I served in the Army. Came back. Built a career, built a family, built what looked from the outside like a solid life. And underneath all of it, I was carrying things I didn't have the tools to put down. Trauma. Addiction. The particular kind of weight that military service can leave on a man — not because it broke you, but because it forged you in a way that civilian life has no container for.
I've done AA. DAA. Therapy. Years of ceremony and deep inner work across multiple traditions. I've sat with the full weight of a DSM-5 that had my name on more than a few pages. I'm not telling you that to impress you. I'm telling you because if you've been in those places, I want you to know you're not talking to someone who read about it. You're talking to someone who lived it — and found a way through.
I walk in the mercy and grace that I don't have to live like that anymore. Not because I arrived somewhere. Because I chose to keep doing the work.
The transformation isn't past tense for me. I'm still in it. Still learning, still refining, still showing up for my own practice every day — physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally. That's not a marketing line. That's the code I live by. My father used to say the day you stop learning is the day you die. I believe that in my bones.
Why I Do This Work
I'm a grandfather. A father of three daughters. A man with 3 acres outside Charlotte, a German Shepherd service dog named Buddy, and a life that today looks nothing like the one I was headed toward at my lowest points.
I lead a beginners AA group. I work with sponsees. I coach veterans through Team SAPO — structured 10-week healing cohorts for men who have given everything to this country and come home without a map for what comes next. I know what it's like to be that man. Disciplined on the outside, unraveling on the inside. Trained to push through everything, including the things that needed to be felt instead.
Warriors are good at the physical. Going inward is different territory. Most men I've worked with — operators, combat vets, men in recovery — will tell you the inner work is the hardest thing they've ever done. Harder than anything the Army put them through. That's not weakness. That's the nature of the work.
I built Seed & Steel because I wanted a place that was built for those men. Not a wellness brand. Not a therapy office. A place that speaks their language, meets them where they are, and tells them the truth — that real change is possible, it will cost you something, and it is worth every bit of it.
How I Work
My approach pulls from everything I've been trained in and everything I've lived. Transpersonal hypnotherapy gets underneath the story and into the subconscious patterns that talk therapy alone often can't reach. Integration coaching helps you take powerful experiences — whether that's a ceremony, a spiritual awakening, or simply a season of real transformation — and weave them into the fabric of your daily life so they stick. Transformational coaching builds the structure: the daily practices, the honest accountability, the vision for who you're becoming.
I also draw on shamanic training through Ancestral Wisdom, breathwork lineages including Wim Hof and Dr. Joe Dispenza's work, and CrossFit coaching — all of it forging the same thing from different angles. None of this is decoration. It's all in service of the same thing — helping you become the man you were built to be.
I work with veterans, men in recovery, and anyone standing at a crossroads who is serious about doing the real work. If that's you, let's talk.