People often ask what an Executive Performance Coach and Fitness Consultant really does. The truth is, my work isn’t defined by a title or a certificate.

 

It’s the result of an entire lifetime—one shaped by mistakes, discipline, reinvention, loss, success, and the constant pursuit of a complete and balanced life.

 

Where the Journey Began

In my twenties, I was headed down a dangerous road—smoking two packs a day and carrying sixty-five extra pounds. Everything changed in 1980 when my daughter was born. In that moment, I realized I had to rebuild my life from the inside out.

 

I stopped the habits that were breaking me and started learning how to fuel my body with purpose. Nutrition became a tool for healing rather than sabotage—that became the beginning of the Nutritional Pillar.

 

At the same time, the gym became my refuge and my classroom. Over the next 46+ years, training five days a week gave me discipline, strength, and resilience. This became the foundation of the Physical Pillar.

 

A Parallel Path in Business and Leadership

Professionally, I started in electronics and programming before moving into leadership.
By the early 1980s, I was a senior executive in a multinational telecommunications corporation. For more than twenty years, I led global teams, built departments, and learned how people grow—not just how businesses run.

 

Driven by curiosity, I earned my MBA from SMU’s Cox School of Business at night and on weekends. That experience strengthened my understanding of operations, finance, and strategy—the basis of what later became my business consulting work. Many of the companies I coached went on to exceed $14 million a year in revenue.

 

The Intellectual Pillar grew from that time—proof that learning, curiosity, and self-awareness are essential to progress.

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The Body, Recovery, and a New Calling

While moving through the corporate world, another interest was quietly forming.
In the evenings and on weekends, I studied anatomy and massage therapy, fascinated by the relationship between muscles, nerves, movement, pain, and recovery.

 

When the telecommunications industry collapsed after September 11, I took it as a sign.
I stepped fully into bodywork, becoming a licensed massage therapist, an instructor, and ultimately a neuromuscular therapist.

 

Those years gave me a profound understanding of the muscular, skeletal, and nervous systems—how chronic pain develops, and how alignment and movement can restore functionality.

Trainers eventually began sending me their clients with injuries, surgeries, chronic pain, or limitations—people who needed more than a cookie-cutter workout.

 

That was when I understood what a Fitness Consultant truly is:
It is not someone who counts reps, but someone who designs the strategy behind training so it fits the person, their injuries, their mindset, and their life.

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Life Happens—and Teaches

 

Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, I found myself helping people navigate more than business and fitness. I supported individuals through divorce, addiction, grief, financial collapse, and emotional upheaval.

Real life has a way of humbling—and shaping—you.

 

During my own battles with loss, health issues, and addiction, I realized something important:
Real strength begins on the inside.  Faith, purpose, and gratitude became my compass.

 

That became the Spiritual Pillar—the pillar that gives meaning to all the others.

 

The Four Pillars Take Shape

Over time, I began to see how everything in my life was connected:

• Business leadership taught me how people grow.

• Neuromuscular therapy taught me how bodies heal.

• Decades in the gym taught me discipline and longevity.

• Personal struggles taught me purpose, resilience, and compassion.

 

Together, these experiences formed what I now call The Four Pillars—the foundation of a complete and balanced life:

• Physical – Training the body with purpose and consistency.

• Nutritional – Fueling the body with intelligence and balance.

• Intellectual – Staying curious and always learning.

• Spiritual – Living with faith, purpose, and gratitude.

 

When one pillar weakens, the others suffer.

When all four are honored, life becomes whole.

 

The Work I Do Today

Today, as an Executive Performance Coach and Fitness Consultant, I bring all of these disciplines together. I create individualized workout plans, nutritional strategies, areas of study, and spiritual guidance based on a person’s goals, limitations, and life story.

 

My role is simple:

to help people become stronger, clearer, and more centered—one pillar at a time.

At seventy-one, I see many people my age winding down.
I’m not one of them.

I don’t believe in decline—I believe in balance, renewal, and the constant pursuit of growth.

Everything I have lived—executive leadership, consulting, neuromuscular therapy, decades of training, and helping people through their hardest moments—comes together in the work I do now.

 

This is what an Executive Performance Coach and Fitness Consultant truly is:
someone who helps you build a life that is strong, resilient, and complete.