Notable Achievements & Experiences:

General:

  • Became a Certified Wilderness First Responder

  • Graduated College (Graduated from West Virginia University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting and a Minor in Communication Studies as a Member of Delta SIgma Pi Business Fraternity)

  • Benched 225, Squatted 315, Deadlifted 405

  • Ran a 5k in Less than 25 Minutes

  • Ran a 10k (Crescent City Classic in New Orleans)

Business:

  • Built a Self-Sustaining Business

  • Opened a Martial Arts Gym (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu & MMA)

  • Hired a Subcontractor

  • Became CFO to an Over 1 Million Dollar a Year Business

  • Reached the Point of YouTube Channel Monetization (current 250,000 total views)

  • Started a Remote, Location-Independent Business

  • Joined Local Chamber of Commerce and BNI Organization, Presented Speeches in Both. (Lunch n Learn Host for Chamber of Commerce and Provided 15 minute Presentation During BNI Meeting

  • Created an Online Course

  • Became My Own Boss

Jobs Held:

  • Worked as a Line Cook

  • Worked as a Bowling Alley Attendant

  • Worked as a General Contractor

  • Worked as a Coal Miner in West Virginia

  • Worked as a Construction Lift Operator for a Granite Company

  • Worked as a Mover

  • Worked for a Convenience Store and a Chipotle

  • Worked in a Computer Lab

  • Became an Assistant Manager for Sherwin-Williams Automotive Branch in Charleston, West Virginia

  • Became the Branch Manager for Sherwin-Williams Automotive Branch in Fort Collins, Colorado

Adventure/Traveling:

  • States Travelled To: (50/50)

  • Continents (4/7)

  • Drove The Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina

  • Drove & Car Camped the Oregon Highway 101 Pacific Coast Highway

  • Drove The “Going-to-the-Sun Road”

  • Drove The Trailridge Road in RMNP, Colorado

  • Drove The Kancamagus Scenic Byway in New Hampshire

  • Drove The North Shore Drive in Minnesota

  • Rode The West Highland Line in Scotland

  • Lived in Another Country For at Least a Month (Lived in Brazil for 6 Weeks)

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu:

  • Earned a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Purple Belt

  • Started a BJJ Gym, The Gym is now Affiliated under Renzo Gracie

  • Trained Jiu Jitsu in 22 Different States

  • Trained Jiu Jitsu in 13 Different Countries

  • Trained Jiu Jitsu in Brazil (Completed During 6-week Trip in Florianopolis 2020, Trained at Gracie Barra Headquarters and Rolled with Carlos Gracie Jr.)

  • Attended a BJJ Globetrotters Camp

  • Competed in two Jiu Jitsu Competitions (2022 in Maryland & 2023 in Denver)

  • Hosted Seminar at Gym for Rodrigo Gracie Jr.

  • Hosted Seminar at Gym for Renzo Gracie

Mountaineering:

  • Summited 9 Colorado 14ers (Peaks over 14,000’ in elevation)

  • Summited Mt Fuji in Japan in 1 Day Solo & Unguided

  • Summited Mount Cayambe (19,000’), Ecuador

  • Summited the World’s Highest Volcano: Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador (21,500 feet), The Highest Point on Earth

  • Climbed a Colorado 14er in the Middle of Winter

  • Climbed Mt Whitney (14,500’), California (Crampon Summitted via Winter Route)

  • Climbed the Highest Point in Arizona, 12,633’ Humphreys Peak

  • Used Crampons to Summit Volcanoes in Oregon & Washington:

  • Mount Bachelor

  • South Sister

  • Mount Adams

Backpacking/Trekking:

  • Went on a Solo, Off-Trail Multi-Day Backpacking Trip in the Wilderness

  • Traveled by Foot Across an Entire Country (Walked through the country of Liechtenstein in 3 Days via The Liechtenstein Trail)

  • Completed a Thru-Hike of the 30-mile Art Loeb Trail in Asheville, NC in 3 Days

  • Backpacked The Pemigewasset Loop in New Hampshire

  • Completed The Lost Creek Wilderness Loop in Colorado in 3 Days

  • Walked the 96-Mile West Highland Way in Scotland Solo & Unassisted in 5 Days

  • Walked The Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim (& Back)

Experienced / Explored:

  • Had pastries and espressos in cafes Denmark and Paris

  • Sauna & Ice Bath in Iceland

  • Trained Jiu Jitsu in the largest MMA gym in the world (Mjölnir MMA in Reykjavik, Iceland)

