These days, I’m a devoted husband to a passionate, powerful and beautiful wife and a full time father to two independent and strong willed boys; and we live together as gypsy, nomad, adventurers, mostly off the grid, full time aboard our 40ft RV (The Argo) and part time aboard a sailing catamaran…
As a value producing entrepreneur dedicated to leaving this world somehow better than I found it, I work as a transformational coach, lifestyle consultant, author, speaker, seminar leader, firewalking instructor and breakthrough facilitator; and I fucking LOVE what I do and the difference that it makes…
But my life wasn’t always this rich with passion, possibility, power and productivity…
In fact, having been a spoiled rotten, wild child growing up with very few rules, boundaries or responsibilities and someone who moved around so much between my divorced parents that I went to 14 different schools between my 5th and 12th grade years, I used to be a total fucking train wreck…
So, the experience and expertise I share with my tribe and clients comes from the wide range of shit I’ve been into and the places I’ve been at one time or another throughout these past 40 years of life…
- I’ve been on the road with rock stars, partied like a rock star, overdosed like a rock star, and dated porn stars…
- I’ve sailed, dived, and explored the islands of the Eastern Caribbean from the BVI to Grenada and back…
- Throughout Central and South America, I’ve traveled as a backpacker staying in youth hostels and pampered myself in luxury spas…
- I’ve slept in jungle hammocks, kayaked rivers while tripping on magic mushrooms, and surfed the pacific coastline of Costa Rica…
- I’ve explored the depths of the second largest barrier reef in the world and snorkeled with whale sharks in The Bay Islands Of Honduras…
- And I’ve been cleansed by an Incan Shaman in a glacial lake, paragliding over The Sacred Valley and hiking for days over the Andes Mountains in Peru, along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu…
- In South Africa, I’ve been kite boarding, zip lining over water falls, and diving with great white sharks on the coast…
- I’ve been on safari and just a few feet away from some of the most beautiful and dangerous animals in the world, inside of the big game parks…
- And I’ve plummeted 216 meters off of a bridge, drunk from taking shots, on the world’s tallest commercial bungee jump…
- I’ve hopped trains across Europe…
- I’ve drank the world’s best beer in Germany, wondered the streets of Venice all night drinking wine straight from the bottle, and partied my ass off in underground bunkers in Rome, Italy…
- And I’ve even driven a rented BMW recklessly as hell around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris…
- I’ve been a professional water skier, a licensed EMT, a certified Ocean Rescue Lifeguard, a certified PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer, a 100GT Coast Guard Licensed Captain of 50ft. Sailor Catamarans…
- And I’ve even been a youth mentor in an adventure-based sea camp for teens and college students…
UNTIL I got fired after developing a nasty 120mg per day addiction to diazepam (otherwise know as Valium) that I often mixed with whiskey, LSD, cocaine, meth amphetamines, MDMA, and other delectables mixed together into dirty little pills with funny sounding names like “rolls”, “wafers”, “blue dolphins”, and “disco biscuits”……
Which first led me to 2 stints in jail (a major wake up call) and then on to personal development training, which I got into to save my own ass and because of a deep distrust of 12 step programs…
Fuck standing up in front of a bunch of people and declaring over and over that I’m an addict and will always be an addict; I may have been an addict, but that is NOT who I am now, nor does it define my future…
After all that and a LOT of research, experimentation, and training, I became a holistic health and nutrition expert, certified Master Nutritional Cellular Microscopist, and certified Master Practitioner of NLP, Hypnotherapy, and Mental-Emotional Release Therapy…
And I even went to work for Tony Robbins for a while — doing blood analysis for Mastery University and his Platinum Partnership — back in the day (I was with Tony in Hawaii working Life Mastery participants when 911 happened and it was a damn good place to be at the time)…
I spent the first decade of my career in business as a pretty successful and high earning speaker and natural health and wellness consultant, specializing in alkalizing nutrition and lifestyle strategies, and as a network marketing professional and corporate trainer for a MLM that I really believed in…
Then, after 10 years of hustle and flow, the company I went all in with blew itself up with bullshit (as is often the case with MLMs) and after watching my 5 figure monthly commissions disappear almost over night, I was left so burned out and pissed off that I burned almost everything in my life to the fucking ground right after…
At the end of 2007, with my first baby on the way, I went from having a great business, a fat “passive” income, 2 condos at the beach, a BMW Coupe, a Jeep Wrangler, a 35ft Sailboat and a lifestyle for the rich and famous, taking friends and family on all expense paid trips and shit, to losing EVERYTHING I had, going bankrupt, and having to start all over again…
I had no idea how much of my self confidence was tied to my former success and it FUCKED. ME. UP.
