My Story
Since I was a toddler I have been tinkering with electronic devices, taking everything apart to understand how it worked. My neighbors figured this out early. By my early teens they were knocking on my door to fix things. One even insisted I climb up on the roof of their house to repair their swamp cooler. At 15 I bought my first car with my own money, a classic Camaro, and rebuilt the engine with the help of my father. I went on to rebuild five more cars. That same obsession eventually led me to found StreamlinedNC, my advanced robotics and CNC company serving Precision Castparts, the world leader in aerospace manufacturing and a Berkshire Hathaway company, building components for advanced commercial airliners, private jets, and spacecraft. I also taught the Utah State 3D CAD/CAM programming course for 3+ years, training new students in computer aided design and programming from the ground up. 20+ years in robotics and engineering. 25+ years in software and programming.
As a kid I wanted to be the scientist who cures cancer and an astronaut at the same time. At age 14 I became an Eagle Scout, spending years deep in the forests and mountains of Utah and Wyoming. A lifelong avid reader and self-improvement junkie, the same drive to solve impossible problems eventually turned toward the most complex system of all: the human body. Since discovering Nikola Tesla at age 20, an epochal inventor the world is still catching up to, something permanently shifted in the way I understood energy, science, and what is possible. Tesla's obsession with invisible fields running everything was the first thing that made ancient Qigong masters feel not just believable, but inevitable.
The health journey started hard. As a teenager I battled chronic Lyme disease so severe I would sleep for 24 hours straight, and extreme social anxiety that made everyday life feel impossible. At 19 a LASIK surgery went wrong and left me with chronic dry eyes. The desperation of those mornings sent me searching. One night I found a body scan meditation and decided to try it.
The first thing they asked me to do was focus on my right big toe. The moment I did, my right big toe lit up with electricity. Then the next toe. Then the next. I had never felt anything like it. That single experience launched an obsession with meditation and energy that pulled me completely out of depression and set me on a path I have never left.
I also became obese at one point and lost 65 pounds total, 50 of them in just six weeks, through functional medicine and energetic principles I now teach. Every protocol I offer has been personally tested. I have invested a quarter of a million dollars in biohacking and emerging wellness technology so my clients never have to guess what actually works.
Then came the defining moment. A medical error caused a severe heat stroke that sent my body into complete organ failure. For two weeks, every time I lay down, my heart would stop beating. Even after partial recovery, a single degree of temperature change would trigger a full panic attack. I could not drive to the next city. I could not look at a screen. Everything was a trigger. I had to climb my way back out using every skill I had ever developed and some I had yet to learn.
I also survived multiple traumatic brain injuries, one so severe it permanently changed my voice and took away my ability to speak correctly. Healed. And over three weeks with a ruptured appendix which led to sepsis, a condition that kills people on the operating table when it goes even hours untreated. Doctors did not know how I survived. I do. These are not stories I tell for drama. They are the reason I know what the human body is actually capable of when given the right tools.
That is when Qigong found me. Through the ancient Tao Tan Pai lineage under Master Dr. Pedram Shojai, I learned to move and direct Qi through my failing organs. One by one they came back. I healed my organs entirely through energy medicine, functional wellness, and biohacking. Not a single conventional medical intervention helped.
I went on to train with Dr. Alberto Villoldo and The Four Winds Society, receive direct personal teaching from Shaman Durek, and train with Master Mantak Chia, Master Mingtong Gu, Lee Holden, and teachers across the Chi Lel tradition. I study weekly with real Masters, and also Alchemy, Holy Qabalah, and the Western Mystery Traditions daily, to name a few. I have deepened my understanding of brain performance and learning with Jim Kwik, trained in martial arts, and volunteered multiple times at Dave Asprey's Human Upgrade Conference and Jim Kwik's Superhero You Conference. A modern mystic and avid reader, I read PubMed the same week I sit in ceremony with a lineage master. I did not read about any of this. I survived it. There is more to this journey than any about page can hold.
And trust me, I have a lot more stories than the ones that fit on a page like this. The long ones, the strange ones, the ones I only tell when someone is actually ready to hear them, those live inside the courses, told the way I would tell them to you across a table. If you want the rest of it, come sit down inside one of my courses.
