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)

Sherwin-Williams Automotive Advanced Branch Operations

Became a Certified Wilderness First Responder

Became and Advanced Certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor

Obtained my FPAP (Financial Planning & Analysis Professional) Certification from CFI

Operations Management Professional Certificate from Jack Welch Management Institute

Supply Chain & Inventory Certifications (CSCMP)

Colorado Mountain School Intro to Mountaineering Course

Leave No Trace Certificate

Backcountry Cooking & Nutrition Certificate

Colorado Mountain School Avalanche Awareness Online Clinic

California Emergency Medical Services Epinephrine Certificate

Read all the books listed below

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

Founded Essentially Intentional LLC

Became a Fractional Controller & CFO

Co-Founded a BJJ & MMA gym

Became a Strategic Advisor for SMEs

Benched 225, Squatted 315, Deadlifted 405

Gained & maintained visible abs

Ran a 5k in Less than 25 Minutes

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

Became a Manager

Created & coordinated area-wide (Colorado and New Mexico) Annual Inventory Rebalancing Program

Sherwin-Williams “Audit Pro” Award for outstanding branch operations and management

Became My Own Boss

Created online courses & ebooks

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)

Started a Remote, Location-Independent Business

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

Hired a Subcontractor (since then hired many)

Became CFO to an Over 1 Million Dollar a Year Business

Became Controller to an Over 20 Million Dollar a Year Business

Reached the Point of YouTube Channel Monetization (current 300,000 total views)

Created a 3-year forecast for a coffee roaster to be presented to banks and investors seeking funding for a large coffee roasting construction project (This project has been approved with various funding secured, and the construction has been going on for the past two years and should be completed next summer)

Helped technology startups manage cap tables and secure many rounds of private equity funding.

Hold paid one-on-one consulting and training sessions

Creation of SOPs and internal systems across multiple businesses. Including when I was a manager for Fortune 500 company, for my own founded businesses, including training subcontractors, and for many small and medium-sized businesses

Volunteered for Habitat For Humanity 

Volunteered for Larimer County Outdoor Park Volunteers

Joined a local BNI Group

Organized and held the Grand Opening event for my martial arts gym. Included beer from a local brewery, a local band, local business raffles prizes, and more

Joined the Poudre Wilderness Volunteers Program

Joined the Fort Collins Chamber of Commerce

Interviewed by “VoyageDenver” magazine, featured in their “Denver’s Most Inspiring Stories” series

Traveled to all 50 states

Continents travelled to: (5/7)

International City Exploration: Tokyo, Paris, Zurich, Istanbul, Copenhagen, Oslo, Reykjavik, Quito, Guatemala City, Medellin, Mexico City, Glasgow, London, Merrakesh, and more. Trained Jiu-Jitsu in most of them. 

Lived and traveled in a CamperVan full-time with my dog for 2 years

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 Brazil for 6 Weeks

Visited All Five Great Lakes 

Summited the Highest Mountain in North Africa (Mount Toubkal in Morocco) in the winter season

Colorado 14ers (Peaks over 14,000’ in elevation): 10/53

Mt Fuji, Japan

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 (now have done this 3 or so times)

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 

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

3-day off-trail backpacking trip using GPS and compass/map in Arizona desert wilderness area

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

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

Backpacked in many states all around the United States

Earned a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Purple Belt

Started a BJJ Gym

Trained Jiu Jitsu in 22 Different States

Trained Jiu Jitsu in 14 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 my gym with Rodrigo Gracie Jr.

Hosted Seminar at my gym with Renzo Gracie

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

Saw Marc Normand during his Comedy Netflix Special taping in Boulder, CO

Ran Hyde Park in London, then had a proper Full English Breakfast & tea

Rode a camel in the desert (in Africa)

Had a kannelboiler and an espresso in Oslo, Norway cafe 

Had pastries and espressos in cafes Denmark and Paris

Sauna & Ice Bath in Iceland

Visited The Louvre in Paris

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 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)

Heard Howler Monkeys (on top of a pyramid in Guatemala jungle in the AM)

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

Coffee Roasting

Writing

Business Strategy

Accounting

Entrepreneurship

Jiu Jitsu

Management Accounting

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

Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Josef Peiper

The Perfectionist Turn: From Metanorms to Metaethics

On Virtue Ethics, Rosalind Hursthouse

Intelligent Virtue, Julia Annas

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Leisure, Jason Holt

Confucius: The Complete Works

Natural Goodness, Philippa Foot

The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis

On Virtue and Vices, J Solomon

Eudemanian Ethics

The Power of Myth

Magna Moralia “Great Ethics” by Aristotle

Viable Values

Normative Ethics

After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

Nicomachean 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

Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman

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

A Guide to the Good Life, William Irvine

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 

Strategy Safari, Henry Mintzberg

This is Beyond Budgeting: A Guide to More Adaptive and Human Organizations, Bjarte Bogsnes

If Aristotle Ran General Motors

The Effective Executive, Peter Drucker

Effortless

Good Strategy / Bad Strategy

The Psychology of Money

Good to Great

Steve Jobs

$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

CMA Study Guide 2025-2026

CMA Part 1: Financial Planning, Performance, and Analytics 

CMA Part 2: Strategic Financial Management

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 x 3

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 x 2

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

The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama

The Wright Brothers

I’ve also watched almost every history documentary on Netflix

The Rise of Rome

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

Gates of Fire

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind

Empire of a Summer Moon

The Splendid and the Vile

Genghis Khan, The Making of the Modern World

Hero of the Empire

The Ghost Ships of Archangel

The Devil in the White City

A Brief History of Earth

Kon-Tiki

The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama

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

Into Africa

Into Thin Air

Endurance: Ernest Shackleton

Touching the Void

Alive

The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

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

The Razor’s Edge

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

Anthem, Ayn Rand

 Sophocles Complete Works

The Three Musketeers

The Road, Cormac McCarthy

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky 

Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

Lieutenant Hornblower, C.S. Forester

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

Siddhartha

Unbroken

A Gentleman in Moscow

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

All the Glittering Stars

Kane and Abel

Don Quixote 

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The Fellowship of the Ring

The Hobbit

The Two Towers

The Witcher: The Last Wish

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas x 2

We The Living

Atlas Shrugged x 2 

The Fountainhead x 2

Musashi

The Odyssey by Homer x 2

Beneath a Scarlett Sky

The Monkey Wrench Gang 

Ready Player One x 2

Red Rising

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. Also am now roasting my own beans purchased directly from a small farmer who I met while in Guatemala

Had pastries and espressos in cafes Denmark and Paris

Tried coffees in Tim Wendelboe’s shop in Oslo, Norway

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