Tell me about your vision as a life coach and where it all started.
Great question. So the vision was honestly family trauma.
Both my parents grew up very poor and they were the oldest of multiple siblings.
And they've been working since they were 13 or 14 years old.
So they got right into the work field. Their mothers were working several jobs.
My father's African American. He's a farm boy.
And then he got into the army and then into the business.
And my mother's German. So she's been a kindergarten teacher for about,
I want to say 50 years now. Montessori along with public schools.
So with that upbringing, the structure was always there.
The teacher mother, the drill sergeant father, the home structure was there.
But because they went all in on career, they were never able to fully get over their childhood
trauma, teenage trauma and other things. And I'm the youngest of multiple.
So I have two older sisters. And so I realized that around the age of 11 to 12, there was a shift
where I realized that both parents were drinking a lot more, but it never affected their career.
Nobody ever knew. They're always life of the party. Your parents are so cool.
Your family's so awesome. Beautiful house in Florida from the outside look great.
But once the crowd left after the barbecue, that's when something from their past would take over.
The last bottle was finished and then physical, mental, emotional, all the stuff would happen.
And so from the age of 11 to 13, I was dealing with that. And it was just like a culture shock
because I was by no means a perfect kid, but I never got arrested, never had a referral.
I was just that quite skinny, insecure kid. I was just always scared.
And I just said enough is enough because I was getting bullied in school and at home.
And so fitness became my step one in personal development. So I elevated my physique and then
I got into my faith and I was able to realize that I was confident in myself. I got rid of
fear and I just showed up differently. So then by the age of 15, I became a certified personal
trainer and started helping people do the same. And I'm 34 now, so I've been training people
for most of my life. And in college when I was 23, that's when I got deep into life coaching.
And I was also a US Army master fitness trainer. So essentially I would get male and female soldiers
mission ready mentally and physically prepared. So I'll prep them with that. So my whole approach
nowadays, I take the military, I take natural modalities that I did to overcome my own traumas
and also faith based. And then I teach people different ways to meet them where they're at
to get them to the next level. So honestly, healing my inner child to then help you others
so they can thrive and grow and have a positive ripple effect.