But, I had a family to support, so fucked up or not, I had to do something…
And that’s when I started looking into internet marketing, made a few weak attempts to launch information products in the holistic health space (I was weak, not the products), and eventually joined a few high end mastermind groups trying to find my way…
Then, because I was so burned out on “holistic health coaching”, stressed out, and struggling with my own health and fitness as a result (I resisted everything I knew and got fucking fat – ballooning up to 200lbs at only 5’8″ tall), one of my mentors kept busting my balls to take a stab a being a business consultant for a while…
So I did…
But even though I’d been successful in my business past and was able to make some high ticket sales and help some people, I was really struggling with my self confidence and personal finances (all the money I was making was going into mastermind tuition, leaving nothing to cover my family or invest in my business)…
Therefore, what I was doing just wasn’t authentic for me, given where I was in my life at the time, so I dropped the masterminds and the direction I was going…
After that, I was feeling pretty fucking defeated once again — like I didn’t belong in this game — and I decided to throw in the towel and go back to being a network marketing professional (something I swore I would NEVER do again), working with my wife in a business we both really believe in, that she is building right and doing well in…
But then, my brother called and, I didn’t know it at the time but, after that call, everything in my life would change forever…
He told me he had just attempted suicide after his wife of 10 months had left him and hooked up another guy, so I dropped everything to go be with him for a couple of weeks…
“I’ve been there myself…I’m an expert on this shit…I know exactly what he needs and what to do…”, I thought…
And I got him working out with me, meditating with me, listening to mind training and more in order to help him get back on track; and it really seemed to be helping him in a noticeable way…
None of his friends and no one in our family really took it seriously (especially since they saw him improving from the actions we were taking together), so he didn’t have all the support he really needed and we didn’t know it…
Meanwhile, his estranged wife was riding him hard and doing everything she could to beat him down to make herself feel justified and validated for the shit she had pulled…
And after not being able to take it anymore and without the support he really needed from his community, my little brother decided to hang himself on the pullup bar I had given him on the morning after Valentines Day earlier this year and just after turning 30 years old…
It sent a shock-wave through my family, my heart, and my mind that hit me so fucking hard, I spun around and saw my true self, bare ass naked and exposed, for the first time in years…
I had taught my brother everything he needed to not just survive, but to thrive — but I wasn’t really living the shit I was teaching him with full authenticity so, as powerful as it was and even though it really helped, it didn’t stick, at least in part perhaps, because I was being a fucking hypocritical fraud…
So in the wake of a painful and unexpected loss and some serious self assessment, I made a decision — that my brother’s death would not be for nothing and that it would count for something by serving others in some way that might save someone’s life…
BUT FIRST…
I knew I had to get real with myself and get my own shit straight — I had to start walking my own talk again and rebuild my own self esteem, self concept, and self confidence…
So I grew an EPIC fucking beard to remind myself of my commitment…
I already had all the knowledge, experience, and expertise — I knew EXACTLY what to do to produce results — so all I really needed was ACTION and ACCOUNTABILITY…
And after navigating through the grief and pain of loss, I hit the fucking deck with what I call HERO DEEP TRAINING™…
Which is a special combination of DAILY and CONSISTENT calisthenics (body weight training) combined with meditation and mind training in a single practice; a clean and alkaline balanced nutrition strategy, based on my research as a microscopist and my work with thousands of clients as a health and wellness consultant for over 15 years; along with some simple strategies for recovery…
No more self sabotage, no more starting over, NO MORE BULLSHIT — if I was going to lead, I WAS GOING TO LEAD BY EXAMPLE and I haven’t missed a single day of commitment since…
