Like you, I want to know that I lived. While I walk this planet, I want to know that I pushed myself to experience more. Ask anyone who knows me, they will say this is true.

In this Kokoro life, I think we can do something special together. I need you to take a chance with me, so I can live my fulfillment which is to give and create something special for the people I serve. To the people who come to Kokoro, I will give you everything I am and everything I have learned. Your growth, improvement and success are everything to me.

I believe the reason I can stand and say that I can help people is because I have lived transformations. They were not easy and took everything I had. I believe a coach or teacher of anything meaningful, must have gone through something very hard. Nobody should lead anyone who has not done this. If someone stands before you to lead you, then they should have themselves walked through darkness. A teacher or coach needs to be comfortable with hard times because students will need assurance, and a teacher and coach need to know the way because they lived the way.

I believe in human transformation. I am a product of it. I am grateful for it and I want to walk with others and show incredible growth is expected. Kokoro is about challenging life and crafting oneself.

In 2015 two people I love dearly were admitted to hospitals over 16 months. I had a consulting practice, wrapped up my projects and dedicated myself to visiting daily. When I visit, I really try to not have my loved one feel like they are alone. I give them everything I can. Over this time, it was suffering watching a loved one with mental health issues and the day they were allowed to return, my mom went into a hospital, was induced into a coma. In one situation, I became the in-home care, in the other, the proxy and only one who could deal with doctors. One situation resolved with a miracle and the other in the passing of a life. Both stories were filled with moments I did not know I would experience. When it was over, two things happened. First, I was broken and empty. Second, I saw suffering, and since I can’t just sit there, it ate me alive and I became very sensitized to the suffering of humans and how harsh life can be. Now, I can never unsee it.

I am dedicated to doing what I can, in the way that I can, to ease suffering and lift people. Ultimately, in addition to my coaching practice, focus is to speak, teach and show people a healthy way and to save people from falling into depression or suffering from avoidable lifestyle diseases. The disease I want for people is a disease called happiness.

I was changed from that time in 2016. I might not be as funny as I used to be but my life is filled with seeing people and wanting their best for them. I do what I do to lift suffering and to free people from the reduced version that life can force them to become. Ultimately it is rewarding to be with others as they walk on their journey. I am humbled by this, and it is my honor.

My credentials in health, fitness, coaching, martial arts, behavior modification and teaching.

• Gym owner, chief trainer, speaker, mental fitness instructor.

• ACSM - Certified Personal Trainer

• ACSM - Exercise is Medicine Credentialed

• Wellcoaches - Certified Health Coach

• Wellcoaches - Certified Wellness Coach

• ACLM - Lifestyle Medicine Coach

• Exercise Etc - Senior Fitness Specialist

• WELCOA – Seven Benchmarks of Workplace Wellness

• ACE – Behavior Modification Specialist

• ACE - Fitness Management Certification

• ACLM - Food as Medicine

• Extraordinary Minister to the Homebound

• Psychological First Aid

• Shotokan Karate Blackbelt

• MMA Focused Kickboxing Coach

• ALICE - Active Shooter for Business

• SAFE - Situational Awareness For Everyone - Teacher

• Self-defense, Conflict Resolution - Teacher

• Six Sigma Lean Yellow Belt

• Converting Foundations into a book - A Simple Guide to Human Resuscitation.