About
I was diagnosed with depression when I was 13 after a serious of deep loss, isolation, and disconnection from reality. I struggled for 3 years to feel anything was purposeful. I began to view the world in a completely negative light, always believing that when anything in the world happened, it was going to impact me negatively and the world was out to get me. I very much disliked school, I felt as though I wasn’t learning anything and my time was being wasted. I woke up everyday, feeling like just existing was a drag and became numb to my existence. I went to school miserable, came home, got my work done, played video games, went to bed, and repeated the cycle. Barely leaving my house, never trying anything new, just internal suffering almost 24/7. This went on for quite a few years. I continued having few friends, feeling very lonely and isolated, angry, frustrated, until a moment when I was 16 years old. Around halfway through my freshman year of high school, I opened up YouTube one day. I would watch video game content everyday on here. But on this particular day, for some reason, a video by the creator, Elisha Long stumbled into my YouTube feed. Elisha makes videos relating to self-development. Exploring concepts in the realms of finding purpose, building relationships with people, and finding your way in the world as a young man. In this specific video, Elisha spoke about some basic practices such as getting in the gym, overcoming your social anxiety, meditating, and more. I saw the video and said to myself, “Well…my life sucks, I might as well try these things.”
I started going on runs, learning how to communicate better, taking cold showers to get my body in an uncomfortable, but euphoric state, and much more. After trying these practices, I felt as though I was making progress and feeling good about myself, for the first time in my life. Within 6 months I jumped into the rabbit role exploring spiritual concepts, diving into psychology, and within the next year, I was a changed man. I was finally comfortable in my own skin, built actual friendships, started viewing every situation in a more positive light, and setting goals for myself. The depression was gone. For the rest of my high school career, I dedicated my time outside of school to personal development, absolutely obsessed about learning new information and ways to advance in my life and further optimize everything. About a year and a half after that, my best friend Jack and I, who both started to look at life a little bit more deeply, decided to start a podcast talking about self-development and created a podcast on YouTube called LWTB Podcast (It stands for Life With The Boys). The first few episodes were us giving our perspectives on our experiences and what has helped us, granting the audience a bit of advice for their journey. We then had some friends on the show to talk about the idea of success, the weird realm of dreaming, and had some girls on to speak about keys to relationships. The podcast ran about 10 episodes, until Jack and I decided to go to separate universities. He went to Delaware, and I went to Florida. I’m originally from New Jersey, and a few days before I left to move to Florida, I thought to myself, I should start my own podcast. So I called up two people I knew near me to hop on. One was a rapper, the other made a significant amount of money in bitcoin when it first launched many years ago. I had conversations with them and loved it. As I made my way down to Florida, creating podcasts and shooting solo YouTube videos became a really fun and insightful hobby for me.
I started working with him and he taught me the depths of how to be a great coach, different styles of teaching, optimizing my life further, teaching me sales and how to navigate objections, as well as the psychology behind it all. I ended up going back to college at a local community college near me in New Jersey where I figured I give school one last shot, studying psychology since I love studying it on my own time. I still hated the experience, and told myself it wasn’t worth it to pursue university any longer, it didn’t feel aligned with my path. So I dropped out, continued working my restaurant job, and within a year, decided to pursue coaching full time. I’ve been blessed to help over 112 men and women transform their lives through self-development, and we’re only getting started.