I grew up in a pretty normal American family. I’m the third of six kids and learned to fight for whatever I got. I had a scarcity mindset and learned to work hard to earn what I needed. I was successful in school and went on to get a BS and an MS in laboratory science.

Not long after graduating with my BS, my wife and first child moved from Utah to Minnesota for work. I got a job at the Mayo Clinic and less than a year later, I found myself debilitated with a mystery illness. Nobody – even at the Mayo Clinic – could figure out what was wrong with me. I couldn’t walk without a cane. I used a wheelchair to get around. Even just reading to my kids left me exhausted for days. I was dead but wasn’t able to die. My life was miserable. My wife nearly left me because I had treated her poorly and hadn’t prioritized our relationship over the many years of our marriage, I couldn’t work, and I didn’t see any hope for the future.

However, I continued to search for a cure and after about a year and a half, a family friend helped me discover the problem. I began treatments and my physical health returned. I began to walk around the block and gradually, I could run a mile. Quite a feat considering the doctors told me I had the heart capacity of a 95-year-old woman just a few months prior.

My physical strength was returning, but I still had a lot of inner work to do to get my mental and emotional health back. I set a big goal to compete in an Xterra offroad triathlon and began training. Through my rigorous training, I not only worked on my body, but on my mind. I went deep inside and made profound changes that have put me on a new track in life.

I completed the Xterra in 2011 after we moved back to Utah. I completed a Master’s degree, an MBA, got a Six Sigma Black Belt certification, and I began working with a coach as part of my role at work.

I thought I’d done a lot of work to develop myself, but after working with the coach for quite a while I recognized the power in having someone as a guide and mentor along the journey’s of life. He helped me unpack my own limiting beliefs, set goals, and reach new levels in my career and my relationships with my family.

I felt so grateful to the progress I’d made with a coach that I completed a coach training course and have been coaching people on their journey’s through life ever since.

My objective is to help others break out of feeling “dead” or “useless” or “unfulfilled” and find a life of meaning and purpose.

Whatever your current situation, coaching can help.

If you’re living with your parents and haven’t showered in a week because you’re too busy playing video games and that’s not the life you envisioned for yourself, great – let’s level you up.

If you’re stuck in a job that doesn’t bring you satisfaction or meaning and you feel like there’s no way out and no time for real life, great – let’s set you free.

If you’re unhappy with your relationships and feel they’re more of a burden than anything else, great, – let’s strenghten those relationships.

Whatever struggle you feel is keeping you from being the version of yourself you know you can be, I want to help you move out beyond where you can go on your own and find a new life of meaning and purpose.