I got almost everything wrong before I got it right.

I learned how much health matters the hard way. My father died when I was six. My mother died of breast cancer when I was 35. Loss like that teaches you early not to take the body for granted—even though, for years, that’s exactly what I did.

For more than 25 years I owned and ran restaurants. I loved the pace and the people, but I lived the way the industry rewards: too little sleep, too much drinking, meals grabbed standing up at midnight, exhaustion worn like a badge of honor. I’ve had Crohn’s disease since my twenties, and I was giving my body none of what it needed. I just didn’t know better yet.

At 39 I was diagnosed with ADD, and a lot of my life suddenly made sense. For years I’d felt wired wrong and had been quietly trying to slow my own brain down. The diagnosis wasn’t a label—it was permission to stop fighting myself and start working with the brain I’ve got: one thing at a time, leaning on its strengths instead of drowning in its faults. That’s the same approach I build my coaching around today.

So I went looking for real answers. I earned a master’s in Medical Cannabis Science, studying how the brain, the nervous system, and the body work—and it changed how I saw everything, especially food. Living with Crohn’s proves it to me daily: when I eat real, whole food and respect my sleep, I don’t just cope—I feel better than I have in years. And it taught me the thing I most want you to believe: it is never too late to change course. I didn’t turn my own health around until my fifties.

That’s why I coach. I’ve made plenty of mistakes and learned from most of them—including how to be a better father, and how to actually communicate instead of going quiet and resentful. I want to help people avoid the long way around I took. I have a soft spot for men, who are rarely taught what to do with their own feelings—but this is for anyone ready to see their life differently.

Two lines I live by now. Enjoy the good days—there are enough hard ones, and if you never stop to enjoy the good, the bad will swallow them whole. And this one I earned the hard way: I want to be happy, I don’t want to be right. Being right got me divorced. I just want to be happy—and that’s how I want you to look at your life, too.