I wasn’t raised in an ordinary home.

I’m a first-generation American, born to two survivors of World War II—my father, a strict German man, and my mother, a strong Japanese woman. They came from opposite sides of the war, but they carried the same scars: survival, loss, and trauma.

In our house, hardship wasn’t something you talked about.

It was something you lived with.

As a kid, I didn’t know how to carry that weight.

So I rebelled.

By 11 years old I was already drinking and experimenting with drugs. By my teenage years I was reckless, angry, and constantly in trouble.

Then at 15, my life changed forever.

A girl I loved was accidentally shot and killed by a friend. I had seen her that very night and begged her to stay with me.

For years I carried the belief that if I had convinced her… she might still be alive.

That moment lit a fuse inside me.

Pain turned into rage.
Rage turned into addiction.

By 19, drugs controlled my life.

For nearly two decades I spiraled through addiction, arrests, treatment programs, and eventually homelessness. I slept in my car along the beaches north of Santa Cruz, surviving one day at a time.

Life had been reduced to one goal:

Get through the next 24 hours.

Eventually I hit the moment every addict faces.

Change… or die.

At 38 years old, I made the hardest decision of my life.

I chose to fight.

Sobriety was brutal. The first three years felt like climbing out of hell with no rope. I wasn’t just quitting drugs—I was rebuilding an entirely new identity.

But slowly, things began to change.

I rebuilt my life piece by piece and eventually worked my way up to become Vice President of Sales for a global X-ray technology company supporting industries like aerospace, military, automotive, electronics, and medical device manufacturing.

On the outside, it looked like success.

Inside, it was destroying me.

I was traveling two to three weeks every month. Ten-hour workdays were normal. The company was growing fast, and I pushed myself relentlessly to keep up.

After five years of that pace, my body began to break down.

I developed severe acid reflux, a hiatal hernia, anxiety, restless sleep, and I started losing my hair from stress. Doctors prescribed medication after medication.

Before long I realized something terrifying.

I had become dependent on pills again—this time prescription drugs—to manage the pressure.

I had fought so hard to escape addiction… and here it was again in a different form.

That moment forced a decision.

One day I walked into my kitchen, gathered every bottle of medication I had been prescribed, and threw them in the trash.

That was the moment I decided to take my health—and my life—back.

That decision led me into the world of holistic health, meditation, breathwork, and energy practices.

More than a decade ago, I discovered Qigong while searching for a way to repair the damage years of stress, addiction, and burnout had done to my body and mind.

That practice changed everything.

Qigong gave me something I had never experienced before—control over my energy, my mind, and my emotional state.

I committed fully to the path.

Over the years I completed more than 300 hours of Qigong teacher training, became certified in Dan Brulé’s Breath Mastery system, and immersed myself in personal growth—studying meditation, breathwork, and human performance from some of the most respected teachers in the world.

Today my mission is simple.

Help people reclaim their lives.

Through my Everyday Warriors coaching program and the Breath-Driven Transformation Method™, I work with people struggling with stress, anxiety, addiction recovery, and feeling stuck in life.

Using breathwork, Qigong, and mindset training, I help people rebuild their strength—physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Because the truth is this:

Transformation is possible.

I know because I’ve lived it.

Today I’m 62 years old. I’ve been sober for decades. I have an incredible wife, amazing stepchildren, and a grandson who lights up my world.

The life I have today is something the younger version of me could never have imagined.

But the work never stops.

Every day I train.
Every day I grow.
Every day I fight to become a better man.

That’s what it means to be an Everyday Warrior.

Being a warrior isn’t about perfection.

It’s about rising… again and again… no matter how many times life knocks you down.

The Invitation

If you're struggling with stress, anxiety, addiction recovery, or simply feeling stuck in life, I want you to know something important:

You are not broken.

Your mind, your body, and your breath have an incredible capacity to heal and transform.

Sometimes all it takes is the right guidance… and the willingness to begin.

That’s why I created the Everyday Warriors program and the Breath-Driven Transformation Method™—to help people reclaim their strength, their health, and their direction in life.

Because the warrior inside you is already there.

You just have to awaken it.