  • Attended a UFC PPV Event

  • Drank a Beer in a Scotland Pub

  • Witnessed Muslim Prayer Chants at Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey

  • Had a Street Taco in Mexico (Completed in Mexico City, 2023)

  • Tried New England Clam Chowder

  • Tried Doner, Kebab, and Baklava in Turkey

  • Had BBQ in St Louis

  • Boiled a Lobster in Maine

  • Tried Deep-Dish Pizza in Chicago

  • Caught, Filletted, Cooked & Ate a Trout in Colorado

  • Attended a Crawfish Boil in Louisiana

  • Searched for & Bought Ingredients in Pike Place Market in Seattle to Cook Lunch & Dinner

  • Saw Metallica Live (Pittsburgh 2022)

  • Watched a Live Show at a Blues Bar in Mississippi (Blue Front Cafe, Bentonia, MS, 2022)

  • Saw a Las Vegas Show (Blue Man Group, 2021)

  • Went Scuba Diving (Completed in Puerto Rico 2023)

  • Walked on Broadway in Nashville

  • Rode on a local “Chicken Bus” in Central America

  • Listened to Jazz in French Quarter, Louisiana (also ran in Crescent City Classic 10k event)

  • Slept in a Co-Ed Hostel Dorm

  • Witnessed a No-Light Pollution Night Sky (Many Times, Notable Nights are Backpacking in New Hampshire, Colorado, Arizona & Hawaii)

  • Explored The Colorado River

  • Explored The Mississippi River

  • Explored The Rhine River

  • Went on a “Bikepacking” Trip (San Juan Island, Washington)

  • Went Climbing Multi-Day in Nevada and then went and Stayed in a Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip

  • Went Snowshoeing

  • Visited All Five Great Lakes

  • Visited Glacier National Park

  • Hiked in The Grand Tetons (Backpacked Two Nights)

  • Visited The Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah (Camped a few nights)

  • Visited Niagra Falls

  • Participated in a Mosh Pit

  • Attended a Music Festival

  • Explored some Pablo Escobar Spots in Medellín, Colombia

  • Visited The Grand Canyon

  • Visited Mount Rushmore

  • Saw Old Faithful Erupt in Yellowstone

  • Saw an Active Volcano Eruption at Night (Kilauea Volcano on Big Island, Hawaii at 4AM, 2023)

  • Went Deep Sea Fishing (Massachusetts)

  • Caught a Fish through Ice on Top of a Frozen Lake (Dowdy Lake, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado, 2019)

  • Built a CamperVan and Moved into it (Lived in Van and Traveled Full-Time around United States for Two Years, 2021 & 2022)

Animals Seen in the Wild:

  • Heard a Howler Monkey

  • Crocodile

  • Sea Turtle

  • Bison

  • Bald Eagle

  • Red Deer Stag Buck

  • Alligator

  • Monkey

  • Shark (saw a Hammerhead)

  • Wolf

  • Dolphins

  • Big Horn Sheep

  • Mountain Goat

  • Moose (way too close many times while hiking including a Bull Moose during rut)

  • Iguana

  • Tucan 

  • Black Bear (Seen a few times up close while hiking)

  • Grizzly Bear

  • Caribou

  • Salmon

  • Bull Elk during rut

Skills:

  • Coffee: At-home Coffee Bean Grinding and Pour-Over Technique and Roasting. Also Learned about the Basics of how it is Harvested, Roasted, and Traded around the World as well as it’s Origins in the World’s Different Regions

  • Writing

  • Business Strategy

  • Accounting

  • Entrepreneurship

  • Jiu Jitsu

  • Personal Finance

  • Philosophy / Psychology

  • Health & Fitness

  • Goal Setting, Planning, & Strategizing

  • Hiking, Backpacking, & Mountaineering

  • Traveling

  • Video Production & Editing

  • Video Gaming

  • WWII History

  • Guitar

  • Wilderness Medicine

  • Landscape Photography

  • Fishing

  • Basics of Indoor Climbing

Philosophy/Psychology Books Read:

  • Viable Values

  • Normative Ethics

  • Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Nichomeanin Ethics, Aristotle

