About me
Three things shaped how I lead and how I show up for my clients: wrestling, whitewater and entrepreneurship. I know uncertainty and self-doubt, and I know what it’s like to watch the bank account dwindle while building something you believe in with everything you’ve got.
Wrestling in college taught me what pushing my limits really means, along with a harder lesson, that effort doesn’t always earn the result you want. When I went on to coach wrestling, I learned not to project my own story onto an athlete, but to meet them where they are with compassion and then call them forward.
The river took that further. I started as the least skilled guide in my training class, and four seasons later I was guiding some of the gnarliest whitewater in North America. Along the way I learned that with the right team around me, a willingness to be uncomfortable and the perseverance to stay in the game, there isn’t much I can’t accomplish.
It’s also where I met Annie. Together we went from working at a rafting outpost and living in a camper to building True Spruce with a borrowed broom, a mop and a Craigslist ad, and we grew it into one of Steamboat Springs’ leading vacation rental service companies.
In 2022 we closed True Spruce and moved to Hawaii with our two-year-old twins. That year of self-discovery became a calling to coach, and I spent the next year being mentored and trained by Alyssa Nobriga.
Since then I’ve coached founders, entrepreneurs, athletes and nonprofit leaders, from an MMA fighter preparing for the cage to a rider training a wild mustang to an entrepreneur who bought an insurance agency. What they share is a willingness to be held to a higher standard, the same one I hold myself to. Not because there’s something to prove, but because I believe there is unfathomable greatness in each of us. The world wants us to conform to comfort, and working with people who refuse to brings me joy.
Annie and I live in Fort Collins with Pax, Esme and Hana, and you’ll usually find us outside camping, hiking, rafting or skiing. I’m obsessed with wrestling, I serve on the board of a local nonprofit for people in recovery, and I help lead a men’s group at my church.
If you’re done playing it safe and want a guide who will call you forward, let’s talk.
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ICF-accredited Mastery Method Coach · XPT Performance Breathing Coach
