Built from the ground up.
Not from the summit.
Before KVFL, there was just a lost young man. Depressed, anxious, completely afraid of the life I'd created for myself. Days spent skating, doing drugs, binge eating. No job. At points, no home. I was terrified of taking action because I felt worthless.
Then came the turning point. A torn ACL while skating. Unable to get surgery, barely able to walk. Life forced me to sit down and finally face the feelings I'd been running from. I moved back in with my family and began relentlessly confronting the things that scared me.
I gave up drugs. Started reading. Went back to college. Got into fitness, not to look good, but because it was the one thing that made the chaos feel manageable. Structure became survival. And then, slowly, it became identity.
I coach with the structure, empathy, and honesty I wish I'd had. That's the standard every client gets.