I’m Coach Michael 

Nice to Meet ya… 

I am turning 42 this year and I do feel very proud about what I have accomplished so far. I have built a comfortable career after graduating from a tech school in 2004. I managed to get a hell of a sweet deal on a house in the middle of the housing crisis back in 2008 and have consistently improved and invested into the home. I have a great credit score. I got to have the life changing experience to be a board member of a youth non-profit football team for six years (seriously life changing). I have been with my amazing wife for over 15 years, and we have three amazing rescue pups together. But by far my biggest achievement has been being a father and help raise such amazing young men. All 4 as different and unique as they are, they are also just as successful in their own rights.

Anyone who knows my childhood well enough, knows that the odds were never in my favor. I never met my father, and my mother was an alcoholic with good intentions. I was brought up in a poor town in California, where as “gifted and talented” as I was labeled in school, I still made extremely poor choices. Got mixed up with the wrong crowd, got arrested a couple times and even hit by a blazer. Those poor choices usually made the darkness even worse, but somehow, I found the strength to press on. The experience of going through all the challenges has molded me into what I am now. While I still make poor choices as any human does, I make them less and less and they involve foods that I probably shouldn’t be eating and not running away from the cops.

I am thankful. I have had a great existence and I don’t feel like I am even halfway through. There is still so much ahead, and that is exactly what I fear. The first part of my life has been amazing, but it has had its dark times as well.  Each pinnacle so far, has given me a very challenging valley to climb out of. I know and have accepted the fact that life will somehow knock me down again and I am afraid. It’s OK to be afraid of something, but it is not OK to let it control you. Life is difficult, it is unfair, and it is AMAZING. It all depends on your mindset.

I decided to become a mindset coach to help others found what took me so long to get. My confidence to be me and take control on my story. I am the director, the editor, actor, and audience. By no means am I perfect, I am human. But I try to surround myself with positive people, eat right, exercise and continue to learn and I feel obligate as a human to help others find their stories too. Taking responsibility for my story and continuing to improve it amounts to a great life, a successful life, at least to me and I believe for others as well.