I grew up in Winona MN spending most of my childhood in Lake Village trailer court. If you looked outside that would always be the best way to find me. I was always outside as soon as the sun came up playing all different type of sports like football, basketball, baseball, fishing going on outdoor adventures like hiking, camping, swimming and ice skating on the lake. Currently live in Clairemont area where the weather never drops below 0!

​After I graduated from Winona Senior High School in 1996 I enlisted in the U.S NAVY. Through out my 14 + years I flew as a In-flight Technician, a crew chief and at the age of 25 I became the first ever active duty Load Master instructor in U.S Navel history. Ten years into my career I started getting debilitating migraines and was no longer able to continue flying. A couple of my favorite memories was while I was deployed on the the Lake Champlain Ship. The helicopter was having malfunctions with 3 major systems which would not allow the mission to continue. They were going to shut down for the rest of the day but I asked them if I could take a look first. After 10-15 minutes I was able to fix all 3 systems and they took back off. Not more than 20 minutes later they found 52 refugees stranded in the middle of the ocean with one of the systems that I was able to fix. Was a total team effort. On September 11, 2001 I was Lead In-Flight Technician on a Boeing 707 at the age of 22. Completing our mission and controlling airborne communications for our country as we were the only aircraft airborne within the continental United States.


Education & Experience

Attended Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and earning over 1200 hours in Massage Therapy & Asian Bodywork. Studyed modalities such as Deep Tissue, Tui Na(x4), Reflexology(x2), Energy Work ( The different styles of Energy work are: Qi Gong Energy Healing, Reiki, Chakra Balancing, Crystal Healing), Swedish, Shiatsu, Stretching&Traction;, Oncology, Pediatric, Geriatric, Aroma Therapy, Cupping, Gua Sha, Chi Nei Tsang, and Hot Stone.

Attended Healing Hands School of Holistic Heath and earning 1000 hours in Massage Therapy. Studying modalities such as Neuromuscular, Sports/Injury, Prenatal, Trigger Point, Thai, Thai foot, Somatic, Myofascial Release, Advanced Swedish, Active release, and chair massage. Another modality learned was Biodynamic Craniosacral which listens to the nervous system while assisting the body to heal itself.

Attended National Personal Training Institute becoming a Certified Personal Trainer and a Corrective Exercise Specialist. 30+ Eastern&Western; Modalities & 3000 hours of school training with the body.

After serving in the Navy I decided to enroll in Bio-medical engineering at DeVry University. Unfortunately, yet fortunately, the program was terminated and I wasn't sure what I was going to do. I knew I wanted to help people so I decided to try acupuncture. Come to find out the school would only accept 56 out of my 200+ credit so I would have to do a term of massage first. That is where the journey began. In 2011, I found my passion and my journey began.