I also went and got certified to facilitate Firewalking and Broken Glass Walking (with bare feet), Board and Brick Breaking (with bare hands), Arrow Breaking and Rebar Bending (with the soft of the neck), and other “extreme” breakthrough experiences, some of which had been a part of my initiation into personal development and the teaching of which had been a dream of mine since my first Tony Robbins Unleash The Power Within event in the late 90s…
And with that, my passion, purpose and mission was ignited along with a new level of clarity and confidence…
I became absolutely COMMITTED to using my knowledge, experience and expertise to help men who are husbands and fathers…
- To overcome their lack of self confidence and feelings of inadequacy…
- To let go of their guilt and regret about the past and their fear and worry about the future…
- To AWAKEN THE HERO inside of them and just get into ACTION…
- To access THE STATE OF FLOW (deep presence and focus)…
- And to become or renew themselves as the leaders, role models, and producers that they need and want to be, especially in their own homes under the watchful eyes of their children…
So that their kids have an opportunity to grow up with the role model, leadership, love, support, psychological resources, and emotional intelligence they need to grow up and live powerful lives they love…
If you’re a man, husband and father, reading this right now…
If you can relate to any part of my story or my brother’s…
If you’ve experienced the pain of loss and want help dealing with it…
If you’ve got a child or loved one you fear you are losing and who you know you need to show up powerfully for…
If you’ve struggled with self destructive patterns of thinking and behaving and self sabotage…
If you’ve lost your confidence, can see how its impacting your life and those you love, and you want it back…
If you want to become your very best self physically, mentally, and emotionally…
If you want to deepen and strengthen your bond and relationships with your wife and children…
If you want to be an example of what’s possible and a role model for your kids and others…
If you want to be a producer of value in the world and provider for your family at home…
If you want to live with a sense of freedom and purpose…
Then HIT ME UP! — there’s a confidential form you can fill out at the bottom of this post…
And KNOW that I am absolutely committed to the ongoing expansion of my own capacity and confidence to show up and serve you at the highest level…
Through my story and my example, along with tools and strategies like NLP and Mental Emotional Release Therapy, Fitness and Meditation Training, Firewalking and other so called “EXTREME” breakthrough experiences…
I will help you side step and let go of your stories and disempowering emotions and I will give you the knowledge, experience, tools and strategies you need to get your confidence back so you can deal with whatever challenges and obstacles show up in your life…
I was a HERO…
And then, somehow, I lost it…
Along with my self confidence…
And I wanted it back…
So I went out got it…
But it wasn’t easy…
And requires me to see myself and my life crystal clarity every day…
In what I call, “High Def 4D Vision“…
- I AM HIGH DEF — my future is clearly defined and internally present in simple detail, rather than over-complicated with unnecessary language spoken as empty promises to others…
- I AM DIVINE — experiencing myself as a BEING at the SOURCE of everything, my entire universe, my results, and my experience with greater and greater ease…
- I AM DEDICATED — to specific and measurable results for myself and my life in my physical body, my way of being and spiritual connection, my bonds with and relationships to others and to my business, purpose, and mission…
- I AM DETERMINED — to turn the clearly defined, internally present, simple, specific and measurable results I am dedicated to into the external and visible reality of my life rather than repeating patterns of self sabotage…
AND…
- I AM DISCIPLINED — in following through on a regimen of daily action and activity that is not only moving me closer and closer to my outcomes, but that I also deeply enjoy and can’t wait to get into…
So IT IS and so I AM…
And that’s MY story…
Now tell me yours using the confidential form below and let me help ya out…
Your Adventure Awaits!
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.Joseph Campbell