After I graduated from  Winona Senior High School in 1996 I enlisted in the U.S NAVY. Throughout my 14 + years I flew as an In-flight Technician, and a crew chief, and at the age of 25. I became the first-ever active duty Load Master instructor in U.S Naval history. Ten years into my career I started getting debilitating migraines and was no longer able to continue flying.

A couple of my favorite memories were while I was deployed on the Lake Champlain Ship. The helicopter was having malfunctions with 3 major systems which would not allow the mission to continue. They were going to shut down for the rest of the day, but I asked them if I could take a look first. After 10-15 minutes I was able to fix all 3 systems, and they took back off. Not more than 20 minutes later they found 52 refugees stranded in the middle of the ocean with one of the systems that I was able to fix. Was a total team effort.

On September 11, 2001, I was the Lead In-Flight Technician on a Boeing 707 at the age of 22. Completing our mission and controlling airborne communications for our country as we were the only aircraft airborne within the continental United States.

After serving in the Navy, I enrolled in Bio-medical engineering at DeVry University. Unfortunately, yet fortunately, the program was terminated, and  I wasn't sure what I was going to do. I knew I wanted to help people, so I decided to try acupuncture. Come to find out the school would only accept 56 out of my 200+ credits so I would have to do a term of massage first. That is where I found my passion and my journey began.