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Tell me about your vision as a life coach and where it all started.

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Great question. So the vision was honestly family trauma.

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Both my parents grew up very poor and they were the oldest of multiple siblings.

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And they've been working since they were 13 or 14 years old.

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So they got right into the work field. Their mothers were working several jobs.

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My father's African American. He's a farm boy.

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And then he got into the army and then into the business.

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And my mother's German. So she's been a kindergarten teacher for about,

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I want to say 50 years now. Montessori along with public schools.

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So with that upbringing, the structure was always there.

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The teacher mother, the drill sergeant father, the home structure was there.

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But because they went all in on career, they were never able to fully get over their childhood

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trauma, teenage trauma and other things. And I'm the youngest of multiple.

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So I have two older sisters. And so I realized that around the age of 11 to 12, there was a shift

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where I realized that both parents were drinking a lot more, but it never affected their career.

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Nobody ever knew. They're always life of the party. Your parents are so cool.

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Your family's so awesome. Beautiful house in Florida from the outside look great.

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But once the crowd left after the barbecue, that's when something from their past would take over.

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The last bottle was finished and then physical, mental, emotional, all the stuff would happen.

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And so from the age of 11 to 13, I was dealing with that. And it was just like a culture shock

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because I was by no means a perfect kid, but I never got arrested, never had a referral.

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I was just that quite skinny, insecure kid. I was just always scared.

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And I just said enough is enough because I was getting bullied in school and at home.

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And so fitness became my step one in personal development. So I elevated my physique and then

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I got into my faith and I was able to realize that I was confident in myself. I got rid of

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fear and I just showed up differently. So then by the age of 15, I became a certified personal

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trainer and started helping people do the same. And I'm 34 now, so I've been training people

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for most of my life. And in college when I was 23, that's when I got deep into life coaching.

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And I was also a US Army master fitness trainer. So essentially I would get male and female soldiers

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mission ready mentally and physically prepared. So I'll prep them with that. So my whole approach

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nowadays, I take the military, I take natural modalities that I did to overcome my own traumas

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and also faith based. And then I teach people different ways to meet them where they're at

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to get them to the next level. So honestly, healing my inner child to then help you others

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so they can thrive and grow and have a positive ripple effect.