My Story

Your brain doesn't care if you're happy

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I looked fantastic on paper. I had titles like SVP and CFO throughout a career in commercial real estate that people were really impressed by. From the outside in, I looked like I was happy, successful, fun, well connected, and living the American high-life dream.

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The truth is, I was overly stressed, overly worked, and constantly at war with the misery I felt internally. I hid it well though. Not only from others, but from me too.

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I didn't want to admit to myself that being a successful mid 30’s executive kind of felt like… shit.

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After all, isn’t this exactly what I worked so hard for?

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But in May of 2019, after a week of increasing pain, I decided to listen to the little voice inside me that said I should have it looked at. I drove myself to the ER thinking I was being a baby about something that was probably incredibly benign like a stomach cramp. I assumed they would give me a Sprite and some Advil, roll their eyes, and send me on my way.

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Turns out I wasn’t being dramatic. I went on medical leave for a year and had seven surgeries in that time for something I believe was directly caused by stress.

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In a desperate attempt to heal my inner world, I scrapped my real estate career and dove-in, headfirst to learning everything I could about the body and brain.

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I enrolled in a neuroscience program at MIT and have spent thousands of additional hours learning, researching, and reading everything I can about neuroscience, neurobiology, the body-mind connection, and all things human performance.

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I’m finally living up to the potential of what my life could be.

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It’s become my obsession. Now it’s my mission to help you live better too.

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I learned that I’m not fated to be an anxious, stressed, somewhat unhappy person. I learned that in fact, I wasn’t fucked-up at all – and neither are you.

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The brain-body systems don't care that you're happy, they only care that you're alive. My body was doing what it was meant to do, trying to keep me alive. 

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Life can be unrelenting, I get it. But there is a better way. You can live up to your potential, too.

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Working with me, you will learn how to improve the things you want (performance, mental toughness, resiliency) and remove the things you don’t (stress, perfectionism, and destructive habits).

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We start with where you are, define where you want to go, and use the science of your brain and body to get you there.

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It takes work to build the new habits of who you want to be. The magic of this work though? You build new neural pathways and circuits in your brain-body, so that the new way of being eventually becomes your automatic way of being. It’s only effort at first.

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You’ve worked this hard to get where you are now, so why not also be happy?

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The body leads the mind. Click here to get started.

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