  • Poetics, Aristotle

  • Politics, Aristotle

  • Rhetoric, Aristotle

  • Transcend by Scott Barry Kaufman, PHD

  • A Theory of Human Motivation, Maslow

  • Aristotle’s Way, Edith Hall

  • Toward a Psychology of Being, Abraham H. Maslow

  • The Holy Book of Epicurus

  • Mushashi’s Dokkodo

  • Secrets of a Passionate Life

  • Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

  • Effective Egoism

  • Philosophy: Who Needs It by Ayn Rand

  • The Virtue of Selfishness

  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra

  • The Stranger

  • The Essential Enneagram

  • The Alchemist

  • Meditations

  • Walden

  • The Old Man and the Sea

  • Epicurus and the Pleasant Life

  • The Happiness Hypothesis

  • Essentialism

  • The Art of War

  • The Book of Five Rings

  • A New Stoicism

  • The Ethics of Ambiguity

  • The Existentialist’s Survival Guide

  • Secrets of Simplicity

  • Liberty Defined

  • Stillness is the Key

  • Man’s Search for Meaning

  • The Power of Meaning

  • The Four Agreements

  • The Stoic Challenge

  • The Happiness of Pursuit

  • The Art of Non-Conformity

  • The Power of Now

  • How to Change the Way You Think

  • Nature

  • The Vagabond’s Way

  • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

  • Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

  • Courage is Calling

  • Discipline is Destiny

  • Lives of the Stoics

  • Living for Pleasure: an Epicurean Guide to Life

  • The Principle Doctrines of Epicurus

  • On the Nature of Things

  • Scarcity Brain

  • The Comfort Crisis

  • Dopamine Nation

  • Self-Reliance

  • How to Be an Existentialist

Business Books Read:

  • $100M Leads

  • In Pursuit of Wealth

  • The 1-Page Marketing Plan

  • Why Businessmen Need Philosophy

  • Elon Musk

  • Dirt Rich

  • The Intelligent Investor

  • Deep Work

  • Slow Productivity

  • Digital Minimalism

  • The War of Art

  • The Artist’s Journey

  • Refuse to Choose!

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow

  • Think and Grow Rich

  • Can’t Hurt Me

  • Never Finished

  • The Bitcoin Standard

  • The Basics of Bitcoin and Blockchains

  • Blockchain Revolution

  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

  • Principles

  • The Freelancer’s Bible

  • Profit First

  • E-Myth

  • Tribe of Mentors

  • The $100 Startup

  • How To Be a Capitalist Without Any Capital

  • Traction

  • Company of One

  • Essentialism

  • This is Marketing

  • The Dip

  • When to Quit and When to Stick

  • The 4 Hour Workweek

  • How to Win Friends & Influence People

  • Extreme Ownership

  • Discipline = Freedom

  • Atomic Habits

History:

  • Read all 13 Books in Bernard Cornwell’s “Saxon Series” (13/13)

  • Visited The Louvre in Paris

  • Read “Gates of Fire”

  • Read “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”

  • Read “Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind”

  • Read “Empire of a Summer Moon”

  • Read “The Splendid and the Vile”

  • Read “Genghis Khan, The Making of the Modern World”

  • Read “Hero of the Empire”

  • Read “The Ghost Ships of Archangel”

  • Read “The Devil in the White City”

  • Read “A Brief History of Earth”

Family:

  • Went on a Trip with my Mom

  • Went on a Trip with my Sister

  • Went on a Trip with my Dad

  • Took my Nephew(s) Camping

  • Adopted a Dog

  • Maintained Annual Tradition of Trout Camp Parties at Family Cabin in Pennsylvania

Recreation:

Coffee:

  • Started Roasting my own Coffee Green Beans

  • Purchased Single-Origin Coffee Beans from 20 Different Countries and Prepared at Home

  • Drank Coffee in a Reykjavik Coffee Shop (Americano)

  • Had Danish pastry and espresso in Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Drank Coffee in a French Café (Espresso)

  • Drank Turkish Coffee in Cafe in Istanbul

  • Drank Coffee in a Japanese Garden (Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden)

  • Visited a Coffee Farm (Visited Single-Family Coffee Farm in Guatemala)

  • Drank Coffee in Colombia

  • Drank Coffee in Brazil

  • Drank Coffee in a Portland Coffee Shop

  • Drank Coffee in Seattle (Original Starbucks)

  • Drank Kona Coffee in Hawaii

Adventure Books Read:

  • “Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook”

  • “Into Africa”

  • “Into Thin Air”

  • “Endurance”

  • “Touching the Void”

  • “Alive”

  • “To Shake the Sleeping Self”

  • “Dead Mountain”

  • “Astoria”

  • “Annapurna”

  • “The Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Globetrotter”

