I have over 12 years of experience here at Keen as a relationship advisor, covering over 5,000 individual sessions. I feel fortunate to have worked with many wonderful people around the world, working together to successfully cover a wide array of subjects, including intimate and business relationships, LGBTQ issues, grief counseling, separation & divorce, bullying, racism, and more. The greatest things that have ever come from these talks are dramatic life-changing results in no small part to the follow-through actions of any person I am talking to.
Before my career as an advisor, I served over 20 years in public service as a law enforcement officer and within the private security and investigations sector. I’ve served as a commander of a paramilitary force that directly assisted in protecting two U.S. presidents and military assets. I also acted as a special agent assigned to protect high-level state government officials as well as dignitaries from around the world, including the Prime Minister of India, ambassadors to China and Israel, the surviving Tuskegee Airmen, and many more. I’ve also served as an emergency room security officer in the early part of my career, giving me first-hand experience in working with people going through very traumatic moments in their lives. In this career path, I felt as if I was reactionary to tragedy rather than preventing it, so I departed to do greater service for others and myself. I felt a deeper calling to get ahead of it by working with people to better their lives and circumstances in order to help make this world a better place by placing emphasis on self-respect, respect for others, and working together.
I also worked in professional radio broadcast for 10 years, serving as a comedy writer, on-air personality, and music & production director.
I often tell people to burn both ends of the candle as I do and create new chapters in their lives. Outside of being an advisor, I am currently a professional photographer/videographer. Self-educated in professional camera work, editing, sound, and lighting, I have filmed weddings, corporate ads, interviews, and music festivals with artists such as St. Paul & The Broken Bones and Rusted Root. I’m an avid speed/freestyle skater, and a vegetarian and I go to the gym twice weekly to stay fit and healthy.
As a final note, I feel it is important to highlight the fact that my life wasn’t always great. I struggled growing up as a child of divorce with a single mother raising two children by herself. I had to quit school to help support the household at one point and have also dealt with alcoholism & drug addiction within my family. I’ve also been through a failed marriage with children involved, but I’m here to tell you… life isn’t always perfect, but we must evolve ourselves beyond any negative place we may find ourselves in today. No one ever handed me the golden key to salvation. I had to give it to myself by first taking accountability and, not only rewiring myself to know I was deserving of it but taking the actions necessary and acting like it.
