Most of our problems come from disconnection from ourselves.
I got sober at twenty one. That was November 28th, 2006, and it is still the decision everything else in my life is built on. I did not get there because I understood the psychology. I got there because I ran out of other options.
The clinical training came after. A master's in Addiction Counseling from Hazelden Betty Ford, with a specialty in co-occurring disorders, then an MBA from Pepperdine. I spent years building treatment centers across the United States and sitting with thousands of people on the worst days of their lives. What I learned in those rooms is that information almost never changes anyone. Honesty does.
So I do not coach from theory alone. I coach from the place where lived experience and clinical training meet, because on their own neither one is enough. Theory without experience is thin. Experience without training is just a story.
Along the way I have logged over 350 dives, earned an AIDA freediving certification, swum with tiger sharks, and lived between Bali and the rest of the world. Those are not separate from the work. They are the proof of it. The whole point of getting free is that you actually go and live.
- MA in Addiction Counseling, Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School
- MBA, Pepperdine University
- Sober since November 2006 · 50+ countries
- Author of Love Unlocked · Co-author with Les Brown
- Featured on Legacy Makers TV
- AIDA Freediver · 350+ scuba dives