  • “The River of Doubt”

  • “No Picnic on Mount Kenya”

  • “The Crystal Horizon”

  • “Mother of God”

  • “River of the Gods”

Literature Read:

  • The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • All the Glittering Stars

  • Kane and Abel

  • Don Quixote

  • The Fellowship of the Ring

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

  • We The Living

  • Atlas Shrugged x 2

  • The Fountainhead x 2

  • Musashi

  • The Odyssey by Homer

  • Beneath a Scarlett Sky

  • The Monkey Wrench Gang

  • Ready Player One

  • Red Rising

Recreation My Favorites Lists:

Movies:

  • Saving Private Ryan

  • Interstellar

  • Goodfellas

  • All Quiet on the Western Front

  • The Martian

  • Hunger Games

  • The Hobbit & LOTR

  • Rudy

  • Dead Poet’s Society

  • The Pursuit of Happyness

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

  • A Place Beyond the Pines

  • There Will be Blood

  • Lawrence of Arabia

  • Gangs of New York

  • Braveheart

  • Whiplash

  • Fight Club

  • The Lord of the Rings Series

  • Star Wars

  • Schindler’s List

  • Mr. Jones

  • Hateful Eight

TV Series:

  • Breaking Bad

  • Narcos

  • Band of Brothers

  • The Sopranos

  • Better Call Saul

  • Game of Thrones

  • It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

  • Seinfeld

  • The Office

  • Ozark

  • Succession

  • Planet Earth

  • Roman Empire

  • Trailer Park Boys

  • South Park

  • The Simpsons

Video Games:

  • Fallout 4

  • The Witcher 3

  • Skyrim

  • Starfield

  • Red Dead Redemption 2

  • Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2

  • Pokemon Red & Yellow

  • Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas

  • Stardew Valley

  • Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3

  • Guitar Hero II & III

  • Star Wars Battlefront II

  • Elden Ring

  • Civilization 7

  • The Sims 2

  • Grand Theft Auto 5

  • Ratchet & Clank

  • Bully

  • Need for Speed Underground 2

  • Midnight Club 3

  • 007 Everything or Nothing

  • Medal of Honor

  • The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers

  • NCAA Football 06

Books:

  • Beneath a Scarlett Sky

  • Endurance

  • The Fountainhead

  • Atlas Shrugged

  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

  • Musashi

  • The River of Doubt

  • Touching the Void

  • The 4-Hour Workweek

  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People 

  • The Saxon Series (13 Books)

  • Deep Work

  • The Splendid and the Vile

  • Man’s Search for Meaning 

  • The Alchemist

  • The Hobbit

  • Philosophy: Who Needs It by Ayn Rand

  • No Picnic on Mount Kenya

  • The Old Man and the Sea

Songs:

  • Disposable Heroes – Metallica

  • Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath

  • Dazed and Confused – Led Zeppelin

  • Refuse/Resist – Sepultura

  • Holy Wars... The Punishment Due – Megadeth

  • Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynyrd

  • Can’t You See – The Marshall Tucker Band

  • One – Metallica

  • Wherever I May Roam – Metallica

  • Little Wing – Stevie Ray Vaughan

  • Welcome Home (Sanitarium) – Metallica

  • Creeping Death – Metallica

  • Dream On – Aerosmith

  • Freight Train – Alan Jackson

  • House of the Rising Sun – The Animals

  • The Thrill Is Gone – B.B. King

  • Highway Song – Blackfoot

  • Turn the Page – Bob Seger

  • Zombie – The Cranberries

  • Travelin’ Band – Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • You Never Even Called Me by My Name – David Allan Coe

  • Sultans of Swing – Dire Straits

  • Epic – Faith No More

  • Pancho and Lefty – Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson

  • Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels) – Jim Croce

  • Take Me Home, Country Roads – John Denver

  • Angel from Montgomery – John Prine

  • I’ve Been Everywhere – Johnny Cash

  • California Dreamin’ – The Mamas and the Papas

  • Old Man – Neil Young

  • Mr. Crowley – Ozzy Osbourne

  • Diary of a Madman – Ozzy Osbourne

  • Domination – Pantera

  • Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen

  • Creep – Radiohead

  • Killing in the Name – Rage Against the Machine

Greatest UFC Fighters:

  • Georges St Pierre

  • Demetrious Johnson

  • Khabib Nurmagomedov

  • BJ Penn (in his prime)

  • Jon Jones (unfortunately)

  • Bonus, Most Underrated: Alexander Gustafson