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.