail sector just as we opened our second studio location, having rolled the dice putting EVERYTHING we had into it. Once again, God engineered our circumstances to deconstruct our plans and make way for His. I followed an intuition and pursued Real Estate, risking it all again with no steady paycheck, walking only by faith, getting my license in 6 weeks, which led to capitalizing on market opportunities and a new career.

BURIED TREASURE

And after nearly 20 years of sobriety, working a spiritual program of action, leading teams, transforming lives, running fitness companies, and founding multiple 7-figure businesses my achievements and success could NOT fill the hole that still remained from unhealed childhood trauma, which culminated in thoughts of suicide. On the brink of self-destruction, I had the ULTIMATE moment of clarity. Why did I hate myself? And why did I keep repeating the same destructive cycles? With my family relying on me to provide stability, income, protection, love, and support, I checked myself into therapy and began excavating the self-hate, shame, and hidden pain resulting from physical and sexual abuse as a youth. I started to heal the relationship I had with myself, and God’s grace allowed me to reprogram and restore my damaged system, replacing it with a vision in my heart to help others do the same.

PRESSURE TO PEACE

The 3:1 GET RIGHT Formula was born. I began writing a new book, jotting down my lessons through the struggle, reflecting on 42 years of life, 23 years of sobriety, drug treatment, therapy, counseling, over twenty years in the health & wellness space, hundreds of client transformations, and building successful companies as well as those that failed. I sat in the fire of uncertainty, holding my little girls, caring for them with every ounce of my being, and learned how to be fully present, calm, and emotionally regulated to facilitate my family’s safety, protection, and happiness. I reflected on all the key elements of my entire life experience and realized that problems contain the seeds of opportunity and there is always HOPE. With how bent I was on self-destruction and the multiple times I almost lost my life, there is no scientific or earthly reason that I am still alive. I believe God uses our stories of triumph to help each other. These are the rough diamonds of opportunity we have been given and by following a simple system, we can create freedom & connection, develop peace, and unlock true health & happiness for ourselves and our families. We can open the door to a new path and go from Pressure to Peace, turning our Problems into Prosperity. I am here for YOU.