EXPERT ON:
◉ Motivation & Mindset
◉ Inspirational Life Story
◉ Overcoming Adversity
EXPERIENCE:
◉ Overcame extreme adversity from a young age, growing up in poverty, enduring abuse and bullying, losing his mother to cancer, and being on his own by fifteen.
◉ Faced and fought through addiction and setbacks, including dropping out of high school, failed attempts to change direction through the Marine Corps, and ultimately serving a year in jail.
◉ Experienced a pivotal transformation at rock bottom, realizing that true change had to begin within—creating the foundation for a new life built on responsibility, growth, and redemption.
I was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and grew up in the small town of Jonestown. My early years were marked by hardship-poverty, abuse, and constant bullying at school. Life felt like a fight I couldn’t win, and by the time I was twelve, I was already working just to get by.
Losing my mother to cancer was the turning point that shattered what little stability I had. By fifteen, I was on my own, abandoned and searching for belonging in all the wrong places. Drugs became a way to numb the pain, and by sixteen, addiction had taken hold. I dropped out of high school at fifteen and attempted to turn things around by joining the Marine Corps at seventeen, but I wasn’t physically able to complete boot camp.
By my early twenties, I had fallen even deeper-using and dealing meth, believing there was no way out. At twenty-six, my choices finally caught up with me, and I was sentenced to a year in jail. But what I thought was the end turned out to be the beginning. Hitting rock bottom forced me to look in the mirror and realize that if my life was ever going to change, it had to start with me. That moment became the foundation for everything I’ve built since.
