"Our only limitation is time."
Mental health speaker, world record holder, circus strongman, and certified personal trainer. Transforming lives through strength, vulnerability, and hope.
As the positive product of a broken home it took a lot of perseverance to come this far. I lost a great friend to their battle with mental health at a very young age. Nobody really talks about the weight and guilt that carries as a child or how to deal with it. Facing my own mental health battles there was never truly the help available to feel strong enough to make it to this point.
I was told by many doctors when I suffered a severe head and neck injury at 16 years old that there would be a lot that I wouldn't be able to do in life. When I met my mentor William Sproat in spring of 2016 I found the means to no longer have to accept that. I was brought into his home by his wife Emily and he placed a steel horseshoe into my hands asking me to bend it. After he explained to me that the physical pain it would take to move this piece of steel was only dictated by my mind, I folded it into the letter S that same day beginning my journey as a circus strongman.
From there a very underweight and unfulfilled me was able to take something physical, transforming it into a tool to help others with their mental health. At that point in time in my life I was an interior firefighter with far too many side jobs unable to help people in the way that I wanted to. Steel bending and strength training allowed me the basis to create a powerful message that our only true limitation is time. I bent my first pieces of steel when I met Will and my first night life performance was in October of the same year. Shortly after that I began speaking in schools about mental health utilizing my feats of strength to emphasize my message. There is hope even when you feel the most hopeless no matter the obstacle.
"Our only limitation is time."
The life I've known has never been what we consider easy. There has been a great deal of loss, struggle, and constant pain. I am here to represent those that no longer are and those that want to be who haven't found their path forward. With over a decade on this journey I'm just getting started in helping people find their way.
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